The signal oil program The whistler at whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The whistler and the whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends, it's time for the signal oil program the whistler Rated by independent research the most popular West Coast program in radio history and Signal gasoline is tops to tops in quality It takes extra quality, you know to give you extra mileage and signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies friendly dealer owned signal stations from Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story The back door it had been a sensational trial also a very strange one If the men in the press room agreed on nothing else They were unanimous in the opinion that the case of the people versus Edward Crane Was the most amazing courtroom drama Hartley County had ever seen The mere fact that now after 51 days in court After 16 hours of waiting for the jury to bring in the verdict these men in the press room were still fascinated Still discussing the pros and cons that was testimony enough Okay, okay, but I tell you what I got a feeling. Yeah, what Edward Crane's gonna lose this case We'll make yourself some dough.  Yeah, that part don't make sense. Does it that never did But that doesn't mean they'll convict him plenty of guys who work in the street today only because Crane pulled a rabbit out of The hat at the right turn there weren't any rabbits in this one ward Funny, but it almost looked as if the guy weren't trying as if he wanted to be convicted Yes, it had been a strange one this story that was coming to its climax after 51 days in the court And although the reporters Remembering Edward Crane's past triumphs had freely predicted surprising developments not one of them could guess even a fraction of the truth The truth was that on that October night some weeks before the opening of the trial Edward Crane had walked into his wife's attic studio with a plan a plan that had to be tried on for size Good evening Ruth. Well, now don't bother me Edward. I'm very busy. I want to talk to you now Just a minute Edward, you know very well that my I said I wanted to talk to you Alright What is it? Perhaps we'd better sit down perhaps we'd better not I have a painting to finish dear and I see by the wall Begone expression that I've come to know so well during the past few months that you're about to ask me again to consider a divorce Now just a minute so I'll save us both a lot of time by giving you the usual answer. No That's not quite all of it this time Oh, I I don't believe I've made it clear why I wanted divorce must we go into that you see I think I know that vanity of yours Ruth, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to see it hurt Go on. I'm hanging on every word Ruth I'm in love with another woman.  How could you expect to keep a thing like that quiet in a town like this? But I thought I'd give you a case history You met her last June at the Jenkins trial took her out for the first time on the 8th of July to the shadows over in Brook Ridge of out of town of course, but not quite far enough Since then you've been meeting her at least once a week at Leonardo's on conference nights How long have you known about this? Almost as long as you have why I don't know I well then let's drop it Now I've been a good girl and listen to you dear suppose you run downstairs to your evening paper and let me work Why are you doing this? Oh Maybe I'm thinking of Louise She's young and pretty There's a happy life ahead of her with someone Maybe I just don't want to see her make a mistake And you are a mistake Edward a frightful mistake. Thank you nothing at all Rude hmm. You still want to take that trip to Canada. Yes, certainly I've been telling you for ages how I've wanted to do some landscapes But I didn't want you to go until I had a chance to discuss this thing with you now that we understand one another Of course now you'll be happy to see me leave exactly. I've begun for seven or eight months. You know I know Hiding out at Renee's Lodge in Manitoba for three months and then West to lose yourself in the glories of the Canadian Rockies You've been reading my mind. I know you pretty well Perhaps but you know Louise as well, Edward She's apt to change her mind Take away the secret meetings in the glamorous restaurants and you're just as monotonous as the next one You know, maybe I ought to visit you'll do nothing of the kind Just a thought when When can you be ready to leave on your trip tomorrow night? All right, but there's one thing I insist on You must tell no one that you're leaving what well, that's the most ridiculous thing. I've ever heard of why I'll have to cancel all my Appointments. I'm addressing me. I'm sorry, but I have a very good reason for insisting That's very strange. Why? I'm afraid people might misinterpret the reason for your going They know we aren't getting along too well and there's your precious reputation Very well, Edward now do run downstairs and let me finish my work Yes, Edward you tried the plan for size and it fits and somehow you're relieved Your experience as a trial lawyer has made you a master at talking of one thing and thinking of another And at the moment you were proposing Ruth's trip to Canada your mind was on something else Somewhere in the huge imposing edifice known as criminal law Big and terrifying from the front, but with backdoors here and they are open to escape One backdoor one loophole in particular That will allow you to murder your wife and go free on the night after Ruth leaves for Canada You decide it's time to call Louise to set her mind at rest We simply have to be patient Of course, but I'm gonna take care of it Louise. There's a way out. Just trust me. That's all no matter what happened Oh, I do trust you, but I don't understand Edward. I don't please don't worry anymore Louise Just leave everything to me With the prologue of the back door The signal oil company is bringing you another strange story By the Whistler, but now a message to drivers To get the tops in performance from your car You naturally want the gasoline that stops in quality and to be sure you're getting the tops in gasoline quality There are just two things to remember one in gasoline it takes extra quality to go farther and Two signal is the famous go farther gasoline You see mileage. Yes, mileage is the best yardstick of gasoline quality After all the only way any gasoline can put more thrilling performance into your car is by helping your motor run more efficiently and When your motor runs more efficiently Naturally, you see proof of it on your speedometer in mileage the very thing signal gasoline is famous for That's why we're so proud of signals good mileage which has made signal gasoline known from Canada to Mexico as the go farther gasoline And it's why we say to be sure of the tops in gasoline quality.  Potter Right this way, but you say you smelled gas just noticed it this morning Where we're going the kitchen. No, but I take a look at the basin first the basement Sure, why not? Oh, no, no, no not the basement. I Think it's in the kitchen. Oh, well, okay. We'll check it after I look at the pipes down. I tell you why What's happened to you anywhere? Nothing Is nothing at all? It looks a pale? You're covered with ashes.  I needed a little cleaning. Oh come Your wife just had me clean the week ago She by the way, mr. Crane Where is the missus? Oh? Well, she Mrs. Crane is off on a long trip. She left the other night Well, we're going downstairs. No, I'd rather not might be dangerous. I said we're not going into the cellar Is that clear? Well, I don't know maybe Maybe not Come on. I'll look at the kitchen stove I Didn't see you yesterday darling. I'd like to make it up to you tonight That's just the point let him talk I'm tired of dodging the issue Meeting you in back alleys and out of town restaurants. It's high time. We brought it out in the open darling I mean it. We're not going to brookridge tonight Louise. We're having dinner right downtown at pierce I'll pick you up at seven now. That's all there is to it now Louise. I insist What's the matter darling? I don't know you haven't touched your steak. I guess I'm not hungry Is that the only reason look at the meddwood? Daring at us like a flock of vultures. No, it's your imagination. I wish it were I know what they're saying to be all over town tomorrow. So what maybe a little gospel convince Ruth Please I don't want to talk about I don't want to hear her name again ever. I'm sorry Louise So am I Come on now. Let's go but Louise. Don't you see darling? I can't stand this another minute. I'm sorry. All right, Louise Let's go You wish you could tell Louise how it's going to be Edward, but you know you must be practical There's only one time for that after it's over After the hue and the cry and the drama of the trial and the retreat through the back door So you take her arm now as the two of you leave the restaurant note with satisfaction the smug faces the staring eyes The heads together over tables in the far corners of the room You don't have to hear to know what they're saying It's moving now Edward a last glance at Henry the bartender tells you that even he's part of it, too Yeah, yeah, that's him now Sampata says crane there has a case of jitters that make new years morning look like a sass brother hangover. Oh Well, maybe there's another reason look crane had been down in the cellar fussing with the furnace Wait a minute Bill you mean that I don't know Maybe his wife is away on a trip. Who knows? Did you see them Richard sneaking out? They know they've attracted attention. Oh forget it Myra I've seen crane around the city hall. He seems to be all right It's all right thing to be running around another woman and where's his wife? How do you know that? Stop dreaming Myra and eat your soup It's building solidly isn't it Edward with each passing day You can almost feel the wall of criticism and suspicion Rising around you closing in almost hear the words of your accusers like the people at the art center I can't understand Ruth crane going away without telling us I should promise to conduct a special lecture on landscapes. Do you suppose that something's happened to her happened? Like what? Oh, I I don't know but she's always been so reliable So punctual with her appointments. It makes one wonder I When I call the plumber Sam I came down to ask you about Mrs. Crane. Oh I've been making a dress for her and she was coming in for the second fitting. I