A/V Geeks 16mm Lunch 4/29/2026

Hello everybody. I'm Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the AV Geeks Lunchtime Studio show. Where I just noticed that um the date was wrong. Um I'm still having to reconnect things and so there is uh some stuff that's not quite right that I'm still tweaking. Um but thanks for pointing that out. That's the advantage of doing this stuff live. Okay. Uh we're going to start off with a film that I don't know, we watched 3 years ago. Uh it's a great Centron film. Has a great synth soundtrack. It's called and it could be if it's a synth soundtrack, it could be Jim Stringer did it. I don't know cuz he was doing stuff before Centron in the '70s and '80s. So, maybe. Enjoy. >> [music] >> The sun, radiant source of wind and weather, >> [music] >> and all the energy stored in plants and fossil fuels. In the next few weeks, the sun will shower us with more energy than is contained in all the Earth's coal, gas, and oil combined. We speak of [music] finding new energy, but mostly what we're seeking are more ways to tap the same enduring source. >> [music] [music] >> The problem is critical. Our jobs, our homes, our daily lives have been dependent upon the availability of cheap energy. There is no such thing anymore. Dependence upon unstable sources of energy from abroad endangers our future. Somehow, we have to find additional energy. Some energy seekers are determined to harvest the wind. Is it going to work? Just a minute. Don't hook it up yet. They foresee acres of whirling blades on future wind farms. The twin 100-ft blades of this wind-powered mill generate enough electricity to supply 500 homes. This 10-story steel giant may be a forerunner of the future. But today, more than 99% [music] of our usable energy comes from fossil fuels, nuclear power, >> [music] >> and hydroelectric plants like this one. And unfortunately, for years to come, other resources can only supplement them. At present, nuclear energy is created by the fission or splitting of atoms. Experimenters are working on the problems of fusion or joining of hydrogen atoms. Using forms of hydrogen taken from seawater, fusion would mean an inexhaustible energy source. We depend so much upon oil that new sources of liquid fuel are high on the search list. We know how to liquefy coal, which we have in abundance. Researchers envision these chunks of coal turned into flowing streams of synthetic oil or converted to pipelines of gas. More plants for such conversion are being built. Getting oil from rocks is feasible. >> [music] >> Major projects are underway to extract the oil locked in Rocky Mountain shale. >> [music] >> Some forms of vegetation yield more oil than others. Various oil weeds are being tested. Someday, farmers may be planting weeds and harvesting an oil crop. Already, Midwest corn and other grains are being distilled into ethyl alcohol and mixed with gasoline to create gasohol. In the tar sands area of Canada, they're literally scooping oil from the ground. The tar or bitumen is separated from the sand and refined into oil at the rate of more than 100,000 barrels a day. Several tar sands areas exist in the United States. Crude oil is still our major source of usable energy. Today's oil rigs are marvels of engineering. Build and supply them is a job for the stouthearted. But they get it done. >> [music] [music] >> In places, the hot interior of the earth visibly yields its energy in the form of steam. >> [music] >> The Geysers area of Northern California is one of nature's own steam power plants. This geothermal site will generate enough electricity to meet the needs of more than a million people. Vast hot rock areas underlie other parts of the country and numerous experiments are aimed at tapping the furnace that lies beneath our feet. >> [music] >> What about the dream of [music] car engines that run on water? It's a reality or almost. Water, H2O, is 2/3 hydrogen. And cars like this can operate on hydrogen, the same fuel that launched spacecraft to the moon. If the energy hunters succeed in licking the high cost of separating the hydrogen, well, there are oceans of it out there. Living plants have the same hydrocarbons as coal and oil, though not in such concentrated form. Some [music] see the fallen timber lying in our great forests as a substantial source of fuel. Others are looking to fast-growing species of trees as a possible fuel crop. Till recently, garbage was strictly a disposal problem. And one of the nuisances it produced was methane gas. Here in New Jersey, pipes buried in the landfill now gather that methane gas as a resource. Piped to a nearby steel mill, the garbage gas is used to warm the ladles that receive the molten