Louis Armstrong Schools Racist MC on the Dick Cavett Show 

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IS THAT WHEN LOUIS USED THE N WORD ? YOU SEE THEY DIDN'T EVEN CENSOR IT.... IT WOULD HAVE MESSED UP THE STORY IF THEY BEEPED IT.... PLUS, WHITE PEOPLE WERE STILL SAYING.... WE DON'T WANT THE N*******S IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ON LIVE TV INTO THE 1980s !

Or you could simply title the video something else so you don't take the chance of someone misunderstanding it. Even though you don't specifically say it is Dick Cavett in the title, that's who people naturally think you are talking about. That's because it is weird to think about someone going on a show and talking about a different host to another host

@@brendalg4 Precisely. It certainly confused me-even though I couldn’t imagine Dick Cavett as racist.

@@jeffryphillipsburns same

Except he used to beat his wife

@@purshottamadevadhikar5035well what did she say

​@@connorbrady5689she said and going to her boyfriend's house

​@@purshottamadevadhikar5035 so did Joe

@@purshottamadevadhikar5035 he did not.

He really was. A true legend.

There was no internet back then to tell him he was oppressed and a victim and that he would never amount to anything because of his skin color...lol

​@carlitosortiz2870 In the video you are commenting on, he tells a story of a man who refused to do his job of introducing musicians because of the color of Mr. Armstrong's skin. He faced racism & oppression regularly. An insane amount of talent got him through life, not your ludicrous belief that racism only exists because the internet made it up... lol, indeed.

​@@hookR2Louis would not agree with you. He often said that most of time the majority of white people treated him with respect and admiration. Of course there were moments of racism but very little.

Louis like most great musicians were integrated 140 years ago.Musicians don’t care about color…Let me hear ya play! Louis, Ali, Pele, MJ, Maybe Sinatra , Jordan and Elvis…those are know in every pocket of the planet in their time

He looked sharp.

Sure did I wish I could’ve met him and talked for a while

@@eromero8190 i think of Louis Armstrong as the Greatest American that ever lived . A real Genuine man and Genius Musician . He was so far ahead of his time musically that it makes my head spin . 🎺🎺 ❤ .

I've never even seen his face not blowing a trumpet

I was getting ready to write the exact same thing, and happened to look down and see you took the words right out of my mouth. 😊

And crazy how we'll probably refer to the 2080s as "the 80s" too!

​@@happydayes I won't, but someone will!

Why wouldn't he.....he was born in 1900.

Jazz talk. 😎

Seems he was born 4th August, 1901 and not 1900. I wouldn't argue with the great man though. @@michaelm6948

You should hear my wife. We're both New Orleans natives, and were both raised by our grandparents.

Yeah people talk like the way he sang was an affectation - hearing him actually talk it's clear it's just the dialect he grew up in and his natural voice.

I like the similarities to the NYC accent.

Same! He also looks a lot like my grandpa ❤

Man, I shared this video with my family and friends saying it feels like I was a kid sitting around the corner from the old timers talking about the olden days. I never heard Louis Armstrong in an interview before. I did not know he was so charismatic and appreciative of New Orleans' contributions to his life and career. I see why he is treasured down there. He should be.

I love how he pointed out the ironies of life with a wink and a smile.

Id go farther than that and say he was an international treasure.

Not coz she didn't trust him then ? Mr TigerWood should have tried that....

@@SunofYorkTiger is no gentlemen. He’s a player, through and through.

@@Stasiaflonase So am I... but I am a man of discernment.... Nothing for me in Vegas ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GcI4NgDWYho.html

He used to introduce his wife to reporters and "the woman who travels with me".

@@SunofYork Very rare thing for an American star to be faithful to his wife.

I saw Bob Dorian of AMC tell a story about Miles...he was at some gala seated next to some older lady who has no clue who he was. She asked Miles, "what do you do, sir?" He replied, "I invented jazz, 3 times..." 😂

Louis influenced just about every jazz musician that came after him.

@@thenaturalmidsouth9536 Exactly. If Miles actually did say something so humble, he was being deferential to an important predecessor. He had a much larger and more sophisticated harmonic vocabulary than Louis had. That isn't not a putdown of Louis, it's just fact. Also, Louis did not appreciate bebop.

