A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty hyosilver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tuttle, the daring and resourceful masked writer of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Join with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The lone ranger rides again. Rod Morgan was a big man and a tough one. He took great pleasure in terrorizing the territory with his gang, and his methods were unexpected and unusual for an outlaw. Men still talked of the time Rod and his men rode openly into the town of Monroe and stopped at the sheriff's office. All right, follow me. All right, reach here if we're coming in. Rod Morgan. That's right. I heard you were looking for me and my men, so we came here to save you the trouble. I'll see you here, Morgan.  Now take your gun. Now stand up. You won't get away with this. Yeah, we'll get away with it all right. After we leave here, we're going to hold up the cafe. But before we leave, I'll give you this. Yeah, that's that. Now men will go over to the cafe and clean it out. Come on. Another bold move made by Rod Morgan was also the topic of conversation in the various cafes. The time when he and his gang rode up to a group of bar three ranch hands who were busy branding horses. We got you all covered so don't try to get funny. Put that gun, man. Now look here, what's the idea anyhow? Let me introduce myself. I'm Rod Morgan. I see you're branding those horses with a bar three brand. I need about twenty head to sell across the border. But my brand is the bar eight. Here's a brand in hand. Just change the brand to the bar eight on twenty of those horses and make it fast. Now get to work. Mark my words, Morgan. We'll get the rest of the ranch hands and trailer before you can reach the border. Nope, I don't think you will. After you get those brands changed, we'll tie all of you and take your guns and horses with us. It's morning now. By the time someone comes to see where you are, we'll be a long way from here. Now get busy. And Rod Morgan's most recent escapade took place in the bank at Stockton. Rod, appearing as a prosperous rancher, was ushered into the bank owner's office. A gentleman to see you, sir. Come right in, mister, and sit down. Oh, thanks. I'll get right to the point. I come to borrow ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand dollars? Of course, of course. But you'll have to put up sufficient collateral for such an amount, you understand. Oh, sure, I am. I wouldn't know it already made out. Yeah, it is. I, the undersigned, promised to pay to the Stockton bank ten thousand dollars in sixty days, but the interest is six percent. Rod Morgan. Rod Morgan! Hold on, isn't he there? I'm Rod Morgan, mister. My men are draped around your bank outside, sort of nonchalant-like, just waiting. I suggest you get to the vault and get the money in exchange for that note. Now, Mosey along with you, holding his gun so it won't be noticed. But see here, I can't... I'll get the money and leave the note. That's fair and square. Now, let's get to the vault. I don't need to wait long. And if I don't? My men will clean out the place and will lock you and your clerks in a vault. And maybe a couple of you will wear a bullet hole or two. Now, do I get that loan or not? Well, yes. Yes, of course. Come with me. A few days later, the Lone Ranger and his Indian companion, Tonto, stopped to make camp in the hills a short distance from Stockton. This is a good spot for a temporary camp, Tonto. You think maybe outlaw Rod Morgan have hide out near Stockton, Kimisali? That's what I'm hoping. You stay around here for a day or two anyway. According to what you heard in the cafe at Milton yesterday, Morgan held up the bank in Stockton just a few days ago. That's right. Men say him leave note. That doesn't mean anything, of course. It was his way of getting to the bank owner and throwing him off guard. Rod Morgan always does things in unusual ways. That's what everyone say. How do you think we get line on Morgan, Kimisali? I've been thinking of a way, Tonto. I'm not sure it will bring him out of hiding. It's worth trying. What's your plan do? I decided that if Rod Morgan heard that a wealthy tender foot from the east were coming to Stockton, a man who carried plenty of cash with him, then Morgan might be interested. That's right. I'll be that tender foot, Tonto. You can help me fix a disguise. And at noon, I'll board the stage in Stockton and ride to Milton. And then what happens? I'll leave Silver here and camp with you. When I reach Milton, I'll get some eastern clothes.  But how will Morgan know about Tenderfoot? Tonight from Milton, I'll have the sheriff send a telegram to the sheriff in Stockton, telling of a tender foot cattle buyer who insists upon carrying a lot of cash and suggesting that the sheriff keep an eye on him for his protection. But how will Morgan hear about it? Both sheriffs will be wise to the plan. The one in Stockton will see to it that word gets out about it. Then what you do? Next, I'll take the stage from Milton to Stockton. I'm hoping that Rod and Morgan will try to hold up that stage. But you'll not try to stop Morgan and gang alone, Kimisali. No. The plan is to have two deputies on the boot instead of the regular driver and guard. The sheriff and his men from Milton will trail the stage. Oh, and me savvy. Tomorrow the sheriff of Stockton and his men will ride out along the trail to meet the stage. I suggest you ride with them and bring Silver. Me do it. Now come on and help me fix that disguise. Then I'll wait on the trail out there for the stage to come along. After that, you can ride to town. For some time, the Lone Ranger and Tuttle worked on a disguise until finally they were both satisfied with the result. Well, now you look like real tenderfoot from East Kimisali. Good. It's almost time for the stage for Milton. We'll ride out to the trail, then you can bring Silver back here. All right, let's get going. Did he pick up the easy color? One, two, three. After the Lone Ranger had left on the stage, Tuttle took Silver back to the camp. The Indians spent most of the afternoon resting. Then that evening he rode to Stockton and entered the cafe. He lounged at the back of the cafe watching and listening. Finally, the sheriff and one of his deputies entered. Hi, sheriff. Is that a line on Morgan's gang? No. That Morgan is the plenty smart hombre, seems like it. Sure is. Oh, we don't get wind of that tenderfoot cattle, guys. Come to town the stage tomorrow. So do I. I got word to sort of keep an eye on that tenderfoot. Seems like he carries a lot of cash around with him. Might serve him right if someone like Morgan did teach him a lesson. Of course, it's up to me to see that he don't. How did you hear about the tenderfoot sheriff? I got a telegram from the sheriff at Milton a while ago. Guess he's mighty glad to get rid of that tenderfoot before he gets robbed or something. Well, we'll have better refreshment then we'll get back to the office bed. Right, sheriff. A short time later, the sheriff and his deputy went to their office. A few minutes later, Tonto entered. We come talk about plans for tenderfoot. I've been expecting you, Indian. Guess you're the one who's supposed to ride with us. Not right. Well, our friend is all set to board the stage from Milton in the morning. If Rod and Morgan had anyone planted in the cafe, he'll hear about the tenderfoot with all the cash. And if he does hear about it and falls for the plan, it'll mean the end to him and his gang. Yeah, he'll sure get a big surprise. Now, me hope him hear about plan, but him plenty smart. Maybe him not get fooled so easy. He won't have any reason to suspect anything. That's a mighty clever idea, your friend had, and I'm inclined to think it'll work. There isn't much Morgan doesn't hear about, and if he's anywhere around, he'll get the news and want to get the tenderfoot's cash. That's when we grab him and his whole gang. Later that night, one of Morgan's men reigned to a stop before a shack hidden in the... Hold her! Hold her! Steady boy! Well, here's Tom back in stock. Anything doing in town, Tom? Hey, come back early, Tom.  Yeah, I have, Rod. Nobody got wise to you, did they? You know better than that, Les. I'm plenty careful. Yeah, Tom knows his way around. He's careful. Let me do the talking. I want to find out what Tom heard. It just is, Rod. There's a tenderfoot cattle buyer coming to Stockton on the stage tomorrow. How do you know? Heard the sheriff tell about it. At least his deputy spilled the news in the cafe. What's a tenderfoot cattle buyer got to do with us? He's a low-key hombre who carries a lot of cash with him. The law and Milton telegraph the sheriff to sort of keep an eye on him while he's in Stockton so he won't get robbed. They must figure we're still in the territory. Yeah, I guess that's about it. Are you figuring on relieving that ombre of his cash, Rod? Why not? We sure use it. But with the sheriff watching him, it won't be easy. That's right. This sheriff isn't like the one down in Monroe, the one we just walked in on. The sheriff in Stockton keeps plenty of deputies around all the time. I know that. We just have to figure out a way to get to that tenderfoot, that's all. Anyone got any ideas? We could hold up the stage. I don't be loco. Straight hold up wouldn't do. Why not? Because if they're so worried about that ombre in his cash, more than likely they'll put a couple of deputies on that stage. That's why. Yeah, that's right. But after he gets in town, it won't be easy, Rod. I know that. Have you got any ideas, then? Well, maybe I have at that. What plan do you have? Yeah, tell us what you're thinking about. Well, it's just this. My instance was riding inside the coach, sitting right beside that tenderfoot. Maybe a hold up would work out. You're on that face of yours. It's too well known. Sure. The minute you went to get on, they'd know you. All right. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute.   I mean if I was to shave my beard and wear eastern clothes and then go to Milton. Hey, you mean sort of disguise yourself, huh? Yeah, that's a gentle idea, Tom. Hey, that might really work at that.  