alive. Okay, we are live with Bill Hartung from the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy. My name is Rita O'Connell. I am Code Pink's divest from the War Machine National Organizer. And well, it's been an interesting week, two weeks, a couple of years in American foreign policy. And we thought we'd bring Bill in to talk to us a little bit about what's been happening lately and what we have to look forward to. So for a starter, Bill, thank you for being with us. Yes, glad to be here. And can you just tell us a little bit about what the Arms and Security Project is and what you're up to at the Center for International Policy? Yeah, my project provides information to journalists, the Hill activists about Pentagon spending and the global arms trade and nuclear policy, trying to generate a better debate, better informed, and also reduce militarism, nuclear weaponry, Pentagon spending and so forth. So we're a progressive think tank. We work on some other issues. We have a Mexico project. We have a Cuba project. We work on the environment. And we have a project looking at foreign influence over U.S. foreign policy. And we've been around since the 70s. It was founded by combination of anti-war activists and diplomats who had resigned over the Vietnam War. So that's sort of the short version. Okay. And of course, Code Pink has for some time relied on your expertise in terms of your work, particularly aimed at promoting reforms in American military policy, military spending in the arms trade. You were a speaker at the launch of our Digest from the War Machine campaign summit in October. We are grateful for the work that you do. And let's get down to business on what's going on in the world today. Trump was in Brussels last week at the NATO summit. What happened, Bill?  But I think, you know, the thing that interested me was, you know, there was this whole debate about NATO countries not meeting their commitment to spend 2% of their gross domestic product on their militaries. The United States spends more than that and Trump wanted them, first he said 2%, then he said, oh, why not 4%, which would be an absurd level. They'd be more than doubling it in a short period of time. But there wasn't much discussion of the fact that NATO already outspends Russia by a huge margin. NATO countries spend about $900 billion a year. So pushing a trillion dollars on their militaries combined, Russia spends about 66 billion. So it's about 13 times as much that NATO spends as Russia. So whatever people think about Putin's relationship to Trump and, you know, the whole hubbub over that, the idea that we need to spend more money on NATO is ludicrous, especially if you consider a lot of the NATO spending is spent outside of Europe, NATO countries fighting Afghanistan in the Iraq war under Bush and following on. So even the concept that NATO is to defend Europe has been corrupted in some ways. And NATO's become a kind of a stepchild to U.S. global military aspirations. So, you know, that was one takeaway, you know, I've written about it, but it certainly hasn't been discussed widely. And I think now that Trump is a little performance of Helsinki, it's going to take a lot of important issues off the table and we're going to have to put them back on. And what's the international response? What do the other members of NATO say to this idea of increasing military spending? Well, they've said they'll meet those commitments to get up to 2%. They haven't been in a rush to do it. I think it's because they have other priorities. You know, Europe has a better social safety net than we do. They're closer to Russia and apparently they haven't feel as threatened as some of our members of Congress and others do because if they really thought it was an existential threat, they would be spending the money. So, you know, they've given verbal commitments, but they've said this for many years. I don't expect huge increases, except perhaps in some of the Eastern Central European countries. Sure. And of course, the increase of defense and military spending is not just a conversation Trump likes to have on the international stage. It's something that he has brought to the domestic scene since the beginning of his presidency. What have we seen in the last two years under Trump? What has changed or stayed the same in military industrial spending in our country? Well, Trump proposed a big increase, about $54 billion when he first came in, about, you know, 10% more or less increased. And then Congress said, oh, no, that's not enough. And so they added tens of billions of dollars more. And so now we're spending one of the highest levels since World War II, $716 billion in the upcoming budget. In the meantime, many of the programs from diplomacy to the environment to nutrition to housing have been cut significantly. And the Poor People's Campaign, which Reverend William Barber organized, which is trying to build on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King's fight in the 60s, has done an analysis of where we stand in terms of our commitments to fighting poverty. And Institute for Policy Studies did some analysis for them. And what they found was we spend, you know, three to four times on the Pentagon, what we spend on fighting poverty. And that includes everything from housing to job training to nutrition to education spending to certain forms of infrastructure to low-income heating for people who might otherwise freeze in the winter. So it's a huge range of projects. And actually, if we scaled back the Pentagon budget to what it was before 9-1-1, we could double that, all those programs. So, you know, we're paying a big domestic cost. And Trump, to the contrary, says, oh, no, it's good for jobs. He says that about the Pentagon budget. He says that about arms sales to Saudi Arabia. He says