Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. I'm Jay Besanko, Deputy Archivist of the United States and Welcome to something that's been in the works for an extended period of time But the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Digitization Center at the National Archives at College Park Some of our guests have been somewhat delayed, but we're honored to have the support of three distinguished members of the Maryland Congressional delegation Each of whom is a tireless champion of federal agencies and programs and also for federal employees Their support for the National Archives was instrumental in securing the federal appropriations that made this center possible So Senator Chris Van Hollen will Join us shortly, but he's been serving the people of Maryland in the United States Senate since 2017 and Among his multiple Senate committee assignments. He is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on financial services and general government or as we like to say here the subcommittee that funds NARA We're lucky to call him our senator So I mentioned that our congressional guests today were instrumental in making this Digitization Center possible But without Congressman Steny Hoyer's service since 1981 there would not only be no Digitization Center But there would be no National Archives in College Park It was his leadership that made it possible for this magnificent building to open in 1994 a Facility that is still even after 30 days Thanks to you the world's largest state-of-the-art archival facility and research Center And of course this is all happening in the fourth congressional district of Maryland home to congressman Glenn Ivy We're proud to have him representing us and I look forward to seeing him later today. I Am now pleased to turn things over to the 11th archivist in the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan Last year Dr. Shogan became the first woman to be confirmed as the archivist Prior to that Dr. Shogan served as senior vice president and director of the David M. Rubenstein Center at the White House Historical Association And she previously worked in the United States Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress Please join me in welcoming dr. Colleen Shogan to the podium Thanks so much Jay. I want to extend My welcome to members of our congressional delegation Particularly congressman Hoyer who responsible for this building these research facilities for the past 30 years every time I set foot in this building I am so proud of the work that we do here and the resources that make that possible So today, we're here to open though the new digitization center for College Park This is going to be and I think all of you would agree This is going to be a game changer for the National Archives with these new high-speed scanners We are going to be able to digitize more documents than ever before probably to the tune of about to start About 15 million records a year and then once we get started Anywhere upwards to 20 million to 30 million a year, which is just you know Once again, it's a game changer for the National Archives. This will mean that we will be Digitizing records 10 times faster than before. What does this mean actually in in Actuality and in real life So we'll take an example of a very popular set of records the US Marine Corps command chronologies Which would have taken us about 10 years to digitize under normal? Circumstances with this center We are going to be well under a year to be able to digitize all of those records from the Vietnam era Which will provide access to those who served in Vietnam to their families Into a whole host of Americans that are interested in that era and of course historians will be writing future Books and chronologies about that important era of American history That's just one example of the impact this facility is going to have our Mission at the National Archives of course is to preserve protect and share our nation's records And this will actually serve as all three functions here at the digitization center And of course using artificial intelligence in a responsible way and the machines behind me We will be able to unlock Just an enormous number of stories that are here at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland Of course in this facility, but in our 42 facilities all across the United States So before I hand this over to congressman Hoyer who's going to say a few words I do want to thank everyone who is here today Everyone for the National Archives staff who has worked so hard to be able to open this center today It takes a number of people to be able to do a project of This scale and of course all of our staff who are working here today I was able to meet some of you beforehand and learn about what you're working on Thank you so much for what you're doing your service to the National Archives But also to the nation and also my predecessor David Ferriero the 10th archivist to the United States Who put into motion the plans for the digitization center? I'm so glad we were able to make his dream and his idea for this center a reality So without further delay, I'm going to welcome congressman Hoyer to the podium and we can hear a few words From him without him once again this building in the center would not be a reality I don't know how many times she said I was going to speak briefly, but it was a number of times And I heard her say that And I will speak briefly because you're all standing up, and I don't know how long I've been been how I'm going to talk They will usually quickly say well Hoyer is usually the one that speaks at length But I'm very pleased to be here with all of you and I was Responsible not so much for this center, although it is attached to the archives that we did we'd created Many years ago some apparently some 30 years ago I was meeting with John toll who was the president of the University of Maryland at that time I'm a graduate of the University and very close to it and served on the Board of Regents for a while and A guy named John Berry who was working for me an extraordinarily talented federal employee Working for me Leamed over we were talking about a different subject said you know this would be a good place for the archives This place meaning where the archives was built because it belonged to the University of Maryland but it was not being used by the University of Maryland and So I Of course said that's a great idea and John toll thought it was a great idea The reason he thought it was a great idea because this is the best archival institution in the world Hear me It is the best most able archival Institution in the entire world one of the largest but also one of the best and this digitalization Capacity will make it even better One of the reasons we're making progress more quickly than was made a hundred years ago or 50 years ago or probably 25 years ago Is because we are able to draw on extraordinary amounts of information and experience And how do we do that because we digitized it and we had hit enter and it comes back And that's an oversimplification. I understand that but you all get what I mean I was a file clerk for CIA while I was a student here at the University of Maryland work 3 30 to 12 at night And what we did was we got little three by five cards From the analyst and it had a name on it Steny Hoyer And there may have been if I really a bad guy and there was CIA that got a lot of information on me There may have been a hundred cards and they would come down to The file room and there were a lot of us working in that file room all of which were in college We were all in college and working. We had to work our way through college 3 3 3 at 12 at night And we would take those cards and we would pull the files And I kid people I said I did a job that analysts now just do by hitting enter and we get it back but we get it back because of this capacity and It makes an extraordinary difference my colleague senator van Hollen is here Who's the chair of the subcommittee that oversees your budget by the way? Let me ask you how many I heard Some of you are have just been relatively recently hired to work in this Center raise your hand if you're a new hire So we have a good group of new people My presumption is that most of the rest of you have worked here at archives in some capacity Or another or at some other maybe federal facility and have been and because you have your skills you've been a Lurid away from wherever you were working to come here to make this one of the best centers in the world At doing what you do with an extraordinary capacity I've been in Congress longer than probably 80 percent of you have been born. I Was allowed to Congress in 1981 and There was a publishing house Not too far from here on East West Highway and I went in and the Computer was approximately the size of this room behind me But they were using this has more capacity than that room had and you are making sure this Can get even more information More easily more easily in that I can write in something that may be not really on point, but this Is smart enough to tell me what I want to know and that's what you do You will Expand the ability of literally Millions of researchers around the world because of what you will enable To happen Storing of the information That's a clumsy term for what you do so much more Complicated and Scientific term for what you do But then pushing enter and getting that information back or pretty pushing search more accurately So I'm pleased to be here But for those of you who are new and those of you who are not I've been able over the years to get a lot of money for buildings It was a quarter of a billion dollars for this not not this part of it, but the original Building that quarter of a billion dollars Would be a waste of money If we're not we're not for the people who work in that 250 billion dollar Million dollar building not billion You make the difference The American public does not understand the quality and commitment of the folks it has working for them And unfortunately too often Bureaucrat or federal employees used not as a descriptor, but as an epithet And so I want to thank each and every one of you in this room Because without you it would be a waste of money to have spent on this facility this technology It would have simply been a building With not much purpose and not much product So I thank each and every one of you doctor I thank you for the many ways in which you have contributed to the quality of Government because you've been in a number of facilities Again because all of you are standing I'm gonna I'm gonna really stop with that But I want to mention the two my two colleagues who are here. I represented where you stand for 40 years and We drew a map that the Washington Post didn't think was so pretty I thought it was wonderful You understand it did exactly what