I reckon even I wouldn't know you without that beard and another clothes. All right, then it's all settled. I'll get to work right now, changing my looks by shaving my beard. Then I'll get other clothes and even change my voice using a drawl. Sort of like this. Well, I reckon you're out here on a business trip, mister. How's that? Fine, Rod. All right, good. I'll get to Milton and try to board a stage. You men wait at the place a few miles from here where the trail forwards are crick. When you start riding in and shooting, I'll draw and get the drop on that tenderfoot. I'll threaten to kill him if the men on the boot resist the hold-up. Well, that tenderfoot is sure in for a big surprise. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger planned to ride the stage disguised as a tenderfoot so as to trap Rod Morgan and his gang, but he didn't have any idea that Rod Morgan also planned to ride the stage in disguise so that his gang would have a chance to hold up the stage. Rod finished his disguise. Well, man, how do I look it up my beard, huh? With these city clothes. I never know you, Rod. You've got to stop squirming around and know it's tight-fitting clothes, Rod. You better act like you're used to them. I'll gradually get used to them. In that time, we'll go get our horses right at the outskirts of Milton. You can bring my horse back. I'll go to the hotel and wait till the stage leaves in the morning. All right. Don't forget to use your draw, though, Rod. Somebody might recognize your voice. Plenty of people have heard it. Yeah, that's right. Now Hank Hawkins, now from good old New Orleans.  All right. You all said, Rod. Let's get started for Milton. Four-day long to get there if we ride, huh? Yeah, come on in. Let's go. See you all later, fellas. The following morning, an hour before stage time, the sheriff of Milton visited the lone ranger in his hotel room. I'm in, Sheriff Newton. Thanks, mister. You sure look the part of a tender foot, all right? I notice you were registered as Mr. David Banks from Boston. Yes, that's right. And the trouble is, that voice will give you away. Then folks from Boston got a certain way of talking. Oh, yes, I know, sir. I know. I'm quite sure how I managed to get by, sir. Quite sure. My thunder, that's got it. Yes, sir, that's more like it. Well, the stage will be leaving right soon. Me and my men will follow it to Stockton, we're going up behind, of course, so no one will get suspicious. Good. I hope we get results. Good luck, mister. Thanks. I'll get along now. I'll be seeing you in Stockton, one way or another. So long. Adios. As Sheriff Newton left the lone ranger's hotel room and went through the lobby, he didn't notice the man in city clothes who watched him furtively from behind a newspaper. Everything all right, Sheriff Newton? Yeah, Rick, it is, Fred. It will be, I guess. See you later, Sheriff. As the Sheriff went out, the city-dressed man put down the paper and getting up crossed over to the clerk at the desk. Something for you, Mr. Hawkins? Does the Sheriff live here at the hotel, sir? No, he was just here to see somebody who's going to leave on the stage. Oh, so that's it. You mean the Sheriff is going to ride the stage with a friend of his, is that it? You're wrong again, Mr. Hawkins. It's just the man he came to see and the Sheriff isn't going along. Oh, leave it to our city fellas to get everything wrong out here. I've heard a lot about these here western chefs. I was sort of hoping that he'd be on the stage that I'm waiting for.  Just so you're meeting him friendly like, Mr. Hawkins, it'll be all right. But I guess a tender foot like you wouldn't have cause to worry about the law out here. Of course not, of course not. Well, thank you for the information, sir. Let me know when the stage pulls up outside. Yes, sir. I sure will. When the stage finally stopped in front of the hotel, the lone ranger looking every inch the tender foot was waiting to get on. He noticed the two deputies on the boot of the stage and knew that all arrangements were in order.   Get aboard, anyone that's going west. Ah, Mr. Banks, I guess you'd better get into the coach. Hope you have an easy trip to start them. Staying far, you know? Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. You've been most kind. Wait, wait, just a minute. Looks like you're going to have company. Oh. There's an hombre coming from the hotel to get the stage, looks like. Yes, he seems to be pleased. Howdy, mister. You taking the stage? Well, I reckon I am, chef. Oh, it seemed like I saw you around town before. Well, that's right, sir. You haven't. My name's Hank Hawkins. I come from New Orleans. Got off the train over to Rockville, hired a horse to get over here during the night so as to catch his stage. I see. Well, glad to know you, Mr. Hawkins. Or meet Mr. Banks from Boston. You'll be riding the coach together as far as Stockin'. Well, I'm mighty glad to make your acquaintance, Mr. Banks. It's a pleasure, Mr. Hawkins. Indeed a pleasure. Shall we climb aboard, sir? Might as well, I reckon. After you, sir. After you. Well, you folks from up Boston weigh sure I'm mighty polite, Mr. Banks. Come on aboard. I certainly hope the ride won't be too rough. Well, I don't favor too much rough riding myself. I reckon you came west on business, sir. Yes, yes, of course. Great country out here. I reckon I might settle out here myself. And a ranch to buy. Oh, I see. You've come west to stay, then. We'll let the pins. All set back there? Let her go, driver.  Get up there! As the stagecoach moved along the rough trails toward Stockin', Rod continued to be talkative to the man he considered a tenderfoot. Rod took the light in playing a cat and mouse game with his intended victim. He felt secure in the belief that his stage companion came at face value. In a subtle way, the lone ranger urged Rod on in his conversation. I reckon an hombre like you take a long time to get used to this sort of country, Mr. Banks. Oh, perhaps so, sir. Perhaps so. Do you think you'd like it out here, Mr. Hawkins? Yes, I reckon I would. Just a matter of getting used to the place. But I have the impression that you're a city man. Well, that's right, sir. I am. Lots of folks who came out here were from the city. They got along fine. Oh, that's true, very true. But I understand they have outlaws in the like out here. Well, Mr. Noel Hood is going to scare me away. No, sir. I'm big enough to take care of myself. You know how to handle a gun, then? Yes, I reckon I do with that. Enough to keep any sneaking coyotes from bothering me too much. I see. You came out on the train yesterday to Rockville, did you say, sir? Yes, that's right. Road over to Milton and I had a hired horse to catch this stage. For a few minutes, they rolled in silence, but the Lone Ranger was eyeing Rob Morgan carefully from under lowered lids. Several facts had made him suspicious of the big stranger. His easy use of words peculiar to the far west, such as ombre, owl hoot and coyote. Also, the Lone Ranger knew that there wasn't a train from the east that had stopped at Rockville the day before. Get it on there! Get going! As he scrutinized Rob, the Lone Ranger noticed several things that belied the stranger's claim to being a city man. Certain calluses on one hand were indicative of long and continued use of brains. Moreover, as Rob had walked to the stage, the Lone Ranger had noticed the rolling gate peculiar to a man used to living in a saddle. The way Rob tugged at his collar and shifted his position every few minutes told the masked man that his companion was definitely not used to the close he wore. The Lone Ranger finally spoke.  Yep. Born and raised in New Orleans. I see. Oh, I wonder how much farther it is to Stockton. Do you know? Well, not far now. As soon as we cross the creek about half a mile ahead, we'll be just about there. That's good news. I'm surprised you know so much about it, Mr. Hawkins. What do you mean, sir? Well, since you're not supposed to be familiar with this country, this struck me as rather strange that you'd know about the creek and Stockton. Oh, oh, that. Well, you see, I heard some hombres talking in the hotel that they... All right, this is it now. Hold it. You don't move. What's the idea of the gun? You talk different, too. So have you, Rod Morgan. I'll take the gun you have hidden under your flesh. Now, wait a minute. I don't get this. You will.   Oh, holly! Oh! Your men are riding up. Lean out and tell them to drop their guns. I'll put a bullet in you. Oh, look here. You and I told you. Hey, Tom. Yeah? This sneakin' upgrade here's got the drop on me. He'll drill me if you don't throw it on your guns. Take care of yourself. We ain't giving up.  This will show you, Mr. Hawkins. Oh! Hey, look. A classic gun from Talltown. Let's beat it quick. Hey, don't leave me. Out of you. Hey, there's more coming from the other way. We're trying to keep shooting back at you. You're like this. Grab my gun, huh?  All right, get to your feet. While you sneak inside, whiner out. Hey, look. A couple of thunder-feet fighting. Here, let's try once you're carrying the wallet. This will settle you, Morgan. All right, get up. No, I have enough. Hey, look at that. The tenor foot beat up, Rod. I can hardly believe this. Something must have gone wrong. If it looked like plan work out all right, he must not be... Yes. Maybe enough, Rod and Morgan had the same idea I had. To disguise himself and ride the stage. Yeah. You mean you aren't a tenor foot? What do you think, Morgan? Holy cow, is that really Rod and Morgan? That's right, Sheriff. He is Morgan. Without his beard. And you think I'd put him right on the stage with you? That's all right, Sheriff Newton. Everything turned out for the best. Morgan wasn't as observing as I was. Nor was he as careful. He slipped up too many times. Me bring Silver. Him over there with Scout. Good. Let's go back to camp now, Tutto. Ah, adios. Adios. Adios. Uh, anybody hurt, Sheriff? Well, one of them outlaws got clipped by a bullet and the deputy who was driving got wounded. We'll get him to Stockton along with the others. Who was that hombre, Sheriff? Is he the tenor foot you were expecting? He sure didn't act like a tenor foot. Well, he certainly fooled Rod Morgan into thinking he was. I guess Morgan isn't as good at acting as the mask man. Mask man? What mask man? You're all loco. No. You're the only loco one around here, Rod Morgan. So loco, you thought you could pull another smart trick and fool the one hombre in the West that can't be fooled. You see, that so-called tenor foot was none other than the Lone Ranger. That's right, Morgan. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, created and produced by George W. Trendle, directed by Charles D. Livingston, and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer.


