I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the crime club. I'm the librarian. Island witnesses. Yes, we have that crime club book for you. Come right over. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on the shelf. Here it is, Silent Witnesses by John Stephen Strange. A very unusual story of a letter that was registered by death. Let's look at it under the reading lamp. It was early evening, and the blizzard that had been going all day gave no sign of blowing itself out. Mary Masterman didn't care. She was home in her upstairs apartment in the quaint two-story building in Greenwich Village. And she was comfortable. Too comfortable, as a matter of fact. Because in the midst of the mystery novel she was reading, the book dissolved on her lap. She dissolved on the sofa. And before long, she was sound asleep. Let me see you, Barney. I'm afraid something terrible has happened. What? I don't know how to explain, but there's been a murder. Please hurry. Where's the corpse, Mary? Well, you said something about a murder, didn't you? Yeah. Well, where is it? Barney, are you going to be mad at me? Now look, precious. I'm not going to be. You're so sweet. I am hopping mad. Look, what's the idea of making me drive for an hour in that blizzard all the way from the Bronx? Dude, Barney, I was frightened. By whom? The mysterious traveler? I thought I heard two shots. Huh? What's that? Two pistol shots. They seem to come from just below. Frank Vaughan's apartment? But I didn't really hear them. What? I was dreaming. I was reading a mystery book, and I fell asleep. And then? Bing bang, but it was all a dream. Must have been. Aren't you sure? Oh, yes. After I phoned you, I decided not to be a scary Mary, so I went down to Frank Vaughan's apartment. And there he was. Oh, how'd you do? And how are you? Oh, don't be silly. I didn't go in. Oh, of course not. Why visit a live lawyer? I didn't even see him. Huh? I listened at his door, and I was satisfied. He wasn't moving around the apartment. How do you know? What? How do you know it was Frank Vaughan who was moving around? Oh, now look, Bonnie. Maybe it was a murderer. Oh, Mary, you're lucky. What do you mean? Suppose he opened the door and seen you. What then? Are you trying to frighten me all over again? You scared me, didn't you? I thought you stepped down an author or something. You witty. No, you witty. You still love me? Well, as long as I'm here. Oh, baby. Darling. No sugar shorted here. All right. Me flirted long enough. No. What? Fix me a drink. Then we'll go downstairs and tell Frank Vaughan about your dream. It ought to kill him for sure. Must have gone out, Bonnie. Yeah. He's even crazier than I am. Am I surprised? Does he always keep his door unlocked? Well, how would I know? I didn't say you should, Mary. Then why did you ask? Just because Frank and I are the only tenants in this house doesn't mean. Look out for that table. I see it. Oh, imagine Frank keeping that window open as though it was summer. I better close it. No, no, let's go back upstairs. Wait a minute. We've got no right to be here. Frank isn't home, and besides, I'm cold. Mary, you said you heard two shots. Oh, not that again. I told you I was dreaming. You weren't. What? That's right, honey. Look at that wall. A hole? A kind of bullet makes. Where's my pen knife? What are you going to do? Dig, baby. But you can't. Who says so? Now listen, boy. Oh. What's the matter? Over here by the fireplace. Blood? A broken cocktail glass. Uh-huh. Well, here it is, Princess. A bullet? From a 25. Well, then, I wasn't dreaming. Oh, Barney, what happened here tonight? I don't know, but I want you to do a little thinking. All right. Were there two shots or only one? I can't be sure. You've got to be. Well, it seemed like two, but. Yeah? But I was fast asleep, Barney. And if there were two, where's the other bullet? And where's? Oh! There ought to be edge, Mary. It's only the telephone. Yes? Uh-huh. This is Mr. Masson, Thomas Masson. Yes? I expected to hear from you today about that offer I made. Oh, did you? Now, see here, Mr. Vaughn, I think I've been very generous. You know my step-sister held hasn't got a case against me. She can't possibly break Aunt Helen's last will and testament. It's bona fide. Then why bother to make offers? As I told you the other day, I don't want the unpleasantness of a trial in court. And I'm not going to give Hilda the satisfaction of a cash settlement out of court. I'd rather do business with you, privately. Yes. Now, think it over. And you don't earn a hundred thousand dollars every... Do you hear that, Mary? I don't believe it, Barney. You mean a hundred thousand? I don't believe Frank Vaughn would sell out a client. He hasn't done it yet, precious. He wouldn't even think of it. Such neighborly faith. Oh, Barney. All right, all right. Let's go. By all means. We're going uptown to Ted Lasseter's nightclub. Well, what's there? Hilda. And when she opens her mouth, some call what comes out singing.  Is he Hilda around? No, but I see Ted Lasseter. Where? That corner table. Oh, yeah. Hold on. Watch. Doesn't look very gay, does he? Maybe you know what's wrong with him. Mm-hmm. What? Keep your eyebrows on. I'll show you. Oh, tingling with excitement. Shh. I want to surprise him. You want a roll for the club, Ted? Huh? Who said that? I did, pal. Well, what's the idea, Barney? Just trying it out, that's all. Well, don't do that again. You newspaper guys. Anything for a laugh, huh? Anything. What's he got on you, Ted? Nothing. Who's been telling you things, Barney? Rumor hath it, Chum. And when rumor hath it in this down, it's practically a whindle. Yeah.  Thanks. So don't believe everything you hear. I'll make a note of that. And don't talk about what you don't believe. Sure. Would one of you mind telling me? Well, you heard what he just said, Mary. It's a lie. What's a lie? The blizzard we left outside. Where's Hilda, Ted? She's in my office. Mind if I go in there? Yeah, she's, um, on the phone. Oh, that's all right. I won't listen. That's what I said, Barney. She's talking to her lawyer. Frank Vaughn? What kind of drinks you want, kids? On the house? But, Barney, if she's talking to Frank... Yeah. A scotch and soda, Ted. I'll get away to him. How about you, Mary? Oh, I feel wonderful. How are you? Well, I... Hey, Barney, uh, is she okay? Mmm. Perfect. Then, uh, what is she doing? You don't understand, Ted. We had a terrible scare about Frank. You see, I was home alone and around 7 o'clock I thought I heard two shots in Frank's apartment. You, uh, what? But it wasn't two shots. It was only one shot. Because after Barney came over, we went downstairs and then back again. Where was Frank? What? Oh, Hilda! Was he there? No, but what's the difference? He's home now. Is he? You just spoke to him, didn't you? No, Mary. Well, I... Well, Hilda, baby, you were in my office half an hour. There was no answer. You know what it means, Ted. Maybe. Those two shots, Mary heard. Only one. He had that letter Aunt Helen sent me just before she died. He took it home with him tonight. He was going to have a handwriting expert check it. Maybe he didn't take it after all. I told you I saw him put it into his briefcase. I was with him in his office up to half past five and I left the building with him. Okay, so the handwriting expert checked it and Frank went out someplace. Now what's there to worry about? He didn't phone me and he said he would. Tom would do anything to get that letter he'd kidnap or murder. What was in it, Hilda? Three million dollars worth of evidence, Barney. My whole case against Tom. How about some particulars? Sure, why not? About a week before Aunt Helen died, that slimy step-brother of mine got her to sign a paper. Oh, well? Yes. She was having one of