we wanted to do it like a lot of Democrats I'm a Democrat. This is not a partisan speech, but that's what it did And I represented this area for 40 years But the state legislature in its great wisdom wanted a pretty map and so I agreed to say okay make a pretty map and I was blessed by that Sort of giving up of territory to get a wonderful new colleague His name is Glenn Ivey. He just walked into the room He's gonna be speaking to you in a little bit. He now represents you and you can be thankful that you have somebody who has focus intellect and vision To understand a what you're doing understand how important what you're doing is and to make sure that you have the resources Now I happen to be hopefully next year. Hopefully again, this is not a political speech just me hoping I'll be to be chair of your subcommittee next year And the director and I were just talking about how much resources we need to make sure you can do what you Are charged to do and need to do Glenn Ivey I know Because I've known Glenn for a very long time He his wife by the way as chairman of the county council in Prince George's County So the eye and his son is a member of the House of Delegates. So be nice to the IVs. They have a lot of power I try to be nice to the IVs And then there's the senator Van Hollen You guys are pretty well situated in terms of the because although I'm the ranking member of your subcommittee Chris Van Hollen senator Van Hollen is the chair of your subcommittee and If it had not been for senator Van Hollen In this most recent Appropriation process, we would not have gotten to the level of funding for very necessary federal agencies Some of which are small some of which are big like the IRS and some sort of medium like you Had we not had the chairmanship of the Senate committee, which the Democrats controlled the Republicans had a budget that they wanted to give you Fiscal year 22 levels of funding And and we got fiscal year 23 for some and a little more for others but senator Van Hollen has been a giant in the in the support of This agency in particular this enterprise But also generally throughout the federal government, but more than that is an extraordinary member of the United States Senate of great great caring for people and great focus on Accomplishing things for the American people and for our state of Maryland so Chris. Thank you very much and Glenn Thank you very much and madam director. Thank you. But as I said at the beginning Thank all of you because the fact that you get up come to this enterprise or Log in to this enterprise It makes an extraordinary difference and Hundreds of millions billions of people One could extrapolate are benefited by the fact that you make critical information available to literally Millions and millions of people that turn that information Into better lives for those buildings of which I spoke. God bless you. Thank you very much Now I don't want you to think I just sort of You know Came and ran I'm gonna do that But I need to explain to you We are late starting because we had a bill that we had to pass the foreign intelligence surveillance act a critical bill to the security of the United States of America and frankly The majority party put it on a number of times and did not get the votes to pass it It passed Thank heaven 212 to 212 now that was not the final that was 260 to some odd for the final bill But the amendment that would have undermined its effectiveness failed 212 to 212 on a tie vote the proposition fails But that's how important it was to stay on the job and that's where congressman Ivy and I were and now because of The lateness here. I'm late to the next so I'm gonna run but I Would prefer to have the ability to stay and to shake each one of your hands and thank you for what you do every day God bless you. Thank you congressman Hoyer and if everybody could just sort of part just a little bit to make his his exit as Efficient as possible that'd be wonderful We can so we're gonna Yeah All right, so if everybody could just sort of reset themselves Senator Van Hollen, thank you for being here today and the podium is all yours. All right. Well, we cut the ribbon So congratulations on opening the space Officially, I know many of you are already hard at work Archivist Shogun, it's great to be with you and the entire team here at the National Archives from Washington and of course here in Maryland and Let me just first say a few words about congressman Hoyer I know he had to to leave Well, first of all, I didn't know he used to be looking through the CIA files. I Was gonna tell him I've seen the CIA file on congressman Hoyer So it's you know, but it he has been a remarkable advocate, of course For the archives for a very long period of time. I came in a little bit late But I did hear him mention the name John Berry who was a staff member for congressman Hoyer a long time ago And if I'm right about the history here It was around 1988 That congressman Hoyer together with then Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski Secured the original funding for the entire Building here, so he's not here, but if we could just give him another round of applause And as he's mentioned we're very blessed now to have Glenn Ivy Representing the area that we're in and I've worked very closely with Congressman Ivy we worked together to bring the FBI Headquarters to Prince George's County We've worked together on NASA Goddard, which is part of this congressional district and a great part of the state of Maryland We worked together on many things so including of course what we're here to talk about today So to Glenn thank you very much to your team and as you heard from congressman Hoyer Yes, the Ivy family has the whole political market cornered from council Local state to federal so you want to get something done in government in Maryland? The IVs are they're great public servants, so Let me just say I am I am proud to have been part of this most recent Effort I do chair the Senate appropriation subcommittee that funds and supports the archives and we have Succeeded over the last three years and securing about 90 million dollars to help with this new chapter that did digitization effort Both in terms of the the space here as well as the overall Initiative and I'm pleased we also secured in for fiscal year 24 another 30 million Dollars for this ongoing effort, so those are the the dollars But what is important of course is is your mission what those dollars are used to accomplish and I have to say that When I think of the archives and all of you who work at the archives I really do believe you have really exciting and interesting Roles to play in our in our country in our society and really globally. I mean you are Literally there the the repository of our history the good the bad and the ugly It's an amazing treasure It's amazing gift to the American people and in fact to the entire World and it is important that we be able to share that with as many people as Possible as you know for for decades and decades in order to be able to access The records of the archives you had to come and you know participate in a sitting room or come physically To an area in this in this region In order to be able to sort of ask for a document and have a chance to take a look at it What you're doing here by putting these records online Is bringing American history and all the other information you have In real time to people across the country and in fact people across the world can access it That is a huge huge gift I mean these are records that belong to the American people and it's important that we share them With the American people. So if I'm right, I think by fiscal year 26 We're aiming to get about 500 million Documents records online Think about the the number of people that will be able to now Participate in reviewing the records that you have here History and I know that overall I think you've got what 13 billion records So obviously we got a little ways to go To get even more records online But that will just add even add to our our ability to collectively understand our history and of course It's important to understand our history for its own sake so that we know what our National story is But it's also important to know our history to be able to help chart our future and sort of shine a light on The good of the past the bad of the past and and how we can make ourselves an even Stronger country and a more perfect union So thank you all for being part of this this treasure that is the National Archives and thank all of you for doing this work To make sure that the American people now Can share in their own story and access their own story? More quickly and more easily and more officially it is as I said a great gift And it's a gift that all of you through your work here are really giving to this country and to The world so it's wonderful to be here. Glad we cut the ribbon but I do look forward to going online myself and Being able to research records that are going to be the result of of your good work Both in terms of putting them online and being the custodians Of our history. So now let me turn it Shall can I introduce glenn ivy? So as I said glenn ivy has hit the ground running as a member of congress He's no stranger to the hill. He'd worked In on policy issues for a very long time But now it's great to have him as a partner in actual law making And as you heard one of the reasons were delayed as they just finished in the house The passage of the legislation On fiza 702 program, which is actually, you know, it is a It's one of those areas where, you know, you have to have a debate And I was just telling congressman ivy. I'm glad that they only kept a two-year They kept this at a two-year sunset. I think it's important that when you're dealing with Surveillance programs, which yes can be happy important to our national security But it is also very important that the congress keep oversight over that on behalf of the american People and in my view not just turn that over sort of indefinitely To One branch of government or one part of one branch of government So it's part of the checks and balances in our system And i'm really glad to have glenn ivy In the house of representatives and as a maryland partner. So glenn please give him a Thank you senator. I appreciate it. It has been a crazy day the fiza vote This may be the first time i've been in congress where i actually voted the same way as Marjorie taylor green On anything maybe other than win to break for lunch.  