Hello Worcester Vermont. Let's try it again. Hello, hello, Worcester Vermont. Well, my name is Chad Hollister. I live up on Hampshire Hill Road, and the beautiful thing about this very first Worcester Arts Fest is so does everybody else. And as I was walking around, I was talking to Freedom. We actually didn't get to finish our conversation, but I was my beautiful wife, Katie O'Rourke, who also is right here that helped on our crew of team members. She sees it in advance. I do not. Now, as we were here yesterday starting to set up, I started to get so excited. And here it is. This is incredible. Everybody is from Worcester, Vermont. And I'm so excited. Yes! And I am so excited to meet every single one of you. Late gig last night, sorry. And so please feel free to wander around, meet the artists. You're going to meet musicians. You're going to meet poets. You're going to meet authors today. And just relish in our beautiful community of Worcester, Vermont. So thank you, thank you. This is our very first inaugural Worcester Arts Fest. And the idea came by a handsome gentleman that lives up on the Gould Hill there. I first met him and his lovely wife when they were selling blueberries. And that was our first introduction to this gentleman from western Kentucky. Don't mess that up, by the way. I know they spent some time in Texas, but he is Kentucky. But for about 40 years they've lived here. So I'm going to introduce to you, I got this call from a gentleman, David Book. And he said, I'm thinking about bringing these Worcester artists together. Because there's so many talented, I'm not doing his accent any justice, sorry. And I think there's so much talent here. Why don't we bring them all together for an arts fest? What do you think? And I said, yes. I think that's a great idea. And then he said, well, secondly, would you like to help? I said, yes. So everybody that David asked, I'm pretty sure said yes. And our committee will talk about all of them today. But I'd like to introduce to you to kick off this very first Worcester Arts Fest. He is a wonderful human. He is an author. He is a historian. He is a storyteller. He is an educator. Please welcome. He doesn't like this title, but I'm going to say the brainchild of the Worcester Arts Fest. Mr. David Book! This is, wow, this is incredible. It really is. And I am very, very happy and grateful for your presence. And for all those that will follow later on today, I'm sure. And for so many people, so many efforts. I've got to mention their names. Here are all the names of the steering committee. All of them are here, I'm sure. Except for one or two who have students in games today that are important to them. And indeed, we're glad that they have participated. Anyway, so here they are. And let me read the names. Let's give them a big hand after I've read them all. Julia Hewitt, Kaitlyn Hawanski, Alan Gilbert, Deb Bogard, Neha Shulka, Chad Hollister, Mike Close, and Katie O'Rourke. Probably the most exciting thing that I have done since I moved to Worcester 37 years ago is to write this book, The Cow that Tried to Swallow the Potato.  And a number of us, especially Doug Hull, felt that we ought to have one. And I said to myself, no way. This little town doesn't have that much history. Long story short, after four or five years of research, 350 pages about Worcester, Vermont, with another volume hopefully on the way within the next few years, you never know. Especially if you tell us some of the stories that you have hidden away. So this is one of six books, actually, that I have written. And I write niche books. When I see a need for a book, I work my way into writing it. So my most recent book is a book that I'm sure you will search for quickly after I read a couple of excerpts here. It was in view of the 75th anniversary of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, in Cameron County, Texas. Yes. And an excellent book, really. It was very good. Because Julia Hewitt had a hand in it. But it's my joy to read just a couple of excerpts from this book. Because I think most of you have it, but if you don't, I just happen to have a few extra copies available in the writer's tent. So this book is anecdotal, basically. I love local history. I've been involved in local history for years and years. I developed a curriculum on local history at Cabot School where I taught for a number of years. And so this book really reflects the soul, if you would, of Worcester, Vermont. So just a few excerpts real quickly. And Chad is going to give me a signal when I'm near the end. You all know Tom Lang, right? Most of you know where he lives down here right across from Balsam. That house is probably the oldest house in the village. It was built by the Hutchinson family back in the 1820s. Elias Hutchinson was one of the men who lived in that house. He had business in Montpelier on September the 19th, 1833. Notice had been given in the city that blasting would take place on the ledges behind the first state house. Since construction of a new state house required the ledges be removed. Ample Warning was given to seek safety, but 33-year-old Hutchinson apparently was either unaware or disregarded the warning, trusting to his own skill to keep out of harm's way. The explosion took place and sent fragments of rock flying in all directions. He saw one coming directly towards him and started to run, keeping it in view, but he had not gone far before it struck him with such force as to knock him to the ground. Those who saw him fall hastened to his assistance, conveyed him to a house nearby, and it once summoned medical aid, but all efforts for his relief were unavailing and he expired in great agony a few hours after receiving the fatal injury. And that is from a newspaper article. This document is printed in its entirety in the appendices. He's widow, Eunice, appealed to the state legislature for some relief a few months later, and after considerable squabbling among legislators, I can't believe they would do that. Where's Averham? Hey, tell us that's not true. She was granted an unspecified sum. Mr. Hutchinson may have been the only person to lose his life at the state house, although many Vermont citizens have surely been injured there. I love little cuts like that. Sometimes I get carried away. And here is a little anecdote about a man whose name is not disclosed, but who is a resident, drives the Worcester stage, I know that immediately identifies him for you, caused abundant amusement in County Court Friday afternoon. He fell asleep in his seat and did justice to his 250 or more pounds by using his snoring apparatus to its limit. He fell asleep in his seat and carried on like you would not believe. Finally, the nasal exuberations he emitted took precedence over all the other proceedings. The sheriffs wrapped on their desks for order in the court, but the sleeper slept on and only gained in strength and volume in his efforts. Finally, the scene became so embarrassing to the neighbors of the snore that they punched him in the ribs until he awoke, thus brought the concert to a close. Okay, let's go to two more real quick. I love this story. This happened up on the hill, up on the handshore hill, Chad. So this was a story about the Howison cabin. The windows in the house had been, this is in 1922. The windows in the house had been boarded up for the winter months, and the very first night the family went there to spend a weekend in the spring. The very first night they went there, one of the Hampshire Hill inhabitants who I was told had just gotten out of Windsor prison decided he would break into the house. I haven't any idea what he was going to do. And this is from the words of Thelma Howison Healy, who experienced this experience in 1922. So anyway, that night I woke up and my mother had her lamp out on the end of a big wood stove, and she talked low to me, babes, you keep quiet and don't you make a move. Don't talk and you stay where you are. I was in bed and I knew something was wrong and I did exactly what my mother told me to do. My brother had gotten up in the meantime and I heard my mother tell him to stay quiet and stay still and she would take care of it. In the meantime I heard the screech sound of a board being pulled off the north window in the parlor facing the mountain. Then my mother shot out over the top of the window using the little revolver she had. The shot went right over his head. I can remember to this day the sound of his feet as he ran across the front lawn where the stone ledges run under our house and I could hear this hollow sound from his footsteps on the ledge as he ran off down the road. My mother immediately got dressed and in a couple of hours in inbroke daylight and we had breakfast, then she said to my brother and myself, we're going to track that man who ran down the road.   So she shot at these pails that were hanging on the side of his barn. I think there were five and she hit each one with a ping sound. Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. I just stood there. Then I remember her saying, now mister, you can see I can hit my target if I want to. Don't ever let me see you around my house again or you will get the same treatment as the pails. We never did see him again around our house, either. That really happened. Worcester women are tough. One last little anecdote here. And this is one of my favorites. Brad's center, a well-known character who's still living around here. I think he's in Montpellier now. He actually gave us our first sign that's still out there on the road a number of years ago. He had a friend by the name of Ferd Fedora. And they were town scallywags. They were some characters. One evening he writes, Ferd and I were bored.  