that whenever possible. And in fact, almost any other form of spending creates more jobs than the Pentagon. One and a half, two times as many jobs for things like alternative energy or education or healthcare. So he's taking us down the wrong road, but he's busy bragging about what a wonderful job he's doing. I think he may be pulling the wool over some people's eyes, but I think that's going to change because the consequences are coming home now. And so you can't really ignore the priorities that he's pushing. Yeah, from some of your own writing recently, you point out that the bipartisan budget act of 2018 takes us to levels of military spending that are higher than we were spending during Korea, higher than during Vietnam, higher than during the Cold War, second only to the heights we were reaching at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, and I let you point out at one point you say for this $80 billion increase that we're looking ahead to in 2019, you could buy LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter. So we're talking about an enormous amount of money. For what? If it's not creating jobs and it's not making us safer, which I assume it is not. What's the, how is he getting this by? What's the justification that seems to be working? Well, there's still a belief in Washington and in both parties, I think, that the US should be a global military power, should be able to intervene almost anywhere on short notice, and that this is sort of a form of keeping a certain kind of world order. In fact, as we've seen from Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places, our support for the Saudis war in Yemen, most of our military activities of recent times have not only failed, but they've had huge human consequences. You know, the cost of war project that Brown says we've spent $5.6 trillion on the post nine more wars. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, many of them civilians, thousands of US troops, tens of thousands of more with traumatic brain injuries and various other kinds of wounds.  It's not really defending anybody. I mean, Iraq has worse off security wise than before George Bush invaded. The disruption caused in the country that bringing the power of a sectarian government all made it easier for ISIS to get up and running. So I don't think anybody would say, oh, you know, gee, invading Iraq was good for our security, except maybe a few dead enders in the neoconservative sides. So yeah, so that really that global military presence with hundreds of military bases. We've sent special forces to over a hundred countries in the last year. We sell weapons to well over a hundred countries. So it's this whole kind of arms sales, military bases, global troop and deployments, worldwide Navy, and then, you know, perhaps worst, although these are all negative consequences in many ways, the big nuclear weapons buildup, which started over Obama and which Trump would like to accelerate. And it'll be new ballistic missile submarines, new land-based missiles, new bombers, new warheads. And it would cost some people say up to $1.7 trillion over the next 30 years. So I mean, if you took an actual look at, well, what do you need to defend the country? It would be easily a couple hundred billion dollars less than what's being spent. And in fact, we need a whole new approach because many of the biggest things that challenge us and threaten us are not military, you know, their climate change, their epidemics and disease. Terrorism is not primarily going to be solved through a big military force. So we would have to reconceive our whole approach to security. And once we have done that, then we could say, well, what do we need for the Pentagon? But instead, the Pentagon's kind of driving the train and everything else has been left behind. Sure. And we're talking about global crises, climate change, the refugee crisis, things that are made demonstrably significantly worse by the presence of such a massive military machine. If you're just joining us on Facebook Live, my name is Rita O'Connell. I'm the National Organizer with CodePinx Divest from the War Machine campaign. And we're talking with Bill Hartung, who is the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy. Bill, you mentioned Saudi Arabia and the Saudi-led coalition that has created and is continuing to work in what has been called the absolute worst humanitarian crisis in the world in Yemen. Can you walk us through a little bit our relationship to the Saudi coalition and the arms deals there? Obviously, we had a visit from the Saudi Arabians earlier this year. What does that relationship look like under Trump? Well, it was already a strong relationship under Obama, even though they disagreed about things like the Iran nuclear deal. Obama administration offered $115 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia over the lifetime of the two terms of the administration. Now, at the end, he started having second thoughts and under pressure from human rights activists and others. He suspended a sale of precision guided munitions, bombs that were going to be used in the war. And the Saudis, since they started the war, have killed thousands of civilians in airstrikes on hospitals and marketplaces and weddings and funerals. Virtually anywhere that people gather, they've hit with a bomb. They've also bombed infrastructure, including water treatment plants, which has led to a cholera outbreak. They put a blockade on the country, which makes it hard to get food and medicine in. So millions of people in Yemen are at risk of famine, can't get basic medical care, which is why, as you said, it's the worst humanitarian catastrophe we see at the moment alongside, of course, what's happening in Syria. And so the United States is the main arm supplier to the Saudis, the