Adventures in time and space told in future tense. Have you heard of the new science called cybernetics? It concerns man's efforts to develop a perfect thinking machine. A robot electronic brain that will not only do man's work, but even do his thinking for him. A robot that is almost human. No, it's not impossible at all. In fact, one day something like this may happen.   Just a minute. I said just a minute. Hold your horses. Who do you think? Good evening, my dear. Duke. Looking lovely as ever. Can I come in, Lola? Why did you come here? Curiosity, darling. I've been thinking over what you told me at our chance meeting last week. Duke, you promised me you would. I decided to come and take a look for myself. Where's the professor? In his study. Anyone else in the house? No, just the professor and I. Where's Junior? In the nursery. The nursery? Oh, Quinn. And do you want to take out our Junior's nursemaid? I help the professor. Tell him he has a guest. Duke, he's a nice old guy. Tell him, darling. All right. What is it, Miss Williams? Professor Blassman, a gentleman is here. What? Here? I don't understand. He's waiting for you. But I gave orders. No one was to be admitted to the house. He insisted. Very well. You wait here. And I will get rid of him. Sir, what can I do for you? Professor Blassman. Yes? How do you know my name? I've come to see Junior. Junior? There must be some mistake. There are no children in this house. Professor, what you feel pressing against your belly is the muzzle of a .45 caliber pistol. Oh. Now, shall we visit Junior? What do you know about this? I know everything. Shall we go inside? I warn you. On the contrary, I warn you. Very well. This way. This is the nursery. Where is Junior? In the next room. Behind the door is the panel in it. Very considerably furnished. Mother Goose figures on the walls. Blackboard. Toy blocks. Panda. Bunny rabbit doll. Touching. All right. Let's see him. Now, you can look through the panel. You'd have believed him. Junior isn't very pretty, is he? I wasn't concerned with aesthetics. Why do you hide him? Is he dangerous? Oh, you see, the world is not yet ready for such a thing. I must study him. As you can see by his play, he is very young. Hardly out of the cradle. I'm educating him. With nursery rhyme? The brain is undeveloped. It must learn its behavior patterns like any infant. Oh, come now.  Ah, physically, of course, he will never change. He is built of chrome steel and glass. But his brain. Oh, that is my wonderful instrument. Unlike a human, he has no heritage. No basic instincts such as love or hate. But this is none of your business. This is making it my business. Well, then in some respects, he is like a blank tablet. What is written upon the tablet will remain. You mean he has no feelings? He will learn quickly, very quickly, but his brain is not blocked by emotional considerations. Most interesting. Yes. Now, if your curiosity is satisfied, I trust you will keep my secret. If anyone discovered at this point... Open the door. The door. I want to see Junior in person. I almost said in the flesh. No, look here. I don't know you. I don't know how you learned my secret. Only Miss Williams and I ask for... The door's, Professor. Very well. Junior, come here. A monster. Papa. He talks? Of course. Mentally, he is now about six years old. Yes. What is it, son? Who is that man, Papa? Let me handle this. You may call me Duke, son. I've come to meet you. That's nice. Nobody ever comes to see me except Lola. Miss Williams. Do you like to play with blacks? Are you? Yes. Nothing that Duke enjoys more than playing with blacks. Play with me, Duke? Certainly, Junior. But I don't understand what you're trying to do. Who are you? It's quite simple. I came to play with Junior. We're going to be friends, Junior and I. When I finish playing, you can have Lola. Miss Williams, prepare my room. Your room? I forgot to tell you. I've decided to stay until the climate changes and I can go out again. No, no. This has gone far enough. You break into my home. You force me at gunpoint to open my laboratory and then you tell me you are moving in. I won't stand for it. I'll call the police. I'm sure the police will be interested in Junior. Newspapers will be delighted to print your obituary, too. What do you want? I told you. I want a comfortable room, no rampage with police. And an opportunity to play blocks with Junior. Agreed? Oh, yeah.  As you wish. Now, leave us alone, Professor. Yes, yes, yes, I will. All right, Junior, your move. Let's build a bridge. I have a better idea, Junior. What? Let's build a coffin. A coffin? I don't know that word. I'll teach you, Junior. I can see the professor has been neglecting the moral side of your education very sadly. Oh, Lord, you're wonderful. You shouldn't have come here, Duke. Why not, my dear? You're not afraid of me. No, I'm afraid of myself. You're no good for me, Duke. You always brought me trouble. Duke, what have you been teaching that thing? Nothing, honey. I've just been playing with him. Very educational. I don't believe you. What's eating you, Lola? Today when I walked in there, he said to me, I know how to kill people, Lola.  He's learning very quickly. Oh, Duke, I'm scared of that thing. It's unholy.  With that voice grinding edge and saying things you'd expect from a child. You dislike him so much. Why did you take this job as his nursemaid? I answered an ad. I wanted to start over again. The professor didn't ask questions. I would have been all right, too, if you hadn't come along. I'm very glad you did tell me, darling. Because Junior is going to make us two very successful people. How do you figure that?  I'm improving his mind, darling. Like any child Junior listens to what he's told and imitates his parents. Right now, his parents are you and me. Ha! A couple of fine examples we are. I don't know what you're teaching Junior, Duke, but I can get. And it isn't right. It's evil. My dear, you know me better than that. What makes you think I teach a child anything evil? I never taught you anything evil, did I, darling? Well, did I? Yes. Yes, you did. Only you taught me to like it. Now, Junior, right on the blackboard, my name is Junior. My name is Junior. People are evil. People are evil. Evil must be destroyed. Evil must be destroyed. The professor is evil. The professor is evil. The professor must be... What are you doing? I want you to keep out of the nursery, professor. What are you teaching him? I said get out of here. Junior, what are you doing? Go away. Junior, you don't even remember me, Junior. I know you.  You didn't tell me about things, about outside. You didn't tell me that people are evil. People are not evil. Yes, they are. They must be destroyed. Stop it. I'm not a child any longer. No. You are not a child.  Junior. Yes, Duke. Remember your lesson. Yes, Duke. The time is now, Junior. Yes, Duke. Keep away from me. Now, Junior. Yes, Duke. Junior. Junior, don't do it. Listen to me. Listen to me. I did it, Duke. Duke, I heard horrible. Can we go away now, Duke? I don't like it here anymore. Yes, Junior. I think we're ready to go away now. Duke, why did you do it? The professor was in the way. We have to move very quickly now, Lola. We? Because if you don't plan to come along, just say so I can have Junior write your name on his blackboard. Duke, you wouldn't. We'll go to Charlie's. With Junior? With Junior. Oh, Duke, you can't. I'm afraid. Relax, my dear. I have great plans for you, too. Wouldn't you like to be independently wealthy for the rest of your life? The only way you get that way is by inheriting a million. Not when you have a fellow like Junior around. Duke. Junior is mine. He obeys me. What you might call a mechanical stooge. I'm still afraid of him. Lola, Junior wouldn't hurt you. You wouldn't hurt Lola, would you, Junior? You remember what I told you about Lola? You like Lola, don't you, Junior? Oh, yes. I like Lola. She's pretty. You see? Junior's growing up. He thinks you're pretty. He's a wolf and steel clothing, eh, Junior? She's pretty. All right, we're wasting time. Okay, Junior, mesh gears. We're stepping out into the big, wide world. Sit down, Charlie. Sure, Duke. Lola and I are going to hide out here for a while. We'll need some help. Listen, Duke, I'm trying to keep the cops away.  Why, it ain't that, Duke. Now listen to me. I need a casing job done. Casing job? You know the armored truck service? Yeah, yeah, sure. I want to know when they take the Acme deposits from Boston to Worcester. Well, Duke, you ain't thinking of a payroll truck, are you? They got canons on those trucks. They travel in pairs. You couldn't get near one of them. I asked you to do a casing job, Charlie. Yeah, sure, Duke. Anything you say. One hour time they pass the narrow Worcester most deserted stretch of road. If you're going to pull a job like that, you'll need 50 men. You want me to get some of the boys? I won't need anybody. I've got somebody. Where? He's out in the car. What's his name, Duke? Anybody I know? His name is Junior. I don't know any Junior. You will, Charlie. You will. Well, thanks, Al. Our sugar's hot in these armored trucks. Hey, get used to it after you've been driving one for 15 years like I have. How much we hauling this time? About $250,000. Brother, could I use a hunk of that? Yeah, who couldn't? Well, it'll be coming into Worcester any minute now. It's almost midnight. Yeah, what's our first stop? Acme National Bank. Then we unload a payroll at the Bronson Watch Plant. Yeah, I wish we could open a window and get some fresh air. We can get that after we unload. It's the rule of the company that we... What's that up ahead? It looks like something's shining in the road. Throw up your spotlight. Right. Holy smoke. Can you see what I see? Looks like a mechanical traffic cop. About eight feet tall. Standing right in the middle of the highway. Must be a Halloween gag. Can you get past him? I don't know. We'll have to slow down. Get on that gun, Sam. Let's take no chances. All right. I'll give it the horn. Don't budge. Where's our escort truck? It's pulled up right behind us. Looks like supplement of Buck Rogers, don't it? This is a heck of a note, blocking traffic like that. We'll have to try and get past it. Looks like you might squeeze by on the shoulder. Here goes. Smokes is moving. It's coming toward us. Get on that gun. Give it a blast. The bullets are bouncing right off it. It's still coming. Look at the eyes. Al, back up. I can't. The other truck's right behind me. Al! It's lifting its arm. Al's going to smash our window! I end up seeing it with my own eyes. Duke, we've got to quit this. What's the matter, Charlie? Getting shaky? You know me, Duke. It takes nerve. Charlie's always been right there. But this, the papers say he killed all four drivers. Listen, Duke, that robot is hot. We've got to get rid of it. Stop you blabbering. I don't mind a little heist, but killing four guys...  