If that's true? That is a great quote. I believe it.

the usual quote we heard was 'no him, no me', very eloquent.

Global treasure. The MAN

What are you even talking about? 30% of every episode is Cavett trying to show how smart he is.

He's a knowledgeable person, his job is to keep the conversation going, if he does any redirects or says something like "I read one time" or "I visited" etc its not him flexing, he's adding to the conversation which IS HIS JOB. I feel like he and Conan O'brien are the best ever. @@johnsrabe

How is Dick Cavett racist????? He's asking decent questions and an insight to Louis Armstrong and his life.

@@eles2147 To be clear: I wasn’t saying Cavett’s racist. I’m sure he’s not. He’s just a highly overrated know it al. I’m assuming “racist” applies to a story Armstrong was telling, but I can’t stand Cavett long enough to confirm.

You should check jazz out more! It’s a musical tradition that’s existed for over a hundred now, with all kinds of styles and sub-genres. Seriously, I think anyone can get into jazz, they just gotta find the styles they like! ✌️

Yes indeed!

Listen around. Jazz is an entire world, not just an island in music.

Fun fact: he *hated* being called Louie.

A blessing to see Louis Armstrong on his one and only appearance on Dick Cavett,5 months before he died. 53 years later, Dick Cavett is still with us at 87

... what a wonderful world ....

So today's world is his doing ? Laugh my socks off

@@SunofYork If all you see is the negative, I truly feel sorry for you. If you want a better world, be that change.

@@davidwalter2002 Is your god working on childhood cancer ?

​@@SunofYorkI don't see anywhere that he (davidwalter2002) said anything about God. There are people in this life who make things better little bit by little bit for the whole world just by being, or at least try to make things better by doing their best to do the right thing & not harm others. Now, do you think you fall into this group of people? Negativity can help to identify the problems, but positivity and positive actions are what create a better world for all.

An MC in the 1930s, at the height of the Jazz era, who refuses to let Louis Armstrong play doesn't deserve to be remotely involved in anything concerning music.

@@Hotshotter3000 And what's more it was New Orleans. New Orleans has always been a multicultural oasis. Guarantee that MC wasn't a New Orleanian.

that's still not relevant to it

What a Wonder World It Would Be

Oh Yes definitely Louie was the best a person could be , bless his soul..

You are welcome and blessed for living in the city of saints and sinners!

Those were the very things I was wondering about. What do they mean? I appreciate any answer.

@@dennisalstrand1316 Mind you, this is coming from a Northern Minnesotan who’s never been to New Orleans, I surmise that “street cutting” might be like a “battle of the bands” or something to that effect, where one musician tries to outdo or outperform the other. I welcome correction if I’m wrong, though!

He lived in queens ny for many years

I visited new Orleans as a personal trip for my fascination of new Orleans music and I loved it! The people are so beautiful.

Actually only Dick Cavett & Tom Snyder had this style

There were lots of men like him back then and millions of younger folks who, as you said, adored and respected them. So sad that this seems to be lost on our newer generations.

He did the very best rendition of that wonderful song. It’s so filled with emotion. No one could do it better than Louis.

I grew up near Baltimore and the local early morning news played Wonderful World everyday. That song reminds me of me and my dad having breakfast before he had to leave for work.

Thats the truth man

A gentleman? Mate he used to beat his wife

And such good words, messages.

This cannot be stated loud enough, you're 100% correct.

I always thought the same thing. He invented modern music.

@@dirtylemon3379he was a lot of things, but that’s stretching it to say the least.

1st rep Jazz improviser and I didn’t know about him being 1st scatter…wouldn’t surprise Revered by best musicians and laymen fans as well…that s rare And he was pure charisma

I don't remember ever seeing him interviewed either. The word "legend" gets thrown around a lot, but he definitely was! 😁

@@Spacebanana-im5qtSame as “music pioneer!”

And nothin wrong with that

An irony of life.

You can't get any further north than Maine and still be in the USA. Yet when people think of racism in the 20th century they always think of the deep south.

@@jesseroggio7260yep. That’s the typical deflection used by the noble northerners, as though racism had a border/boundary line.