planes they're using, the bombs they're using, the attack helicopters they're using are made in the USA. The U.S. also refuels Saudi jets so that they can do more bombing runs. There's U.S. personnel in the targeting centers where they pick targets and they claim it's to help the Saudis make the right choices and avoid civilians and so forth. But that clearly hasn't happened if you look at the record of carnage of civilians based on the Saudi bombing. And so Donald Trump has actually intensified the Saudi U.S. relationship. He's embraced the new crown prince, who's reckless and is basically engaging in war crimes in Yemen. And it's partly because they flattered them. They threw a big party formula over there. It's partly because Jared Kushner is tight with the crown prince. There's been outreach to the Trump camp well before he was elected president. Also United Arab Emirates has thrown a lot of money around. They're also involved on the Saudi side of the war. They have a big lobby here. They've even reached out to people with close connections and to Trump like one of his top fundraisers to try to further push the U.S. into the Saudi UAE camp in terms of things like opposing the government of Qatar because Qatar isn't enough in the Iran campaign that the Saudis are pushing. So it's one of the more dangerous relationships we have. I would like for some of the coverage in Animas about his relationship with Putin to also be directed at the relationship with Saudi Arabia because I think that relationship could very possibly get us into a war with Iran or elsewhere in the region. And so we need to break those ties however possible and especially stop the arms sales, which there's a big deal in the works that Senator Menendez has put a hold on for the moment because he's concerned about the human rights impacts of these exports. So Trump has made a bad situation worse in terms of relations with Saudi Arabia and what's happening in Yemen. The UN is furiously trying to develop some sort of peace process, which is kind of racing against the clock with some of the actions of the Saudis and the UAE back by the United States. Sure. And I feel like we're dancing a little bit around the elephant in the room, which is we've talked about money. We've talked about the enormous increase in profits and in weapon sales. We've talked about jobs. So there's this other player in the room, right? And that's the American corporate weapons manufacturers. That's the private companies who are actually making and selling these bombs. So when we talk about the amount of defense spending increasing by such historic rates, really where is that money going, Bill? Well, the corporations like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and General Dynamics, North of Grumman and Boeing, the top five, get about a hundred billion dollars a year from the Pentagon combined. And close to half the Pentagon budget goes straight back out the door to private companies. And you've got private contractors, hundreds of thousands of them working from the Pentagon, close to the same number of people, government personnel who work there, and they do all manner of things. Some of them carry guns. Some of them are involved in various kinds of bureaucracy at the Pentagon. Some of them analyze intelligence and pass it up the line to the president and so forth. So in one way, the Pentagon budget is a big slush fund for corporations. And some of it is really, I think, can be thought of as blood money. I mean, if you look at Raytheon, which whose bombs have been found at the sites of strikes on civilians in Yemen, they have responsibility for what happens with those weapons, even though they try to hide behind the idea that we're just doing what the government lets us do. They, in fact, are busy daily trying to influence what the government lets them do. And the industry as a whole has anywhere from 700 to 1,000 lobbyists in a given year, which is almost two for every member of Congress. So they're doing everything they can to keep the money flowing. And they've got a willing partner in Trump, and they didn't do poorly under Obama either, even though he took a lot of flak for not spending more. I mean, the Pentagon always wants more, but we were at quite high levels, even under Obama, and we even hit the post-World War II peak during the Obama administration. So regardless of who's in power, their job, more so than defending us is really putting more money in their own pockets. And you talk a lot about the, not just the fact that this money is going from our governments to private corporations, but also the amount of waste and duplication of effort that's represented in there, 600,000 military contractors who are essentially replicating jobs that are already being done by government employees, right? Exactly. And the Pentagon has so many of these contractors, they can't really keep track of them and they can't give you a precise number. There was also an internal report that they commissioned by this thing called the Defense Business Board, and they found, just in bureaucracy alone, the Pentagon's going to waste 125 billion over the next five years. There's things like, you know, $1,200 coffee cups for use on aircraft. And, you know, so there's a lot of waste thrown in there. And the thing about the waste is, it doesn't matter to the companies. I mean, if they're overcharging, that just means they make even more money. So it serves their interests, but it doesn't serve anybody else's interest. Yeah, the thing that kills me about that $1,200 coffee cup conversation too is that those coffee cups break. The handles come off of them. So how you can get away with manufacturing a $1,200 coffee cup that doesn't actually work is entirely beyond me. So it really, really reaches levels of the absurd quite quickly, doesn't