her bad days and she didn't know what she was doing. But a couple of days later, she remembered something. The butler and the cook had been present when Tom gave her that paper to sign. Wouldn't she? That's right. And she couldn't understand why. Tom wouldn't tell her and the servants didn't know, but she was worried. So she wrote that letter telling what happened and got the doctor to mail it to me. Well, why didn't she give it to you? I was in Europe. I didn't even know she was dying. By the time I got back to New York... Come on, now take it easy, baby. The will was filed and all I got was one dollar. One dollar? And Tom walked off with the millions. And now he's going to keep them. He's got that letter. You don't know, Hilda. He's got it, Ted. Not... So long, kiddies. Where are you going? Guest. Your step-brother? Of course. It's a logical move. I'm going with you. Thanks, Ted, but I can frighten him all by myself. But just a minute, Hilda. What is it, Barney? You ran on a mansion on West 84th Street, didn't you? Yes. She died there. Anybody using it now? Nobody. It's boarded up. Why? No reason. I was just thinking about the housing shortage. Let's go, Mary. And give my best to your step-brother, Hilda. And don't shoot without counting the steps to the death house.  Mary, you say the nicest things. You'd have to be to believe that Frank's hiding out in that house. I didn't say I believe it, did I? Then why are we going there? To do a routine check. Look, precious, there's something rotten in this state of Masson versus Masson, and it might be Frank Vaughn. You're crazy. OK, my me, but where's Frank? I don't know. He might be dead. He might be. Who killed him? Tom Masson. Just like that, huh? Well, he had to get that letter, Barney, or lose $3 million. There was only one shot, precious, and we found the bullet in the wall. I'm not so sure about that now. Huh? The more I think of it, the more I... Of course, I was asleep. But, darling, even so, would I hear two shots if there'd only been one? Well, I... And that broken cocktail glass and the missing bullet, what do they mean? Those silent witnesses that something dreadful might have happened. Oh, Barney, I don't feel good about it. That's why we've got to keep looking for Frank Vaughn. All right, but why in that house? Because it's boarded up and out of circulation. If Tom Masson killed Frank, it'd be an ideal place to park the body. But if he didn't... He'd want people to think that Frank had disappeared. But what if he didn't, Mary? Step on the gas, Barney. We've got to hurry. I hope you're not disappointed. What was that? Hallelujah. And on a night like this... Reach into that glove compartment, Mary, and hand me my flashlight, please. A blowout? In more ways than one. Oh. Well, yes, my adorable one. Why didn't you tell Hilda about that phone call Tom made? Is that all you got to offer, precious? I just happened to think of it. Well, if it'll keep you comfortable, darling. It was because she already had murder in her heart, and I didn't want to put it in her hands. Come on, honey. Here's something we didn't think of, Barney. How do we get into a house that's boarded up? That's easy. Show me a keyhole, and I'll show you a way to get in there. And there it is, the front door. No boards. I still don't see how you're going to do it. Live and learn, honey. And there's so much to do about it. Watch now. I take this past key. Pass it into the keyhole. Give it a turn like this. And... Presto! Well, look, Trek, aren't you? You can get into a lot of trouble doing such thing. Not such things, honey. Come on. Let's get out of this door. Hand me my flashlight. Thanks. Hmm. Nice and warm in here. Yeah. Almost as though we're being lived in. That does smell like coal heat, doesn't it? Mm-hmm. Let's look around. That room over there first. That should be the living room. I'm beginning not to like this very much, Barney. Oh, you'll get over it just as soon as we... Ah, it is the living room. So this is how the ten percent live. When they're living. Okay. Let's try the rest of the house. Honey, honey! You've been locked in, honey! Let us out. We know you're here, Frank Vaughan. You'll never get away with it, you know? Don't weigh yourself out, Barney. Yeah, but we're trapped. Why don't you care? You still have the pass key. Oh, I sure. I was just about to think about myself. Praise this little pass key. Well, Barney, open it. I can't. Don't be silly. You opened the outside door. Yes, honey, but it's not working on this one. Well, now what do we do? The windows boarded up in that door. Couldn't you break it down? That hunk of timber? Oh, I'm good places, but not that good. Yeah, Frank Vaughan's a nice guy. He wouldn't sell out a client. Not much. That could have been Tom Masson out there, Barney. Sure. Sure, he was just waiting for us to get here. Barney. What is this between you and Frank Vaughan?  You bet I do. I smell a rat and I... Nothing like coal gas? Yeah. Where's it coming from? I'll let you know in a minute. That hot air vent.  You're not kidding. And whoever's fooling around with that furnace isn't kidding either. Good night, Joseph. Good night, Mr. Masson, sir. But turn a corner and look what you meet. Hello. Hello, Tom. What are you doing here? Cute, aren't you? Let's go to your apartment. I have nothing to say to you. Really? Now look here, Hilda. After you, Tom. All right. But if you think you're going to bully me the way you... Step along, little man, or this gun will have something to say to you. I'm still after you. Very well. Hmm.  It's not your money, Hilda. Where's the letter? Letter? The one Aunt Helen wrote me. I sent you a photostatic copy. So don't pretend to look as innocent as you look. Oh. Do you want that copy now? I want the original. No. Frank Vaughn had it and you took it. Hmm. This is too good to be true. So you've lost your case. The letter, Tom. I haven't got it. Don't lie to me. Somehow you found out that Frank was going to take it home and have it checked. Did I? You murdered him and stole that letter. Really? You're slightly out of your mind.  Now look here, Hilda. Frank Vaughn was your lawyer. I had nothing to do with him except through my lawyer. I never even spoke to the man. I want that letter, Tom. You don't believe me. Well, how can I convince you? Don't even try.    Even if you manage to get out of this building, you'll be arrested sooner or later. Neither of us will have the money. Hilda, listen to me. What for? I'll make a deal with you. Give you $100,000. Have my money. Aunt Helen left it to me. It's in her will. Who do you think you're kidding? I don't care about that letter. You can't prove that Aunt Helen wrote it. No? Is that why you killed Frank Vaughn? I didn't. Didn't even know he was dead. Oh, a snake can take lessons from you. I'll give you a quarter of a million. All I want is the letter. But I told you. And I told you I don't believe it. Well? All right. Where is it? I'll get it for you. Let's have a drink first. What for? To celebrate your victory. It won't take a minute. What would you like? Nothing. From you. Oh, come now, Hilda. How about some brandy and something?  I'll tell you. It was very foolish, Hilda. But what about the neighbor's thing? My wrist. That's better. Now, Hilda, you wanted to know about a letter. I haven't got it. And I'm awfully sorry I had to ruin that beautifully made-up face of yours. Just another minute, Mary. The board's off the window. There's some air coming in the window. It's a good thing you thought of that. Fireplace. Great. That's what I'm whipping. There. We're through. Come on now, let's get out of here. Oh, you don't have to ask me quite. I see such a lovely blizzard. Hop to it, kid. We got a lot of work to do. Oh, no. No, don't tell me we're going back into that house the front way. Not this team. There won't be anybody here to go back for. What do you mean?  