You certainly have a slim mind. You want to take a lesson from Junior. He doesn't worry. He doesn't even know what a policeman is. He has no conscience. He never sleeps. He doesn't get tired. He doesn't even want a share of the profits. All we need is one more good robbery. You ain't going to pull another one. Why not? Count me out, Duke. You have to land out of here with Lola and that thing there. I'm getting too jumpy. The law's going to track that, baby. Are you quite finished, Charlie? You've got no heart, Duke. You're like Junior, all steel inside. And you're just a big, warm-hearted slob. Well, I got nerves. I can't stand a thing. Duke said you were that iron face and the clanking around it. Hello, Junior. Hello, Duke. I've just been talking to Charlie. Yes, Duke. You know what I think, Junior? What, Duke? I think Charlie's yellow. You know what happens to people who turn yellow, don't you? Yes, Duke. Tell Charlie. They're evil. We have to destroy them. Hey, Charlie. Junior has a sense of values. He doesn't like people who sing to the police. Now, Duke, wait a minute. You know I never turned stuelly or anything like that. I never sang to the coppers in my life. But you'll sing to Junior, won't you, Charlie? What? Sing Junior a nursery rhyme. What do you mean? You heard me. Sing Junior a nursery rhyme. Maybe Little Bo Peep. Junior likes Little Bo Peep. Duke. Duke, listen to me. I didn't... Sing it, Charlie. You can stay here as long as you like, Duke. You too, Junior. See, Junior? He's yellow. Sing it, Charlie. Little Bo Peep has lost his sheep. And can't tell where to find them. Junior? Yes, Duke. Leave them alone. Now, Duke. Now, Junior, come home. I stopped him, Duke. Take him down the cellar. Duke, I was in the other room and... Junior, put him down. Take him down to the furnace, Junior. Yes, Duke. Oh, Duke. Duke, you can't... Relax, darling. Stop shaking. Duke, we can't stay here now. We've got to get out of here. Charlie's going to be missed. He's got friends. Now we'll have the gangs after us soon. Stop worrying, darling. I'll take care of everything. Where are you going? Out to a travel agency. You and I are going to take a trip, Lola. You leaving me alone? Nothing to worry about. The roadhouse downstairs is closed. Nobody will bother. That doesn't frighten me. It's being alone with that thing. I've got the jitters, Duke. It'll only be for the afternoon. I've got to get reservations and plan this thing. Look, honey, 48 hours you and I will be on our way to Switzerland with $500,000 worth of loot. What about Junior? Junior will be taking care of... I have to do it. I sent him out on his own. Why not? He has a fine education. He could go out into... How can you get rid of him? Junior will do anything I say. So I'll merely have him get into the furnace and sit there while I fill it with oil and set fire to it. Too bad the professor couldn't have stayed around to see him growing up. He's almost a man now, Junior is. But not quite as clever as a man. You'll find that out after he steps into the furnace. All right. But do it now, Duke, before you leave. There's no time now. Keep your chin up. I'll be back about eight.  You wouldn't leave me. Leave you? I have big plans for you, Lola. You see, I find you very... attractive. You're not good for me. I don't want you... As long as you can tell yourself you're not really kissing me because you want to, why not enjoy it? I know you, Lola. Yeah. You know too much for one man. Then I'm going now. It'll be nice to Junior while I'm gone. Don't show him you're afraid of him. Goodbye, darling. Goodbye, Duke. Junior, Duke might not like it.  I want you to oil me, Lola. All right. I like you to oil me. Yes, Junior. Are we going away from here, Lola? Yes, we're going away. That'll be nice. I don't like it here. I want to see more things. I want to see a roller coaster. Where'd you hear about a roller coaster? I read about it in a book. Charlie gave me a book. No. Will Duke let me ride on a roller coaster? I don't know. Maybe. You like Duke, Lola? What? Why, certainly. Do you like me? You know I do, Junior. Lola? What? Who do you like best? Me or Duke?  Yes. But who do you love? What do you know about love? In the books, man and woman love. Oh. Lola? Yes? Do you think anyone will ever love me? I'm different. I'm a robot. You want somebody to love you, Junior? I want something, Lola. I guess that's what I want. It's very lonesome being a robot. Do you think it makes a difference? I think some women can fall in love with anything, Junior. Even with a man like Duke. Why, Lola? Oh, I don't know. Maybe because... Well, as long as she thinks her man is the smartest and the strongest. Oh. Where are you going? To wait for Duke. Oh, he won't be home for a while. I'll sit in the hall and wait for him. All right, Junior. I want to be alone and think. How about what? I read in a book today it was bad to kill people. What does that mean? Bad? Bad? I don't know, Junior. I guess it's just a word. Oh, it's you. What are you doing sitting in the dark? I was waiting for you, Duke. Oh, that's a good boy, Junior. Duke? Lola oiled me. Well, that's nice. Tell me what, Junior? I've got a little job for a stylist. Let's go down there. Now, Duke? Right now, Junior. All right, Duke. Are we going away soon? Yes, Junior. We're going away. What's in the cellar, Duke?  You'll find out. Is that you? I saw I heard Duke come in. He came in. Where is he? Down the cellar. What's he doing? Nothing. Did he say he'd be up soon? No. Maybe you'd better go down and get him. He's dead. Oh, he's dead? You said the woman loves the strongest and the smartest. Well, I'm stronger and smarter. You are human. I'm almost human, Lola. No. I'll stay away. Lola. All those metal hands. Don't touch me. I love you, Lola. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. And strangely enough, it did sound almost human. It did sound almost human. You have just heard the Robert Block story titled Almost Human. Another adventure into the unknown world of the future. The world of... Next week, a strange story of other worlds. The story of the lost race. Dimension X was adapted for radio by George Leffords. Featured in the cast were Santos Ortega as Duke. Rita Lynn as Lola. And Jackie Grimes as Junior. Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Engineer Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King. During the months to come, General Mills is planned to bring radio listeners an excitingly new half-hour show each weekday evening. Two of these shows have already joined on Mondays, it's Nightbeat. And on Wednesdays, you'll hear dangerous assignment. More to come in the Witte's Big Parade of NBC shows will be Sarah's Private Eye, Dimension X, and the Texas Rangers. You'll hear all of them in the Witte's Big Parade of NBC shows. Hear the Phil Harris's tomorrow. Now truth or consequences on NBC.


Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? What you have just heard is the question asked during the war to agents of the OSS Ordinary citizens who to this question answered yes This is Cloak and dagger Warfare espionage International intrigue these are the weapons of the OSS Today's adventure the kutchin story tells of an agent an American agent dropped behind Japanese lines in Burma a story Suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the office of strategic services a story that can now be told The sky hangs low over Burma In 1944 it was more than just the smoke and dust haze that blankets it in the dry season It was the tension in the air that weighed the clouds down so that they almost seem to be pressing against the wings of our plane You got to reach your objective in a few minutes Mike good. I'll tell you when to hit the cell You got everything. Yep radio supplies. I'm all set Boy, that's thick jungle down there thick with jazz. That's what I mean. I Looked down in the towering jungle-colored mountains of North Burma Thought of the small band of kutchin natives were waiting me I Thought about how pitifully outnumbered they were behind the enemy lines now. They hated the Japs Then all of a sudden ah, I didn't have time to think anymore Lousy Jap fighter what clouded he crawled out of it's too late to run. We're in for it Sorry, you're gonna be late for your appointment Brother what I could do with a tail gunner now Hold on to your stomach Mike gonna see if I can loop and get behind him. Hi still on our tail. Yeah, he looked right behind me Nice work you got him How better we hit we all make it better try to belly land can we jump pull up for that? Hold on I was thrown from the plane when we crashed I Got off with nothing more than a leg that was bleeding pretty bad When I crawled back to the wreck I found the pilot he wasn't so lucky I Started to run I didn't know where I was going But I started to run anyway through the bamboo thickets my leg was throbbing with pain and I tripped The pistol dropped out of my holster and disappeared into the high grass. I didn't have time to look for it Somewhere to the north with the kutchins. I had to get to them. This was headhunter country In those days Japs paid high prices for American scalps After a while my breath came out I couldn't go any further My imagination put Japs and headhunters behind every tree. I told myself I had to stop I told myself I didn't have enough wind to take another step But I changed my mind when behind me. I heard a twig snap There was someone following a quiet stealthy someone unpadded cat's feet Kept on running into the river. I didn't bother to look first for crocodiles The numbness for my bad leg spread all over me You could hardly swim All I wanted to do was get away from that shadow behind me When I reached the opposite shore, I clambered under a sandbar safe safe When I look back I saw the tireless shadow emerge from the bushes and flipped silently across the river on a fallen tree trunk My lungs were ready to burst Pulled myself up again and follow with some roots And waited Waited for that shadow to catch up with me. I just lay there and waited Okay Okay, you win Where do we go from here? We'll say something. We'll just stand there Probably won't be able to understand you but Say something anyway. I have to make it worry. I just Stood there staring at me saying nothing. I Don't give anything to have had me gone back again and All of a sudden I did He just reached down and handed it to me Hey, I Don't get it. What's that? What's a card you're holding Follow this guide He will lead you to safety Well Well now you're talking I Sure, and you couldn't look more surprised captain than if the tall grass parted and you came on a field of four leaf clovers I feel that way father like you turned over a stone and there we were What's about it? I thought that native following me was a head hunter I know they'd turn any American over to the Japs for a two pound bag of salt. Yeah, you're right there On the holy sabbages that they are We saw your plane fall and I sent yin here after you with that message written on the card He's the fastest runner in the Cushing village. I'm sorry. He puts which is scared into you Forgive me captain Shay. Did I pull the bandage too tightly then? No, that's okay. I don't mind it too much When I think of what happened to the pilot I was lucky Yes Was a pity about the pilot Ying this is as if you don't mind Thank you There oh Now almost done now Then we'll go out and you'll meet the villagers The women have prepared a special banquet for you. That's very nice of them Have you been a missionary here in Burma long father? Oh for almost 12 years now. I Hardly remember any other life These good natives have all become sons and daughters to me We've taught each other I speak their language They all speak English now. They do as well as I Almost then I have a question for there. Yes I'll come yin over there took 10 years off my life chased me through the jungle. Why didn't he say something? well Ying didn't speak to your captain Shay because he wasn't able to what? He was a prisoner of the Japanese some time ago They cut out his tongue Yeah, that that other all a bandage pleasing Thank you Colleen put more wine in the bamboo cup for our guests. Yes, I will be happy to here you are What did you call her father Colleen to make it easier for me? I've renamed many of the villagers that woman star in the big kettle is Kathleen and the other beside her Bridget I get the general idea and your name is Shay Mike Shay a good Irish name of whatever hard one. Well, actually father. It's Michael Sikolnikov Would you mind repeating that? Sikolnikov Polish I shorten it because everybody has trouble pronouncing it Sometimes I have trouble myself spelling it I see No matter no matter Tell me more about your mission Well, I was sent by the OSS to establish radio contact father with the northern area combat command in Bermont Give them any information and help I can that is with your help of course. Oh, yes Well, you'll find us of great assistance Immediately after the banquet you can find a place to set up your radio. Yeah, how are you enjoying your meal? My wife never made anything of taste it like this. Do you like it? Well, let me fill your plate some more. Mmm. Thanks. Mmm. It's very good What is it? We make it special for you today Quite bees we bought for hours I Guess I've had enough I don't feel right moving you out of your hot father. It's quite all right. I can easily find another basher This is the best spot for your radio. I'll even leave you that the decorations on the walls to inspire you Ginger Rogers, huh? That's your favorite pinup. Well, she's a fair lass. All right She brightens up the basher.  