Greetings, everyone. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and Progressive Discussions. And before I go on to do my next video talk show, I am stopping by from my immediate area off Route 17 South in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, the one and only, the famous Bendik Steiner as seen on the Jerry Seinfeld Netflix series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. That's right. It is in my close area and I love it here. Outstanding food, outstanding coffee and I will go in soon before I go on to do my next show. The problem is the cops probably would love to pull you over when you're driving that thing around here. Yeah, smokey and abandoned. It's just that it's profiling when they see a Corvette, especially a red or yellow one. You know, it's... No, she's studying it. You see how fancy it is? That means the evil spirits are coming out. That would make a fantastic... Well, there's tarnish in there, what? No, mine haven't tarnished. She's asking me for a tarnish. No, that won't tarnish. No, I've had mine for... You know what? Where's the whiskey? Does anybody have any Irish whiskey for my coffee? Thank you, Jimmy. I appreciate it. I had mine for over a year. I have two of them. One of my car went over my bed. They haven't tarnished yet. Where did you put the one in your car? Did you put it on what? It's on my rear-view mirror. Now that you have it, it will tarnish fast. It will. This is what happens when your brain... It has this effect on metal. Watch. I think it's tarnished already. Look. She needs tarnics. There'll be a mirror. How could you put it on your... Where on your brain? Oh, Lord, help me. Maybe I should put it on my rear-view mirror.  Maybe I should put mine on my rear-view mirror. You're going to make me talk like Dr. Smith from Lawson Space. Oh, the pain. Oh, the pain. No, listen. Hang it over your bed where you sleep. Because when you're sleeping, that's when the bad spirits attack you. Make sure it's on your side, not on my guy's side. Yeah, not on the my guy. What's his name? Jerry Ray. Oh, we're the other guys. Jerry Gallupi? Nothing was going on with you, I don't know that. Jerry Gallupi? Jerry Gallupi. Oh. This is a very nice thing. That's the looks. You know how hard it is to get those? I did research. It's hard to get them. You ordered it on the computer? Oh, no. Oh, no. I found it where I found the amulet that he's got. Oh, yeah? The same place. You know how much those things cost? We need to tell you. I ain't going to tell you. I bet that thing's 10 cents at least, right? You mean wholesale costs? No, you're listening. No, she's shaking like a leaf. No. Like you got Tourette's or something. You've got that effect on her. Like a little... Jimmy's here. Jimmy's here. I've got to hide this where nobody can get it. Listen, you better put... Yeah, but if you put it in that purse, you'll never find it again. You know what's in that purse? Everything. Another dimension. Right. I threw away some stuff in my apartment today. There's a parallel universe in that purse.  One piece of paper or two pieces? I opened up some envelopes of old stuff there. Don't tell me... Envelopes that haven't even been opened.  Junk mail, yeah. Junk mail? You know what I do with junk mail? I file it on the G. My lane? What do you do? Per garbage. It's in Latin, I think. Oh, yeah, Billy knows Latin. La Flu. My lane's a shrubber. What? That's how I did junk mail. It's in Latin, I think. Oh, God. How did you get that over here? Get it blessed. Don't lose it. I bet he did it blessed. They're very hard to apply. You should talk. You break yours. Yeah, but that was... I didn't know that was made out of glass. No, that was glass. Well, the other one was rock quartz though. Yeah, I guess the tiles they use at McDonald's is like... I didn't get the last one blessed. That must have been the mistake I made. Listen, take them both at the same time. Go to a reputable... I don't know what I did with the other one. A reputable Catholic church. And look for... And look for a reputable priest. There weren't any of those either. Not like Fatty Arbuckle that went around. Trouble, probably get raped. She's a guy. She's a guy. She's safe. You know the Fatty Arbuckle story? What about? Well, he was a diddler. Really? Yeah. Back then. She likes how I hear her. She likes what? Oh, nothing. This is back in the silent movies. Yes, they didn't talk back then. Well, they did, but you couldn't hear them. Yeah, but I'm sure you could appreciate Silent. Anyway, he was a molester. Fatty Arbuckle. He was a silent movie star. You know, during Ruto Valentino and Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin. And he got caught back then. He diddled. He diddled. I don't know what he diddled. Or who, but... Anyway, I digress. Get it blessed, which actually rhymes. I digress. Get it blessed. Buy a real priest and tell him it's the same Benedict's medallions. And bring them both in. Oh, by the way, did you go to Rochelle Park yet? Not yet. Not yet. What happened with that doctor? Oh, Rigolosi. I went to your doctor. I got the wax out. Oh, you went to Rigolosi? Yeah. Well, for real now. One said Thursday. One said Thursday. He's Italian. His parents are from Italy. He lives in Lodog. I got his history. And he's connected with a holy name hospital in Tinec. And he used the water. He used the gun. The gun, yeah. That's what he used on me. It's an earwax. He used rock side and waters in the gun. But did you notice how you were able to hear everything? Well, I can't hear what the TV's going to, but I can never hear what back there is. Well, maybe the peroxide went all the way through. There's nothing to vlog it. There's nothing to vlog it. That was pretty good. You can choose right through. You can go through under here and wave to behind everybody. I have a slight hearing problem that we have. Is that the same as impediment and hearing impediment? Yeah. Well, I can't use out those words. I can shut. I. M. P. D. I. M. T. It's way too much humor for me. I've got to stand up. You're standing too far away from the TV. I still have those stolen cross-bomb bandanas for that bartender that comes here once in a thousand years. I got him in the back seat. Eventually he'll come to him. Who? It's the bartender that likes to wear bandanas. The guy that you said you should apply for a job at that time. Oh, real fit me. I feel he's cranky. Did you hear that he was cranky? He's got a good memory. Yeah, him. Look at that. I think you should apply a bartender. I'm trying to apply and shop right as a bagger. Oh, I got a better job there. This is the perfect job for you. You could be one of those professional laffers that sits in the front seat of an Anna's comedy hall. Every time a comedian says a punchline, you can sell a laffer. I think they hire people like that to get the crowd home. How much do they get paid? No, I think she might get more lamps than a comedian. You know what? Write about that. Once she gets to the horse shack zone... Say it again. No, I'm serious. Get paid off the books. Because you know why? You collect. Go ahead, Eileen. Ask them what kind of books. Coloring books.  Mad magazines.  Because if you get paid on the books... My rent goes up. Social security in the state will get on your back. Yeah, my rent goes up. I've been working and my rent went up. And you make too much. Your food stamp goes up and everything. My food stamp goes down. Goes down. That's what I mean.  She didn't get it down low when they cut her. That's what a dollar was for. You know what you've got to do? You've got to get that deal. I want you to get the five dollars or below. You cannot retain money in your EBT card. They think you don't need it. That's why they cut you down. I cannot not use it. No, you've got to use it. You've got to use it. I know I didn't use it all. Then they cut it again. That's the problem. If you have five dollars left at the end of the month, buy a gallon of milk. Buy something. Now I've got nothing left. You've got to buy some crackers or cookies.  Or whatever. Stop and shop. Whatever. Just spend it. Or box of cookies. That's when I was getting the frozen foods and now I'm getting no frozen foods. I'm using it all. I'm sorry. What is that? That's when I was getting the frozen foods and now I'm getting no frozen foods. I'm using it all. Now it's all used up and I've got to take money out of my own pocket. That's not necessarily the case. Frozen foods are not the case. I was getting frozen foods from Newark, remember? I told you now I'm not getting them anymore. Newark? What? It was Newark or somewhere, someplace I forget where I was. You were buying frozen foods? No, I was getting them. The lady, they were delivering them to my door, but now they're not delivering them anymore. Why? Because they stopped at, they said the government's not allowing it anymore. Now you know why I'm walking around standing up. There were so many children. They were trying to slow down and then appealing at the same time. The young blonde that walked out. Oh, I heard you. Oh, but anyway, you know, her, you'll still have her. Listen, you'll be doing yourself a huge favor if you do go to Low Show Park one morning. Drive there. It wouldn't hurt, believe me. She just didn't even want to give me what I got, Jimmy. Yeah, but it's like, you have time on your hands to do this.  But you gotta bring three months bank statement, you gotta bring your PSE and G, your electric bill stuff. I gotta get that from my brother. Your brother? He writes out the check for the public service and they send it to him, the public service bill. Why is your brother, your brother helps pay for you? He doesn't pay the bills. He just writes out the check, you know. He controls things. He has power of attorney, like he said. He's got control. He's got control, yeah. Does he have legal power? Does he have legal power of attorney? I guess he does.  