You didn't say it was Frank Vaughn, Barney. No. I must be slipping. You wouldn't be changing your mind about him, would you? Oh, look, honey, right now I'm too tired to change anything. What's the matter? Let's get back to Frank's apartment and see if he's taken anything for a change. There's toothbrushes here. Yeah, and shaving things. Mary, there's something funny here. Is there? Yeah, the brush is still damp. So? And the razor. There's soap on it. Hand me that towel, will you, please? All right, but what's the rumpus about? It's dry. It's a fresh towel, too. Barney, would you mind telling me? I was just wondering, Mary, Frank was a pretty neat guy. Was?  None of it wasn't his habit. Barney, if you're saying that Frank was murdered... I'm only thinking precious. Let's go into the living room. Frank was expecting somebody tonight. Or why bother shaving? Well, Hilda told us the handwriting expert. Uh-huh. But would I shave for a handwriting expert? No. I would shave if I were expecting a beautiful woman. Hilda? Why not? How do we know that she was really trying to get Frank Vaughn on the phone? We don't. Might have been an act to impress Ted Lasseter, just in case he might need an alibi. I don't get it.  I didn't say she did, Mary, but suppose she found out that there was going to be a deal. That she was going to lose that letter. I don't believe it. I don't believe Frank Vaughn... Yeah, yeah, I know. He wouldn't sell out a client. But there's a possibility that he was going to.  And then what did she do with his body? Make a hocus pocus until it evaporated? Yeah, well, that's what I don't understand. Is Frank Vaughn alive in somewhere, or is he dead and... Mary? I'm listening. A little while ago you said something about silent witnesses. Yes, the broken cocktail glass and the bullet in the wall and the missing second bullet. How about that open window? Well, what about it? This is a ground floor apartment and that window faces the backyard. It's possible, Mary. It's just possible. What are you doing? Climbing up. Turn on all the lamps, will you, honey? I want plenty of light. Good morning. Mary, the lamp. All right, but I know you're crazy. I just know it. I'll never believe what you're thinking. We couldn't have been running all over town while he was... Stay away from the window, Mary. Buried in the snow. In his own backyard. But, Barney, of all the places to leave him. In snow. Maybe that's all the killer needed. But in a couple of weeks. Somebody had to make it look as though Frank had disappeared. Somebody who had a lot to do with a little time. Oh, hello, Mr. Thomas Mason. Yes. This is Frank Vaughn. What? I decided to make that deal with you. Come down to my apartment and bring that... But, Mr. Vaughn, I... You still want that letter, don't you? Well, certainly, but I... All right, then. Bring the money. $100,000. That was the price, wasn't it? Well... Have you changed your mind? Thank you. Goodbye. That's that. You're a pretty cagey guy. He knows something. Is he coming? So he said. We'll see. If he doesn't show up, then we'll know he knows we know. Or somebody knows. Now for suspect number two. And such a cute little suspect. Good evening, Mr. Lassiter. May I speak with Hill and Mason, please? Okay. Who's calling? Our attorney, Frank Vaughn. Who? Frank Vaughn. I promised to call him, Mr. Mason, about a certain report, but I was detained. Will you put her on, please? I certainly will, Mr. Lassiter. If you don't mind. Tell her to come to my apartment. It's very important. I'll do that. Thank you. Goodbye. Now all we've got to do is wait. And worry. Stay here in the kitchen, Mary. But why, Barney? You said the killer wouldn't come. I've been fooled before, and I don't want to. Will you do as I say, please? I can't keep our visitor waiting. All right. But you're cheating. You're right with her. Sorry to have kept you. Hello, Barney. Ted. You thought you fooled me, didn't you? You ought to take lessons in voice disguise. Ted Lassiter, back away from that door, pal. Sure, but you don't have to point that gun right at me. I can have just as much respect for it if we're looking somewhere else. Yeah? Where's the girl? Mary, she's upstairs in her apartment. You don't say. She was very tired, and tomorrow is just another working day, you know? You don't mind if I look around, do you? How can I mind? But she wouldn't be in that kitchen. She's got a kitchen of her own upstairs. And it's very, very cute. Yeah. Well, I'll have to go up there and see it sometime. Okay, I'll search the rest of the apartment when I get through with you. Well, uh, sit down, Barney. Do I have to? Well, I want you to be comfortable.  You tip me off to things before the cops find out. How do you know the cops didn't find out? Where are they, Barney? Oh, well, hey. They'd be all over the place if they knew, and they aren't. They're not even hiding.  You were a nice guy, Barney. Every dying man is allowed one last request. Will you tell me... Why did I kill Frank Vaughn? No, I just figured that out for myself. Yeah? Well, that's good. You dropped $50,000 in the dice game. The boys gave you 30 days to pay up, but they wanted collateral. You've got to know this for news, Barney. It's too bad it's going to be cold. So you put up your nightclub, and then tonight he'll tell you that Frank had taken that letter home to have it checked. You're not wrong. And that letter was worth a lot of blackmail money. So I took it. Is that all, pal? One last request. Did you collect on it? Not yet. Who are you going to talk to about it? Hilda or Tom Masson? Tom. He's got the dough. Why bother with outsiders? Then Hilda and Tom didn't know that you got it. No, but Tom's going to find out tomorrow. Oh, well. By the way, Ted, how did you get that key to that house on 84th Street? I borrowed it from Hilda's dressing room. Well, any more questions? Yeah. Just one more. Nice work, Mary. I knocked them cold. Catch me, Barney. I'm going to finish it. Well, you can't do that, honey. I never hit a man with a bottle full of soda before. Well, you're going to take the better of time, precious. Oh, you wonderful microbe. Where were you when Ted looked in the kitchen? I was under the table. What? And, Barney, that's where I want to be from now on. And so closes tonight's crime club book, Silent Witnesses, based on a story by John Stephen Strange. Steadman Coles did the radio adaptation. Roger Bauer produced and directed. Chet Stratton played Barney Gant. Sherita Bauer was Mary Masterman. Arthur Vinton was Ted Lasseter. Julie Stevens was Hilda Masson. And Ted Osborne played Tom Masson. Oh, I beg your pardon. Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the crime club. I'm the librarian. Yes, come over a week from tonight. Good. We have a very exciting story of a ghost that haunted like murder. 