A very good evening to all our friends and welcome to the Hindu News Analysis of Shankar IAS Academy for the date 6th December 2020. First of all, Shankar IAS Academy would like to thank all of you for the overwhelming response which we have received from you guys towards our programs. And we are also happy to share with you about our pre-stoming 2021 program, that is the prelims test series for upcoming UPSC preliminary examination 2021. Shankar IAS Academy also started the admissions for the second test batch, and this will start from 11th December 2020. Our pre-stoming program is India's first full-fledged artificial intelligence supported preliminary test series. All the required details are provided in the description box and also in the comment section. Please go through it. With this, let us start our news analysis for today. The relevant news articles taken up for today's discussion from five different editions of the Hindu newspaper, along with our page numbers are given here for your reference. Also the handwritten notes in the PDF format and timestampings for all the news articles taken up for today's discussion is given in the description box and also in the comment section for the best interest of the viewers. Let us start with our first news article. Now this news article talks about quantum computing. We will try to understand what is quantum computing and also how it is different from classical computing. The syllabus relevant for this analysis is highlighted here for your reference. Please go through it. First with an example, let us see how classical computing works. See most of us would have done an online transaction and we often see statements like the transaction is protected by 128 bit 256 bit encryptions. So what is this encryption? See every online transaction which we make with another person is protected so that a third person cannot read it without the permission of the two people exchanging the information in the first place. So this process is called as encryption of data. For example, the first person say Alice sends an encrypted message to the second person say Bob. How can Alice ensure that only Bob has the key to the core which she has set and a trespasser say Kate cannot intercept or open it. For this assume that Alice sent a trunk or a suitcase to Bob with a lock on it. Now Bob receives the trunk and locks it for the second time with his own lock again sending it back to Alice. Now Alice removes her lock and sends the trunk back to Bob. Now Bob can unlock the lock which he had put and open the trunk to see the secret message. Thus while the transaction took place in full public view only Alice and Bob were able to read the message which was inside the trunk. So in layman terms this is what encryption means. In normal computing the lock in the above example means a mathematical problem. So Alice may use two big numbers and multiply them and she may use this product of multiplication as lock. Similarly Bob will also set his own lock. So if Kate wants to open the lock she must solve this complicated problem involving very big numbers. So this is very difficult task because if the numbers are large enough the problem becomes very difficult to crack for a classical computer. So we can say that it would take the classical computer exponentially large time to guess the numbers in order to crack the lock. So most of our online transactions are generally safe from fraud. To further protect the transactions banks keep a time limit for completing the transaction as well as a limit on wrong password entries. But with the advent of quantum computing the realities are going to change. So what is quantum computing? See quantum computing is an area of computing focused on developing computer technology which are based on the principles of quantum theory. See quantum theory explains the behavior of energy and material on the atomic and subatomic levels. So in quantum computing we will be dealing with subatomic levels. In case of classical computers that we use today they can only encode informations in bits that take the value of one or zero. This restricts their ability. But quantum computing on the other hand uses quantum bits or qubits. Quantum computing harnesses the unique ability of the subatomic particles that allows them to exist in more than one state that is a one and a zero at the same time. So remember in classical computing it is either zero or one but in quantum computing it can be even both one and zero at the same time. And this empowers quantum computers to handle the operations at speeds exponentially higher than the conventional computers and at much lesser energy consumption. So now the question is can a quantum computer solve the mathematical equation of an encrypted data? In the first example we said that the classical computers needs exponentially large time to guess the numbers to crack the lock. The answer is yes for quantum computer. And with the help of quantum computer the regular encryptions can be decrypted so our transaction will not be safe. So a new encryption has to be devised which will be difficult even for the quantum computers to decrypt. And this is what we call quantum cryptography. Now that cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications using codes so that only those for whom the information is intended can read and process it. And today's news article says that the IIT Madras Professor Shweta Agarwal is working in this direction. She works not just with quantum cryptography but also with past quantum cryptography. See past quantum cryptography is a field which deals with additional possibilities offered by the quantum system which goes beyond being able to break the mathematical codes. So with the recent developments in modern cryptography not only we can create locks on information so that even quantum computers cannot break them but we can even design the locks so that the information inside the locks can be manipulated without even opening the locks. So in this discussion we saw what is quantum computing and how it is different from classical computing. We saw what is meant by encryption and also about quantum cryptography. So with this we'll move on to the next news article. This news article says that astronomers have discovered a galaxy NGC 1052 df2 in 2018 and another one NGC 1052 df4 in 2019. The article says that the second one did not contain as much dark matter as expected. So in this context let us discuss in detail about the dark matter and dark energy. The relevant syllabus is displayed here for your reference. Please go through it. First of all let us understand some basics. See for the first 150 million years after the big bang there were no galaxies or stars or planets that means the universe was futureless and as time passed the first stars formed and stars collected into galaxies then galaxies began to cluster together that is they formed groups and those clusters are made up of the galaxies and all the material between the galaxies and then clumps of matter in galaxies smashed into each other and then the planets in our solar system began to form around our sun. So there should be something to hold our solar system galaxies and the cluster of galaxies together and this glue is nothing but the gravity. In some clusters the space between galaxies is filled with hot gas that can only be seen with x-rays or gamma rays. Scientists look at these gases and measure how much gas is there between the galaxies in the clusters and by doing this they discovered that there must be five times more material in the clusters that we can detect. Now how about the undetected matter? See the invisible matter which we cannot detect is called as dark matter. The Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwiske was the first to use the term dark matter in 1930s. In many ways scientists know more about what dark matter is not though they do have a few ideas about what it could be. See dark matter possibly could be brown dwarfs or failed stars that never ignited because they lack the mass needed to start burning and dark matter could be white dwarfs that is the remnants of cores of dead small to medium size stars or it could be neutral stars or black holes which are the remnants of large stars after they explode. See in the first fraction of a second following the big bang the universe grew at an exponential rate and this process known as inflation is an extension to the big bang theory and helps explain many observations related to the structure and the evolution of the universe. As we know the universe is full of matter and the attractive force of gravity pulls all the matter together. Initially it was believed that the force of gravity would slow the expansion of universe but the observation made by the Hubble Space Telescope proved that the expansion of the universe has not been slowing due to gravity as everyone thought but it has been accelerating. An astronomers theorist that the fast expansion rate is due to a mysterious dark force that is pulling galaxies apart and this is called as dark energy. See dark energy is an as yet unexplained force that appears to be accelerating the expansion of the universe and it is to be noted that the scientists are conducting studies to determine whether the dark energy is consistent with the cosmological constant which is a term Albert Einstein originally included in his equations to counterbalance the gravity. Alternatively dark energy may not be constant that is it is something that changes over the history of the universe and know that dark energy accounts for about 70 percent of the total mass energy of the universe. In contrast to this dark matter accounts for about 25 percentage of the universe mass energy and ordinary matter only five percent. So what do we know about the dark matter? First is that it is dark which means that it is not in the form