From the archives of the greatest dramas in radio history, we proudly present Hollywood. Radio Theatre, starring Bob Hope and Joan Caulfield in Monsieur Bocair. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keely. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Some years ago, one of America's most distinguished authors, Booth Tarkington, penned a moving and dramatic novel called Monsieur Bocair. The story of a humble but heroic figure struggling against the inequalities of royalty. Hollywood cast Bocair with Rudolf Valentino, the great lover of the silent screen. Tonight we take our cue from Paramount Studios and their version of Monsieur Bocair and cast it, as they did, with Bob Hope. And when you do a thing like that, you take whatever comes and like it. And I'm sure you will. Costard with a gifted and beautiful Joan Caulfield, also from the screencast, Bob appears as the love smitten barber, Bocair, who does everything but it's time for our first act, starring Bob Hope as Monsieur Bocair and Joan Caulfield as his girlfriend, Mimi. 1774, a mirror of lovely ladies and fearless gallant men. In King Louis Lavish Court, I gather the finest swordsmen in Europe. But in all the palace, there's none whose blade is as sharp and bright as Monsieur Bocair's. Next, who's next, please? Shave today, sir, shave? How's the razor's edge? Yeah, I'm going to try and catch it tonight. What was that, sir? Oh, I'm glad you like it. It's that new ladder I'm using. One moment, sir, while I shave around your ear. Well, you can always hear with the other one. By the way, have you heard the latest about the King and Madame Papadour? Well, it seems that Madame Papadour... No, our hero is not a duke, not even a count. He's the palace barber, Homer Bocair. Homer is not particularly bright, but he's drawn up a nice little trade there in the palace basement. Shaves, wig powder... And tickets on the Irish sweepstakes. But while Bocair applies his razor, upstairs in the King's chambers, matters of great importance are being discussed. At last, Sire, it lasts the perfect plan to avoid war with Spain. It's about time you came up with an idea. At prime time... Please, not my idea, Sire. It comes direct by courier from King Philip of Spain. Well, what is it? An alliance, Sire, based upon a marriage between Maria Princess of Spain and a French nobleman of your choosing. Excellent, but who, darling, what nobleman? He must be handsome, of course. Dashing, clever, someone whose wit and charm would... But, of course, the Duke de Chande. Oh, brilliant, Sire, brilliant. We rid our palace of his fiery temper and quick blade to say nothing of considerable romantic competition. The young blood should be duly grateful, eh, darling? Not to mention a few the older ones, Sire. I couldn't wonder. What do you mean? Oh, nothing, nothing. Except I've observed how attractive he seems to Madame Pompadour. Madame Pompadour means nothing to me, nothing. Oh, have no concern, Sire. What if she does favor de Chande? He'll be off to Spain in a few days. In two days he leaves for Spain tonight, informed de Chande at once. The Queen too. This is a big night. And the court must celebrate. Good heavens, if we're going to have a celebration, I must dress. Get my barber. Get him here at one. At one, six and seven. Here's your bouquet. Here's your bouquet of the King's Father. Here's your bouquet of the King's Father. Come in. Oh, it's you. Home of bouquet, haven't I told you... Hello, Mimi. Why are you still alive?  You think I'm afraid, don't you?  Wait here, I'll get you a piece of rope. That's not the kind of necking I want. Look, Mimi, you can't do this. Why couldn't you be satisfied just being a scullery maid? Why did you have to promote yourself upstairs? What does that mean? I know exactly what it means. Chamber maid to the King. What's so wrong if I want to enlarge my scope? Your scope's large enough. And the rest of you doesn't need any improvement. Aw. What's worrying you, Homer? The King. And I won't let you do it. Besides, what makes you think the King will look at you twice? As if I didn't know. He won't have to. Once will be enough. Yeah, but he won't be King forever.  I'm only a little barber now, but someday I'll have a big up-to-date barber shop with Life Magazine sun lamps and a direct wire to Santa Anita. Turning me down for a King. I'm a famous barber. I'll show you my clippings. Holy... Go sharp and you'll raise it. Yeah, and another thing. What about those other women upstairs? Madame Papadose and those others? They'll see through your tricky schemes. In this palace, it's every woman for herself.  Let's leave the Queen out of this. Where is Ethel Brown? The guard's calling you. Besides, I've got to prepare the Queen's bubble bath. And who knows? While the Queen is taking her bath, I may even get to meet the King. That's a fine thing, flirting with the King behind the Queen's bubbles. I'm warning you, Mimi. If you go through with this, you'll never see me again. Have you ever thought about that? Well? Well? Well? I guess you've thought about it. Oh, there you are. Don't care.  Sorry, I gotta hang myself tonight. In fact, I'll be all tied up. The King wants her shave. Oh, well, that's different. The King's neck comes before mine. But don't worry. I'll kill myself tomorrow. It'll be better then. Tomorrow's Monday, and I'll be able to hang with a wash. You just wait and see, Mimi. You'll be sorry.  Oh, sorry, Your Majesty. Did I do something? Do something? That brush. Pull it over right in my mouth. I wondered where it was all going. It's nerves, Sire. I'm just a bundle of nerves tonight. It's Mimi. Mimi? Who's Mimi? Oh, she's your new girl.  That is, she's our girl. Gets around, doesn't she? What on earth are you gibbering about? Mimi, may I talk to you about her, Sire? Certainly not. Here's the Queen. Louis? What's this I hear about the King going to Spain? Well, why not? Royal blood, best swordsman in the land, and from what I understand, he's very attractive to the ladies, eh, Barbara? Oh, well, I'd be too if I used eyelash cream every night.  He didn't say anything.  Oh, I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I was only repeating what Mimi told me. Once and for all, who's Mimi? My girl, Sire. She dreams of position, power. Why, she'd like to influence the King like Madame Pompadour. And who says Madame Pompadour influences the King? Oh, everybody knows that. It's all about... Louis, I shall talk to you later, my dear. Please, you don't understand. I said later, and alone, both tell you blundering nincompoop. If I so much to see you again, I'll have your head. Yes, Sire. Two heads are better than one. Thank you, Sire. Now hurry up and powder my wig. I'll announce the news to the court myself. Deshaun's leaves for Spain tonight. Hmm. Who does he think he is? After all, I'm not dirt. I'm a man. Well, sort of. What makes him so special anyway? Anyone can be king. I could be king. All I have to do is slip his ring on, wear his wig and put on his robes. Hmm. Think I'll look in the mirror.   Well, he can have my head. Better won't look good on him, either. Say, if I were king, I wouldn't go around cutting off everybody's head and stealing everybody's girl. Well, I wouldn't go around cutting off everybody's head. Hey, look at these masks. Oh, the Heskessery needs masks. Got a mask for day and a mask for night. This must be his night mask. It's got knee and an eyebrows. Guess I'll slip it on. Don't shoot. I was just trying on the... Oh, pardon me, Your Majesty. Mimi, she thinks I'm the king. Oh, dear, dear. Approach me. Approach me. Your Excellency. Rise, child, rise. Why, you're the little wench who's been going around with bokeh or the barber. Splendid jabbokeh and so handsome. Bokeh? Handsome, sire? Just don't see how one man can get so handsome. Oh, believe me, sire, there's nothing between bokeh and me. Oh, charming spellers. So witty, so clever. And I happen to know that you've shown more than a casual interest in a... But bokeh is a man, sire. And I'm not interested in men. Mortal men. My interest, sire, is France. How's that again? Sire, I love France. And to me, you are France. Oh, it's just the way this robe fits. Of course, it's a little tight around Paris. Oh, what a moment. Do you know what a moment like this means to a woman? Right now I'm studying from a man's point of view. Don't think of me as a woman, sire. Think of me as the people of France. I'd rather think of you as a woman. It's such a small room. Woof, woof, woof. That kiss, sire. That was for France. It was. Now let's have one for the colonies. Louie! Oh, the queen. Oh, your majesty, please don't misunderstand. I'm sure I shan't. I never do. Do I, Louie? I was just telling his majesty of my patriotism. Good. And I will see that you are amply rewarded.  This is just not my day. God! Yes, your majesty. It's for the French to the Spanish border. Spain, oh, but your majesty, put your hands up again.  Spain, oh, no, no, Mimi. Did you say something, Louie, dear? Me? Say something? Stay right where you are. I'll be back. This shan's darling, leaving for Spain tonight. Oh, this is awful. It's no use, Pompadour. You heard the king's orders. You better leave my apartment. The king? Your majesty, why? I beg your pardon, sir. Oh, your grace, you've got to take me with you to Spain. Oh, it's not the king. It's only... Don't care. What are you doing in the king's role? Not very well. Look, please take me to Spain. I got to see a man about an olive. Out of the question. But Mimi's going to Spain, so I've got to go, too. I'll be your lackey. I'll even be your lackey's lackey. Where are you, sir? That boy. It's Louie, the king. Pompadour, if our heads if he finds us here together. As you run these, I'll even mend the runs in your stockings. Where can I go? Where can I hide? I'll cut your hair. I'll shave you. I'll scratch your back. I'll scratch your back, too. Out of the other room. Out of the bed. Just hide. What happened? The sponsor show up? That's for you both here, out of those roads. Send them under the couch. And you will take me to Spain, won't you? Poor Mimi. It was all my fault. Look at my razor and start shaving me.  If you're ready, we can... What? Shaving? You would just shave a couple of hours ago. Oh, yes, sir. But when I got through, I made a mistake. I dusted this tin with Vigoril. You? I thought I told you to get out. Oh, I'm leaving. I'll be out of here before you can say Madam Pompadour. Madam Pompadour? What makes you think of her, Barbara? Yes, and what's this on the floor? A handkerchief? Familiar scent, Deshaun. And the lace. So delicate. Could it belong to anyone we know? I have no idea, sir. Oh, it's mine, Your Majesty. I always carry two. One for show and one for blow. Delightful scent, isn't it? I wouldn't give two cents for those other scents. This comes all the way from France. This is France. Yes, small world. Deshaun, I believe Madam Pompadour is hiding in the supports. Fire, to entertain such thought, is madness. Nevertheless, I intend to search the Queen. Oh, for heaven's sake. Yes, my dear. All right, Louis. Start talking. Unless you intend to make more of a fool of me than you have already. What nonsense is this? It's nonsense for the Queen of France to come upon the King of France petting and kissing a little scullery maid. A chambermaid. Right, right. Chambermaid. Furthermore, how did you know? I saw the picture. I mean, I... You know how those things whip around the palace in one keyhole and out the other? What chambermaid? I haven't seen any chambermaid.  