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Oh, he's married. Um, Keith Kelsey's dropping in for a while. Keith Kelsey? No kidding, Marge, is he? What's so wonderful about that? He's the best hockey player that I've had at Summerfield High in 20 years. Besides, I thought he was going around with Francie. He was. Gee, congratulations, Marge. Uh, just a moment, Leroy. May I ask who this young man is, Marge? Leroy just told you. The coach says he's the best hockey player we've had in 20 years. Just a minute. This fellow's named Keith Kelsey, you say? Yes. I don't trust any boy named Keith. Oh, Keith, that's silly. Oh, it's silly, is it? Isn't he one of the fellows that was mixed up in that mischief down at the high school last year? What mischief? You know what I'm talking about. That gang that kidnapped the police janitor so the school had no heat. Yeah, he thought of the whole thing. Oh, he did not think it out. Well, chances are he did think it out, but that's not the question. Was he involved in it? Well, I used his car. Oh, he's got a car. Yeah, he had a soup up for it, but he couldn't get gas so he had a soup it down again. If it was his car, he must have been one of the ringleaders in the kidnapping. A very dangerous stunt. Dangerous? It endangered the health of hundreds of high school pupils and teachers. Oh, well, nobody got sick. Well, I don't trust this boy. I don't want you seeing too much of him, my dear. I don't see why. I knew a fellow named Keith in college. He was no good either. Keith Robinson's. But Keith Kelsey was the best hockey player in the state practically. I think it's a great honor if he wants to come here even. I don't care if he's the best hockey player in the world. He has wavy hair, too. Marjorie, you're talking like a lovesick schoolgirl. I'm not lovesick. Well, no boy is perfect. You better understand that right now. You be very careful with this young man. Oh, I will. Please make Leroy get his junk out of here, Anki. Move your junk, Leroy. OK. Gosh, I hope you'll at least let me say hello to him. Yes, but that's all. Couldn't I talk to him? If I talk to him, I could kind of keep an eye on him in large. No, my boy. If there's to be any chaperoning, I'll take care of it. I hope none will be necessary, my dear. Oh, this is all so embarrassing. I almost wish he wasn't coming, but not really. Boy, I want to go upstairs and make sure my hair is all right.  Good enough for anybody. Well, I want to look at it anyway. Go on, answer the door, Leroy. OK, OK. Marjorie. Yeah, come on. Playing the game against Riverton. Oh, you did? That was a pretty good game. Is your sister here? Yes, she went upstairs to fix her hair. Oh.  OK. You want to see my skates? I just got them for Christmas. Look, tubulars. Yeah. Now, they probably wouldn't stand up very long in a game. No, not in a real game. Well, they're just a cheap pair. Can't get decent skates these days. You want to see my stick? Well, I, uh... Oh, hello, Marjorie. Hello, Keith. I thought you weren't coming. I was upstairs doing my geometry. Oh, you were? It's regulation. Yeah. See, that's all right. You left-handed? No, why? Well, that's a left-handed stick. You'll never raise a puck off the ice with that. So that's it. Well, for corn shake, I want Leroy. Is this the young man you were telling me about? Oh, yes. Uh, this is my uncle Mark, Keith. Just call me Mr. Gillersleeve. How are you, Mr. Gillersleeve? I'm very well, thank you. Suppose we step into the parlor for a moment. Yeah, let's all go in the parlor. Not you, Leroy.  It's all done practically. Leroy? I'll piggy about trading hockey sticks. So long, Keith. So long. Young man, sit down. Tell me something about yourself. Oh, uncle. Well, there isn't much to tell about me, Mr. Gillersleeve. I wonder if I know your father. It could be. He has the Oldsmobile Agency there on State Street. Yeah? Right now, he's selling Venetian blinds made out of plastic. Oh, I see.  Yes. I'd like to see that pump sometime out at the reservoir. There must be quite a piece of machinery. Oh, it is. I didn't have a darn good engineer out there. It wouldn't run 10 minutes. Is that a fact? Yes, my boy. That's a fact. That's one thing I'm very good at. I know how to pick a good man. Oh, you do? Yes, I do. And don't you ever forget it. Well, I'll leave you young people now. We're in my study into a little reading. OK. Glad to have met you, Mr. Gillersleeve. Yes, yes. Funny old duck, isn't he? Oh, he's all right. Sure. Say, you look pretty. I'm glad you think so.  We'll go over and join the gang. What gang? Oh, the gang. They're over at Barney's Beaneery. Pete and Sally and Henry and Grayson. All the rest of the gang.  Oh, it sounds darling. But I'll have to ask Uncle Mortify and go. You want me to ask him? No, no. I bet he's kind of funny. He sure looks funny. Well, go ahead and tell him you're going out. OK. Be with you in a second. You haven't been talking very loud, Marjorie. Haven't we? We didn't want to disturb you. A quiet murmur would disturb me far less than complete silence, my dear. It would. Well, I just wanted to tell you we're going out for a little while. Well, now wait a minute. Now, Uncle, I'm only going to Barney's Beaneery. The gang's all over there. What gang? Hello, everybody. In that souped-up car? No, sir. It isn't souped-up anymore. Well, soup down, then. I don't know this boy, Marjorie. I'm not asking you to go out with him. Listen, if that young fellow wants to spend any time with you, he can spend it here or I know what's going on. Uncle, not so loud. Why can't I talk loud? This is my own house, isn't it? But, Uncle...  If he wants to see you, he can stay here. Gray Keith, he says I can't go out. Couldn't you possibly stay here? Well, I... I promised the gang I'd be over. I thought I could bring you naturally. Naturally? Well, if you promised them. Yeah. Gee, that's too bad. If only I hadn't promised... I'm sure you have to keep a promise. I guess so. Well, some other time, huh, Marge? If you want. No, you bet. Oh, here's my coat. Oh, so long. So long. The dream is unnecessary on prunes, my boy. And it sure helps. There's a war on. Uh, what's keeping Marjorie? I don't know. Maybe she overslept. Maybe she was out late with Keith.  Okay, gosh, all I was doing was asking... Eat your prunes. Miss, can I please, are you ready for your egg? Yes, Bertie. Uh, egg, did you say? Yes, there's only one. Eggman didn't come yesterday, and he's been acting kind of high and mighty lately. And I ain't surprised that he didn't show up. Hmm, if he comes back, be good to him, Bertie. Yes, I'll bake him a cake. Fine situation. You have to treat the egg man like visiting royalty. Those are the brakes, kid. Oh, here's Marjorie. Good morning, my dear. Pass the sugar, will you, please, Leroy? Here. Last night, Marjorie? Wonderful. Uncle Mort practically kicked him out of the house. What? No, Marjorie.  Gosh, you must be nuts. Be honest, Leroy. Morning, Miss Marjorie. Good morning, Bertie. Would you like to load me on this one? No, thank you, Bertie. Just my grapefruit and some toast, I guess. I'd offer you an egg, but there ain't any. Uh, would you like my egg, Marjorie? You want your uncle's egg, honey? No, thank you, Bertie. Marjorie feels I treated her unfairly last night, Bertie. I refused to allow her to go to a nightclub with a young man I know nothing about. A nightclub? He's talking about Barney's beenery, Bertie. And there's nothing to matter with Keith Kelsey, either. I didn't say there was anything to matter with him. Bertie? I just don't want Marjorie running around with strangers. He is not a stranger, Bertie. I've known him ever since the sixth grade, only... only he never noticed me before. Yeah, I've seen him play hockey, too. I told you to stay out of this, Leroy. Marge, maybe everything will be okay. Thanks, Leroy. I don't think there's much hope. Notting his bed is all that, child.  Oh, no it isn't. Keith is the nicest boy in the Summerfield High School, and he's always gone around with other girls like Francie and Eleanor Sloan.  But I... You cross-examine him.  Marjorie, please.  I've been waiting for just one nice boy. But if I know how you were gonna treat him... I'm just trying to do the right thing by the girl. I know it, Miss Kelsey. What she needs is a mother. I'll stick you right. You ain't making any plans along them lines, is you? Oh, no. Must be Judge Hooker, Bertie. Please turn to drive me downtown. I'll let him in this field. Please, you finish the call. Thank you. Good morning, Judge. And a good morning to you, Bertie. Is the Lord of the Manor ready to fare forth on the highway? It's not quite good. And you ain't feeling so chipper either. No. Well, Trockmorton, what's eating you this morning? I don't know, Horace. Marjorie thinks I'm scaring away our boyfriends. Well, are you? I don't know what to do. I don't know how anybody raises children. Everyone knows I'm no expert. No, you're not.  