The problem was we honestly didn't know any dirty words. After being sent to the store for a package with a plain brown wrapper and finding out it wasn't a box of cookies, we were told not to mention that word to anyone. So we derived, Kotex would be a perfect word to lay on our town. In our high-pitched pre-... Yeah, our early voices. We yelled Kotex while running down Main Street. After a couple of attempts and no responses, we gave up. Come over to the writer's tent if you want to talk a little more, and we've got some extra books over there. Thank you, Chad. Have a wonderful afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. This is ridiculous articles. What was... ordinary normal... Okay. Here's one more. A non-core performance. Harry Dodge. Harry Dodge? How many know Harry Dodge? New Harry Dodge. Good. Harry Dodge was born in 1909. Reardon Gould Hill. While in high school at U32, his grandson, Christopher Dodge, recorded a number of his grandfather's interesting stories. If you know Gould Hill, you will appreciate this tale. It was a nice March afternoon. My father had just gone to work. He had said earlier that he wanted to get rid of that old pug, a one-horse sleigh that was sitting in the back of our home. My brother and I decided to take the pug for a small ride. We got dressed and dragged the pug to the top of the nearby field and took off the shafts, the part of the sleigh that connects the sleigh to the horse. We started to slide down the hill. Remember, this is on top of Gould Hill, near Dugerot. If we had planned our trip correctly, we would cross the property of many of our neighbors. We wanted to end up in the lowlands by the north branch of the Winooski River. We had gone about one-half mile when we came upon a stone wall fence. The wall was covered with a few feet of snow. This was between the road we wanted to cross and us. Needless to say, we could not stop the sleigh so we had no choice but to jump the stone wall. I told my brother to duck his head and I did the same. We crossed the wall and took off into the air like a bird. We touched down with a crash and kept going. We heard a ping noise and my brother asked me, what's that? I replied, that was the top strand of the Richardson's barbed wire fence. We kept going and heard the noise again and I knew that we had made it into the lad's fence. By this time we were on level ground and headed for another stone fence. Again, we hit and landed 10 feet up in a tree. The seat went over our heads and into another tree. We landed with the sleigh on the ground. That same minute the seat landed in front of us on the ground and split into many pieces. Luckily, we were not hurt. We got out of the mess and I said to my brother, no problem in getting rid of that sled. We went home and stoked the fire. Thank you. Thank you so much, David. How about a hand for Mr. David Buck, aptly titled David Buck. You get that? Is it right? So I want to just put a huge thanks out that I did not do in the beginning. We'll be doing it all day, but to our sponsors because with an event like this, you got to have some money. And the beautiful thing about this as well is that each artist, often pretty much all the time when there is an arts fest, you need to pay for your booth. And then you hope that you make money to make back what you paid. At this arts fest, because of the grants that we received, each artist is receiving an honorarium. He's actually getting paid to come and sell their art. That's cool. So the reason that that is, is because of our sponsors, Ben and Jerry's, Community Bank, National Life Group, the Washington Electric Co-op, Wyndham Foundation, the Worcester Historical Society, and the Vermont Arts Council. Could we give them a big round of applause, please? Yeah, thank you. So we appreciate their support. And also, as I was driving home, I was driving somewhere and I looked and I saw these signs that were just, you know, meet the artist, see your friends. The 10th of June, it starts and ends Worcester Arts Fest. And I just, we all giggled because we had no idea who did it. None of us had done it that were on the board. We were like, oh, that was, you know, that, no, that was, but it was Mike Meninger did these signs. We just want to say thanks to Mike because we had no idea. But that was, it was just so genius and kind. And we were just trying to raise awareness that this thing is happening in everybody's backyard. So anyway, wonderful. So, Avram, are you set? Okay. So you recognize his name, certainly he is a legislator. I've met Avram and supported him throughout the years as he has spoken for us in the legislature. And a very kind human that cares about community. And so it's a, I've seen him in, at gigs in Morrisville. I've seen him just hanging out at the dump wanting to talk to people. Who does that? Who wants to spend more time at the dump? Well, Avram does to be able to get to the community. I think it's beautiful. So please welcome to the stage to sing and bring you some stories of the songs Avram Pat. So, I am going to sing a couple of Yiddish songs. Yiddish is the language spoken by most of the Jews who lived in Eastern Europe and who were the source of the largest by far immigration of Jewish people to this country starting in the late 1900s and the early part of the 20th century. And it's my first language. I grew up speaking Yiddish. I didn't start learning English. I'm told till I was in kindergarten. And kids that age really don't know that they're even learning another language. But we spoke Yiddish at home. So it's my mama lush and my mother tongue. And the, I didn't want to say before I start into what I'm going to do that this morning when I was pulling clothes out of a drawer to get dressed there was a drawer with t-shirts in it. And usually I just take the next t-shirt that's in line. The next t-shirt I'm not going to open it up because it has some holes in it now. But the next t-shirt in line which I decided to wear was a t-shirt. A great t-shirt that says in big white letters Worcester. And we moved to Worcester in the late 1989. And I believe at the next town meeting the first town meeting that I went to the Worcester Historical Society was selling these t-shirts. And this one is still more or less in one piece and I decided to, I decided, yes, I'll wear that. I'm not going to open my shirt right now because it really has a bunch of holes in it. But someone wants to see it later if you can. So over time I've been one of the only people speaking Yiddish in the state of Vermont although when I first moved to Vermont in 1970 I discovered that there were in fact in some communities in Vermont people that went back a few generations that spoke Yiddish including in Barry, in Rutland, in Burlington, maybe a few other places. But those people are gone. And so there's very few of us now that do speak Yiddish. I've made a point of trying to stand up and do Yiddish things at different places including in the legislature where we have a devotional every day when the house starts. And I've sung actually both of the songs that I'm going to sing today. And also in a different venue given a short talk on the incredible devastating power of Yiddish curses. They're not like curses that you know that are two word curses, one of which is an obscene word. They're not, they're worse than that. So I'm going to do these two songs. The second song is one that I will ask for your help to sing. This one is an uplifting song about hope for a better world. The words are by a beloved Yiddish poet named Avram Reisen. He wrote poems for people of all ages. A number of his things were set to music. So I'll give you my translation first. I'm going to sing this now you'll leave the new song. No matter how distant the time of love and of peace is, it will arrive whether sooner or later. That time is not a dream. I hear the song of love and joy, of mighty voices singing and every note of the song announces the sun has risen. The fragrance filled with hope, good cheer and striving in the air you hear a voice calling to spirit, power and life. No matter how distant the time of love and of peace is, it will arrive whether sooner or later. That time is not a dream. I hear the song of love and joy, of mighty voices singing and every note of the song announces the sun has risen. And every note of the song announces the sun has risen. The fragrance filled with hope, good cheer and striving in the air you hear a voice calling to spirit, power and life. No matter how distant the time of love and of peace is, it will arrive whether sooner or later. That time is not a dream. No matter how distant the time of love and joy. No matter how distant the time of love and joy. No matter how distant the time of love and joy. That is another time. Wow, that's a lot! I'm going to do something different, though. This is a song that I would ask you to help me sing with one word. To do that, No, that's a fact. That's a first. It's one syllable, two letters. All right. Okay. Oi. Okay. So, oi. Oi can is a, it can be said as just as an exclamation. Oi! You can repeat it a few times to just sort of let it sink in. Or you can add a second word, oi vei. Vei means pain and when you say oi vei, that's really an expression of misery, of miserableness. And so, this is actually a children's song. I am told that it was the first song that I ever sang as a very young child.  Oi!   Oi, my head hurts. Why a little apple?  And that's the logic of this song.    Oi, my foot hurts. Oi, my stomach hurts. Oi, my stomach hurts.  Oi, my stomach hurts. Okay, so in order for you to help me sing, I'm just going to ask you to sing the word oi when it comes around in this song. In order to do that, I want you to start thinking about things that are really upsetting to you right now. Making you miserable. Okay, I want you to just keep it to yourself. Just think about things that are really a problem in your own life. Maybe it's your health, maybe it's your job, maybe it's your family, maybe it's your neighbor's dog. I want you to be thinking about things in your own personal life that are making you miserable. And attach that to the word oi.  Whether it's political, whether it's in Montpelier, whether it's in Congress, whether it's Donald Trump, or climate change, or whatever is really worrying you. I want you to add that and layer it on top of everything that you're thinking about that's wrong in your own life and your own surroundings. I want you to think about that and put that into your oi. Okay, so every time the word comes around in the song, I'm just going to raise my hand like this and give me your best oi. So let's practice, okay? One, two, three. Oi! Okay, that was pretty good. But we need to add one other characteristic and that is in Yiddish the word is kechts.  