of stars and planets that we see. Observations show that there is far too little visible matter in the universe to make up the 27 percent which is required by the observations. Now second dark matter is not in the form of dark clouds of normal matter but possibly they are matter made up of particles called as barions. The third is that dark matter is not antimatter. Here antimatter refers to subatomic particles that have properties opposite to normal subatomic particles that is they are the opposite of the normal matter and more specifically the subatomic particles of antimatter have properties which are opposite to those of normal matter. So dark matter is not antimatter because we do not see the unique gamma rays that are produced when antimatter annihilates with matter. See antimatter particles are almost identical to the matter counterparts except that they carry the opposite charge and spin and when antimatter meets matter they immediately annihilate into energy. So in this discussion we saw about the dark matter and dark energy. With this we will move on to the next news. Now this FAQ article is written based on the recent monetary policy statement released by the Monetary Policy Committee of RBI. In this many projections have been made by the Monetary Policy Committee including for the CPI or Consumer Price Index Inflation. So in this discussion we will see about inflation, retail inflation, core inflation and also about the related projections. The syllabus relevant for this analysis is highlighted here for your reference. Please go through it. First what is inflation? See inflation is the rise in general level of prices of goods and services. It is also defined as sustained rise or persistent increase in the general level of prices. If the price of one good or item has gone up then it cannot be termed as inflation. Inflation can happen only if the prices of most goods have gone up. Now this inflation affects all the people as it erodes the purchasing power of the money which results in raising the cost of living and ultimately affects mostly the poor section of the population. Hence inflation is one of the most closely monitored macroeconomic indicators. It is measured using the price indices as they measure the changes over the time. In general level of prices of goods and services and they incorporate its importance in the basket of goods and services. So generally the rate of inflation can be measured using the price indices such as either the wholesale price index or retail price index which is generally the consumer price index. Now know that inflation indicated by CPI is the CPI inflation. As you know CPI is used to measure the changes over the time in general level of retail prices of selected goods and services. These goods and services are those which the households purchase for the purpose of consumption. So these changes affect the real purchasing power of the consumer's income and also the welfare. And know that CPI measures the price changes in a period of time by comparing the cost of a fixed basket of commodities. See here basket refers to a fixed set of consumer products and services which are valued on an annual basis and the basket is based on the expenditures of a target population in a certain reference period. Now see CPI has six components. They are food and beverages, barn, tobacco and intoxicants, clothing and footwear, housing, fuel and light and lastly miscellaneous. See miscellaneous include health, education, transport, recreation etc. Out of all food and beverage have the highest weightage. Additionally know that CPI is used as a tool by the government and the RBA for targeting inflation and for monitoring the price stability. See targeting inflation or inflation targeting is the announcement of official target ranges for the inflation. It is done by the central government in consultation with RBA as a part of the monetary policy every five years. And this is to realize the objective of a stable rate of inflation. See the RBA Act of 1934 provides a statutory basis for the implementation of the flexible inflation targeting framework. And based on this the central government has notified 4% CPI inflation as the target for the period from August 5, 2016 to March 31, 2021. This target has a plus or minus two tolerance range that is the upper tolerance limit is 6% and the lower tolerance limit is 2%. Now keeping these facts in mind, let us see about the CPI inflation projection. See CPI inflation is projected at 6.8% for quarter three of 2020-21. It is above the upper tolerance limit of the inflation targeting that is above the 6%. And for quarter four period it is projected at 5.8%. And this is close to the upper tolerance limit of inflation targeting. Now the fact of CPI inflation above or below the inflation targeting is important because they are the components of the factors that constitute the failure to achieve the inflation target. See these factors are given here. The first one is when the average inflation is more than the upper tolerance limit of the inflation target for any three consecutive quarters. And the second factor is when the average inflation is less than the lower tolerance level for any three consecutive quarters. Now let us come to retail inflation. See in simple words, it is the inflation experience that retail shops retail inflation gives the actual reflection of the price rise in the country. In India, the inflation rate at retail level is given by the consumer price index. And this is because as we have already seen CPI records the changes in price for a sample of family budget items or a basket of items that are representative of what consumers typically spend their household income on. Now when there are frequent or faster changes in the retail or CPI inflation, it indicates that the price of household items are rising quickly. And if this high inflation is persistent, then it pushes several household items out of reach of certain categories of consumers. And these categories include the poor sections of the population, the low income stratum of the society, and even the elderly people relying on a fixed pension. And this in turn affects the family diet because they cannot afford the nutrient rich food. This simply means that the consumption capacity of the society is reduced. If consumption is low, then economic growth will be low. That is why measuring retail or CPI inflation is important as it affects the economic growth itself. Now RBA tackles this inflation by maintaining them in the inflation target. This is done by using various monetary tools such as the repo rates and reverse repo rates. This is the reason why RBA announces whether there is any change in the repo rates in its monetary policy committee meetings. And in the meeting which was recently held, the repo rate has been kept unchanged at 4% to ensure that credit availability remains adequate. Now before projecting CPI inflation and also before taking decisions on monetary tools to control inflation, RBA looks into the core inflation. Now what is core inflation? See core inflation is the CPI which excludes food and fuel. Remember that the prices of food and fuel changes frequently which makes it really difficult to calculate the real inflation. Thus the core inflation helps to measure the inflation after excluding the effects of temporary volatility in prices of food and fuel items. So in this discussion, we saw what is inflation, then what is CPI inflation, what are the components of CPI and how it is used by the government and RBA for targeting inflation. Then we saw about the CPI inflation projection of RBA. And last we saw about retail inflation and core inflation with this we'll move on to the next news article. Now have a look at this question. It is based on this FAQ article which says that the Tamil Nadu government has decided to appoint a commission to formulate a methodology for collecting caste data. In this context, let us discuss in brief about the socio-economic caste census which was conducted in 2011. See census is not new to us. The ancient literature Rigveda reveals that some kind of population count was maintained during the period of 800 to 600 BC in India. And the Artha Shastra which was written by Kautilya or Chanakya in the third century BC also prescribed the collection of population statistics as a measure of state policy for taxation. And during Mughal rule that is during the regime of Akbar, the administrative report that is Aini Akbari also included comprehensive data pertaining to population, industry, wealth and many other characteristics. Now a systematic and modern population census in its present form was conducted non synchronously between 1865 and 1872 in different parts of our country. And this effort culminating in 1872 has been popularly labeled as the first population census of India. However the first synchronous census in India was held in 1881. Since then census have been undertaken uninterruptedly once in every 10 years. Now coming to socio-economic caste census that is SCCC of 2011, it is a study of socio-economic status of rural and urban households. And this FAQ says that caste was among the details collected by the enumerators during the decennial census of India until 1931. Know that the socio-economic caste census has three census components and they were conducted by three separate authorities under the overall coordination of department of rural development. And the census in rural areas has been conducted by the department of rural development. And census in urban areas is under the administrative jurisdiction of ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation. The caste census is under the administrative control of the registrar general of India and census commissioner of India under the ministry of home affairs. See remember these points because it can be asked in our problems questions. Now see the principal criticism against the caste census was that the act of labelling a person as belonging to a particular caste would perpetuate the caste system which our nation is trying to eliminate. Remember that till now only the details of the economic conditions of the people in rural and urban households were released. The caste data collected under the socio-economic caste census have not been released till now and this might be due to the politically sensitive nature of the caste data. For example the data might antagonize the dominant and powerful castes if their projected strength in the population is not as high as claimed. The FAQ also says that collecting and releasing caste data might be important because the Supreme Court has raised the question of high levels of reservation in some states. Its rationality can be explained only with quantifiable caste data as evidence of underrepresentation in services. Such database will also help in periodic review of community wise lists so that the benefits do not perpetually go in favour of a few castes. So here we have discussed about the socio-economic caste census of 2011 and also the points mentioned in this FAQ article. Now see this question. Consider the following ministries. We have four ministries given here. Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Which of the above ministries were involved in the socio-economic caste census of 2011? Here note that the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is not involved in the socio-economic caste census of 2011. So when we eliminate that we can arrive at the correct answer that is option D, 1, 2 and 3 only. With this we will move on to the next news. Now have a look at this question. It is based on this news article which talks about the Great Indian Busted. See the Karnataka High Court has directed the Karnataka State Government to inform about the immediate steps proposed to protect and preserve the Great Indian Busted in its habitat at the Bellary District of Karnataka. So in this context let us see some of the important facts about the Great Indian Busted. See it is one of the rarest birds in the world and one of the world's heaviest flying birds. Its scientific name is Ardiotis negriseps and know that it is the state bird of Rajasthan and this species generally prefer flat open landscapes which have minimal level of visual obstruction and less disturbance. Studies have found that the Great Indian Busted typically uses arid and semi arid areas that are dominated by grasslands having 30 to 70 centimeters of height but its habitat requirements may vary with season and behavior. It is also known to nest in open barren land during the summer and as you can see in this map historically it was distributed throughout the western half of the India and was found in 11 states but in the last three decades the species have disappeared from 90 percentage of its former range. Its current distribution is restricted to fragmented pockets in six states of India. The largest global population is found in Rajasthan and there are between 120 to 125 birds in the desert national park which spreads through the districts of Jaisalmer, Burmer and Bikaner. Then some 25 to 50 birds are found in Ajmer, Pali and Tongue districts of Rajasthan. All other populations have less than 35 birds each and these populations are located within the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Next know that it is a diurnal species that is they are typically active in the daytime. It is omnivorous which means it feeds on grass seeds, agricultural crops such as groundnut, millet and legumes and also on insects, lizards and rodents. And also know that this species is a desert adapted species that is it is adapted to the desert culture or climate and for this reason it drinks water only if it is available. Now coming to the reproduction of these species see reproduction is slow in this species because the female busters typically lays a single egg or rarely two eggs in a secluded open ground and she incubates without any cooperation from the male buster in the guarding of the nest. So the disturbance to the nesting sites is a major cause of concern that is it is a major cause of egg and chick mortality and this is also the reason why its population is not increasing and there are also threats to these species. Historically it has been hunted as a game bird and it continues to be hunted in our neighbouring Pakistan. Low intensity poaching outside the protected areas still persists within India. Another threat is collection of its eggs for consumption and this is prevalent in some parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. So this directly threatens the breeding success of this species. Moreover domestic dogs of farmers and also free-ranging dogs of villagers have caused serious damage to the nest of this bird. Then unethical photography during the breeding season of buster often acts as a constant source of disturbance and in addition to this severe habitat loss and the alteration over the recent past is also a threat and this happened due to these reasons which include the widespread agricultural expansion and mechanization of farming, then infrastructural developments such as irrigation, roads, electric poles, windmills and constructions etc and also mining and industrialization. And another major threat is fatal bird collisions. See these birds collide with high-tension electric wires, fast-moving vehicles and other human structures in the industrial development zones that are near to the areas where the great Indian buster exists and for this reason they die in high numbers. Now let us see the protection status of this bird. See it is protected under the Schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and it is listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List. It is also listed in the appendix 1 of the convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals or simply CMS and also in the appendix 1 of the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora or simply sites. So these are the informations with reference to the great Indian buster. Now see this practice question with reference to great Indian buster consider the following statements. It is one of the rarest and heaviest flying birds in the world. Yes this statement is correct in the last three decades the species has disappeared from 90 percentage of its former range. Yes this statement is also correct. Then the third statement reads collisions with high-tension electric wires and fast-moving vehicles is a major threat to this species. Yes this statement is also correct. So here we have to identify the correct statement or statements. Since all the three statements are correct the correct answer is option D 1, 2 and 3. So with this we have discussed all the relevant news articles from today's the Hindu newspaper. Now let us move on to the practice questions discussion section based on today's analysis. Now see this first question consider the following statements. Statement 1 reads dark energy is the force that is pulling galaxies apart causing faster expansion of the universe. Yes this statement is correct. Statement 2 reads together dark matter and dark energy makes up 95 percentage of the universe. Yes this statement is also correct. So here we have to identify the correct statement or statements. Since both the statements are correct the correct answer for this question is option C both 1 and 2. Now we have a previous year question which is related to inflation and it was asked in Prelims 2015. With reference to inflation in India which of the following statements is correct. Here option A reads controlling the inflation in India is the responsibility of the government of India only and option B reads the Reserve Bank of India has no role in controlling the inflation. See both these statements are incorrect. It is to be remembered that RBA and government both play a role in controlling the inflation and that is inflation targeting and option D reads increased money circulation helps in controlling the inflation. See this statement is also incorrect since increased money circulation leads to increased inflation as demand increases. So we can arrive at the correct answer here that is option C which reads decreased money circulation helps in controlling the inflation. Here we should know that RBI increases the bank rates and the statutory liquidity ratio etc. in order to reduce the money supply in the market which in turn tames demand and controls inflation. So here option C is correct. Now see this practice question in the consumer price index which one of the following is given the highest weight. Remember as we have seen food and beverages is given the highest weightage and the lowest weightage is given to pan tobacco and intoxicants and now we have a mains practice question which is related to quantum computing. Please write your answers and post it in the comment section. Our feedback will be given in a reasonable time frame. Now we have come to the end of analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion and also the discussion of practice questions. If you like this video please press the like button comment share and do subscribe to Shankar IAS Academy YouTube channel for more videos and updates related to civil service preparation. Thank you.