What ring? Your turquoise ring. The one that looks like... Why? That looks like that one that the barb is wearing. Oh, yeah, it does look like yours doesn't it, Sire? We must go to the same hot shop. Looks like mine. It is mine. So, knew she wasn't a scullery maid, eh? Oh, mercy, Your Majesty. Mercy. Why did you do it, Nave? To save her, Sire. Mimi. Save her? Save her from what? From you, Sire. There, you see? You lying scoundrel. God, God. Yes, yes, yes. Please, this barber. Take him to the guilty. Oh, no, no. Cut off his head in the morning. That's too bad, Bocare. Well, be easy finding another barber like you. When you get to Spain, your grace, look up Mimi, huh? Tell Mimi I'm sorry. Mimi? Who's Mimi? Oh, the little girl who'd like to be like Madame Papador. Mimi!  Oh, woe is me, and right when I bought myself a new bottle of wire root. Do you like yourself, Bocare? I could have you moved to a larger one, but after all, in a few minutes, you'll be dead. So... Hey, hey, that, that noise. What's that? Oh, they're just testing the guillotine. Executioner's trying to correct his sleight.  What difference does it make?  Yeah, but for love.  Courage. The God comes for you now. Come on, Bocare. Hey, can't we put this off for a while? I think I'm getting a sore throat. That'll be all, God. You may leave. Yes, Your Grace. You, you shun! No, Monsieur Rene. You may leave also. Of course, Your Grace. I can't, Rene. Watch, I sold him a ticket for this. Not a word, Bocare. If you don't want to die, do exactly as I say. Huh? We're changing clothes, you and I. Oh, I couldn't give you mine right after I sold him these well-known shoulders. Louis is sending me to Spain tonight, pumping me off for all I know of the obvious woman in the world, the king of Spain's daughter. Well, I won't do it.   We're both going to Spain. But you'll be the Duke de Chondre and I'll be your lackey. Stop asking questions and get into my clothes. Oh, this is the prime minister. Bocare is going to Spain with us. All right, driver, to the Spanish border. Sir Charles, what on earth is this fool doing in your clothes? I demand to know the meaning of this masquerade. You'll discover that in good time, Monsieur. And so will you, Bocare. And they don't have guillotines in Spain, do they, Barber? No, just the rack and the steak. The rack and the steak, huh? You mean they stretch out and barbecue you? That's right. And if I stay in France, I get the guillotine? That's right. Fine menu, steak or chops. John Paul Field will return in a moment with Monsieur Bocare. One of the great things about our way of government is that if one part starts getting too powerful or begins to use its power wrongly, another part can say, hold it, man. That's putting it bluntly. But it is an idea of one way Congress works. In the legislature, there are rules for procedure and rules to keep the rules from being abused, like the way the filibuster and cloture rules apply to Congress. The filibuster is the exercise of the privilege of unlimited debate. That means once he has the floor, a senator or representative may speak for as long as he cares to. If this occurs, others who wish to vote on the bill may invoke cloture, which ends all debate, so voting may begin. Cloture is possible with a two-thirds vote. It's like saying, we've heard enough talk, now let's see what the majority wants. Then democracy really begins to work. We return you now to William Kealy. Act two of Monsieur Bocaire, starring Bob Hope in the title role and Joan Caulfield as Mimi. Determined not to marry the Spanish princess at least until he's seen what she's like, the Duke de Chandra has snatched our hero from the jaws of the guillotine, dressed him in his own finery and deposited him in the coach down for Spain. Meanwhile at the border, the treacherous Spanish general, Francisco, meets with his accomplices. So gentlemen, the King of France has chosen the illustrious Duke de Chandra to marry our lovely Princess Maria. Where is Maria? She has already left the convict in Switzerland, General. She travels in Cognita with her duena. By now, their coach is well across France. And what a desire it would be were the princess to die on French soil. I think what you mean, Your Honor. Maria is responsible.  You mean war, exactly. And in time of war, a man of courage might even seize the throne of Spain. General, Maria will never reach Spain. Dad, I wonder where her coach might be right now. By nightfall, Maria should be in Bayonne. Bayonne, eh? Well, it shall be your purpose to see that she never reaches Bayonne. So young and lovely must die. Of all things to happen to us, De Chandra, broken harness, six miles from Bayonne and our coach breaks down. How long before we can proceed, Coachman? So excellency, I hope. And on top of this ridiculous masquerade. De Chandra, I insist that you get out of vocales closed immediately.  There's a coach coming. I'll stop. They wouldn't even stop and help us. I guess I should have shown them a little more leg. Look here, did you see what I saw inside the coach? Yeah, women, two of them. Well, what are we waiting for? I'll take the young ones.  I think the one with the mustache likes you. She may be a little old, but driver, I need one of our horses. Make it two while you're at it, driver. De Chandra, you're supposed to be a bridegroom. I'll route to your marriage. Yes, to a woman I've never even seen.   And I'll further remind you, De Chandra, that I am being held responsible for the success of the... Look, that coach is stopping down there. They're being attacked. Bandits. Combo care. Use your head, man. We can afford no risk. Yeah, that's right, no risk. You speak of risk to the Duke De Chandra. But there are six of them. Yeah, six of them. Three for each of you. Hurry, fellas. Six or six hundred. What does it matter? Yeah, what does it matter? What's the case? Me? You're a man. You've got blood in your veins. Yeah, and I want to keep it there.  It's too big a target. I said help it. Here, take my sword. Oh, well. Save one for me. A little one. You can have all the others. I'm not selfish. On guard. Touche. I'm coming. I'm coming. Touche, on guard. Well, Duke, did we get them all? All but one. I'm sorry you got away.  That's too bad. He was the finest swordsman of the lot. Keep going, you coward. Lucky for him. He got away when he did.  Oh, how can we thank you? Oh, believe me, it was nothing at all. His grace is right. Nothing at all. My grace? My grace? Oh, my gracious. Yes, yes, yes. Well done, my good man. Well done.  Thank you, your grace. Oh, thank nothing of it. Remember, we're living on barred head anyway. Well, I must run along now and sharpen my sword. You can never tell when we meet more of these cats. Don't be long, my good man. Oh, your grace. Oh, you forget the prime minister. I'll go back and prime him. See you later. Anna Moselle, I fear your driver was killed by the bandits. Would you grant me the privilege of driving you to your destination? Oh, you're most kind. Maria! Well, Donna Clare, we must get to Madrid. And this gentleman is being most considered. Obviously, the gentleman is a lassie. But if his master will permit... I think I might persuade him. I'll return at once, madame. Bidid, I absolutely forbiddage your grace. Sorry, darmon, but I'm driving the ladies. I'll meet you at the tavern at the Spanish border. But they'll have a welcoming party there to greet us. They'll expect to meet the Duke de Chardin. I said I'd be there. Yeah, we'll be there. Let's go, your grace. Not you. Selfish. Come back, de Chardin. Stop him. Don't care. Stop him. I'm mad at him. Do you realize what this means? Supposing he arrives late at the border. Supposing he... he... Hmm. Hmm. Well, what are you staring at me for? Hmm. Hey, what's going on behind that hmm? It might work at that. What might work at what? Your grace? Oh, no, you don't. Not me. Oh, no. I just came along for the ride and to find Mimi. You must. Not me. I'm not going around impersonating any dukes. He fights duels. The fella can get hacked up that way. But, your grace, surely you've heard what a prize he's considered among the ladies. Yeah, but you... Hey, that's right. Women. Hundreds of them thrown themselves at me. Pawned me, mollied me. Oh, no, you don't. She almost had me so sorry. You'll have to use the old Duke. Very well, then. Well, now your toils just have to send you back to Paris. Now your talk and the guillotine. Now you... You're talking to the new Duke. True, General Frantisco, that demon from the other coach slashed our men to ribbons. And the Prince of Maria was permitted to continue on her way, eh? Well, it takes two to make a marriage callous. That Victor Chandra arrived here this afternoon. Would it not be a most unhappy circumstance if his grace should meet with a fatal accident? Hmm, it might not be easy. They say he's the finest swordsman in France. Well, now hardly the finest he is without his sword. And I think it... Hey, Carlos, what is that disturbance down in the courtyard? Who's that girl with the guards down there? Girl? I'll open the window. Come along, now. We have no passport. You cannot remain in Spain. Oh, please, I must say, if you send me back, it means my death. It's been ordered by the Queen herself. Guard! Yes, General? That girl, send her to me at once. You said your name is Mimi, my dear? Yes, General. Well, don't worry, you may remain in Spain. Oh, how can I thank you, General? You've been so kind and so understanding. Perhaps you may be able to return the favor. When my men favor respects to the Victor Chandra, the reception tonight, if his sword is unavailable... He's to be attacked, the Duke? Oh, my dear child, a simple adduction. Just to delay the wedding for a little while. But a delay might mean more.  