@srconrad ^Boomer admits white privilege and ignorance in public with completely pointless and useless paragraph.😳 Also- how in the fuq is this the first time you have ever heard Louis speak?

I'm 56 and I think it's the 1st time I've heard him speak

Godbless RU-vid

I'm 61 and yeah that was cool....

I turned 67 September 2nd. As a self taught jazz composer and short story writer born 7th of 10 in Memphis; a family of 5 boys and 5 girls! They all said I looked a lot like him…..??…. 👀 ………. I used to “gravel” my voice to sound like him when I sang his songs.. lol ………. and I’d end each tune…….. with a wavy……… “ OOOOHH……. YEEAHH” ……… lol…… kids got a kick out of that….. lol Little did I know….. that I would be lost in love with the brilliance of lyrics and the heavenly placement……. of the right chord…… at the right time. It’s a long story why I’m just now working on my debut album due out in 2024………… a story that time won’t permit……. But, ….. as a lover of …. and singer- songwriter of ; predominantly “ “ballads “……. it goes without saying, what an honor it would be to have ole SATCHEMO pick one to sing…..lol I was just promoted a high school sophomore a in the hot summer of July 6,1971; …….. the day Mr. Armstrong suddenly died of a heart attack at a young 71 years old! Ironically….. my own father died at 71 as well……… The jazz and entertainment world were stunned at the news that Mr. Armstrong had passed. At 16 years old, I was oblivious to such news … I’m sure……….at 16…. were much to preoccupied with getting rid of pimples and finding a job, At Mcdonald’s…… of course! …. ..a driver license. a car, and…. hopefully a girlfriend 👀lol….. We all grew up on Dick Cavett……. But like most of us …….. I too…. am hearing Mr.Armstrong express himself……. FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!! Absolutely poetic!! A language …. within a language……. !! 25,000 heard Peggy Lee sing : the Lord’s Prayer at his funeral. He would be 124 on August 4, 2024……… Sooooooo, for 123 years………..God has blessed the planet with his genius!!!! Yeah………because of knowing him and his work……. …………..we can truly: “THINK TO OURSELVES…. WHAT A WONDERFUL……. ……….. WORLD “ Thank you dear sir… Thank you Continue to rest easy ……. Mr. Armstrong 🕯 🎼RAIN RAIN🎼

I saw him do the same thing with Flip Wilson at the end of a song. I think it's something that older Black men would do as they sat around and talked and it was a way of letting you know that you were connected. Fast forward to 3:40 of this clip. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMifxUAg4-E.html

Just imagine he went from playing for Al Capone to holding Dick Cavett's knee. Awesome!

Sadly so many interviewers today just want to hear their own voice.

@@rievans57 I thought Ol' Scareface kidnapped Fats Waller for his birthday party or something.. I haven't heard about Louis playin for him but it seems plausible.

@@MrCarltonjsmith First of all, thank you for that Flip Wilson clip, what a trip to watch. Also, I like your explanation for Louis' body language. Lastly, it takes me a while to respond on here 😅

Lmao, I am convinced all these emotional comments are trolls now. For a second I thought you were actually a nerd

Still is a treasure! 🥰🎶

Yes, yes he does speak musically!

@@ThePeacePlantRU-vid comments has been a weird echo chamber for years.

@@trekkiejunkreread the comment,my dear,he said I can’t listen to him without smiling!😊I’m an atheist though so I don’t agree god sent him,he was magnificent on his own!

This attitude is what keeps us seperated

Give it a rest. And correct your spelling, too.

So you cannot stand to listen to him?

My thoughts exactly! I just noticed Ive been grinning most of the interview. He was a joyfilled man

It just flows out of him. A credit to humanity.

He likely is referring to a King Size bed. In a smaller bedroom, they go wall to wall.

Smoking killed him...

This had to be one of his last television appearances.

I'm still waiting for the "racist" part.

Not to mention the schooling part...@@Lige

@@Lige 12:30

Yeah, it's at 12:30, but it still is definitely click bait. I guess on the plus side, more people probably clicked on it and ended up hearing his stories than otherwise would've happened. Still it's a shame people always have to resort to clickbait (especially THAT sort of clickbait).

Did you not watch the video at all?? He very clearly tells a story about exactly what the title says.