it? Well, it works as a profit center because they have to keep buying more. And actually, that brings me to this question of somewhat relatedly, the revolving door between folks who work for these military contractors and our federal government, right? What are we looking at in terms of people kind of moving in between those two worlds? Well, we don't have really as good a numbers as we used to, but there's a lot of prominent examples. The Project and Government Oversight is actually doing a database on this, which is going to come out probably in the fall. But there's very prominent cases. I mean, Jim Mattis, the Secretary of Defense, was on the Board of General Dynamics, John Kelly, White House Chief of Staff, worked for a defense contractor. All up and down the line in the Pentagon, you've got people who work for Boeing and Raytheon, Secretary of the Air Force did lobbying for Lockheed Martin. And you can go on, there's dozens of examples we know of and probably many more. And so a couple things happen when that goes on. First of all, the companies have even easier entree into the government because they've got former executives of theirs basically in control of the money that they want to get their hands on. But when you look at the other side of it, when people leave government to go to the corporations, they're not really likely to drive a very hard bargain with these companies when they know they want a big, fat job with them when they get out. So some of this waste, some of the kind of misdirection and bad contract decisions and so forth, is probably attributable to that. You've got people in there that they don't really want to push too hard against these companies because they're looking for a big payday when they leave the government. I want to make sure we leave time to move towards talking about solutions and some of the kind of dialogue-based work that you do. But before we do that, I know you wanted to talk a little bit about the contemporary acceleration of the nuclear arms race. And of course, the doomsday clock has moved again and at a time when really we should be doing nothing but de-escalating, we're doing exactly the opposite. So what's happening on the nuclear front and what should we all be keeping an eye on? Well, in addition to all the money that's being spent, which I mentioned, the 1.7 trillion over 30 years, Trump has come in with some other bad ideas. So he wants to build a smaller, lower yield nuclear weapon. And their argument is only in Washington with this argument even be put forward. But the notion is, well, nuclear weapons are for deterrence. And if you only have big ones, countries aren't going to believe you're going to use them. And then they're not deterred from doing things against your interests and safety. And so if you have smaller ones, which they think you might actually use, then they'll be more deterred. But actually, if you have smaller ones, they're more likely to be used. And so it's all, you know, it makes your head spin when you think about kind of things these people argue to defend these things. But basically, the more nuclear weapons we have, the more likely they are to be used. And what does smaller nuclear weapons even mean?  I mean, they would be larger, say, than Obama killed hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So again, these terms are only in the Pentagon's world.  Yeah. So one of your stated purposes at the Arms and Security Project is to spark a dialogue about the implications of the U.S.'s role as the world's number one arms exporting nation. So what are the implications and how are we doing on that dialogue? Well, there's a few areas where we've made progress. On Yemen, we got 47 votes in the Senate to try to block a deal for precision guided munitions to Saudi Arabia. There was a Bernie Sanders, Mike Lee amendment that would have cut off U.S. direct support, things like the refueling of the Saudi aircraft that got 44 votes. So in that kind of, you know, very huge crisis and through the work of a lot of non-governmental groups, at least it's on the agenda. At least there's a chance to do something in Congress. There's another big sale coming up, which we're hoping to be able to block. But the broader problem of U.S. arms sales has gotten much less attention. You know, Trump has made it is going to make it easier to do things like export firearms around the world. He's going to make every U.S. diplomat spend part of their time promoting U.S. arms sales. Again, he's bragging about the jobs impact.  So, you know, he reversed a suspension of bombs to the Saudis. He stopped a suspension on sales to Bahrain because of its human rights abuses, likewise to Nigeria. Now in the firearm stuff, it's quite possible. Places like the Philippines and Turkey, Philippines has death squad sponsored by the government. Turkey is not only correct on its own people, but it's going to attack U.S. citizens when their president was here. Congress used, was able to weigh in on some of those things. And under the Trump proposal for firearm sales, Congress won't even be notified when they're happening.  