There's an old saying in politics. Everything's been said, but everybody hasn't said it yet So I want to be conscious of that and this is a little bit like being the game after the super bowl since we've already cut the ribbon But I did want to take a moment and just thank you for the great work that you do My mother was a librarian My mother-in-law was a librarian And they had a strong commitment to what that meant And it's important. I think too for the reasons chris mentioned a moment ago, but the history of the united states I think we're the greatest country in the world and and maybe ever and This it's important for us to practice and make sure it's available to everybody around I'm not an archivist. I'm not really good at researching records, but a few years ago I took a stab at trying to trace my family history and My kids still don't want me to do the DNA testing. So I haven't done that yet Which makes me worried that maybe one of them has gotten into something that maybe he or she shouldn't have. I don't know but But you know, I started dabbling with it and I did online research and the like and and I got a chance to To go on my family's originally from north carolina and I got fairly far along but Um Around 1870 going to 1860 they made a jump from human records to property records to trace my Relatives on my mother and father's side and so I had to stop there because that was such a heavy I wasn't mentally ready to make that transition yet But the fact is that when I do get myself together and we're ready to do that the record is there And I think working the other direction The transition we've made from where the united states then Was then to where it is now. I think is beyond significant It's it's really incredible in a lot of ways And I think it's critical that people like you and an institution like this is making sure that we track that history because This is a history that's going to make a difference I think already does inspires people around the world, but I think will for generations to come So thank you for the work that you do Keep it going keep it up. I think it makes a huge difference not just for us now But but for those coming in the future Keep up the great work and thanks for letting me be part of it. Have a great day Thank you congressman ivy we're Proud to be part of the the fourth congressional district of maryland What the two of you missed me sort of say at the beginning is is the deep appreciation that we have as a agency and As federal employees for your advocacy for federal departments and agencies in their programs, but also for federal employees. So thank you Thank you all for being here today to celebrate this milestone with us We're now going to offer tours of the digitization center. We have staff Positioned at locations throughout the space. We're ready to demonstrate the new equipment and the processes Um, and then we will also offer tours in the conservation lab in the research rooms And there's a really special document display across the hall if you are interested in any of these There's sarah sarah keep waving your hand work your way to the back and sarah will um Get you with one of our tour guides and there will also be refreshments available in the atrium area outside, but no food and drink in here, please Um, but again, thank you to all the nara staff that made this happen. Thank you to all of our, you know, 65 We'll soon be 80 new employees. Um, all all coming to work in the in the At the national archives at college park and again, thanks for all being here today


I should catch one right there yep that's a good one yes that's a good one just talking about it barely get that in that I'm digging yo what's popping people welcome back to another video thank you guys so much for the support if you new to the channel please hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell and also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content you guys probably know something a little different look at this look at this now I got the big bass energy hat on coming soon let me guys know let me guys know let me guys know I can't talk this morning let me know if you guys would like to cop on them because we're gonna get some in soon you guys dig the hat and you're interested in one leave a comment down below hit that freaking like button let me know and we're gonna have some big bass energy hats coming out soon I'm very excited for it but today with my boy Bradley you guys can tell right there what you gotta say to the fan man follow me on IG baby yeah go follow Bradley on IG he was talking about we're gonna get out today we're gonna do some fishing do some bass fishing we're actually pre-fishing for a tournament that we have this Saturday you guys saw in the last one finish a fourth place but this time it can't go that way yeah we can't do listen if we ain't if we ain't first we last Ricky Bobby baby let me show you some wear and tear that we've been putting on the river I ain't gonna lie my skag my skag is a little it's getting a little worn I ain't gonna lie I broke the trolling motor ran the trolling motor dead been scratching the wrap you guys got you guys didn't get to see a lot of the footage but we had some crazy things happen out here which crazy things happen on the river all the time all the time but this is our last practice day before the tournament so stay tuned for the tournament video you know we're gonna be filming that whole thing it's gonna be a fun day but I'm we're gonna go ahead and get on the water I'm gonna get Bradley to dump me in we're gonna get hunting for some new fish today fish some new areas cover some water to try to find this big bass let's get it here we go it's time hold up boys we got a lost Slim Jim in the mix you know the Slim Jim is on the boat I saw you boys talking about it you guys know what's up it's kind of my new go-to now got some Slim Jim's got some crackers we're having a good day with that one we're good for blast all right we're gonna get the day started got us a curve 55 muddy water crawl beautiful crank I love this thing this is me and Bradley's favorite little crank it's our last one actually so I hope I don't lose it Bradley's starting a different one he actually went and bought something bass pro I'm gonna start off with some cranks in here that's looking good and cover a lot of water and hopefully catch us big fish I ain't gonna lie this is one of the best-looking places I've seen on the river yet we got a hungry gator following us around this morning I want some food I think we should just keep moving baits on to I'm is that a big one what if he'll probably eat this worm they'll usually eat after maybe throw a soft gloss again there on a buzzbait or anything like that that's a biggin that's a biggin Bradley is it not is it not big why does it feel so large it was a good one holy cow well that's the first fish today guys he was running look at his freaking belly on that thing that's almost two pounds if he ain't two-pound probably 180 or something that's a good fish right there fat chunky first fish today fishing a new spot we just came so far look how fat that bass is pretty nice it's not beautiful are you want to put them in the bed well you want to see what our bag was okay I mean we can today we can if it if you want to do that a day then today be the day it's a good little fish I hook said on that sucker was going yeah I said all right see they're a big mud or this is a big bass me and Bradley were just talking we're not gonna put any fish in the well today we are gonna weigh in though because we want to know our best five where's that scale that you guys in here you know what I'm gonna call one eight four okay or one eight three one eight three five actually one point seven five is cold oh my god I was one off one point eight two right there boys one point seven five without cold that's a fat I don't know remember our fish weighed more in the tournament that's true well I'll say one point eight two let me put that on our phone so we know there he is there we go guys second fish that one's probably around the same size as the other one actually might be a little smaller knowing he's not fat my gosh it's a good little fish though I got another one on the crawl fishing the same lake just hunting covering water we never been in here before we'll get we'll get from away I think he's 170 I think he's short looks like that's what he's gonna be stop one 45 probably be 170 I'm dead on the money he's not as fat as that other one the other one had that big belly so a good fish pretty one what was that one four five four five we'll put him in there we need to call him out today but pretty little fish finding more good little sign that we found another bass in here because we have many bites but we're gonna keep on moving oh was I not recording guys I don't know if I was recording on this last fish I just are you serious was I not recording I don't think I was a whatever we just got our second fish I caught him on this crawl again working out of this place he hit it pretty good you like it oh no don't do it don't do it don't do it don't do it don't do that do that on what it definitely got messed up that break it I think I broke it yeah knock the transducers it ain't working I just broke our trolling there honey literally turn it back on so you notice when I hit the breaker very long story guys but we hit a big log with this trolling motor and we could not we had to take the prop off but I didn't have the tools in the boat so we had to run back to the boat ram get my toolbox out of my truck we just fixed the trolling motor we're good to go but um crazy I'm glad we're we're back out getting ready to fish again we were just finally getting on something and then something stupid happened yeah there he is yeah I don't know oh yeah decent one oh no no don't do that that's a two county son well guys there we go got another little fish we're gonna give her a weight I think she's a pound and a half if that get a weight on this bad boy that's about what I thought one three zero almost a pound and a half pretty little chunky guy okay right where that's a big and that's a dog I mean big you more like the net skills do right where he should have been right where he should have been that's a good one yeah our guys guys a good fish I don't know if he's quite three 218 good fish he's a skinny fish he's a long one though that's a good fish that having a turn there I ain't gonna lie he looks bigger than those ones that we caught that day no let me tell you you talk about fighting you you heard my line whistling I thought he was a five pounder I really did that's a beautiful fish right there that's a good river bass best one today we're getting on him had some little trolling motor problems but we're back at it catching them get him back in the water that's a good fish really yep there is about a pound and a half Bradley you almost hook this out of me in my head I think it's look I'm gonna let you you be swimming in the water right now ain't they get a cool hat and that would have been one inch lower now the bus how are you even hooking right there you've all got my that was bad you were close we got lucky there God was looking over us