Oi! Okay, that's right. So try it one more time. Okay, we got it. So here we go. The song is going to start with an oi and you give me your best oi every time I raise my finger in the air. Ready? Oi! Thank you very much and enjoy the rest of the day. My hand for Mr. Avram Pat. Songs and the stories behind them. Beautiful. So we're going to have a little, it's pretty awesome here. We are running a head of schedule and let me tell you, if you look at your program, please be sure to get one there. There are friends circulating around with them and in a little bit, we will have Werner John playing some Native American style flutes. So that will be happening at one o'clock in just a few minutes. So we'll have some music here and come on back to hear Werner John and please visit our wonderful artists and hear the stories behind what they do. Great to have you. Happy Worcester Arts Fest, everybody. Music coming soon. Thanks. They keep it going here and Werner John has been living in the Worcester area for about the past six years, but for 35 years has been a self-employed entrepreneur and certainly welcome you to visit his amazing tent over there. Many of the flutes that you see over there were made by him in Worcester, Vermont. And he's going to be playing some Native American style flute today and giving you some of the stories behind them. And so please welcome to the Worcester Arts Fest stage Werner John. So these are my flutes. They're made of cedar and other softwoods so that I don't even need a lathe. I can do it in a very small space. Program going here at the Worcester Arts Fest, the very first annual. Well, we're not going to say annual. I think we might do it every couple years is the honest answer. These festivals are a lot of work. I've been a part of many festivals, but I've never helped plan one. I don't know how many I'll do continue planning, but there I honor the people that do them because there's so many, so many helpers that made this, made this day happen. And of course this day cannot happen without our artists and our musicians. My name is Chad Hollister. I am a full time touring musician, much like many of the fathers, mothers and siblings of Worcester, Vermont. We realized as I Katie and I moved here with a six month old Riley Odelia who's graduating next week from high school that being a musician was was pretty normal here in town. So it's great. Now next up we have the Purple House Trio and we have we have Rowan right here on the fiddle. We have Tenzo on the cajon. And we have Meila. No, wait a minute. You're not Meila. No, of course, this is the amazing Michael Close. Meila is not feeling well. So Michael is gladly filling in. And when you hear them, you'll understand why I say gladly. And it's just great to have the Landis Maranello family here today. They're playing fiddle tunes and by the Landis Maranello siblings. So please give a warm Worcester Arts Fest welcome to the Purple House Trio. For the Purple House Trio. My special guest Michael Close and thanks to Rowan on the fiddle and Tenzo on the cajon. Boy, it just continues to amaze me and amaze me and amaze me even more. Upcoming we're just going to take a little breather here. But within just a couple of minutes we're going to get Joe Hoensky up here who is going to be performing on the ood. Do you know what an ood is? Well, you're about to learn. It's an amazing stringed instrument that has a beautiful, beautiful tone to it. So we're going to do that. You can see happening out there brewing. You can see some young Irish dancers out there that are going to, they are coming from the Garrett School of Irish Dance and be accompanied by amazing musicians one more time. So all kinds of wonderful things coming up here. Alan Gilbert are amazing local authors coming. Sarah Bell is coming. Michael Close is going to do some stuff as well. Let's see, let me just check here. I think there are a few more minutes. Rick I believe is still in the town hall recording some stories and poems if anybody is interested in doing that. But more music to come. Stay here, right here at the Worcester Arts Fest. Food, art, music, beautiful. Thanks for being here. Alright folks. So I was learning a little bit about the ood. The ood is a Middle Eastern instrument. Joe was schooling me a little bit on it. And this one has eleven strings, two, four, six, eight, ten. And then the low string is just a single string. So you think about guitars like say the mandolin that has eight strings, two strings each whereas the sixth string guitar just has one string. So it's a very specific instrument. And it also is a very quiet instrument. So we're going to do our best to mic it up. But during Joe's set if you can just really try and listen in. And we'll, Josh here. By the way, this is Josh Kneebling from MSR Sound on the sound today. I have a hand for Josh. So without further ado, Mr. Joe Hoenske on the ood. Mr. Joe Hoenske on the traditional ood. Come on out. What a specific sound that is. Just takes you over to another place. Thank you so much, Joe. So we've got some amazing Irish dance and music coming. And we're going to get that to Alan and get our stage ready. Make sure that they're not going to fly off of it. And stay tuned because it's going to be really exciting. Amazing things. And then I see Alan right here. Amazing author who's going to be reading. And just so you know, Rick Egren, our local poet, is in town hall right behind us. And if you have a story, that dog definitely has a story. If you have a story or a poem that you would like to record, Rick is doing that. So if you have that, go and visit him. And if for some reason you don't get to do it today, we'll find a time for you somehow. Okay, thanks. More music to come here at the first annual Worcester Arts Fest. Thank you. Without further ado, we're going to continue the Worcester Arts Fest program as it were. And it's really fun to see some familiar faces in this band. My bodyguard, Dan over there, he protects me wherever I go. Hire him at the Barry Opera House. No way he hires me. No way, I don't know what we do. But we have the band one more time. And the Garrett School of Irish Dance. I'd like to introduce Garaleesa to let you know a little bit about her crew. And then off we go to Ireland. You're going to show you a collection of dances and tunes from different parts of Ireland and different parts of Irish dancing history. So you'll see some really contemporary dances and you'll see some really old dances and everything in between, old style, new style. So sometimes we might introduce them and sometimes we might just do them for you. We have had a couple of last minute changes to our roster. So we're just going to be rolling with it. And we're really excited to show you a lot of different things today. So thank you all so much for being here. And I'm going to bring out my dancers for their first dance. The footwork with the music. So this is a set dance, which means that these steps were designed to go with this particular tune. This is a tune by the name of Maggie Pickens. And the dance also goes by the name Maggie Pickens. So we're going to show you just a few steps and give you some of that tune as well. Based on the dance called Rakes of Malo, which is a very traditional Kayley dance. And a monthly Kayley classification changes a bit. And we're taking the summer off. But if you're interested, you can check out our website or our Facebook page. As far as potentially there might be a one more time Facebook page coming soon. Who knows? But the Garrett School of Irish Dance will publicize if you're ever interested. Or you can come find me after and I'll write your email down if you're interested. Alright, so here comes Rakes of Malo. These hard shoes have actual, the Irish equivalent of a tap shoe. But tap shoes have metal. Hard shoes these days are made of fiberglass actually. The tips and heels are fiberglass. And they make designs to be percussive. So the steps that you're about to see are treble jig steps. So the very first number we did was a jig, but we danced it in soft shoes. And now we're doing a jig. So musically it's the same type of tune. But we're going to be doing it in hard shoes. So the steps we'll be doing are pretty traditional. They're old. And there you'll see some hard shoe dancing that's a little bit more contemporary. So this is a treble jig featuring some two of our dancers who have just learned hard shoe for the first time this year. So we're going to, this dance is a little bit of a performance and a little bit of a demonstration of one of the strategies that we teach percussive dancing. Because it's so important that you're learning the rhythms while you're learning the footwork and what your body needs to do. And so we often do a call and response strategy like you might need when you're learning music. And so you'll see some pieces of that in this dance as well. So here's the treble jig for you. The arts festival for having us. We're really thrilled to be here. Thank you so much. Some more time in the Garrett School of Irish Dance. Wow, that was incredible. Thank you so much. Everybody welcome to the very first Worcester Arts Fest here in Worcester, Vermont featuring Worcester artists. Sometimes we headed a little bit outside, especially with our friend Elizabeth that has introduced so many Worcesterites to the art of Irish dance. It was wonderful to have this crew here today. So as we continue to move on, I just want to put a huge thanks out because he has arrived. Julia Hewitt, one of the members of our team, has let me know that the gentleman that created the beautiful signs to make sure that everybody knew right up until today that the arts festival is happening. Mike Menenger is here. Where are you, Mike? Where are you, buddy? Yeah, thank you, Mike. We were talking about how we were trying to figure out who the heck did it in our crew and it was none of us. It was you. So thank you for your creativity and adding to our arts fest and helping folks know to come on down. So yes, ladies and gentlemen, David Book off the road with Van Halen. Come on. Artists in Worcester then are here today. Get the word out. This is not a gimmicky thing. This is the real Worcester right here. We want to expand our outreach in years to come. There are a couple of people, for example, that I know who are not here because of their health and I just want to recognize them even though they're not here. I want to let you know that we know that Sylvia Wooster and that Newell Shownia are known artists here in Worcester and are in poor health. So we send out a tribute to them. And thank all of you for coming. This has so far been absolutely spectacular, I think. Good job. Good job. That's David Book of the band Foo Fighters. Just keeps changing. That was one of my favorite things. I'm a Dave Grohl fanatic and I was listening to an interview with Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins. They're a drummer that passed away this past year and it's a huge loss to the rock and roll world. He was saying, they were doing this interview. He said, tell them about the Saturday Night Live thing with Christopher Walken. And he said, okay, all right. So Christopher Walken was hosting. No, they were the band. And Christopher Walken was hosting. And he came to Dave. He said, so Dave, he said, so what is the emphasis on? Is it Foo or the Fighters? And Dave said, you know, thinking to himself, he said, there's not really an emphasis on anything. It's just, you know, but if you had to put emphasis on it, it would be on Fighters. So Christopher Walken comes up on the stage, ladies and gentlemen, Foo Fighters. And they just bust it out. Obviously, I think this is much funnier than anybody else ever will. My wife, Katie, has had to listen to me say this over and over again. Foo Fighters. Anywho, more cowbell? Anybody? More cowbell. Yeah. So we have an amazing local author, Alan Gilbert, coming up just in a couple minutes. So stay tuned and more music and poetry and authors coming your way to the very first Worcester Arts Fest. Thanks again. I want to underline just what you're going to be hearing a lot today. Our sponsors today that made this whole gig possible, we were able to pay our artists and we also encourage you to buy their art as well. Is Ben and Jerry's Community Bank, National Life Group, the Washington Electric Co-op, Wyndham Foundation, the Worcester Historical Society, and the Vermont Arts Council. Stay tuned here. Welcome. Thank you.