Oh, I don't know thought of her going blind squeezing all the news from home into female Wearing herself sick about me And all the time I never felt more free in my life. Yes, I know just what you mean I love this life in the jungle as well as the people my people here. I Don't think I could ever leave now. She could She could Bither by do you mind if I call you or she? No, not at all father-in-law to him not at all This jungle home was a far cry from the third floor walk up in New York and the job behind the desk in the insurance office The cut your warriors aren't imposing figures. They're short and squat with long matted hair and teeth worn to a black stub by beetle nut They led a simple village life eating rice trapping wild pigs The technique they also used in trapping wild Japs But they were friendly happy people and life for them was pleasant Until one afternoon when a report came in on the radio North area combat command to agent Chakalnikov Agent Chakalnikov of the OSS to North area combat command. You're coming in clear a waiting message. Come in over Capture of jungle town of Michena and its airstrip is vital to aid allied advance in Burma Battalions of American marauders will attempt capture They will rely on your help to get them through the jungle over Agent Chakalnikov to headquarters have small band of kitchens organized. We will do what we can Waiting further instructions over Other native armies under OSS leadership have been alerted stand by stand by this is imperative over and out Well, what oh father or tool I I didn't see you standing there You heard I heard oh shit This is a big push all right that airport at Michena could mean success or failure of the whole American campaign in Burma I'll get our warriors ready in the meantime. There's nothing we can do but wait for orders That's always the worst part of it Wait, my children quiet Now It is as I have told you when the order comes from the Americans We will advance upon the enemy. We leave now father catch enemy officer. No, no, no, no That's not the way we must work from now on The American will be our leader. We will do as he says We will follow captain or say Chakalnikov in Burma a battalion of marauders on the way to Michena has been cut off from the main body of the column and lost in the jungle Radio contact gone find them and supply reinforcements over Agent Chakalnikov to headquarters. We'll do the best we can over not Well, we've waited two weeks for an assignment, but when it came it was a beauty The problem or she is locating that battalion now it occurs to me Yes, yes father it occurs to me that if they're surrounded by the Japanese somewhere in the jungle the Japanese themselves would know Exactly where that spot is father. I don't get you Well, there's a Japanese bivouac less than six miles from here There are undoubtedly Japanese high command who have the information. We're after I've got you now father But one of the scouts come with me to show me the way through the jungle We'll sneak into that Jap camp and bring one of the officers back with us. We did to over here low Oh sure sure too many of us and we'll happily get caught just a couple of us can make it All right Wait till the moon is halfway across the sky Den go on the Lord go with you When the moon was halfway across the sky the scout and I set up Back through the jungle I've come from Only this time I was a shadow too Slipping behind the bamboo thickets cutting my way through the dense jungle foliage We didn't talk much Only what was necessary Jap camp close Good Jap camp there ahead See two bushes. Yeah, I see All those fires lit Must be some kind of a power going on century Where finger point? We will surprise Sneak in camp From there right behind you. No talk No talk No spring Okay for the bushes What's what's next is that I don't worry about Another time it's wild boars Komodo lizards watch what's Nick snake You move his strike. What do we do?  I'm kind of high itchy of Japanese high command I Regret that we were forced to render you such stormy welcome Colonel high itchy, huh? You speak English pretty well my suit says Institute of Technology class 37 DeWitt Clinton High School the Bronx class of 33 we will get along well I think if we make a little trade What kind of a trade your life for little information? I see American marauders I want to know the numbers their positions their objective. I don't know if I did I wouldn't tell you God That whip was sample We have much more in store for you if you do not agree to be more agreeable to our simple requests I Give you 24 hours to think it over American The hut they threw me into was small and dark. There was a century posted at the entrance What I remember most about those 24 hours was the heat Wet sticky heat that made my skin crawl and my lips dry It was a cute trick of the MIT graduate class of 37 to let the water drip from a pipe right outside the barred window After a while it begins to get you when you're thirsty You get up get up Can I eat you see you now? Up American. Oh, okay. Okay. Get your hands off me What what's that? Stumpy stumpy That's one less Japanese to worry about the real where'd you come from? What is this? No time for long explanations now lad Day out number to 50 to one and we needed heavy ammunition Elephant with the heaviest we could find yeah, but how did you well when you didn't come back? I sent a runout we found the body of this come we must leave now. Yeah, but the information I came to get We'll take it with us Cuts in warriors in this village have a grudge against your people Colonel Hayachi Maybe you can tell us why you cannot frighten me American you'll get no information for me Shoes on the other foot now, huh, so it would seem Ying I'd like you to meet Ying Colonel Hayachi Some months ago. He was a Japanese prisoner His tongue was cut out I'm gonna turn you over to Ying. No. No, he can ask your questions his own way Go on take him. No, no, no get him away from me I would tell you what you want to know. I would tell you why we have sir Battalion I'll tell you where they are. That's more like it start talking He's got ready to attack and a great holiday spirit took over the village, but we must come We always come or say when our warriors go ambush Japanese But this is crazy I can't have a lot of women and kids and old men tagging along we go we go Old men carry fin block muzzle loader Women we do our job or so now wait a minute when battle finished Women cook big party Somebody monkey meat what and serve it pipe and hot in the front lines nothing doing I'm gonna see Father O'Toole about this You have your problems. I have mine. Oh, yeah, but we can't let that whole tribe come along This isn't kids play they'll come with your life and pure not or say they always do in the mean Why look at my predicament some son of Satan stole me false teeth What am I to do without me to father O'Toole, please we have much time I eat you gave us a map. We know where the marauders and the Jap Attackers are But we won't do the many good just sitting here. I'm not just sitting here. I say I'm trying to find me teeth The whole village went along whether I liked it or not and Father O'Toole came along too without his teeth The kutch and warrior knew the back trails the jungle as well as I knew 42nd Street Yings seem to be the leader and he let us through little known passes along hidden underbrush Closer and closer to the spot where we knew the Jap's had the American battalion cut off helpless just where they wanted No one made a sound and ying held up his hand What is it getting this junction of the two trails? He's not sure which one to take That's it. Isn't it? Why don't we split up half was go one way? No, no There aren't enough of us the kutchings of their own methods Why is ying pointing at me? He's giving you the honor of contributing the hair from your head.  Ah Thank you Here you are ying Was he thrown it on the ground? We'll go in the direction the hair points It's not very scientific. Oh, but it always works It points to the right we'll go to the right Oh Right father old rule it did work here are the chaps never the marauders dug into those foxholes They're surrounded all right for that So wonder they held out this long our business then is to attack the enemy from the rear and give the battalion a chance to hit back We can't attack them. There's too many of them. We'll have to ambush. Yes, it's true Only I had me teeth or you could think that ying some of your others come here Listen I've only chances to draw them off from the left. There's a clearing there They'll give the marauders a chance to get out of that encirclement. It's a chap soldier. Okay. We said trap That's the idea Pansy, what's that? Hey, you want a trap set watch you're about to witness the kutching secret weapon What are they doing? They're witness those bamboo poles to sharp points Then they'll stick them at the slant beneath the underbrush on either side of the trail When the enemy passes our body is your fire and the Japanese are dived to the sides. I get it and cut themselves to ribbons very effect Very pretty The natives work quickly the women helping them whittle the bamboo to razor points When everything was ready, I took a few of our men to the left flank and we fire They ran right into our trap Very effective I committed mass Harry curry all along the trail That's all there was to it Well, I never thought we'd get out of those foxholes alive Captain Shukolnikov Thanks for helping us chase the rest of the Japs off. I'm glad we could help me just The kutchins will lead you the rest of the way through the jungle so you can rejoin the main body of your column Can we leave now? Oh, no major the women would be insulted I'll do it in the battle. They were busy preparing the victory feast Pretty sure of themselves one thing good wives. They have confidence in their husbands. The feast is ready They're even dressed for it. Look at that flowers in the hair and everything all dressed up One of them is over dressed Colleen come here. Yes, father. Don't you? Yes, father me. What do you got around your neck? I bow for the victory my false teeth now you point yourself another necklace and give them back to me No, no, then I have nothing this pretty Colleen listen to me here. Here's something prettier my shop shoot as matter Every American soldier has one to give to the prettiest girl he meets Would you like it? So shiny ribbon pretty too Father or two you have back your teeth Captain Sheikolnikov You're worthy of the name of Oshie The capture of the vital airstrip and the ultimate conquest of missioner was due to the combined efforts of the marauders who attacked it and The kuchen warriors who helped them and harassed the enemy all along the way and Once more the report of an OSS agent closes with the words mission Accomplished a further adventure in black warfare is next week cloak and dagger Third in today's cloak and dagger adventure were Raymond Edward Johnson Karl Weber Bill Quinn Joe Julian Everett Sloan Inga Adams Jackson Beck and Jerry Jarrett The script was written by Winifred Wolfe and Jack Gordon music was under the direction of John Gart Today's true OSS adventure was based on the book cloak and dagger by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain This has been a Louis G. 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But Russell said that what he could not understand that from the time of the man got in trouble Until he was told in those two hours that he did ask for help We didn't respond although we had planes in a half an hour from him Now as I understand it the planes that we had close by South Korea Were loaded and couldn't be unloaded in time. Is that a correct statement? Absolutely Second the man never did ask for help is that a correct statement right now third Do you have any what's your speculation on what happened to the president? I honestly don't know and and I called Nick this morning and later waltz and said I think we need a Cuban missile crisis Who wrote to this and God now we ought to get locked in a room and you ought to keep us there And since we stay there until we come up with answers to three questions. What was the Korean objective? Why did they do it? Secondly, what are they going to do now? Blackmail us and let it go. You know what what and thirdly what should we do now? And there are a whole series of things we've thought of here at quarantine him steal one of their ships Etc. Etc. Etc. But we just have got to act quickly I don't think we can let the day go by before reporting to you are at least ten reviews on those three questions