right there I think I hit you with a back side except oh it bit my hook oh you got me good dude it had been to look at that no one's got a strong new that you got me good I'm telling you didn't feel good felt like a dang baseball hit me in the back of the head there we go we'll just call him a pound I'm gonna weigh him for a little guy hopefully we'll get him out he hammered it I thought that was a big one when you hook set you hear that line whistling you think it's a big one but still a decent little fish you know there's some big ones I live out here that's a good one that's a dang good one that was a freaking three pounder you saw that and in here that's three pounder I skipped up there and he already had it dude I got literally skipped up he was already taken off with it I just had to hook set that's three pounder like a skag not in the water is it just a little bit of pain off the skag that's about it I don't know if I'm gonna send in here I think if you go on that right hand side that'd be fine get him you got him is he big I'm tiny guy oh my mine stuck to we both have a fish stuck in here mine's still on is yours my might have came off actually they were in this tree I don't know if mine's on about pulled the rod out my hand I pulled up to get out the cover really oh no what is that some big mud that's a weird flip in front of me and catch them nice little fish how to hook some left-handed is right there in that shade that's a pretty little bit thick and chunky fish there hey Ron I'll tell you that hammered the mess out of me all you got to do is find the shade nothing to it little fat they're all fat the trick is all you got to do is find that shade if you find that shade there oh he just hit there he is it's a good little gas right there that's some dang fat fish I mean they're not bad I ain't what we need I mean that's a better one knock the mess out of it should catch one right there yep that's a good one yes that's a good one just talking about it barely get that net I'm digging yeah that's a four pounder new this is gonna be a good spot we're just talking about it there you go buddy all right guys we finally found one today that that would help us out I don't know if we really talked about it in this video but we really want to fish a there's another tournament coming over this Saturday so we just out here turning around messing around what the heck is that black stuff on my arm I don't know bro I'm trying to find the scale three and a half I think 3.75 that's not thinking that's a good fish bro he's been caught a few times when I hooked him we're just talking about really man these fish are all small all of a sudden okay big bass energy yeah I got that big bass energy son 3.52 3.52 that's a good fish three and a half pounder she might be thicker than that didn't yeah gotta be 375 fish that's a good river fish bro either way you see that's a good river fish get back in the water it's a really good river fish right that's what we need that size we've honestly hooked some good ones today she goes but you had that big one that you lost I lost that what three pounder that jumped that one time caught that other one that was what two and a half camera die we're just gonna we're gonna pick up on this camera let me call that two and a half we've got some good one or hooked into some good ones today had a lot of small ones but you know we're getting those decent bites I was a good one right there I spit it out oh I got him that's another good one that's a croppy that's the biggest croppy I've ever seen so do that is a big one them copy don't need no copy baits in your bass baits there is another decent or a bass has a good one this is where we need to go guys we are finding the heck out I mean I just turned around and cast on the tree we've already casted on multiple times got a pound and a half or I mean they're not giant it's ever that one I just caught that's a good come on man I mean look at that these are good fish those little markings on this fish they're all about a pound and a half good little ones I mean they're eating it you know and they we're going back where we just came we don't have a choice guys we're this trolling motor is almost dead and we're still catching them I was really a couple casts after that one I just caught you know that big ones on that isolated sign did you see that look at that took both my things you'll catch them might have been a good one on a real note get him get him get him it is a good one ain't it oh yeah oh yeah baby money away that one huh it's a good one look at that show me the right you just took my are my things in his mouth probably look what he just did to me rally flipped in there called him on a cloud pretty little fish I freaking godly do we're catching the dog got him a struggle is real on our trolling motor right now my boat but it's probably about to just get demolished so far there's nothing you can do I guess as fast as you go


First, Yates' lecture. I was talking about Yates' early development and stylistic transformation over the course of roughly a 20-25-year period. Yates has a long career, really beginning in the late nineteenth century. The poems that matter the most to us today are those that he starts publishing around 1915 or 1914 and later, but he's in really the middle of his literary career at that point. I suggested in looking at that early development that Yates is seen as a kind of representative figure who somehow moves out of symbolism, out of a kind of ornate aestheticism towards a kind of heroic realism. But I insisted instead that in fact the way to understand that development is really a transition from one set of symbols to another, as exemplified by the movement between Angus and the Fishermen in Yates' early work. The little poem, A Coat, that poem about that stylistic transformation, about the enterprise of walking naked, well, it's a poem that reminds us that Yates' development was, as he understood it, conditioned by his relationship to his audience. Yates, I said, wanted to speak for and to the Irish people as well as to explain Ireland and Irishness to an English-speaking world abroad. At the same time, even as he has a kind of intense identification with the Irish people, he also, in that little poem and in other poems, fears being betrayed by the crowd, fears being sold cheap, complains of his reception. Last time I alluded to Yates' involvement in the Abbey Theatre, beginning in 1904, this is an important phase of his career, when with the help of Lady Augusta Gregory and John Sing, Yates tries to establish an Irish national drama. Sing's play, The Playboy of the Western World, which you may know, it was set in the Aaron Islands in Western Ireland. This was a kind of turning point in the movement. Misunderstood as a satire on the Irish peasantry, Yates' production of the play led to riots in 1909. This is one of the events, I think, that Yates is thinking about in The Fisherman, when he speaks of great art beaten down. The audience that Yates disdains and turns away from in the teens is, importantly, a middle-class, urban audience. And that attitude of Yates is, it's a motif we find in other poets that we'll read. I'd like you to note it, an attitude that we'll see in Pound, in Eliot, in different ways. The displacement of aristocratic and peasant cultures by an urban bourgeoisie, by the Dublin theater-going audience, the people at the center of a new mongrel modern culture. Well, these are the people that Joyce depicts so memorably in the daily life of Leopold Bloom. Yates is a very different writer and has a different relation to the world of Joyce's Ulysses, for example. Yates has a kind of hostility towards this ascendant middle-class world and a hostility that you can view as a kind of anti-modernism, or anti-modernness, that is, again, an important component in Yates. Or maybe the right way to say it would be that Yates' sense of his own modernity, which is what it means for him to be modern, emerges in defiance of certain new social formations, and also through a fantasy, I say, identification with the aristocracy and with the peasantry, with these cultures rooted in rural Irish society of the past, like Pound, like Eliot, from a political and social point of view you could say that Yates is a reactionary modernist, turning away from the ascendant social forms of the present towards an idealized past. Or, rather, you could say Yates seems to want to do this, seems to want to turn away from the present, expresses the desire to. In fact, however, Yates' eyes remain really fixed in the kind of horror and fascination on the cataclysmic events of his time, on the political life of his time in which he is himself very much involved. Yates is, in fact, a far less nostalgic thinker than either Eliot or Pound, at least as I understand him. The stance that I'm trying to describe, which is an ambivalent and complicated one, emerges powerfully in the poem, Easter 1916, on page 105 in this book, and I'd like to spend some time with that, with you. Easter 1916. The subject of this poem is the Easter Uprising, the Irish Republican Challenge to English Domination, that briefly established an Irish state led by Patrick Pierce, who, along with, in fact, all but one of the leaders of the insurrection, was executed. These events still have a kind of central and powerful place in modern Irish consciousness. If you go to Dublin and you enter the post office, one of the important scenes of the rebellion, you find great wall paintings of scenes from the rising, almost like, you know, Stations of the Cross. Dublin is an interesting place to be with this poem in mind, partly because you realize when you are there, that the city center is a small one, and that, well, Yates's house was not far from the post office. And the world that he's writing about is something very intimate and familiar, of which he is a part. And that is, in fact, one of the important points of departure for this poem. He says, I have met them at close of day, coming with vivid faces from counter or desk among grey eighteenth-century houses, Dublin, them being the revolutionaries. I have passed with a nod of the head, or polite meaningless words. Or I've lingered a while and said, polite meaningless words. And thought before I had done of a mocking tail or a jib to please a companion around the fire at the club, being certain that they and I, but lived where motley is worn, all changed, changed utterly. Terrible beauty is born, motley signifying their Irishness as if Yates and these men and women he speaks of shared only their Irishness. In the second strophe of this poem he proceeds to talk about and to isolate individuals, particular figures of the revolt which your editor identifies at the bottom of the page.  