You would decide a form, give it to him. My mother gave him control of stuff. That's the only proof that crazy race works. Apparently... I'll be back. I'm gonna have a cigarette. Johnny Walker, red? Anybody have any Johnny Walker? Johnny Walker. If you can drive me to drink, I'll keep pouring. You know what I saw in the shop right in Lincoln Store? Blueberry wine. Now that sounds really sweet. Might be a sweet and dessert one. It works. She needs, she needs... But they're 18% alcohol. She needs 50% alcohol and minimum. She needs heavy duty moonshine. Yeah, 196 proofs. That's what she needs. And you know what? She finished the whole bottle. Well, she's honest. Look at real quick. Real quick, though. You shouldn't. It's not good, you know. That's how you get drunk real quick, too, though. That's why you should sit. Well, enjoy it. Well, you're Irish. You'll put away the booze. I'll put away the booze is right. You should be able to table dancing. You should be doing a jig. Talk about shaking. Yeah. No, but seriously, take both medallions into your local parish. But I don't know where the other one is, so I'll get this one, bless. Well, no. Well, why make two trips? I won't be able to find the other one. The warehouse. And God knows where it is in the warehouse. I think I threw it away because of his old tarnish. Where do you mean a warehouse? That's the other room where millions of things are, you know? All right. So go to the parish. It has to be Roman Catholic Church. Look for a priest when he's done. Or even if he's not doing a sermon, say, Father, could you please bless my St. Benedict's medallion? It's brand new. Believe me, he'll know what it is. And he'll do it. Hopefully he'll use holy water. Oh, he has to use holy water? Oh, yeah. When they do the... Yeah. The other guy hasn't been using holy water to bless all my other medallions. I'll ask him to bless it with holy water. You know what? My mother, you know, she used to do, she used to bring a small bottle into church to fill it up and take it home and keep holy water in her room. My dad used to bring holy water in the house, too. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, but take it and, you know, you'll know what it is. I got holy water. I gave him the holy water and asked him to bless it with my holy water. Tell him, St. Benedict, to keep away evil, could you please, Father, bless my medallion and he'll do it. With this holy water, I'll give him the holy water. But that fancy one, you hang it where you sleep, wherever your pillow is, you hang it above it, because when you're at night, when you're sleeping, that's when a lot of people get attacked. He is caught, yeah, by evil spirits, demons. I bet he's got it. He might have an evil spirit attached to him. I've given him cockamamie answers on that pendulum. You have one attached by your pillow? Yeah, no, on a wall. On a wall? I got it hanging up. By your bed? Yeah, where I sleep. That's good. And then I got another one on my... Is it blessed by the holy water? Yeah, yeah, and I got another one hanging up from my rear view window in the car. Oh, boy. I guess that's why you don't get into car accidents, right? Well, I usually look straight ahead and check my mirrors. I'm very... I drive very conservatively. You know, I'm like... I'm very aware of my environment, because don't forget, I used to work in a plant, UPS and Seacwalkers. You have to watch your step when you're walking around there, because you can get seriously hurt. When you're driving, you should really always check your mirrors and look straight ahead, but, you know, in a corner of your eye, check your side mirrors and your rear view mirror. But that... To use that as a key chain would be disrespectful. I wouldn't do that. I would hang it, like I said. On the wall, where you sleep. I could hang it on the... What's the... The thing... The thing that works, where the bed is. There's the pillow, and here's the thing where the bed is. What's that called? The bed? A headboard? A headboard. I could hang it right by the headboard. You can put a piece of duct tape and hang it over the headboard. I'll put it right here in the headboard. No, no, it should be right center, over your pillow. Or you can put a little nail in the wall. A little nail. Oh, there was no parking. I had to go in Timbuktu. I could put it right on the headboard, right? Yeah, but make sure... Listen, make believe this is your headboard. Make believe this is your pillow. If you don't want to put a nail in a wall, which I don't care, because I did it anyway. You can get some duct tape and hang it over the headboard, so it's sitting right here. Flex seal. The guy from Flexing. I got some tape. Oh yeah, the... Right, they have... I got tape that my dad used, masking tape. Masking tape? Yeah, but that's... Don't you have any packing tape or... I have packing tape that you pack when you're... Yeah, that's very strong tape, you know. I'll use that. Here's the headboard.  Don't be cheap. It's several inches long. Over, but make sure it's center where you sleep. And this way it'll be right here. That's not a bad idea. Oh, whiskey, where are you, my friend? That was exhausting. Oh, my God. You should have heard that before, already, too. Blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub. Oh, I've heard, yeah. Wow. I saw a... He was going to go in the city, maybe. You couldn't drive that in the city? Because I can raise or lower. Now, I don't know how true this is, but I think Corvette only made, for one or two years, the split rear windshield. You know, in the early 60s, when the rear windshield was split, that was considered one of the best-looking Corvettes ever made. What do you think, Ray? I like the new one, too, a whole lot. I like them in canary yellow or black interior or a deep red with black interior. I feel like Sal is black with a chrome magazine. Not Louis, but black interior. What does Corvette look bad in? When I was working in seafood, there was a kid whose father was an FBI agent retired from Wayne, New Jersey. Do you know where he bought his Corvette? Not in Jersey. He went out to Hershey, Pennsylvania and went to a Chevy dealership called Clique Louis Chevrolet. No, he says I saved $10,000. How come they're selling so much cheaper? He says I went to Malcolm Conner. They wanted $10,000 more money than the dealership in, I guess, in Lancaster County.  Why? Yeah, right. Well, one is in Paramus, one is in Lancaster. Why is there a big discrepancy like that? The kid had three Corvettes, well, he was a rich kid, three Corvettes that he had, two of them in the garage and one of them was outside covered. And he says all three are from Hershey, Pennsylvania. From Clique Louis Chevrolet. He says Malcolm Conner wanted at least $10,000 more money than the dealership in Lancaster. But he was a short kid with kind of a Napoleonic complex. Yeah, guess what? Every time he talked to a girl, the first subject that came up was his Corvettes. He's trying to impress. Because he was diminutive in the sophisticated English language. What do you mean? It's like $300,000. Uh-huh. That's all he talked to a girl about. Because when your money runs out, they leave you. Oh, I gotta tell you what happened. I've been staying away from Facebook, like the plague. I only go in, do what I gotta do, and I log out. So I log in, somebody tries to contact me saying that they're in the U.S. military. And she sent me photos of her in the Apache helicopter with the helmet and everything. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, she sends me her Bank of America bank statement and asks me to show me my bank statement and asks me how much do I make and how much do I have saved. I says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. How do I know that's your real bank statement? That could be a fake to sucker me to show me mine. I said, what do you think? I fell off the turnip truck. I said, first of all, I'll call her back. So anyway, what happened was, I says, how do I know your bank statement is real? You could be trying to sucker me. I says, and if you are real, you're making a grave mistake showing people your financial state, your personal financial information. That's how that's kind of weird. I thought that was very weird. Why are you here? Yeah, she actually sends it to me. It said $500 and something thousand dollars. I go, what the hell's wrong with you? Why are you sending me this? It's insane. I immediately says, you know what? You have to be a scammer. No normal person shows their bank statement to a total stranger. She doesn't know me from Adam. And all of a sudden, I see Bank of America, bank statement, over $500,000. I go, you're... I say, wait a minute. $500,000, right? Yeah, but scammers send people fake... Bank statements? Yes. Was it a bank account or a bank statement? It was a bank account statement from Bank of America. Oh yeah, statement. It's like PayPal. Scammers use fake, you know, PayPal, what do they call it? Website interface. It looks exactly like Bank of America or whatever. And they're phoning. And then they sucker you to give them your personal information. And then whammo, they clean you out. They clean you like that. That's a warning sign, right? What's a big red flag? I got to go to the bathroom, but that sounds like a real scam. Did you tell her it was a scam? Yes, I did. What'd she say? Why are you taking your water and coming to the bathroom? I'm bringing my water with me. I'll leave my water here. I'm going to take the cup, because I want a drink out of it. She's going to be safe, but... You carry everything with you. I'll leave my purse too. Watch my purse, okay? Don't let anybody take anything out of it, okay? He's going to sell it. He won't get much for the purse, but get a lot for the belongings. The belongings? Expired coupons. She's a hoarder. She's got expired coupons, right? You know what, let me call my... Gatorade. Powerade is... Powerade blows away Gatorade. Gatorade is really a lot of... It's a lot of sugar, mostly. Yeah. My doctor said Gatorade is good too, Jimmy. Now, you know Walmart makes their own version of Pedialyte. You ever hear of Pedialyte? Yeah, I heard of it. Isn't that for kids? That's for little kids, I think. No, I heard it for little kids. That's where Jimmy says we're built. He can take it. Yeah, it's for kids, Jimmy. Pedias and pediatricians. Yes, like Pedias Sure or Pedialyte. Pedias Sure, yeah. Well, your mother's taking Pedias Pedias. No, they said she's kind of dehydrated because... Yeah, she's showing signs of dehydration so I had to change her drink. Jimmy? No, Knob Creek. Yeah. My old granddad, remember that? Yeah. And my grandfather used to buy old granddad... No, he used to like Southern Comfort. Actually, that's not a bad... That's not a bad drink. Yeah. You like Southern Comfort? You ever have that? No. It's like a bourbon, but it's like a liqueur. I said my mom when she was dying. I said... You got to get your food. I bet her. When she was neater, even like ever, that food insured, you know? No, no, she says too sweet. Insure is a lot of sugar also. No, she likes the banquet dinners. Meatloaf with creamy mashed potatoes. She likes that. She likes the manicotties that I get her. But the banquet has manicotties? No, no, another company. It only takes four minutes in a microwave. And it's done. Four minutes. She used to like the mac and cheese with Salisbury steak. With the banquet head?  