I'm going to speed through pages. I Don't know if I'm going to exactly get one done a day. I'm going to try for that. We'll see I don't think that's actually going to be super manageable all the time But I'm going to do pages pretty frequently I've got a number of journals that I started either last year in 2016 or a couple of them in 2015 They really just need to be finished now So we're going to start with this one and then we're going to continue if you're watching this in a later video. I Am going to link all of these videos in a playlist. So I will put the playlist link in the description below So check it out So here we go. We're going to do some journal pages. We're going to do some quick speed-throughs We're going to try to finish up some old journals and fill them up so I can get them out of my space, right? Are you with me? All right, let's go Don't forget to check out the video description for that playlist link Links to any of my Facebook groups Links to my Etsy shop if you want to support my channel by shopping at my Etsy shop I do have a tip jar link that is also in the description below If you would like to support my channel by just sending me a tip. I don't have patreon. We use the tip jar instead and My happy mail address is down there if you want to ask me a question Leave it in the comments or you can email me if you'd prefer all of that's in the description So check it out. Don't forget to Make some art have some fun and go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys


This is stock number 112A2. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2019 Ford F-250 Crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel. It has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Silver spruce metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you want to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one comes with the 18 inch chromed alloy rims. Really nice condition on there and they have Goodyear Wrangler all-terrain adventure tires. These are LT27570R18s and they got right around half the tread left on them. This one does come with a ready lift two inch leveling kit on the front here. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck and the front fender is in excellent condition as well. No dents or dings on there. It comes with a worn custom front bumper and heavy-duty winch on there. It is a synthetic grille and I really can't tell you exactly the winch properties because you can't see them, but that's a worn product on the bumper there. Grille is in an excellent shape and that hood is in perfect condition as well. No dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender is in excellent condition too and the passengers side rim no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and that is why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right-hand part of your screen. It'll link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get a pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here, all you got to do is drive the truck, love it, you'll be all set to go. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and you can see the frame and underbody on this truck is an exceptionally clean condition. It does have the camper package with the anti-sway bars right there and the frame and underbody is that clean all the way underneath. It has all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way, shape or form that way. Factory chrome step bars, FX4 off-road suspension package also has the chrome tipped exhaust. Rear bumper is in great shape, no major dents or dings on there, and it does have the backup parking sensors. The tailgate is in excellent condition as well. It does have the backup camera and comes with the spring and bed liner and side tie-down hooks. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on the box looks really good and for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Down the rest of the side of the truck looks good. It does have the driver's side door code entry, which we have the code for and get a really good idea of that silver spruce metallic. It's kind of a silver green tint to it. Toe mirrors, you got heated mirrors, directional signals, LED side lights as well, and these are power scope mirrors, so they power fold in. I was like showing that both sides are working and they also power fold out and then they also power telescope out, so you can see that that side is working good and that this side is working good as well. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors, you get power pedals, auto headlamps, and that's for your LED side lights right there. The lights do have to be on. Inside you get the tan cloth interior. There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. They are in a really nice shape. And you do get factory formats throughout. Tilt and telescopic steering wheel. We'll hop inside and take a look at the instrument cluster here. I'll turn the ignition on. You can see that this one has 18,519 miles. You get the digital speedometer, compass display. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Cruise controls and information center controls on the left and audio controls and Bluetooth controls on the right. Six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, turned-out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller. These front seats are heated and you do get these sync 8-inch radio, AM-FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This is also where your backup camera is going to show up and you can actually zoom in right over the receiver hitch so you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time. Factory exhaust brakes, stability control and downhill assist control. You also have your different apps here, including Android Auto and Apple CarPlay where you can project your cell phone to the screen. So if you've got a different navigation system or if you've got a navigation system on your phone such as Waze or Google Maps, you can project it to the screen and then it's like you just have nav on your screen. It's pretty cool. Down here you have all your other climate controls. You also get a 12-volt powerpoint as well as a 110-volt 400 watt plug-in. Dual glove boxes, passenger side floor mat and seat are very clean. No rips or tears on them. And the headliner is in great condition on this truck. You also get six auxiliary up-fit switches up here, map lights, and we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and check out under the hood. Back seats are very clean as well. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to put back here. You get the rear window with the built-in rear defrost and then you do get storage underneath these seats. So this is a collapsible storage bin. I'm not sure. This is probably cabin air filter. Here's the control for the winch on the front and then this container will actually collapse down nice and flat. If you wanted to have a bigger load floor back here. Factory floor mats, carpeting is very nice and clean. You get another 12-volt powerpoint, two USBs, and another 110-volt 400 watt plug-in back here. So lots of power points and everything throughout this truck. And you do get child safety locks on the back doors. The bottoms of the doors all look great. And we'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. See there's no check engine lights or anything. Just that vehicle's on and that the hood's a jar. Everything looks good. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.7-liter power stroke diesel and jamae is very clean runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safe deed and inspected by our server shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been tracked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, halftones, recorder tons, one tons. You name it we got it go to that website right there www.summitauto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.summitauto.com And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash www.summitauto.com Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. Link to more Ford F-250 videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website. 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Now we're training for external lifts or helicopter support teams for the students to actually do external lifts with the helicopters that we have out here. So I personally care with quality of this training, one because myself and my other instructors are under the helicopter with the Marines. So we need to talk about training so they don't hurt themselves or hurt other people. So for the battlefield, this is a great way for Marines to get resupplied. If we have 0-3-11s, 0-3-31s down range in the fight and they need to get resupplied with Chao and ammo, this is a great way that they get resupplied. Instead of trying to push a convoy through a city and get in with IEDs or indirect fire, we can just bring a net load to the burn. The burn can pick it up and bring it to the Marines down in the battlefield to get resupplied for whatever they need.