So, you know, it's a global problem in the United States, depending how you look at it, in terms of weapons delivered every year, probably has about a third of the global market in terms of new deals being made more like half. And of course, it's very hard to get other countries to stop doing this stuff when the United States is doing it on such a grand scale. There's periodically historically been efforts to limit the arms trade that have lasted for, you know, some periods of time, but I think it's one of the biggest unaddressed issues because it's fueling conflict. And contrary to the Pentagon's arguments, it's probably more likely to get the United States involved in more wars get drawn in on behalf of the countries that it's applying to fight these conflicts. So, you know, there is a decent network of groups by our standards. I mean, obviously we don't have a lot of money, we have millions of people up in arms about these things, but there is a significant network of groups working to rein in the arms trade. There's who called form on the arms trade. That's kind of an experts group. There's many other organizations that are very specific issues, like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty. There's groups like Friends Committee on National Legislation and others that weigh in on these important issues like the sales to Yemen. So, you know, it's an uphill fight, but it's the fight I think we can have some victories and we have to. Yeah. Yeah. And so that's where I'd like to end our conversation today. As I mentioned at the beginning of our conversation, Bill was at CodePink's launch of the Divest from the War Machine campaign and coalition in October of 2017. That's now an 85 plus member national coalition of organizations who are engaged in one way or another in divesting from the War Machine.  We cannot continue to prop up the War Machine in this way. So, we have a multi-pronged divestment campaign. We have tools for folks to engage with their congresspeople about not taking contributions from weapons manufacturers or the NRA. We have tools for people who, if you're an individual investor, we've recently rolled out an online database called weaponfreefunds.org and I'll throw that into the comments after this. It's a way to see exactly where your mixed mutual funds or your exchange-traded funds are invested. It breaks it down by conventional weapons manufacturers, by nuclear weapon manufacturers, even by civilian gun manufacturers. So, you can really see, which is increasingly hard to do in today's financial world, really see where you're invested and where these companies are invested. And then we have an increasing number of institutional campaigns, folks who are going after their universities, after their cities, after their pension funds, demanding to know where those investments are and asking for them to be moved out of the War Machine. And I know that when you were at the summit in October, Bill, you had some thoughts on some interesting or salient pressure points people might consider if they're going to develop one of these divestment campaigns. Can you give us a little bit of that? Well, I think probably the strongest hook we have is just linking these companies, not only are they profiting, but the consequences. So, a company like Raytheon, whose bombs have been used to kill civilians in Yemen, where there's documented evidence, actually fragments of the bombs found at these sites. I think Bay are right targets. I think companies like Lockheed Martin, which gets $50 billion a year of our tax dollars, certainly should be in our sites. Smaller companies like Honeywell, which runs a couple nuclear weapons facilities, I think have to be certainly looked at. And I think, in addition to the money, I think it elevates the issue in the public debate, so that, for example, more people will lean on Congress when they realize that a lot of this money is not defending us, it's just enriching these large corporations. So, I think Code Pink is working on all the relevant fronts, and the more people we get behind it, the better. So, I commend you for doing that. Absolutely, and we couldn't do it without the work coming out of the Arms and Security Project, and all, you know, so many folks who are doing. There's just such a volume of military action to keep up with these days that most recent move from Trump about reducing restrictions on firearms exports is, I just feel like, astonishing and getting so little coverage. And so thanks to you and all the folks out there who are keeping an eye on this stuff and letting us know where we need to be putting pressure. No way to do it without doing it together, right? Exactly. Well, did we miss anything, Bill? Anything you want to cover as an outro? I think we put enough on the table. I will say that it can seem overwhelming, and people have to remember that we've won important victories through our activism before getting rid of apartheid, getting certain companies to get out of the nuclear weapons business, passing a nuclear weapons ban at the United Nations, having treaties against cluster munitions and landmines. And, you know, so there's, if you look at it all kind of whizzing at you at once, you may feel like, well, what can I do? But in fact, we've done important things before, and we can do them again. And the country's in motion because of many ways because of the Trump phenomenon. But a lot of the things people are fighting about predate Trump. And so I think you're going to see people coming together on a lot of progressive issues. And I think this will be one of them. I think you're right. And thank you for the reminder about celebrating the victories. There's already quite a lot of movement right now in this divestment campaign. The city of Hollywood has passed a responsible banking policy that includes a screen for not investing in weapons manufacturers. Hampshire College developed an amazing sustainably responsible, socially responsible investment policy. And that new fund, they moved their entire endowment into this responsible fund. And it's outperforming their traditional fund to the tune of nearly two to one. So we have these amazing examples. And as you say, of course, there's tremendous work going on in the nuclear divestment realm with really quite a lot of energy there around nuclear free zones and cities who are increasingly stepping up and saying, you know, we won't be behind this, especially as the expansion of our nuclear fleet seems imminent. And so there is so much going on and there are so many places where people can plug in. I promise wherever you're watching from there is a campaign near you. You can email divest at codepink.org and we'll be happy to set you up with folks who are doing work in your area and we can get you going on how you can help divest from this massive war machine that we just learned a little bit more about today with the help of Bill Hartung. Thank you so much, Bill, for being with us. I think we should do this again sometime. Sure. Thanks for hosting this. All right. Take care codepink.org. Thanks for being with us, everybody. All right.