What voice more sweet than hers when young and beautiful are harriers? This man had kept a school and rode our winged horse. This other, his helper and friend, was coming into his force. He might have won fame in the end, so sensitive his nature seemed, so daring and sweet his thought. This other man I had dreamed drunk and vain, glorious, lout. One most bitter wrong to some who were near my heart, mud-gun. Yet I number him in the song. He too has resigned his part in the casual comedy. He too has been changed in his turn, transformed utterly. A terrible beauty is born. Yates is describing his interaction and his distance and the others in that first stanza and then in the second. He's saying something like, I used to see these people all the time. I was proud, however. I kept myself apart from them. I felt we had nothing in common but motley, our Irishness. But all that has changed by events. They have become political martyrs to the future Irish state and I am obliged to remember and honor them in my poetry, even those I disdained. My poetry, which, well, the dedication to which had defined Yates' difference from them, up till now.  And it suggests almost a strangely impersonal event, something that happens without agents making it happen.  Take the first part of the refrain first. All changed, changed utterly. I think there are really three strong, metrical accents in a row there. By all that three-letter word, a highly Yatesian word, a word Yates loves to use. You'll see him use it often. Yates means all of them, all of those people, all the people I've been describing. He also means my relation to them, the way I kept myself apart from them. He also means all, everything, plain and simple, all in the sense of everyone and everything, all conveying a kind of apocalyptic, epical event. That wonderful pile-up of stress in that line, all changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty is born. Another two strong three-beat lines in a row. They become a kind of well-what? Bell ringing in the poem, peeling and announcing. The coming, the birth of a new and terrible age. How can something be changed utterly? How can something be changed utterly? Doesn't that mean destroyed, to be entirely changed? Yates is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction. Destruction of the world before the Easter uprising, and Easter is an important resonance here, obviously, Easter, another moment of death and transfiguration, transformation. Here this destruction brings forth a new order, a new form of life that Yates calls terrible beauty. This may be the most memorable sentence in modern poetry. A terrible beauty is born. He said that Yates looks on the modern with a sense of both horror and a fascination of compulsion, almost. Well, it's a terrible beauty he sees that draws him in this way. He sees specifically the passion of the Revolutionary's Act, and he finds it beautiful. Yates aestheticizes their political action. He finds beauty in it. It seems even or especially because it is terror filled when the change that it enacts is utter, which is to say a change that means blood. To find bloody events beautiful, what do you think about that? How do you describe the politics, if you like, of such a position? Well, how does Yates stand in relation to the events he's describing? Easter 1916 equivocates. Like that phrase, terrible beauty, the poem is full of contradictions, of contradictory feelings. It takes the side of the nationalists. It also makes the anti-nationalists, the English or pro-English or Unionist case. It sees the dead as heroic martyrs. It also sees them as ideologues, as stony-hearted political activists. It sees the dead as lovers too. It sees them as dreamers. Yates looks at them with pity, with admiration, with scorn. He speaks of them as a mother would of her children. All of these attitudes, and others too, are held in suspension in the poem, and you can hear them together. Yates moving from one to another with incredible speed and agility in that final strophe of the poem on the next page. Listen to how quickly Yates modulates from one feeling, one image to another in these really very short, quick, three-beat lines. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. Oh, when may it suffice? That is heaven's part. Our part to murmur name upon name, as a mother names her child, when sleep at last has come on limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, no. Not night, but death. Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith for all that is done and said. We know their dream enough to know they dreamed and are dead. And what if excess of love bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse, McDonough and McBride and Connolly and Purse, now and in time to be, wherever a green is worn, or changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born. This is really moving poetry. Remarkably so. And that may be the most important fact about it. When Yates aestheticizes the political, he makes it moving. Moving in the literal sense of, I think, emotionally engaging and cathartic, he can specifically converts the political into tragic action. Tragic action, which as spectators, the poet and the reader, ourselves, are meant to be passionately and imaginatively engaged, which is also to say, implicated. Through Yates' poem, Easter 1916 goes on happening, happening in a sense, in and even to us. The poem makes us see the political as a space of passion and of contradictions like art. And it requires us to understand history, not in moral terms, such as good and evil, but rather in aesthetic terms. Pity and terror, these become crucial terms, the terms that Aristotle, in his poetics, used to define tragedy. When the bombs went off in London last year, I thought about Yates and what he might have thought or written about this. As I said last time when I showed you that letter to Pound, Yates' London apartment is essentially across the street from where the number 30 bus blew up. And, interestingly, strangely, make of it what you will, the man who detonated that bomb, as I understand it, had studied Yates at school in Leeds. There's a way in which Yates' poetry of this period goes on resonating in the world we're living in. Yates' sense of his own implication in history, well, it's something that we see in the intensive stylistic transformations that his writing undergoes. Part of the resonance and power of that famous refrain, A Terrible Beauty is Born, is that this beauty is being born not only in the world but in Yates' poetry, something remarkable is happening to the poet and to his language at the same time. Yates is saying, even simply on one level, I will write differently, henceforth. I must. Yates' stylistic changes in this way are coordinated with respond to the historical changes he witnesses and participates in, in particular, coordinated with the violent emergence of, through civil war of the Irish state, which Yates would serve as a senator in the 1920s. Yates, in this period, makes and remakes his work out of passion, a sort of, as he images it, in the breast, a tumult from which new modes of poetry, new modes of self-knowledge emerge for Yates. Yates' poetry is full of images of birth, and he tends to represent birth as an explosion, a bursting forth, a bursting forth of energy or presence in some sense that can't be contained or constrained in existing forms. I'll say more about this next time with reference to Yates' late poetry. What I want to stress now is that Yates sees passion at in the same way in history. Powerful superhuman forces emerge from or invade human actors and change them. One consequence of this view is that for Yates, history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth. It, well, in the Easter Rising, Purse and the Others for Yates invoke, as they, the revolutionaries themselves, deliberately and rhetorically did, invoke ancient Irish heroes. Purse is seen as in Yates' poetry and in popular lore as Cahulin, as a kind of avatar of the mythic Irish hero. At the same time as the superhuman enters these historical characters in this way, there's also, well, an energy that you would have to call subhuman, bestial, that does as well. In his late poem, The Statues, which you don't have, Yates says, when Purse summoned Cahulin to his side, what stalked through the post office as if the revolutionaries' action brought forth at once the presence of a legendary hero and a beast that might be stalking through his embodiment and his presence. Yates saw history in symbolic and mystical terms. This is a poet who, with his wife, practiced automatic writing, who believed that the dead spoke through the living. This occult, Yates, is a genuinely and wonderfully thoughtful thinker. He elaborated a systematic account of mind and history. As I said last time, talking about the song of wandering Angus and Yates' interest in alchemy, which was developed, it isn't, in fact, necessary for you to grasp Yates' system, which you'd have to go to his book called A Vision to Begin to Do. It isn't necessary for you to grasp his occultism in order to read his poetry well. Yates said that the voices that he communicated with on the other side gave him metaphors for poetry. This is what they deliver him. They also gave him, as he put it, stylistic arrangements of experience. The occult gives Yates aesthetic forms for understanding individual psychology and historical event. This is, I think, how we need to understand the various occult symbols in another great poem from this phase in his career, a little bit further on the second coming on page 111. Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand, surely the second coming is at hand. The second coming hardly are those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight, somewhere in sands of the desert a shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, is moving its slow thighs, while all about it real shadows of the indignant desert birds, the darkness drops again. But now I know the twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards Bethlehem to be born. Another poem of birth. Notice how very casual Yates is in that second strophe, how self-consciously fantastic and speculative he is. He doesn't insist that the apocalypse is at hand, only that some revelation is. In fact, this poem's power lies, I think, in its, not only its inability but its unwillingness to specify the content of that revelation. Yates suggests that we think of this historical moment as the second coming, but this is not the return of Jesus that Christianity prophesies. Yates sees the second coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience. It comes out of what he calls Spiritus Mundi, a semi-technical term. Yates' name for something like the concept of unconscious of all peoples, a kind of repertoire of archetypes from which the symbols that we use to understand the world derive. It is, well, this is really, I think, a radical, if not heretical, idea for the national poet of a Christian people. Yates is saying that Christianity is only one symbolic order among others. It has a history. It is now passing away as it once came into being. He's also saying that the birth of Christ in Bethlehem was a nightmare for the world it altered, the world that it changed utterly, a change that Yates sees as the end now of the Christian era and not its fulfillment. Isn't there, too, the disturbing suggestion that Christ himself was a rough beast? Yates develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one, and let's turn back and look at it on page 103. That's the Magi. Again, a visionary poem where Yates is saying, I see, I see in my mind's eye. This is the action of the poem takes place in Yates's imagination. Now, as at all times, I can see in the mind's eye in their stiff painted clothes the pale unsatisfied ones appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky with all their ancient faces like rain beaten stones and all their helms of silver hovering side by side and all their eyes still fixed hoping to find once more being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied the uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. The Magi here are again an image, a kind of visionary symbol, an image available in the mind's eye at all times. They are unsatisfied by Calvary's turbulence, Calvary's turbulence, a remarkable phrase, unsatisfied by the scene of Christian martyrdom, because they recognize that history is cyclical and that the cycle that they saw come into being can only be completed by another such birth, not by Christ's death and resurrection. Notice here how Yates images what is at the core of Christ's birth. It is an uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor, on the floor, on the bottom, on the ground where the animals dwell. The second coming, it seems, as Yates imagines it, a kind of similarly uncontrollable mystery and the energy, the new presence that it releases into the world, is bestial, is that of a beast. The divine enters the human in these poems of Yates through the bestial. It's a powerful and disturbing idea. There's another very powerful and disturbing poem that literalizes this idea, and that is laid in the Quran on page 118, a poem that is a sonnet, though it doesn't quite look like it at first, a mythological poem that seeks to give a mythological image to or for the kinds of epical and apocalyptic historical change that Yates is living through in the 1920s in Ireland. In certain ways it's a beautiful poem and a grotesque one at the same time. A sudden blow, the great wings beating still above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed by the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill. He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push the feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body laid in that white rush but feel the heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there, the broken wall, the burning roof and tower, and Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute blood of the air, did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her stop? History, what makes history happen, is imaged here in the form of the rape of the human by the divine in the form of a beast, the form of a swan. The myth that Yates takes up is of Zeus's rape of the maiden whom he attacks as a swan. The offspring that the rape engender includes Helen, the terrible beauty for whom the Trojan war was fought. Also, Clytemnestra, the wife of the Greek lord Agamemnon, whom Clytemnestra murders on his return from Troy. Those future events are glimpsed in the cestate of this poem and the final six lines.  There's a kind of radical foreshortening of temporal experience at what Yates imaged as the orgasmic union of the divine and human, a shutter in the lines, bringing about the sack of Troy, the murder of the king. All that future contained in this generative, ambiguous violence in the presence that the poem describes, the present that the poem describes. In effect, in that middle part of the poem, Yates collapses creation and destruction, suggesting that the same bestial energy flows through both of these acts. Here, divine force reduces to brute power in somewhat the same way as it does in the Magi and the Second Coming. One result of this is Yates, and this is interesting, his lack of interest in the God. This isn't a poem about Zeus. It's not a poem about the swan. He doesn't name the swan, just as he doesn't name the rough beast in the Second Coming. What the swan thinks or feels or intends doesn't matter. The swan is really only a force, and Yates' concern is rather with the human experience of that force, which is, again, another manifestation of terrible beauty. Yates explores that experience, which is an experience of suffering here and a violation through a series of rhetorical questions, which are a crucial poetic device for Yates. Yates is a poet who asks questions. Questions, well, they're different. Even rhetorical questions are different, aren't they, from statements of fact. They're more like propositions, like speculations, that we're asked to test to empathic identification with, in this case, the poem's subject, Lita. This is what the form of the question invites, I think. In Eastern 1916, I talked about Yates' partial, complicated identification with the suffering martyrs of that poem. Well, that identification here is reimagined, and we're invited into it too, troublingly, I think. The frightening experience that Yates evokes here is the imposition of the divine on the human, helpless breast on breast. That's a wonderful phrase. The repetition of breast links them, makes us see them together side by side, one on top of the other. It even, I think, identifies the divine and the human, makes them hard to tell apart, binds them, even while we are being confronted with their difference. Lita feels the beating of the swan's heart, is strange to her, that simple, powerful word. The poem's great final question concerns that perception. Did she put on his knowledge with his power? Did she know the heart she felt, or could she only feel it? What difference would it make between those two things? Between knowing that heart and merely feeling it? It's the difference between knowing history, understanding its patterns and motivating forces, its causes, intentions, and merely feeling it, merely suffering it, serving as its instrument or vessel, an object to be dropped when it's no longer useful. To know history, to be able to put on the God's knowledge with his power, would be to have access to history's meaning, and therefore to be more than merely subject to it, subject to its capricious and violating forces. Beyates doesn't answer that question, does he? Well, why not? Probably because there isn't an answer. The further implication is, I think, that whether or not we can have access to historical knowledge, the only path to such knowledge is through submission to its bestial or brute power, which is a kind of shattering experience in this poem. Well, on Monday we'll look at some of the figures in Yates's late poems who represent a kind of knowledge to be had through an experience of, well, violation or of shattering power. Characters such as the mad old men or crazy Jane, in Yates's late poems.


It's an opportunity for us to give back to the community and teach kids the fundamentals of softball and teach them the love that we have for the game here at UPOC. It gives us a chance to see local talent and it also gives us a chance to help develop younger kids. The fundamentals is very important. The younger they learn, the correct way to do things, the easier it is to develop as a player. We have several girls here today that are wanting to be recruited so this is a good opportunity for us to see all of their skills and see if they would be a good fit for UPOC.


A fiery horse with a speed of light, the cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof beat to the great horse, the silver, the lone ranger rides again. I'm silver, let's go be cool. I'm silver, I'm silver. Thunder Martin was after wild horses. The big X mule skinner and a companion called Shorty were aided in the hunt by the lone ranger's friends, Dan Reed and Tonto. They had built a rope corral at the foot of a hill, then separated to drive the unbroken animals into the v-shaped opening. Dan Reed, Tonto, Shorty and Thunder Martin himself rode hard, shouting at the top of their voices, cutting back and forth to keep the horses in a closed pack. They reached the corral and rained up sharply. Hey, Thunder. Well, we got him, Daniel. We got a lot of those British.  Golly Thunder, that's the first horse hunt I've ever been on. Oh, you're not all right, Daniel. Me and Shorty sure appreciate what you and Tonto have done to help us. Hey, come over here, Shorty. Well, Thunder, it sure looks like we got us some horses. Who's going to break all those horses to the saddle, Thunder? Well, that's Shorty's job. You're going to break them off, Shorty? Breaking our hair through, Daniel.  He don't have pride enough left to lift his heels. Jay, how do you like my pound, Daniel? He sure can ride. Yeah. When nature built him, she threw it off on the job for looks, but alongside his Shorty gold is just plain dirt. Hey, what's Tonto doing over yonder? He seems to be looking at something. Well, I'll yell at him and fight. Now, hold on, Thunder.  Oh, I'll tone her down. Oh, yeah, Tonto. I'm over here with the rest of us. Maybe you've seen our mass friend coming, Daniel. Didn't you leave word that it would be up here? Yes. Now, what did you see, Tonto? Is the lone ranger coming? Two hunters come this way. Two? Uh, steady scuffle. It is one of the lone rangers. No. The hunters seem to come from Ranch and Valley. That would be the Tiger range. I've heard of Tiger. We see plenty Tiger cattle on range. Yeah, that was the T-brand stock we saw. Well, they come. Maybe they won't like us hunting the horses. Well, it's open range. They can like it or leave it. What's going on here? You better repeat that question, master. I don't think I heard you right. I said, what's going on here? Yeah. That's what I thought you said.  If you think you're going to take those horses, you better think again. This here is open range. We aim to take what we corraled as soon as we got them broke.  This is tagged range. Take nothing of the sort. Here's open range. Yeah? Well, we'll see you. Well, hold on, Red. Redhead, you're asking to have your horns clipped. Oh, just a minute. I'm Red's tagger. Well, you better tell your partner to get over his frothy spell. Mr. Tagged, these critters are just making believe you hunt horses. They're really looking over the next lot of cattle, as they disappear. Redhead, the last time a man talked that way about me, I nudged his talk box and he lost a few bridal teeth. Yeah? You talk big when you're outnumbered.  