AV Geeks Lunch 4-20-2020

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Hi, remember me? A while ago I made a film called Easy Rider. Well, I'm here to say it's not so easy. I'm Peter Fonda. I've ridden bike for quite a few miles, quite some time, too. It's a great way to get around. It's a good sport if you know what you're doing. If you don't know, it can be a quick ride to the hospital or even the graveyard, which are two good reasons why you should watch and listen to what this film has to say. Here's another friend of mine, rider Evil Knievel. If I look like I'm rigging up for a trip into outer space, you're right. I don't swing a leg over a bike for a trip to the neighborhood drugstore unless I've got on leathers, boots, and gloves. They've saved a lot of hide, especially in accidents like mine. And goggles and a face shield are a must. They may save you from being blinded if you're riding a motorcycle behind an automobile. And a helmet? Nobody should ever ride a motorcycle without a helmet. I never do. Three out of four fatalities on a motorcycle have resulted from head injuries. If the rider had been wearing a helmet, he may be alive today. Another thing that's important, don't get on a a bike without checking the brake, the gas, and especially your rearview mirror. You have to get the feel of a new bike, too, before you hit the road. Get familiar with the controls. For example, on some models the foot brake is located on the right, and on others the left. Balance varies from model to model, too. And these are things you ought to have a feeling for before you tangle with traffic. If you're an experienced rider, that should make sense. If you're a beginner, don't do any of these things, not on your own. You should be learning to ride under the supervision of a pro. Training is available through schools, police departments, and motorcycle dealers. By the way, three out of five bike accidents happen to beginners during their first 6 weeks of riding. Oh, this is slick. But hey, in case you're thinking that Knievel and I are a couple of nervous old ladies, let's not forget the kind of thing that Knievel has done. It isn't as hairy as this, but it still takes a lot of rider to handle a freeway. You've got a lot going for you on a bike if you really use it. If a car cuts you off, your braking and downshift will stop you much more quickly than a car. Same goes for superior acceleration and maneuverability on a bike that can get you out of bad spots fast. Take a good look. Your controls are positioned for almost instant response if your hands and feet are where they belong. Brakes, clutch, downshift, maneuverability, acceleration, and for visibility, there's nothing like it. 360° of unobstructed vision if you keep your eyes open and know when and where to look. If the trouble isn't with the rider, there's still the threat of the car driver. For some reason, most car drivers just don't seem to see bikes. So, you've got to think of them as asleep, blind, or drunk. Records show that nine out of 10 bike accidents at intersections are chalked against cars turning in front of or into cycles, and in most cases, the driver will honestly claim that he didn't see the motorcycle. There is some help in making yourself as visible as you can with what you're wearing, like a white helmet. Also, if you keep a safe distance behind the car you're following and ride over the left side of the lane, you give yourself an edge. Even when that asleep, blind, or drunk driver tries to wipe you out, you've had time and space to anticipate trouble and to avoid it. But, you still can't relax after you've passed the corner. Car statistics show that mid-block bike accidents split just about evenly with intersections. Give parked cars a wide berth. An opening door can really cream you. And never forget that bit about the sleeping, blind, or drunk driver. And it's a good idea to have your headlight on at all times, day as well as night, whether or not it's required by local laws. On a three-lane highway, it's good practice to ride the middle lane. That means if there's trouble ahead, you can choose between right and left lanes to duck into. And stick to the side of the lane you're riding to avoid oil slicks, which are usually concentrated in the center of the lane. One thing a bike doesn't have over a car is good traction in oil, snow, or gravel. The left side of the lane is usually better than the right, of course, because a car driver can see you in his rearview mirror, while the right side of a car is generally a blind spot. But even more important, in the right or left side of the lane, you can see ahead of the car in front of you. You should be able to see at least three cars ahead at all times. That really counts when traffic gets rough. And forget about slot riding, man. Even if you seem to have plenty of space, that hole in between cars can disappear a lot faster than you can get through it. But if all this has you wondering if maybe you ought to sell your bike, here's an interesting hunk of information. Motorcycle police of the Los Angeles Department ride by the book. Or if they don't, they're just not on the motorcycle squad anymore. They follow the rules and they put together a safety record of less than 18 accidents per million miles ridden. That's compared with 27.9 accidents for every million miles driven by the department's fleet of patrol cars, which is almost 10 less accidents for bikes than cars for every million miles. It shows that motorcycles can be safe. So, let's do a quick double take of how it can be that way with you. Here's a motorcycle safety test. Make sure you know the right answers before you get back on a bike. Question number one. Protective clothing like boots, goggles, leathers, and helmet are strictly for beginners. An experienced driver does not need them. True or false? The answer is false. The more experienced a rider, the better he knows that he does not belong in a bike unless he is dressed to protect himself against that accident that could always happen. Question number two. If you are a good rider, it is okay to hop aboard any bike and take off. True or false? The answer is false. It's important to check out a bike thoroughly. Brakes, gas, lights, handling, the works before you hit the road. Question number three. Nine out of 10 bike accidents at intersections are caused by car drivers, not the motorcycle rider. True or false? True. Car drivers just don't seem to see bikes. You have to think of them as asleep, blind, or drunk. Question number four. Chances of an accident in the middle of a block are less than at intersections. True or false? False. Middle block accidents are just about equal to intersection smash-ups, so don't relax between intersections. Question number five. It is a good idea to ride the middle lane on a three-lane highway. True or false? The answer is true. The middle lane gives you a chance to duck to either the right or the left when there's trouble up ahead. Question number six. Whatever lane you are in, it is safest to ride right in the middle of it. True or false? The answer is false. The middle of the lane is where you will usually find the oil slick that can throw you. And besides, if you're directly in back of a car, you can't see far enough ahead to anticipate emergencies. Question number seven. It is safer to ride in the left side of your lane rather than the right. True or false? The answer is true. A car driver can see you in his rearview mirror. His right side is usually a blind spot. Question number eight. Riding into the slot between cars is dangerous. True or false? The answer is true. You can bet on it. That slot can disappear awfully fast and you'd better not be in it when it happens. Question number nine. The odds are