The banquet head? The banquet head? Oh, all these sells a big box of Salisbury steak. It's like $2 in change. Did banquet have macaroni and cheese? Salisbury steak. On the side, yeah. See, if you go to the Dollar Tree, they have all that.  Do you have a microwave?  It's been around since ABA. You have an Amanda? A radar range? I have a cold star. Cold star. I remember that. That was the first... I know. It was huge. Radar range. I think it was cold. I have cold stars. It's been around since 1988 or 1986. Cold star is LG. What's that? You know how reasonable... Yes. Oh, those commercials for the cell phones? LG cell phones? I see them all the time. You know, microwaves, like air-conditioners, are very reasonably priced nowadays. Less than 100. You don't need to keep a 40-year-old microwave. How much does a microwave cost? How much does a microwave cost? How much does a microwave cost? 100 dollars. Well, you have to... You kind of... I remember... shake it up, shake it down, and then move it around. This go later. That was the year before. 1916. I didn't like pour wash. Yeah, how do you brag about working in a car wash? Why would you write a song? To make a movie. That's right. Yeah, I mean, it's not something you want to be happy about. You write a song. What do you do with the movie? One car wash? What? Get a microwave. You know how compact they are? I have to save my money to get my car fix, yeah? Uh-oh. What happened? Did you... Did you go over here and get it done? I went... I went to him and he fixed the defective part, you know? Not the crook. We're not talking about the crook. I didn't go to the crook, but I had to go back to him to get the defective part fixed, but he didn't charge me anything, you know? But if something else goes wrong on the car, I'm going to have to get it fixed. Where? The guy that ripped you off? He fixed the defective part, yeah? But this is the guy that overcharged you? He fixed the defective part that's called a bravado. He went back to the guy that ripped you off. Yeah, but he didn't charge me, but that's because I paid him $762 already. He paid him $760, so he... $763 already. So he most likely felt guilty that he ripped you off, so he didn't charge you this time. He didn't charge me the second time, right? And what was the cost, what would normally be the cost for this part, this job? My friend told me it would only cost $262 than he had. He charged... he charged you a lot for the job. Oh, boy. You can't make this stuff up. He said the bottle.  You think that's a pretty cool invention? No, it makes me think of my things. Yeah. You know what they're good for? All series. Hiding spare keys and important things because the public will think it's a real rock, and they'll never think about it. Let's check the fake rock first.  They can hear what she's Rea doing? They can hear what you and Rea are doing. If the CIA really wanted enough. They find out nothing. They know there's nothing. There's rocks, snow, and all. They can hardly change the channels. Well, they say even the new smart TVs could have a spying device inside of them. You know, cable bonds, everything? Yeah. Wait, that's why I go like this when I turn the TV on. I go like, excuse me, I have an itch in the middle of my forehead. They see around that blue, they see around the blue light area so a lot of people can see from here because they don't trust it. Perimeter? Oh, the cable? Yeah, I think you might to use the remote. Don't you need that light? Oh, by the way, any good any good news from from Jackie? It was about time, my god. Well, plus you meet so many people. People from all over. I bet you get pilots going in there from Teterboro. Nowhere, nothing ever happened with him. Your amethyst is wrong. My amethyst? Whatever you call it. No, amethyst is a purple semi-pressure gem. You mean the amulet? It's nervous when I bring Ray up. Well, was she shaken when you said Ray? I'm not shaking because it's cold in here. Cold? I'm drinking something cold, Jeff. Oh, it's fine in here. You feel cold? I'm cold. I'm always cold in here. Can you imagine her coming in early in the morning? It was cold. It was cold? It was freezing. It had to be maybe high 40s to low 50s. How do you know? I said people, you're freezing in the shower. Not good. Oh. This is definitely without a doubt a maniacal Sunday madness, that's for sure. You know all these infomercials about fitness and everything? They never invented anything. All this is goes way back thousands of years they've been doing all these... I saw a video of how the Greek warriors train. They use granite boulders. They picked up granite boulders and they did presses. They did squats. They did curls with them. Yeah, the Spartan warriors and you know... granite boulders? They got rocks in their head. Yeah, nothing is new. They want you to think it's new so you spend your money. Oh, TV's about spending money. They got so many commercials so you spend money. Look, even Charles Atlas even Charles Atlas used traditional weights and he may believe he got his physique from isometrics. No, I mean isometrics I'm not saying it doesn't work because a Russian guy named... his last name was Zass. He was in prison during World War I and he used the bars of his prison cell to do isometrics and he became a circus strongman after the war. Yeah, you're right about that. No, that's the barker that says come everyone and see the bearded lady. Let's get ready to rumble. Let's get ready to rumble. Let's get ready to rumble. Yeah, the bearded, you know, the circus and the carnival. You get to look at the freak show. Look at the two-headed goat. Must be talking about Ray. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Yeah, the circus. Remember the car? Clowns in a little car? Yeah. Some people are afraid of clowns. Like clowns, huh? I know Kramer was afraid of clowns on time. Oh yeah?  That would be really funny. Oh, I saw a funny photograph online. Somebody took a raw femur from a cow and the dog was holding it in his mouth and they put a sneaker on the end of it. Just to freak people out.  Like I lead.  You know. There's no bones about it. Speaking of whatever happened to CNN in this joint? They stopped paying the fees. Oh really? Almost a year ago. They stopped coming to CNN? That's why you see Ellen DeGeneres every day. Instead, we could be learning about Michael Cohn and Matterfort. What's going on? Yeah. Trump is getting in deeper and deeper. He's in big trouble. Well, I think they indicted, they already got Cohn and Matterfort. Cohn is dead. No, he's not.  No, John McCain. John McCain. We're talking about the indictment and things against Donald Trump. He's a former lawyer. You see how fast Trump ditched him? Yeah. He doesn't have any feelings of loyalty, I don't think. He cares about himself. He wants everybody loyal to him but he's not loyal to anyone. Plus, he's notorious for stiffing people for money. A lot of his friends said he paid them $0.77 a dollar. I told you that he his daughter Ivanka is the caterer for her wedding reception. He says he doesn't like the flavor of food, I'm not going to pay it. He's stiffed the caterer that catered Ivanka's wedding reception.  Trump states, Trump ties. Oh yeah. Make America great and in the back it says Made in China. The ties are made in Taiwan. Taiwan, get it? Yeah.  Who, Trump?  And he likes him. You don't like Trump? No. You know how many times he lies? At least a dozen maybe. Oh no, it's over $5,000. Washington Post keeps track of their paper every day.  This guy spends more time on his golf course.  He keeps on saying the economy is doing great. You know what I watch and he gave me a headache on Chris Cuomo had Kellyanne Conway as a guest. Man, did she cut him off and she wouldn't allow Chris Cuomo to say much of anything. And he, Chris Cuomo was right. Yeah, but you know I don't know if you saw, but Conway was really trying to... She always does. She wouldn't let him talk. Because she's, what's the word, shill? They go at it. They're married. Oh my God. I think that whole thing was a front because she's getting paid well. She has a job in the administration which makes her it's kind of like glorified prostitution.  Oh, Huckabee Sanders. Who's that, Ray? Ray Huckabee Sanders. Come here. Finally, Ray. Finally. And look at those wonderful mafkins, too. What's your last night? What's your last night? What's your last night? Real cheese. Real cheese. Unless they make it really good. I went to the buffet Saturday Book Friday the Royal Hibachi buffet. You know what I used to get? There's so many things in that store. The pasta's done. The bookcase's done. What's going on there?  You're going to drop there.  Is that a lead on your phone? Oh, it is. It's a lead.  Look at that. Well, this show's going to be cancelled in no time. I'll see you later. I got to run myself soon. Anyway, about the mall. Lodi buffet used to have clams on the half-show. They had very good fried calamari. And they had good Italian food to be honest with you. You know, I missed it. I used to go there. What kind of food? My dad did. But you know what they have at Royal Hibachi? In the Saddlebrook Mall, by the Walmart. That buffet has all fresh seafood. Nothing frozen. The guy is a chef. He's Turkish. He puts out the best everything. I love it when he comes out with leg of lamb and barbecue. And beef, barbecue short ribs and what else? Oh, we came out with fresh flounder fillets stuffed with feta cheese and spinach. That was delicious. Then he's got the sushi bar. Big sushi bar. He's got the Mongolian barbecues where they cook in front of you. Then he has the hard ice cream now. Not the soft one, where you scoop your own ice cream. Like friendly stuff.  I'm telling you, I only pay I don't mind paying 10 bucks for one short. You know what? I left out the roast duck. He also puts out the roast duck. The lunchtime is cheaper. They charge more dinner times. You know why? He brings out the Alaskan king crab, you know. He brings out cold seafood salad that's loaded with fish. But the duck is good. The duck is good. I mean, I can't complain for 10 bucks. Oh, I said to a man that flounder is out of this world. Fresh flounder stuffed with feta cheese and spinach. You know. This has been a mega life 21 production.


Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm happy to bring you this video demonstration where I will show you how you can block your painting in with a fast and relatively easy method. Now this is the painting and perhaps you can notice the texture. There's a lot of texture in this piece and that's because of the technique that I use. Now you don't have to use this product but I used a product made by Arteza. It's an acrylic pad and two of the pads 11 by 14 size is about $26, 16 sheets each. So it's really a great price and a great product to begin a pastel painting. So grab yourself a cup of coffee and let's get started. Now you don't have to use this pad of paper. You could use watercolor paper. I'm using a technique to create your own pastel surface. This particular surface just happens to have a lot of texture to it but let's talk about this blocking end stage. I apologize. I do not have the reference image to pop up here to the upper left here.  I just hate even saying this sentence. My mother passed away less than two weeks ago and I've currently moved a temporary studio to be with my dad during this time so we can all heal and be with each other. So I am just basically using a piece of willow charcoal here. You may have heard of willow charcoal or vine charcoal. I prefer willow charcoal. It brushes off easy. It applies. I don't know. I like the application better than vine charcoal but notice just the simple shapes that I'm making. I'm trying to keep energy. These and I'm speeding up the sketch portion but I will go to some real time in just a minute. But I'm looking at all of the shapes of the clouds. I'm looking at the negative spaces of the clouds and what we're trying to do when we block in a painting. I purposely chose a reference image that's pretty basic. You know, trees, horizon line clouds. I added a little road for some compositional or perspective interest to pull your eye back. But I'm just kind of roughly sketching in just little shapes. I may have even gone overboard with the clouds here. You don't even need to do this much. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a Prismacolor.  It's called Spruce Blue. It's a new pastel. I like these pastels. This particular color is a great color for blocking in. What I'm doing now is just taking my general composition or my general sketch with the big shapes and I'm creating a value study by varying the pressure. Vertical elements like trees are typically always darker. But you'll see how I turn it on the side and just create a darker foreground gradually getting to a lighter in the field, a little bit lighter in the back by simply varying the pressure. Now here's a product I've been using a lot lately, Matte Medium. It's a neat way actually to kind of turn your pastel into a painting. And you don't have to use this. You could use water or alcohol to do this process I'm doing. But I'm going to put some of this Matte Medium made by Liquitex and I'm going to put it in a little dish. Now it's called Matte Medium because that's what it is. It's not glossy at all. Now this is a little scrubby that I got from the dollar store.  You could also use a textured paint brush if you want or whatever you can come up with. I'm always getting creative in the studio. So I'm actually just going to be dipping it and sometimes I have to change hands even though I'm left-handed to work on different areas of the painting. Now watch how fun this gets when we wet this uh the pastel with the Matte Medium. And I'm purposely trying to keep energetic gestural strokes larger more vertical strokes in the foreground okay just to emulate tall grasses things like that trying to create energy and gradually as I go back into the distance the strokes will become more horizontal and not as broad or up and down. They're going to be a little bit more flat you know just because the background field is going to be more flat. Also too I know that I want to keep the background a little bit lighter so I've added a little bit more of the Matte Medium and I'm just going to kind of scumble this in back there. And this is again just blocking in this is the point of this video. We are thinking of the shapes in this reference image as big shapes and we don't have to get overly fussy even though I'm doing some vertical energetic strokes at the foreground. I mean you wouldn't even have to do that but to me it creates kind of a nice beginning. So that's all we're doing here and the neat thing about this Matte Medium it dries pretty quickly. So I mean already working on it right now it's it's pretty much getting dry already. It's a fun product but once again you could do this with water you could do this with alcohol if you want. You could literally and this is a technique I recommend and use often just blend it. You could use this little scrubby just to blend it without the Matte Medium and just get a value study. So I'm showing you some neat little things I've learned with some of these products but you don't have to do that. I always say work with what you have. You could do the same blocking in strategy with a dark pastel on a piece of pastel paper. I just happen to be using this surface and I will be creating a texture surface on top of this to make it work for pastels. Pastels kind of need a little grit to hold on to. I mean we can work on unsanded papers. One of my recent videos was some techniques on how to get you know nice results on unsanded papers but so many of us like the the sanded surfaces because we can really utilize the beautiful aspect of pastels of layering colors so nicely. So I'm just kind of gently blocking that tree in and look at that. We've already kind of got our this is real time by the way. We've already got our our foreground kind of going here with our trees. Now we're going to work on the sky a little bit. I like to clean my pastels off if I see they're overly dirty. Now I am choosing a little bit of a darker kind of teal. I wanted to kind of go with that. The upper heavens are usually a little cooler in color temperature sometimes more cool than this teal I'm using and they gradually get warmer down towards the horizon line but I kept the sky I'd say more of a turquoise or teal feel to it. Now you can kind of see the texture of that paper. The Arteza acrylic pad and I really like it but that texture does not stay once you wet it with the matte medium. So don't worry about that if you decide to try to use this paper it will blend in you know when you use whatever blending tool or technique you might use. So what I'm doing right now is I'm negatively painting in between the clouds. I just did my little willow charcoal to get an idea of where these clouds are. Now I'm gradually before I do the matte medium again I'm going to put in some of these lighter and warmer kind of teal colors. This is definitely a lighter value as I'm getting down towards the horizon line and that's another thing that happens with color or value I should say when we get closer to the horizon line values get lighter rather than darker. All right I'm making up my mind here with this one playing around one with some colors and I decide to just give it a little bit more warmth right there kind of in the middle area of the sky and now I'm just going to do the same technique. Once again you could use a paper towel if you want to just blend this or if you have some kind of a product you want to make sure to if you're going to use the technique with water, alcohol, or matte medium whatever that you have a surface that's water friendly and obviously this acrylic pad is and of course watercolor paper would be as well. So same technique with blending in the negative areas of the clouds and I think I will speed this section up here because you get the idea I'm sure. Also notice that I'm continuing to use energetic strokes going in the motion of I wanted the clouds to feel like they were sweeping up and over your head kind of to the left there so I'm trying to keep my strokes in those directional pads and keep a sense of energy to them. I apologize that I missed a little footage you can see I've added a little bit of purple kind of a medium to lighter value purple underneath those clouds if you look at the reference image if you can kind of see it behind my hand there underneath clouds is usually where the darker sections are especially if they're kind of if they're rain clouds and it looks like they've got some water in them. So I've just added the purple in those areas where you can see where the the dark parts of the clouds are and I'm doing the same technique with the little scrubby cloth just scumbling it in keeping some directional strokes but also just making sure I don't have this too tight. Now that's one of the benefits of blocking in is we get our big shapes in first our basic values in first and what that's going to do is create a painting that feels more alive and it will feel more painterly rather than if we start getting tedious all of a sudden just in the foreground what if I had created the big block area of the grass to the lower right there on the right side of the road and I had started working on all the grasses and getting all individual grass blades what happens is your painting loses a sense of cohesiveness it doesn't feel balanced usually with value and your color palette so when you work the painting overall with this blocking in strategy I think you will find that not only will you be happier with your end result you're going to have more fun this technique is definitely more fun and like I said at the beginning of this it's faster and easier so why not embrace blocking things in rather than getting so tedious in the beginning stages of a painting and then before you know it you've got an initial stage to your painting that already starts to feel good and feel right you know you've got your big shapes and they're all working together and you got your values and they're established so definitely I think especially for impressionistic landscape painting is to block in your painting with these large shapes and keep that energy and those basic colors and basic values so that's my lesson on blocking in and why to do it now if you used a regular piece of pastel paper you won't need this process I'm using clear gesso made by Liquitex my reasoning is because this is not pastel paper and it's actually kind of got some texture to it so I want to make this to where pastels will hold on to it and a clear gesso is so interesting because it has a little bit of sand in it regular gesso does not also clear gesso hence the title is clear you'll see when I put it on it looks a little cloudy and I'm just using this textural brush again I'm embracing the texture of this whole painting process here but it will dry clear so that my underpainting basically this blocking in stage will show through it looks a little cloudy now but you'll see when it dries it's fine I am speeding this part up and I kind of keep my directions for the clear gesso application energetic as well but you don't have to you could literally just roll this on with a foam brush if you wanted to and I again I'm using the clear gesso so that my pastels will hang on to this if I tried it on just this acrylic paper it wouldn't really work all that great this is my chamois cloth technique I'm using these little chamois cloths people have asked me can you wash them well when mine get dirty I put them in this little lingerie bag and you can literally just throw it in your laundry don't throw it in with any nice shirt you like I would keep it just by itself or with some old towels or something like that so I use these little chamois cloths to blend with I'm also going to be using this is a little I call it my in between pastel palette it's a little box I made from Sennelier pastels where I just keep my pastels from previous paintings loosely stored but it makes for a nice nice palette of all kinds of different colors and values now I re-established my dark she just saw me do there to where my trees were a little bit darker the heavens of a sky you can even see it in the reference photo to the left are typically darker in value you see in the reference image they're darker up top they're lighter down below so I am going ahead and working that darker value in the sky now often if I have a pastel on my hand I try to use it somewhere else but I didn't quite want to use that turquoise in the sky yet what I got I have now in my hand is a dull kind of neutral not super dark but a darker blue and what this is going to do is going to make those trees feel a bit further away colors get cooler and values get lighter in the distance so they're going to be a little bit lighter and cooler than that one main foreground tree now we can see what the focal point is with this what would you think it is what's the focal point of this painting the main focal point is the darker tree you know you're going to be drawn to that contrast of the tree there but the focal point also is going to be that road drawing your eye in I've created kind of an S shape curve the road pulls you into the tree and then you take a curve left to follow those clouds up around that curve and up to the left out of the painting now I did use that turquoise just now you see how I created another level of trees back there they're cooler and I'm using that teal to pull it into the same colors of the sky and create a very simple this is a really simple composition of painting I think this would be a good one for beginners to try and you know just have fun don't get so serious especially if you're just starting it's playing don't be afraid to throw your painting away or brush it all off and try it again I've got a video coming up soon about how we can repurpose pastel papers we don't have to always throw away failed paintings I don't think any painting is a failed painting to tell