steel, reducing dependence on natural gas. Meanwhile, other searchers are [music] finding more natural gas by drilling deeper than ever before and by cracking deep sand formations where gas is locked in. Pipelines are being rushed to completion to get this new gas to towns and cities. Above all, shines the ultimate dream, energy directly [music] from the sun. Sun energy is diffused over wide areas, but even non-scientists can observe the considerable heat produced over a distance of 5 ft 4 and 1/2 in. That same heat pouring [music] into a building designed for a greenhouse effect can reduce winter fuel bills. Indirect systems [music] can be added to existing buildings. The heat trapped in solar panels heats water, which is then stored for use. >> [music] [music] >> A modern vehicle repair building heated by solar energy, its walls insulated with earth and grass. Heat doesn't travel well. Electricity does. So, others are working on methods of turning sunlight directly into electricity. High hopes are held for photovoltaic cells, the expensive solar batteries of space satellites. The silicon chips chemically transform sunlight directly into electrical current. >> [music] >> Some envision huge solar collectors in the clearer atmosphere of space beaming energy to Earth. In laboratories, investigators are seeking ways to produce these solar cells at lower [music] cost. Others are working with lenses, which focused more sunshine on the cells to increase power output. >> [music] [music] >> Near Tucson, this bank of photovoltaic cells supplies all the electricity for a nearby Indian community. In other experiments, solar thermal power systems focus the sun to turn water to steam. This one can concentrate the sun's heat 1,000 times. The [music] power tower is a large-scale version of the solar thermal system. >> [music] >> Guided mirrors follow the sun and concentrate [music] a single 5 million watt beam of solar radiation to a receiver atop the tower. The beam instantly vaporizes [music] flowing water into high-pressure steam, which then powers a turbine generator and produces electricity. There may be energy [music] for the future if we are ingenious enough to make use of it and wise enough >> [music] >> to conserve it. Any widespread conservation practice adds up >> [music] >> enormously. If Americans lower thermostats, use a little less electricity and hot water, and obey the 55 mile speed limit, the saved energy will amount to more than a million barrels of oil [music] per day. There is not one solution, but many possibilities [music] as a new breed of energy pioneers engage the problem on many fronts. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Okay, let the wind have her. >> [music] [music] >> All right. >> [music] >> All right. Um that was a positive Centron film. Now, we're going to have to show you a depressing one. Uh and according to my notes, I've shown this, but I showed the second edition of this, which was updated. This one came out 1972. Uh the other one probably came out in the late '70s or early '80s given how Centron would recycle uh topics. And this one was one because it's trying to appeal to teen girls, you're trying to anything you can do to make a teenager not identify with what's on the screen, they will run with it. So, if the fashion isn't right, if the link the slang isn't right, if things look dated, they will use that as an excuse to not pay attention to the um the film's message. Uh that is something that why a lot of these social guidance films would come up with new versions all the time. Um So, this one is Goodbye Lynn. And so, why are we saying goodbye to Lynn? Does anybody remember? Uh if you do, write in the comments. Enjoy. >> [music] >> I don't know. It's weird, but in a lot of [music] ways, life is the same as it used to be. Like uh my little brother still plays the piano, and my father still reads the paper and smokes his pipe and watches the 6:00 news and has two drinks before dinner. And my mom, you know, still cleans the house and does the cooking and goes to the store. And the world outside my window still keeps going by. My baby hasn't changed any of that. But I guess I feel really different inside. Like I don't know. Everything seems to be a paradox now. Like one thing is two things at the same time. Good and bad. It's It's like Well, like going to school in the morning. I really look forward to it because like I get so much pressure at the breakfast table that it's just unbelievable. And this deal between my mother and father. Well, like I had this daydream, I guess, when I found [music] out that that I was pregnant and I knew I had to tell them. I had this daydream sort of that they'd, you know, rally around me