Hi everyone, happy Wednesday. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and we're coming at you with Jaspy's 22 box Hit Parade and T-Mall mixer. And this is Hit Parade Chairman, which is apparently the highest tier ever, and we've got some autographed kicks in there too, autographed sneaker. So it should be a pretty good break. So there's the one box of Chairman edition, then one box of the Hit Parade autographed sneakers, kicks, and then the 20 box case of the Panini Hoops basketball team all edition. And look at this, all card ships, that's pretty nice. Big thanks everybody here for getting in on it. Congrats again to the winners of spots and those status breaks. And all 30 basketball teams are in. Let's roll it, let's randomize names and teams five into two, seven times each. Lucky seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. There you go. Seven, we got Nancy down to Eric K, couple Eric K's. Once again, seven times for the teams. 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So they're usually just, checklists are the same, but just different, different exclusive parallels exclusive to this set is what differentiates it. All right, so we're gonna do all 20 of these boxes first and then we'll do the sneaker and then we'll close out with the Hit Parade VIP Chairman Edition, which should be pretty fun. I'm very curious to see what we got in there. All right, you can see all the rest of the box on the top camera as well. So there's eight Asia exclusive parallel. I'm not sure what they look like, but I'm sure we'll figure it out pretty quickly. An all-card chip and right out of the gate we got a Zion William, so these must be the exclusives, right? And the dual colored one, nice Zion. So this is second year Zion, but of course, second year Zion will still carry some nice weight. There's Aaron Gordon, Tyrese Maxie, it's a Lonzo ball, there's Tyler Bay, there's Trey Young, and a Tyrese Halliburton, that's pretty nice. Jeremy Lamb and a Steph Curry numbered to 99. Was that other one numbered? Trey Young was not numbered, but this Steph Curry to 99 will go to Gail and the Warriors. Zion goes to Anthony and the Pelicans. And there's a refractor Emmanuel quickly, and it's pretty nice too. He had a pretty solid season, there's Tyrese Halliburton. Nice rookie there for Matt Lieber and the Kings. Jeremy Lamb on the back. Next box, next box. Landry Shaman, we've got a rookie Devon Vassal, legends of the ball, Sanfordi Hardaway, LeBron James, and a second-year John Moran. And that exclusive parallel, that's pretty nice. That'll be for Reuben and the Grizzlies. The LeBron card will go to Eric and the Lakers. Changing his number to six. And the LeCarter Jr., Bradley Beal, and there's our first Lamello. Emmanuel quickly, Devon Vassal to 99 for the Spurs, and they're now playing Lamello.  Have they announced rookie of the year yet? Is he gonna be rookie of the year? Now, Will Driggers was asking earlier, he's got some Lamellos, should he hold? Should he sell? That was a good question, Will. Where are you leaning? I would lean, if you don't need to, you know, if you don't need to sell it right away. If you don't need to sell right away, I would hold on to it. I feel like Lamello Ball seems to be the kind of player that could, I don't know, he's got like an X factor, right? Obviously he plays well, that's first and foremost. He's a good basketball player. And second, there's just some sort of character and charisma around the Ball family. So, there's that added X factor for him. So, I'd hold on to him. So, TJ, happy Wednesday to you two. All right, next box. James Rams, you got Brooke Lopez to 99. Peyton Critchard and Denny Avigia. Karis Leverk, Steph Curry, high voltage. Patrick Williams, Ben Simmons. Remember, all card ships, you'll be getting everything for your team here. That's a cool looking card here. Lamello Ball, nice magazine style insert. Yeah, Will is leaning towards holding, he's so young. I agree. That's the thing about, that's the interesting thing about basketball. These kids really are selected so young. Remember, they're only playing, you know, a year or two in college, right? Or overseas in some cases, right? Lamello's only 19, he turns 20 in late August, right? So, I mean, let's think of, let's think about like Kevin Durant. Like, you know, kind of like you, for his first couple of years, you knew he was gonna be a great player, but it still took a player like Kevin Durant, you know, a number of years before he was the superstar that we know him to be today. There's Thomas Bryant to 99. So yeah, if you can hold, I would. He could be pretty special. I mean, look at Dionysus' first year, first couple of years, and then what he turned into now. There's another exclusive Jaumaran, Asia exclusive Jaumaran. You know, young players still have to learn, you know, adjust to the speed of the game, the length of the season. They gotta start understanding, you know, it takes some time for them to understand, you know, complex NBA defenses that are coming at you, especially if you're primary ball handler or scorer. So he's gotta figure all that out. That takes a number of years.  I know Lamello started off the season hot, but there are some players who are also late bloomers. So that's another thing to kind of spot. If you're looking for, you know, because Lamello prices are probably already, are already pretty high if you wanted to get in on the investing game. But there are always players that you can buy low on and then eventually cash in on them later on. If you like Donovan Mitchell, maybe. Yeah, maybe like Jamal Murray would be a good example. Jamal Murray, first couple of years, wasn't really anybody. I know he's unfortunately injured now, but he's kind of a late bloomer. Oladipo kind of a late bloomer. So a lot of those guys, sometimes it just takes a little time for them to adjust to the league and get on the right team that could unlock their potential. You know, so there's a lot of players to still kind of find some value on. Bam out of bio to 25. It's James Weissman, bam out of bio. And the next box, maybe four packs per box. I could probably open those set of boxes at one time. So with that being said, who do you think the value players could be in the 2020 draft? I feel like any Spurs player, you know, because Popovich could develop any of those youngsters into perennial all-stars, right? So I feel like guys like Devon Vassal or even some of the rookies on guys like Keldon Johnson, stuff like that, you know, players like that, you could probably find some value. Lonnie Walker, so on and so forth. Damien, speaking from a little Oklahoma City Thunder bias, but he likes Alexi Pocosevski. Yeah, see, there's a lot of great bi-low opportunities. You know, like I think Cole Anthony kind of had a slow start to his rookie campaign for the Orlando Magic. He was 15th overall. But there's a player that you could probably bi-low on. What about Sadiq Bey? Had a few nice games. Precious to Chua for the heat. Looked great at times. Tyrese Maxie may be making a name for himself in the playoffs. And if the Sixers go deep into the playoffs and Tyrese Maxie keeps playing some solid basketball, this is another five boxes right there. All right, let's roll, good luck. Now that we got a good familiarity with these cards, we can move a little bit more quickly. All right, so we've got a nice set of cards right here. There's Patrick Williams for the bulls. It's another solid player. There's now playing Anthony Edwards for Minnesota. There's Kira Lewis Jr. 99, flipping over this little mellow ball here. It's all right, he's okay. Going to Matt and the Charlotte Hornets. And we have the even better Silver. Now playing Anthony Edwards, number one overall pick. Going to Anthony. Anthony P with Anthony E. This guy could be really great too. I like dunks from him and everything. That could definitely help his value greatly. All right, nice Tyrese Halliburton now playing Silver and now playing Lamello Ball. More for Matt. And Skyler Mays to 25. And that'll be for the ATL. That's going to be for Daniel. And an autograph, John Collins, Hoops, Inc. auto. Nice, one of the rare autos that you can find out of these sets. And goes to Daniel Katz and the Atlanta Hawks. I like John Collins's game, he's pretty strong. There's AD, he's keeping his number. Danny Avigia could be another guy that could be a nice bi-low candidate. I feel like Injury has hampered his rookie year, but I feel like he's got some potential. Marcus Alden 99. There's a Kongu who played with the Ball brothers in high school. And then I think went to USC for a year. Here's another autograph. That's Fat Lever, old school guy. Old school nugget, Denver. It's going to go to Sean O'Leary. Sean O'Leary. Alex Khrushchev. Is it Tilakina 99? Got a couple right there, nice. Okay. Halfway through this case of Hoops Team All Edition, Asia Edition. Seeing a lot of fun exclusives here. Here comes the other half. Rolled through another five boxes here. So we got about another 20, 25 minutes for the Hoops case. Then we'll get to the real good stuff right back there. The Hit Parade VIP Chairman Edition. And the sneaker. Yeah, going back to Pokusevsky. Damien's saying just think about it. Yeah, seven footer moving the way he does. It gets crazy how well some of those big men can move these days and shoot outside shots as well. We only have one NBA playoff game tonight, which I think will be happening in a couple hours or so. So it's just nuggets at Phoenix. So the Suns are already up a game. Let's see if nuggets are going to try to take one on the road before they go back to Denver. This is a crucial game for them. Nikola Jogic wins his first MVP award. I was watching, what was I watching? I think I was watching Highly Questionable. And when he was drafted, I think in somewhere in the second round, when he was drafted, and I think ESPN was broadcasting the draft. When he was drafted, it was just on the bottom of the screen, just a ticker. Denver Nugget Select. Dot, dot, dot, and it was during commercial. And then MVP. More Suns star. All right, Joe P is here saying that MVP award to Jokic is going to fuel the Suns. But why would that fuel the Suns? Did they think they had an MVP on that team? Come on, CP3 did not have a chance at MVP. Come on, that's just, that Suns bias is just too much now, Joe P.  