haven't heard a word I don't figure she'll ever be in. What a couple of weeks ago. I was over at the crane place talk to mr. Crane She wasn't home. Well, I didn't talk to her. Let's put it that way And you say I had to have a look at the furnace during the call Mr. Crane acted off For what reason but when I tell you you'll probably say ought to stick to my plumb and mrs. Has But I think mrs. Crane is in that house right now. You do only she She's dead. She's buried in the cellar something You really believe that I certainly do well then this should be an investigation a police investigation Investigation Sam, I'm going to see about it right away Yes Edward the tongues are wagging all over town But you're far from the usual frightened suspect as you learn about it watch the snowball begin to roll It's exactly as you figured it isn't it Edward first the muttering ripening into suspicion The two thriving weeks of suspicion finally materializing into something more concrete Louise come in darling Oh Edward, it's terrible the whole town's against against us Louis for just being together I guess for being in love Edward There's a man on his way here From the district attorney's office really they They don't believe Ruth went away. Now. There's nothing to be afraid of it doesn't matter what they think What will you tell them the truth? Edwin now Louise stop worry Darling Edward did someone I told you not to worry. It's all right You'd better answer it. Yes, of course Hello, Ben. Mr. Crane. This is an official call. I was sent over to have a look around it. What's it all about? I'm sorry.  I'll see here Ben. It's you can't come bust again. Skip it I've got a warrant I Like to have a look in your cellar. What are you talking about? There's no I'll decide that crane Come on. Let's go down there Well Just what are these what? They're buttons They're from an old painter smart your wife's. Yes, you see I cleaned up her studio just after she went away Afterwards I've burned the rubbish in here What about this crane is this some rubbish too, but Well, yes That's a piece of bone and where did it come from? Mrs. Crane is of the realist school. She used it in the painting of still life. You can show us that painting, but I Know if she didn't like it when she finished I'm afraid it's been destroyed. I see This is going to be a little difficult mr. Crane You probably know the talk that's been going on around town Well, I'm afraid we can't ignore it any longer. What kind of people around here seem pretty convinced you murdered your wife Why why that's that and a report from a man? I've had checking on you for the past week makes me think they're right I'm going to have to place you both under arrest both you and Louise Selander and There it is Edward the final official accusation The answer to the weeks of suspicion The gossip and the weeks that follow move even more swiftly from the indictment by the grand jury to the return of a true bill The clamor for a quick trial and the one startling announcement You make the statement that stuns your colleagues brings one of them hurrying to your side Well, hello Waverly Edward what's it all about this ridiculous decision to handle your own case?  They're letting me talk to my co-defendant miss Selander in just a few minutes So if you'll excuse me, all right, Edward have it your way Louise Edward it's also I was the reason you what does that matter?   It's going to be all right Mr. Foreman and gentlemen of the jury The state will prove that on or about the 15th day of December of last year The defendants Edward Crane and Louise Selander With malice a forethought did affect the brutal death of his wife Ruth our witnesses will establish That's right. I was checking the plumbing and mr. Crane acted mighty peculiar the whole time I was there and that's what Supposed to come for a fitting. I never knew her to break an appointment. It wasn't like her at all Yes, Mr. Crane often gave her lectures for us at the art center She had one scheduled for early in January and then I heard someone say objection That's hearsay your honor Objection sustained proceed mr. Prosecutor To you ladies and gentlemen of the jury the state has not proved anything. It's all conjecture hearsay First and I'll clear the court Now mr. Crane will you conclude as quickly as possible? So you conclude Edward without pulling the rabbit out of the hat carefully evading the one vulnerable point in the prosecution's case The assumption that the bone fragments found in the furnace were all that remained of your wife Ruth Yes, Edward their whole case rests on that assumption and that's the way you want it Have you reached a verdict? Yes, your honor We find the defendants Edward Crane and Louise Selander Guilty on all counts. Oh, no Well, please will you ask the judge if I can have a few minutes with Miss Selander in private? All right Crane I'll make the request You tried so hard to convince easy darling don't worry. It's going to be all right Not here. I've asked for a few minutes together. I'll tell you in the judges chambers But they can't go through with it Louise. You'll see they can't go through with it The whistler will return in just a moment with the strange ending to tonight's story Meantime in the interest of public service signal oil company has asked me to bring you the words of the president of the United States On the subject of importance to every able-bodied man between the ages of 17 and 35. I Quote president Truman Today the new National Guard gives every man an opportunity to give that personal service to his country And at the same time to advance himself In National Guard units all over the country thousands of veterans and other ambitious young men are finding the Opportunity to study and learn the things that help them advance in their civilian jobs They are finding the fellowship that is part and parcel of America They are participating in a sports and recreation program that keeps them fit and they are receiving the training that helps keep America strong Those are the words of president Truman. I might add there are still many opportunities for ex-servicemen to enlist in grade Which means even higher pay for one night of training per week Get full information by contacting your local headquarters of the National Guard and remember when you join the National Guard You're benefiting not only your country, but also yourself And now back to the whistler Yes Edward you've reached it at last the back door the loophole and the law that will let you and Louise be together It's over now all the planning the long weeks of the trial and the guilty verdict against you and Louise You're trembling excitedly as the bailiff comes back to tell you that it's all right that you can have five minutes together alone You can tell her now. Can't you it?  She isn't dead at all Don't you see they've convicted us legally, but Ruth's alive. She's in Canada. I sent her there myself But no no wait, let me tell you the whole thing Louise. It's to bring us together She said she'd never give me a divorce and she wouldn't have but I got her to go away I wanted them to convict us. I don't understand you not at all Look Ruth's in the Canadian Rockies She went there after spending three months at a large in Manitoba run by a man named Renee I'm going to have Renee brought here Edward. Don't you see he'll swear. She was alive after the time We were supposed to have killed her with testimony like that. They'll be forced to set us free And then I'll find Ruth and really get rid of her That's what I've been working for all the time dear after once releasing us They'd never try to connect us with her disappearance again Why didn't you tell me I couldn't my dear it had to be this way, but it won't work Oh, I of course it can when my witness gets here. We'll have proof You won't have a witness Edward. You can't Ruth came to see me that night. She was leaving I Killed her at what I killed her So we could be together Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the whistler each Wednesday night at the same time Brought to you by signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure at drive its sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life Possibly your own featured in tonight's story where Willard Waterman and Virginia Greg Whistler was produced by George W. Allen with story by James Irvine music by Wilbur Hatch It was transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service Next Wednesday for a full hour of mystery tune in a half hour earlier Enjoy the same as well as the whistler. It's a CBS for Columbia broadcasting system


I am an alien, a stranger in a strange land. My skin blisters in the sun. The air rejects my lungs. Everything about me screams, and I'm not from here. And yet, here I am, a stranger in a strange land. Such is life, rich in material things, but so poor in culture. I yearn for connection. I yearn to connect to the land, but I'm born of the ghost people. I'm born of the ghost people. I'm born of the ghost people. My culture is sitcoms, and Amazon, and the Brady Bunch, and the birthday song. My culture is Coke is it, and Lord hear our prayers, and Millie Vanilly, and the twisted thoughts of stunted billionaires. I can name more stars in the marvelled universe than I know in the sky. There are more Pokemon I can tell apart than plants I can identify. I yearn to say here, try this, while proffering you a cup. My pops used to make this for me. They'll fix you right up. I yearn to say this is how we do things here, or this is what the weather means, or this bark is good for toothache, or just lie with me and listen to the land. Just lie with me and listen to the land. Just lie with me.  My culture is made of lies. My culture is lies cooked up by addicts ex and suits made by slaves. My culture was strategized. My culture was bastardized. My culture was militarized in the parlor rooms with monarchs, popes, and liars. My culture was spun and analyzed by lobby groups, and think tanks, lawyers protecting their clients, and middlemen chaining up the things that shine and scavenger men. Looking for scavenger means to predate on vulnerable people. My culture is a vulture. My culture is a vulture. I yearn to say this is how we do things here, or this is what the weather means, or this bark is good for toothache, or just lie with me and listen to the land. Just lie with me and listen to the land. Just lie with me. Just lie with me. They lied to me, but you can just lie with me and be free and well.