Securities joins me now to discuss the week that was. In particular, Mark, thanks for your time this morning. Let's talk about these geopolitical risks that we did see, especially towards the end of last week. And now, this morning, another police shooting in the USA, at least three police officers are dead in what looks to be a multiple shooter incident, based, obviously, in the reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement. On top of that, we obviously had that awful tragedy and niece towards the end of last week. And what we're seeing in Turkey, this attempted coup that seems to have been thwarted, although there will be further ramifications, you would think. How are the markets reacting to all of this information? Are we moving back to a risk-off environment, the flight to safe havens? How does that continue, do you think? Yeah, good morning, Carrington. I mean, I think it certainly puts the geopolitical risk back on the radar from investors, which I think we're enjoying a risk-on rally during the last few weeks. Having said that, I guess, the US treasuries, which obviously did close before you saw the real news from Turkey come through, they backed up two basis points, 10 years in the US to 155. And that was around about 15 basis points higher on the week. And that is the worst performance since June 2015. I think you probably see some reversal of that during the next few days, as I think investors just maybe pull back a bit of their risk appetite, just to see the developing, as you say, situation in Turkey and how that does play out. Still a lot of moving parts over there. And I think investors will probably, given where equities are trading at the moment, look to maybe take a bit of money off the table and you may see some profit taken. And also you probably see government bonds, sovereign bonds do particularly well, as maybe there's a bit of a flight to safety coming on during the first few days of this week. We haven't seen yet really the impact of Turkey, in particular, flow through to markets. Maybe some of the FX trading, it flowed through a little bit in commodities trading. Do you think that now that we're at a situation where it looks like the coup has been thwarted by the president, by the ruling party, that it effectively, as a non-event, as far as markets are concerned, or does it just point out the instability that this country is dealing with? This is a NATO ally. It's on the border between Europe and the Middle East, which is obviously dealing with civil wars in Syria and Iraq. Is it now still a live issue? Do you think, how do you think it's gonna be absorbed? Yeah, look, I think the situation is a lot better than it looked initially as we kind of woke up on our Saturday morning and saw the news. And it looks like they've got the situation more under control than was probably originally thought. I don't think this is a non-event. I think it will just put that whole region back on the investor's radar in terms of that political risk. I think you'll just make them a bit more cautious going forward that these risks are around in that region and will continue to be so. I think you'll see a bit of a flight to safety. I think you'll see some buyers of government bonds and probably a bit of safe haven buying in terms of the currencies. Probably see the US dollar a bit stronger and potentially the yen as well as we move out of the Euro. I think as well in terms of how that situation develops will obviously depend on investor sentiment and that will be a key driver of that going forward especially in the earlier part of the week. But the Australian and the Asian markets will be the first markets really to be able to react to the news. And it'd be interesting to see what happens but my feeling is that you'll see a bit of a risk off and safe haven flows coming through on the back of the news out of Turkey. In the UK, Mark, we've seen the new Prime Minister Theresa May try to consolidate her power, if you will, or stamp her authority on the government. She met with Nicola Sturge and the First Minister in Scotland. It was an interesting meeting. I mean, an amazing photo there. There's two women now leading both the UK Parliament but also the devolved powers in Scotland meeting for the first time in their official capacities. Theresa's made commentary I thought was interesting though. She seemed to indicate that she only wanted to look at initiating Article 50 which is the formal step the UK needs to take in order for the Brexit to actually begin for the negotiations to officially start according to the European Union at least. And suggesting that keeping Scotland within the UK was a critical aim for her and that she wanted them to be on the same page before they do it. Does this effectively mean that Scotland does have a veto on the Brexit? Is that what she was trying to indicate? Or does a Brexit, as she had said originally, mean Brexit? Yeah, I mean, I think it's a very fascinating situation and there's been a lots of legal opinion about in terms of what the Scottish veto actually means. Is it legally binding? Does Scotland have to come along with the UK as well? And this is still to play out by as we go through into the coming months. But in terms of the negotiations, in terms of the negotiations that Theresa May wants to do with the trading partners before triggering Article 50, we're still looking even if the Scotland situation does resolve itself and the UK is allowed to actually exit. And there's still legal opinions that says the UK Parliament still has to vote on triggering Article 50 and pass an Act of Parliament. And it's not clear whether that would still go through. And elsewhere, you've got the Labour Party leadership debate continuing as well with some candidates saying, look, potentially they may take it to the general electorate in terms of whether they want to really, on the second thoughts, actually leave the European Union. So there's a lot of moving parts there. Even if Brexit does happen, this is not going to happen until 2018, 2019 potentially. And it's going to be a long drawn out process with lots of bumps and lots of uncertainties along the way. But I think in the meantime, I think investors will probably, UK investors will probably take a bit of comfort that potentially the UK may not actually leave the European Union. Well, and then the timeframe on this is interesting, isn't it? That Theresa May had now indicated, she always said that she wanted to wait until 2017. There is now talk that in order to really stamp her authority on the government, the only way you can do that is by going to the public, going for a general election, calling a snap election as a word. Do you think that that's in their thought process? They have these fixed terms. Do you think they'll take the step of actually going back to the people in order to get a mandate for these negotiations? I think I would be surprised, Clarence, if they did go to a general election in the next six months. I think that, look, as far as Theresa May is concerned, you know, the UK has voted, Brexit means Brexit. I think it's quite right that she's taken her time to kind of get the pre-negotiations out of the way and some kind of formal or informal framework in terms of how these discussions will go forward. And in terms of the key negotiation points that they want to achieve before they trigger that Article 50, because once the Article 50 is triggered, it does set that two-year limited timeframe to get everything else, all the ducks lined up in terms of all the negotiations. So the UK quite rightly will want to take its time to make sure that it is on the right path. It knows what it's trying to achieve in those two years, because as we all know, those two years will pass very, very quickly as that clock ticks down until the formal exit of the UK, leaving the EU, if that is the path that they do go down. And as you say, it's not clear at this stage whether that is exactly the path they'll take. But I still think that the Conservatives will probably and Theresa May will try to keep the government as is with the mandate that she's received from the referendum and try to negotiate as best she can with the various trading partners and the various other legislation, as well as Scotland, without triggering that general election. Let's turn our attention to one of the other points of interest in Europe at the moment, if there wasn't enough. And this is the continuing deterioration, really, in the situation in the banking system in Italy. A huge flare-up of media attention over the weekend, many suggesting that this could be a much bigger risk for the eurozone than the Brexit was, but even what's happening with Turkey as far as keeping them all together on this issue. Where are we at the moment? What are we thinking is the starting point for how this is going to work or the main way it's going to play out, the most likely outcome, versus what are the extremes? Could this potentially bring the financial system, again crashing to its knees? There's always that potential once we start talking about the financial system in terms of Italy and its links into France and into Germany as well. There's all kinds of cross-holdings there. In terms of the specific Italian situation, there's around about 360 billion of bad loans on Italian banks' balance sheets. And I think it's the Daily Telegraph or the Sunday Telegraph in the UK reporting that J.P. Morgan has been given the mandate to try to establish a bad bank, and that will be, initially, have 10 billion euros of capital in that bad bank. And they will look to basically take off around about 50 billion of those bad bank loans off the balance sheets of the banks. And obviously, that means that they're going to be buying those at around about 20 cents in the dollar, so highly stressed and distressed loans. And that will hopefully free up the existing banks to start to make loans again going forward. Now, as we've talked about previously, the really critical point here is whether the European Union will allow such a bail in to take place without, first of all, triggering capital losses on the equity holders and some creditors further up the capital structure, whether that's hybrid holders, subordinated bond holders, senior bond holders. And we did see in Cyprus the extreme situation where depositors also were effectively bailed in as well. So that negotiations are continuing, but as I say, the UK press is reporting that JPMorgan has been awarded that mandate to try to establish a bad bank, to try to clear up the situation there. And hopefully if they can do that, that will prevent any kind of systemic shock to the European banking system, which I agree I think is a bigger risk than the Brexit vote. Mark Bailey, thank you for your insights. Thanks, Carrington. You're going to take a short break here on Mark...