How much pleasanter if you'd dwelt on other things like a reward? A chateau in Barcelona, for instance. Oh, I understand your excellency. I'll get his sword. Well, judging from that crowd, the Duke has just crossed our border. Open the window, my dear. Ah! Thank you. Oh, you lovely passenger. Control yourselves. I know it's hard, but try. Trushing, keep up. Just look at him. I-I can't believe it. Do you realize who that is? Why, the Victor Chandra, of course. And the French Prime Minister. Oh, oh, yes, yes, of course. Then what is it you can't believe, little Mimi? Oh, that I'm going to have a chateau. Don't worry, my dear. I won't forget. The furry bouquets finish shaving me. Say, why am I shaving you? I'm the one they're waiting for downstairs. Did you see all that femininity? Acres and acres of it. Boy, just like a sea of grass. Remind me to sharpen my lawn more. They happen to be waiting to greet the Victor Chandra. Uh, why isn't he here? Hey, maybe that's him now. Here, come in. It's Excellency the Commanding General of the Spanish Army. Don Francisco Miguel Pedro Alfamila de los Monterres de Conchica, de la Torra de la Vega de los Aparecitos, de Castilla de los Rios, García González de la Comuna de Andrade. Sounds like a California bus schedule. Just a moment, please. He's the most powerful man in Spain. We've got to see him. Tell his Excellency to come in, please. General Francisco. Oh, your grace. We greet you in the name of Spain. Are you full, now? What a fantasy. Imagine him coaxing me to take bows. I trust your grace at a pleasant fit. Oh, not bad. Not bad. We had to get an interpreter to read the Burmishave signs to us, but it wasn't bad. He's a great Israeli most fatigued general. Yeah, and I'm a little tired, too. I've taken the liberty of forduring dinner. Exciting dishes to tempt the palate. Oh, is he coming too? Well, I really am not exactly hungry. There are wines to stimulate the senses. I'm not thirsty. And after dinner, ha-ha-ha, something to please your grace's discerning eyes. Well, let's start with a dessert, huh? Shall we go? You're one of the wine girls, and that arranged to meet a Duke alone. Sue's possible. Oh, yes, General. But where? His room's to be the best place. Get his sword away from him. My men will do the rest. Hurry up. And your grace? Mimi. Mimi, what are you doing here? It goes someplace where we can talk. Oh, make some excuse. I'll meet you in your room in five minutes. Mimi. You said something, your grace? For me? No, just passing the old pipe, General. Mimi, Mimi, Mimi. Moo, moo, moo, moo. Excuse me, folks. I forgot my tums. I'll be right back. You hear, Homer? Mimi, gosh, it's good to see you. Gee, I thought you'd be angry with me. Angry? Well, you know, I kind of got you kicked out of France and everything. Ah, but you didn't mean to, did you? Homer, what are you doing? Oh, just what they do on a rainy night in Rio. You got the card? Oh, now stop, Homer. Hey, and tell me, what are you doing in the Duke's clothes? I'm stretching them. I'm just taking his place for a while. Nobody here knows what the Duke's looks like, so I'm just, well, you know the Duke. Sure she loves them? Well, thanks. Don't mind if I do. Oh. Two above all others to impersonate the irresistible Dishonk. Well, one just can't hide quality and breeding. Yeah, when you got it, you got it. Oh, you're so right. You're regal forehead. Runs in the family. The Hapsburg chin. Got it from my mother. The bourbon nose. Got that from my father, drank like a fish. Oh, Mimi, let's forget the past and settle down together right here in Spain. Ah, just the two of us alone in a sweet little cottage. Yes, Mimi, and perhaps in a year or so. There'll be a little whale in the nursery. Personally, I'd rather have children, but... Have a jeweler. Oh. Homer. Huh? Homer, I wish you'd take off that old sword. Why, sure, honey. You got a letter you want to open? I'll take the sword, Homer. Oh, careful. It's pretty sharp. Good. Now, stand where you are.  Oh, I'll teach you to get people banished from France. Well, Mimi, I don't get it. No, don't worry. You will. All right, gentlemen. Come in. The room, General. Here. Here's his sword. Well done, Mimi. But this time, our gallant friend is no more. What do you mean? I thought you said he was to be abducted. Oh, you're so naive, Mimi. Come. Let's go to his room. Once I've seen his remains, and I'm certainly his bed. I can't... Dukie, I'm glad you got here. You're better than DDT. Boy, those guys were rough. Wonder what magazine they were selling. Hey, what happened to those other two men? Where'd they go? Out to the balcony and down to the ground. Not gonna let them get away, are you? Certainly not. Back, Howard. Back, you swine. Stand your ground. Oh, he's great. I wonder how he'd make out with Sinatra. Pluttered, we'll need the larger vacuum cleaner. Swordsman. Dead. Yeah, they're dead. There would have been more, but I had a dull blade. Poor amateurs. Oh, that this would occur with you under my protection. This ain't no more, my good man. The book is closed. You... You will return to the feast downstairs. Oh, but Matt... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...  I give you my word.  Oh, you must believe me. You must. Stop hugging and chalking me. Oh, but... What do you mean? You must listen. Your life is in danger. Danger. You speak to me of danger. I say poof to danger. Double poof. Very well, Homer. It's goodbye then. You must have stabbed me. I hear air escaping. What's the do? Well, did you get those other two, your grace? No, they disappeared, confounded. How do you like that? Five guys trying to make a pincushion out of me.  I've had enough of this. Oh, but you're highness. Don't you're highness. Me, you're highness. I want to be your lowness again. Oh, but that... But that girl will care. You mean Mimi? Why, she's nothing. Talking of Mimi. I speak of the girl whose coach I drove. I must see her again. Not as the duke, but as the humble, likey with whom she's fallen in love. Duke, someone's been spiking your hemo. Take this, General Francisco. He told me that you... Calm down, Darmon. Oh, your grace, oh, thank heaven you've returned. Yeah, but only for a moment. I'm on my way to Madrid. Madrid? I must see her once more. If only to say good-bye. No, no, no, no. You can't change your clothes immediately. Darmon, you're not being very bright. Would you have your bridegroom killed? These men on the floor, they weren't after Bocair, they were after me. That's why I'm getting out of these clothes.  What did I do? A man with a chance to outwit the sharpest minds in Spain. Me? How? Well, one of us is a Duke and one of us is a barber, right? Right. But the Spaniards don't know which is which. If they kill me, what have they got? A dead Duke. Exactly.  I knew you'd see it. We stayed away we are. Good man. See you in Madrid. I hope. Okay. The Duke's a pretty sharp fellow to figure out a thing like this.  A barber. A barber. That's me. I knew that you... He should drop dead. Bring you act three of Miss Able Care starring Bob Hope and Joan Caulfield in a moment. Men, we're offering you an opportunity to study the various operations and applications of the Mannheim Slide Rule. Well, perhaps this offer wouldn't appeal to the average clerk, journalist or administrative specialist. But to the man engaged in technical or scientific work, it would mean something. If he were not already familiar with the Mannheim Slide Rule, he would be interested. He'd want to know how he could take advantage of the offer. He'd know that a working knowledge of the Slide Rule would be of considerable help to him and his job. He'd learn that the person to see is his education officer who would tell him that the course and the application of the Mannheim Type Slide Rule is offered by Yusufi. He'd fill out an application to enroll in the course and take the first step toward power through knowledge with Yusufi. Yes, he'd do that. If he were smart. Back now to your producer, William Keely. Here's our third act starring Bob Hope as Monsieur Bocair and Joan Crawfield as Mimi. The Duke de Chambre, Home of Bocair is now in the palace at Madrid, where tomorrow the real Duke is supposed to marry Princess Maria. But the real Duke having fallen in love has no intention of marrying any princess. Furthermore, the unpleasant General Francisco continues to plot the early death of the gallant de Chambre. And if this isn't enough, Homer's girlfriend Mimi appears to be very much on the side of Francisco. Besides, well, let's simplify matters and just say Bocair's in one awful mess. Bocair, I can't find the Duke de Chambre anywhere. What makes a man forsake the honor of his country for a woman will power. Now, now it's time for his presentation to the king. Well, don't look at me. You, you don't think I'd present you to the king? Yes, I do. Well, we meet again, my friend. Oh, good to see you. Oh, praise heaven. Say, haven't you heard about doors every time I see you're coming in a window? Oh, but she's disappeared. My lady of the loach. I've scoured the whole of Madrid in her trace. Oh, forget her, sir. Forget your lady of the loach. Forget her. I don't see with anybody that's sad in a loach. Believe me.  I don't have. Believe me, Dukie. Believe me, Dukie, she's grand. I tell you, just forget her. She's, she's, it's right here. She's just, um, forget her, dude. Forget her. She's washing your things. I know. Let me tell you something. Forget her.   Sensational. Please, your grace, the king of Spain. Wait a moment. Beyond the balcony there. A garden over the wall. Come on, look. It is she. Oh, not again. My lady. Duke, Duke. No, no, no. Not again. Don't worry, come on. I'll be back. Oh, it's no use book here. I, I can't keep the king waiting any longer. Go after the Duke. Bring him back at all costs. I'll go down and try to delay the proceedings. Yeah, you delay the proceedings. I'll see you in a month or so. I'll give you 10 minutes. No, no, after him. Go on. Climb down the balcony. Boy, I never thought I'd have a chance like this. Meet me later, Willi. I'm getting so far away from here they'll have to use on that sword. Don't know why it worked that way. Now to find the Duke. You're Grace. Oh, hiya, General. Just thought I'd drop in for a minute. The Major Donovan allows the arrival of his grace. You know where the powder room is, General? I'd like to take a power. Excuse me. I must go see the king. He's Grace, the Duke you shone. Book here. I thought you were looking for the Duke. Yeah, well, so long. If you leave now, you'll be cut to bits.  Now walk down the aisle to the king. The aisle? And be aloof. And be aloof? Look forward. Uh-huh. Distainful. Yes. A little more on the right nostril. How's this? Better. Better? Mm-hmm. A little more? Uh-huh. Not too much.  Here he comes, Your Majesty. That? That is what Francis sent to the general. Yes, Sire. Oh, for heaven's sake. What's the matter with his nose? Perhaps his mother was frightened by Bob Hope, Sire. How, my dear Deshaun, so this is the fabulous Duke, the man whose cold seal and warm heart have captivated the continent. The whole country, Your Honor, sir. I was the lady in the loach. That's right, Your Honor. I mean your Majesty, huh? Right, Your Honor. Your prowess with a sword, tell me. How do you do it? Oh, it's nothing on God, petty and thrust, and two dozen roses to the will. And, uh, those stories of women waiting for your kisses in every corner of France. How do you do that? Oh, I got a fast horse. And now, Your Grace, in honor of France, the minuet. Thanks, but I'm not hungry. Countess. Sire. Your Grace, the Countess will serve as your first partner. Do you object to the arrangement? Object? It's the nicest arrangement I've seen all day. Prove of what you've seen thus far in Spain? My grace is beginning to, dear. It's strange that you, a Frenchman, do our Spanish dances so well. Oh, not at all. I take from Desi Arnais. But such grace, Your Grace. You're like a feather. I always am next to such a pigeon. At the next measure, we start changing partners. I hope you'll find the other ladies to your liking. They're girls, aren't they? I dance for the next. Did you see that? The duke just winked at me. A little harmless flirtation. And my alfredo will have that ambassador's ship. And alfredo? Well, what about my husband? And what about mine? We shall see. Honey, or would you rather sit this one out? Would you? No, I'm tired. Let's dance. Oh, I'd love to, Your Grace. Because I must talk to you alone. But how about later? Well, why not? At eleven then, at your room? At my room? Of course. I may take out papers down here permanently. What was that you said, Baroness? You must see me tonight?  