What's going on guys it's your boy DPJ here today with another destiny video and today we have top five Lockheed's loot drops of the week keep the amazing submissions coming to the email just linked in the top of the video description but let's just get straight into the video. In at number five we have a clip sent in by Kyle B. How many legendaries does this do get from blue engrams? Absolutely crazy. In at number four we have a clip sent in by banana in the U.S. craft nothing I like seeing more than someone getting amazing loot from us seen as I always get jacked shit. Three we have a clip sent in by No Good Names 225 casual being bad at Iron Banner only to land himself an exotic engram and two other Iron Banner exclusives at the same damn time. The two we have a clip sent in by Crazy Bus 1000 it definitely seems the worst you are PvP the better the loot you get this is just ridiculous. In at number one we have a clip sent in by Jiggler these are possibly the best strike loot it was I've seen. I still don't think till this day I've ever landed myself two exotics at the same time so getting this kind of loot is out of my league. But guys that is the end of my top five lucky loot drops of the week if you enjoyed the video if you could leave a like I would appreciate the support. Thanks for stopping by as always and I'll catch you on the next one peace out till next time. Peace!


Oh guys, it's finally here. It is med school finals revision time. Oh, that's precarious Anyways, today is January the 4th and my exam is on January the 12th, and I've done exactly zero studying. I've got no motivation, no effort and no energy left for this time exam. Ignore the fact I made this on the flight. This is what I'm working with. I've got my two oski books over here, our good friend Google, the purple book guide where I'm keeping track of everything I'm doing and I'm also in the study with me group on the discord server over here. Got my snacks and everything like that and it's pretty much it. This is day one hour zero. Alright guys, so the first examination, the abdominal examination is done. It's kind of mad how much of a sort of kickstart there is to getting back into oski studying. I feel like I don't know, I feel like I've forgotten so much and I'm so rusty and out of practice and I need to get back in the zone and get back in the mood of doing these exams. But it is what it is. See you guys in a bit. Alright, and that is the first four hour block done of day one. I went through all of the big four exams so cardio, resp, abdo, neuro, gait and then cranial nerves as well. The idea or thought of studying for med school finals was just this huge mountain challenge in my head that I really didn't want to get started and my motivation was really low. But now that we've gotten even a small start just the first four hour block, I already feel a lot better about it. So it's even more proof and evidence that once you start something, it just comes a lot easier. But anyways, I'm going to break for lunch now. Probably should change out of my pajamas as well. And then I'm going to continue oski practice in a group setting with Kenji and Georgina who you guys I'm sure know by now. Alright guys, reaching the end of day one of studying. I just did two hours of oski practice and now I think I'm going to finish off the day with an hour and a half of MCQs or pass paper questions. Day one of studying. Just got to grind this out for the next couple of days or the next week I guess and bang out this exam. Be done with medical school and start working as a doctor. Oh my goodness. It's so close. Kind of freaking out. But anyways, one step at a time. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Peace. Alright, day two of medical finals. Heading to the clinical skills room at our university to go to some practical skills with Kenji and Georgina. This absolutely freezing cold. I did not expect this. Definitely should have worn a thicker jacket but you guys wanted this. Campus. Clinical skills building. My name is Kenji and I'm a doctor. Can I solve a problem in the M&H please? Yeah, it's not strict crime on M26. That is it for the morning session. We were practicing procedural skills, so things like ECG, ABG, catheterization, scrubbing gum, whatever you guys saw in the clips just now. We've all split up to get some lunch and now we're going to head to a book not library room in order to do some examinations. So things like cardiac exam, respiratory exam, etc. And those two things make up a pretty decent chunk of our oski exam. Obviously there's history and communication stations to get through as well, but those are things we can do by ourselves at home. When we're here on campus we want to do all the things that we can't otherwise do at home. So practical skills, examinations on other real people, etc. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Naskar and I'm a doctor, so can I start by confirming your name and your age please? Yeah, it's Kenji and I'm a 25. Cool, last one. We are going to have to postpone the oskies so they will not be happening in January as planned. I can't believe this. What date though? They postponed our oski. We got an email from the uni which said our oski has been postponed to an unknown date and so in classic medicine fashion we have started preparing for our progress test, the multiple choice question test. So that's what we're doing now.  All right, so we've just put in a very long shift at the library. How long was it? Nine to six? Nine to six, yeah, so nine hours. We did a lot of good studying and that's pretty much it for day two. Now we're only going to be doing past paper questions and focusing on the written exam because our oski is postponed, which is great. Do you think you want to say? Oh no, comment, like, subscribe. So day three is over for studying but not over to get in a bit of rest and relaxation, some gaming in with the boys.  Are you using my strategy? Honestly, with all the studying that's going on, I really make sure that I go to the gym, I play my video games, rest and relax and just have a good time as well. Can't study without unwinding. Anyways, I'll see you tomorrow. Good morning and welcome to day three of studying for my med school finals. As you saw yesterday, the oski exams or the practical exams have been cancelled. These are the ones that I would have had on the 18th and 19th of January. So those have been postponed until March. So the only exam I have left is the written exam, which is in six days from now into three, four, five, six. Yeah, very, very close. Anyways, all I'm doing to prepare for that now is just doing past paper questions here on the left, taking my notes on my Notion database that you guys have probably seen a million times and chatting with Kenji and Georgina about those questions on WhatsApp. And yeah, nothing much to see here. Just need to grind these questions away. The more I do, the better prepared I'll be feeling a little bit nervous about this exam, but not too much. I've done a lot of these before and I'm probably going to be fine. Just need to practice over the next couple of days, keep my mind nice and fresh. On top of doing the practice questions and taking notes, I've got a couple of you guys studying with me live on the Discord server, which is over here. So I've got you guys to keep me company whilst I study as well. If you're interested in joining the Discord server, you guys can check out my Patreon. I'll leave links on screen and in the description. All right, guys, that is it for me for today. It has been a long day of studying. I feel like my eyes are starting to close and I definitely need to change. Huge, huge shout out to all of you who are studying with me in the Discord room. You guys are honestly the best. Had your cameras on. Kept me accountable for the whole day, so I really appreciate it. So after this long day of studying, I am in much need of some exercise. I think I'm going to go for a run because I haven't gone for a run in a long time. I would film it, but filming me running isn't exactly that exciting. So instead, here's some footage of me doing a homework out here in my room a couple of days ago. Enjoy that and I'll see you guys tomorrow for day four of studying, I think, or five. I've lost count. Anyways, I'll see you guys then. Peace. And I've gone to a really great routine of gymming before I left for this holiday over Christmas, but I am really scared of catching COVID and having to mitigate these exams or not be able to write them and then having to retake them at some point during the year. I feel like that is not an option and that is not going to happen to me. So it's going to be homework outs and runs for me up until these exams are over. And then I'll feel more comfortable going back to the gym. We haven't got the most high tech set up over here, just a gym mat and a couple of weights. We do what we can. Guys, welcome back to day number four. I think this one over here. Today I'm going to be filming a 12 hour study with me and no, you didn't hear that wrong. I've never done that before. And obviously I do not study 12 hours a day in fact, I don't think I've ever studied 12 hours a day. The most I've ever studied in a day is 10 hours and usually I do about eight hours during exam season. So this is far beyond what I would normally do, but something that I've been wanting to do for a while kind of as a personal challenge to myself, just to see if I can do it. I also think it would make a pretty interesting YouTube video. 12 hours is the upload limit on YouTube. And I think if there was a study video for that long, it would be pretty cool. So yeah, I'm just going to do it. Try not to die and hopefully make it. I'm going to record the whole thing. The video is probably up on the channel already, but if it's not, look out for it, subscribe, stay tuned, etc. And that's all I'm going to do today. So I'll probably catch you in the next day. Wish me luck. I don't know how, but I'm happily here to report that we did it. We finished the 12 hour study with me.  I feel like I've been sitting here all day doing nothing but studying. Honestly, huge shout out to all of you on Discord who are here studying with me. You guys are all here in the chat. I could not have done it without you. Having bad accountability and other people to study with, even when I'm here at home, can't go to the library, can't be with anyone from med school is great. And yeah, that is going to be the longest study with me I've ever done. I'm not doing this again. This is it. This was a one off. So if you want more long study with me is rewatch that one. It'll be up on the channel as soon as I can find the energy to edit it, which might not be for a while. So bear with me. And yeah, that's pretty much it. What day is this now? Day one, two, three, four. All done. Just like that. We are one day closer to med school finals. I will see you tomorrow. Peace. Hi guys. Good morning. So today is actually day six, not day five. Probably wondering what happened to day five. Well, the honest truth is that I did absolutely nothing yesterday. I took it as a day off. I was completely chilling and resting. After that 12 hour study with me, I realized two things. One, I was really tired and exhausted from doing past paper questions and I needed a break. The second thing is that I feel like I'm going to be fine for this exam. I feel like I'm going to be able to answer the vast majority of the questions that come up, touch wood. And the thing is for this exam, I don't need to score the best possible grade that I can. I literally just need to pass. It's kind of like a tick box that you need to check in order to graduate medical school. But all of the exams where I needed to perform very well, I needed to score very highly. Those are long gone now. I'm done with those. I just need to know enough and study enough in order to be able to pass. And I don't need to stress myself in my studying past that point.   