and support me or something and and come together more. But they didn't. And I don't know. I feel kind of responsible about it. Like I don't know if it's my fault, but they've never been this split up before. And I know it wasn't It was never like that before I got pregnant. So, I don't know. It's It's just really good to get out of there and go to school in the morning. But it's a paradox because uh school is pretty bad, too. And well, like a lot of bad things happen there. And So, every morning it's like I go, "Wow, it sure is good to get out of that house." And then it hits me. It just It really hits me in the head about what I'm walking into. >> [sighs] >> But um another thing is Well, having this baby inside, in a way, it's kind of natural. Uh it makes you feel kind of close to nature. Like like when I walk to school in the morning and I look at the trees, and I just feel something coming out of me, like like love. And I feel kind of one with what I look at when I'm by myself. But then if one of my friends sees me or like when I walk into school, then immediately everything around me seems to be artificial world and I feel real. Or it's artificial, I'm artificial and it's real. I don't know. I I can't seem to figure it out anymore. >> [music] [music] [music] >> It's funny. Last year there was a pregnant girl in one of my classes. And I used to sit over there, very safe, and looking forward to sex. And I'd look at this pregnant girl, and somebody would, you know, make some little remark. And I knew that really I it wasn't too cool. But you know, it was easy to laugh at it. And I was really detached. And I was free. And like it seems like so long since Friday night was just Friday night, you know, like I could go anywhere and do anything I wanted to and forget that girl whenever I wanted. Because all of a sudden, you know, you're not free anymore. And you're the girl over on the other side of the room. And when you turn around to get a book or something, it's you who are being looked at, you know, by somebody else or a bunch of somebodies. And even with your friends, there's kind of a wall there. Because even your good friends >> [music] >> don't know what to say. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Like um they do hand out all their free advice, but they don't know what to say. Like >> [sighs] >> one of my girlfriends tells me, "You're you're liberated and it's beautiful what has happened to you." And and all that. But she doesn't know. Um Like another girlfriend looks at me now like >> [sighs] >> like she looks at me like I'm really cheap. Like now she wouldn't want to get near me with a 10-ft pole. And the guys. Uh Some of the guys look at me with pity. And some of them look at me just like they want to get me in the backseat. >> [music] [music] >> It'll be easier I guess when I transfer to the school where the other girls are. There's another paradox. It'll be easier to get away from what's here. But when I get there, it'll just be a whole different kind of hassle. Because I don't like I don't like the idea of being packed away with all the other bad girls and just all of us herded along to our delivery date like a bunch of cattle. And I guess what really really scares me is making all these final decisions people keep pushing me into. That the baby. Like oh my mother wants me to keep the baby, but I couldn't stand seeing this baby, you know, pretending that it was my little brother or my little sister when it was mine. And oh my best girlfriend wants me to get an abortion. And she says there's a place where I can still get an abortion. And somebody else wants me to give the child away. It's like I don't know. Everybody just kind of presents her own little piece of society and really gets offended if I don't respond immediately like, "Wow, great, you know, that solves all my problems. Thank you." Nope. Nobody realizes that there just isn't any good solution. Like if you have an abortion and kill the baby or if you try to bring it up without a father or if you give it away to an adoption agency or whatever. And I'm really getting tired of this little game. It's like everybody's with this bit, you know. "Oh, I'll help you and I'm understanding and oh, you know, I'm not hung up on your unwanted baby, Lynn." But you know when it really gets down to it everybody really does try to impose their own ideas on me. And I don't know. It used to be at least I thought I had my head enough together that I could sort it all out and decide what I wanted to do, what was right for me. But now I'm so confused. I can't decide. I don't know what I should do. >> [sighs] >> Like I don't know. Part of me just wants to freak out about the whole thing. Just part of me just wants it the whole problem just to disappear, go away. But I know it's not going to just go away. And so there's this other part of me that wants to keep it together. And cuz I've got to keep it together. If I just freak out about it, nothing's accomplished. But it's getting really hard to keep it together. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Well I could keep together a little more if Ted had been, you know, serious about me. Like if if he'd been like I thought, like really in love with me. And if he'd wanted to have, you know, a permanent relationship. But when he pulled out then that's when it got pretty tough. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Well, >> [sighs] >> when he left well, before he left I was trying to, you know, I kept a good attitude like, you know, well, look, it's happened and that's the way it is. Now, what can you do about it? What's good about it? But now that he's gone all this rational thinking stuff is gone, too. Like I just keep hearing this voice inside me saying "What's wrong with you?" Like for a while it was just people around me. Like my parents and their friends and all them saying, "You're bad and you're cheap. You're not a nice girl." But after Ted and I broke up, then it got to be like this voice inside me with what's wrong. And now it's like no matter where I turn there aren't any answers that help. And my mom says that I'm wrong because I hurt them. And like one of my girlfriends told me she told me it was a sin. And I haven't heard that word since I was a little kid. So I don't know. It gets I I just tried to All I can do is is try to take it day by day. But it just gets a little a little harder every day. Trying to cope with the looks and the people around me. And trying to get it together about how I feel inside myself. And the worst The worst part of it is not knowing anymore who I am. Cuz like if I don't know who I am then my child, I don't see how I can tell him who he is if I don't know who I am. Well, Lynn, I'm sure that's true. But it seems to me you're doing the best you can, for right now anyway. I think a lot of the pressure is going to ease off now that you're going to be with the other girls in your same situation. Anyway, don't don't give up the ship. Well, is there is there anything else I can do for you? I'll have to apologize for bringing our discussion to a close like this, but we're going to have to wrap this interview up. Yeah, I guess so. We've been here about an hour and a half. Okay. No, thanks a lot for talking to me. It's it's really helped. It's helped a lot. Well, I'm glad. I guess that's about everything. >> Yeah. Lynn, I I really am glad we had a chance to talk. Me, too. Lynn, let me know how you're getting along, and please feel free to come back whenever you just like to talk. Okay, thanks. Goodbye. Goodbye, Lynn. Please keep [music] in touch. Okay. Okay. >> [music] [music] >> Don't have sex. Don't have sex. Don't have sex. Um the one takeaway from that, I mean, I the the funny thing was like when I saw the gyno- gynecology office, I was like or the OBGYN office, I was like, "Oh, crap." And like ran to the computer. Uh just in case I had to kind of if there was a live birth in this, I don't think there was. I didn't think there was, but man, some of these have live births where it talks about the whole thing, and then suddenly, whoop, what do you know, she had the baby. We have evidence of it. But the so I ran up, and then I saw the next scene was her in a gym sitting at a desk next to like what, a volleyball net and some like tumbling stuff like some gymnastics stuff. And she's studying in the middle. I mean, I know they're trying to make a point, but I you know, is the gym teacher trying to shame her and say like, "Look, she's not doing gym because she's pregnant." Um but it's, you know, the safety issue of that, of course, um is not great for anybody. Okay. Um you think that might be the last film that we show today that has a moral message, you will be wrong. Uh this is uh Family Films House of Toys. The title intrigued me so much. Um and it's probably not going to live up to its expectations. But who knows? You never know. Family Films there's always interesting cameos and people that show up that later became famous. Um there's always weird stuff that happens. Kind of these weird situation comedy um 30-minute things that were shown maybe shown on television sometimes, but mostly shown at in Sunday school. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> How's it going, Bob? Oh, I'm fine, Pastor. They're showing great improvement. At least now when they fight, they use their fists instead of knives. Well, that is an improvement. All right, you guys, that's it for today. I'll meet you inside in about 10 minutes. Now, here comes the one I got my hopes pinned on. Well, how do they look to you today, Alex? Well, they're getting better, but I still don't think we can make a team. Not with those guys. I hear you're cutting out. Well, yeah, just for a little while. When are you leaving, Bob? Um soon as I finish up here. Well, uh you coming back, or is it like permanent? Oh, no, no, it's it's just a little vacation with my folks. I'll be back. You can count on that. You have a God-given ability to work with boys like these, Bob. You're going to make a wonderful teacher. I think you made the right decision. Well, it wasn't easy, Pastor. I know it wasn't, Bob. Having gone this far with your engineering course, your father probably was counting on you to follow in his footsteps. Yes, he was. These boys really feel kind of left out in the world, don't they? Yes. Yes, they do. That's why people like you are needed so badly. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hi there. Hi, Marsha. How are you? I'm fine, yeah. Son, how are you doing? Good. I'm I'm sorry we're a little late, but well, we kind of took our time. What he means is we stopped at every town over 10,000 to look at the slums and count delinquents. Oh, she's exaggerating, but uh we did tour the depressed area of our own hometown, and she didn't even know they had one. Bob's idea of entertainment is making surveys of urban blight. >> [laughter] >> Well, the change will do you both good. The lake is absolutely at its best this time of year. It's always so nice to come up here. I love this house. It's the kind of big, beautiful summer home I dream about having someday. That is in 10 or 15 years. After we've solved all the problems of the inner city. Mhm. Oh. Well, come on, Marsha. I'll take you to your room. I'm sure you want to freshen up after your long drive. Thank you, I'd like that. What a girl. Yeah, wonderful. How does she react to your new plans? Oh, I'd say she's uh 99% convinced. Well, doesn't leave much room for doubt, does it? Say, before it gets dark, come on down to the lake. I got something I want to show you. Fine. >> [music] >> What a beauty. When did you get it, Dad? A couple of weeks ago. Just wait till you get her out on the lake. Open her up. Wow. Boy, I'll bet this really moves. She sure does. Your mother and I are hoping that you're going to come up here and spend the whole summer with us. Well, it would be nice, but uh like I said in my letter, my plans are all made for the summer. Well, it's only fair to tell you that I'm going to do everything I can to make you change your mind about those plans. Dad, I I've already signed up for a special courses this summer, and I've promised Pastor Webster that I'd I'd help with the boys down at the church. No, I'm talking about the future beyond this summer. All this talk about giving up engineering, going into teaching. Well, it's it's what I want to do. Well, I can't buy that. And furthermore, I have an obligation to keep you from taking a step you're bound to regret. Well, Dad, I have a commitment. No, I I I don't know what God wants me to do with the rest of my life, but for now, I I feel he wants me to to be a teacher and and to work with boys like those down at the church. That's all fine, but just don't go overboard about religion, son. Dad, you you can't mean that. I sure do. Now, let's go back up the house. We'll talk about this later, okay? >> [music] [music] [music] >> These are great pictures, Mr. Baldwin. You're a wonderful photographer. Oh, thank you, Marsha. That was one of [music] Frank's first hobbies. Now, everything's fishing and boats. Did you find that lure you were looking for, Dad? No, not yet, Bob. Hi, honey. >> Hi. I'm just finding out about your deep, dark past. Well, listen, just uh remember the old proverb, uh don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see. >> [laughter] >> Who's the girl? Well, uh Oh, her. Well, that's my cousin. Uh what's her name? >> what's her name? Seems like you had an awful lot of cousins. Well, [clears throat] you know, big family. Can't remember all their names. Oh, she's lovely. >> [music] [music] >> Hi, Mr. Baldwin. Let's see what you caught. Uh the creel's empty, Marsha. Fish didn't seem the least bit interested. I uh I've been wanting to have a talk with you. About Bob? Yeah. I told him that I would do everything I could to prevent him from taking what I think is a very foolish step. You don't seem surprised. No. Maybe I'm more pleased than surprised. Does Bob know this? No, I haven't been able to tell him. He's so wrapped up in his new plans. It's hard for me to talk to him