Well, just let me check my schedule here. Marquis at eleven, Countess at eleven twenty, the Duchess at eleven thirty-five. Well, suppose I squeeze you in at, say, midnight? Oh, it's the witching hour. Yes, you can park your broom in the hall and come right in. Mimi? Oh, Homer, I must speak to you alone. Sorry, you'll have to buy a raffle, take it like the rest. Homer, you're in danger. This is the kind of danger I like. Whatever you do, don't touch the wine at the banquet tonight. General Francisco is going to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got any extra sen-sen? Oh, listen to me. Run along, girl. You're beginning to bore me. Well, Your Grace, I simply must see you tonight. Sorry, honey. Book solid. Leave your name, and I'll give you the first cancellation. Next? Who's next?  Ladies and gentlemen, a toast to the beloved sovereigns of our two great nations, Philip of Spain and Louis of France. What's the matter, Your Grace? Not toasting your king? Well, I don't think I'd better have any wine. I have to drive. Just make mine a short-line cola. Drink it, or you insult our king. Oh, well. Hey, what's in this wine? I'd better stir it up a little. Yikes, the spoon dissolved. That wine comes to the king's own cellar. Well, maybe he's been playing with his chemistry set down there. This Mickey doesn't need fins. It's jet-propelled. What's the matter, my boys? And who wronged you? Oh, King Philip. Oh, I just remembered. I have a horse outside. I'm double parked. Well, it's been fun. Oh, Mimi, you were right.  Oh, and so have I. Mimi, we've got to get out of here. I will never make it together.  And leave you never. Oh, but you must. I said never. But they'll cut you to pieces. I'll send for you. Oh, Mimi, I know I'm not good enough for you, just a coward with seven up in my blood, but when I'm near you, it starts to boil and bubble, and every bubble starts to bubble, and every bubble's bubble-bubbles. I feel like a lovesick pressure cooker. Honest, Mimi, I'm frizzing all over with love for you. I know it, darling. I frizz a little myself. There he is. Carlos. Pedro. Quickly, Homer, run for your life. I've come to report, General. Well? That Duke has been returned quite unharmed to his room. Good. We must still find a way to dispose of him tonight. Oh, one other matter, sir. Our men have just captured a stranger, found not 10 minutes ago in the garden with Princess Maria. What? Who is he? He refused us to say. Dressed like a lackey, he is all the manners of a French nobleman. French nobleman, eh? Carlos, take me to this stranger at once. On your feet, Frenchman. So, you dare visit a garden of our Princess Maria? Princess Maria? What did you say?  Princess. You mean that girl? You mean she is the Princess of Spain?  Take me to the king at once. Why? Because I am the Duke de Chande. This ring on my finger will identify me.  Why, that's my barber. You think I almost let him marry my princess? Come, sir, take me out of here. Oh, no, I don't think so, my friend. Your barber shall marry the Princess Maria. Now look, this has gone far enough. Oh, our poor king will be vastly upset. It may even lead to a war. I demand you let me out of here. Certainly your grace, certainly. Right after the wedding. Hey, what's going on, Darman? What are those bells? They told the hour of marriage. Oh, I thought the phone strike was over. I guess they're just local bells, aren't they? He fails to appear, then honor is dead, virtue is dead, gallon three is dead. And with us, that makes a fivesome. Oh, hey, Kevin, maybe it's he now. Yeah, maybe it's him. It ain't he, it's him. What's this, your grace? Not ready yet for your wedding? Oh, well, I... There's been a slight delay, General Francisco.  Oh, no, no, no, we just... What incident? Just some scoundrel shouted to the high heaven that he was a ducashandra. Yeah, yeah, well, what did you do with him? What did you supposedly do with that lackey impersonating royalty? I asked you first. Stand him up against the wall, my men raise their rifles, and bing. Bing, what a revolting thought. How about getting dressed for your wedding? Oh, it's gonna be formal, huh? You're very little time. Where is he, General? The bridegroom. In his room there. Why have you come here, Carlos, and with Mimi? To tell you that King Louis of France has suddenly arrived for the wedding. Louis? What a stroke of luck. You men know what to do? The moment of Barbara Marys Maria, we produced the real ducashandra. Excellent. What do you mean, the real ducashandra? Mimi, my dear, we happen to have the real ducashandra locked in a dungeon. Oh, no. Oh, yes. Now, downstairs, both of you. Are you ready, Maria? The wedding guests are all assembled. As ready as I'll ever be, Father. The duke has just ended, and King Louis of France has joined us unexpectedly. Father?  Why, y'all, you're betrothed, my dear. The ducashandra. Oh, Father, don't you think that's carrying a patriotism a little too far? Well, I guess you've got a point at that, but it's too late to worry about it now. You're our Maria. King Louis, please, I can't marry the princess. Didn't you recognize me before? Of course I recognized you, but I couldn't let anyone know it. What's happened? Where's the shawnd? Oh, never mind. We can't do anything now. You've got to marry her. It's our next. But I love Mimi.  Mimi? Who's Mimi? You remember Mimi, Papadora? Oh, yes, of course, Mimi. Uh, client, here's that general again. Tell me, Your Majesty, is bouquets really a good barber? Good. Best barber I ever had. Bouquet, I haven't had a good shave since you... Oh, no, no. What have I said? Exactly what I hoped you'd say, Sire. Thank you for confirming information. Well, the Princess Maria makes her appearance. Shall we proceed? No, we won't. I got a mind on my own, and I say... Well, if you put it that way... That's better. Princess Maria, your grace. Come, gentlemen, let them have the next moment alone. Princess Maria. Well? You? You're the girl that... the coach, the Duke. What are you doing here? I believe I'm to be your bride. You are? Oh, that's too bad. I don't think they'll death do us part. Yeah, they're working on that. The Chief Justice has just entered. Well, I suggest you take them to the altar. And let's get this over with as quickly as possible. Princess Maria, your grace. Join hands, please. We are assembled on this solemn occasion... General Francisco! General! What is it? He's escaped. The Duke, your son, has escaped. You're sure? Positive. That girl, Mimi, got the keys and... You must act at once. Wait! Hold! Stop the wedding! Sire! I accuse this Louis of frowns of deliberately trying to... palm off on the princes of Spain. Not a prince of the blood. Not the Duke de Chandra. But Monsieur Bocair, a common barber.  Propulsion for commandment. Yeah, you bet he does. Just for that I'm not going to marry anybody. Oh, nothing personal, honey. Come on, King Louis, let's go. I repeat! This man is a common barber. And with my glove, I challenge him to a duel. You accept his challenge. Make it hot towels at 50 paces and I'll be interested. Slap him back! Go on! Slap me! Like this! You're sure lucky I haven't got a sword. Perhaps you will accept mine, Monsieur. You keep out of this. General Francisco, I don't believe a word you've said. For months I've been aware of your plots against me in the peace of our country. And it lasts you have gone too far. Deshaun, you'll be doing Spain a great service. You'll put an end to this conduit with a Spanish sword. Here, I give you my own.  After all, it's going to be awfully one-sided.  I'm God, very fast, and it's two dozen roses to the window. Yeah, but the choice-long stem ones, they're out of season. Let's wait till spring, huh? A guard! Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute! Hey, wait, wait! Cut that out! A guard! Foul! A guard! Deshaun! Get him Deshaun! Out to him! A pleasure sire! Oh, it's about time you got here, your grace. Well, now that I've worn him down, he's all yours. Anyway, whom did you just call Deshaun? Why, the real Duke of course. The man I sent to marry your daughter. That's it, Deshaun! Teach him a lesson, my boy! Show him our good strength. Hiya, honey. Don't stand there. Come on, we've got to get out of here. Darling, you're leaving the Palace of Coward. Why not? That's the way I came in. Are you all right? Are you hurt? I don't know. We'll take inventory later. Oh, don't worry, Homer. I have a carriage waiting outside. Yeah, but where are we going? Oh, I don't know. We can't stay here and we can't go back to France. Now, don't worry. We'll find a place. It'll be some country where you can die of old age. And so the real Duke Deshaun vanquished the wicked general and married his own true love, Princess Maria. General Francisco was banished and there was peace between France and Spain. But what's happened to our hero, Boccaire and Mimi? Well, let's cross the Atlantic. The year 1776, the place Philadelphia, where in a side street a sign reads, Homer Boccaire, barber. The only four-chair shop in the colonies. Who's next, please? Oh, I guess you are, Mr. Washington. Good morning, Boccaire. Morning, sir, the usual. If you please. I can't tell you what it means, Boccaire. A four-chair shop right here in Philadelphia. Tell me, how did you happen to come to America anyway? Well, I have to, General. I'm thinking of buying some stock in the Indians. Say, you're all dressed up today, sir. Sir, you're all dressed up. Something special going on? Oh, Jefferson and the boys have cooked up some sort of declaration of independence or something. Oh, what are those? And I ought to drop over and sign it. Chance to use my new quill. New quill? Yes, here, take a look. Ben Franklin invented it. Claims it writes underwater. Let me see that. The 76 special. Yeah. Park is sure going to be sore. All he's got is a fifty-one. I've been helping Martha with the fudger. Oh, by the way, you might... That's my line, if you don't mind. Don't come to that point. By the way, you might have Mrs. Boccaire. Can I cure my nails, please? Been helping Martha with the fudge, eh? He just wigs fast, doesn't he? That's a meanie. Oh, yes, there you are. Oh, there you are, Homer. Thanks, honey. But look who's under the lather. Mr. Washington. Well, how are you today? Splendid today, thank you. Uh, manicure? If you please. Now, you have been neglecting them, haven't you? You can throw the fudge line in there again if you want to. Washington was quite an ad libra, you know. Okay, I've been thinking, you know, all this, this could happen only in America. But what's that? Oh, that's something that could happen anywhere. Thank you, thank you. Say thanks, Bill, for teaming me with my favorite brunette, Joan. Uh, where are your eyes, Bob? I'm a blonde. Yeah, but my favorite brunette, that's the title of my German picture. Pretty sneaky, huh? Incidentally, Bob, you know those 14 favorite brunettes you brought to Hollywood to, uh, plug the picture? Please, Bill, not plug.  Well, we might as well be honest. Yeah, but plug always makes me think of Crosby. Yes, why didn't you go down to meet them, Bob? Oh, I was, but you know, Bill, people like myself hate to get mauled. People like yourself? Yeah, but it's for me personally, the maul, the merrier. You know, the funny fellow, that one. You know, they say there are seven women to every man in the United States, Bob. How do you rate 14 of them? I don't ask questions, I just have fun. Come on, Bill. Good night, and thanks, Bob. This is William Keely, saying good night to you from Hollywood. Television service.