Stfu. You are just fishing for likes. Instead of looking for love online, you need antidepressants. You don't know anything about him.

That was very cool plus a healthy dose of seriously cool! Brushes with fame are fun. Richard Nixon wrote me a letter 50 years ago. I wish I still had it!

At about, 16:00, Louis explanation of NOLA’s, uniquely singular, Jazz Funeral & Second Line tradition… 😆🎶🎵🥁🎺🎷💃🏾🕺🏾👍🏿

I bet that was a good time

What year was this? Do you know? Louis died in 1971, so it couldn't have been too long before he died.

@@ajk 1970

We have an old near derelict swimming pool in Hull (England) he came to play at. If you see the place and think of him there its a bizarre contrast

Bix is right up there with Satchmo as far as I'm concerned. Had he lived longer he would have become a legend.

wow, you beat me by 14 hours: I too, am a Welsh, middle-aged white dude and I regard Satchmo as a gift from God, too.

💯

@@swanvictor887 God should gift us freedom from childhood cancer

If Mr. Armstrong was alive he would be 123 years old!

who cares if you are white, black, green or purple - we are all the same ...

Adorable? He's not a pet made for your amusement... This is one of the most racist comment on youtube i have seen all day!!!!!!!!

@@v4v819 Adorable: inspiring great affection; delightful; charming........so yeah, adorable.

Man, some people inevitably find racism in anything. Gee, white people love Louis Armstrong, put the white hoods on, let's burn a cross. Or maybe we just see a man, a great and gifted genius. Oh, and adorable too. Do da.

"adorable? think you missed the part he was talking about strippers, meeting Al Capone and playing at brothels as a teenager... Louis is more than just "A Wonderful World" family friendly fun 🤣

Poor choice of words, but I’m sure it wasn’t your intention. I’d venture you meant “endearing.”

12:50

Lol, you posted a comment on a video you obviously didn't watch!

@@RModillo we was the Indians ???

To base a video's title on a provocative moment that occurs after 10 minutes is indeed click bait. To label this lovely, lengthy interview as calling out racist MC is indeed click bait

He didn’t school anyone on the show, he just had an anecdote from his younger days about a racist person. This is indeed clickbait

You're the first person that I've read that says that. We have always known that he's one of the father's of American jazz music. The definitive sound of America. It is the only cultural export that is founded, created and unique to this country. Everything else was copied from Europe and it's truly the product of the African Diaspora. A product created by and for black American enjoyment and pleasure.

Really? Today, who even remembers Armstrong other than jazz aficionados? You sound like a music professor who thinks that everyone knows what you know. I shouldn't need to explain that many, including blacks of the 60s and 70s, dismissed Armstrong as nothing but an old-time, step-an-fetch-it character. Those characterizations were ridiculous but existed nonetheless.

Everyone who’s an adult knows he’s one of the greatest. Maybe kids don’t.

You must be young. His place in music history is set in stone. Maybe you mean that his music isn’t popular now or that the kids don’t know who he is. That might be true. But that’s true for anyone 50 years after they’ve dead. People gave short memories.

@@Picasso_Picante92 You are just plain WRONG. I'm 66 years old so don't give me that ship. I will prove it. This is a quote from an article in The Guardian from three years ago: "I cannot think of another American artist who so failed his own talent. What went wrong?” asked one biographer of Louis Armstrong. “The sheer weight of his success and its attendant commercial pressures,” answered another. The popular opinion of the trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer of What a Wonderful World is as a genial, foundational voice in jazz. But the jazz establishment - and many African Americans - reviled him as a sellout or an “Uncle Tom”. When he died in 1971, he was seen as having peaked in the 1920s with the Hot Five and the Hot Seven, a series of inventive small-band recordings, and been in decline ever since. A new book, Ricky Riccardi’s Heart Full of Rhythm: the Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong, charts this apparent fall from grace, but shows the reality to be far more complicated.

If someone thought Dick was gonna be racist they don't know Dick about Dick.

Nice injection of [current year] political grievances there, buddy.

@@Aivottaja How?

Thanks. I figured I'd use a modern term synonymous with the klan, so the kids would get it@@Aivottaja

What a dopey comment

He knew the deal. He knew how to negotiate with the situation he was in and did well.