I don't want to get mixed up with any more women. Well, there are plenty of women in the family. Children have several aunts. Yeah. Why don't you invite one of them for a visit? Hmm. Better stay a few days and straighten things out. Not a bad idea, Horace. Let me see. Catherine's got kids of her own. She couldn't come. That is a good sensible woman. Yeah, and may the Lord deliver me from good sensible women. What's the matter with Hilda? Yeah, I always liked Hilda. Got a little bounce to her. Shoot her a wire. I might do that. Quiet. Here comes Marjorie. Well, Marjorie. Good morning, Judge. You're looking as fresh as a bright May morning. Thank you. Well, my dear, off to school now, I suppose. Off to school. With us again in just a few seconds. 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And if you want to know what's going on in Somerfield, there isn't a better place to find out than Peavey's Pharmacy. Of course, the noon hour rush is over, and the proprietor usually catches a short nap back in his prescription room during the lull that follows, but, well, let's drop in there anyway. Uh-oh, he's got a customer at the soda fountain, and it's Marjorie. Do you find that milkshake that you're liking, Marjorie? It's fine. That's good. Not too sweet? Can't be too sweet. Well, I wouldn't say that. Then it's a matter of taste, I suppose. I, uh, don't want to appear to pry, Marjorie, but shouldn't you be in school now? I should, but I'm not. So I see. You're sure that won't lead to trouble? What do I care? Yeah, that's hard to answer. Finished? I'll have another. Another chocolate mall? Make it a double. Oh, Marjorie, I'm afraid two of these would make you sick. What do I care? Well, you're the customer. Two chocolate malls, I don't know what to say. Were you ever in love? Was I ever in love? Well, I guess I must have been. I'm married. Well, I mean seriously. Oh, I'd say it was. I'd say it was serious. People don't just get married pretty fun, have they? Well, did you ever fall in love with someone who never paid you a bit of attention, never even looked at you, when you thought you'd just die if he didn't? And then all of a sudden he did, and you were so happy. And then your uncle came along and spoiled it? I know. I can't tell you that I ever found myself in exactly that situation. Then you don't know how empty life can be. The complete futility of it all. Well, I wouldn't say that. Oh, you wouldn't know what good is life, what good is anything, what good is education. I asked myself that at lunch today, and during recess I just walked out. That's why you're here. Yes. I thought you were the one person who'd understand. Well... I'm a little afraid to go back now. I'm a little afraid to go home. Why should I be?  What good is it? Just tell me, Mr. Peavy, what is there to live for? Well, you've still got a chocolate malt coming. Mr. Peavy, I thought you were a friend. If I thought you were going to laugh at me... Don't mean to laugh at you, Marjorie, but just think, you're how old? 16. You've still got a few things to look forward to. You've still got a few years left before you shuffle off. After all, there's always tomorrow, you know? Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow goes on this petty pace from day to day. That's Shakespeare. Yeah, I know. Oh, I forgot your chocolate malt. I want you to understand, Marjorie, that pharmacy accepts no responsibility for this. We usually serve only one of these to a customer. Oh, here comes your uncle. My uncle? Coming right across the street there. Oh, I can't let him see me. Mr. Peavy, please, could I go out the back way? Well, it's not customary, but I don't see any harm. Right through the prescription room there. You'll find the door. I'll pay you next time. That's all right. Oh, don't fall over the ash can in the alley. Don't mind a little hide-and-seek, but I don't want to be responsible for any broken bones here. Mr. Justice, are you? Hello, Peavy. What can I do for you? Oh, give me a chocolate malt. You too? What do you mean? Nothing. And there's your malt. Huh?  I just mixed it. You must be a mind reader. No. No, I mixed it for a customer who was left in here. But he was suddenly called out of town. I take it you didn't have any dessert for lunch. I didn't have any lunch. Didn't feel like it. Didn't feel like working either. I didn't get a thing done at the office all morning. Confounded, Peavy, one girl can be more trouble than six boys. Isn't that right? Now, you take Leroy. I have to holler at him a lot, but at least we understand each other. But Marjorie, do you know she hasn't spoken to me for three days? I ask you, is that any way for a girl to treat her old uncle? Well, I'm telling you, Mr. Justice, girls will be girls. You think so? No, absolutely. Well, maybe you're right. Now, when a girl gets to be Marjorie's age, she's apt to get the idea that nobody understands her. How do you know so much about girls? Well, I happen to be married to one. And she still thinks nobody understands her. At times, and at times I'm ready to agree with her. What do you do about it? Well, in Mrs. Peavy's case, I just go take a walk. But with Marjorie, it's a little different. I'd say what she needs is the companionship of young people her own age. Well, you could be right. There's such a thing as seeing too much of Leroy. See, Marjorie, come in here with her. Come in here with her young friends in the afternoon, and they giggle and gossip and talk nonsense. That's what girls want at that age. I guess that's what they wanted at any age. Peavy, you know what? You give me an idea. Well, I wouldn't say that. Yes, you have, by George. You give me an idea. You're not going. You haven't touched the milkshake. Sell it to the next man who comes in. I've sold it twice already. You play it right, you can run it up into a fortune. Peavy, you know what I'm going to do? No, what are you going to do with the girls? I'm going to put an end to all this nonsense. I thought of a way to make Marjorie forget her troubles. Yes? I'm going to give her a party, a surprise party. No, you're getting something. Yes, sir. I'll invite all her girlfriends over, and I'll just leave them there to giggle and gossip to their hearts' content. You mean you're only going to invite the girlfriends? Yeah, only your girlfriends. That's a strictly a hen party. Well, but... Plenty of good food, no grown-ups, no boys to spoil the party. She'll love it, Peavy. Well, so long, Peavy. Thanks for the idea. I don't think he ever got the idea. B-Roy, Penny, Linda, Martha, Virginia and Francie. Can you think of any other girls I ought to invite? No, but there's a couple of those you shouldn't invite. Francie, for instance.  Sir, Father, Mother are very good friends of mine. Just the same. She and Marjorie aren't even talking to each other. Well, that's nonsense, and I'm not going to incur it. Uh-oh, here's Birdie. Well, what luck, Birdie. Let's just see if I've been to every market in this town, but I couldn't find no marshmallows only in one place. Oh, you got them then. No, sir, I didn't. Why not? Because the man made me mad. He told me if I wanted to buy a box of marshmallows, I'd have to buy two boxes of bran and a bottle of No Good Brass Polish. You... Why, a dirty crook? Well, never mind the marshmallows. We'll think of something else. Must be something girls like to do besides toast marshmallows. Oh, I know, make fun. Oh, boy. Now, here's what I plan. The girls will arrive at 8 o'clock. It'll be a big surprise. They all go down to the roller skating rink and skate that'll 10. And they'll come home here and have a snack and make fudge. Does you think Marjorie will like that, Leroy? I suppose so. Girls are crazy. It'll be a nice, wholesome evening. You're not kidding. Well, I better go and get started on the sandwiches. Now, wait a minute. When Marjorie gets home, don't anybody say anything to her about this?  