I think he's great, which the Lakers had him, but I just don't think, was he even close in MVP voting? No, it was Jokic, Embiid, Steph Curry, Yannis, and then Chris Paul. Luka Donchich and Lillard right behind him. Someone gave Derek Rose a first place vote. It must have been the journalist in New York. They're a buddy of Derek Rose's. There's Ovi Toppin. Now, I agree that Chris Paul had a great season. Does make, I mean, look what he did with OKC last year. Look what he did with the Suns this year. Nice tribute insert for Zion. MVP though. Oh, the Rose vote was the fan vote portion. I see. All right, so that Zion goes to Anthony P. Very nice. Well, Danny, to be honest with you, I don't know if the Jazz is really a super great team for this particular year. I mean, who did they end up drafting? Oh, they drafted Udoka as a Buike. So he's kind of a, kind of a by low candidate, I would say. Or maybe not even a by like a stash and see what happens with that player kind of candidate. But for you, you're really kind of hoping you get some big names out of, out of one of those two boxes at the end. Right, right. You can't give the fans that kind of power. The power to vote for the MVP. Because then Derek, Derek Rose might end up winning it. So all the crazy Knicks fans will be like, yeah, Derek Rose. Can't do that. Oh, sorry, Damien.  Who thought Yoke should have won it? Joe P, of course. He's saying Chris Paul, obviously. That, that Sun's Kool-Aid in Phoenix must be delicious. So delicious. I want a taste. It must be so good. I don't think Chris Paul. No, yeah, Joe P was, I never said he should not have won. No, Joe P was saying, should have been Chris Paul all the way. That means Yoke should have won. That's, I think that's what he's saying. I think he's pretending like he didn't. Chris Paul, did he, where was Chris Paul on the top five? I think he was top five. Yeah, we just looked at it. One, two, three, four, five. Fifth. Fifth, yeah.  He's saying that he's seeing that Chris Paul is gonna use it as fuel. I don't know if Chris Paul feels like, if it was like Joel L. Embiid, I might think Joel L. Embiid who finished second. So it was legendary Chris Paul playoff runs. Might use, might use it as fuel. I feel like Joel L. Embiid has more of a case for using it as fuel than CP three. But I guess whatever it takes, I mean, if that helps motivate a player. Chris Paul's very motivated. He's printing out the voting results, putting it on the Bolton board. And being like, you guys, I was chaffed. I should have won that MVP. I'm gonna use it as fuel. There's Emmanuel Quickly, Rookie Otto. No, if it was L.A. Bice, I'd be like LeBron James should have won MVP. But I'm not saying that. There's Terry Cahill, Nix. Emmanuel Quickly had a great season, Terry Cahill. That's a guy to look out for. Guy could come off the bench, score like 15, 20 points. So I think he could only get, only get better. That Nix team could only get better. There's Zach Collins, 99. Oh, we're marking into 25. Yeah, no, it's Damian, CP three is pretty great. There's another NBA hoops, Anthony Edwards for Anthony P in Minnesota. And that's a nine out of 10, JJ Redick. It's a nice low number there. This is still Pelican's edition for Anthony. It's Kobe White to 99. All right, next five boxes, last five boxes. I don't know, I personally think that CV three has many other motivating factors for him than finishing fifth in MVP voting. I don't think he's gonna use that as fuel. I think his desire for a ring, that should be fuel enough. If he finished second, maybe. And if it was close, the voting was close, maybe. But I just don't think, I don't think, if he finished second in MVP voting, I'd be like, yeah, I could see that maybe as fuel, but I mean, he was even close in the voting. I don't think, I don't think MVP, I don't think individual awards is really on the radar for Chris Paul. I feel like it factors in maybe 5% for a guy like CP three. All right, we're almost done here, folks. What teams are gonna be in the finals? Gosh, I don't know, it's hard to say. I think, I don't know. I think that's kind of the exciting thing that it's sort of wide open. I don't think, well, I mean, they could, they could. I mean, they're facing, you know, they're facing a Denver team that's down Jamal, Jamal Murray, that's gotta help. I think Utah's gonna be tough for the Suns. If it's Utah or the Clippers, it might have a chance to beat the Clippers. I don't think the Clippers are gonna win that series though. I think Utah's gonna win that series. They still gotta get by Denver. Let's see what happens tonight. Denver's still a tough team. Yolkich could take over a game. I think the Jazz might get there. I think the Jazz, and then who else? I thought the Bucks would put up a better fight. It's hard to say. I feel like everything's sort of a dice roll. Yeah, I mean, I guess it could be Suns Nets. Nash against the Suns. It's Gordon Hayward. That would be a good story to 99. Camera, wake up. I think we're back. That was weird. So these are the last few cards here. Wait, what is going on here? It's choppy again. Maybe I have too many windows open. Eating up resources. Those red ones? Yeah. Any of these patterns? All right, I closed out some windows. Is it less choppy now? The computer's been acting weird. You do for the computer. I think the computer. Okay, that might be better. I'm actually looking at the CPU percentage being used and it was at 50 and it's now down to 37 and a half. So that should be better. They had probably the Logan Paul. They were streaming that on here. Oh man. Sean was like, oh, can you buy it for all four TVs for $200? Sean probably jammed up the... So he was probably streaming it. Oh boy. And now we've got like Russian bots on our computer just slowing it down. He's trying to like mine Bitcoin off of our computer here. Come on, Sean Jasky. There's Deer and Fox at 25. There's Anthony Edwards number on overall pig. He just went to likemindfitcoin.com. Yeah, and it's just... We're probably looking for aliens on this computer. Remember when people used to do that? Like the... You can use your computer in 1% of the... No? Resources for SETI? You don't remember this? So this organization, like you could donate like bandwidth. You can CPU, process bandwidth. You can donate bandwidth, yeah, for their search. For extraterrestrials. Is that like the no-run thing where you track Santa? Similar. But really they track you. Right. Dun, dun, dun. I think it's in the VIP Sherman box. Santa actually works for the NSA. Yeah. I mean he's in everybody's houses. Come on, think about it. Think about it. Think about it. He asks for lists. Yeah, ask for lists of stuff that you want. He just sells all your data to Facebook. Probably Dr. Verge's cousin. Santa Claus is just taking your data. Just so you can get more personalized ads. Yeah, he's just selling it to Facebook. Devante Graham is your hot signature. He has his goals asked for cookies. Going to, I know. He has the gall to ask us for cookies and milk. Unbelievable, Santa.  I'm gonna go to the North Pole and pick it. What do we got from the chairman? 191 out of 500. Any NBA players with the number? Yeah. Number 19 plus a number one. I couldn't name it either. Is Devon Booker number one? I don't know who's, no one's had a number. Who's famous 19s? And who's famous number ones? Oh wait, what's the SETI thing, Rebel? It's where you, my computer's given a job and then the CPU or GPUs used to do the calculation and then it finishes and then gets reported back instead of having just one computer. Oh, okay, I see. Sam Cassell. Basically looking for aliens. Jason Chandler. Rajabelle. Leandro Barbosa. I think people would be very disappointed if that's what popped out of that VIP chairman edition. If it was any of those players you mentioned. What about Nat Clifton or Bob Cousy? I mean, maybe guys that are like 75 would be like, yeah, thanks for the Bob Cousy. I got a former Laker. Here we go. No. Savy Miliuk. Oh man, Sharpshooter? Savy Miliuk? He's the next Kyle Korover. What if he's in there? I think people would be very disappointed. And it's like this in this edition. No one wants that. The second team that he's on. It's Karis Lever to 99. Lucas Samanich and Savy Miliuk. It's John Morant, Tribute and Easton Stick. Right, yeah, this, if it's Savy Mahalia got it there, the CEO, the chairman is definitely getting fired. He's getting replaced by the board. No, he probably wouldn't do us like that. He probably would not do us like that. They are a solid organization. Remember when we opened the same kicks number that Donovan Mitchell was? That's true. What if that was planted? I don't think, I can't imagine. I can't imagine, right? Like some intern probably packs those. So it's not like rigged. Here's a quick recap of the 20 boxes of Hoop's basketball team all edition, Asia edition. Thanks everyone. Got some nice autographs, some Lamello, some Anthony Edwards as is. Are we doing the whole line with the sneaker? Absolutely. So we're gonna do the sneaker first and then we'll close out with the VIP. There's only one thing in that VIP, right? Yeah. I think so. All right, let's do the sneaker first. So now the fun stuff. Put your thinking caps on. Put your thinking caps on. Nick Jaspy not looking. He's gonna play along as well. Who am I? Where I give you the clues and you try to guess who's in here. Uh-oh. All right. So this will go to, remember, there aren't teams on here and there's no checklist. So we're gonna go by our no checklist rules. So if they're a active player, it'll go to the team they're currently on right now, Tuesday, June 9th, 2021. And if they're a retired player, then it'll go to the team they played for the longest, according to basketballreference.com. So who am I? I'm a retired basketball player. 