I'll do the talking. You've heard better clear out. Lost a lot of cattle in the last month. My men have been instructed to drive out all strangers. Tagged any time you feel like hunting yourself up replacements for your cowhands.  No, I'm not going to argue with you. If you're not going by tomorrow, you'll be chased. I won't be responsible if all four of you get hurt. Say, Shorty, how hungry a figure it'll take to break these earhorses and parrots. Horse thunder? I don't know. Yeah, you can't do it by noon tomorrow, can you? Couldn't even break one by that time. Well, Tagged, you heard what Shorty said, so I reckon we'll be here some time after noon tomorrow. What I said still goes. Red, I'm giving you orders right now. These men are here tomorrow afternoon. Run them off the range. I sure will, boy. Yeah, come around, Red. I'll be sure you come ready for trouble because you're sure going to get it. We'll be ready. Come on, Red.  And I'll leave that gun where it is, Shorty. You aren't recalling that?  Yeah, they'll be here all right. You and Tonto better clear out before they come. You know, that old ranger would never forgive me if I got you tangled up in a gunfight. But what if Red brings nine or ten men with him? Ten? I've handled 18 mules. But they'll probably come shooting.   No, maybe not. On the other hand, we got our rights. And this is open range.  He wasn't bluffing, was he, Tonto? No, he not bluffing. Oh, he knows he's cold-deckin' me and Shorty. But by darn, we got our legal rights. And if we got a cash in our chips to back him up, eh, we'll do it. But can't you get a lawman? Oh, then, near as laws, 50 miles away. Besides, I got more confidence in the law I carry on my gun belt. Well, we got till tomorrow to talk things over. Right now, I'm hungry. Let's eat. You know, that's a good idea, Shorty.  And maybe by the time we're done eatin', the low ranger will be here. And I'll attend to one. He'll have a few ideas for a deal with Tagged. That night, soon after darkness had gathered, the foreman rode from the Tagged ranch on a pretence of going to town. But Red Gilpin went nowhere near the town that night. Instead, he headed through a ravine, then turned into a branching canyon that widened to form a sizable expanse of pasture hemmed in by sheer walls. A number of head of cattle moved contentedly in the moonlight, while Red talked to a group of hard-faced men who huddled close to a small campfire. I just got the idea this afternoon, boys. We could do big things. We're doing all right, Red. As long as you stay on this foreman of the Tagged ranch, so you can let us know when to make off with a few head of cattle, we'll do all right. Oh, that's tin-horn stuff, Levy. Besides, old Tagged's beginning to miss the cattle. Can't you convince him that the critters just stray off and disappear? Not for very long. Your scheme sounds risky to me. You're wrong, butch. There's no risk at all. He already suspects those horse owners are being cattle thieves, and he's ordered them out of this part of the country. You think they'll leave? Not on your life. They know it's open range, and they know they're within their rights. They'll fight to a showdown. Won't be easy to pin the murder of Tagged on them. Why won't it? The law is 50 miles away, and the sheriff will have to take my word for what happens. You think he'll take your word if he knows that you inherit the Tagged ranch? Leave that to me, Levy. He won't know it right away. We'll let a couple of weeks go by before we find the Tagged left to will, leaving the bar T-Range to me. Do you think that will be questioned? Why should it be? Tagged's got no one else to leave the outfit to, and I've been his foreman for a long time. Who's got a better eye to it? I still think it sounds like an awful lot of risk. We've got to do it, Lefty. We'll never get rich sneaking a few head of beef into this box canyon and running new brands over the old. It takes too long. Besides, we've got to split the profits too many ways. I want all of the bar T. Sure applies worth going after. Yeah, you bet it is, Putsch. I'm for it, Lefty. Now you leave all the arrangements to me, Lefty. Now work it out. Red, you don't aim to take over my gang, do you? What? Why, of course not, Lefty. Sometimes a man gets a little too ambitious for his own good.  Oh, now, Lefty... I just remember, if we help you inherit the bar T, you'll be owner in name and nothing else. All I want is the same cut I'm getting now. I wanted to be sure of that.  Let me listen. What's the trouble, Lefty? You thought I heard something. Of course you did. There's 50 head of cattle moving about in this pocket. Yeah, maybe that was it. Now what do you say, Lefty? How about my scheme? I'll decide after I hear the details. Let's start talking, Red. Let's hear more about it. Red and the cattle thieves talked for some time. Long before they finished their discussion, a shadowy figure crept away from the campfire and made his way to the narrow opening. He stepped over the fence that kept the cattle confined, and then proceeded down the canyon on foot until he reached a powerful white stallion that stood waiting at ground hitch. It was the masked mystery rider known as the Lone Ranger. He guided the Great Horse Silver through the canyon in the valley near the target ranch house, and he turned abruptly and rode uphill toward a second campfire. A few moments later, he rained up in Thunder Mottin's camp. Thunder, his pal Shorty, Dan Reed, and Tonto listened carefully while the masked man told what he had overheard. They're planning to blame you for the murder. And you know the minute I looked at that ornery, Red, had I known he was no good. I've been just sitting here and looking forward to the time when he comes here tomorrow afternoon to try and chase me. I have him marked for special personal attention. Tomorrow afternoon will be too late, Thunder. They've got to take action tonight. Are you sure them critters you're seeing had been stolen from Taggart? Yes. I examined the brand on a few of them. It had originally been a tea brand, but a running iron had changed it to a box-eye. They're pull-catch. That's in his gang. Keep the cattle penned up in that basin until the new brand heals. Oh, what we do, Kim of Fovey? Let's go get Taggart and show him what you found. That's what I plan to do, Thunder. I'll, uh, take Tonto with me. The rest of you stay here. Oh, Nye, you mean we've got to stay here out of action when there's a chance for a fight with that North Conrad hit foreman? Yes. There were only five men and left his gang. Taggart had eight or nine cowhands. That'll be more than enough to take care of them. Oh, Nye! I want you and Shorty and Dan to wait here for a number of reasons. Come on, Tonto. Uh, scout over this way. Good. Where's he, lady? Why you leave others there? The first place, Tonto. I don't want to take Dan into a gunfight. Oh, Nye, sadly. The second place, when Thunder Martin goes into a fight, he goes all the way. There's any shooting to be done. I want Taggart's own men to do it. How do they sort of do it? Easy. Wait. Wait, go now? Yes, Tonto. He's a big fella.  I want to see you. Max. We'll step in if you don't... Now hold on if you think. Take it easy, Taggart. Tonto and I are here to help you. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. How to continue our story. The Lone Ranger and Tonto had ridden to the Taggart ranch house. Taggart was surprised when he opened the door and protested as the masked men and Tonto stepped in. Now hold on if you think. Take it easy, Taggart. I don't know. I'm here to help you. Indian. I remember you. Me with horse hunters. Close the door, Tonto. Red said you were cattle thieves. We're not cattle thieves. But we know where you can find some. What's that? We can also get back some stolen cattle. What kind of a trick is this? It's no trick, Taggart. I was on my way through the canyon. There was a narrow break in the canyon wall and it had a fence thrown across it. I heard cattle behind that fence and I... You're talking about the wide cut in the south wall? About four miles from here. That's the one. You say there were cattle in there. Cattle wearing a box-eye brand. Recently made with a running iron. There's no box-eye around here. I didn't think so. That's my cattle. I thought it might be. Your foreman was in that basin with it. Red? That's what the cattle thieves called him. Cattle thieves? Five, counting Red. What kind of a game are you playing? I'm not playing any game, Taggart. I came here so my friends, the horse hunters, wouldn't be blamed for your murder. My murder? Yes. Red's not satisfied with his share of what can be stolen from you.  Well, now just a minute. I'll show you why I know you're mistaken. Got proof right here. You can't possibly have proof. You're right, but I have got this gun. Taggart, freeze! I'm going to hold you until Red gets back from town. We'll see what he has to say about this. I seem to have been careless, not Taggart. No, you weren't careless. I'm just a little bit too smart for you. I say that every crook makes a mistake once in his life, and that's the mistake that sends him to the hangman. Yes, that's quite true. You made your mistake when you thought I was going to produce proof that my foreman's not working with rustlers. You couldn't produce that proof, Taggart. I trust Red Gilpin. It's going to take a lot of proof to convince you that he's not to be trusted. It certainly is.   Taggart, I don't like to have guns pointed at me. Oh, you don't, eh? Well, you did shoot. My hand! It hurts like blazes to have your gun shot away. How infunded! Sorry I had to do it, but I couldn't prove my point while you had the drop on me. All right, you've got the drop on me now. What are you going to do about it? I'm going to try to persuade you to call out your men and let me lead them to your stolen cattle. My men are all... We'll have to move fast. How many men have you here? None. You... you've got no cowhands? You don't run this outfit without help. Red sent some of them into town. The rest are out guarding cattle. Oh, Kim, it's obvious. We hear horses. Yes, so do I. Then come this way fast. Keep an eye on Taggart. Taggart, you wouldn't believe me.  I got there. Horseman. Can you see the man on the lead? Oh, it's my foreman. It's Red. You say there are only five men? That's what I thought. Five my eye. There's four times that many. That man next to Red is called Lefty. They're fired. Get inside. Why, it was Red who fired at me. I saw him. Oh, did I? Why are they firing on me? What did they want?   We'll find out.  