I also played some video games with my sister. And then we also watched a two and a half hour long movie, Shawshank Redemption. I'm sure you guys have seen it, if not heard of it. Very good, highly recommend. It's like the most highly rated movie on IMDB. So check it out. I guess that leaves us with a couple days left of studying. Yeah. So three days of studying left until the exam. We've got one, two, three. And what I'm going to do for these last three days is I'm going to focus on the past paper questions that we have that are directly from King's. So doing past paper questions and question banks is an amazing way to study. It's what I've been doing for about a year and a half now. But if you have questions and past papers that are specific for your university, specific for your courses, you want to make sure you really focus on those because a lot of the time repeat questions come up or repeat topics, repeat focuses come up on your own exams. So it's important to make sure you know those ones well. And over the years at King's here, I've collected a whole bunch of papers both from other people who have written them in the past and from myself when we do them online, et cetera. So I've got a lot of material to prep from. All right. So that's what I'm going to do right now. I'm going to grind out these questions for a couple of hours here. And of course, join you guys over in the Discord so we can all study together, live, keep each other company motivated and excited to get this work done. So yeah, here we go. T minus three for this exam. I'll see you guys in a bit. Peace. All right, guys. So this is what we have on the menu for today. We have the most recent past paper that we did on the left, the answers, the most recent past paper itself, a chat to communicate with my friends and go through the questions. So I'm going to hop on a video call with Georgina now and we're going to go through this past paper question by question, discussing it, answering it and then checking our answers against the mark scheme. And that way we can do the most relevant questions to the upcoming exam, the ones that we know are most similar to written by the same people come from the same question bank, whatever. And so it'll probably be the most high yield, most important resource for us to go through. Good morning, Georgina. Good morning. How are you doing? I'm okay. You know, it's like most of the questions I do, I seem to know the answers so... Yeah. And I feel like the King's questions are so much more straightforward than like past medicine tests so much material. A 32-year-old man has a five-day history of pain at the base of his thumb in France. Ah, he's got 220 mils per cake per day. I think that's too much. Yeah, I think it's like 100 mils per cake per day or something like that. I don't think so. So he's following the sentiles. He's six weeks old presenting with this, not from birth. So it's not going to be like all your eczdenosis or... I think it's over-treating. I think so too. All right, day seven. It's already dark outside. I didn't do much filming today, but I want to show you guys this immaculate study vibe that I've got going on here. Before the iPad where I'm answering all the questions, then the lo-fi study meets video in the corner, the group chat where we're discussing all the questions, past paper exam with the answers, and then you guys on Discord studying with me and keeping me company. Now, I don't usually study with music.  And the reason that I don't is because I usually find it distracting, but if I'm kind of in a slump or in a mood where I don't really feel like studying, I find that putting music on in the background kind of helps get me going and pushes me through the session. But anyways, guys, unfortunately, not much to report here, just more of the same boring, boring studying, prepping for these med school finals, which will be done very, very soon. I cannot wait, and then I'm off on holiday, booked to holiday. But I'll tell you guys about that another time. Anyways, back to work and see you in a bit. And just like that, tomorrow is my last day studying for my med school final exam. If you had told me that a little bit ago, I would have told you, oh, it's so far away. It's never going to come. Like, I don't even think about it blah, blah, blah. And now here we are, and it's actually after tomorrow. I think the thing is after so many years of being in university, at some point you just hit a, like, routine. You reach a point where studying for exams and writing them just becomes, like, a part of your normal existence. And it's not as big of a deal as maybe your first couple of exams in university are, or maybe your final exams in high school, something like that. I honestly just want to be done. I want to get this over with, move on, and graduate. So as soon as our Oski exam got postponed, I suddenly got a free two weeks in my life where I wouldn't have to do anything, those two weeks right over there. And so I decided to book a holiday with one of my close friends here. He lives down the road. He also went to King's medical school and graduated two years ago now. So we're going to go skiing in Zermatt, Switzerland. Snowboarding. If you guys have been following the channel for any period of time, you might know it's like my favorite thing in the world. So I'm very, very excited to be going.  When I'm a doctor, I'm not going to have a random two weeks at some point to just take off and go skiing. So I want to take full advantage of all of the breaks that I have in my remaining time left in medical school. And I think that's it for me today. I've just wrapped up editing the videos for the next two weeks. So I can relax and chill for two weeks. We'll have to worry about it. And yeah, final day tomorrow. I'll see you in a bit. All right. Good morning. It is the final day for my medical school finals. I've got one day left. And what I really want to focus on this morning is the topics that come up on every single exam that they always ask about. And I want to make sure that I know those really, really well. So I've got these on my screen over here. These include things like the guidelines for how to manage anema thorax, warfarin adjustment, and guidelines for a patient taking warfarin as bleeding. We've got DVLA guidance, I don't know, mega femur fractures, guidelines for atrial fibrillation, angina stroke, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, et cetera, et cetera. So what I typically do when I'm doing this part of my studying is I go through each of these conditions in my conditions list. And I have on my iPad what I call a whiteboard, which is just a blank piece of space where I can write things down, recall things from memory, and sort of make sure that I actually know them from my head. All right, that is the first four-hour session of the day done. I'm feeling pretty ready for the exam, to be honest. I'm not worried. And I'm kind of just doing questions to keep my brain alive and ready and thinking before tomorrow. But I think I'll probably do a short session in the afternoon and then call it a day. Just rest well, relax, enjoy myself, play some video games, something like that. And then it'll be exam time. All right, guys, so I've just sat down for my second study session of the day. And in my break, I set this up. So now I've got my iPad over there and I can have a permanent Discord slash FaceTime, slash YouTube video, slash low-fi beats, music, whatever, placed there on the side so it doesn't take up my screen real estate. And remember how I'd set up the iPad with magnets in the previous vlog? All right, success. Yeah, that didn't really work. So what I've done now is I've got this stand thing and that's connected to the arm where my iPhone used to sit and I've wired the cable all the way down through the back and it now comes into here. So yeah, that's what I've spent about an hour and a half doing. Now I need to get back to work because my exam is tomorrow and I will see you in a bit. And all right, that is it. That brings us to the end of me studying for this med school final exam. I feel like my brain is fried. I've done a lot and I'm just ready for this to be over with. Quite happy with this iPad that I've set up over here. I feel like I can have things that I always want to see on the screen all the time without taking up or distracting me from the actual work and studying that I'm doing. But anyways, I think I'm just going to chill with my sister, probably play some video games with her or some Minecraft with myself if she's not available. And then yeah, tomorrow, I'm just going to go and write the exam and I'll take you guys with me. We'll see how it goes. Fingers crossed, wish me luck. I'll see you tomorrow. Peace. All right, good morning guys. It is officially exam day and I woke up today feeling calm, feeling cool as a cucumber. As you guys would say, I slept very well. And then I saw an email from the dean of medical school or like the head of our stage in medical school and it said something like, I just want to wish all the final medical students good luck. I understand how monumentous of an exam this is and how important it is. And I was like, wait a minute. Is this the same exam that I'm writing? Like, do I need to be more worried? Do I need to stress a little bit more? Do I need to realize how important this exam is? And it had me a little bit worried. Got some like butterflies in my stomach, got my heart racing a little bit. And then I eventually calmed down again after a bit of time. But all of this to say, I think I'm ready. I think I'm going to be fine. I just need to go in there, write the exam and just touch wood every step of the way. Anyways, I've actually got a couple of hours to kill now. And so I want to do something that's going to be completely chill, completely relaxing. It's not having me worried or stressed at all. And the perfect activity for that is Minecraft. So don't ask me why I'm playing Minecraft. It's like a childhood favorite game that I recently started playing again. And it's been like the most cathartic, relaxing thing ever. Let me show you my world a little bit. All right guys, so this is my house over here. It's very primitive. I know not much going on. This is all my loot and goodness. I still haven't found any diamonds.  So these are all copper blocks here. And this is sort of the entrance to my huge cave system, which extends down into all the way down there. And then the last thing I want to show you is all my farms. This is my sheep farm. As you can see, it's extremely humane. It's where I feed all my sheep. How did chicken get in there? And then this is my chicken farm. It's where I get all my meat, all my food. It sustains me in the game. That's pretty much it in the nutshell. I'm going to sit down here and play Minecraft for a while, unwind, relax, and just chill. And then I'll be on my way to the exam. It's go time. Let's do it. I haven't been out of the house in so long because I've just been isolating, trying not to catch COVID before this exam. And man, everything looks so bright. The sun is shining today. What is it? Pathetic policy. But good, good things coming up. And just like that, I'm done with my last written exam of medical school. Don't need this anymore. Peace. So yeah, guys, exam is over. Not going to lie. I thought it was pretty tough, mostly because there was so much molecular biology and like physiology questions that would normally come up on our exams in first and second year and not in fifth year of medical school. These are topics that we haven't studied or seen in ages because after first and second year, you move towards clinical medicine and everything that you do is about clinical medicine, not microbiology and cell biology. But anyways, the good thing is, like I said, I just need to pass this exam. I don't need to do well. I've already done well in all the exams why I need to do well. I literally just needed to pass. So pretty sure I passed, unlike me that I failed. And with that, that brings us to the end of this like over a week vlog of studying and prepping for this exam. I really hope you guys have enjoyed. I feel like recording a little bit every day has been quite intense and it feels like this project has gone on for a long time. So I hope you've enjoyed kind of seeing it progress over that time. And yeah, that's it for me. Gonna just chill, relax, have fun, do basically nothing, isolate until my flight in a couple of days going skiing in Switzerland. Let's go. And I'll catch you guys in the next one. Thanks for watching and following me on this journey from a baby medical student until a final year about to be done. Peace. Now before and oh. Anyways. Ready? Yeah. So I think that's what I'm going to do right now. I'm going to sit down and grind out a couple hours of those questions. Who's this? Alex here. I'll call you back. I'll be back.