6'10", 245, was a first round pick back in the late 80s, 10th overall. Played for one, two, three, four teams my entire career and two teams twice. Right, so I was with one team and then years later I joined that team again and I did that twice with two different teams. I'm a four-time NBA champion and NBA All-Star, a four-time NBA All-Defensive second team. He must be bummed that he's never been first team. Consensus second team, All-American and ACC Player of the Year back in the late 80s and first team All-ACC. Four-time NBA champ, NBA All-Star, one-time NBA All-Star, went to Clemson. Now Hollywood's got it. Wait, hold on, Clemson? Clemson, did you cheat Hollywood? You better not have looked that up. That used to answer that pretty quickly. I feel like I didn't give a lot of very many clues. Yeah, first round, yeah, late 80s Clemson, 10th overall. I'll give you the year, 1987. 1987, 10th overall. The four-time NBA champ, he went to Clemson. The four-time defense and second All-Team. And let's see what team he played for the longest. Now he played for two teams, the same amount of seasons, so games, the next column over on basketball reference, will be the tiebreaker. Boss man's getting close. Hold on, man. Don't look. Koo coach. Koo coach, no. No, I was on the bull. Second team, all defensive. Think about defensive players. It's not Rodman, who's the big center? Bill Cartwright? No, not Cartwright. Horace Grant? Yay! Who said Horace Grant? Jason. Jason, Horace Grant, nice. Hollywood got it as well. All right, and so, let me just flip here for a second. This will actually go to the Bulls. So he played for seven seasons, for Chicago and Orlando, but he played more games. That's what we'll use that as the tiebreaker. So Eric Kay with the Bulls. All right, so let's show you the shoe. Oh, I see, Hollywood just got a autographed Horace Grant card, and he remembered it saying 6'10". There you go, all right, all right. Ooh, some nice kicks here. That's pretty cool, right? Air forces? Yeah, any sneaker heads can identify the actual shoe here. There's his, oh, let's flip screens again. There's his autograph right there. Nice, so you got the JSA sticker right here and the associated card. Let's see if there's, this doesn't look, yeah, these are brand new. But let's see, I can't see the size. But pretty nice. Well, there's only one of them too, Eric.  I doubt that 6'10 Horace Grant has a size 10 foot. That'd be crazy. That'd be wild. I want someone to find out the tallest basketball player with the smallest shoe size. He's in his six foot nine, but his feet are a mere size 13. Oh, yeah, that seems kind of small. Chris Paul's my size, a 12 and a half. Paul George is a size 12. Isaiah Thomas is a size 12. Isaiah Thomas is not super tall, though. Isaiah Thomas, the new one. Oh. So, no, he's short. He's short too, I think. All right, Eric, congrats. He's listed as 5'9, and he's a 4'4. Who, Isaiah Thomas? He has that, I don't know. I feel like that's generous. All right, there it is. Hit Parade VIP Chairman Edition. Basketball Series 1, this is Box 191 out of 500. So let's see what's inside here. This is our last one of our Hit Parade T-Mall mixer. Thanks, everyone, for joining on jaspyscasebrakes.com. Keep your eye out on the website for more fun mixers like this. They cover it with something? Yeah, they do. All right, there's one card in here, and it's graded PSA 9. All right, who am I? Who am I? I'm a rookie this year. Played 51 games and averaged 15.7 points a game, nearly six rebounds a game, and nearly six assists a game. So basically 16, six, and six this season. Who am I? That's all you get. Anything else, probably. That's a really great rookie season, to be honest with you. If he played more than 51 games, that would have been great. His win share is at 2.8, which is, I think, pretty solid for a rookie. I've got no college information. I shoot right-handed, born in Anaheim, went to Chino Hills High School. Everyone knows this, right, yeah. Ray Jonathan with the Lamello guest, that is correct. And that's for Matt Lieber, and look at this. It's not just a regular Lamello like you see, and maybe Hit Parade Sapphire might give you regular ones. This is a Silver Lamello. The base ones are pretty great, but the Silver ones are even better. Mint Nine, Lamello Ball, Prism, Rookie, Silver. That's awesome. Yeah, wait, what is this gonna go for, you think? Well, the Grading Alone cost, I think, about. Right, right, right, that's true. Let's look at, so that's the break, folks. Congrats again to Matt. While we're keeping the video running, we're gonna see what the price is on that. Prism, Lamello, Silver, PSA-9. Let's see if we have any results here. We've got one that sold today. Best offer accepted at 1,700 bucks. Wait, why is that one at 1,700? I feel like there's another one, which is kind of odd, because there was another one that sold for 770 bucks. So that's kind of a sharp price difference, but hey, let's split the difference. Let's say it goes for about a grand. So there you go, pretty nice stuff. But then another one went for 12.50, PSA-9. So yeah, I would say over 1,000 pretty easily, I would say. Maybe if he wins Rookie of the Year officially, that might give him a little bit of a boost. I would even, I would just hold on to it, you know? And if he has a great second year, I mean, this card will continue to keep going up. And there you have it. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


It has been a few days since the second of the two HBCU presidents in Missouri suddenly resigned from his post for seemingly no reason at all. Cory Bradford, with just over a year of experience in his first presidency at Harrisville State University, left the institution for an unnamed opportunity at a research school, according to a release from the university. He followed the departure of Lincoln University president Gerald Jones-Wulford, who last month mutually agreed to part ways with the institution after just two years. Two leadership transitions in less than a month had two institutions that had been significantly hurt by budget cuts in recent years, and who both had high hopes among alumni that these leaders would be long-term advocates for the school's surviving and potentially thriving in the midst of recovery from the global coronavirus pandemic. But there's a backdrop to these departures, an immediate future for both schools resulting from these changes. First, let's take a look at HSSU. No president, particularly one securing their very first presidency, would dare leave after just one year. Someone who entered a search, interviewed, and made plans to change living situations, a clear plan, and financial goals around a job that under normal circumstances, last just three to five years on average, doesn't just up and leave for a lower position, prestige and the mark of being a quitter. Bradford's essay suggests one or two things. Either he was asked to leave by the board for disagreement over his style or priorities in guiding the institution, or he up and left the board for similar reasons. Both scenarios suggest that the board wasn't happy, which could impact HSSU's capacity to recruit, select, and retain a high-quality presidential candidate when the word on the street is now that the last president felt out of step with the board. If it's another situation like board misconduct, legislative interference, or indeed another job opportunity, Bradford looks the better for it. If it was an arrogance or a mismatch in personalities, then the board looks better for it. But one of these two sides owes it to the institution and to the public to give a hint about what went wrong so that the next candidate has the advantage in knowing what to do to make and keep the lurking relationship right. Lincoln University is much different. It appears that Wolfe's resignation was tied to board activity surrounding the reboot of its relationship with a private foundation, which years ago was severed because the university and the non-profit couldn't agree on oversight and disbursement of funds raised on behalf of the school. Wolfe looked to be okay, and the board looked somewhat bad because of the seeming split over the money. But then the school made itself look worse by hiring LU Athletic Director Johns Mosley to serve as Interim President. Mosley, who was white, seems to be an unorthodox choice for the historical black institution because of his race and training. But so far, no one in the LU community has had any bad words to say about him or the appointment. But it's an interesting choice in Mosley, whom the board credited for fundraising and relationship acumen as part of his selection for the temporary CEO role. Mosley came to Lincoln as headman's basketball coach, was named athletic director just a year after his arrival, and five years later is named Interim President. Interestingly enough, his entire career in educational training has been in athletics dating back to his days in East Carolina until four years ago when he started his doctoral work at the University of Missouri in educational leadership, earning the PhD a year ago. A coincidence that a minority candidate with no executive experience beyond the athletic side of an institution who just earned a terminal degree one year ago gets vaulted into the leading position of one of the nation's most diverse HBCUs in a racially divided state could be. Chances are it isn't. Both institutions face the real potential of having their budgets cut by state lawmakers in the next few months and increased chances of diminished student enrollment as a result of the pandemic and its impact on families economic capacity. Both HBCUs are largely off the radar of advocates nationwide because they are outside of the Mid-Atlantic Southern orbit of institutional culture. But these two HBCUs deserve a lot more attention for how these presidents have turned over the impact of these boards on both departures and how their communities should have faith in leadership going forward.