RCA Victor, world leader at radio, first in recorded music and first in television, presents the Phil Harris Alice Faye Show. The enjoyment here is the Phil Harris Alice Faye Show transcribed, written by Jack Douglas and Marvin Fisher, with Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetley, Janine Roos and Whitfield, the orchestra under the direction of Skip Martin, and yours truly, Bill Foreman. First, a word from RCA Victor. Ladies, how would you like a permanent vacation from cooking drudgery? Now I can't promise you a full-time kitchen maid, but I can promise you years of easier cooking with a new RCA Estate Space King range. Whether you choose a gas or electric space king, RCA brings you features never before found in a range so compact. It's only 30 inches wide, yet the enormous oven is two feet across. Insulizer walls keep your kitchen really cool, and the RCA Estate Space King is so gracefully styled with a one-piece top, lovely to look at, easy to clean. 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Well, I've got to go to the beauty shop, and I'm late now. I'll see you a little later. Wait a minute, honey. Alice, well, she really wasn't a hurry. Well, I guess I'll just stay in bed a little while and read. That's what I'll do. I'll just whistle out the wind and tell my dog to bring in the morning paper. Go get the paper, Herman. That's right, get the morning paper. Yeah, yeah, the morning paper. Then bring it to me here at the window. Herman, this is a quart of milk. Now go back and get the paper. That's right. That's right. The morning paper. Now go ahead and bring it to me. Herman, that's a quart of... It's too early, Herman. It's too early, Herman. Now think. Just watch me and think, Herman. I want the morning paper, not the milk or not the too early. Just the paper. That's right. Now you understand. The morning paper. So go get it. Now what have you brought me, Herman? I'm the milkman and tell him to put me down. Hey, never mind, Herman. Never mind the paper. I'll just... Hey, Curling. Hey, Elliot, where'd you come from? I've been waiting in the front room till you woke up. I didn't want to come in too early because I know how foggy and mixed up and confused you are in the morning. Now what's the idea coming in here and making a crack like that? I'm as wide awake in the morning as anybody else. Can't you see I'm dressed? I've got on my bathrobe and my bedroom slippers. Bathrobe and bedroom slippers? Curly, you're wearing Alice's mink coat and two waste paper baskets. Well, they feel so good I may leave them on all day. Hey, if you want to help me, though, you may draw my bath for me. Curly, I didn't mean to upset you. Do you want your bath fixed the usual way? Of course. Okay. Now let me see. Some oil of pine. Now some essence of hyacinth. Some lavender baby breath. And now hold it. Another jigger of that baby breath. And now to add some taboo. Now let me see. Hey, Curly, where'd I leave out? Water. Oh, yeah. That's enough. Now turn your back. Why? Just turn your back, that's all. Why, Curly, I've seen you in your saucy Susie sleeping sack before. Curly, it's not that. It's just that I want to add my secret beauty ingredient to the bathwater. What is it? Well, would you promise not to tell anybody? Yeah. What's your secret beauty ingredient? Adolph's meat tenderizer. Can I think you're wise to try and stay as young as you can for as long as you can? What do you mean? Well, before you got up, I have an answer in the phone and...  Funny how the husband is always the last one to know. What? Wait a minute. What is this? No, no. I don't want to snitch on Alice. Look, Elliot, don't be cute. Alice and I have no secrets from each other. And besides, everything that Alice does is aces with me. Everything she does is all right.  Everything. Well, some guy just called up and said to tell Alice he was free for the date tonight. Everything but fat. Look, this early in the morning, you ain't gonna start kidding me about no guy calling up. Of course not. Gee, now that I see how upset you got, I'm sure glad I didn't mention those other five guys who called... Curly, no. No, Curly. I'm too young to die.  I still got 10,000 words left in my paper mate's hand. Look, Elliot, I don't want you to get the idea that I'm jealous. It's just that a thing like this never happened before. No, no, no, Herman. No. No. I want the morning paper. Now take that thing back. Get out of here with that. Well, wonder how he got that fire hydrant unscrewed. Hey, Curly, he's quite a dog, isn't he? Yeah, but I gotta get him a doghouse. Keeps bringing home telephone booths. But look, Elliot, getting back to you. Now, it's my honest opinion that... Well, them phone calls, they're... Well, it's merely a coincidence. Maybe even wrong numbers. Yeah, that's it, Curly. Wrong number. Hi, Julius. Julius, what's a grocery boy doing delivering flowers? He asked me to deliver this basket of flowers to Miss Faith. Baskets of flowers to Miss Faith? These flowers must have cost at least $35. Mr. Harris, whoever spent them on at least 40 percent. My Uncle HCO's got his own flower shop. Well, you should see some Uncle HCO's flowers. Who wants roses with 12-foot stems? Culture isn't... Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can imagine. He's the one... My head in the sling, but I'm gonna ask anyway.  Yeah. What things I ever heard of... Listen to this. To Alice, you will always be my angel eyes.  Curly, your little lamb chop? Yeah, that's right.  If I can get my hands on him, I'll ruin his paper panties. Lamb chops. Look, this thing is getting too big for me. Where you going, Curly? My dad, when a man's home is being broken up, a boy needs his father. If you're young and hard to be narrow of mind If you're young and impossible schemes You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the same And life gets more exciting with each passing day And love is either in your heart or on the way Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth To be young at heart As you are, it's much better by far To be young at heart And if you should survive to 105 Look at all you'll derive If you are among the very young at heart To be young to 105 Look at all you'll derive If you are among the very young The best place to find dad is out in his hobby shop. That's where he spends most of his time. Hey, Dad! Dad, are you in there? No, no, son. Come on in. Watch it. Just step right over that stuffed alligator. He isn't dead yet. Dad, you ought to tidy up this hobby shop. You've got more darn junk around here. No, no, it's not junk, son. Everything here has a purpose. Well, look, Dad, I'd like to talk to you about something very important. Everything here has a purpose. Now, you take these things here. They're shrunken heads from Africa. They're real shrunken human heads. I put all those little holes in the top of them and make wonderful salt and pepper shakers. Easy to tell the pepper from the salt. He's the one that's smiling. But, Dad, I wanted to talk... Yes. Look, Dad, I don't want to bother you about this thing, but, well, something terrible has happened. Dad, something that's liable to break me and Alice up. Well, son, marriage is your proposition of giving a little and taking a little. Whatever you do, don't be stubborn. Like your Uncle Purvis. Uncle Purvis? There was a stubborn man, son. When he found out the freeway was going through his property, he said he wasn't going to let him. In fact, when those steam rollers came, he went out and told him he wasn't budging. Uncle Purvis did that. Those steam rollers started for him, but Uncle Purvis didn't move. They came closer and closer, but he stood his ground. Like I say, son, in marriage you shouldn't be too stubborn. But, Dad, what happened to Uncle Purvis? You know that long flat carpet we have in the hallway? Well, thanks for the advice, Dad. You're welcome, son, anytime. Alice, did Alice call while I was gone? No, no sign of her yet. I wonder where she could be.  A bottle of ketchup? What for? Well, she might be out with lamb chop. That's pretty funny, huh, girlie? No, no. No, it was not funny. Well, take out my backbone and I'll sag to them. Can't imagine who could have sent Alice that great big basket of flowers. It couldn't have been Marlon Brand, though. He's too young for Alice. It couldn't have been Mickey Rooney. He's too old for her. Maybe by a process of elimination. All right, wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold it a minute. What's the matter with you? What are you doing? What's that for? Well, I figure while you were planning where you'd go to get your divorce, I'd practice my kazoo. Oh, fine, fine. I'm in the depths of despair and you're thinking about your career. It's your career, too. What about Curly's kazoo five? What? Curly's kazoo five. Didn't we just organize them? And we're going to play our first job next week? Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, Curly, I've been thinking as the feature of that engagement, I could play a kazoo solo combined with a recitation. It would be very effective. Something like this. I think that I shall never see. Will you stop it? I'm lovely as a tree. Look, Alice, I don't want to hear nothing about no trees or nothing about no poems or no trees. Now, if you want to know something, I don't like trees. You don't like trees? How can you say that? If we didn't have trees, where would we get the wood for doors? Who cares? Where would we get the wood for furniture? Television sets, station wagons. Who cares? Where would we get the lumber to build cocktail bars? Who? I'll get my ax. I'll go with you. Hey, Curly, don't be so brought down. Even if Alice has met some other man, it's probably all very innocent. Innocent? Innocent. Sure, yeah. Well, I'm getting so stings up about it. So, so silly. Sure. You've got to expect little things like this. Yeah. That blonde hair of Alice's is very beautiful. It would attract any young handsome South American millionaire. I certainly am. A guy that'd be nuts, not how'd he get in there? Well, it's just that there's a convention of South American millionaires from Brazil in town, and if Alice just happened to smile at one of those romantic Latin caballeros, it would be Vox Pastore and Silica Semper Tyrannus Absolutum. What do you mean by that? You may be writing to Alice and care of a banana boat. Curly, you don't want her going to Brazil, do you? No, no, I should say not. Okay, she's coming up the front walk right now. If she were my wife, I'd know what to do. So do I. I'll put a stop to this in a hurry. Hello, Phil. Hello, Phil. Now, don't lie to me, Alice. You've been out chasing around with a tall, good-looking South American plantation owner from Brazil. What? Don't deny it. I can smell the coffee on your breath. You did have a cup of coffee this afternoon. Uh-huh. Yeah, uh-huh. And where did you go after that? Well, to a jewelry store. Uh-huh. Yeah, uh-huh. Went to a store and picked out some lingerie. Uh-huh. Wait for me, Clyde. Alice, how could you do this to me? How could you do this to our marriage? What? Well, our tender love has been like a seed. We nursed it with the warm sunshine of our hearts. We kept it alive through the seasons together. We protected it, sheltered it until it grew. And it grew and it grew. Stop that, will you, Elliot? Wait a minute, Curly. I wouldn't hit a guy with a nest of robins in his hair. Would you please explain what's going on here? Oh, no, no, no. You're the one that has a little explaining to do. Curly thinks you've been running around with another man. Another man? How could I meet another man? Feel the way you watch me. You should have gotten one of those look awards. I'm a little jealous. But look, if you don't want to steam me, baby, just answer a few questions. Just a few questions. What do you want to know, green eyes?  And another thing, why did you go so early? Because I had to take the bus. Why didn't you take your car? Because your car was blocking the driveway. Why didn't you move it? Because it was upside down. You were parked upside down? Well, it looked like rain and it was easier than putting the top up. Now, several men called right here and asked for you. Now, who were they? Well, if you're so snoopy, why didn't you find out what they wanted? Yeah, it would have been easy, Curly. You could have told them you were Alice with a sinus condition. That would be funny. Look, Alice, I want to know who those men were and who was the knucklehead you were getting so pretty for in that beauty shop. All right, Bad 714, I'll tell you. The men who called me this afternoon were Ralph, Bobby, Tommy, Red, Alvino, Pete, Sam, Joe, Marvin, Jack, Bill and Ed. All members of your band. The reason they called was to tell me they were accepting my invitation for a little surprise gathering here at the house tonight in your honor. And the knucklehead I was getting so pretty for at the beauty shop was you. Now what have you got to say? I'll go put a couple more knuckles in the parking way. Now, that explains pardon. But there's just one more little item. You see that gigantic basket of flowers over there? Who sent those to you? Curly, I don't know, Phil. Maybe one of the fellas in the band. Oh, no, no.  I'm going to call Joe the Force right now and find out who sent them flowers. One of my guys, son.  I know. Oh, hello, Joe. Hey, Joe, this Phil Hare. Yeah, Phil Hare, yeah. Who sent that big basket of flowers to Alice Faye today? Who? Thanks, Joe. Alice, honey, why didn't you tell me that it was our anniversary? I thought you knew, Ralph. David, you're the greatest. Who sent the flowers, Ralph? Well, I'm so afraid I'd forget our anniversary again that, well, I ordered them a year ago.  How about the card, Ralph, huh? Well, I know. It was Saturday night, and maybe that's the way I felt when I wrote it. Well, you're nuts, Ralph. You mean? Yeah. Shake hands with a lamb chop. Elliott, what's the best investment a fella can make? That's cinch, Curly. Marry a rich widow. No, no. I mean where you get the most return for your money. Once I thought the answer was Santa Anita, but the... I'm talking about television, Elliott, and the answer is RCA Victor. All right, Mr. Interlocketer, why? All right, you asked me, so I'll tell you. According to independently published reports, RCA Victor 21-inch table model TV outperformed nine other leading makes. Sounds good. You bet it's good. This set rated higher in both distance and nearby reception than all other 21-inch table models tested. I see what you mean. 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Lazaro Montes to 399 green paper for the Mariners that'll be for Mark the board Julian for the Twins Chrome oh that game I remember yeah it was Jacobi Myers who threw the ball backwards in the fourth quarter as a lateral picked off I think it went back to the quarterback right and then Chandler Jones came in scooped up the ball and then stiff arm Matt Jones to the ground and then walked it off with the touchdown there's no willing Sidenio for Tristan and the Padres I need to find a there's a great photo of it there's a foot photo with a great angle of Chandler Jones stiff arming poor little Mac Jones to the ground while running over him for a touchdown here's Jefferson Rojas for EA and the Cubs if that ever turns into an autograph football card or something like that you told you said that's he told your son Myers gone he's gone now do you know where he is now guess where he is now should Kobe Myers assigned a one-year deal with the Raiders I'm sure there'll be a lot of good-natured joking in the locker room from Chandler Jones once they see each other during camp you'll probably never make that play again I thought I felt a plate on the on the back of my hand for a second yeah I mean he Kobe Myers has some it's got some skills the Raiders can use let's let's see they got Devonte Adams and Myers and Hunter Renfrow there's Jason Vena to 150 for Mark and the Brewers if they could find like a real solid wide receiver three or four or something like that I think I think Kobe Myers can be that guy one of those guys can be that guy the Raiders wide receiver room is pretty crowded someone's gonna emerge there they re-signed Keel and Cole I think Philip Dorsett's on the team plus the the receiver they drafted and there is Michelle Desson 150 to 250 purple ray wave for David and the Orioles last box got about 10 or 15 more minutes ago we'll do a quick little recap at the end of this box as well yeah Renfrow had a weird season last year's Scott I think he got he got a concussion that kind of that knocked him out for a couple weeks and then a couple other little injuries here and there and I just think he never really got you know got the season into gear you know I think he was like still stuck in first or second gear never really got out of there there's been some rumors that that he's fallen out of favor with Josh McDaniels I mean Josh doesn't like the entire team that he inherited and he might just might end up trading Hunter Renfrow but and I think that guy deserves I don't think he should be traded he's a tough dude you know he could be that sort of you know that sort of white receiver that Josh McDaniels has had and in his past he could be an Edelman Welker type of player you know sort of fearless over the middle great hands third and Renfrow was his nickname you know the third down you can always count on Renfrow getting open and catching that pass making the play getting the first down so so we'll see hopefully he's healthy this year and gets off to a harsh hot start because Raiders eat him what's gonna happen without in Camara is he gonna be able to play whatever what happened with the legal issue yeah there's some damning video evidence of him getting in a fight in Vase and stomping on some dude my guess is that that whatever happens legally whether he's cleared or not you know I think there's a multiple game suspension that's gonna happen like almost automatically just with just with the video evidence alone they'll just be like three four five game suspension just like that there's Marion Boyd to a Marion Boyd to 125 blue paper so I'm knowing knowing the NFL I feel like that's gonna be that's gonna be a given whether he actually gets I mean do pro athletes get convicted of anything anymore there's Martin Vendals to 499 no it was not a domestic violence situation he was not striking a woman which may actually help him I think it was just a fight at a bar or at a or a club in Vegas or something like that like him and his entourage I think some drunk dude probably came up to him and you know stuck a finger in his face or something like that and was being stupid and drunk and I'm sure Camara's crew was being stupid and drunk and overly aggressive and started pushing the guy around that guy naturally probably fought back and then you know Camara's got an entourage so they're they're probably beating him up and then Camara thinks he has he has to look like a tough guy because he doesn't want to be you know God forbid someone calls him a bee for not striking another man while he's down but you know he then he got in on the action and then I was on videotape and that's what I mean I had no interest in really looking deep into it but I think that's the that's the gist of it yeah well Derek Carr could use Alvin Camara services that's for sure so they better not lose him for too much didn't the Saints draft are running back or did they not that's a good fit for Derek Carr by the way I think Derek Carr was sort of unceremoniously you know dumped essentially at the end of this season kind of I understand why they did it and I think they could have handled that a little bit better for a quarterback that's been not missed a lot of regular season games and was with the Raiders organization for almost a decade I feel like he deserved a little bit more than that but it is what it is but I think the Saints are a good landing spot for him they've got some good wide receivers there right they got Olave they got Michael Thomas there's Nelson Rada to 499 I feel like they have a decent offensive line a decent defense Derek Carr gets to play indoors most of the time he's sort of known not to be struggles a little bit in cold weather situations so he's indoors he's with he's with a former