How many of these have you been to? You've been coming to this everything I've been to a lot of them. I don't remember. I think like four Okay, so it's coming up. No more than that. You went to the Jersey one too like with maybe five five Yeah, okay good access to coaches. Yes. No.  I'm not sure I figure out money and that kind of stuff is Probably like It's close.  What what level do you think you're gonna go? I'm thinking D1 thinking D1, but there's D2's NAI still on the table for you though. Um, maybe a little bit But mostly D1 your dad writes curriculum and he's an educated guy Right, you know, he's at least got a master's degree at least he might have a doctorate degree even right? Yeah pretty smart guy Have an educated parents. How much? It's it's a big deal like they they're really really on top of me for keeping my grades up Are you getting the good workouts that you want to get? Yeah, yeah, yeah, these are great. They're great There's a warm enough in here for you. That's pretty who's your group of three? Are they George you guys? Yeah. Okay. All right, you're gonna get called in here soon. You got anything else for me? All right, keep grinding keep us informed on your decision and good luck. All right. Thank you


Okay, so this week there is an extraordinary opportunity for the International Life Stock Research Institute. There's a new president of the African Development Bank and he has called for the ministers of agriculture and finance in Africa to meet, to discuss and to come to an agreement on a strategy for agricultural transformation in Africa to really take advantage of really the new opportunities that exist for improving the livelihoods of poor people but also for agriculture to contribute to national economic development and what we're seeing in Africa is that there's been already now for the last 10 or 20 years there's been an increasing opportunity for agriculture to contribute to economic development and poverty reduction and now really this is the first time that there's such a high level conference that's being called and these ministers of livestock and finance you really need to get the two of these together they are going to be meeting and discussing how this can be done. For some time now there's been of course everyone knows increasing population but along with this there's also been increasing income and urbanization and this means that there are greater markets for agricultural products and especially for livestock products as people's incomes increase then they want to consume more animal products in their diet and this is not like in the West where people are consuming too many animal products and it's not healthy for them here really there's a need for people to consume more animal products and so these ministers of agriculture and finance are meeting to discuss how we can take these conditions and we can use this really to transform the agricultural sector including livestock and to make really a tremendous difference in the lives of Africans reducing poverty in rural areas improving the livelihoods of people in urban areas by reducing making more agricultural products especially livestock available to these people so that they can improve their nutrition, their health and their livelihoods in total.


Coming up on DTNS, messaging services want to give you good COVID-19 info. Amazon is straining under that delivery pressure and what is next for those influencers stuck in doors? This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, March 23rd in Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane. From North Olmsted, Ohio, I'm Rich Strampolino. From the Los Angeles area, I'm Lamar Wolf. I'm your host producer, Roger Chang. Before we started this DTNS show, we were talking about all sorts of stuff. I got some reading glasses because I've decided to just accept my reality. We were talking about Rich's very expensive glasses, Lamar's lack of haircuts, and all sorts of other stuff. Help me. And that is all part of our expanded show. Good day, internet. You can get the wider conversation by becoming a member at patreon.com. For now, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Disney Plus will still launch in most of the EU on March 24th, but committed to reducing bandwidth utilization from the service by 25%, similar to what's been done with Netflix and other streaming services in the EU. Disney announced the launch in France is delayed, however, until April 7th. The company also indefinitely suspended the launch of the service in India originally scheduled for March 29th. Google launched its dedicated COVID-19 information site at google.com. The site is available in English with a Spanish version on the way and offers state-based information, safety, and prevention tips, search trends related to COVID-19 with information from the World Health Organization and the US CDC as well as links to US state's local health sites. All this information will also be provided in information cards for people searching for COVID-19 related topics. A new report from Strategy Analytics shows that global smartphone shipments in February decreased 38% on the year from 99.2 million units to 61.8 million. This is the largest annual drop in shipments with a report noting that the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia dropping both supply and demand. Quite a drop. As part of the local state government's lockdown order, RideHalien platforms Uber and Ola suspended all rides in Delhi until March 31st in India. Uber suspended all shared rides in India last week, and Ola said it's restricting ride options in the country as well, including vehicles on healthcare workers and those that support public services. Alright, let's talk a little bit more about some apps and services doing some good for Information Rich. Yeah, it seems like mobile messaging is becoming increasingly important in providing information about COVID-19. To that effect, the World Health Organization launched a chat bot on WhatsApp for COVID-19 related information. Information is updated daily and it launches with English support with Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Russian, and Spanish support arriving in the coming weeks, although no set timetable specifically. In other news, though, kind of similar, Facebook announced it will provide free service to government health organizations and UN health agencies to use Messenger to scale the responses to the COVID-19 crisis. This can be used for Facebook developers to help automate things like answering commonly asked questions, so you're not inundating support workers with those where there's a ready set answer for that, and provide a way to set out mass updates of new information. And finally, kind of tangentially to this, Apple updated Siri in the US to provide a CDC-approved conversation flow to answer user questions if they ask Siri, hey, if they tell Siri, I think I have COVID-19 symptoms. I started with WhatsApp because I was like, alright, I don't got WhatsApp installed. Let's see how good it is. And I was pleasantly surprised. It's a number, the country code is Switzerland, so it took me a minute to find it in the country code list. But it's a number and you message it and say hi, just to kind of get the conversation started. It's a chatbot. And it was pretty good. I mean, there was a lot of information there. It was organized into categories like health information, depending on where you are, safety steps that are in place. There was also a, and they're all numbered, so you can say like number five, let's get more information about that. One of the categories is debunking conspiracy theories because there's a lot of misinformation going around. We all know that. And WhatsApp is doing its best, especially because it's WhatsApp. And that's a platform that a lot of people use to spread information saying, listen, if you hear that, if you live in a really cold climate, you're not going to get it. Or if you get in a hot tub, then it'll kill it. Or if you gargle with a certain kind of this or that, you're fine. Or there's all sorts of, and I hadn't even heard some of these misleading claims. But suffice it to say there's a lot going on right now. And so I thought that was pretty good. It does take a couple steps to get to that point, though, and don't want to be a pessimist. But I know a lot of people don't go through the process of educating themselves because a lot of social networking is getting information somewhat passively from people that you trust, whether or not they should be trusted. Lamar, what do you, what's your experience with this? So I tested out the Siri when I'm going to be careful not to say the word, you know, because mine is right here. But yeah, so yeah, she asked you, she asked you a question. She said, hey, are you ready to get started? So you're doing like a survey.  Do you have the dry cough? And you say yes or no, I said no. And asked if I traveled, you know, was traveling outside of US said no. And then she just says, well, you're probably not. You know, you probably don't have any problems, but be diligent or I forgot what the word was, but you know, just like just watch for your symptoms. I felt it was like pretty helpful. I didn't, I didn't do a scenario where I said yes to anything. So I don't know what she says after that if she tells you to get to the doctor or she gives you a resource. But it's just nice to kind of have that, you know, because I talk to her all day because I'm lonely. So it's great. It's great that she's that she's there for me if I get sick. So it'll be interesting to see if there's further integration with any of these, you know, as response networks kind of get built out.  You know, obviously you're not going to go to a testing facility directly. You're going to talk to a doctor first, but you know, the kind of those next step but good first efforts and kind of meeting people where they are. Right.  Not letting people go to different lengths and stuff like that. Yeah, I tried out the Siri functionality as well. And the first question was like, do you have a cough? Is your chest tight? Do you have a fever? I said no. And then the second question was, have you been in contact with somebody who might have been exposed to the virus? And one of the options was not sure, which I'm not. So I said that. But the answer, the conclusion, Siri was like, you're probably low risk. And I thought, well, I hope so. Yeah. What percent of low risk am I exactly? But again, yes, more information is better than none, especially with people who are used to talking to their voice assistance. Absolutely. So let's talk about Amazon. Amazon announced it will stop shipping non essential products to customers in Italy and France to allow fulfillment centers to focus on more needed supplies. Amazon considers baby products, health and household items, beauty and personal care, groceries and industrial, scientific and pet supplies to be essential. Customers can still order non essential products from sellers that do not use fulfillment by Amazon. The company had previously announced it will be prioritized at essential items worldwide and now customers and merchants in the US have seen shipment dates from non essential items pushed back as far as April 21. I personally have seen that. With prime orders now seeing a minimum five day estimate. Amazon confirms that this is not a technical bug, but accurately reflects current estimates. So once again, yeah, I was looking for some, you know, set up another part of my office looking for an item I needed. And it was just like, yeah, I think it was April something was just it was, they didn't even like give a clear delivery day was the kind of a delivery window. It was not fulfilled by Amazon. The shippers responsible, you