The question is, what's going to replace our consumerism capital focused, capital appreciation focused system? And we're already seeing all these things around the edges. And this is why when I talk about the next economy, which is kind of this overall, I'm putting together this giant basket of factors. You know, like on the one hand, it's like the carrying economy. You know, we're starting to include that in the value boundary when rich companies are saying, well, we're going to give you three months. No, we're going to give you six months parental leave. And it's going to be for both parents. You know, that's basically valuing the carrying economy.  I love Kaifu Lee's idea of no, we should we should tackle the carrying economy thing with a social investment stipend, you know, where we pay people to raise their kids. We pay people to look after their elders. We pay people to work in their communities, you know, like we have all these fresh opportunities to think about, you know, do we still want to do the same, you know, kind of economy? Or is it time for one of these generational shifts?  Are we going to learn a lesson? Are we going to go? How do we turn this into an opportunity? You know, so when I think of great challenges of the 21st century, one of the ones I like to say is, how do we turn refugees into settlers? This is Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. I'm here today with my friend Tim O'Reilly from O'Reilly Media. He's the founder and president. He runs a series of conferences. He's been to Inet conferences many times and stirred the drink of our awareness about the relationship between technology and society. When you look at tech, it's it's this incredible mirror. Look in the mirror. And that's really been, I guess, one of the biggest ideas that I've been just wrestling with for the last four or five years. You know, I talked about some in my book, but I've continued to think about it and look at it, which is, you know, when we see these algorithmic systems and we question, are they giving us what we want? You know, we have to recognize that we've built an economy, which is an algorithmic system that is a natural creation of a set of rules. It's very analogous to what Facebook built and that can go right in some ways and wrong in other ways that people can have really good ideas that that don't work out over time. So much to drill down on there. So yeah, a lot of side effects. So by the way, just for our listeners, your book is called What's the Future? Big yellow color WTF. And I remember you presenting that at the Inet conference in Edinburgh. And people were really delighted. Many, many went home, read it and sent me nice notes about it. And I hope I hope how to say people will start with that and follow your work, which is online. But the book is really a nice basis for understanding where you do work. Yeah. And from that point on, I've also spent I spent a lot of time starting to look at kind of the economics of these platforms and the economics of content on the web. And the whole idea of platform economics is a fascinating subject. It's very relevant to my own business because we run this online learning platform. And what we're trying to do is to balance the incentives for content creators to create with the interests of consumers. And, you know, we're very clear that we have to actually satisfy both sides of our market, partly because we're not a monopoly. You know, there are a lot of people providing this kind of content.   And so I guess that sent me down a path of really trying to understand, you know, how do you build a balanced platform? We really try to do that. And it's actually funny because a lot of the most powerful innovations in our online learning platform came from us trying to find new ways to make money for our suppliers, not by trying to come up with new features for our users. And anyway, so I just started just, you know, studying this whole field of platform economics, understanding, you know, there's so much that's powerful and right there. There's this great quote from Paul Cohen, who used to be the DARPA program manager for AI and other advanced technologies, now a professor of computer science at the University of Pittsburgh. But he, he said, we were at the National Academy of Sciences, and he said something that I immediately wrote down. I've been quoting ever since. He said, the opportunity of AI is to help humans model and manage complex interacting systems.  And they're the farthest along at using these AI and algorithmic systems to manage economies. You can actually, in an odd way, and I find this particularly fascinating with Google, because in its early years, and unfortunately, I don't think they've kept to this insight, in their early years, you know, first 15 years, say, they really had a very clear separation between the money market, which was their advertising, and the natural organic search market. And so fascinating because we have this idea in economics, I think, that in some ways, you know, price signaling, money is the coordinating function of the invisible hand. And what Google showed us in organic search was that you could actually build an incredibly powerful invisible hand centrally managed that did not use price at all as a factor. You know, they have hundreds of factors in modeling and manage a complex interacting system, looking at who links to what, what do people click on? You know, hundreds of factors and none of them was price. And so they proved to us that you can build a global scale, billions of users, marketplace of suppliers and consumers, a matching marketplace without money. And they had on the side the ads. Now, what's happened in the last 10 years is that they actually have have taken out, they've actually made search worse, i.e. adding money, they basically broken down the wall that they used to have between the two. And they and it's actually a lot like in some way, actually, Dina Srinivasan has a wonderful paper about Google Ad Markets, how they become, you know, they have kind of a monopoly on all the levels of the of the ad stack. Well, what I've been looking at is the other side, which is an as a result, they've had to produce more inventory. You know, in the same way that during the housing crisis, you know, they were producing more and more tronches of bad mortgages because they didn't have enough, right, for the demand that they created. And in a similar way, Google has basically said, oh, well, we're going to actually, you know, take, you know, get rid of those pesky organic search results. We can make more ad space and, you know, you'll find many times. Now there's this, you know, on a Google page for a financially valuable search. It's kind of interesting because non-commercial search looks a lot like Google did, you know, 10 years ago. You know, you'll have 10 links. You may have you'll have a few extra things.  But it's basically, you know, I always use my being a literary person, I'll do a search for, say, Anthony Trollop, who nobody reads anymore.  And it's amazing how much is now Google content. You might get one organic result, and it's all ads and Google's own content. And Google's own content tends to be a Roach motel. You know, it's like you click on the link and it looks like you're going to Yellowstone National Park. But no, you're going to another Google page about Yellowstone National Park, you know, where they've taken more and more of the content of the web. And of course, this is the other side of what Dan has talked about. And I guess I, you know, that leads me back to, well, what is the master algorithm? You know, because one of the things that's fascinating, despite what Paul said about modeling and managed complex interacting systems, you know, algorithmic systems typically have a master objective function. You know, this thing, and actually could be even for each sub-factor, because again, a lot of these things are additive, you know, you kind of are, but you have an optimization function. It's actually offering a lot, it's called a loss function. You try to minimize some value, but in other cases, it really is the maximization of something, even if the function itself is a loss function.  And, you know, so at some point, this idea that Google had of, you know, don't be evil, you know, when Larry and Sergey wrote their original search paper and they said, you know, an advertising based search engine will always be biased against its users. You know, this appendix called advertising and mixed motives. And they really, for the first 10 or 15 years, they figured out how to do that with paper click advertising off to the side. But at some point, you know, this and this again, this again, I'm rambling through my my half witted absorption of economics concepts here. I like going on a tour with you, so keep it up. Yeah, I've become fascinated by the concept of rents. And I've started working with Mariana Mazzucato and Josh Ryan Collins at UCL on a project funded by a media art to actually go a little deeper on this work on, you know, tracking changes in Google and, you know, Amazon's sort of content ecosystem and how that is really a former rent extraction.  And it's basically about land rents.  But Josh really talks about how that also goes. There's a fundamental part of land rent, which is the rent that is caused by growth. You know, more people move into your town. You know, there are improvements to your town that you didn't have anything to do with. And you get this free lift. And what struck me out is that in a lot of ways, what we're trying to measure is with these companies, you know, like if you look at an Amazon or Google, any really innovative company, they have that first type of free rent of the growth of the market, which carries them along up to a certain point. And then because the master algorithm says, you have to keep growing. They go, what do we do? You know, so in some sense, actually, it's a new thing. I haven't actually, you know, kind of done like, when did the number of searches stop growing? You know, when did the, you know, and is that the point at which they started using the extractive form of rents to make up the difference? We get the economy we ask for. You know, we didn't know that we were asking for it. But once we see it, we have an obligation to change it. And I think that the, you know, this sort of the notion that you can see so clearly in companies like Facebook and Google of, you know, they have an optimization function, you know, in the case of Google in their in their best years, it was, and Larry actually said this in an interview that they actually attached to the IPO documents in 2004. It's a Playboy interview, actually. He he said.  You know, and if you look at Google today, you would never think that that was the case, right? So they had this idea, this optimization idea that we will give people what they want and go away. And in fact, one of their, you know, factors, you know, search factors that I love the most in some ways called the long click. A lot of people, you know, people who are in the industry know about this, but others may not, you know, they realize that if, okay, when they were in the days of the 10 blue links, people would sometimes click on the first, people would typically start with the first link. And if they came right back and then clicked on the second link, then they came right back and they clicked on the third link. And then they went away. They would be, oh, that's a statistical signal. When enough people do it, that maybe the third link is the one that's actually the best link. Despite all the other factors saying otherwise, they call, and they call that the long click when somebody clicks and goes away. And so here was Google with this very clear, wonderful, very effective, you know, master objective, which is to make people, to have people find what they want and go away.   