anymore. Well, I want you to know that uh I'm with you. I want to help. I think Bob is making a big mistake. Mr. Baldwin, I love Bob very much. But if there is any way to make him change his mind, see things in a different light. You hold the key. I wish that were true. I'm not so sure. I keep feeling that I'm playing second fiddle to a bunch of young hoodlums. Why don't you talk to him and tell him exactly how you feel? Not unless I have to. No, I wouldn't do anything to hurt Bob. Not anything. Of course not. I understand. I hope it can be worked out somehow. For Bob's sake. And for mine. >> [music] >> I guess we're going to have a pretty good rain tonight. Yeah, I hope it keeps up till the morning. I'll go fishing. They seem to bite better in the rain. Hey, maybe Marsha will go with me. Hey, uh speaking of Marsha, have you been doing any more thinking about that decision of yours? Yeah, I uh I've been thinking quite a lot. You're not forgetting that uh Marsha is involved? Oh, no, I'm not forgetting that. I I think she understands pretty well. I wish I did. I don't figure you at all. It's uh not very complicated, Dad. I I I just want to do something with my life that that makes sense to me. Something perfectly sane and worthwhile. And you seem to think it's a big mistake. It is a big mistake, son. When you stop to think of the wonderful opportunities that you're just throwing away. Opportun- What opportunities? Money, success, what? Well, what's wrong with that? Maybe I am being materialistic, wanting enough money to live comfortably. Is there any sin in that? Everybody's doing it. It's the way of life. Well, it may be a way of life to some people, but I I want my life to add up to something more. What started you looking at things like this, son? Oh, I don't know. I I guess when I first met Pastor Webster. That that slum area church? Dad, it's a beautiful old church. It's just that the neighborhood's run down. Well, anyway, I a good friend of mine was going down on weekends to help Pastor Webster with his youth work. And he asked me to take his place one weekend. So, uh I went down, you know, more as a favor to a friend than anything else. But I certainly got my eyes opened. Here Here Here was a minister working with a with a gang of fellows he called his boys. You know, potential hoods who probably end up in jail before they were old enough to vote. But he saw them as God saw them. Not not as juvenile delinquents, but as as individuals desperately needing an understanding friend. And and needing to know that God loved them. Uh tell me, Dad, are uh are you happy? Happy? Well, it depends on what you mean by happiness. I know I've been hard to please. Uh good round of golf, 3-lb trout on the end of the line, no worry to about health or finances. Know what I mean? Yeah. But uh isn't happiness also in serving others? You know, loving, giving, of of of being involved in the world and its problems, of being part of uh what part of something constructive and good? Well, maybe some men are born to live dedicated lives like that. But how are you >> Oh, yes, I know. I know. How can I be sure that this is what I want to do with my life? Well, I I can't explain it, Dad. I It's just a feeling I have, you know, in inside. A feeling of Well, a feeling of want to help wanting to help those boys down at the church, of of wanting to help them well, rise above their surroundings. To well, to let them know what Christ can mean to them and and what he can do for them. And uh you told Marsha all this? Oh, many times. I uh I don't know whether she feels the same way about it yet that I do, but I think she understands. Well, don't take too much for granted, son. What does that mean? Just don't take too much for granted. Marsha has her life to live, too. >> [music] >> Why would a fish bite better when it's raining? And how would a fish know about the weather? Bob? Hm? You haven't heard a word I've said. Oh, I'm I'm sorry, honey. I I just thinking. About us? Mhm. What about us? Oh, I guess I just want to hear you say you'd be happy being the wife of a school teacher instead of an engineer. I'll be happy as your wife, Bob. I know I will. Honey, honey honey, look at me. It's all right. Unfair of me to resort to tears, isn't it? Bob, I want to tell you exactly how I feel. And I want you to hear me out. First, I love you. Very much. And I want to be your wife. But I want so many other things out of life, too. I'm afraid that's going to affect my decision. Oh. What does that mean? What What is it you want out of life? The good things. The nice things. You know me, Bob. I'm the spoiled kid that never saw the wrong side of the tracks in our own hometown until you showed me. Honey, we'll