you the truth because you're always learning something now you can see I've gotten a little bit of a lighter value warmer a little bit a little bit warmer in color temperature because colors do what near the horizon typically they get warmer more of a turquoise rather than a periwinkle you know so so anyway you can see that gradation from the sky down and you know I also missed some of the footage of the grass I apologize I life is just nuts when you try to film and do all these things but you can see I put down kind of a base of green and I already blended it in I do apologize for missing that that footage there but it's the same strategy that I used in the grass that you're about to see me use here in the sky so here I am using my chamois cloth I've got a clean piece of chamois cloth and I typically will work the lighter value to the darker value because I don't contaminate the dark upper sky into that light I want to keep that kind of light down at the horizon so it's better for me to blend from light to dark in this case once again I'm still kind of blocking in okay this is just big shapes I'm working the negative spaces between the clouds and it's really kind of fun still keeping that energy you see my directional strokes it's getting that feeling of the clouds and even the sky sweeping I mean why not you don't have to make the background sky so static and stiff we can have all this energy we're artists right we break out those artistic licenses and just have fun and even though I covered up some of the white spaces in the clouds it's fine we can layer because we put the clear gesso down now I'm giving that sense of even more distance by making some of those trees feel a little bit further away and you can see it's already starting to feel like a landscape painting and back to the point of this video blocking in big shapes don't get tied down to any one particular area too soon and as a result you'll end up creating a painting that feels more impressionistic and more painterly now the tree was the darkest thing but I'm adding a little bit of a a green it's more of a warmer green this tree is closer in proximity to the other one so it will have a little bit more warmth later I'll carve in some sky holes into this tree it looks kind of like a big blob right now but it's usually best with well pastel painting acrylic painting or oil painting to carve your tree rather than creating individual leaves we're going to negatively paint in some sky shapes into the dark value of the tree to create a sense of spaces all right now at this point I am going to speed up the rest of this video a bit the main goal was to block in and then we can start layering our color try not to get too heavy handed too soon and just have fun here I'm working in some purple you guys know I love purple I think it adds life to things especially in the shadowy areas of a painting all right I hope you enjoyed I will be back at the end don't go away please like this video comment and subscribe if you haven't subscribed to this channel it would really bless me and if you'd like to become a patron of mine I have a patreon page patreon.com slash susan jinkins it's just neat it's a way that we can communicate together I can see your work I have some homework assignments often from these lessons you get to share them in our homework album my patrons all communicate with each other and it's just really nice but your support of five dollars a month really helps to keep Monet cafe videos coming as well which when I have them here on Monet cafe they're always free my patrons may get a little extra content or commentary but Monet cafe was my original desire and goal to bring art lessons to people who may not have any other resource or means to do so all right guys enjoy the rest of this and I am happy to be painting right now even though my circumstances are still quite sad I have to try to sound very upbeat right now if I get any emotion at all I'm going to lose it so anyway God bless you all for your beautiful messages about what we're going through right now all right enjoy this here I'm sure you can see how the beautiful aspect of being able to layer with soft pastels is to be able to lighten things up sometimes things start out looking rather dark but we can layer the light we typically work dark to light with soft pastel you can see here too how I've carved in some of the sky holes I talked about in that tree and carved in some of the shapes of the background trees as well and I was tapping off the board there sometimes your pastel can build up a bit and you can kind of lean it forward or move it and tap it off a little bit now I'm adding a little bit of a lighter value green to some of the distant fields in the background creates a little bit more of a sense of distance and depth values get lighter in the distance typically plus it's closer to that lighter sky in the background so here's the final some neat texture a nice soft mood to this I hope you learned a lot I hope you'll subscribe and as always happy painting


Hello, welcome to the Judge Ben Show. My name is Ben Joseph. I'm a retired Vermont Superior Court judge. And this is one of a series of programs in which I interview people about issues that concern the Vermont legal system. I'm very happy to tell you that my guest today is Dr. Catherine Antley. Dr. Antley has offices in South Burlington. And she's been very much involved in efforts to limit the use of marijuana, particularly by young people. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. No, it's a pleasure. It really is. I read recently that more than 90% of adults who have a substance abuse disorder begin smoking, drinking, or using drugs before the age of 18. Is that your understanding? That's what I hear from Mariah Sanderson in the prevention who are experts in that area. So yes, that's a true statement. And it's actually foundational to a lot of the successful prevention work in Vermont and in the world. And has the Vermont Department of Health done a lot to try to delay the age of first use of drugs? Sure. That's if you delay your first use, as the first statement implies, you'll decrease the number of people who eventually get caught up in use disorder. So it's a proven method to decrease the pain and suffering which substance misuse produces in our society. I've read recently that the Vermont THC cap is 60%. Is that correct? Our commercialization law, which was passed, has a flower limit of 30%. And it concentrates limit of 60%. And that's a little bit like putting a speed limit on the highway of 250 miles per hour. It's great. It's better than having no speed limit, quite honestly. It is, which is what we have in Colorado and almost every. I think we were the first in the nation to put a THC cap. So that's a good thing. But it's astronomically high. And it's quite dangerous from a physiological standpoint. I should have said earlier. And THC stands for, let's see if I can get this right, tetrahydrocannabinoid? That's correct. It's one of almost 450 components in cannabis. And when Colorado legalized, they illegalized the entire plant. So all of those known and unknown components were legalized. And they're just now starting to discover some others, which are psychoactive and potentially also dangerous. But THC is understood? Right now, THC is the thing that people focus on and is measured. That's the thing that makes people high? It makes people high. Well, you mentioned Colorado, I think. I think there's been a fair amount written about Colorado because Colorado was the first state, I believe, to really start to promote the use of marijuana legally. Is that right? Right. It was first legalized in Colorado. And recently, there's been really a two-year movement in Colorado. People have been organizing and working on educating legislators, especially about issues around THC for the last two years. And recently, in the last few months, last month, they were able to pass legislation, which is aimed at eventually capping their THC levels and decreasing youth access to marijuana. If you want, I can sort of frame it a little bit in the context of what's. Hey, you're the expert. Do it. So the first video clip I have is from Dr. Chris Rogers. And he's the medical director of one of the largest, I believe, non-publicly-owned psychiatric facility in Colorado. And so he sort of frames the issue that he's seen. And then we'll talk a little bit about why Vermonters tend to have a low perception of harm of marijuana and sort of compare and contrast this information that Dr. Chris Rogers is giving us versus what many Vermonters see. And then we'll hear from the attorney general in Colorado. So we'll have the medical perspective and the legal perspective, who also is alarmed at the increase in youth use. And then again, compare that to our community in Vermont and how we're sort of responding to the same issue. But your understanding is that the perception in Vermont is that it's the use of marijuana is not harmful. That's right. When I was presiding in court one day in Vermont, I had a status conference of a case where a guy was driving under the influence of marijuana on a highway at 90 miles an hour going the wrong way. And he crashed into another car and killed five kids. And his THC content and his blood was like six times the legal limit in Colorado. He's just stoned. Right. That's a unique experience in some ways. And it's very emblematic in other ways. There was that person apparently suffered from psychiatric issues, which presumably followed his high THC use, which was reportedly chronic. He had presented himself to the ER twice and was discharged. So you have this sort of interface between the acute impairment, which contributed, obviously, to the deaths of those 14s, but also the psychiatric issues that he was suffering from that contributed. And I think that's a good example of the confusion around cannabis. Why are we saying cannabis now instead of marijuana? Do you understand that? When we first started, marijuana was generally accepted to, it was the word that people used to describe the drug that people get high. And cannabis was used to describe other things, or anything else, or everything associated with the plant. Now there's a move towards using cannabis for everything. I'm sort of neutral on this. Cannabis is technically fine. I think that when you listen to Sir Robin Murray, for example, who's an expert in cannabis and psychosis and schizophrenia, he uses the word cannabis. And he also says in the same breath that all teens, it's common knowledge in the UK that cannabis is contributing factor to psychosis and schizophrenia. I want to talk about that a little bit later, too. But the word is cannabis. It's not a clean word. It's not a word that connotes this as medicine or good for all things, like the 15 lists of things that people say that it's useful for. And I think it's the correct word. So I'm happy to use that word. So this is, like I said, Dr. Chris Rogers. He's in charge of the largest non-public psychiatric facility. I think it's important to listen to what he has to say all these years after they've legalized. I'm the medical director of Child and Adolescent Services at the Medical Center of Aurora, the largely non-publicly owned psychiatric hospital in the state. Here, I'm an inpatient psychiatrist with a front row seat to the emerging epidemic of cannabis abuse and addiction that threatens to swallow the lives of a whole generation of Coloradans. On our adult inpatient unit, it's hard to keep count of the number of psychotic and suicidal patients they're admitted with THC on board. And regardless of the data or clear evidence of how cannabis contributes to their illness, person after person refuses to accept that marijuana could be bad for them. How could it be? They have been taught to believe this is a harmless plan, a medicine that is good for anything from headaches to cancer to anxiety. It's natural, without side effects, without risk of addiction. This is the lie that is ruining the lives of far too many people in our state. The story on our adolescent unit is even more tragic, as we repeatedly treat kids too psychotic to know what's real, who they can trust, or where they are. The rates of adolescent psychosis have grown steadily since legalization, and in almost every single case is linked to the use of high THC and potency concentrates. Products known as dabs or wax or shatter that are made in the lab light is still in down the most psychoactive component of the marijuana plan and concentrating it into what is better described as a hard drug than the weed people voted for in Amendment 64. Kids as young as 11 or 12 are using blow torches and glass ribs to use to smoke these highly addictive and harmful chemicals sometimes every night just to go to sleep. We have very little research to try and understand what this does to the developing brain, but as any child psychiatrist who treats these kids can tell you, we don't need a randomized control trial to see how dangerous and often tragic the effects are. We do know there's a clear risk between developing depression or even committing suicide related to an earlier age of first use as well as the potency of products. This means a 12-year-old trying a marijuana concentrate is at far greater risk of developing a mood disorder or even eventually killing themselves than a 30-year-old experimenting with a joint of flower. Unfortunately, it's far too easy for these 12-year-olds to get access to these products and not from the black market or a shady drug dealer. They're getting them from friends at school or older siblings, many of whom have medical marijuana cards themselves and ready access to as much shattered dab or wax as they could ever want. It's time for this to change. House Bill 1317 will provide stronger safeguards to keeping cannabis