We end up with, you know, the various electoral politics in the US. You know, it's a combination of bad actors and misaligned incentives. And, you know, and in each case, the companies are doing a lot to try to change, but I think they're doing a lot to try to change without threatening what's their real master objective, which is, you know, we have to keep growing. And I think in a similar way, if you look at our tax system and our politics, you know, there's this massive avoidance of the fundamental realization that we are in charge of the economy that we, and we, so we do these little tweaks, what we're going to basically, we're going to do everything we can to reduce inequality, except, except do the things that would really do it, because there's too many people who have too much at stake. Yeah, that's an interesting question too. I look, I was going to say it's a very interesting question because when the scale of what I call natural monopoly, like Paul Romer talks about is so large, and yet we value individual freedom. We're defending the right of those technologists to operate on a very large scale without us intervening to change what they do for the collective good, right? It's really a tension between protection of individual liberty, whether it be commercial or social or what have you, on the one hand, and protection of other people from intrusion upon their lives by these products, and I have a good friend, Rohinton Madora, he runs the Center for International Governance Innovation near Toronto in Waterloo, Canada, and he talks about why don't we have a food and drug administration where these things get a trial, then they are explored for their social ramifications, then they are evolved, then they are released, and we're not very good at incorporating the public dimensions of the innovation for the social good once it takes off on a path that's quite profitable. Yeah, no, I hear that.  Yes, I mean, or almost always a bad idea. And competitors can engage in stopping you from developing something that would erode their profit margin too. So there's lots of complexities in this. Yeah, the thing that I think where I would start with more than anything else is a modified set of disclosures.  You can't hide this anymore. You know, they could have just said you can't hide it at all, you know, instead of you can have two measures and let people pick which one they're going to talk about. But they, you know, they had disclosure. And I think, for example, in the case of, you know, say Google and Amazon, I think, just in general, I, you know, I love the phrase, I'm not sure who said it originally, but Al Roth uses the title of his book, Who Gets What and Why? You know, like if you basically said, okay, we are going to work very hard to have a set of disclosures about who gets what and why. So there's really a transparent, you know, and, you know, like a real revolution in the, in the kinds of documents. You know, I think this is kind of going to a totally different area, but, you know, the work that Saul Griffith and crew did to map the energy economy with a Sankey diagram. What if you had a Sankey diagram of the money flows within Google and Amazon?  And again, it's just very much like what we're talking about with Google and in the glory days of Amazon, it was totally customer focused, you know, and Jeff said we want to be the most customer focused, you know, company on earth, it's hard to understand how that can still be the case when you do a search. And all that you get are, are promoted products, you know, do they are saying, oh yeah, we're, you know, maybe if we dug in, we'd say, they would say, oh yeah, well, we have a system for evaluating, you know, in which the ability to willingness to pay is only one of many factors, and we've tested and we made sure that it's balanced out by the other factors. And I would believe that that's possible. But they should be, you know, they should be thinking about that. Is there a fundamental conflict between their advertising business and their idea of giving the best product to the customers? I'm interested in things like this film that came out about, I guess, several months ago, the social dilemma. And they talked about how they can watch the things you like the things you click on, and then send you a subset of the stimulants to excite you to affirm you to keep you on longer, and that the side effect, or I guess the intent of that is once they've shown advertisers that they get this long attention and recurring returns and everything, they can then raise their advertising rate. Yeah. Again, I think that we need a lot more study of this. I don't know if you've seen Tim Wang's book, The Subprime Attention Crisis, where he makes the point that actually some of this hyper targeted advertising is not actually as effective as promised.  And eventually the bubble will pop. I don't know if he's right about that. But in any event, the thing that I find super interesting, again, coming back to my my thoughts about the master algorithm, I found it fascinating that in 2014, Facebook got taken out to the woodshed for the study where they were researching whether they could make people happier or set or whatever by what they showed them in their newsfeed. And that was considered a breach of research ethics. But studying whether you can get them to spend more time on your site so that you can make more money, which is the research they do every day, doesn't even consider research. That's just doing business. That's marvelous. Yeah. How can it be a breach of research ethics to experiment whether you're influencing people's moods when your business is influencing people's moods? And it's okay as long as it's for profit. That says that's our society in a nutshell.  Because if that had become, you know, like a legitimate subject of discussion, wow, we really are influencing how people feel. What do we as a society want to do about that? That would have been a really damn good question. And instead, we made them stop. Yeah, they might have discovered that they were doing things that were harmful to mental health and then probably had the American Psychiatric Association take out an ad so that they wouldn't publish that. So that they would generate more business. I mean, all these interactions just I'm goofing. But this is a lot of, this is a lot of complex stuff that really does matter to life. Yeah, it is. It matters of course of the wonderful book Fishing for Fools by George Ekeloff and Bob Schiller, which, you know, this is an efficient market for for everything, including fraud. You know, there's an efficient market for manipulation, you know, that's so much of what we take for granted as the way our economy works is that efficient market for manipulation, not for people's benefit. The original ideal of the market and that it pulled everything together and created the balance and the price was a reflection of desire and cost, etc. was then a little bit superseded by people like Frederick Von Hayek who said, No, what what the market is is the information aggregator and through the prices, you get the signals for social response to do the right thing. Well, what you're telling me, I believe, is that now the technology is such that it's essentially zero marginal costs. The information aggregator is pulling it all together and you can see the outcomes without all of the iterative process and that that almost like it's almost like a planning market to use the old communist can be run at the central office because the computer can reach so many places so inexpensively. You know, it's interesting. I've actually thought a little bit about that. There's actually a novel called Red Plenty about the you know, the Soviet Central Planners and it was a fabulous essay about that, a book review by a computer scientist about why even today it's still very very hard. But when I read it, I thought, oh, I think we're thinking wrong about that and the way we're thinking wrong about it is, yes, these companies are central planners, but in the old model of central planning, you were planning supply and today's central planners are planning demand. So they're manipulating demand and then letting the supply rise to meet it as opposed to in the Soviet model or whatever it was, you know, planned supply and you were always wrong, but they don't plan supply. They just plan demand. And the Soviet model, they told you what you needed in the Soviet model and provided the supply whereas they determine your preferences of what you would get, what you would eat, etc. Now they're detecting what people want, influencing what people want, and then the suppliers can react to that information. That's right. And it's the combination of detection and influence that we again, we need to understand.  It would be to vastly increase the amount of disclosure. Because I don't think we understand these systems enough yet. And you said earlier that you're able to do this at zero marginal costs. And I don't think that's actually correct. The cost is quite high. You know, if it were zero, I mean, it's high enough that you have only a relatively small number of players who are able to do it. And yes, you know, certainly it's got a low marginal cost, because once you built the infrastructure, you can do it for things that, for so many things that you would never have measured before, would never have influenced before, would never have. But it's not quite that idea of. Once you play at scale, your fixed costs are prorated over large volume. Oh, absolutely. But there's something that's a little wrong to me. And again, I am totally naive.  But it does seem to me that the idea from manufacturing of marginal costs going down is not the same in the digital realm. And when we say there's zero marginal cost, you know, a lot of it has to do with it. I remember back in the early days of Google, when I was first formulating, this would have been in the, you know, the early part of this century, you know, maybe even before Google had gone public. And I was thinking about what was different about these online platforms from, you know, the previous generation of software, you know, like Microsoft would have the gold master of Windows, and it would come out every two years or whatever.  And I made that comment, you know, to somebody who was a senior executive at Google, I said, you know, if you guys didn't keep working on Google, it would, it would stop working within a couple of days. She says, Oh, no, no, you're wrong. It would be a couple of minutes. Yeah. Okay.  And the point is, if Google or Amazon or whatever didn't keep doing what they're doing, you know, there is an incremental cost for which, which is ongoing. You know, it's not like you have a fixed cost that you're once done with. And in fact, because the world is changing so fast, you have to actually keep doing more and more. And you look at that with, say, Facebook, you know, it's like billions of people are pushing and pulling. And, and there's actually quite a high ongoing cost, which is driven by the changes that are extrinsic to the system.  