The challenge of the Yukon The Wonder Dog King, swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs, places the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. The Yukon Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of northwest-mounted police who preserved law and order in the new northwest country where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in spite of the odds against them, Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog King met that challenge and justice ruled triumphant. Old Tom Dumfie had been in the Yukon for over 10 years. By prospecting, crapping, he saved enough to come to Dawson City with $10,000 cash. The Golden Ace Cafe was crowded with noisy miners as Old Tom talked to two men at a table. You see, he wouldn't sell out except we can work two teams. It takes both of us to handle one. Well, that rock sure showed plenty of gold, but I can't give you that much money for it. I just remain gutted. We've got to sell quick. What's your best offer, Dumfie? Well, to tell you the truth, I got exactly $10,000. I'm afraid we can't do business. You could probably take that much out of this mine in a month or less. Well, Dave, come to think of it, that ain't such a bad offer. We don't know any more than Dumfie here just how far back that vein goes. We know there's plenty there, and he don't go get that much money back, but we've gotten away with it. Well, not all them huskies are yours, Dumfie. You could sell them, or we'd be one to take. Oh, no, suree. Them dogs ain't for sale. I love every last one of them. Why, they've been my only companions. $10,000 is awful cheap for that claim. Well, you can take it or leave it. I've been living all alone in the wilderness with my dogs, and I ain't much at bargaining. Now, it's either yes or no. Uh-huh. Are you planning to work the mine all alone? No. The reason I wanted to buy one is because I'm planning to bring Menefie up here. He's alone now that my brother died, and he's a fine, strong young man, and we can work it together. What do you say, Dave? I'm willing to settle it now. We just ain't got the time to find another buyer. Come on, let's give Tom a break. Well, I hate to do it, but good. The mine's yours, Tom. It's a deal. We'll draw up the papers tomorrow, right Menefie, and we'll start working the mine right away. The mine for two weeks. Can't get nothing out of it. Hey, don't understand. Well, I guess ain't no doubt about it. You've been swindler. Swindler? But I dug rock out of here myself before I bought this mine.  It showed up in 1990. Yeah. They saw to it you dug in the right places. Right places? Ain't you never heard of salt in a mine? Salt in a mine? Yeah, shooting gold us into rock with a shotgun, selling it to someone itching to own a gold mine. You mean that them skunks would take a man's life-shaving, cheat him out of everything he's worked and saved for? He sure took off in a hurry, didn't he? They ain't got another claim around here at all, a way to say it. Well, that finishes it. I should have stayed up where I was alone with my dogs. They're the only things a man should ever trust anyway.  Cheech, murderers, thieves. But turn them in all I guess. And I never want to see another one again as long as I live. I'm taking my dogs and going back to the wilderness. And if ever any lying two-legged skunk comes within a mile of me, I'll fill him full of box rock. Sergeant Preston driving his dog team on the trail into Dawson. Hopped as he saw a young man trudging through him on a bypass. Hello, King. Hi there, Huskies. Hello, going to Dawson? Yes, I am.  These are for you. Oh, thanks, sir. It is pretty heavy. Now, this will help a lot. Thanks. Oh, nice to have company on the trail. On, King. On, you Huskies. It sure gets cold out of this country, doesn't it? Yes, but you get used to it. You a newcomer? Oh, I've been here about three weeks. I've had a rather odd time of it. Are you alone? My uncle sent for me. I lived in the States, but when I got here, he was gone. And nobody seems to be aware. You mean he just disappeared? Well, an old prospector told me he'd gone up into the wilderness with his dogs because, well, he'd been cheated when he bought his mine. He simply abandoned it. And me too, I guess. What have you been doing since then? Well, I... I... I didn't know what else to do, so I've been working the mine. I didn't have enough money to get back home, so I figured maybe I could get enough out of it to get me back to the States at least. That ain't like... The old prospector told me about my uncle said there was no gold in it at all. So I started all over again from a different direction. You know, I hit some rock today that looked different. That's what's in my pack. Do, uh... do you know anything about mining? No, little. I see what you found. Here, I'll get it for you. What do you think of it? Well, I'd say you've hit something, son. Do you really think so? Are you sure this is on your uncle's claim? Oh, it's about a hundred yards south of the present opening. You'd better check it at the assay office. And I think I'd better start looking for your uncle. Do you think I ought to go with you? You'll have to stay here and work your mind if you want to keep it. What's the name of the prospector who knew your uncle? I'd like to talk to him. Well, his name's Jed Lumis. That's all you know about old Tom, eh, Jen? Yep. I sure wish I could tell you more about him, Sergeant. But old Tom didn't ever tell me much. Well, you've helped me some, Jen. At least we know he's somewhere northwest of here. He was awful sour on the world when he left. Said he was true with humans. Had no use for anything but dogs. Can't blame him much. Guess the best way to trace him is a trading post. He had to get supplies. When Sergeant Preston arrived at Pierre Levan's trading post in Fielding's Landing, he found everyone in a high pitch of excitement. Round the place. That's what I'd say to do. Here is Sergeant Preston. Maybe he can help us, you know? Push on, Sergeant. Hello, boys. What's all the excitement? Sergeant, we have bad problem here at Fielding's Landing. Crazy man has moved in deserted cabin on Fisherman Point. A crazy man? He's shooting at everyone who's going near his cabin.  How long has he been here? About three weeks ago, he moved in. He's old man. Lives all alone with dogs.  Surround the cabin and shoot him. I think you'd better let me handle this alone, boys. But alone, you cannot do it. Even at night, his dogs bark if anyone comes close and boom, boom, his shotgun starts. Has he shot anyone yet? No. Everybody run other way. The point ain't far from the pass where I go to my tramp lines. And I ain't aiming to have a pot shot taken at me every time I go out to them. Well, boys, give me a couple of days and I'll get him out of there for you. You don't know what you're up against, Sergeant? I need any help. I may call on you. But I think I can handle it. King Harold helped me. Won't you, boy? The next morning, Sergeant Preston sat on a hillside overlooking Fisherman's Point. He watched old Tom Dumpy through a pair of field glasses as Pierre explained the hopelessness of trying to approach him. There, you see? You can get to him from only one direction unless you use both. There is no tree, no cover. He can see anyone who tries to come to him. He sure is crazy about those dogs of his, patting them and feeding them as if they were children. He sure is crazy about something that I know. He hates people, hates anything human. Then why he not go up in mountains somewhere still picking out best fishing point in territory? If I could just get close enough to Tom... You get peppered with buckshot, you try it. I think I figured out a way to do it. We? How you do that? He won't hurt King if he goes in the scene. If King's there first, I shouldn't have any trouble. He loves dog, that is true. Come here, King. Put your paw up here, boy. Sergeant, what you do? I'm tearing my hand. I'm going to put a bandage around his foot to make him look lame. If he goes to old Tom limping, it may give me more time to get closer while Tom's fixing his foot. I know you don't like it, fella, but it won't be on there long. No, King, don't touch it. Leave it on there, boy. He'll bite it off when he leave you. He won't if I turn on too. There you are, fella. Now let's see you walk. Look, look how he limp. Now he tried to bite it. King, now I say, don't touch that foot. Poor dog. See? He tried to understand. Now, King, do you see that man? Down there, boy. Go to him, King. No, don't touch that foot. I know it's tough, old fella, but you must do it.  Down there, go to him. Pierre sat on the hillside watching through Sergeant Cluston's field glasses as the mountain crept down after King, taking advantage of every bit of covering there was. King picked his way carefully as best he could on three legs, puzzled at the strange whim of his masters. As he approached old Tom Dumpty in front of his cabin, the dog sensed the friendliness in the old man in the way he commanded his dogs to be quiet. Oh, now keep still, you scary wags.  This ain't no two-legged vomit. He's just a nice, friendly dog. All right, all right. If you won't behave, you're going into the cabin. Get in there, all of you. Scat now. Scat. There now. What's the matter with your foot, boy? Come here and let old Tom have a look at it. Well, you wait just a second till I get my knife open. We'll have that bandage off in two shakes. Hold still, fella, hold still. Now get this under that knot. There. Well, evolved it. There ain't nothing wrong with your foot. Why in thumb did anyone put a bandage on it? Well, I can't even see a cutter. What's the matter? What you looking at? Hey, you! Stand back here!  Gun Tom, Duffy. Hey, you! Dog, we'll stop you. What? Your exterior's fort. King was obeying orders, Tom. I'm Sergeant Preston of the Royal Mounted Police. I've come to take you back to Dawson. All right, King. I've got his gun. Let him up. I know, old fella. He's over. He's not a bad man, are you, Tom? I don't want to go back to Dawson. I don't trust humans. I don't never want to see any of them again. Your nephew's waiting for you, Tom. And I think you'll find that he'll restore your faith in human nature. He's as fine a lad as you could find anywhere. My nephew? He's anxious for you to get back to help him with your mind. But that mind ain't any good. They salted it with gold and swindled me out of my savings. Funny part of it is, Tom, they swindled themselves without knowing it. Your nephew just got with a rich vein of gold about a hundred yards south of the place you were digging. You were a rich man. Yeah, what? Come on, Tom. Pack up your things and get ready. We're going back. It was a month later when Sergeant Preston drew up in front of old Tom Dumpey's mind. Tom and his nephew were working busy, but stopped as they saw the mountain. Hello, King. Hello, Huskies. Hello there, Tom. Hello, Jack. Hey, hello, Sergeant. How are you, Sergeant Preston? How's the mind coming? Well, we're getting richer, wait a minute. This is one of the best minds in the Yukon. And if here ain't my old pal, King, how are you, boy? You're always glad to see you, Tom. I guess he never has been able to figure out why he had to jump you in Fielding's landing. Well, I'm sure glad he did it. I don't know what I'd do without my uncle. And I'm glad you did it, too, boy. For a minute there, I almost lost my faith in dogs.  