know the manufacturer whoever it is and right and you know so they don't know when they'll be able to ship it out so. I have heard, I've heard some reports that I have not experienced this myself but reports of people saying toilet paper is an essential item and my delivery date is well into April so I think that there's some some slipping going on and more popular products, regardless. So I would have had to confirm this isn't a bug. We're really, really backed up. Exactly. And it was weird. Right. And I think, I don't know. I know a lot of people are like at the Amazon, they should just, you know, be able to fix this. We know that Amazon is in the process of hiring 100,000 new workers and delivery drivers. I don't know exactly where they are in that process but they've made it clear that they're they're ramping up. In fact, Instacart announced something similar just today right before we started the show to get people the goods that they need that they need delivery people for so that they don't have to go out. At the same time, you know, it's it's sort of hard to say well Amazon should have figured out how to deal with something like this because we're in such uncharted waters. We've been talking about this for weeks and it's still so up in the air how this is going to shake out. It sounds like the company is doing the right thing. Essential items for the most part and that's a little bit of a subjective term because what's essential may not be to you and vice versa. But for the company to say listen, you know, somebody's pet is going to go hungry because they can't get food for their pet and they can't get to a pet store. This is an essential item over something like that HDMI cable that Lamar needed at the last minute kind of thing that he would have gotten on prime maybe same day. So yeah, it's it's it's a tough one but I don't think Amazon is immune to delivery strain because this is supply chain stuff like anybody else. Yeah, and there's just no way to model for the type of demand and to scale up that there's just no precedent for it. So I mean I certainly reflecting like they said they're reflecting the reality of the situation. Being at home though doesn't mean people aren't trying to help with COVID-19. I know I'm going through lockdown here in Ohio and I know a lot of other people around the country are kind of in the same boat. But residents at Mass General are organizing the Covent 19 moonshot project and they're trying to develop either a rapidly deployable mechanical ventilator or a way to modify an existing ventilator to be able to be used on multiple patients at once within the next 90 days. It's interesting though that the project is inviting engineers designers and technologists to collaborate with medical experts and the emphasis here really being to kind of cross fields here and brainstorm about ways that you know if you're you're just in in medical practice you might have thinking as an engineer or designer or something like that really bringing that that cross methodology to the fore here which I think is really interesting and then the kind of the computing end of it. The distributed computing project folding at home turned its network to COVID-19 related work and the project has seen a 12,000% increase in contributions in the last two weeks with 1200% I'm sorry 1200% still a big huge. I'm a zero off and they've seen 400,000 new members so just just a giant spike for them with those new contributions they're up to 470 pettiflops of output to simulate the dynamics of COVID-19 proteins and hunt for new therapeutic opportunities. And just for some comparison there was another news story out today that IBM was leading a consortium of national laboratories in the Department of Energy and that kind of stuff, and they were in the 300 pettiflop range of all their computing the 16 supercomputers combined. So just got to give some context for how how much computing power is theoretically at the disposable folding at home. Just really cool to see these kind of you know kind of crowdsource or grassroots ways to try and help. And we've seen this across the spectrum not just from a technology basis but just people you know just eager to reach out just to just to help with people that are lonely or anything like that across the spectrum and technology is proving to be no different in this regard. So, so quick question I'm a little familiar with folding at home not much I know what they do in general but is there a project out there that you'll be able to contribute your computer that's sitting around your house. Oh, that's literally what this is okay. Yeah, I didn't I didn't know we could contribute that they were doing their own servers. No, that that is the reason that there's been such an uptick and participation in fact we talked about the fact that folding at home was going to focus on COVID-19 related work again to try to figure out you know what protein situation can actually really be helpful for doctors and the more the merrier when it comes to this kind of research. It is very heartwarming to see what the participation levels has been I mean what why did they announce that about two weeks ago I mean that's that's that's a that's a lot of I want to sign on my computer. Totally. Yeah, Sam. Yeah. Yeah, that's a and and that's really printing space and I know that when Allison Sheridan was on the show recently and she was like quality control I mean that's certainly something that we have to look out for because there are lots of solutions that might seem easy to make. And we have some tools that can be contributors to this sort of thing. And she makes a good point. And I think, you know cautiously optimistic is a good way to look at this but yeah the folding at home stuff is is very cool so thanks to everybody who's participating. Strength and numbers. Oh, what a real silver blade and in a Twitch chat set I hope former Bitcoin miners turn their power to COVID-19 that would be great. Yeah, yes. Yeah. Yeah, because some server farms used for good. Well, believe it or not, we have some non COVID-19 news today. I know I know I hold on to your butts. The film listing service movie phone has been sold yet again for $1.075 million to born in Cleveland LLC as part of the chapter seven bankruptcy of Helios and Matheson, the parent company of movie pass. Stay with me here. Started as a phone service for movie information back in 1989 movie phone sold to AOL for $388 million. A lot of money back then was later sold to Helios and Matheson for $9 million quite a bit of a drop after Verizon bought AOL. It's now just shy of $1 million but it lives. Why don't you just tell me what movie you want to see. Okay, I had to do it. Sorry. What I think is interesting about this is I mean think of like any of the like the movie information services like like, you know, Fandango or just any of those that would just drop in valuation. I mean, admittedly 1999 was a long time ago like I guess for for the oldies like me it doesn't seem but you know 21 years ago now. But to see that just like just that it's hockey stick devaluation over time. I guess I mean if you don't remember I mean back in the I mean you remember going to the theaters like like the first ad you would see it would be like a Coke ad and then a movie phone ad like right at the top of the theater. Yeah, just it just totally bizarre to see this and like the double poison pill of AOL owning something and then movie password. I always thought something like this will I would hopefully be able to not not assimilate but but but to change over time and movie phone becomes, you know, an online thing and and and they didn't yeah they didn't seem to to it's kind of sad to see from 388 million to 1 million that's that's a that's a huge drop so in 1999 that was still worth 388 million but it just to show you how many people were still dependent on phone services that you would never use anymore back then because it was the early days early days of the Internet. Now I may mess up this name and I apologize and it's just saying and now. But a new note from Apple analyst main she quo. That's right. Hey, beautiful work. Thank you predicts that a new high end 6.7 inch iPhone schedule for 2020 will feature a center shift image stabilization on the rear camera with the technology expanding to multiple models in 2021 with the periscope telephoto lens predicted for 2022. Meanwhile, in early I was 14 build obtained by 95 Mac shows Apple is building up the find my app or find my app sorry set the wrong was debuted debuted in I was 13 as a combination of find my phone and find my friends. And I was 14 this would include the ability to be notified when someone doesn't arrive at a specific location by certain time, as well as when a contact leaves a location before a set time. Find my also includes AR kit support and I was 14, letting users visually obtain location information and AR. This is again this is all speculation. And there was a little leak there but I don't know it doesn't feel like it's too early to talk about phone iPhones or not. This year, I'm ready. Manji quo has a very good track record. So yes, although this is not anything that Apple has announced. These are, you know, these are, these are solid rumors plus rumors pro. But I mean, I also I skipped the 2019 iPhone bump. I am still rocking the 2018 model and it's kind of falling apart. So I'm going to limp along to this fall. Assuming that there are new phones that happen in the fall. I'm excited about a 6.7 inch iPhone. First of all, huge with the best image possible sensor shift image stabilization on the rear camera. As I understand it, this would help. It's ultra wide photos have the image stabilization that that non ultra wide photos already enjoy on the newer iPhones, which is great. You know, some people don't really take advantage of their cameras, but that is one of the selling points of the iPhone and anything that's, you know, any other top end models that's in that category. So that's really the only camera I use now. So that's great. And periscope telephoto lens that's 2022 but hey, it's right around the corner. I'm more excited about the find my app which I really think that find my iPhone and find my friends going together was the right call makes a lot of sense. Yeah. And this this feels like a service play. I mean for for Apple to build out that find my and to make it from something like oh I lost like find my phone was like someone stole my phone I lost my phone. And this to me seems more like something to get you just more in the habit of using it every day to integrate it with your calendar and you know not just for dropping your kids off at school but it's like. Okay if I'm late leaving the store or if I you know if I leave early to change plans or something like that. I mean yeah you could say it's a little bit of like a nanny, you know, situation but I do think they're they're building out some interesting use cases beyond just oh I lost this or drop a pin and find me later or something like that. My friends quite a bit and we've just all of our activity has dwindled. I never care where they are and I never look, but I do use the temporary you know if I'm in LA and I'm supposed to meet Lamar somewhere, and I'm not totally sure how long traffic is going to be and it might be a little bit weird, you know I'll be like for the next hour you can kind of see where I am. And being able to get a ping from the find my app which I assume is how you get notifications if for some reason I was running later something weird happened without you having to check you know my map that's that's just that's just convenience. I'm wondering if wise will be using this to. Oh, my husband is late where is it. And I won't say what he's doing. I'm just saying there might be some concerns there that that you know, be careful husbands don't do bad things. Okay, hey folks if you want to get all the tech news in about five minutes. Check out daily tech headlines dot count. Oh, key dokey we heard today, not a big surprise but it is today's news a VidCon has announced it's canceled its annual show which was scheduled for June 17 through 20th in Anaheim, California it's where they've been doing the shows for the last few years. The company said it's looking to make the conference happen sometime in the fall but for now, tickets will be refunded. The team says it's also looking into virtual formats and remote speaker options seems to be the trend although you know there's Google I O for example was like, you know we're not doing anything we're just going to regroup and do this the right way later. Lamar, I know that you didn't go to VidCon last year did you. I didn't. I was around VidCon. Yeah, I was or my presence was there. We're close enough. It isn't it's it this is a big event. It's a big event for for content creators. And I know a lot of folks are disappointed it's good that they're refunding the tickets but this is just a bigger conversation that I'm so glad you're with us Lamar actually because I know you have a lot of thoughts about this the idea that people who make their content as influencers, whether or not you like that word, you know what I love that word.  