products out of the hands of Colorado's kids. Having reasonable limits on daily purchases of these highly addictive substances makes good sense. Maintaining adequate guidelines for providers to uphold when recommending cannabis, especially the young brain or young kids, is a no-brainer. We need a more robust tracking mechanism to better understand who is using medical cannabis products, how much, and in what form. And Colorado should be leading the way in researching high-quality THC products. We certainly are leading the way in their sales. We have a long way to go to help the kids in my hospital, but House Bill 1317 has a great place to start. Whole country is watching Colorado as other states look to legalize cannabis. Let's lead the country into a sustainable and responsible future we can all be proud of. Thank you. So that's Dr. Chris Rogers. And I mean, that's a very powerful statement. He's talking about the kids in his hospital and how sick they are, and not just children, but also not just teens, but also adults who come in and they often have this idea there's nothing wrong and they don't understand why they're ill. Another person I think is really important to listen to from that same is the Colorado Attorney General. He also testified. And I think it's important that we hear both from law and from medicine. As has been discussed, the rise in teenage youths of high THC concentration marijuana is a critical public health challenge. It demands action and it's important what's being done today. It is a model for the nation. Just consider the latest report from the Colorado Department of Health, Public Health and Environment in their Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. They surveyed the use of dabbing which has been discussed when accessing high THC potency. It went from 4.3% of students in 2015 to over 20% in 2019. This is an alarming rise and this House Bill 1317 represents an important and critical response to this threat. The substance abuse trend in response task force which I chair and Matt Bock was with me today head of our office community engagement and his vice chair has focused on this issue with leadership from parents, from public health advocates identifying this troubling trend. This legislation meets that trend and addresses the fact that our medical marijuana laws have enabled teen access to high potency marijuana as we can come out of work to address this public health challenge and refine the regulatory program for overseeing legal habits. We need to do so in a way that protects kids. So what he's saying there is that teen use of this high THC dabs which they use a blowtorch to use and whatnot has increased from 4.8 to almost 5% to 20% and surely 20% of teenagers. 20% as I understand it, 50% of teens who use marijuana use high potency. So a much higher percentage of the teens who are using marijuana at all are using this high potency and that's got something to do with why they're having the high ER rates. And so- They go to an emergency room for treatment of psychosis. Right, and we're seeing that in Vermont too. And so I wanna talk a little bit about why Vermonters have this inappropriately low perception of harm of cannabis use. Please, please, please do. And what is the impact on our policy in Vermont and also misuse rates and use use rates? So, for example, one thing that we're seeing is that in the ERs in Vermont, we're having a high, a lot of children, adolescents are showing up in the ERs very high to the point that they've had repeated sort of, consideration in the legislature of the issue. And it's been in the newspapers as well. There are a number of articles talking about this, but we couldn't find any media coverage of the link between the high, you know, teen ER usage and it's psychiatric usage and marijuana. However, when we looked at the testimony of what the legislature doors were hearing, this is an example of one that they heard that's in response to a specific hearing about this. And this is from a child psychiatrist. I spent last weekend on call in the ER department talking to kids, talking to adults, and I have observed over my time on call that a significant portion of young people who are hospitalized psychiatrically or come to the ER department are heavy cannabis users. And we also know that cannabis that is used today, which can be 20, 30, 40% THC is nowhere near what it was in the 1960s. And the research is that this, there is a significant psychiatric risk for a whole host of problems, most notably psychosis, but I think also suicide and aggression. And this is becoming increasingly recognized at the same time that the public perception of harm is going in exactly the opposite direction. And so I am really hoping that people will pay attention to this because it would really impose a really large burden on our mental health and substance abuse treatment system moving forward. So this is- This is a physician who's testifying in the Vermont legislature? This is word for word what the legislators are hearing. I'm just saying who's the source? Who's saying- The source is a psychiatrist, respected child psychiatrist in the state of Vermont, you know, who was asked as an authority to testify to the legislature's tours on this topic. We have a crisis. That's how it's framed in the newspapers. We have a crisis in Vermont. You know, parents are at their wits end. The average wait time is many, many hours and going into days of- In an emergency room. Before, yes, before the teens or children are able to be seen or get an inpatient bed. And meanwhile, they're next to all of the trauma that is associated with an ER, you know? Someone comes in with a heart attack, a bleeding ulcer, you know, trauma from a car accident. So they're subjected to all of that while they're waiting and they're suicidal or they're psychotic. And psychosis is a medical emergency by definition or it was according to whoever admitted these children. Let's put it that way. So we looked at our newspapers because newspapers affect what the public sees as a perception of harm. And, you know, we saw these three articles. We read through them. No mention of cannabis and do psychosis or that cannabis may be a contributing factor to suicidality, which apparently was mentioned in the car, the five teens and the driver of the truck in that case. So that's one big piece of why Vermonters don't have an appropriate perception of harm. And I just wanted to put this up, which is a diagram from a well-respected researcher in Denmark. And he's showing that as marijuana, as cannabis use increases, your psychosis rates increase and so does schizophrenia. And there's a very large article out this week, actually, which is very powerful, is associated with millions of people in Denmark and they're showing the same trend. And up above you see the cannabis use is increasing at the same time in the youth. And this just is an important reminder that in Vermont we have a significant increase on our surveys that we conduct as well, showing that teen use of marijuana is going up significantly. And these two, this is decriminalization, this is legalization. So we're on an upward trend here. And this, I think, is important for people to understand is that marijuana use in the past month, Vermont's number one in the country. And you know, that- I'm sorry, you mean number one per capita in years? Marijuana use in the past month. Oregon is number two and Vermont is number one. And it's at least conceivable that the messaging that we're getting in the media and in general is associated maybe from industry, I don't know, indirectly or online is associated with that increased use. And this is what you talked about, 90% of people with a substance use problem began smoking, drinking or using drugs by the age 18. And so it's no, and then this one, these, the substances are not siloed. They, if you are using marijuana or three times as likely to be addicted to opiates and whatnot, that's from the CDC. And then, of course, that leads into illicit drug use, all drug use in Vermont. We're again, we're number one. So, you know, the state of urgency in Vermont is actually pretty high. We have ERs which are flooded with adolescents, parents who are frantic, newspapers who say this is a crisis, and the authorities in psychiatry and pediatrics are testifying to the legislature saying there's a connection here between our high marijuana use in our youth and in our young adults in general. And in this morbidity, or morbidity admission to the ER that we're seeing in Vermont. And I just wanted to show this, because there's a lot of messaging that marijuana is gonna help decrease our opiate use, and there's a lot of anecdotal information. But we haven't seen Colorado or California, the overdose rate continues to climb. Actually, it climbs quite significantly. So it hasn't helped. And then this is an article, which is a peer-reviewed article, very good article, which shows adolescent use between 2017, 2018, 2018, 2019. Adolescent use significantly increased after legalization. And so why did we in Vermont legalize when we have potentially all these health issues that we knew might crop up, and which are to some extent cropping up? Well, it was for the criminal justice and racial justice issues. But if we look at that carefully, there's a new study out of UVM that says legalization of cannabis has not narrowed the increased rate at which BIPOC drivers are stopped compared to white drivers. And the study finds legalization of cannabis did a little to narrow black and litinex search rate disparities with white drivers. And the ACLU came out with a similar study. So we're seeing that in Vermont, that this intervention, the intervention of legalizing cannabis in order to promote racial justice hasn't delivered on that promise. And this is just a graphic, which you can see that in, this is Washington, DC, after they legalized marijuana between 2015 and 16, the arrests of minority went up. In fact, there is a representative from, well, Pelegre, I believe, Mary Hooper, I think, who actually voted against legalization on one of the votes and her explanation of her vote, which I'm doing from memory, so I might not have it exactly right. But she was referencing this data and she said, if we legalize, we will have more use. And as we have more use, all specters will use, parts of our population will use more. And therefore, based on the data, we'll have more arrests of minority members. That's not something that I want, and therefore I vote against. That's a paraphrase, you can go to the internet and find her exact quote. But I think she was right on with that. Here's from the health department. After Decrim only, we saw a significant increase in people who earned less than $25,000 a year and less than a high school education. So we're not helping our disadvantaged, struggling communities. I just wanna ask you, because we have some kind of a time limit. Is it possible that the cannabis control board could limit the amount of THC in substances that are being sold legally? Yes. I don't know, actually, I think they could. I know that we have the one limits that I mentioned there, but I think that's something that, if people were concerned about the psychosis ending up in the ERs, they could call the governor's office and ask for a physician or public health representatives on the cannabis control board to put forward that idea so that what our policy is, is based on science. Because in the United States, what's happening around cannabis is we're having a change in policy around a drug which normally would go through the FDA, the EPA, and we're asking ordinary people, citizens, to make these determinations. And yet, we're not having messaging from our media which reflects what the science is really out there. So for example, this quote from Beau Kilner, we had one of our media newspapers of record refuse to print this. And all it says is commercial cannabis industry must focus on creating and maintaining heavy users. Dependence is good for the bottom line. Our free speech doctrine makes it very difficult to restrict advertising and marketing. And that's from Beau Kilner of the RAND report, a quote from his Senate Finance Committee. But we didn't get any of that in the media. And I think that contributes to our decreased perception of harm. And this is something from Jonathan Calkins, which I think is also really important that the public understand that this industry is really not interested in someone who uses casually. 80% of their profit come from people who have a use disorder or dependency. Or who use it daily. Who use it daily and sometime astronomically, all day, every day, high potency. That's where their profit center is. That's why they want high potency, THC. They need high potency, THC, for their profit. And this is a very interesting quote from Jonathan Calkins talking about this in the past, but he saw the future. He said, already 80% of sales are nearly users. Half of all the sales are to people with a substance use disorder. Occasional users who make up the majority of pot customers account for only a modest share of the sales, but may provide political cover for an industry that gets rich supplying people who struggle. The damage... I think we've really run out of time. That's a good place to stop, actually. That last thing you just said. The damage according, he says, the damage according to our public health will be substantial. And I have more examples of messaging. We're just gonna have to have you back and do another show. I want to thank you all for looking in. This is a very serious subject. And I think that the more information such as what Catherine's put out here, it's gotta be broadcasted. So broadcast it to your friends, to your family. It's very important, very important to help our children. Thank you for looking in. Bye-bye.