have enough. It's all according to what's enough. Where would we be living? Well, in the city, uh near the kids, near the school. Where where I can work with them, where I can help them. So, there'd never be a nice little house in the suburbs for us. It'd probably be a grubby little flat in the dirt and noise of the city. Because you want to be with these people all the time. Night [music] and day. Not just seeing if they get an education, but saving their souls as well. And as your wife, I'd be expected to make a lot of sacrifices for this call of yours. I don't know whether I could do it, Bob. I don't think I'm that good a Christian. I'd probably hinder you rather than help you in your work. Oh, honey. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. But that's the way I feel. Goodnight. >> [music] >> I thought Marsha was with you. Oh, uh she just turned in. I had better get a little shuteye yourself you going to fishing in the morning. Uh I got to raid the refrigerator before going to bed. How about some milk? Piece of pie? Oh, I I don't think so, Dad. Trouble with Marsha? Well, I uh I guess you were right. She does have her own ideas about what kind of life she wants to live. That's what I've been trying to tell you, son. I don't like to see you take a step that you're bound to regret. Well, I >> [sighs] >> I wouldn't have any regrets. It's it's Marsha I'm thinking about. Well, that's why you shouldn't be hasty. See, you're taking a step that'll affect your whole life and hers. Dad, we're living in a troubled world with a lot of problems, and I want to be part of the answers to those problems, not part of the problem. And I don't want my life all cluttered up with a lot of meaningless little games. Are you trying to say that a career in engineering is a meaningless little game? Have you ever stopped to think that I might like my work and get a certain amount of satisfaction out of it? Well, then why not let me have the satisfaction of feeling the same way about my work, of feeling that I am building my life on something solid and worthwhile? >> Here we go again. >> Oh, Dad, can it be that you have never had to make a decision like this before? Have have you ever honestly faced up to what God might want you to do with your life? No, I never have. And furthermore, I don't see any need to. >> [music] [music] >> Oh, there you are. Oh, is uh Dad up yet? Yes, he's having his breakfast now. Uh Mom, wait, why is Dad so upset about my plans? About what you were talking about last night? Yes. He seems to think that I'd be throwing my life away. Mom, since [snorts] I renewed my faith in Christ, the most exciting things that ever happened to me were while working with those boys, winning their confidence, actually helping them to know what Christ can do for them. That's why I want to be a teacher, so that I can work with boys like that. You have no idea what what it's like to see them come alive. Bob, what about Marsha? I guess I haven't quite convinced her yet. I don't really think she knows what it's about. But you understand, don't you, Mom? Yes. Yes, I understand. Well, tell Dad I'll meet him down by the boat. >> All right, dear. All set? Yeah, in a minute. I thought I heard Bob talking in here. >> You did. He's just gone down the boat. >> Uh-huh. Say, I don't know what to do about that boy of ours. Suddenly our worlds seem far, far apart. Maybe they are. What do you mean? He's our son, isn't he? After all, we have a lot of hopes and dreams tied up in that boy. Right, maybe he has some dreams of his own. That is exactly what I've been trying to get him to see. Here he is with a fabulous future ahead of him, and he wants to throw the whole thing away for some intangible dream. Maybe that's ONLY THE WAY YOU look at it, Frank. If that's his idea of of his dream, why don't we let him fulfill it? He Well, I better go get the fish or I'll miss him again. All right, have a good day, dear. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Mrs. Baldwin, what shall I do? Please help me make my decision. Come with me, Marsha. I want to show you something. Just look at this room. The history of Fay and Frank Baldwin is written in the things you see here. Just look at all this junk. How many hundreds of hours have we spent on golf courses and tennis courts and bowling alleys and archery ranges knocking ourselves out to win some meaningless trophy? The biography of the Baldwin family is written with trophies. Surely you must be kidding. I was never more serious. Look at all the discarded play things that have been shoved back into corners to make room for the new play things that we buy to keep ourselves amused. Now it's a boat. Maybe we'll win a race. Get another