against you on a motorcycle no matter how safely you handle it. True or false? The answer is false. Police statistics show that alert, experienced riders observing all the safety rules can reduce motorcycle accidents below the normal car accident rate. Question number 10. Your headlight should only be turned on at night or on a dark day. True or false? The answer is false. Your headlight will help a lot in catching the attention of car drivers. Question number 11. Your helmet serves only one purpose, to protect you from head injury. True or false? False. If your helmet is white or light colored, it also protects you by making you more visible to a car driver. Question number 12. A car is safer than a motorcycle in every way. True or false? The answer is false. On a bike you have greater visibility if you really bother to look, and faster stopping if you keep your hands and feet where they ought to be. Quicker acceleration, too, when you need it to pull you out of trouble. But on the other hand, it's a lot easier to flip a bike than a car, and you're not surrounded by protective steel as you are in an automobile. So, that if an accident happens, you're a lot more likely to get hurt. That's why you've got to be a lot better rider than a driver. Alert every split second for fast reaction to any possible threat. Okay, that's about it. Have a good trip. But don't ride too easy. Hi everybody. I'm Skip Elsheimer of AV Geeks. I collect old educational films on 16 mm and then show them to folks like you. Uh used to be I used to show them live at theaters, galleries, um on boats, and shooting ranges, but uh we've had to adjust. So, I am showing them to you live via the internet. I've luckily digitized probably 3,000 of the films that I have out of 27,000. And so, I'm showing them to to you to give you something to watch while you eat food instead of watching the news. Uh so, thanks for joining me. This is week six. Ooh, I don't I don't know like how long I've been doing this. Um yeah, I have to kind of do some math to figure that out. Uh anyhow, um that was not so easy, which is uh a great motorcycle safety film featuring not only Peter Fonda, but also Evel Knievel. And in my head, I want to imagine the idea that both of them were doing community service, and this was a way for them to knock off some hours uh based on transgressions that they had involving drugs or alcohol, motorcycles, you know, I'm I'm not sure. I I don't know that for sure. I don't want to um you know, libel them, but they had some uh checkered checkered past. Uh so, it is 4:20, uh which is I guess people that's marijuana related, but I mean the whole month is 4:20, right? So, but people wanted drug films. Uh I did a screening uh Friday night with a professor, and we talked about some drug films, and um I mentioned this film, uh but I did not show it. But this is called Drug Effects. It's made by Lockheed Aviation. And it features a animated caveman talking about how drugs affect you. Enjoy. We have now covered the general information about the effects of drugs. Here is a summary of what you know. One, how is the drug taken? Two, how does the drug change behavior? Three, what are the different behavioral effects of the specific type of drug? Four. Does the drug create psychological and or physical dependence or tolerance? Later on, you will be given information on different types of drugs. To give you an idea of how this outline works, I will describe the effects of marijuana with the help of my assistant. Marijuana is usually inhaled from a kind of cigarette. Marijuana changes behavior by briefly stimulating and then depressing activity. It can also change behavior by creating mild hallucinations. Different people taking marijuana may see different things. Assistant one might have this reaction. Whereas marijuana might cause assistant two to see this. Some people do not hallucinate. Marijuana may make the same person hallucinate one time and hungry the next. Marijuana creates a psychological dependence. No tolerance is developed. Knowing how a drug is taken, how it affects behavior, and what kind of a dependence it creates will help you decision makers identify the type of drug disaster. You people are the decision makers. The data on the effects of drugs, which you now have, is only one area which you must consider in trying to figure out the nature of a drug disaster. There are other clues which you must consider. The diagram that you see is a summary of the different areas you must cover. In other words, for each type of drug, for example, LSD, narcotics, barbiturates, etc., you will be given information about need, source, use, effects, and medical treatment. Only when you have all this data, would you be able to make an accurate decision about the type of drug being used. We can cross out drug effects since you already know about these. Oops. Got a little click-happy there. Um Why caveman? Why animated caveman? Uh that's I uh I don't know a lot about this series, but I have a lot of films in this series. Um and it's half and half. So, uh half of it is um case study film. So, I showed case study LSD on Friday night, uh which is an amazing film about a girl who takes LSD for the first time and uh ends up killing a hot dog uh who is talking to her and and pleading for his life. Um And then the rest of them So, there's were so marijuana, heroin, barbiturates, amphetamines, uh I think that's it. But then there's this series, which is also by Lockheed Aviation, and it's all animated cavemen, and it's kind of like they're going through this worksheet or this this uh I don't know what it is. It's It's like a you know, they're like a bunch of managers are going and sitting and having these um discussions and watching these films and talking about the effects of drugs. Um my theory is that uh these films were made by Lockheed Aviation because Lockheed Aviation was based in California, and they were beginning to cope with a lot of problems uh for employees who were getting high on the job, but also uh employees whose kids were getting high. And so, they were trying to kind of reconcile and try to figure out a way to to deal with this and educate and um that's my guess. Now, why animated cavemen? Was it because the Flintstones were popular at the time? I really had no idea, but there you go. So, I do have one more drug film that I'll show at the end. It's a longer film, and it's about specifically about marijuana, featuring our good friend Sonny Bono. And And I will tell you why he's really not a good friend. Um but first, some more uh youth transgressions. This is has a great song. Uh it's graffiti fun or dumb. Hey, is it fun or just dumb? Yes, either it's fun or just dumb. You know there are tools, some of them break the rules. Hey, is it fun or just dumb? Why does it have to be that some some of us do dumb? Make trouble everywhere and never seem to care. Hey, is it fun or just dumb? Maybe what they're doing is funny. Maybe it may look that way. But maybe if it's costing money, I wonder what it'll cost. Who's going to pay? Hey, is it fun or just dumb? Yes, either it's fun or just dumb. Are they big heroes or only big zeros? Gosh, either it's fun or just dumb. Either it's fun or just dumb. Hey, what are you doing there? Uh, nothing. That's my wall you're writing on. I didn't hurt it any. You're defacing the wall. Look man, it's already written on. Why pick on me? I know you. Now, either I call the police or you clean the whole wall. By definition, graffiti simply means writing or pictures scratched or inscribed on a surface. The term was first applied to the ancient drawings found on the walls of caves. In any event, graffiti is as old as civilization. Some of it is highly prized as a reflection of the culture from