Well, I won't say a word. Just pretend that nothing's happened. Let her go on as she has been. If she doesn't want to talk to anybody at dinner, okay, let her alone. I want this to be a surprise. We'll have some fun out of it, eh, Leroy? How am I going to have any fun out of it? She'll be sitting there like a thundercloud all through dinner with no idea what's in store for her. But we'll know, won't we? It's her. Evening, Miss Marjorie. Good evening, birdie. Leroy, I saw your snowman outside. It's simply super. Uncle, darling, you're wearing the tie I gave you. Oh, but you must let me straighten it for you. Huh? There. Now, give me a nice kiss. Huh? How's the dinner, birdie? Any minute now. I'll be right down. Let's come over. You tell me. Yes, my dear? I want to apologize. I guess I haven't been very nice these last few days. Well, I guess I wasn't very understanding. Well, it's all right now. Everything's all right. Everything's all right. Tell us what happened. Leroy, would you be a dear sweet boy and go away so I can talk to Uncle Marn? No, for a corn shake. All I ever do is get sent away. Never mind. You can stay. I don't care who knows. Guess what? I ran into Keith this afternoon, and he said he'd been looking for me. I wasn't looking for him. He was looking for me. And guess what he said about Prancy? He said she was too old-fashioned. He said she was conventional. I don't know that you can hang a girl for that. That's not all. I'm going to see him again tonight. Well, not, my dear. Oh, it's all right this time. It's perfectly all right. He's coming over here. Over here tonight? Oh, but... It's all right, Uncle Mord. We're going to do our geometry together. 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To celebrate the release of Pokemon Scholar and Violet in Japan, they were offering onigiri pokeballs. Unfortunately, none of them are called a jelly donut. Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut. What?! The Pokeball is pork sausage, garlic and mayonnaise. Great Ball is omelet, chicken and ketchup. And the Ultra Ball is pork, egg and soy sauce. My favorite has to be the Ultra Ball. You get all of this for about a dollar. If you're in Japan and you have the chance, I'd highly suggest picking one of these up. Which one will be your favorite?


US actress and singer Selena Gomez has criticized the good fight for being the latest TV show to make tasteless jokes about her kidney transplant. Last year saved by The Bell said sorry for a joke about her 2017 operation. In February, a Chinese variety show apologized for editing a post-surgery photo of the former Disney star.


Live from the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, it's The Cube at AWS ReInvent 2014. Brought to you by headline sponsors Amazon and Trend Micro. Okay, welcome back everyone. This is The Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events and expect a scene from the noise. This is our day to wrap up. Wrapping up the show here. In Las Vegas for Amazon Web Services or AWS ReInvent. ReInvent our second year here with The Cube. And really the breakout year for Amazon Web Services. Really targeting the enterprise. Really continuing their journey of accelerated traction, accelerated momentum. Just adding on more and more use cases. Data points. Services. They are iterating fast. Introducing new stuff. Really extending their lead in the enterprise. People are catching up though. IBM, HP, OpenStack. That lead isn't as big as it used to be. But still, they've got a good size of a lead. We're here for the wrap. I'm here with my co-host, Stu Miniman and Jeff Kelly. Guys, the show wrap up. Big lead, but not so much of a big lead, Stu. People are focused on catching up. People are focused on catching Amazon. John, people are focused, but Amazon has a tremendous lead.  Latest numbers out there are that if you took all of the other infrastructures and service providers, put them together, Amazon 5x what they're doing. Big takeaway from the show, same as last year, is the flywheel of innovation that Andy Jassy talks to. If they can keep moving and growing and adding new services at the torrid pace that they're doing, they will continue to separate themselves from the pack, John. So, no offense to our good friends at Oracle and IBM and HP, but I don't consider them playing the same game as Amazon does. They are such scale. Talk to James Hamilton, talk about millions of servers that they have out there and build for just tremendous services. Look at what they announced with Aurora. Look at all the other pieces they have. Visionary stuff that they're doing with Lambda. Amazon, this is their market to lose and I don't see anybody catching them anytime soon. Let's do a good analysis, I would agree with you there, but I would also kind of just say it's hard to put the comparison into the buckets of infrastructures of service and sure, 5x, but they're just getting started. Amazon's different. They're a bundled company. Amazon piece is written on entries and horowitz about bundling. Dave Vellante, our partner, wrote a great post on economics. A lot of bundling. Amazon is a retail company. Out of their DNA of retail, it emerged this amazing business model of bundling. And if you look at Amazon, and I want to get your take on this, guys, it's all about the packaging. Retails of the packaging and the platform has to be essentially down to zero, so more platform, better packaging options. So on the web services side, the emphasis of these announcers are very tooling oriented in a sequence of an operating system. Yeah, John, great point here. So many times I listen to enterprise vendors and when they come out with a product, they feel it's a check box. There's some space that they had to go after, something they need to do. When Amazon comes out of it with a new solution, they said, this is customer driven. Doing their own database makes a lot of sense. Having it MySQL compatible means that there's a clear way that they can get into this market, add onto the services. One thing I really like is it's not, oh, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service. Amazon just is building the new layer, that ecosystem, that enterprise application store to give customers what they need and a big partner ecosystem. We talked to a lot of their partners here, you know, management, security, all these other components that are adding on and growing the power that Amazon has in this marketplace. Other observations from the folks out there, besides before we get into the announcements that represent, in my opinion, the biggest stories, is the VC community is here in force and certainly in Silicon Valley, all the top VCs are here, but they're not pimping themselves up. They're not doing the PR thing. They're working. There's a lot of business getting done here. This show, as Mike Dabba just said, looks like the new VM world. This is a place where it's enterprise, it's big, and there's deals getting done. I'm seeing the VCs huddling. These are general partners. This isn't like associates. This is like guys out making the decisions. It's super exciting. And then you've got the big companies here. We talked to Informatica, we're talking to SAP, and they're all here. Startups and the big guys in one cage match. Guys, what's your take on this? Well, yeah, the big