And again, I don't think I haven't thought about that much before, but I'm quite convinced that somebody needs to basically write up an economics paper about why the economics of these businesses doesn't fit the old model. Yeah, there may be marginal costs that are incremental and increasing returns because the fixed cost of the platform is prorated over larger and larger volume. That's, that's right. I may have confused the two notions when we talk. Let me ask you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm really interested in you're exploring these technologies and their social ramifications and their business models. But there's one other overlay here. We live in a world now, which where different regions have very different philosophical systems. The Chinese Confucian Dallas world is very different than the Cartesian Enlightenment world. We see the difference between the United States in the one hand with lots of suppliers, Europe, using these services, but not having as many of the big monopolies that originate there. Asia with a centralized government structure, people fearing the centralized control. How do we build a global system where these kinds of platforms interface across nations and across philosophical boundaries? That's a really, really interesting question. And I guess I would say that that is one of the challenges that we get to face in the 21st century. Yeah. And I would would say that you know, that in fact is going to be a lot of the history of the 21st century. People are going to be pushing for advantage and trying to push their system over another. And I guess is that really that different from history in the past? Probably not. No, you know, in the sense that it's different manifestation with this technology system, different kinds of challenges in the micro sense, but the struggle is every person. If you think about colonialism, for example, this was, you know, somebody had a better, you know, now when I say better, it's in quotes because it wasn't necessarily, you know, more, but it was it was more powerful. They had a more powerful methodology. And we may well see, for example, that let's just say, let's imagine that China has a more powerful methodology, and they will outperform and and, you know, and the rest of the world will be forced to adapt. Hey, that's what happened with American capitalism. And so, you know, so I guess I would say that figuring this out really matters, but it isn't necessarily going to be, oh, we're going to figure out how to interoperate and everybody will play by the same rules. It may be that somebody wins and we all have to play by their rules.    And I guess I would also say that I think that we're entering a really interesting world where the kind of challenges that we face are, you know, our old solution becomes a new problem.  And the winners bankrupted the losers. They had this terrible outcome of great depression, you know, hyperinflation in Germany leading to World War Two. After World War Two, they're like, dude, we're not doing that again. Right. And you have the Marshall plan, you have all the social insurance in the US, you have all those things that we did where we were optimizing for full employment.  And I think, you know, what we got to with our current version of shareholder capitalism has had also had a 40 year run.  And now it's not working. Hey, guys, good, good hard slog in, you know, and so the question is what's going to replace our, you know, consumerism, capital focused, capital appreciation focused system. And we're already seeing all these, you know, things around the edges. And this is why when I talk about the next economy, which is, you know, kind of this overall, you know, I'm putting together this giant basket of factors, you know, like on the one hand, it's like the carrying economy, you know, we're starting to include that in the value boundary when, you know, rich companies are saying, well, we're going to give you three months. No, we're going to give you six months parental leave. And it's going to be for both parents. That's basically valuing the carrying economy.  Or is it company's job?   Or is it time for one of these generational shifts?  Are we going to go, how do we turn this into an opportunity? You know, so when I think of great challenges of the 21st century, one of the ones I like to say is, how do we turn refugees into settlers? You know, like, say we're treating them as a temporary problem. No, they're not going to be a temporary problem. We have to figure out, you know, and, you know, I've often thought, you know, that there's, you know, there are lessons from history.  And, you know, if they, but, you know, the good side is all these people were not refugees, they were settlers. The bad side is they dispossessed the people who were there, you know, before.  And you say, you know, what if we said, no, let's actually have, let's build new settlements there. Let's figure out how we would do that.  I go, do we really need to build a smart city for tech people on, you know, on the outskirts of Toronto? No, Google, figure out how to make, you know, a refugee camp that's the new Hong Kong or the new Singapore, you know, that would be a freaking challenge. One of the things that is in the forefront of my mind right now is the challenges, the disruptions and the continent of Africa. Yeah, the one level. There are things like Jack Ma and the Luton Academy are working on in relation to creating new networks with the kind of technology you study to facilitate development, because what I will call the East Asian model, manufacturing, infant industry protection are being obliterated by global supply chains, machine learning and automation. Secondly, it's an equatorial region and climate change will affect subsistence farming and undermine social stability in an underdeveloped region. Finally, you've got according to the International Office of Migration, by the year 2070, absent a major war, the population of the continent of Africa will be 5.1 billion people. And so there's all kinds of things that you just took me through. There are all kinds of dimension, technology playing a positive role, neurology, meaning pastures of pro-law, climate change intruding massive potential migration. It's a fascinating laboratory for the kind of works that you explore. It is. And I have to say, you know, it's not going to be pretty. And that's kind of comes back. You mentioned in the beginning, we talked a little bit about social science food camp and I didn't mention one of my favorite sessions is from Ada Palmer, who is a science fiction writer and she's also a Renaissance historian. And actually, she's or she says she's a Renaissance historian who's also a science fiction writer. The two spring from the same deep sense. And she has a blog called X Herbet, which, you know, from the city in Latin, in which she writes these popular essays about how history happens. And they're fascinating because one of her, you know, themes is that we tend to always interpret history through our own lens. And she she she said, you know, people like to say history is written by the victors. That's wrong. Among historians, what we say is history is written by the people who write history and they have their own motivations. And she gives the example of one of her you know, peers as a grad student, written a thesis about a period in Mexico, when the span, maybe other parts Mexico and other parts of Central America, where there was a whole movement where the this, you know, the educated Spanish were rewriting Roman history to justify, you know, the way they were treating the you know, the Native Americans, you know, and you know, nothing, you know, and so you could see it there, you know, but could we see, well, well, David Gibbon was doing the same thing, you know, justifying the British Empire. And anyway, she goes back through many, many different examples. And actually, it's kind of funny because I'm just reading this is not history, but it's making very much the same point. Emily Wilson's translation from a couple of years ago of the Odyssey. And she just talks about the fashions in translation and the values that are expressed, you know, it's like, and both Ada and Emily make the same point, which was the people in the past were not like us.  It's like, no, nobody got burned at the stake for being an atheist.  And he's like, no, nobody got burned at the stake for, they felt Lucretius was so ridiculous because nobody could believe in atheism.   But I guess I think that we have to have kind of a humility as we think about the 21st century. And we, and it's not going to look like us. And we have to look back and go, Oh, yeah, the way we are today is not how we were 50 years ago. I mean, there is a continuity. But there's also massive discontinuity. And, you know, so for example, you know, that post World War II economy that I was talking about earlier, was a different economy where we valued labor, you know, and the idea that somehow the market doesn't value labor anymore. No, no, no, we told the market not to value labor anymore. I know there's a conversation I had with Brad DeLong once where he said, Look, I have a toy model. I haven't really developed it, a toy model where you can actually get the same output with, you know, more technology and less labor or, you know, less technology and more labor, you know, but you can get the equivalent results.  And this idea keeps cropping up. I'm thinking about Ibrahim Kendi's book, How to be an Anti-Racist. And he comes to this wonderful conclusion, which is very similar. He says, you know, everybody has this idea that being an anti-racist is having certain values and feelings and eradicating, you know, values and feelings. He says, No, racism is not a set of feelings. Racism is a set of policies which are put in place by people in power and that are sold by influencing and creating those feelings. You know, and I think that that is a really powerful notion.