which it came. Even our founding fathers indulged in graffiti. George Washington's initials can still be seen on the rocks at Natural Bridge. Recently, some have labeled graffiti art. And indeed, it can be attractive, amusing, and interesting. Often graffiti is encouraged as decoration on certain walls, fences, and sidewalks. It has even inspired art and literature. On the other hand, by almost any standards, much graffiti is ugly. Some of it distasteful. And a little of it offensive. One needs only to visit any major city to realize that the advent of spray can enamel and magic marker pens have given rise to a new look to America. Which delights some and disturbs many. Young people must decide. Is graffiti fun? Or is it dumb? The most famous and perhaps the most controversial graffiti is that blanketing the New York City Subway system. One view is that subway graffiti, too, is a kind of art and worthy of praise. It certainly does change the appearance of an often drab setting. Yet, graffiti here is a definite safety hazard and needless expense. The cost to the New York Subway system alone exceeds $2 million per year. The expense is borne through higher prices. Apart from the costs, are the risks of being caught and the danger of injury. A number of would-be artists have been hurt by subway cars and electric shock. Nationally, schools are frequent targets of graffiti. Although seen in virtually every area, it seems to be most concentrated in the inner cities and older neighborhoods. One reason it is not often found in the suburbs is that it is quickly removed when it appears. No one knows how much is spent totally on the correction of graffiti, but it is estimated that in schools alone the cost runs into tens of millions of dollars. Until a few years ago, graffiti was limited primarily to alleys, vacant buildings, and fences. Today, it appears almost everywhere. Not even works of art are spared. Nor is the natural environment immune. Graffiti is everywhere. I think graffiti's neat. It's a way to communicate. Graffiti is sneaky. Done when people think nobody is watching. I can't see the fun or honesty in that. Besides, what they write is neither art nor literature. Some forms of graffiti may be highly destructive. 10 years ago, such damage to works of art was rare. Now, it is common worldwide. And the hate graffiti once despised here, but seen in other countries, now appears too often in America. Many of our historic sites and national treasures have been affected. The defacement of public property has been termed a national disgrace. A good question at this The is, why do people do it? The motivations for graffiti are many. Love, bravado, or even humor. But, the motivations are not always so innocent. Graffiti may be hateful, insightful, or radical. Some experts say that graffiti is one way adolescents have to express their identities. They say, "This isn't really any different than putting titles on doors of offices or monograms on things that we own. Perhaps some of it is an attempt to be unique." However, another strong reason for graffiti seems to be peer pressure. In other words, some of it's done to show the other kids you're not afraid to do it, or merely to show how many times you can do it, or if you can put it on inaccessible places. But, in still other cases, graffiti is used as a way to mark the territory or communicate in street language. Other graffiti rises out of anger, resentment, and psychological disturbance. In any event, it reveals a great deal about the artist's personality. The school board and the principal have approved your request to decorate the school walls, providing you submit your plans to the students for referendum vote. So, what do you want to do? Well, if they really mean it, why don't we go mod? What do you mean by mod? You know, gangler colors, wild designs, graffiti, anything that we want. Why graffiti? Because it's groovy. It's where it's at. That's not where it's at with me. I see graffiti in my neighborhood all the time, and I don't like it. If you want that kind of junk, you take it to your own neighborhood. What kind of wall do you want? I like murals, black art, pretty things, not profanity. Seems we're not in agreement. There's this about graffiti. It often starts a debate. Obviously, graffiti is a lot of different things. And it certainly can be a problem. There are many approaches to solving it. To combat the epidemic of graffiti on subway trains, some cities have begun to buy them already decorated. It is also used on buildings and fences. This idea of imitation graffiti, sometimes called walls of pride, is executed by artists. Some experts say this encourages, rather than discourages, more graffiti where it isn't wanted. Others have tried to control graffiti by allowing it to be applied in specific places. Many think that this is a good answer, but others say graffiti is only satisfying if you have to write and run. Schools have met the problem in a number of ways. Everything from security guards to poster campaigns. Some schools require parents to pay for the damages. Others have attempted to solve the problem by architectural means or use of materials which are easily cleaned. I think the punishment should fit the crime, and those who create the graffiti should be required to clean it up. I think the answer comes from pride, because if you're proud of your school, you ask others not to deface it. Kids who write on toilet walls have psychological problems. Let's help them straighten out their heads. I believe we should attack the problem, and not the symptom. We should give the kids a chance to establish a territory or reinforce their identity. We should give them the responsibility to clean up a block in their neighborhood or to plant a tree or to paint a useful sign. And whatever they do, it should bear their names proudly. A lot of kids get themselves over a graffiti phase by doing something instead of. One day they decide that it's more fun to use their talents where they'll be appreciated. It's not that drawing on a wall somewhere is always such a bad thing, but it's not really a good thing, either. The point is that you can get pretty much the same kick and better recognition in other ways. The solution to the problem of graffiti then seems to lie within each of us. Young people have to decide if this is the kind of decorated world they want to live in. For a time, there was a certain romance attached to graffiti. It was something one did to declare oneself against authority, like funky old clothes, long hair, and hip talk. After a while, graffiti wasn't so different anymore. There was so much of it, and it was used for so many political purposes, it was boring. Besides, many kids began to find it a discord. How could you honestly support the environment and be a graffiti polluter? Even if you only write environmental slogans, you are part of the problem, not the solution. Oh, sure, seeing your name or something you wrote on the wall might make you feel like somebody for a time, but is that the kind of somebody you want to be? Drawing graffiti is a little like getting a tattoo. After the thrill of doing it is past, it begins to hurt and the results stay with you for a long, long time. Think it over. Is graffiti fun or is it dumb? So that's another great film by Counselor Films. Counselor Films, of course, did the Is a career in whatever, um, television read in radio for you. Um, and it also has a great song. Now, there's a there's a companion film to this called Destruction Fun or Dumb. And it actually makes a cameo in one of my favorite films about bored teenagers, called Over the Edge. It was Matt Dillon's first film. I recommend seeking it out. I think it's on Amazon. Um, but it's such a great film. Just kids going