Portland's Kochmar Organ is a hidden gem in the city. The instrument celebrates its 100th birthday next month with the friends of the Kochmar Organ of planning a week-long celebration to mark the event. Tom talked with municipal organist Ray Cornels about what's in store. Ray, thanks for joining us. You're welcome. It's a pleasure to be here. We're here to talk about the Centennial Celebration for the Kochmar Organ, but before we get into that, just briefly for people who might not know, what's the history behind the Kochmar Organ? Well, in 1912, the Kochmar Organ was given to the city by Cyrus H.K. Curtis, the publisher of the Saturday Evening Post and latest home journal. He was a Portland resident and loved music, and it was Herman Kochmar who had died just a few years before that sparked his interest in music, and so as a testimony to the great musician that Herman Kochmar was, Mr. Curtis gave to the city the fabulous Kochmar Memorial Organ, dedicated August 22, 1912. 1912, so this is the 100th year. 100 years. And next month in August, or we're going to be celebrating, a big celebration is coming up, right? A whole festival week from silent films to pop, to classics, to organ and brass workshops. You name it, you will just have a great time hearing, exploring, and seeing the many sides of the Kochmar Organ. I'm kind of curious what the silent film night's about. What's actually going to happen? You'll see, it's a wonderful silent film with Harold Lloyd, and it's actually a cameo appearance of Babe Ruth in there, we'll have to come and find the plot. I don't want to give it away, but it's a fun night. Tom Trinny, who's coming, will be improvising on the spot, music to accompany and to highlight the emotions and the fun of a silent film. It's a great thing for families. That's probably one of the most interesting things to me, because years ago when it was first installed, that's what it was used for, right? A number of pipe organs were used to accompany silent films, but this instrument does more than just silent films. It plays a symphonic and organ literature like none other in Maine. So we've got people like John Weaver, who for over 50 years came every summer to the Kochmar De Play, and Fred Swan, the organist at Riverside Church, and then the Crystal Cathedral. They will become celebrating. We've also got some young artist, Felix Hell, who's just in his 20s, Tom Haywood from Australia, and rounding out the whole program is Peter Conte from the Wanamaker Organ. He and I will be sharing a program. So now there's workshops throughout the period. Yes. What are some of the subjects of those workshops? Well, if you want to find out what an organist thinks when they're sitting at the console, what decisions do you have to be made? You can go to a master class and hear the great masters. Talk about the creative process. If you want to find out about how to register or how to bring out the characters of a silent film, come here. Tom Trenney talked about that. If you just want to hear about the history of Portland architecture in 1912, we've got a workshop on that, all sorts of things. If you're an organist, how to improve your hymn playing. But it's for not just the professional, but the interested amateur will have tours of the Winchester on Saturday at noon, so you can see the insights, how this great machine works. And I can vouch for how much fun that is when you gave us a tour not too long ago. And there's also a Casco Bay cruise, isn't there? Yes. We'll have a lobster bake out on the islands, a Casco Bay cruise with a number of the artists that are here, so it will be a time to come and enjoy all that Maine and Portland has to offer. And what period of time is that? What are the days? We begin Friday night, August 17th with a 7.30, that's our silent film. On Saturday we have a Pops program, that's the 18th. And during the day we have a marathon from 9.30 to 3.30, organists from throughout southern Maine will be playing. Sundays are crews of Casco Bay and the Lobster Bake, Felix Hell and Fred Holman and Tom Haywood Monday night. Tuesday night Fred Swan and John Weaver and then Wednesday night, August 22nd, the 100th anniversary. Peter Conte, myself and the Kachmar Festival brass, they'll be sing-alongs, it'll be a great deal. And then we'll be saying goodbye to the organ for a while, is that right? Two years. We will be packing the instrument up, taking it to Toland, Connecticut for renovation to bring it back to its full glory. There are a number of wind leaks, a lot of air problems in the instrument that put the instrument in jeopardy and so we're bringing that back and I'm delighted about that. I'll miss it of course. We'll be doing Kachmar on the Road and we'll be doing some educational series in schools during those two years. Well after 100 years of service, two year break isn't, is it much? It isn't. So now if people want more information about the whole festival and the Friends of the Kachmar Organ have a website, that's www.foko.org. It has all the information, tune in for that and just come on Friday night and get the whole schedule yourself. Yeah, sounds like a great event for anybody, whether the musician or not. Thanks a lot for joining us in Toland. Pleasure. You'll be thrilled.


This is the rhythm of Will Augsburg at his orchestra, the great song styles of Connie Haynes and Bob Matthews. And that humpy-dumpy little daddy's boy, who went and asked what he'd like to give his father next to him, quickly replied. Castella, you've got mine, lady! Castella, you've got the wackiest family I've ever saw. Yesterday they were all walking around the house, all walking around the house carrying stimes. Well, we've got to do that, Abbott. We're picketing the kitchen. Picketing the kitchen? Of course. Shorter hours between meals and longer spaghetti. And another thing, Castella, I noticed that you've got three police dogs sleeping in your parlor. When did you buy them? We didn't. Them police dogs, they don't belong to us, Abbott. Then what are they doing in your parlor? They'll finance, cutely, put them down to watch the furniture. Castella, look here. All right, look, please. How can you have all your relatives living with you? We put bleachers in our guest rooms. Oh, please. What a bunch. I noticed your Uncle Audie Stevens has a very bad cold. How does that happen? Well, you see, Uncle Audie sleeps with his pet skunk. And at two o'clock in the morning, the skunk got up and opened the window. No, that's great, Ziggy. Ah, yes. Ah, yes, yes, yes. That's very dangerous. Tell me, Castella. Will you listen to me, please? Is your Uncle Mike still living with you? I beg your pardon? Is your Uncle Mike still living with you? Oh, my Uncle Mike. You know, I was lost for a second? Oh, you sure? Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's great. And he's very helpful around the house. He is. Last week, he connected the radio up to the washing machine. What good is that? Now, every time my mother washes topspread flannels, Frank Sinatra sings, Supersod, Supersod, lots of more Supersod. What's the matter with you? Supersod? Yeah, you said that.  All right. All right, we get it. But that's not the point. Your father should ask him to move. Oh, he will when he finds out that Uncle Mike hung the shower curtains in the living room. He hung the shower curtains in the living room? What happened? What happened? Well, my Aunt May went to take a bath. She slipped off her bathrobe, grabbed the soap, pulled back the shower curtains, and stepped right out on the front porch. And she sang, Supersod! Look, Castella, what became of your cousin, Tilly?  Oh, no, we had to get rid of Tilly, Abbot. She was ruining our front hall. Tilly was ruining your front hall? Yeah, she's so bullied, she scraped all the paper off the wall. Tell me, Castella, how did your cousin, Tilly, get so bullied? That was caused by the chips she took coming from Paterson to Hollywood. Oh, no, no, no. How could Tilly's trip from New Jersey to California make her bully? She hitch-piked a ride on an air truck. Castella, why did your family ever come to California in the first place? Well, my Uncle Mike came out here to sell his invention. He invented magnetized cheese for catching rats. Magnetized cheese for catching rats? Yes.  Well, why does your Uncle Mike sell it? He can't get it out of his hands. Oh, that's preposterous. All your Uncle Mike does around here is go to the racetrack. I saw him out there Saturday. He had to go to the racetrack, had he? To work on his new experiment. He's crossing a horse with a fish. Now, wait a minute, Castella. That's impossible. Nobody can cross a horse with a fish. Well, I heard him tell my aunt May that he put a fin on a horse's nose. All right, look.  Why do you continually insist on showing your ignorance? What's the good of having ignorance if you can't show it?  Why did your aunt May ever marry him? She married Uncle Mike because she reminded her of her first seven husbands. Your aunt May had seven husbands, and they were all like your Uncle Mike. What a gamble she took with love.  The judge. Castella, I said, I was with your father, living with a bunch of parasites. What did you say? I said, you're relatives of parasites. That's a lie. They are not parasites. They're Americans just like you and me. Castella, why don't you do something to make your father happy with you?  I'll do that, Abbott, because I promised my mother I would never hurt anybody's feelings. You're getting a job that couldn't hurt anybody's feelings. It could hurt mine. Besides, I tried to get a job in the Air Force as a bombardier, but they turned me down. Yeah, I don't believe that. Okay, I'll read you this Friday they sent me. Here it says, right here. Dear Luc Costello, we cannot use you in the Air Force as a bombardier. The general listened to your program last Thursday night, and he said Costello may be all right on the radio, but how do we know he can raise those eggs from 10,000 feet? God, get them out of here! Romantic Bob Matthews, with Will Osborn and the Ark is for Bob Singh. There is no use. There is sadness, people. There's no reason cause summer is dying. That in my heart, there's no gladness, people. How long can we see each other before? Throw me clouds, cover, cover. Our favorite mix, in the water. And we capture that summer time rapture. And from that day, nevermore. Well, Costello, there's a taxi, call him. Call a taxi? Yeah, call him. Oh, taxi, taxi! Hey, hey, Kevin, are you okay? No, but I'm going steady. Okay, okay, hop in! Hop in! I'll take you down to the department, so you can get a present for your father. How did you know we were going there? I got a script, too.  