All right, Berko, let's see how your weekend is going to play out for you. This weekend coming up will be, my goodness, January 11th, 11th, beginning on the 12th through the 14th. Okay, you have axe, you have the butterfly, sunglasses, and the dragonfly, okay. So it looks like, okay, being light-hearted, finding something out, things coming to light, adapt, changing, and healing. It looks like you're going to break up with somebody or give a silent treatment or end a relationship over this weekend. And some of you might actually get into another relationship with someone and or this might actually evolve this relationship. Berko, no, that's the second part. It really is. I feel like you're going to axe something.  And I think you're just going to be like, you know what, I mean, I've adapted, now it's time to change Neil. And I honestly feel like you walking away from a relationship this weekend is actually going to improve the relationship, which would make it evolve to the next phase. All right, so I haven't even pulled any cards yet and I'm already telling you what I'm feeling except for these cards. It's basically like if this relationship doesn't change or evolve to the next phase, I'm out of here. And somebody's going to watch you walk away, like they're going to keep their eye on you. They're going to have their eye on you. Okay. Well, what is this about? Tell Berko. What is this about? What is this about for Berko? All right. Yeah, Berko, look at you.  I'm done with this. I'm not dealing with this relationship anymore. This is bull. It's bull. It's not going anywhere. I don't want to, like, I'm sorry, I love you.  We've sat down, we've talked, I've asked to meet, I have my needs met. I'm doing my best to meet yours, but you're not budging. You're not moving. You're holding on to me. You're not letting anyone else come in, but like we're not, you're just putting me on a shelf. Where is it going? It's not going anywhere. And I don't have to stay on the shelf. I'm just going to tip myself right over onto the floor and roll on out the door.  That's what it looks like. Now, you know, that's what it looks like. Yeah, I'm done with this.  What do you mean you're done? You've never been done. Well, you said you were done before or you've you've stopped talking to me before, but you never actually just never came back. You always come back. What do you mean? And Virgo's like, no, here's the keys to the car keys to the house. You can have it all back. There's your records. There's your cat. Adios. So I kind of feel like Virgo, this person, they're going to be watching as you walk away. Yeah, yeah, they're going to be stalking. Can't with us. Four of cups. Here you go. But I love you. I love you. I love you. I promise. I promise that the rings come in. I promise the commitments coming. I promise. Come on, baby. Take me back. Take me back. Take me back. And Virgo's like, I'm sorry.   Virgo's like, I don't even care about your love offers.  OK, so I always feel like somebody's watching me and I have no privacy. All right. Yes. The way these cards come out some days, it's, you know, you can't. Like I said, they're going to be watching.  Shaking your booty as you're walking out the door here. Like, OK, take a picture. It lasts longer. Bye bye. And then just going to be like, oh, look at Virgo going. Yeah. Virgo will be back. That's what they're telling themselves. Virgo always comes back to me. Virgo will be back. Virgo, yeah, I'll just wait. I'll wait so I'll get some laundry done. You know, I know it's piled up, but I guess I could get some laundry done and get things done while I'm waiting for Virgo to come back. Virgo's always available.  They got something else going on. It's not what they're saying. It's nothing to do with me. I'm perfect. They got other issues. Virgo has other issues. So Virgo will be back. Yeah. I'll get the laundry done, get these bills paid. Maybe I'll go clean up that wood pile in the backyard. Virgo's like, I'm free. Look at me. I'm single. I have all my coins. I got my money in the bank. I even got myself a little bird. Keep me company. Yep, I'm fine. I got some new clothes. I'm looking good. I'm even wearing my reading glasses because I'm getting old. But that's OK. They're hanging around my neck now. But I won't lose them. I'm good. And then, and then, in walks the love of Virgo's life. Oh, yes, yes. See, Virgo, you might have been trying to get this person to change. And I told you in the beginning of this reading that once you give someone the axe, the relationship will evolve to the next level. But the only way it's going to actually evolve to the next level is if somebody else is in the picture. Now I am not telling you to go out and just start dating immediately. Oh, yeah, we all got to heal. But you know something? Sometimes you've just been healing enough. You've had enough healing. And now you're going to need to get moving. Somebody else comes into the picture. And that person finds out about it because, remember, they're watching. And now that pile of laundry and that big pile of logs out there in the backyard is not as important now as the fact that you've got somebody else here. And now this person turns into a fool for you. I'm ready. No, no, okay, let's do it. Let's do it. Virgo.  I just, like, I'm so thirsty right now. All right, okay, we'll do it. We'll do it. Listen, listen, Virgo. I have two minds on this whole thing. It doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. Who cares? This is how it's going to happen. Once somebody else is in the picture, that there's a little bit of competition. And that's when things are going to shift. And that's when things are going to change. So this weekend, you know, that's what I'm seeing. Okay? Does that mean you're going to do it? Actually, except somebody to come in, maybe. You might even manifest it on your own. Or you might kind of just make it seem like somebody else is in the picture. And you might not be serious about that person. I don't know. But whoever comes in, obviously, like, they're, I don't know, you might want to take a look at them. Aries, Libra? I'm not Libra. Could be. Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Could be a Taurus. Could be an Aquarius. You might want to take a look at this person who's coming in to make, you might be wasting your time with someone from the past that's not, if they weren't willing to move then, you know, I don't know where I go. I'm not going to give you advice. I'm done with that. You're definitely going to get made a crosshord. You're going to, you're definitely going to have a decision, a choice. Oh my God, two of wands. Which path you're going to take? Which path you're going to journey? Cause I feel like whoever this person is that needed that wake up call, they get it when somebody else, when they feel like there might be a threat or somebody else in the picture. And if they think for two seconds that somebody else couldn't be in the picture, it's only because you are just not allowing them to be. Not allowing someone else to be in the picture. Someone else could definitely be in the picture. But maybe Virgo, you're that person that just you hold on with your heart. You love who you love. You don't want to ruin the relationship but why do you have to be the good guy all the time? Why do you have to be the one who's always doing the right thing? Who's being righteous and doing it by the book? Just curious. Okay. That's you. Day in and day out. You're always doing the grind, Virgo. You're always doing the grind. You're always doing it the right way. Looks like it's time to come out of your comfort zone a little bit. Shake things up a little bit. It looks like it's time for you to like take some action and change some stuff about yourself a little bit, you know?  I don't know what you're doing but it looks like you need to shake your tail feather. I almost said you need to shake your tail feather. What the hell's wrong with me? You need to shake your tail feather a little bit here, Virgo. Yeah.  You are the queen. You are the king. You are the ish. All right. Let me get some. I forgot I was gonna do this. All right. Who's the Chinese sign? You and the person you're walking away from. This sounds like some kind of plan to put into action but I'm not telling you to do this. I just see that you're taking these, making these moves. You got ear of the dragon. Ear of the goat. Ear of the pig. Ear of the ox. Dragon again. Ear of the rooster.  A goat again. The dog. The rat. One more they said. And a horse. All right Virgo. So you and the person you're walking away from. Sure. Do what you gotta do Virgo. You know. Oh, they just said. They just said to deviate away from that and give you some money messages. Okay. You know what? I'm gonna give you some Chinese messages since we are now into the ear of the dragon here. All right. Let's see what your fortune cookie Chinese messages are. Okay. You have a bunch. Love life. Affairs of the heart could cause future problems but take heart as difficult situations will be resolved by a good decision this week. Ooh. And you have luck. A sudden change of luck is likely. Things are working in your favorite excellent time for networking. Here Virgo. You also have burnout. Your hard work will see results but your health needs to be maintained. So check in with your doctor, dentist and health professional and try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. All right. Let's give you another one. Okay. You've got love again. Love is in the air. A great time for commitment and taking relationships to the next level. That's what it was. The relationship evolving. For some of you it's letting go of an old one and somebody new comes in here. That King of Wands. Masculine or feminine. Something starts evolving there. Well the cat's away. It looks like the mice are gonna play. All right. Let's see. All right. You got a Taurus. A Libra. Aries. And a Scorpio. Okay. September 20th. September 6th. September 12th. Birthdays. Initial P. Initial T. 55. Age 55. Oh and just like that we have a Dalmatian. See it? You got a Dalmatian. Let me see if I could bring it in closer. Bringing it. Mama Sita bringing it in. There. So do you have a Dalmatian? Someone might have a Dalmatian dog. Something special about a Dalmatian or a dog. Okay. Walk in the dog. You might need someone while you're walking your dog. 1973. The initial A's. Two A's. And a G. We have a Taurus again. A Libra again. A Scorpio again. And a Taurus again. And there's a Capricorn. We've got July. Month of July. Very significant. You have an H and an I. Somebody's name is Pat. Patrick. Patricia. Someone's last name is Pitt. Someone's a pitcher. I just heard pitcher like they pitch. Pitchin' a ball. Pitcher catcher. I know it sounded like I was going. Someone's last name is Hate. H-A-I-G-H-T. Oh, sorry, you guys. I didn't realize the thing was out. Hate to H, like Hate as Aspery. Hate H-A-H-A-I-G-H-T. Or height. Hate or height. Okay. Someone works for a company called AIG.  What does that mean? P-H-A-T. I don't know what that means. I probably don't want to know. I don't know if it's an acronym for something or what, P-H-A-T. Okay. It's like something the kids say. I don't know what the kids say. All right. Let's do get another charm. Oh, I didn't even see this was sitting here. Where'd this come from? There's a hanger. Do you see? Let me get close. Look, a hanger. Do you have like a hanger? Like an airport hanger? They're just saying. Hold on. A hanger. Are you stuck at an airport? They're just saying I'm getting that. Or someone has a boutique or owns a boutique as well. Or you have really nice hangers in your closet, like specialized nice hangers. No, that feels like, or some of you are taking that dress off that hanger or that outfit, masculine or feminine, whatever you are. Some of you are putting on that little black dress or you're getting in this in clothes or putting on something you haven't worn in a while over this weekend. Maybe you're going somewhere. Look at the plane. Maybe you're flying stuck in the airport though. Watch out for delays. There might be airport delays over the weekend. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to leave that there. That was interesting. I don't know if it was fun, but it definitely was interesting. I hope you guys have a great weekend. Don't forget to click the like, share and subscribe on the channel if you enjoy my readings. And again, as you guys have to keep saying, that some people are like, I don't know how you can go from being in a commitment in the relationship to now we're broken up and he's a liar. 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