absolutely nuts because they're just bored. Um, and so in the middle of it they they show in in a classroom setting, they actually show the film. I'm very excited. Anyways, um, great film, shot in Philadelphia. Um it tries to provide both sides of the argument, but it's obviously skewed. Um so, it's it's time I always try to show a film about food. And because we are having lunch after all, I did show another film that I got with this collection of films that was for Jack in the Box employees called Deadly Dangers. This one is called Communications. Enjoy. And several dozen doorbells. In New York, striking municipal workers remain off the job today for the second straight year. The city has been without bus, subway, and taxi service in addition to recently discontinued water and power. Riding firemen are expected back on the job within a few months. Meanwhile, the city's police force continues its sit-in at the Statue of Liberty. And the new Miss Tree Stump is We have a tie. The winners are Miss Maple Sap and Miss Pine Cone. A woman I met the other day asked me what I do for a living, and I told her that my job is is dealing with people. She asked me what kind of people and I said all kinds. And that's what I like about my job. Oh, hi. How you doing? Pretty good. Good. How you doing? How's your new place? You want me to get in? Oh, yeah. It's real nice. It's almost twice the size. We got about one more day of moving in our furniture though. Far out. That's great. Listen, if you need any more help, let me know. I've got my dad's truck, you know. I think I can do it on my own, but if I need help, I'll be sure to call you. You know, I found that part of the enjoyment I get from this job is in having a a good relationship with the other people who work here. And and it's interesting to me that the better my relationships with other employees are, the better I'm able to relate to all those different kinds of people who come through that front door. Oh, hi. How you doing? Fine. Good. What would you all like today? You hungry? I want strawberry shake. No, no, sweetheart. No, no. Milk. I want a strawberry milkshake. No, sweetheart. I want you to have milk, please. I want a strawberry milkshake. Okay. Honey, what what do you want? I don't know. I see you have your hands full. know. How would you like a cheeseburger? Yeah. We have the best hamburgers in town. How about a bonus jack? That's got know what that is. It's got two pieces of meat. It's got cheese and sauce, two pickles. Um let's see. I want a strawberry milkshake. Strawberry? I don't know what I want. Okay, let's let's do two have two milks, two delicious milks, two delicious milks, two cheeseburgers. What do you want? I'll have a double jumbo jack. A double jumbo jack? Double jumbo. And I'll have um a bonus bonus jack. A bonus jack. Honey, what do you want? You Want some french fries? Yeah, some french fries that would be good. I'll make a super scoop? Yeah. And how much do you want to drink for you for the two of you? I'd like some coffee. Coffee? What do you want to drink? Uh a large or small? Okay, that is one double jumbo jack, one bonus jack. People come to us for a lot of reasons. They're in a hurry, they don't feel like cooking, or or just because they like our food. And the moods people come to us with can be almost anything from terrible to terrific. So my own personal goal is to make everyone, whether they come in with a good mood or bad mood, feel just a little bit better when they leave us. Okay, that's 572. We're going to go through now. Well deserved, I might add. 572 out of 6. That's 572, 575, 6. Here's your receipt, we'll call you soon as it's ready. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Hi, is there something I can help you with? Well, is there meat in the super taco? Oh, there's not just meat in the super taco, there's super meat in the super taco. Oh, okay. Well, I'd like a super taco. Okay, one super taco. Want something to go with that, uh jumbo jack, a burrito? I'd have to say that for me, the key thing in customer service is really trying to communicate with a person. And communication is simply a matter of going a little further than just taking an order. It's having a feeling for where someone else is coming from and then acting accordingly. A jack burrito. Anything else? Oh, but then a jumbo jack. A jumbo jack, too. I can see you're hungry. All righty, anything else? Well, how about some onion rings? Onion rings, all righty. And something to drink? Do you have anything diet? We have a Tab. Okay, large Tab. A large Tab, all righty. How about french fries, too. French fries, too, okay. Do you want the regular fries or the super scoop? Super scoop. Super scoop, I'm not surprised. All right. That is a jumbo jack, a burrito, a taco, a super scoop of french fries, onion rings, and a large tab. Is that for here or to go? Um here. That's for here, all righty. Jumbo jack, burrito, taco, super scoop, onion rings. Tax for the governor. It's $4.24. I I guess communication also means adding your own personal touch. Letting people know that you care. That they're not just another order. It makes them feel a little special and it leaves them with a with a positive feeling about me and about their experience here. Here's your receipt and it's a very pretty coat you have on. Thank you. You're welcome. Here's your receipt, we'll call you as soon as that's ready. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Yes, sir, can I help you, please? Just give me a Jack steak, whole lettuce, please, and cup of coffee. And a cup of coffee. Would you like a big coffee? No, medium. Medium. Uh sir, we don't have medium, we just have regular and big All right, make it big, then. Okay, that's a big coffee. Would you like anything with that uh Jack steak, some french fries? No, that's it. Just what I said. Okay, that's a Jack steak, whole lettuce, and a big coffee. Is that for here or to go? I'm going to eat here, all right. Thanks. All righty. Sometimes I'll give a customer a compliment or make a menu suggestion. And other times, communication is simply a matter of knowing when not to chat with a customer. And just doing a good, efficient job of taking an order. All right. That's a $1.80, $2, $3, $4, $5. Here's your receipt and we'll call you as soon as that's ready. Thank you. You owe yourself. Oh, thank you very much. All right. Sir, may we have your order? That's a double jumbo bonus jack, two cheeseburgers and a super scoop, two delicious milks, the strawberry shake, and a cup of coffee. Do you want some cream and sugar with that coffee? No. Okay. Thank you. Things will be much calmer now. Oh, good. Enjoy your lunch. Hello, what can I get for you today? I really don't know. Uh would you like me to make some suggestions? Do you happen to have a Caesar salad? A Caesar salad? No, I'm afraid we don't, but our our deluxe cheeseburger comes with crispy lettuce and and and tomatoes and onions. What, um, may I ask, is a Moby Jack? A Moby Jack is a tender fish sandwich, fried crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and it's served on a fresh bun with a slice of American cheese and our special tartar sauce, and we like to think of it as a whale of a sandwich. Oh, very witty. Thank you. Sounds like an adventure. I'll have one. Communicating is something we all need to do on and off the job. with that? It's part of everyday living. And and the better we become at communicating, the more effective we are with other people, no matter what the situation. And so That's why I look at my experiences in this job as something really beneficial for me. Not just now, but in the long run, too. Now, for the lady, what would you like? Oh, I really don't know. Can you give me a moment? Yes, we certainly can. It's