trophy to add to all those here. And next year it'll be something else. We move from one thing to another and grow old without ever growing up. But there's nothing wrong with these things. That is not in themselves. No, but sometimes I wonder if that's all we were put here for. To play games, to live in a house full of toys. When we're gone, what will we leave behind? This. A lot more of the same thing in our house in town. And who in this whole troubled world will be any better or any happier because Fay and Frank Baldwin wasted 30 or 40 years accumulating a lot of grown-up play things? Marsha, I love my husband. But somewhere along the line we we drifted away from church and from from Christian friends. And I think we lost a lot of convictions that make life worthwhile. You used to be active in church. Yes. You know, I think I'm beginning to understand some of the things Bob has been talking about. Like the difference between getting and giving. I've always wanted things. Things like you have in this room that spell fun. But I see what you mean about there being toys of no real value. That's all they are. But I didn't know it until Bob made his decision. I think I see where the road leads now, though. It's the only way that life makes sense. There can't be any true happiness living in a house full of toys. Oh, Frank. Bob? Hm? I'm so glad you're back. What's the matter? It's Alex Kelly. He sounded like he was on the verge of tears. Why? What's the matter? Another gang fight. Chester Webster's been hurt. Oh, no. How badly? No, no, he'll probably be all right, but Alex is afraid there's more trouble brewing. He He begged you to come back. Well, uh I better go, I guess. Well, we can leave right away. I've packed everything. Did you say we? Yes. I realize now what Christ means to you. What an influence he's been on your life. I want to go in that direction, too. Do I understand what you mean, Marsha? Well, I guess I simply mean that my eyes have been opened to a lot of things in the last few days. I'll always be grateful to Mrs. Baldwin. And to you. What did I do? More than you'll ever know. I'm beginning to see things the way Bob does. You know, he wants something very wonderful out of life. I want it, too. I want to build my house with him. Uh then you're going along with Bob's plans. That's right. Well, you'll be leaving right away, then. Yes. But, uh we'll be back as soon as possible. Come on, Marsha. Goodbye. >> Goodbye, dear. Goodbye. Bye. >> Bye. I don't get it. I just don't get it. Oh, I do. They found something, Frank. Something we need. >> [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Micky Dolenz showing up. It It doesn't disappoint, I'll be honest. Um sometimes it might be some obscure person who showed up like, oh, they were they played the uncle in Family Affair or, you know, the other uncle, not Uncle Uncle um Bill. But, they played the other uncle. You know, so you have to know your '70s uh character actors um in television and movies. Um but, Micky Dolenz, yeah. I think he was in a Disney film before this or Disney series called Circus Boy, I believe. And um yeah, this is him as an awkward skinny teenager. And a gang. [clears throat] Um >> [laughter] >> that love the dad was trying to use the the young wife to manipulate his son. And then the mom came in and just sabotaged uh his plans. So great. That's what it's really about. That's the drama, the real family drama here. Thanks for watching today. It was great to see that up to 50 people have been watching, which is close to what we were doing before our channel was hijacked. Thank you so much for that. Uh so, it turns out I have a copyright strike that [clears throat] I have to work on. Uh the hijacker made all my videos private and then made it look like it was Fox Sports. Um and then tried to stream the Masters Tournament, and so uh Fox Sports actually handed down a very quick lightning bolt copyright strike. And that's very different than the interruptions that we often get uh which are related to music or related to um some Eastern European country claiming the materials, which stops our stream. A strike is pretty serious. You get three of those and you're out. Uh so, I'm going to try to contact uh the contact information that I have and and make a plea and say, "Hey, it wasn't me. Uh YouTube took their sweet ass time uh addressing this, and so I hope uh that you can remove the strike. Um we are not interested in any of your content. Fox Sports, we don't care. Golf, we don't care. If it's on 16 mm film, maybe, but otherwise, nope. Uh so, that's what we're going to have to do today. But, uh thanks for watching. And I will see you tomorrow, Thursday. Have a great day. Bye.