Oh, yeah? And if I wasn't bigger than you, I'd punch you right in the nose. It so happens that I am bigger than you. That's a better reason. Oh, come on, Costello, let's go, before the store closes. My goodness, Costello, this department store is certainly crowded. Oh, this is nothing. You should have been here with me Saturday. They had a sale on men's trousers.  How them women were grabbing the stuff. One little short woman in back of me kept powering. I got to get some trousers for my husband. I got to get some trousers for my husband. Did you get them? He must have. I went home without my pants. Now, beg your pardon, Patty Boy. Aren't you Lucas Colo? Yeah, that's me. Well, I've been following you all around the store. I got a very important message for you. It's a special delivery. A special delivery? No, a telegraph. And it's a 50 cents collect. Okay, here's a 50 cents. Oh, thanks. I'll bring them to you. Happy Father's Day to you. Happy Father's Day to you. Happy Father's Day to you. Lucas the hill, Lucas the hill, Lucas the hill, Lucas Colo. No, but never.  I did. You did. Well, in the first place, this isn't Father's Day. And in the second place, you don't even know me. That's right. But can you think of a better way to make a half a buck? Not so long yet, chubby little rascal. That's what you get for talking to strangers, Gus Colo. But come on. We've got to find a present for your father. Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's the undies department and I need some. Hey, Clark. What's on your mind? Wrap round and repulsive. I'd like to see some underwear that would fit me. Who wouldn't? Lucas, what are you lying to me? Who's your information, chubby? This is a lady's land savings department. And I am a model three. A model three? You look more like a model three. Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. Young man, be careful how you talk to that lady. She may be a woman. Boy, this girl is suffering. This girl is suffering from too much health. They have a problem. We can't. The manpower commission froze him to this job. Yeah, well, remind me to defrost him in the morning. Hey, Colo. There's the notion counter over there. Maybe we could get something there, huh? Oh, look at that girl behind the counter. She'd be beautiful. Woo! Gorgeous. Have you got any notions? No. And if you all got any, you'd better get rid of them. Oh, the tacky. Then he's 65 and it's all the way 200. Oh, the tacky. Then he's 65 and it's all the way 270 pounds. And yesterday, a fresh guy like you flirted with me and my daddy bashed his head in. Now, what do you want? Gloves, socks, or handcuffs? I'll take an aspirin. Hey, look, Crisella. Now, there's something that would be very nice for your father. A nice soft pillow filled up with down. Up with down. Oh, friendly. You see that pillow up there? That's down. How can it be down if it's up there? You tell me, I'm not talking about where it is. I'm talking about what it is. The pillow is up, but it's down. It's up, but it's down. Abbott, are we both looking at the same pillow? Of course, of course. That pillow up there. Then you admit that the pillow is up. Certainly it's up, but it's down. Look, I've been watching that pillow and it ain't moved yet. It's still up there. That's right. You just said it was down. How did it get down? It didn't get down. It is down. It's always been down. That pillow is down even when it's up. One of us is next. Right up. That pillow is down, Castella.  That's a lie. I never even got up on a duck's back. Nice. I didn't say you got up on a duck's back. I said you get down off a duck's back. How can I get down off a duck if I never got on a duck's back? You don't get off a duck's back if you don't get on it. Now listen here, dummy. When I say the pillow is down, I don't mean down like in the direction down.  And that kind of down can be up or down and it's still down. Oh, when you say the pillow is down, you don't mean down like the direction down. You mean down like the kind of down you get when you get down off a duck's back. And that kind of down can be up or down, and it's still down. Now you've got it. Oh, I got it. I don't even know what I'm talking about. Get him out of here. Ladies, hold on now. Here's lovely Connie Haynes with a kiss. A kiss? Good night. A kiss, good night, is all right. But remember this, that a kiss, good night, never kiss. Well, the whole real time is nothing short of bliss.  A three or four goes a kiss.  I will suggest your name. You kiss me again. A kiss, good night. Well, Castella, we've been all through this on you still haven't bought your father's present. I don't know what to get him out of it. Every time I get him a present, he loses it. Last year I bought him a watch. He lost it. You bought him a watch and he lost it. Yeah. How did he lose it? He couldn't keep up the payment. All right. Oh, talk to him, Castella. Well, look, hey, there's your Aunt Eva in the sporting goods department. Now I wonder what she's shopping for. Oh, she's going to buy my Uncle Tom a shotgun.  No. He don't even know she's going to shoot him. And Eva is very mean to your Uncle Tom. He is not. Two years ago she made him a sponge cake. A sponge cake? Yep. He still uses it every time he takes a bath. Well, now that's silly, Castella. Look, why don't you get your father a book or something to amuse him? I couldn't do that, Abbot. Last Christmas I got him an electric train to play with and he had a terrible accident. Oh, now, come, come. How did your father have an accident with a toy train? He was running it in the living room and when the train went by, he thought he saw an empty seat and he jumped for it. All right. He thought he saw an empty seat and he jumped for it. He's dead. Well, I've got to figure out the second time. All right. Say it again, then. I don't care. He thought he saw an empty seat and he jumped for it. All right. You know seats are plastic, Abbot. Yeah, all right. Hold on. I've got an idea. Why don't you get him something to wear? Hey, how about a full dress suit? Oh, you know my father in a fancy dresser?  Dress up? Why, my mother has to sprinkle text around the house to get him to wear shoes. Castella, there must be something that your father needs. I got it. I know exactly what he needs. What is it? I'll get him a vest with rubber pocket. What does your father need a vest with rubber pocket for? Because when he eats up, he always likes to take home the wet teabags. All right. All right. Stop it, Joker. Anything. Anything you get it, settle. Go ahead. Buy him the vest.  All your clothes look terrible. I can't help it. I wish I had somebody to pick up my clothes for me. Now, you know, I'm glad you said that, Castello. Because right here in this stall, they have the world's greatest authority on men's clothes. Ah, greetings, gentlemen. I am the world's greatest authority on men's styles, Professor Mellonhead. Better known as fashion place Mellonhead. Fashion what, Mellonhead? Fashion place. Place. Place. Your head looks more like a soup bowl. Hey, get away that shiny dome. I've seen more hair on a sense of toothbrush. Hello? Wherever I go, my head arouses admiration.  And it would get results.  I've knocked better-looking things than that with a croquet mallet. Hey, Mellonhead, if you can get two more guys with heads like yours, hang your job. Doing what?   No, for your information, Castello, I get more girls than I can shake a stick at. Yeah, but who wants to go around shaking sticks at girls? Oh, come, come, Castella. We're wasting time. Professor Mellonhead, you think you could make a well-dressed man out of Castella? Have it. I could make two well-dressed men out of him and have enough left over to make an overstuffed midget.  Look at you. Instead of your shoulders being square, your stomach is square. Well, I can't help it, Mellonhead. That's because I eat Wheaties. Wheaties? Eating Wheaties makes your stomach square? I eat the boxes, too. Now, Castella, look. To correct the slope in your shoulders, I will have to pad them up. What are you going to pad them up with? Down. Up with down?  Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Who's up first? Who's up first? All right, don't mind that, please. All right. Hold on. I'm sure there's anything in the crying.  The professor is only trying to help you. Of course, Mr. Abbott. No, I'm lost again. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Go right ahead, Professor. Thank you. Thank you. Right ahead, Professor. All right. All right. All right. All right. Who talks? Who talks? I do. Mr. Abbott is right. Mr. Abbott is right, Castella. You look like an embryo.  Mr.   You look like an embryonic warfress. Now look, what's the idea of wearing that locket around your neck? You shouldn't have mentioned that, Melonhead. I wear this locket as a remembrance to my old girlfriend, poor Ruby. In here is a locket of her hair. Oh, I'm sorry. Is Ruby gone? Nope. But her hair is old. Why are you irritating him, but still, if I were your father, I'd give you a Mickey. If you was my father, I'd take it. Come, come, Professor. All this is not getting Costello dressed up now. You're right, Abbott. Costello, how about your clothes? Do you have flannel? Yes. Do you have gabardine? Yes. Do you have twills? What? I said, do you have twills? Only when I go out with dirt. Good, good. All right.  First, I will put a zipper on your steersucker.   I'll take a sharp needle, put a few stitches in your wisted, and then I will run a hot iron over your herringbone. You wouldn't dare. You haven't got the nerve. Costello, don't cut me, Mellonhead. This time you have gone too far.   I didn't squeal when you took that sharp needle and put stitches in that innocent cashier. When you took that hot iron and deliberately burned that poor herringbone, you not only appeared on my good name, but you have passed aspiration on Hart Shaffner and Groucho Mark. Oh, get her out of here. We've been listening to the Abbot and Costello show with Will Osburn and his orchestra, Ken Niles, and with songs by Bob Matthews and Cunninghane. In the time that remains, we present music by Harry Soznik and his orchestra, chorus and piano soloists.