guys, having just talked to SAP a little bit earlier today, are very interesting. They have made it clear with some of the acquisitions they've made, and they know they need to move to the cloud, but they also recognize they can't do it on their own, and they're embracing AWS as a way to do that. They don't look at AWS really as competing with them on the database and big data space. I tend to disagree with that a little bit, but it's really interesting you're seeing SAP here and then you see startups that are just coming out of the woodworks in my space in the data warehousing space and analytics and data integration. So there's a lot of action here, and I've mentioned before on theCUBE this week, it's interesting, most of the customers that AWS has put up on the stage, the use cases are data analytics. And I think that's really one of the areas where AWS has a lot of value. There's a lot of data being created. They make it much more easy to consume, analyze, and do predictive things with that data than trying to do that all on premise yourself. Stu, this is to our point we just talked about, which is they're an operating system, so there's a data fabric in there, so it's not a big data show, it's a operating system show for the world.  This is what you're building on. You made the analogy of this being like VMworld. It doesn't many ways remind me of that, but there's that undercurrent, of course. Amazon's making a lot of money fast. They're growing their ecosystem, but how fast are they getting too much of a percentage of the wallet, putting too much pressure on their partners, you know, driving down margins across the place, and if they have too much power, there's that backlash. And there definitely are people looking for alternatives. Microsoft's clear number two, Google's moving in that environment, and of course all the other guys are building their clouds. Yes, Stu, break down the competition a little bit. You mentioned HPE, IBM, Oracle, not really playing the same game. What about Microsoft and Google? Yeah, you know, Jeff, first of all, I mean, Microsoft has so many touch points into the enterprise. Most Amazon customers, even if they're all in on Amazon, they're running Office 365. They're using some of the other tools. One of the interviews we did, you know, oh yeah, absolutely, they're using SharePoint, kind of move that over to the cloud. So they're all using Microsoft. They have that utility. I think, you know, the operating system, the new operating system is the cloud. So Microsoft is helping people to get there. Of course, when they do that move, it now makes it a playing field that, well, if I was on the desktop, I've got Microsoft. VMware broke that up a little bit. But now if I go to the cloud with things like Docker and some of the other options out there to be able to make it easier for me to move from one cloud to another, there's going to be, it's going to be tough to get that loyalty. Amazon said is they need to, you know, every hour earn that business. And that's a little bit of hyperbola, because once you're on a solution, it does take a little bit of moving. But, you know, it's a brave new world out there for applications and where they live. We should actually be able to, with Docker, allow the application to be king, which is great for developers. You know, there was a line in the keynote today. You know, we all win with solutions like this that give customers choice and agility. I mean, agility has been one of the key words that we've talked about for the last year at all these shows. So Google has strong technologies too. But there, you can see that they're not going aggressively right now. Obviously, we're at that event. We broke that down really well. It's like, okay, different developers, they got to win some developer traction to earn the credibility, win a space in the ecosystem, and then building on the transport side, really, really critical. But yet, not a business focus at all. So I would call Google still far away from even coming close to competing, but they got the stuff going on. Microsoft, the .NET community, I'm just not bullish on Microsoft. I don't think they're going to have a nice little space there. Just like OpenStack, they're going to have the private cloud. So you start to see the swim lanes. Okay? Amazon and Google really up for the world. Okay? Microsoft for the .NET community, maybe the enterprise, and OpenStack as private cloud. Do you agree or disagree? Hey, John. So Microsoft has to open source .NET, right? So if you were to ask me, you know, a few weeks ago, all right, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, who can leverage Open Source and leverage those communities to move things forward? Boy, you'd be surprised to say that Microsoft might be the most open of them. Satya Nadella has a real, you know, open source ethos here. Google leverages a lot of Open Source, gives some things back. We wouldn't have to do. Yeah, but it's hard to do. But Amazon doesn't give back to the open source community. Yeah. And that's something we've hammered them on. Yeah, but I would disagree with you. Open Source is a playground. And there's an ethos there. There's a protocol.  Amazon doesn't try to be open source. They're not head-ficking. They're the playground for the open source guys to execute. So I would, that's what's saying, they're okay there. I think they got to get more in that. If they do, they got to play nice. It's hard to take a .NET developer and turn them into open source. Either they convert over to open source. Yeah, you can't be half-pregnant in that market. Yeah, I got open source .NET. Is that going to drive me more Microsoft-specific business? Yes. And that's not a bad thing. They got a huge install base. Just like OpenStack is not a bad thing for, say, Private Cloud. So we don't know. We'll be watching this. But the question is, Swimlings, do you think they're forming or not? Yeah, John, I think that's a good point. Absolutely. Google is not, you know, head-on attacking where Google is today. Google's not attacking where Amazon is today. Getting their niche in the market. They've got a lot of those pieces. Microsoft is, you know, just starting to approach there. One thing, was there a price drop? I don't remember hearing it in the keynotes, which is something really surprising. We've really categorized those three players as a race to zero. Has Amazon gotten enough position in the marketplace and had enough value that they feel that they don't have to be the lowest cost option? I don't know if that's the case. Reading comments Andy Jassy made around price drops. He was making the point in the media that our value is a lot more than just lower in prices. I wonder if it was a tactical decision not to drop prices, make any announcements around that at this show, in particular, just to kind of highlight that. Amazon doesn't raise prices. What they do is they add more services. That's just the game. They're pushing it down to zero. That's what they want to do. But that's a good strategy to add news and that's what they do. They add more services. One thing we didn't talk about, I would like to get both of your perspectives, is the impact this is having on internal IT departments in the enterprise and how this is impacting jobs, how this is impacting that market. I think it's a big impact and I was commenting on a tweet chat that I was having, a crowd chat with IBM folks yesterday and clearly, shadow IT is being reigned in and what that means in my opinion is that it's becoming standardized. Shadow IT was a tell, a tell for the market where it was going. So it was a telegraph move of saying that's the consumption model. Shadow IT only came about because of the lack of IT being cut in edge. Frustration with IT, yeah. So they just go by the credit card but no one buys millions and millions of dollars on credit cards. So what shadow IT will turn into is the formal consumption pattern. So one, this is certainly shown that. Two, there is a hybrid play here with Amazon. You can put stuff in the cloud and still keep it on premise. I still think they have a really viable shot at hybrid cloud. That's my opinion. Yeah, it is something that we didn't have discussed much at this show is if I go all in on cloud, do I need fewer employees in my IT department? Definitely some customers I talk to, if you were born in the cloud, I can be agile, I can do so many things, I can have developers focused on what I want. If I've got big data centers and I'm shifting over to the cloud, there's going to be a workforce adjustment and some people will get retrained, some people will move into other jobs, so absolutely cloud will have a shift.  