Now, anytime he needs a home, Sergeant, that old invitation still stands. He can always live with us. Afraid that day will never come, Tom. I couldn't do without you, could I, boy? These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of WXYZ, Detroit. And all characters, names, places, and incidents used are fictitious. They are sent to you each week at the same time and rate you from our transcription studios. Howlingo speaking, this is the Michigan Radio Network.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to every single one of you, including Daniel Dorado, Howard Yermish, John Atwood, and new patrons. Keep them coming. Remsomnia and David on this episode of DTNS. Roblox comes to the quest headset. This might be the start of a metaverse. Huawei will make 5G phones again. And Scott Johnson talks about the need to change the law to preserve video game history. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt in Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson. Frying under 100 degree heat and the show's producer, Roger. You say that as if we live in different places. Other than the L.A. You're frying under. I am also frying under the heat that Roger is frying under. You're both usually so much cooler here there than here. But today we're all sharing in about a 100, 100. It's just the whole southwest part of the United States. And it's the fraternity of triple digits. Indeed. Oh, Stoic Squirrel says it's 93 in New York. So they're not far behind. All right, great. That. Yes, we have air conditioning, Nick, with a C. OK, we can still complain. It's fine. By the way, Elon Musk started an AI company. Finally, it's called X AI here are the rest of the quick hits. Microsoft discovered that starting on May 15th, threat actors had accessed outlook accounts belonging to around 25 organizations, government agencies and consumer accounts across the United States and Western Europe. The group obtained a Microsoft MSA consumer key. If you know, you know, otherwise just know they obtained a key and were able to use that to forge authentication tokens for other accounts. They were exploiting a token validation issue. It wasn't supposed to work that way. They shouldn't have been able to do it. And Microsoft has since mitigated that vulnerability, terminating the unauthorized access. But they had it at least from May 15th to June 16th. The threat actors are thought to be operating in China. Speaking of Microsoft, here's the latest on Microsoft versus the world, at least when it comes to acquiring Activision Blizzard, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, issued a report against the deal and was pursuing legal action. But Tuesday, both the CMA and Microsoft paused their legal action to resume discussion Wednesday. The CMA issued a statement saying their decision stands as it is unless the deal is restructured. This is likely a negotiating stance that says, we're, you know, against the deal, you might need to convince us otherwise. And we'll see if Microsoft can do it. Microsoft has a self-imposed July 18th deadline to finish the deal without incurring any penalties. Yeah, what a nice discussion about this on the morning screen today. If you want to check that out. Intel has some bad news for you, folks, because I know a lot of you are fans of the NUC, the next unit of computing. But the company says it's going to stop making the NUC. Now, the good news is it will encourage partners to keep making the versions of this small form factor PC. So we may still have NUCs. They just won't be made by Intel. The NUC was first used as the basis for a home theater PC, but really took off when it was established as a compact gaming platform. A lot of people are using it for that now. Intel will stop direct investment in the next unit of computing, but will continue to support existing NUCs that they have already shipped. Adobe today just today announced that its Firefly Web Services now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages, including Klingon, by the way, I found out today. Just today, I found out that also includes important languages, real languages like German, French, Japanese, 20 more, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Firefly, which launched in March with a web interface before being added to Photoshop. This is well before that has collectively generated one billion images, making these two launches the most successful beta releases in the history of Adobe. Well, a group of U.S. senators issued a report asking the Justice Department, FTC and Treasury Department, as well as the IRS, which will make sense in a second, to investigate and prosecute popular online tax filing companies for allegedly sharing millions of taxpayers' financial data with Meta and Google.  The report includes accusations first raised by the markup last November that tax prep companies were using Meta and Google tracking pixels. When you got a tracking pixel, you can collect all kinds of information like a user's full name, address, date of birth, etc. Without needing consent, the tax pixel loads and you can triangulate all that stuff. Tax Slayer, H&R Block and Tax Act all confirmed that they shared data through Meta's pixels, but then removed or disabled it after the markup revealed that it was there back in November. Coming after a man. Yeah. Yeah. And that's a look at the quick kits. All right, let's talk. Let's talk China. Starting in 2019, the U.S. restricted what technologies Huawei could use to make its phones and routers. It said you can't sell parts to Huawei without a license if you are in the U.S. You can't use U.S. technology to sell things to Huawei, even if you aren't in the U.S. Basically, U.S. companies can't sell or license most of their modern tech to Huawei and U.S. intellectual property can't be used in products sold to Huawei. And that's all prevented it from making most of its products. If you've seen 5G phones from Huawei, they're probably made with chips that they had in stock. They had stockpiled a lot of stuff before these restrictions went in place. In fact, that led to Huawei spinning out Honor. If you see Honor phones that used to be owned by Huawei, they just put out a new phone today, but Honor was spun out as a separate company in order to avoid these restrictions. Now, however, Reuters reports that industry sources say Huawei has designed its own 5G chips and is working with China's SMIC to produce them. So these designs don't come from U.S. companies and SMIC is not using any modern equipment that uses U.S. intellectual property, which means it's using older equipment to make these processors. SMIC has something called the N plus one process that can make chips on older equipment that are equivalent to seven nanometer chips. So it's not actually a seven nanometer process. They wouldn't be able to get a hold of that equipment, but they figured out a workaround to get the same performance out of a different, older process. SMIC has then made these chips based on Huawei's designs, and that will mean more expensive chips and lower yields because this isn't the optimum way to do it. So I think it's about a 50 percent yield. That means 50 percent of the chips that come out can't be used. We're talking yields in the millions, not tens or hundreds of millions. Maybe they'll get to 10 million and that makes them expensive. Even so, Huawei is going to have 5G phones and routers with these newly made chips in them, possibly by the end of this year, Scott. Everything you described sounds like the technology version of winging it, trying to make things work, despite all these restrictions. I think it's interesting that the entire point of these restrictions were to stop them from being able to do what they wanted to do with parts and products that come from here. And I understand the initial reasons, all that stuff. I can't get into the minutia on it because it's a lot more complicated than I'm able to comb through. However, the fact that they find, they find a way that whole life finds a way thing. Yeah. Is not that surprising to me. Of course it did. This either meant they go away or they do whatever it takes to make some sort of stand and to be able to have product and make it work. And it's gone so far as to do something that ends up sort of faking the seven nanometer process that everybody else can freely do and they can't, or at least up till now. So I don't know, I find that fascinating that they are this tenacious and that they're that they're this willing to sort of push through these restrictions anyway and keep going and not just fold. And I'm sure there's some there's governmental, cultural and other issues at play that I don't know or understand as to why they're being so tenacious. But I think a lot of people thought when these these restrictions were in place, they was sort of like the death nail and they were going to give up. They didn't do it. Yeah, I keep in mind, Intel does a similar thing. They don't necessarily have a four nanometer process, but they have ways to make chips that have the same performance and they came with a clever naming scheme so that sounds like maybe it's the four nanometer process, but it's not. It may be wrong about the four, but they definitely do that with lower level chips. So it's not unheard of. I think it's a great point that life finds a way. And I don't think the US thought that they would just kill Huawei. I think they wanted to slow them down and they have slowed them down. And this will last a while. But at some point you won't be able to do a workaround to get to three nanometer or two nanometer or whatever replaces. We've talked about photonic chips, possibly replacing this this race because at a certain point, you can't make it any smaller. And so you run into a wall there and will China even have access to that new new level. So this only buys them time for so long. On the other hand, to your point, if you've pushed very smart and very experienced people, which the folks who work at these companies in China are, they may come up with innovative solutions. In fact, they might leapfrog more as law because they're forced into figuring out how to do it in a way that other companies aren't. So it's it's an interesting thing to keep an eye on. Yep. Meta announced that open beta for Roblox on the Quest 2 and Quest Pro and eventually the Quest 3 when that comes out will launch in the coming weeks. If you're like, wait, I thought Roblox was already on VR. Yes, it's on the Oculus Rift, the Vive and the Valve index. And you can play Roblox on the Quest 2 if you connect it to your PC. But this new implementation can run on the Quest itself. So eventually it'll be available in the MetaQuest store. This is not a port. This is not, you know, running it from your PC and viewing it in your headset. However, that means Roblox has some VR content already and it's publishing some experiences that use default players scripts