There's four times as many as I expected. Well, you let me get my rifle out, so... Go ahead. Get some fire on them. Uh-huh. Can't I do it? Now, let me at them. There's rocks around here. Get behind them. Red, you come with me. You too, Joe. I'll ride with you, Lefty. Keep up that gunfire. Moose, you and Steve go to the side of the house. Come on, Red. Get behind this rock. I want to talk to you. Yeah, sure thing, Lefty. Now, what's the idea? What idea? You told us Taggart would be in that house alone. Yeah, I thought he would be. My fun you did. He's got at least two others in there with him. You said you sent most of the men into town and the others out on the range. I did. If you let us into some sort of a trap... Oh, no, I didn't. Who's in there with Taggart? I don't know. You sure the cowhands went into town? Yeah. Yeah, I told them they could go to town and I saw them settle up and on their way. They're all in town except two or three that are out in the range. What did you sew on all that? Keep up that gunfire. What are we going to do, Lefty? Shoot it out until some lucky shots get them inside the house? Shoot it out until some of us can get close enough to set fire to the place. Hey, look, someone's running from the house. Get that man. He's heading for that horse. Don't talk about it. Shoot him. He's heading for town. He got away. He made it. He's out of range. He's heading for town like Gries Lightman. He's out of T-brand cowboys. He's out of two hours, sure that red? Yes, how would I know? He's still can't make it in two hours. And if we can't get rid of Taggart in two hours we don't deserve the win. Keep up the gunfire boys and sneak your way in closer. If we don't get Taggart but bullets we're getting them by fire. The Lone Ranger started in the direction of town. When he was out of sight and out of gun range he rained up abruptly. He turned to the east and once more his ringing cries sent the mighty stallion Silver racing ahead at top speed. The Lone Ranger knew that Taggart would be dead long before he could return from town with help. He had another plan. A plan that called Rexpert horsemanship endearing and the help of Thundermottin, Shorty and Dan Reed. There was another window. It turned out we can't hold out for long. But we may crook know it's plenty dangerous to come close to the house. But they're getting closer, closing in all the time. There goes one now running for the shell of the water trough. You get him? Dead reddit, I gotta stop to reload. There's another. Two, three of them run for the barn. Bring the gun here Taggart. I'll come in on this side. Did you get him? Well, may not know. Maybe hit him in the leg and stumble and get the shell to run. There's three of them right over there in back of the barn now. They get any closer, it'll be hand to hand. You know your way around this barn, Red. Get the coal oil. I'll show you what we'll do. Grab hold of this book board and push your part way out of the barn. And you'll see I'll give a horse. That'll do it. You got that coal oil, Red? There's a downgrade from here to the house. We'll set her a fire and start a roll. Great idea, Lefty. Hey, something's going on outside. Lefty, did you hear that? Someone's coming. Let's go take a look. Read that oil for a minute, Red. Lefty, look up behind it, coming down the hill. But all I can see is a cloud of dust. Well, look again. Horses, there must be 40, 50 of them. There's two men out in front of the others. So it was a trap after all. No, no, Lefty, don't lie to me. You double crossed them. This whole thing was a trap. We can't fight that bunch. I'll deal with you, Red. I'll get you with the last thing I do. No, no, Lefty. Shoot! Get them down! I surrender. Thunder Martin and his pal, Shorty, closed in with a gun in each hand and a pack of charging horses coming fast behind them. Tiger Tonto came from the house. We'll help you. I'll cover them. Anyone who wants to die faster, reach for a gun. Then to their amazement, the settlers learned there were no men on the backs of these horses. But the realization came too late. They had already thrown down their guns and raised their hands. They stood wide-eyed as wild horses raced on past the house and barned. Keep out of the way, Lefty! Wild horses! How'd you get them to follow behind you like they were carrying a sheriff's posse? Well, you animal hippie collude. They were being chased by them too.  That's the best man in this young partner. Don't hog-tie these critters. And don't overlook that one eye-wing to keep them shooting your foreman. My ex-former. Now, Mr. Tiger, listen to me.  Well, let me explain. There's nothing you can explain. You've shown your colors. This red-headed double-twisted worm was aiming to get you, Tiger. Yes, I know. No, no, no. Try to be a poor cat, I'm talking. You figured that after Tiger was dead, you could make out of fake whales. So the law would think you inherited the T-brand range. Red, I'm gonna see you spend the rest of your life in jail for the last thing I do. While you're there, hear something you can think about. I have a will. Made it out some time ago when I thought you were a deserving kind of a man. Under that will, you would have inherited everything I own. You mean that, Tiger? That's the truth. But I'm tearing up that will, Pronto. How does that make you feel, pole cat? I never suspected such a thing. No, Thunder. As for you... Hey, hey, you know my name. Yes, the mask man told me about you before he left here. Sorry, I suspected you of being the cattle thief. Oh, that's all right. I've been accused of lots of things in my days. Well, sir, you came here to get wild horses. Yeah. But now it looks like we'll have to corral them all over again. I'll have my men help you get all the wild horses you can handle. What? Oh, God, you hear that shorty? Course I sure do, Thunder. It looks like both of us are gonna have plenty of wrong busting to do. Say, Tiger, you was gonna get some rope to hog-tie these varvents. Yes, but just one thing more. Yeah? That mask man over there. He told me about you. He could tell a plenty if he was a mind. Well, tell me about him. Who is he? Tiger, that there ombre is the Lone Ranger. You have just heard, it's a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


As you watch your screen you can see that this man came here today with general body pains all over his body to an accident that happened while he was at work.   As you can see right now the name Jesus working in the spirit through his life and in his body as he's receiving that prayer in the mighty name of Jesus. You will spear, what have you done in his life?  Who are you? No. Who are you? No, no. Answer right now in a mighty name of Jesus, answer loud and clear. Who are you?  Fire will go to the mighty name of Jesus Christ, you cannot stand in battle for all liberty, fire in a mighty name of Jesus Christ, fire in in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Who are you? Answer right now. Who are you? What have you done in his life? Answer right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Why have you done his life? Why have you done his family?  Speak louder. What have you done to his body? To his health? Speak louder.  Five Holy Ghosts in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. You will spear your time has expired. You made the greatest mistake to allow him to come to this place. Right now, pack your bags in the mighty name of Jesus Christ each and one of you. Out! Out right now. Out of his life right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of his body, out of his life in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. You cannot stand in the arena of liberty. Out in the mighty name of Jesus. Fire Holy Ghost. Fire Holy Ghost all over his body. You're back on the floor in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Fire Holy Ghost in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of his body, out of his life in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. In the mighty name. Out! You're back on the floor in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Every single one of you. Out of his body. Out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we declare you free in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.  Sir, get up. I say thank you Jesus. Thank you, thank you Jesus. You have been set free. Thank you. Thank you. We welcome you today to the Anointing Water Paralign in the United States. Can you tell us your name and where you're from? Edgar Bilbao, I come from California. Can you tell us what was the reason that brought you here today to receive prayer with the Anointing Water? Because I have a lot of pain in my body. Because I have cirurgis. I have ulcerars. I have diabetes, hair. Many problems in my body.  Yes. And today, as you were receiving that prayer with the Anointing Water, what can you say was happening to you? I don't know. I explain. I don't want it as pain because my legs are shaking. I don't know. I feel entitled only. But after that one, I feel good. So you mean to say that during that prayer your body was feeling weak. It was hard for you to stand. But afterwards when you were declared free that you had felt very good after? Yeah. As you were receiving that prayer, were you aware of anything speaking out of you at the time? No.  What can you say about this? What kind of things were going on in your family? Because I'm divorced. I'm going to put out of my house. I lost my house. I lost everything. I'm broke right now. And my family is, what is the word, its affect to my family. And my dad, I got the schizophrenia. My son is EDD. After my problems, my dad got it last eight months ago.  It has caused you a divorce. Your daughter has schizophrenia and your son has ADD. Yes. And so now that you have received that prayer with the anointing water, do you believe that Jesus Christ has delivered you from this problem, from this evil spirit that has caused setback in your family? Definitely. Yes. Amen.   Well, we want to encourage you to make God's word the standard for your life so that this wonderful healing and deliverance will remain permanent in your life in Jesus mighty name. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus.


Germany has provided a new military aid package to Ukraine. The German government has finalized a 700 million Euro military aid package for Ukraine. The Defence Ministry said the first day of a NATO summit in Valkinas. The package includes two Patriot launchers from Bundeswehr stock. 40 additional Martyr infantry fighting vehicles. 25 additional 1A5 main battle tanks as well as 5 Berger Panzer 2 tanks. The ministry said it includes an additional 20,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and 5,000 rounds of 155 mm smoke ammunition the ministry added. The package serves Ukraine's priorities, air defense, tanks, artillery, with it. We are making an important contribution to strengthening Ukraine's sustainability. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said in a statement.


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