🙄 You only know his public face. Keep God out of this because you don't know what he did behind closed doors.

@@chakajohnson6464 😂

One of the very best talk show hosts……in the Uk Michael Parkinson came close. But Dick was a fantastic interviewer.

💜🥰🎶

What a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it.

@@snickpickle Thank you for your kindness! Joe Horn Cloud is smiling too!

I worked with Herman Thunderhawk who was from there and knew several others when they moved to Wyoming. RIP Herman.

Thank you for your kindness too! Joe was amazing and his dog, "Blackie", an old graying around the mussel black lab, used to follow me around. I would soon notice and tell him to "go home!" but in a nice way and he'd obey. I was at the major Pine Ridge Powwow at night with many cars zig zagging to and from the powwow, kind of crazy with a lot of dust in the air. Blackie came through the haze of headlights and dust. What is the meaning of "loyalty"? I was really afraid he'd be hit so I carefully walked him home. Joe's house was next door to where I was staying at Project Recovery, a counseling center in a very old BIA office/house where they used to gather to get their allotment pay. I imagined Chief Red Cloud going there, standing in line for his check. One of my great moments was meeting Sioux Nation Chief Oliver Red Cloud as I knew his Son-in-Law. Oliver was a vibrant spirit like I'm sure his father was. Pila Maya! Oh, Joe was a "Takini" or survivor, a title of honor. He was Hunkpapa Sioux, not Lakota. His father was of the three that survived Wounded Knee by running up the meandering Wounded Knee Creek. They would raise the white flag but the Cavalry chasing them would only open fire. They made their own cave and had to eat meat raw and have no fires as the Cavalry would have located them. They eventually created their own small community north of the town of Pine Ridge. So there I was, standing with Blackie at Joe's back screen door. I hadn't met Joe yet. It was warm and I loudly knocked several times on his screen door. Through the screen I could hear the faint in the distance voice of good old "Satchmo" singing away and there was a dim light from a far-off room, a beacon not necessarily a beacon, more a beacon's beacon... I was afraid of frightening him and honored his space in the universe. It was a kind of moment that always remains with you, like a sunset over the Plains, or Oliver's smile, or how quiet is quiet when you're alone in the vast expanse there like sitting along the edge of the Badlands in the far reaches of Nellie Cuny's ranchlands legs dangling over the edge of eternity before the buttes and canyon-lands as the faint drum-beat of the Ghost Dance comes from everywhere and from nowhere. "Cuny Table"... They did dance the Ghost Dance on the plateau there you know. Anyways... worried about Blackie, I opened Joe's screen door and let him in. I was betting Joe would wonder if Blackie had a new skill, could walk through walls. Well I think for a brief enchanted moment I would get to know, besides Blackie, someone who could. Later over the story Joe's laughter blasted away the how quiet is quiet and it sparkled too, transcended walls, took flight somewhere high above my fears, somewhere beyond white flags and sparkling nights! It all said to me, "seek the beacons in life!" Hoka hey! Wanbli Gleska! Pila Maya!

That was a warning to the interviewer not to interupt the story before it was finished

👏 Superbly Articulated!!! This ever-living Legend richly deserves every syllable of your praise!!!

My mother is in her 60s, and my grandmother and grandfather were well known local musicians in Southern Florida when she was a kid. They played with Dizzy Gillespie a few times. Mom called him Uncle Dizzy, and he would have her and my uncle sit in his lap while he showed them how to cross stitch. I grew up to be a jazz drummer, how I would love to have had such an honor. The stories will have to do!

What song?

​@@billy_werberthat's not important.

@@SlickArmor No, but it is nice to know.

@billywerber9117 I was teasing I kinda would have liked to know too.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Not me I was scratching my throat 2 mins in

I don't think Armstrong would appreciate such a fake comment. I am sure he would want to beat you like he did his wife. Screaming women in pain was his specialty

Did you not listen to the full interview? The title refers to an incident described by Mr. Armstrong where an MC refused to introduce him - no need to repeat the word he used in doing so. Incredible to see the grace with which Mr. Armstrong told the story, as it must have been deeply hurtful. Not surprising though, as it's hard to think of a truer gentleman in the best sense of that word. Your story about Cavett is pure invention I think, as it's clear they both got on extremely well.