to a Roblox VR library, specifically. So when you get Roblox for VR, you'll have a bunch of things that work really well in VR immediately available to you. You'll also be able to play cross platform. So if you're in the Quest version of Roblox, you'll still be able to see players on Xbox, mobile and desktop. Scott, I've been saying for a long time that if it's not Fortnite or even Minecraft, it's probably Roblox that ends up becoming the metaverse. And here it is native on what is currently the most popular VR headset. I mean, as much as I've heard you say this over time, I've always in the back of my head go, well, it's this is fun to say, but I'm not so sure about this because older gamers, especially and gamers who play, quote unquote, core games, look at Roblox and go, that is the dumbest, weirdest, jankiest kids play thing I've ever seen. And I can't believe even they even exist. And then you find out the numbers it does. You find out the many how many users it has, how much money it brings in. And we're all flabbergasted about it. Even if we try to understand it more, we still don't quite understand what's going on. So I am no longer going to poo poo your idea that this could be ground zero for at least a massive push into the metaverse. And I've said this before, VR chat, another competing product. But nonetheless, a VR based chat room where virtual avatars get to hang out and do stuff is already more of a metaverse than anything meta tried to put out into the world, including Horizon Worlds and their other product. So it does track with my theory, which has always been the metaverse will not come from meta or Apple or anyone else. It will come from some weird corner that no one expected or didn't expect as much to come from. And it will grow from there. So your idea isn't at far fetched anymore. In fact, I'm starting to come around to it. I don't know what step acceptance is, but I'm there. And let's see what, let's see what happens. All right. Yeah, this isn't the moment that Roblox becomes the metaverse. I'm not trying to say that, but this is a step on the way that it would have to take and it is taking it. So I'm not declaring victory or anything, but I am, I am pointing out, hey, on Meta's own equipment, you can use Roblox now. It's not the only open world you can use on Meta's own equipment that isn't from Meta, but it is certainly one of the highest profile ones. It is one of the ones with high usage. It's one of the ones that creates an ecosystem that it doesn't have to manage, that just kind of happens. And it's able to make money off of it. And the fact that Meta is working with it to provide an open beta because Meta and Roblox are both trumpeting this on their various websites means that Meta understands that they they may need to be the place where you use the metaverse, not the operator of the metaverse, which to be clear, Zuckerberg has said before, it's just a lot of people didn't believe them. They're like, ah, open world, blah, he doesn't mean it. Well, maybe he does. Maybe he realizes, you know what? It's going to come from somewhere like Roblox and I should be ready to take advantage of that when it happens. Yeah. And for them to say, I think there was an assumption when when they first talked about Horizon Worlds and showed it up. A lot of people are like, that's not a place that's going to be the metaverse. I'm not sure they meant that to be the place. I mean, they'd be fine if it did and they'd grow it out accordingly. But I think they just needed a use case. I think they had to show something with a virtual half body of Mark Zuckerberg floating around doing stuff so that people could kind of start getting into the mindset of what's going on. I'm not a Meta apologist, but I really do think that's the idea. And whatever takes that form is where their headset wants to be ready for it or their hardware, their services, their store and whatever. The one thing that they don't really they haven't really talked about with this with this deal is up till now with with Roblox primarily being on PCs. There are it's also on consoles and phones and stuff. But on the PC side of it, there is a lot of questionable stuff going on in there. And by that, I mean, you know, I peas stuff taken directly from copyright material put right into the game by players. Things that they are taking a lot of heat for in general. This is a much more not sanitized, but controlled zone on that headset. And I think players should at least know that if they're going to want to go all in on getting a Quest three or something this year, or have a quest to at home and they want to play Roblox in there, just know this experience is not going to be quite what maybe you had in terms of the extensiveness of it on PC. So just know that going in, they're going to have more caps on legal issues and music use and graphical use and all this other stuff. This and this doesn't address any of parental issues, which parents have major issues with Roblox. Forget about all that for a minute. Just know that you might get a slightly watered down experience. And if you do, hey, just plug your quest into the PC and your back in business. You'll be fine. Roblox, I'm more like a roadblock. Yeah. Yeah. Well, folks, if you got a thought about something we talk about on the show like this, for instance, keep those emails coming. We've been getting great emails from folks. We don't always have time to read all of them on the show, but we do read all of them ourselves. So keep them coming feedback at Daily Tech News Show dot com. The Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network teamed up to do a study and find out just how many classic video games are available for you to legally buy, which would be the only way you can legally get a hold of these games and play them. They found out that 87% of classic video games, which basically means released before 2010, are critically endangered in the US. So a couple of numbers to pull out of this study only 4.5% of Commodore 64 games are available for you to purchase in any way in any way that's legal. 5.8% of Game Boy games are available. The vast majority of video game history is not legally available. It doesn't mean it's not entirely available, but it's not available above board. The problem is not the technology. There are loads of options. We're going to talk about a few of them in a minute. You can emulate, you can do FPGAs, etc. The problem is legal. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have a whole know a little more episode about it, makes it illegal to break copyright protection, even for something you legally obtained. So so if you buy a cartridge and you break copyright protection in order to put it on an emulator, you violated the law. I know that sounds crazy, but that's the way the DMCA works in almost all cases. Right. Like I've got I have games. That I've owned since they were brand new in the plastic and I still own them. And the same problem applies to me if I want to emulate it somewhere. It's a weird thing, but that's how it is. The Library of Congress granted an exception to the DMCA for video game preservation, but it's limited. That's important to note. Only preservation societies open to the public or outside researchers qualify for this. All right. So it's not just you and your basement. Access to video games can only be granted to one person at a time and only on the premises of qualifying of it being a qualifying institution. That exemption, by the way, expires next year, 2024. Or this is how the study puts it, quote, imagine if the only way to watch Titanic was to find a used VHS tape and maintain your own vintage equipment, unquote. Yeah. And you had to be a library or a museum in order to do it. And you had to go to the library or museum to get the vintage equipment and play the VHS. Yeah. And the good news is, though, the Titanic is the movie Titanic is constantly being renewed because someone will say, hey, Blu-ray, hey, 4K Blu-ray, hey, digital download, like it keeps getting new formats so you can always get it above board. That doesn't happen with video games, not in the way that these do. It's just insane. Maybe Titanic isn't the best example because it's so easy to find. But think of an older movie that you've had a hard time locating a streaming copy of or even a Blu-ray of. And imagine if that if it was illegal for you to watch it any other way. There is some good news. There's a lot of people who care a lot about this. And if we can make it legal, there's lots of technological ways to preserve games. Open Source Project The Mister can emulate a console, computer or arcade board using field programmable gate arrays, FPGAs. But it isn't actually software emulation. And some advantages include lower latency. That's right. Those are really cool, but they're not everything. You also have companies like Analog. They're making not cheap hardware like the Duo. That thing is kind of expensive, compatible or compare or compatible with what it says is almost every NEC system game ever made. If specs also tout stuff like TurboGrafx 16, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, TurboGrafx CD, PC Engine, CD-ROM, Super Arcade CD-ROM, 1080p, Zero Lag, Bluetooth. That's the zero lag again coming up, cropping itself up. Yeah.  I meant to, I have a little brand new little portable Ambernic device that lets you play just about anything from Game Boy all the way up to PlayStation One on this tiny little screen. The world is kind of a wash with ways to do it. But none of them are necessarily entirely above board. Well, the hardware might be above board, but how you use it might be impossible legally. In other words, a lot of these say like, hey, you you have to have a legally obtained game to use our hardware. Enjoy. And then people go steal ROMs and break the law. Now, that may or may not in reality be a problem because most people don't get caught for copying a ROM. But it's also not the best way to go about 100 percent comprehensive preservation. Right. Roger, you're into all this stuff.  