difficult. Excuse me. Miss, your order's ready. That's one jumbo jack, one burrito, one taco, one super scooper french fries, onion rings, and a large tab. Thank you very much. Enjoy. Okay, ma'am, do you uh know what you want now? Well, I guess I'll have what my husband is having. All righty, very good. That's two Moby Jacks and uh two hot lemon turnovers. And how about something to drink for you? I'll have a strawberry shake. Very good. A strawberry shake. Would you like the big one? Oh, yes, why not? Why not indeed. Alrighty, that is two Moby Jacks, two hot lemon turnovers, the big strawberry shake, and one pure orange juice. Is that for here or to go? Oh, well, we'll eat it here. Yes, it's a first one. Nice. Good. Well, we'll enjoy having you. Thank you. Okay, that's $3.71, please. Are you sure that's all it is? It's incredible, but that's all. Okay, out of a huh? Actually, sir, we we we can't take any any bills larger than a 20, unfortunately. We'd like to. Uh so, if you have something smaller. I never assume that someone's been here before. For instance, I know we cook most of our food to order, but a new customer may not. So, I try to let customers know if they've ordered something that's going to take a few extra minutes and why. People seem to appreciate that. That'll just take a couple of extra minutes for the fish to cook up just right. Why not? Thank you. Sir, your Jack Steak is ready. Thank you. Here you are. Your Jack Steak with extra lettuce and a cup of coffee. That's wrong. I'm sorry. I ordered a sandwich without lettuce. Oh, I'm awfully sorry, sir. I thought you said extra lettuce. No, I deplore lettuce. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me get this fixed up for you right away. I'll take be sure you make it hot, please. Yes, sir. I will do that. Can't you ever do anything right here? We'll get this right. You watch. Jackie, could you do me a favor? He didn't want lettuce on his Jack Steak and we gave him lettuce, so if you could take care of that. And also make sure that it's hot because he made a specific request. So, just give me a call when it's done. Hi, Phil. Hi, Barb. How are you doing? Can I get you something? Yeah, would you happen to have a pair of dry pants? Just the ones I have on, unfortunately. How about some food? Most of our business is repeat business. So, I feel that getting to know the names of my regular customers is really important. And adding that kind of personal touch has a couple of nice side effects. It makes me feel good and it speeds my day along. Oh, and my manager notices, too. You want a small? A small. Okay. You know, Phil, you really do a good job here. Oh, thanks. Hey, you know what? I think I'm going to be made a shift manager pretty soon. Great. Congratulations. I'm really happy for you. Well, thanks very much. And I'm sorry that I I can't get you a dry pair. It's okay. I'll settle for some good food. You got it. I apologize for that very long delay there. So, I'm just kind of ends. Um I was getting caught up in what uh this guy, the the guy who runs the register, his deal. Um just Does the Super Taco have meat? Yes, it ha- actually has super meat. And the Mobi Jack, it's a fish fillet sandwich and it's a whale of a meal. Just uh if uh if I interacted with someone like that in a fast food restaurant, I would have the most severe distrust in that person. Either it's like either that's like a regional manager or uh there's something seriously wrong with that person. Um So, I love it. And I do like that the the man who deplores lettuce, that's pretty great. Okay, what do what do we got here? We got a lot of stuff to watch. Um What should I show? My goodness, lots of options here. All right, um This one is a complete change of pace. It is called Tree House. It is um kind of a protest film in a weird way. It's it's I did a show called Reading Writing Revolution and it was films featuring protest. Uh educational films featuring protest as part of the story. And this is one of those films. So, see if you can figure out what Why would they show this to kids? Um yeah. Enjoy. No. Wow. Wow. Wow. Mike. Come on, Mike. Get down. Mike, you better go home now. Mike, hey, get down. Get down, Mike. It's coming down. That uh film has a real vibe to that uh Canadian film on the golf course, Huntsman, where you know, the kid has this idyllic summer where he's interacting with adults and just kind of enjoying nature, enjoying the out outdoors. Kind of there's no parent. Uh this is just what he does and then it all comes crashing down and he has to reconcile with it. And so this this film I like a lot. Um it's interesting. I mean, it's it's definitely one of these films that is designed to provoke discussion uh amongst kids. I would probably say that um more conservative teachers, adults, school board members would not appreciate this film. Uh saying that it uh gives kids bad ideas, wrong ideas. Uh so um yeah. It's a great film though. All right, so what do we got? Okay, so uh last film I'm going to show. Uh this one's long. This is more than 30 minutes, but I'll go ahead and get started with it. Um the uh it is 4:20, so you know, marijuana. Um this film was made when marijuana was not legal. Um it's not legal in North Carolina and certainly not legal in some states, but it's actually legal in some other states. So it's kind of interesting to kind of think about the the discussions of what they're talking about here uh given that marijuana was illegal when this film was made. It was shot in um California. And so uh that laws have changed over there. Uh the other thing to think about is this is hosted by uh Sonny Bono, who is really oddly sedated and is wearing a gold lamé uh suit. Um I like Sonny Bono. I used to watch the Sonny and Cher show. Uh I like his work with uh Cher. But uh when he became a senator, um he introduced a bill which became the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, uh which was passed after he himself died in a skiing accident. Um and it was kind of passed in his honor, but it what it did is it extended the copyrights in uh really negative ways, uh which makes it more difficult for archivists like ourselves to preserve and help pay for the preservation of materials. Uh so, I love Sonny Bono as an entertainer, but hated him as a uh legislator. And uh the DMCA is has been very problematic and um for archivists in general. So, I'm going to show this film. Uh it's it's very spicy at the beginning, but it it it gets to the point and there's some great scenes in here. Uh they talk to young people, which is always great in the '70s. So, here's Marijuana. Come on. Come on. Sit down. Come on, guys. Everybody remain Everybody remain seated where you are. Thanks, man. Hey, man. Are you putting me on? Yeah. Give me one reason alcohol made illegal. That's why I was in grass. Like you speak to hangers and cirrhosis of THE LIVER. BESIDES, GRASS IS HABIT forming like alcohol. Besides that, CIGARETTES ARE WORSE THAN ALL RIGHT, MAN. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT. And quit it. You can't have a party without it. There's nothing WRONG WITH GRASS. YEAH. I'VE SMOKED IT 1,000 TIMES. YOU'LL NEVER GO TO HARDER DRUGS. DON'T TAKE any films of me. You're not going to use them anyway. I'll speak my mind, then. Okay, I will. No one has the right to tell me what I can do with my own body, what I can eat, drink, or smoke. This is a free country and no one has the right to take away my constitutional right. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. Be careful. But the American people have accepted a law that makes smoking a harmless weed illegal. That was legal all over the world. MARIJUANA LEGAL. ABOUT IT. MARIJUANA SHOULD BE MADE LEGAL. NOW. NOW. WHAT THE HELL ARE DOGS ANYWAY? WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH FEELING GOOD? GOOD, BAD, RIGHT, WRONG. That's how words end this film. Right, wrong, good, bad, those are things for you to decide. Too many people have already decided for themselves and you whether grass is good or bad. What's most important is what you think. So, without any preaching from this film, let's examine the facts and only the facts. There are too many false impressions and prejudices to do it any other way. Okay, then why isn't alcohol made illegal? It's not like you can do drinks, man, and and hangovers cirrhosis of the liver. Besides, grass isn't habit-forming like alcohol. Right. The facts are if you drink enough, alcohol will give you hangovers, cirrhosis of the liver, and what's more, it can even kill you. If you are a certain emotional and psychological type, you may become dependent both physically and emotionally and will join the 5 to 6 million known alcoholics in the United States. Now, what are the facts about marijuana? What do doctors and psychiatrists have to say about which is worse for you physically and emotionally, alcohol or marijuana? The facts are, at this time, there are no known damaging physical effects from the use of marijuana. But, unlike alcohol, when you take too much at one time, you don't pass out. You more than likely run the risk of an unpredictable and unpleasant bummer. The occasional drink before dinner by adults, like the occasional use of marijuana, does not necessarily lead to an emotional dependency in the stable, mature personality. Great olives. You like that? I'm glad. I get all these. Well, however, teenage is not a time of great maturity and stability for most teenagers. The pressures of school, parents, finding your own identity and self-confidence set you up for a drug dependency that could just as well be alcohol if you prefer that to grass. Some adults are not mature or strong enough to stand the pressures of their daily lives. These adults can become just as emotionally dependent on marijuana as on alcohol, whichever is more socially acceptable and easier to get. Even when the alcoholic is physically withdrawn from his body's need for alcohol, he always goes back to it until he learns how to handle his problems. Just as the alcohol drinker who finds himself needing a drink more and more frequently is the warning sign of his dependency, so it is with the pothead. The more he needs the escape from reality or the pleasure of marijuana, the more he is becoming emotionally dependent exactly as the square and unhip alcoholic adult does. Do two wrongs ever make one right? Cigarettes are much worse, MAN. DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT, MAN. I CAN'T HEAR THAT, MAN. That's right. It's a fact. No one ever got cancer from pot. But, it's also a fact that no one ever dropped out of school because they were hung up on tobacco. And no one who just finished smoking a cigarette ever forgot she was driving a car as she tripped out on the beauty of a backroad nature trip. And no cigarette pusher ever tried to turn you on to hard drugs or the needle. Another basic difference is that you can smoke cigarettes and do other things. You wouldn't dare to do this on pot. Or this. Or this. And would you rather your pilot had just finished a joint not a cigarette? Your surgeon operating on your your attorney pleading your case your sergeant your dentist your flight leader your team center your LSO your school bus driver your country's astronauts or even the guy who is just changing your front tire. Would you rather he was smoking a cigarette or a joint? However, neither your government nor any responsible person recommends smoking. So, two or three wrongs don't make one right either. Everybody knows We didn't take any You can blow as much as you want. No, I'm here. And plenty time you want. Blow as much grass as you like and your body won't need it. Right. You can quit anytime you like. Not true for everybody. And that's the problem. The World Health Organization of the United Nations with its leading medical and psychiatric experts from over 100 member nations has this to say about marijuana being habit-forming without one descending vote. There's nothing WRONG WITH BLOWING CRAP. YEAH. 1,000 TIMES YOU'LL NEVER GO TO HARDER DRUGS. That may be true for the great majority of smoke pot, but it's not true for the many thousands who have gone on to acid, amphetamines, barbiturates, and end up on heroin. However, it is not a fact that practically everyone on grass turns into a flaky drug addict. That's just not true. Every informed person knows this. What is true may be discovered in this narcotics rehabilitation center in some of the group therapy sessions, where we will learn what former drug addicts have to say about marijuana turning them on to hard drugs. How many of you started on pot before you started heroin? I did. I did, too. I did, too. I did. So did I. I did. I did. Me, too. Me, too. I did. I did. So did I. I did. I did. That means all of you used marijuana, then. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I was about 11 when I first started using. I was about 19. I think it's kind of hard to deal marijuana because it's so bulky, you know? And you have to go through the trouble of chopping it up and cleaning it. I think it's much easier to deal heroin, you know? The marijuana? Really? Cuz you know, all that bulk and everything, it's much easier just to have a small bag of balloon that you can carry and and you can cut that up and get a lot more money for it. You know, and in all the trouble you have to go through with it, you know, like cutting it up, especially if you get a kilo, you know, you have to cut it up, then you have to clean it, you know, and then you have to roll it and box it, you know, and can it, you know, it's just a big really big hassle behind it, you know. That's why I think the dealers go on to dealing heroin and then get us to buying heroin. I think if you smoke marijuana or take pills or get loaded in any way at all that you will be accepted into the dope world and eventually you will have contact with this environment. I definitely think that if you get loaded on marijuana, you are subjected to the environment and it does become readily available to you. That's the way it is, man, you know, when you're around a crowd and you're all smoking weed and then they start using some other drug and you go right ahead along with them and uh you end up using it and get higher and then the weed isn't good enough anymore and then you turn on to heroin, too. Most of you started smoking marijuana when you were introduced to narcotics? I did. I started smoking weed. Did uh Not me. For me it was, but uh I wanted a different high, you know, and weed wasn't uh it wasn't good enough and I heard that heroin and stimulants, crystals were a better high and that's why I went to them, you know. Yeah, I'm the same way, man. I guess uh a lot of people uh started that way. Speaking for myself, I did. I started on weed and uh got burned out and I needed something stronger, so I went to heroin. Well, I started smoking weed, you know, cuz I was running away from some you know, something which was myself. And out of all that, I've run through a lot of highs trying to run away from myself, heroin, LSD, methadrine. I I like marijuana, I just couldn't handle it myself. Uh I was looking for something else. I myself think uh really the real reason I started smoking marijuana man because You would be I was one of the younger dudes from my neighborhood and wanted to be accepted. I was weak, scared. And uh from this it led to heroin and then just been an endless time going to jail back and forth man. I don't like it and I hope nobody else would use this not because of the