Raiders head coach Dennis Allen so there's familiarity there already familiarity trust professional understanding of each other so I think all that should really help I don't know if I don't know if there's any bad blood between between between the Raiders the between the Raiders and Derek Carr but I think definitely between Derek Carr and Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler I'm sure there is Frederick Ben Cosme to 125 Aqua Shimmer by all accounts Mark Davis has spoken then and now spoken glowingly of Derek Carr I don't think it was the owner decision I think he the owner was just letting his GM and coach you know run the team so I don't I don't know post Derek Carr retirement as long as Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler are there I'm not sure if he's going to be willingly coming back to to Raiders events here's blue paper Trey Turner and junior Kaminaro for the Rays that's going to be for Oren I think after I think after after Dave Ziegler and Josh McDaniels are gone I'm sure he'll show up for Raiders offense you think the Giants made a big mistake letting Tony go Cadarius Tony he's got Tyreek Hill like stats I always thought I actually drafted Cadarius Tony for a couple years in like fantasy leagues because if you remember him and I don't walk too much college but I remember coming out of college Florida I think that he was that he was like just an amazing player just incredibly physically gifted and a really talented receiver that just didn't work out with the Giants whether it was his fault or whether they couldn't get the best out of him I don't know that remains to be seen but we'll see under Andy Reid full season with him there's Spencer Jones right there right well I mean I think Ursa did have more of an influence on the team so I think that's why their relationship is not good with Ursa and Payton but I think I think the difference is I think Carr does have a decent relationship with with Mark Davis I think it's really the coaches and GM's I think you might not be happy with I don't know we'll see here's the recap that was the break ladies and gentlemen nothing too crazy here the nice there's a nice cam colliers of good color I guess we did get some nice stuff Edward Julian got some Drew Jones colored 250 wish there was some ink there but not this time we'll try it next time hey thanks everyone for watching thanks everyone for keeping me company throughout this long break 2023 Bowman baseball jumbo 8 box pick your team 10 in the books I'm Joe for Jasper casewrakes.com and I'll see you next time for the next one bye bye yeah he did have hamstring issues right I don't know yeah I feel like they pulled the ripcord on Kaderi's Tony too early because I feel like I feel like there was I feel like there were some injuries but he's got talent I think when people when he was picked up I think people were like man that this guy is a unique gifted athletic talent you know maybe it was just he just needs to polish up the route running a little bit or something like that something that can be easily coached and I just think the Giants pulled the ripcord on a little too early which was interesting I think with the New York football Giants I know no worries Scott appreciate you you help and fill this break I feel like under the surface of the Giants there's something not good bubbling there I feel like there was a little rumbling with was it Kenny Galladay who I think was unhappy with the Giants and you know there's just something underneath the surface that I feel like they're just balance on a knife's edge could go either way as opposed to like the Jets for example I feel like I feel like they're really getting their S together they've put together a couple smart drafts in a row they've been aggressive in free agency they got their man they got Aaron Rodgers you know so the Jets seemed seemed like the much less dysfunctional football team in New York and I think a couple final thoughts before we call it a night oh you got the feeling Kaderis only wanted out yeah see I think they pulled the ripcord on Tony too early you know I think that the Buffalo Bills that Josh Allen window Super Bowl window I feel like is closing pretty quickly guys are to get older guys are gonna gonna want to get paid etc etc you know there's only so many years where where it's only so many years where Josh Allen can play the way he plays you know it's gonna get injured at some point if he keeps playing like that I mean I think they do I mean think about how many games they lost where even just a a league average quarterback would have turned that game that into a win right they jet started off pretty well but you don't think a league average quarterback would have given them a win here a win there a win there a win there and probably a win there man that's the thing he's made he made some boneheaded mistakes too Josh Allen when he didn't need to yeah I you know and I think this I don't want to say it's even hot seat for the coaching staff but I think there's certainly a lot of pressure on this team I mean we live in a world where where where Mike Budenholzer for the Milwaukee Bucks got fired after a record-breaking season and winning the finals last year I mean that's rough ah today I was the breaking news today Chad Bucks Milwaukee Bucks fired boot Budenholzer I mean listen losing in the first round embarrassing especially when your team you know has set like a franchise record and wins they would have the best record in basketball last year you know I mean yeah Yanis missed a couple of games cut in the playoffs that that wasn't that wasn't Budenholzer's fault right wins the Bucks a championship wins the Milwaukee Bucks the championship for the first time since like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a Milwaukee buck you would think he would get you would think he would get a bit of a longer leash don't you think rough so if that's the world in which we live you know it's not too crazy to think that that McDermott of the bills you know you know they could start looking for you know another coach a different voice in the locker room if they don't think that they they're getting the most out of their team all right gang yeah it'll be interesting to see you know what Yanis is gonna do all right hey you're welcome mr. Cromwell thank you for hanging out thanks for joining the bridge we had some more hits for you in that break but I appreciate you getting in and Scott and everybody anyone else is still lurking and listening in the background thank you very much thanks for helping us out thanks for getting into our brains just thanks for being part of the chat I think Eric Houston was here too thanks for keeping it he wasn't even in the break it was keeping me company I appreciate that Jason Jaspie's on for the next couple nights he's on Instagram right now I think he's wrapping up soon too but he's on for the next couple nights and then I'm back on Sunday and will there be let's see what the Lakers schedule is so they lost tonight they'll be playing on Saturday but so by the time I come back in on Sunday we'll know where the Lakers stand and will they be up to one or will they be down one two in the series we'll see what happens with the Suns and that Celtic Sixers series so we're getting into the good stuff the meat of the basketball playoffs here so thanks everybody have a great time with Jason Jaspie the next couple nights and I'll see you back here on Sunday for the rest of you join Jason Maro


You've received the RFP for the program and you want to connect with the meeting planner and ask some impactful questions But you also want to respect that they are busy people and you want to ask the right questions We're gonna go over a few questions that you can ask your meeting planning client about their RFP today in this week's two-minute tip Tuesday Hey, it's Leanne from LeanneColderwood.com and when you receive an RFP your first Point of action should be to connect with the client and make sure that you understand the parameters of the RFP correctly But these meeting planners are very busy people and they don't have a lot of time to go over answers that they've already included in the RFP so we've got to find some questions that are not in the RFP to kind of get their attention Maybe get them thinking a bit and most importantly let them know that you are keenly interested in this program and want to Dig a little deeper. So we're going to go over some of those questions The first question that I love to ask and so should you is what are the goals and objectives of the program? So your meeting planner should have a solid understanding of this if they don't that's okay But at least you're asking the question about at the end of the day. What do they want to get out of this program? Secondly, what are the demographics of the attendees sometimes your space lends itself towards different kinds of people So find out what kind of people are coming with this RFP? Thirdly ask the meeting planner how they define success for this program This really gets them thinking but it also gives you information on how you can propose the space that would lend itself to a successful program Fourthly is the program more academic in nature or more networking and social in nature You're going to have a different layout that speaks to those two different format So find out which one it is and then you can outline the strengths of your space based on those two objectives Fifthly how often does this group get together? Is this an annual program or is this a quarterly program? That's going to help you with selling your space as well Sixth what has been the most successful format of this program in the past and along with that number seven What kinds of new things are you looking to try with this program with the answers to those two questions? You can again outline the strengths of your property as it relates to those answers So those are seven questions that hopefully get you thinking about how you can approach meeting planners once you get their RFP I hope you enjoyed this week's two-minute tip Tuesday, and we'll see you next time. Bye for now