Where do you what's your take on it? The thing is the software is readily available. And I mean, do I do mean readily available? I think what has to happen is that when software developers or even game developers create a title back in the back 10, 20 years ago, a handful of companies open sourced their games when they went when they went under or they just went into receivership so that their games and their legacy could continue to live on through the fan community. And I think it's one of those things that's I mean, I know the laws are an issue, but I think it might be it might be the developers themselves might take a little kind of prescient view site on the content they make and have a way that, hey, if this game ever falls out of popularity, there's a way for the community that is enjoying it to still enjoy it, you know, well past its its use by date. I mean, there are people who have literally was it was it not deep space? There was a 3D deep space shooter that after the French company that produced and published it went under, they three years later, they made it open source and you have a huge fan community that literally has recreated the servers. They update the game. They add mods to it. So they're, you know, there's additional content, but it's all very community based, and it's not necessarily strictly from we made the game. We retain ownership until, you know, the sun burns out. That's a nice thing to encourage, and I encourage it. And I don't disagree with anything you said, Roger, but it's not a solution. First of all, because Nintendo is never going to do that. So you need a law to address things where a large company still exists and has no motivation to go back and open source an old thing because they can't make any money off of it. The way that's what cop. That's what laws are for, is to to to remediate stuff like that. And it also doesn't help all these companies that have gone out of business and you just have a band in where, right? It's like, we don't even know who owns it anymore. That's a real place where the law could help and say, look, if you can't determine who owns it, guess what? It should not be against the law to break the copyright. Yeah, I kind of I totally agree with that. And the thing to mention here is that where we look at video games as a business proposition. And I think we're going to have to start not doing that, at least from a legal standpoint. We have to start looking at it as like film or any other form of art. Older stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. There's there's there's all those rules about time and everything. And we're going to want to work on that and figure out what the best thing is. But, you know, when somebody says we need to restore Nosferatu, the famous silent film, sure. Nobody bats an eye. We're like, yes, please restore it. It's so old. Right. Right. And it used to be a thing people paid for. And then nobody thinks about it now. But it's important to preserve. People still pay for it, but it's public domain. Exactly. And I would say people can benefit from that. If you loved Turrican on your C64, I don't see how that should be treated any different over time as a thing to restore, to keep alive, to make sure is there, even if it's just to study it and know it, not the mass market it. Nobody's going to mass market Turrican. You could you could solve this tomorrow by shortening the length of copyright. I'm not pretending in any way that that's possible for anyone that there's any motivation to do that. But if copyright were half its length, suddenly a bunch of games would be in public domain. And this would not be an issue for those. Yep, I agree. But because copyright in the U.S. is what, 90 years plus the life of the author. So I'm like, yeah. Recently, yeah. So even source could I was thinking, oh, maybe if they could just release this or no, can't do that. And I'll compile it at home. Just that's why I think I think we need to do both. I think we need to pressure developers to do what you're talking about, Roger. Like, hey, if you're not using this anymore, let the community have it. I think that's good. That's one tool in the box. And then we also need to be pressuring for exemptions that that allow for more than just like, OK, with the original equipment in a room and a museum, you can let people play. I'd like that's just that's not going to work real quickly. Redbox announced a new deal with Tiktok. Yeah, Redbox, the kiosk where you rent DVDs. Well, Blu-rays really is going to feature content popular from Tiktok. The U.S. has more than 3,000 Redbox kiosks still at various stations. And the new deal lets brands use Tiktok content to advertise the products or services on the kiosks themselves. Redbox is owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul, which owns Crackle. Crackle's been operating the ads, the video ads that you've been seeing on Redbox if you use these. And so now you'll be able to see some Tiktok videos on there. Why not? I can't remember the last time I saw one of these kiosks. But we've got one in my grocery store. I see it all the time. I've never once used it, though. So yeah, Tom, you ought to go by there. Look, you always test things for the show. Yeah, I might as well, right? Go to Redbox and get like 50 first dates or something. I don't know. First dates is the first thing that came to your mind. I kind of love that. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Regular contributor and friend of the show, Alison Sheridan, wrote in, said, funny, you should mention Lenovo in the context of trusting companies from China and national security during the Tiktok conversation. I talked about how people get very upset and worked up over Tiktok, but nobody talks about the fact that Lenovo is multi-headquartered, one in North Carolina and one in China, but it's, you know, a Chinese company. Alison says, I worked for a very large defense contractor and we went through a long and protracted process to choose a single provider for our computers at the time. It was HP versus Lenovo. We chose Lenovo almost immediately after the decision. But before the contract was signed, Lenovo became a Chinese company, so I'm guessing they were choosing ThinkPads and then IBM sold it to Lenovo. We switched to HP and never allowed Lenovo inside the company. So, yeah, it is a real concern to have US sensitive security things having Chinese made products in it. So it's not just Tiktok. Thank you, Alison. That's great. I love a good ThinkPad. That was a great. I love my ThinkPad. I still have it up there. That's good stuff. Here's another email. This comes in from Laurence who says, hi, Tom and the gang. Important question. Tom is your nickname cool with a K asking for a friend? No, no, it's not. I guess it could be, but it's not. It's a little Tommy Tinker town, everybody. I'm just kidding. I made up. He says, anyway. So I was thinking with all of this threat of deepfakes using AI, one potential use case for blockchain and NFTs is to authenticate any content you publish. I don't know if that's something or something like that exists yet. But if I can have an authenticity NFT associated with my name, I could use it with everything I publish, be it text, videos, audio, podcasts, whatever, when I'm a guest on the podcast, et cetera. That way, if someone wants to verify whether something they found online is really something I wrote or participated in, this token would provide some form of proof. Laurence from Sunny for 24 hours Montreal. I love this idea and I'll bet something like it does exist. But I've always felt like, hey, let's get to the nitty here. It's not about these monkeys. It's not about these apes and how bored they are. It's about did Tom write this thing? Did Scott make that thing? That's what that's worth. Adobe's provenance NFTs are an example of what Laurence talked about. It doesn't do everything he's talking about here, but it's the closest thing you'll probably find out there, which is using NFTs to be able to show a history of who made this and what changes were made to it. So with an image, you can be sure, like, ah, this was manipulated, but I can tell exactly who manipulated it in what way and all of that. So Adobe's been doing some good work on that. I love Laurence's idea of just kind of applying that beyond. I know there's some other projects out there that are similar to this as well. So if you're involved with one of them, send us an email. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. All right, thank you, Scott Johnson. Good to be with you, of course. We're talking about retro games. I feel like maybe you have an entire show divided into retro games. Well, I just made one up today so that we could make this smooth transition. Just kidding. We're 77 episodes into said show. It's called Play Retro, and it is that it's a show about retro gaming. Today we're doing a whole retrospective on all things Banjo-Kazooie and all the games it spawned. This would have been an N64 game. And before you go, wait, that's not that old. It's 25 years old this week, everybody. Wow. 25 years. So it's retro enough for us, and we're going to cover it. So check us out. 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Welcome to the Standard Tick Mill Weekly Market Outlook for week commencing the 28th of February with me Patrick Manley. Policymakers' comments this week will give a real sense of whether the conflict in Ukraine and the impact on energy prices have altered plans for the first approaching March Central Bank meetings. In the US, market attention obviously continue to focus on the Russian military assault on Ukraine and the geopolitical fallout. Sanctions are being ramped up and tensions along with market volatility will likely remain high. This is going to be reflected in the commentary from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell when he appears before the House and Senate banking panels this week. His hawkish commentary following the January Federal Open Market Committee meeting resulted in the market interest rate hike expectations jumping higher with a strong chance of the 50 basis points interest rate increase priced in by financial markets. Let's expect that he will be more cautious this week given the financial market nervousness and this will likely cement expectations for a 25 basis point rate increase on March 16th. Nonetheless, power will continue to suggest that we should be braced for a series of interest rates increases given the economy is performing well and is creating jobs in significant numbers and is also experiencing broad based information pressures. Indeed, the spike in commodity prices makes it even more likely that we will see headline US inflation touch 8% in the next couple of months. Data wise, the February jobs report is set to show another decent increase in employment with the unemployment rate expected to fall back to 3.9% with average hourly earnings rising at a 5.7% annual rate. Business surveys are also likely to rebound following the depressing effect of the Oncom Wave in January and early February. From a technical perspective, the dollar index continues to trade above the 96.20 support. As it does so, we are now looking for a test of the 61.8% retracement of the prior cycle to the downside at 98.25. We also have projected monthly range assistance just above 98. I'm watching for bearish reversal patterns in this area. To engage on the short side, initially looking for a move back into the 96.60 area with further downside extension likely to see us test the 95.60. As always, we want to see that bearish rejection of this level before engaging on the short side. In Europe, the key data really next week will be inflationary metrics. This has still not been incorporated in the recent escalation, obviously, of the Russian current conflict with the EU enhancing broad and far-reaching sanctioning measures over the weekends. This may mean that final purchasing managers' index data will still provide limited information about current events. February inflation release will nevertheless be key for the European Central Bank. It will be the last inflation reading before the important March ECB meeting, and we could move even higher than Prince in January. Petroleum prices have been