fact that it's bad itself but what it it leads to man. That's the way I feel. Well, I can only speak for myself but I imagine some of the other dudes in here feel the same way I do about it. That some people are addicted prone to it. I mean like myself I can't handle it because I mean this is just the way I am. I use it for an escape. I've did it before I I I've came in here. I hope when I go out that I change and which I feel that I have but but I'm a I'm a small minority of people that we can't handle anything you know like my alcohol I can't handle that. I couldn't handle heroin. I mean weed because I needed something stronger to escape or anything else like that and there's more people like me that I feel you know. And uh I imagine some of the other dudes in here uh could go along with handle liquor either, right? No. It's a it's a personality thing where there are sure there's a lot of people that can go out there and These are the files of the research and statistics office of this narcotics rehabilitation center. It's like out of 100 drawers 95 of them are filled with file folders of people who have started on marijuana. The rest started on glue, pills, alcohol and a few on heroin itself. A more accurate percentage is 78% of the inmates started on marijuana. However, what the computer doesn't say is There's a certain kind of people that will avoid taking care of business and will turn to grass when they get hung up and forget about everything else they're supposed to do when they're behind grass. Marijuana doesn't uh You you not addictive, but using it you don't you you don't do the things that you should do. For instance, like in school, uh you try to do the things that you have to do in school, but your mind is uh it's not all there, you understand? Nobody can tell me what to do with my own body, what I can eat, drink, or smoke. This is a free country and nobody has the right to take away my constitutional rights. That could be a fact if you were the only one affected by what you do. But, the Constitution and the laws that came out of it were designed to protect the individual and the group from irresponsible individuals, which is why there are speeding laws, building safety laws, pure food laws, pure drug laws, laws to protect your money, laws to protect children, laws to protect the aged, and even a law to protect you from taking your own life. Law after law after law. All of them hopefully designed by a democratic government to protect both the individual and the group. From aspirin to the latest vaccines, the manufacture and control of all drugs is government supervised. Would you really want it any other way? Like without government supervision? As a drug, marijuana comes under the supervision of the federal and state governments. It is the assigned work of the police to enforce the law. It is not something they dreamed up on their own. From the Ten Commandments to the Constitution, man has made laws to protect him from hurting himself in the common interest of the group called society. Doctors, psychiatrists, social scientists, chemists, biochemists, basically people are not primarily concerned with the ethics or morality of the use of marijuana have provided their expert knowledge to our legislators, which in turn has caused them to pass laws to make marijuana illegal, not as a matter of morality, but as a matter of health, mental health, period. I think it's terrible that the American people have accepted a law that makes smoking a harmless weed illegal. Marijuana is legal all over the world. There's no question about it. Marijuana should BE MADE LEGAL NOW. NOW. MAKE MARIJUANA LEGAL. THERE'S NO question about it. Many young people agree with that. Let's examine the facts. First, marijuana is not legal all over the world. It isn't legal in Mexico, Egypt, India, Great Britain, China, Japan, or any of the major nations in the civilized world. Nigeria is one of the latest countries to make marijuana illegal. Here, the pusher is given the death penalty. Though each year more and more teenagers commit crimes while up on grass, this is not the major problem. However, grass as a factor in crime must not be overlooked, especially in that percentage of unstable and aggressive types, and those who wind up in trouble with the law because of something done while they are high on pot. Too many average and decent teenagers smoke pot without committing crimes, except for the illegality of the sale, possession, or the use of it. So, why not make it legal? Why not bring it out in the open and make it legal in America? It's just that there are too many unstable people in America who would become emotionally dependent on marijuana and end up as non-functioning weed heads. Easy availability and the implied approval of society will, in the opinion of many medical authorities, create a drug dependency problem far more serious than that of the five to six million alcoholics today. If the acknowledged effect of marijuana is much greater than alcohol, it becomes easy to see why the emotionally unstable and immature may turn to marijuana in even greater numbers than to alcohol and eventually go to more dangerous drugs in the form of LSD, pills, and heroin. Who, me? Who, me? Who, me? Who, me? It's possible. And that's the problem. You can never tell who is so stable and so emotionally secure that they will not become dependent on marijuana or other drugs for pleasure and full-time escape. I'm not high, I'm feeling good. Nothing, baby. Nothing. Years ago, only the criminal and socially deprived blew grass or used heroin. Today, the nicest people may be on grass. Why is that a fact? I took it on a dare. But only kids take dares. Man, everybody blows pot. But everybody doesn't smoke. I don't want it, man. I don't want it. Take a Take a hit. No, I don't want it. I don't want it. No. Take a drag. Won't hurt you. Come on. You got nothing The first sign of character and emotional weakness is when you do things just because others are doing them. When I'm high, it enhances my creativity. This is the same subject matter and painter for both paintings. One was painted before going up on weed and the other while high on weed. Can you see any significant creative difference? When I'm high, it enhances my creativity. The artist thinks he's being more creative. But do you see it in his work? To some extent, the very inhibited person may feel a greater freedom to be creative. But this doesn't mean he will have the necessary talent to be so. It really makes me understand myself. If you don't understand yourself when you're down, then there's no logical or scientifically accepted reason that you will when you're high. Besides, while you're up on grass, you may tell yourself only what you want to know if you are lucky enough not to be on a bad trip and discover a frightening thing about yourself at that time. Let's face it. The reasons we've heard for blowing grass up to now are like an iceberg. What about the underlying reasons that are like the 90% of the iceberg you never see? The reasons below the surface that makes teenagers get so hung up on marijuana in spite of what their parents say and in spite of the big risk of being busted. The world stinks. Adults keep making wars. Next war will probably kill everybody on Earth, including me. Parents are hypocrites. They tell us one thing, but then they do another. Why don't they practice what they preach? Why are adults so hung up with making money? That's all they think about. School's a real bummer. Dull teachers, dull subjects. I just can't wait to get out. Why can't we dress the way we want in school? Sure, we're old enough to be drafted, but we're not old enough to vote. Why are they always treating us like children? Adults never have time to listen