It is affected and we talked a lot on the show about the industries that will some industries are seeing a bump in in in requests, of course, but many industries are have been really shaken up. And, for example, there was a verge article about online content creators, you're quarantined at home, and you think all right well you know your Instagram model, you know you take like a pretty photo of yourself now you're just in a building rather than on a street. In some cases I know I know it's so hard to be an Instagram model I know you all feel my pain. In some cases you can kind of roll your eyes but at the same time you have to think, okay well if somebody has a contract with a company, you know you wear their clothes or you talk about how you know they have good vitamins or whatever it is. And if you have another contract to do something that's required to be outside or in front of a landmark or something, it's possible that you're not going to get paid. And if you have budgeted out stuff for yourself for the next quarter and beyond, that can hurt. It hurts the way that anybody has hurt that expects to get money rolling in and no longer has it. Lamar, how has this affected you because you are very prolific as far as as as your video content goes and and has it changed the way that you do things. Yeah, it's been it's been a challenge. You know fortunately I did have a little back backlog of my last two videos have been things I've done in the past, but I'll give you one example. I'm working on a video with the Samsung not paid or anything but they you know they send me a TV to check out and this was before everything went down so like you know and and now that it's here, you know, I called them again and I was like, Wow, this TV is great. I really want to talk about it but you know how do I come off talking about this thing without seeming like, you know there's like, you know, you know there's people out here, losing their jobs and I'm like hey, check out this $6,000 $7,000 TV I got on here you know yeah let's buy it just put it on credit you know so you know it and I have figured out a way to navigate around that thankfully because you know I'm able to do some comedic things to kind of lighten it but it's a challenge I had I had someone ask me about a taste test, and not that there's anything wrong with doing the taste test, but it made me immediately question. Wow, is this the right time to be your frivolously playing around playing out with cereal or stuff like that when people can get groceries. That's just that's in my head. So I am just being a little bit more cautious about how to navigate this and you know I came up with some tips of my own of how to maybe a rubric or so how to come up with this and what I found out I talked to my audience that the audience is just as stressed as we are they're they're going through a lot of things they're scared whatever they they really want us to continue to do what we do you know and they want a need entertainment. And they just want us to you know they want us to be aware, you know I was you know that things are happening and be respectful of it but by and large they just want us to continue to entertain and be respectful and so what I've been trying to do and I encourage other you know influencers and air coaster just to think for a few minutes before you hit post like type out what you're going to type or have that picture ready but really think is it the you know what would be the response you know if you were receiving that and you were struggling. What would be the response you know and adjust accordingly, I think and I don't I know this one is tricky. The, the, the what everybody kind of under quarantine, you know I've seen some creators who are posting group group collabs said and you know they're all on the couch or they do any skits and things and maybe that stuff was made in the past I posted one today. Me and a friend who was that was made a month ago, but I did put a disclaimer at the beginning of the video. So maybe that's something like that is like hey this was made before. You know we just finish it you know or maybe just don't post it or you know especially if you're doing it in real time, like if you're actually out there gathering I mean these people are looking to you as a role model whether you like it or not. So maybe not do that because you're then selling them that it's okay for them to do and then that causes a chain reaction that none of us want. Absolutely I think it's I've definitely seen. Don't have to call them out don't have to dox the select.  There are certain things where you're kind of like it I don't think that you know your message is in poor taste you're trying right you're trying to use the the the media that you have at your disposal to connect to people in new ways and I can't hate anybody for that. That said, there are some tone deaf things I've seen recently where I'm like, you should have chosen Lamar's tip number two, just think on it for a few minutes just just a few minutes.  It's just like, it just, yeah, it just sends a weird message. It's really, it's really awkward. I don't know. Yeah, there's a definitely a line to walk between, like you said, not wanting to be insensitive and be and you know kind of like posting something frivolous that that people will say, Well, you know where we're you know worried about our health and safety right now you know we don't want to be expensive technology, but then at the same time, you kind of, you have an audience that loves what you do already, and you want to provide that service. So that real quickly, I want to go as I looked at others who are kind of doing it very responsibly a lot of the tech channels on YouTube. They're I mean they're still talking about the new Mac, the MacBook you all talked about it that came out of the iPad. So you could use the world doesn't stop right you still, I still will talk about this TV is actually TV sales have gone up since since this quarantine so people kind of do want to know about it it's just my how I do it you know and make sure I don't come off, you know bragging or a look at me and and you know as long as long as I do that I think I'll be in a good position. Yeah, I almost bought an exercise bike. It was something less expensive but I'm like I should just do it and then I was like Sarah. Walk around the block and think about this and I was like that's $1200 what are you doing. No, I was looking at an auto list, and I was like, Oh, but yeah same thing was like why am I spending $1000. If you if you bought something because you're stuck at home that has improved your life we would like to know about in fact you could join the conversation in our discord and let everybody know you can join by linking to a patreon account at patreon.com In the mail bag. Yes, that's in the mail bag. Michael, he actually touched on something that we often talk about internally here on the show and it's sort of like, do we have, you know, words that we'd always like to replace with other words or if there's a sentence that's kind of a run on sentence, how do we condense it so there is a we have a flow here and Michael says I know pretty much everybody has given up on saying iPhone 10 in favor of iPhone X Michael I still say iPhone 10 but I know what you mean. Michael says it's been a surprise though how often I've started to hear X instead of times. The other place I often hear it is with dimensions if some something is 15 by 12 centimeters the I'm already say I'm already saying by instead of X 15 X 12 cm. Michael says used to be said 15 by 12 centimeters, but I often hear 15 X 12 cm. Michael says I realize these are common forms of writing, but to have them said that way has gotten to be jarring, but also common and sometimes I have to write down what's being said, so that I can see it and understand. Michael's email was a little bit longer he also had another example where it's like something, let's say we're talking about the new iPhones and the camera capabilities, and it's like five X zoom over previous model something like that I'm just, I'm just making up a term. Like you said five times zoom. That's technically correct but it sounds a little bit weird. And so I think that there are situations where we know that you know what five X means, even though it is a little clunky. I'm not sure. I'm not sure if anybody feels that one or the other is grading but I feel your pain Michael because there are certain. In fact, there are certain words that are banned on DT and s for variety of reasons because we've all just come to the conclusion that we can say it a different way. So, this is not one of those terms though and think about you know what our standard is. If I hear now want to know how loud. I'm just like, but oh God, yeah. That's like CMS to me see. Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't even take a unit of measurement. Yeah, that's it's. Thanks for the email Michael and thank you a special shout out to our patrons at the master and grandmaster levels, including Philip less Frederick Huebner and James Callison. Thanks so much for your continued support of the show. Absolutely. Also, thanks to Lamar Wilson. I missed you Lamar. I feel like it's been six months even though it's only been one but thank you. It's been an interesting month. How have you been keeping busy? This month has been crazy. Yeah, I have been doing a lot, you know, different background and things and but yeah, I'm trying to keep busy on YouTube where I talk about gaming tech and pop culture stuff. So now they talk to my audience.  I'll be almost every day now. So get ready for it. But you can find me on YouTube. Just type in Lamar Wilson with two hours. And yeah, if I'm even one hour issue pop up. Yeah, to make a mistake. It's okay. Very good. Also, thank you so much to our patrons. We know that this is an uncertain time for a lot of you if you can afford to keep supporting us directly. Please do. We appreciate it so much. Some of you have recently bumped up contributions to cover those who need it right now. Thank you so much for that. Again, strengthen numbers. Direct support is the best way to keep us independent and support the livelihoods of the whole DTNS team. We are so, so grateful for all of you. You help us make the show fun and we love doing it. 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