rising steeply in February, resulting in plenty of potential for energy inflation to have increased further. From a technical perspective, the euro is now testing the pivotal support just above the 111 handle. I'm looking for this area to fail, and while we hold below the pivot back to 112.40, we now look for a test of the important 110 level, which represents 78.6 percent retracement of the prior cycle to the upside. I'm watching the bullish reversal patterns there to engage on the long side. In Japan next week, we have Tuesday, February Nikkei manufacturing PMIs, final estimate for the month, and then the next important data point for Japanese Canada comes on Thursday with the February Nikkei Japan PMI services. Again, final estimate last time out, 42.7 was the print. From a technical perspective, the dolly yen continues to trade around that 115 handle. No decisive breakout. I'm looking for any moves to downside to be contained by the selling trend line support and the monthly projected range support at 113.40. Looking any pullbacks there for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side, ultimately looking for a test of 117.80. At this stage, only a close back through the trend line support of 113 would suggest a more meaningful high is in place, and we'll be looking for a deeper pullback to test the pivot at the 111.20s. In the UK, it's really going to be about Wednesday when we have Bank of England speakers see whether or not they are going to offer more pushback against rate expectations. By Wednesday, we've heard from all nine Bank of England committee members in the space of little over a week. That's interesting in itself, having had virtually no commentary from bank officials in the December-February inter-meeting period. What we've heard so far, including from Governor Andrew Bailey, suggests officials are lagging to continue hiking rates at the March and probably May meetings and been concerned about higher domestically generated inflation, but it's also clear that there is growing weariness about the amount of tightening markets are pricing for this year, which amounts to at least five more hikes. So far, the pushback from policymakers has been fairly subtle, and I doubt that we will change that in the speeches we get over the coming days after all market expectations, whilst steep are effectively providing policymakers with a hedge if it is persistently high inflation. However, the pressure on household incomes from energy prices is likely to result in slower, perhaps negative growth later this year. I also expect that some of the recent pressures on wages is likely to abate now that the post reopening movement in the jobs market likely slows. From a technical perspective, Sterling took out the trend line support. We're now back testing 132.60s. I'm looking for a break there to set up a move down to the Equality Objective at 130. From there, I'll watch for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side, looking for a move back into range at 134. Last but not least, down under in Australia on Tuesday, we get the Q4 current account balance, which is expected to narrow on smaller trade surface and weak export earnings. And then on Wednesday, we get the Q4 GDP, looking for a 3% print there, the reopening bounce from Delta lockdowns, principally led by New South Wales. And then on Thursday, we ran out the week with the January dwelling approvals, looking for a negative 3% print there as the unit spike is likely to unwind. X units should be actually further. From a technical perspective, the Aussie dollar continues to struggle to get a meaningful traction above the 70 to 40 area. As this continues to offer resistance, I'm looking for a move back down through the 1798 level on route to an ideal test of the 6870s. At this stage, only a close back through 7280 would suggest that we're going to trade higher immediately to test trade line resistance at the 74 level. And that concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 28th of February. As always, trade the plan and most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


What's the word, y'all? I can't lie, I've been slacking. I feel like personally, I'm in the dog days at the NBA. We don't even make sense because every single one of these games mattered and we got like 10 games across the league for every single team. So everybody's fighting for standings. But it feels like right now it's hard for me to come on here and watch a game and tell y'all about this game. And then the next day, everything I said about the previous game don't matter because the team looks dramatically different. I'm gonna try my hardest to be more consistent. But here's a video that's an accumulation of a lot of different topics and ideas over the past week or so. We don't talk about that after we talk about a sponsored prize, hit the link in the description down to the prize picks app and use Co-Kinney because you're matching all the deposits up to $100 for new players. Prize picks is daily fantasy that is just you versus the numbers. 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The first thing that's on my mind is going to stay worse. And it's been since January. Well, let me see my day. It is March 18th as of today and they just lost to the Grizzlies. And the last game that they won on the road was January 30th. January 30th was the last time they won a game on the road. That is a mind-blowing statistic for any team, but specifically for a team that is trying to win a championship. Specifically for a team that just won the championship last year. Have you told me a team was on an 11 game losing streak on the road? It would make sense for some teams like the Houston Rockets trying to get victory with Miyama. It would make sense for the Senators on your spurs. It would make sense for the Detroit Pistons. No, this is the Warriors. And after they lost today against the Memphis Grizzlies, they are now the worst-rolled team in all of basketball. The worst-rolled team in the entire association. It blows my mind. They are 29 and seven at the Crip and they're seven and 29. Any place is not to chase them. This is a team that is trying to win a championship. How can it be that they just can't win a road game? Now, the entirety of the NBA right now is struggling at the road. Even the best team in the league or the best team in the conference at Denver Nuggets are a sub-500 team on the road. The only team, shout out to these boys, the only team that's a good road team out West is the Kings. They're nine games over 500 there. But no team is seven and 29. The Spurs ain't seven and 29 on the road, y'all. You know what I'm saying? Are there six and 28? Percentage-wise, who's worse? It don't matter. If I got to do some mathematics to figure out if you're worse than the Spurs, then you're worse than the Spurs. Just offer it. And I keep getting tweets. And I don't even know if these are Warriors fans or just people that care of my opinion. Thank you for that, by the way. Asking me, why can't the Warriors win on the road? And the answer to that is, I literally do not know. I've watched every single one of their games in the past two weeks, I want to say. And there's a combination of a lot of different things, but they're not like, it doesn't make sense for them to only come into play on the road. Again, they are 29 and seven at home, which is the third best home record in the Western Conference. This seems in a plan. And they got the third best home record. So some of the things that I'm watching, it doesn't make sense for this to basically be going for a month and a half, but it is. Now I've heard some people that are intellectually up there when it comes to basketball. Look at the numbers, and look at the luck percentage, the adjusted luck, the boo boo boom. And the Warriors are on the road super unlucky. But even super unlucky going in one out of 11. You know what I'm saying? So it don't make sense. I watched this game against the Memphis Gris tonight. Let's talk about this one. They look very small out there. Geron Jackson Jr. had a great game, 30 plus points. He was stretching them out and he was also putting the ball on the floor, guarding by Jonathan Camighe, small ball lineups to get it right to the basket going over him. The game a couple days ago, Steph Curry had 50 of them things. Ridiculous performance, 50 of them things. Wasn't even a close game. He had to give them 50 and it wasn't close. And in today's game, where he didn't have it on completely, he wasn't the Steph Curry that he's been off season, they don't have a chance. If Steph is not Superman, they don't have a chance right now. So I'm talking to the homies because you know, I be thinking about these things and sometimes I bounce out ideas off of them. Sometimes I'll bounce ideas off of y'all before I bring it to them. But I was asking them on the podcast, why should I give them the benefit of the doubt other than the fact that they just won last year? What about this team has redeeming factors enough for me to believe that they're a legit title contender? And I asked them, am I wild for thinking that? Am I wild even having this conversation with myself? Because remember, this is, this is Steph Curry plates off to drink my green and throughout the history of them playing together, as long as they've been healthy, they've been a contending tight team. Again, they're elite at home, but like, there's not a lot of redeemable things while I'm looking at them versus some of the other teams that they're gonna have to match up against. And I'm not usually just talking about our West. Hypothetically, if they make it out of the West again, and they still got one of the juggernauts out East, they gotta be in the seven game series again. So why should I believe this team that is tied or close to the worst role team in basketball can get it done in the playoffs? Cause you're asking them, no matter what, right now they're the seventh seed and the idea of them getting up to the fourth seed to get home court advantage at least in the first round don't seem likely. It is just three games. It is just three games. But you gotta win on the road to make up those three games, you know what I'm saying? So regardless if they make the playoffs, cause it's not even a guarantee at this point, we're asking them to at least win one game on the road and basically be perfect in the home games. They get every series. That is a lot to do. And even if they are Steph Curry, Draymond, Clay Thompson, one of the greatest trios we've seen ever, this is a lot. It just objectively is. And they don't want to be in the playing, y'all. They were in the playing two years ago and they were the higher seed and lost two games at Mystic completely. So being in the playing for everybody is like, oh, we don't want to do that. But for the Warriors, not so much. Now you could say if you're a Warriors for, hey, right now we're the seven seed in the playing and that means we're going to be in a chase center. Right now we're money at the chase. But still, you don't want to be in this position. If they do win that first game, let's say they stay in the playing, they win that first game.  