to us. And when they do, they just don't think about what we're saying. If adults like to make war so much, why don't they go and fight in them? I'm better educated than either of my parents. But they don't listen to me. How can I plan for the future with the draft waiting for me? Why don't you come back some other time when everything is all right with us? And in the meantime, I'll do what I want to do here, and you do what you want to do where you live, dear. Why shouldn't I smoke grass? Why shouldn't I live now and have all the fun I can? If I don't get killed in the war or by the big bomb, all I can look forward to is making money like my father, and I know he isn't happy. You know, sometimes I think it's like a war. Everyone over 30 is dead to me. Over 30? Over 25. Obviously, these are things that bug a lot of the young people. But this time, rather than hear from the establishment, who run newspapers, radio, television, book and magazine publishing companies, political parties, and schools, let's hear from those other teenagers who aren't smoking pot. Not all teenagers are on grass. I'm not, and my close friends aren't. Every time someone wants to turn me on to pot, they tell me I'll discover myself. Well, I don't need that kind of crutch. Besides, I've never seen any potheads come up with any kinds of answers that help them cope with the kind of problems they have or I have. I think the teenagers of today are very idealistic. But we don't have definite ways of showing it. We're not old enough to vote, and older people are always telling us what to do. You can't blame us too much for fighting back. But, I don't think taking drugs is fighting back. The most you can say for it is it's a sign of rebellion. But, what we rebel about isn't changed one bit by getting high on marijuana, because when you come back down, nothing's changed. I think that parents have done the best they can. You can't expect them to know all the answers. Lots of us have had a better education than they have, but that doesn't mean they find solutions for their problems instead of trying to find new experiences. I say that teenage is a time to put up or shut up, not to gripe and go on a trip inside yourself. Parents have to have to go out every day and deal with the things in the outside world that bug them, too. I know my parents are too hung up on making money and putting on a show for the neighbors, but that doesn't mean I have to put down money completely, because maybe when I get married, I'm going to have to have money for my family, too. I just don't have to be as materialistic about it. That's all. The world is changing and some things are still too hard for our parents to understand, but blowing grass, man, that's really a cop-out and it won't help our parents understand a darn thing. School is like everything else. You only get out of it what you put into it. It's not a party. The way I look at it, I'm here to learn. Even if some of the subjects or the teachers aren't the greatest, I've got the best of it from education and everything extra is just gravy. There really is a communication gap, but I think that if I have a better education and better life than my parents, I should make the first move to make that gap become smaller and smaller. From what I've read and from what I've heard, there are millions of adults over 30 who don't like and are going to war any more than we do. I honestly believe that adults are disappointed in us, because it's always been expected of young people to try to change things, to make things better, or at least prepare to change things if we don't like them. Not to cop out on life through grass or other drugs. No, not for me. I'm more interested in dropping into the world I live in than turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. I don't like to criticize anybody, but I think that too many teenagers don't have too much purpose. It's like they don't have any goals. I don't mean that they should just be planning to make money and all that, but I think that trying to find something you'll enjoy doing for the rest of your life is the least you can do now, because everybody has to work, even girls before they get married, and even after they do. I think too many teenagers traded in their idealism for a stick of weed. When I see some teenagers acting superior to the those of us who don't need drugs to feel good or understand ourselves, I get real bugged. Well, now, you've heard from both sides of the question, but what you do with your life is up to you. If you become a pothead, you risk blowing the most important time of your life, your teenage, that unrepeatable time for you to grow up and to prepare for being an adult that can handle problems and make something meaningful out of life. Or you have the choice to have the courage to see and deal with the world for what it really is, far, far from perfect, but for you and for me, the only one there is. While some of you will actually go to the moon and perhaps other planets, it's this world will be your establishment, and you will be the establishment, and what you do or do your thing. You're the generation with the brain power and the opportunity to do more for the human needs of this world than any other generation in history. Let's hope that your teenage children don't have too much criticism about what you did or didn't do because you were on pot. Wow. Yeah, that was a that was epic. Um so much, so many comments. Um the I do like the even though it was probably scripted the kids voicing their distrust um their with the next generation or their their adult um parents and about money, about war, about being drafted, about the bomb, about uh even girls have to make money before they get married and sometimes after. I mean, that's what what I like about that is that's a time capsule of what was being thought and what was being said, even if it was scripted. Um and it's it's interesting to kind of think about the differences from then to now. And certainly with the fact that marijuana is legal in some parts of our country, then you know, where did some of these arguments just fall apart? Uh and and certainly it's it's I just think it's fascinating. It's a time capsule. I mean, we could sit and talk about the politics of it, but it's just an interesting time capsule of what was happening at the time. And so, there's your 420. Your obligatory 420 film. Um, so join me again tomorrow, uh, at lunch. Um, if you like what you saw, you can go to AVGeeks.com. You can see uh, previous uh, lunch episode. You can see also 2,000 plus films that I have online. Uh, you can buy DVDs. Um, also you can contribute at Patreon. Uh, that's kind of a subscription tip jar thing. Uh, the other thing you can do is just share. Share this with with friends and family. Uh, I appreciate you guys tuning in. And uh, so this week, if everything works out as planned, we'll have two guests. Uh, one on Wednesday and one on Friday. Uh, one is a a person who is um, writes a a lot about films, uh, feature films, educational films. Uh, she and I have worked together on a couple of projects. And uh, she picked some amazing downer films that are brilliant. They're so good, but yeah, we're going to have to sugarcoat the beginning and the end of that to kind of uh, cuz they're beautiful downer films. Uh, and then on Friday, uh, we hope to have the an actor who's in one of the bus safety films that we have. And it's a glorious film. Um, it shows a bus going off a cliff. So, that's Friday. Uh, so anyways, thanks guys so much for coming out and coming out. Tuning in. I don't know what I don't even know what you call this nowadays. Thanks for clicking that link and then sitting there and watching. Um, and I will see you again tomorrow. Take care. Mhm.