No. It's late in the interview when he recounts the story of an MC in NO that said he could not introduce 'that Ni****, so he introduced himself and the MC was fired.

so who was a fake musician?

@@carlitosortiz2870 That's the point. There weren't any back then...

I think what sort of gets me is how this shunned race, to this day shunned, is still trying and wanting to get along. I saw, in this tape how many times Mr. Armstrong grabbed Dick's arm or leg. As much as his family, himself and his children were looked down upon by too many (but not all of us, I hope) he/they still love/loved America despite so many prejudices and seemed to be trying to get along. Does that make any sense?

And by the way, another example of clicking. I didn't see any real evidence of Mr. Cavett being racist or Mr. Armstrong 'schooling' him. I only saw two real people discussing the past. Honoring Louis Armstrong's accomplishments.

@@JJJZANESVILLE2 Did you watch the entire clip? The racist MC was in one of his stories. It did not refer to Dick Cavett.

What a clip..thanks so much!

Yes, I read your comment earlier this am. I stand glad to be corrected. You were perceptive than I. Thanks!@@Rick_MacKenzie

No, not Cavett-Mr. Louis tells a story of an emcee years earlier.

It was a beautiful interview. Satchmo tells a story about the racist MC at a show in New Orleans. Dick Cavett is one of my big influences that's why I posted this.

@@kokopellispritjourney I think it is just that some people are confused by the wording of the video title. People who watch the full interview or have ever watched one of Dick's interviews know that Mr. Cavett is not a racist.

I agree with you and I'm white.

The best part of the US culture. America without the contributions from the folks that were brought here NOT on their own accord is unthinkable. Like imagining growing up without your sister. I wish we could see how much of each is in each other.

The pace is awesome, it's also allowing them to talk!

Took the words out of my mouth and expressed it very elowuently

Yes, Cavett is one of the best ever. He'd just guide the conversation then let the guest do their own thing. Brilliant.

The best talk show hosts ask and then listen. The worst make it about themselves.

So, what's with the title of this video? I don't see Dick Cavett being racist at all. He's just asking questions.

He was a great musician but most influential? I think most would have him in the top 10. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Beatles, in rock music, Bob Marley in reggae. Arguably Run DMC in hip hop, Hendrix for guitar, Louis Armstrong in Jazz, Michael Jackson, ...... There are a lot of very influential musicians to say that one person holds the top spot and no one comes close is laughable. Not a well thought out statement unless you're a 10 year old and then I apologize.

@@anthonyv6962 Obviously not a student of musical history or development are you? Armstrong was the first popular music superstar soloist of the vinyl age in the 20th century. He ripped melodies apart and extemporised, riffed and improvised his way through solos like a contemporary rock guitarist. He owned the stage, he was a movie megastar, people copied his every note. In his day he was absolutely unique. A trailblazer in modern music and attitudes. Of course someone else could have done it but he did it first. Before all the lightweights you glibly list as "influential". And he was completely self taught, something he did while in prison. Armstrong wrote the template. Before Satchmo performers played the notes in front of them, he ripped them up. He did it his way. Something that every performer you hear today does as a reflex. You see, we stand on the shoulders of giants my friend, giants. Now, run along junior. Your milk and cookies are ready.

@@anthonyv6962You should look at him like the root or the main trunk of the American music tree. The artists you mentioned are all great but they are branches of the tree. Another way of looking at it is that Louis was the first who spoke the language of modern American music.

@@anthonyv6962 I don't think any of the musicians you mention would have existed, at least not in the forms they did, without Louis Armstrong breaking the musical barriers and leading the way.

@ant - What, no mention of Fats Domino ? John Lennon said - without Fats, there would have been no Beatles. Bob Marley said - without Fats, Reggae wouldn't exist. You probably know this already, so I'm wondering why you wouldn't consider it, in terms of influence.

He was short, but not 5 feet 2. I think 5 7 or 8.

5’6” according to google search

That's amazing! When you see him playing, on film, he looks like 7 feet tall, his presence is so big!

Louis and Dizzy are my favourite icons of that era.

Glad you enjoyed it!