Everybody's talking about the, oh, get the Kings in the playoffs. Everything's getting the Kings in the playoffs. Everything going to be good. Bro, have we watched the same Kings team? Like, I know they don't have the experience of the Warriors do. The Warriors have four championships with that core and some years that they didn't win, they was in the finals, you know what I'm saying? They have a lot of experience with that core and the Kings basically have nothing outside of Harrison Barnes. But are we watching this Kings team right now? I know their defense is lacklustre at the moment, but they scored with the best of them and they got one of the best home court advances in basketball too. So like it's, I don't know how I can put the Warriors personally. You caught me crazy and I'll accept that. I don't know how I can personally put them in the upper echelon right now, especially considering the big elephant in the room when we talk about the Warriors we don't know about it wins. I'm not even thinking about the rumors that's out there.  Will he come back this season? And if he doesn't, GGs, if he does, I mean we just saw a whole playoff run last season. He was the second best player on this team. So he matters that much. But if he not hooping no more, I just can't look at them and say, oh yeah, we should write them in as a title contender cause I just, I'm watching this team every night. And I just, I'm not seeing it, y'all, I'm just not seeing it. And they're 500 team at the moment. They're 500 team. And again, majority of teams in basketball are about 500 right now feels like, but like, I don't know, man. You let me know what you think about the Warriors. Am I tripping with that idea? I don't know. Next thing I wanna talk about is Lonzo Ball. Give me a couple seconds to talk about my bulls who are now one and a half games above the Indiana Pacers for the 10th spot in the play-in. Friday for the spot to lose to the Milwaukee Bucks in the playoffs. Again, the Lonzo Ball stuff just makes me extremely sad, man. And I'm not just saying that from the perspective as a bulls fan, I'm saying that as a NBA lover. Because if you watched Lonzo Ball in the last season, you saw that he was taking on strides again, he wouldn't go be who they call him, Jason Kint 2.0 or what did Corzimba call Lonzo Ball? I gotta go look it up. Why can't I find the video? Oh, Steph Curb with a 40 inch vertical. That's what he called them. Hey, that video bang though, 2.5 million views. Do you think, Corzimba? He didn't turn it to Steph Curry with a 40 inch vertical or anything like that. But he was starting to take strides for himself. We look at the numbers with him in the projected star lineup for the Bulls, Lonzo Ball, Zach Levin, DeMar DeRose, and Patrick Williams, and Nicola Busavis. They played five games together. They were four in one. They had a net rating of 9.6. It's a small sample size, but they were good. And when Lonzo Ball and Alistair Russo on the court together, they were causing havoc and Lonzo was in the 98th percentile when it comes to catch and shoot threes. Like, a lot of things were going right for Lonzo Ball. And unfortunately, he has his injury and now he's going in for his third surgery and he's saying his career is in jeopardy.  And I'm gonna say this right here, of course, I'm wishing him nothing but a healthy recovery. Again, not even as a Bulls fan, but this is person to person.  And obviously, as an NBA player, what he loves the most is the game of basketball. I can imagine this YouTube stuff getting taken away from me where I just gotta chill and not do it. Like, this is what I'm passionate about. And Alonzo Ball is gonna have two full seasons, two and a half seasons where he won't be able to hoop.  It just sucks, so get well soon as well. But it got us, me and the homies start talking about this article that we have saw. And I think Baxter Holmes in 19, not 19, what am I talking about? In 2019, he wrote an article named These Kids are Ticking Time Bombs, A Threat to Youth Basketball. And this was a story, a write-up about, well not, man, not Jesus right now, but about AAU and the culture around it. And basically you're saying that, hey, these players be going into the NBA and they already got miles and miles and miles in their body because they're doing AAU tournaments on the weekly basis. And it's not just one game. Some of these AAU tournaments is like four games in a day and they're doing this all the time. And it feels like, and it feels like in a lot of cases you need these tournaments to even make a name for yourself so people can know who you are. So even if you wanna go the route of just chilling, I don't wanna play five games this weekend, coach, you can't really do that and get your name out there at the same time. So these kids are coming in, their bodies are developing, they're putting all this wear and tear in their body, they get to the league and, well, they are already like, and you're four to NBA careers are rookie because they got so much time on it. So I'm sure we're gonna have an entire debate and conversation about that, but it just boils down to like, these boys have been hooping for so very long. I can't say that that's the reason Lonzo Ball got injured, obviously, but it's just unfortunate. And I don't know, bro, because again, I'm a parent, right? So I always try to think about it from a parent's perspective. If my boy told me or my girl told me they wanted to run or play AAU, how would I feel about it? I can't say, nah, you good, and like, no, we wanna save those leagues until you 20, knowing that the, even if they play AAU, don't mean that they gonna make it to the league. So it's like, I don't even know what to stand on I played AAU when I was a kid. Now, it wasn't this intense. I wasn't on the high levels like Lonzo Ball and those type of dudes, but I played in my fair share tournaments and it was like that. Also wasn't playing the full games like some of these dudes we play. We also didn't have mix tapes when we were nine years old because I played from 10 years old to 12. So we didn't have mix tapes back then, but I do have a team picture and I don't know where any of them dudes are nowadays. Not a single one of them. I can tell you what one of them is doing. I hope they're doing fine. Couple of quick hitters, I do wanna say I've loved them what I've been seeing from Jabard Smith Junior over the last couple of weeks. The energy is like that. You know what I'm saying? You hit the game winner. He's talking to the camera. He's talking to people. I love somebody that can get emotional moments like that because if you look at the way his career has been up to this point, it's been underwhelming for sure. But in the last couple of weeks, he's looking like the guy that they drafted third overall and I'm loving that it's coming around for him. Oh my God, with the 76ers win today, we just updated the 76er to two seed now. Look at that. Joel and Bede on an absolute tear. I'm just saying, bro, we made the video about the MVP race earlier this week. I'm gonna make another one, but it's about as close as it's ever been in my lifetime. And I'm loving it. Joel and Bede is out there killing. He said in his interview today that he could play make more, but that's just not his role. Which makes sense.  Come on, man. But like, it makes sense. I would say his playmaking has gotten dramatically better throughout the course of his career. Something we talked about about a year and a half ago where he sees it going, he's doubles and he had the where with all is at the where and to make the right pass and stuff like that. And people, I saw people tweet the clip of him getting double team the other day and he threw it behind the rim or whatever. He has become a plus playmaker, but it's just not part of his role right now. So I cannot believe that they took the two seed. I mean, the Boston Celtics have been kind of existing for like a couple of weeks now. Let's be real. They're five and five in their last 10. And I wanna look at where they at since the All-Star break. Cause I think, you know what I'm saying? Tatum came out the gate after the All-Star break and he was struggling. It's the All-Star break. They are seven and six. Is that right? That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Seven and six, they're All-Star break, which is slightly above 500. That's not very good. And then some of those games, we talking about 20 point blown here, 20 point blown there. I turned off this game against the Jazz today, thinking that they had it wrapped up. They were up about seven with two minutes to go and they listened to this basketball. I should know about it. But like I turned it off because there's Celtics and it's Jazz, and Jazz is missing this player here, here. So that's a Chris Dunn. Happy to see you back in the association. I turned it off. They got a notification clutch block Walker Kessler and they lost the Celtics lost the game. And right now they're looking league average and a lot of the stuff since the All-Star break. And some people are saying, oh, they're just bored.  But I just hate that idea. I hear it all the time about like good, very good teams when they start to slump. Oh, they just bored. They'll be all right. And yeah, in some cases you're right. You know what I'm saying? Everting goes through the ups and downs of the season. But like at what point do we stop looking at somebody going through a down and say, this is something to be concerned about. I don't know. I'm not saying to be concerned about the Boston Celtics either. I'm just saying for some people it should be worrisome and some people maybe not so much. I didn't realize it was that bad. And I actually don't even know if this accounts for tonight's game. They might be seven and seven since the All-Star break, which would be literally 500. So yeah, something to just watch closely. Just watch very closely because, well, the 76 is whoever, whoever ends up getting the two seed. I cannot say.  But whoever has a two seed, once these two teams go against each other in the second round, it's gonna have that game seven if it goes to them. And I think that's kind of a big thing.  Cause I'm saying that they're gonna make it, right? Both of those things go make it to the Conference Finals in another team. That's gonna take that away. That's under that. You know what I'm saying? Cause the two seed gonna go against the play-in team. I trust the 76 and the Celtics versus all the play-in teams right now. Then the three seed is gonna go against the six seed. Who has of right now is the Brooklyn Nets. I trust whoever the two to three seed is. So those two teams probably gonna go against each other in the seven game series and whoever ends up as that two seed is gonna have that game seven at home. And the Bucks showed us last year that you do want that game seven at home, man. You do want that game seven at home. So yeah, it's important. All right, so enough talking. I'm gonna try to be better. I keep saying that, but I mean it this time around. We just gonna be chatting about hoops and some of it gonna be rambling, rambling. Most of it's gonna be rambling, but to deal with it is.