That's a misnomer. I'll tell you why. All in means you're all in. Not we're all in with Amazon as we're doing a cloud product.  So you should tell the clients, if you need to word all in on Amazon, it should mean all in. In Informatica, they said they're all in with Amazon. It's like, no, they're all in with their partnership with Amazon. That's different. That means they're committed to the partnership. So John, I'd give Amazon real good grades of talking better to the enterprise this year. They used their language, hybrid IT was there. I want to get your take. What about the developers? You know, I heard definitely microservices and Docker got some good attention. Are they still, you know, beloved by the developer ecosystem? You know, Stu, I think you said it best when you were on theCUBE earlier. You said, you know, when Werner announced Docker, when Ben was on, there was a real round of applause. I think the round of applause was an indication that, yes, this is still a developer conference. Hence, might come out the VCs doing their work here. It's still about education. It's still about all that stuff. So I do think that they're really solid with the developers and that's going to continue for some time. I mean, the services that they're offering developers quite frankly is just awesome. Start up from local host to cloud with GitHub. It's all rocking and rolling. So they're solid on developers. But you know what? Great show. So we're getting ready to wrap up here. Soon they're going to turn the lights out. We stay until they pull the plug. So let's go around and wrap this up, guys. Here at Amazon this year, 2014. Observations. You know, you're talking to a lot of people. Stu, what are you seeing? I mean, I'll start. My observation is that the pattern that's developing is clearly the messaging from Amazon is we're going to win the enterprise too. We're starting now and we're serious. Not we're going to win, but we're serious. And they're showing some proof points. The other pattern is that developers want rapid deployment and the customers are buying cloud. In the hallway, the big trend that's happening that this other vendors should take notice of is Amazon's release cycle is they stay still. They bake it out, they use it themselves and then they get it to a large scale then they release it. The Apollo, Lambda, these are services that are getting great buzz here at the show that aren't going to make the Wall Street Journal or the big trade press. But this is geek tooling that they've proven and used and then released it. Yeah, John, the thing I wanted to point out is really the optimism of the people at this show. Cloud, many people thought it was a big threat. It's going to change what it's going to do to my job. The people that are at this show, John, they're in the sessions. They're not just here getting t-shirts and free beer. They're in the sessions. They're learning about it. They're excited about the announcements. They're digging into all these tools.  They're going to get the hardcore coding things that go in here. And that's a lot of this audience and not just the developers, the users, the business people that are finding new ways of having IT enable the business, new value back into the system. And it's exciting. I mean, it's from a technology... What did you learn in the hallway, Stu? Because you did a lot on networking. You were really pounding the pavement. I want to say you did a great job at the show. I was very impressed with your excitement. Certainly, fanboy James Hamilton, as am I, but you were really awesome with him. But you worked. You were working at the parties. You were working out meetings. What did you learn? What did you learn in the hallway? So, John, I love a community like this. A community built around and they really, they're enjoying the tool set. They say there's good communication with what they're doing. It's a passionate user base, which if I'm going to judge any company and any show, that's what you want to see. When we go to shows like Splunt.com... What was the buzz? What was the buzz? Bottom line, me. Bottom, buzz. What was the top buzz? John, I haven't seen I-heart AWS bumper stickers, but they probably give out a lot of them. Bumper sticker on? I love Amazon. All right, Jeff, let's close this puppy up. What did you see? Quickly conversations, buzz, top things? Yeah, I would reiterate what you're saying. I think people are really excited. The vibe here is great. For me, the big takeaway was AWS is allowing, is now allowing enterprises, not just startups, but enterprises, to rapidly iterate and respond to their customers just the way Amazon does. And that's really a mark of taking on these enterprise challenges, helping enterprises do more with their data, work for less about the infrastructure, and really apply that, who work, focus on the customer, just like Amazon itself does. Well, I'm psyched to wrap this show up with you guys. Great job, great shout out to the crew. Matthew, Greg, Patrick, all the guys back at the ranch. Dave Vellante tweeting away. As I end here, I'm looking at a tweet from Jeremy Burton, and it says, EMC family of companies on stage at Techonomy event, which is run another event by another publication, Fortune Mac, I don't know, was Fortune. It's Gelsinger, Goulden, and Moritz. So, Stu, they're not going to go down without a fight. EMC is not going to go down without a fight. Yeah, John, I didn't hear only a couple of conversations about what's going on with Cloud Foundry at a show like this. Absolutely, the Federation is aware of what's going on at Amazon, and they're pivoting to try to, you know, address the Cloud. They've got plenty of Cloud solutions, but if I was working for, you know, one of the traditional enterprise guys, Cloud is real, Cloud is here, and it's coming after for you fast. It's super exciting. My final takeaway observation is that Amazon, on all the customers we talk to, it's an engine of moving the ball down the field. People are seeing scale. They're seeing progress. This is the point where the running game, one yard of moving the ball, going to move down quickly, big passing play here if you're using analogy and football, and I just think it's awesome, and certainly exciting, Stu, I echo your comments, great community, and for the Cube and the Cube team, this is going to be a great sporting event in the tech-athlete world that we cover. Everyone's involved, it's super exciting, and we're so glad to bring that to you, and that would not be possible without Amazon and Trend Micro. Without their support, the Cube would not be possible and allow us to bring our passion and our hardcore data analysis to you. That's a wrap here at Amazon Web Services 2014. This is the Cube. Keep watching and see us at their next event, silkenangle.tv, for all the details and videos. Thank you for watching.