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is bring in today We are going over the update notes for test drum of spring 2020 I mean case you're watching this in the past But basically it's actually quite a huge update for a spring update, but mainly all to do with pets, which is really cool So as you can see the highlights include players your pet pet mastery pet happiness talents new pets egg timers pet event kind of like the spiral showcase item UI revamped set bonuses By now on inspect, which is actually a really cool thing and we'll get to in a sec two new beast moon hunt maps a skeleton key boss chords fell spawn and chrysalis fishing and an Advanced move for decorators. So basically housing improvements and first-time user experience improvements. So plays your pet basically You can pay play as your pet. It's pretty simple. You can enter pet mode And you can switch control between your wizard and pet very quickly allowing you to new ways to adventure So I'll definitely be checking that out pet mastery Obviously Is what they showed what mentioned briefly on KL live Basically, you can earn mastery points each time you win a pet game Unlucky mastery badges beginning at 25 wins. It's super easy to track your wins And once you've earned the badge you can auto play in the game Which is pretty cool spending energy as usual and feed the pet immediately. So basically just train your pet without even playing the game Which is great We're happy to tell you that we've been tracking your number of plays and wins for grumpy goblins We have the ninja pig with the badges already and they've been grandfathered in so basically if you have one of those That is already reached 25 wins. You can just play that one and you don't even have to do the dance game anymore It's great Pet happiness is a new snap that they have and basically you can feed snacks for pet happiness And pet happiness will affect some other things in the future plus further down in the list Pet talents, there's locked talents, which I'm kind of confused about There's 40 new talents in this whole update Combining a mix of adventuring talents and combat talents with more to come obviously because you know, it's an ever-expanding list Some pets have adventure talents which allow you to send your pet to fetch reagents or chests as you come across them in the Park-westing so wooden chests, I assume Pets will often come back and get with bonus goodies that your wizard might have overlooked Interesting different pets are good at finding different things gold reagents treasure cards and even spellments. That's cool. That is really really nice I like that Chest interaction when the pet comes back They may get a bonus from custom loot table, which is cool So I assume that'll be helpful for some of these locked talents I assume reagent interaction when pet comes back They may get bonus items from a custom school specific loot table, which is also really dope We're giving a new way to teach them tricks by providing them with teaching tricks by providing them with special talents combat talents for the Feistia pets. We added combat talents Spells that will which you can directly cast on command. These are will cast And there was a teaser about them where they're on the side of the screen, which I'll again do a video about eventually Locked talents will cast also no PVP by the way, just so you know locked talents Is In order to unlock these talents you will need to collect new pet reagents to notice in your reagents With a fancy pet color color Pet reagents are granted automatically as each time you level up your pet Which is pretty cool at ancient and above and maybe so each time you level up a pet at ancient and above So if it's above ancient or ancient you can get them. Otherwise if it's baby an adult you can't And maybe drop to house where in the world they can also Come from progress bars during the pet promenade and swirl of fortune of course impacts. That's not cool Once the wizard on looks particularly telling the pet that was we can then hatch it with the pet And if the talent that and if the talent is included it it has a chance to get passed down to the hatch pet at an unlocked state Okay, so basically if you have it unlocked you can keep it unlocked on the next pair which makes complete sense I don't understand this one at all Other wizards will have to collect reagents to unlock the talent themselves They do not transfer between characters kind of confused about this one But hey, well, I guess it's kind of just to stop transferring between your characters. I'm assuming but We'll look into that a little bit more but it's kind of confused at the moment on that one Pets can only have one adventure talent and one combat talent at a time That's interesting. And then there's new pets. There's a lot already and there'll be more when it comes live There's also been a real it be a re-release of 748 school pets So the school pets will be re-released. So obviously to look a bit caldera Yes, it isn't to introduce new talents to the pet hatching system We also add a new mainline quest at the beginning of the Entered up to the beginning player experience, which will probably play and Then more pets including pets water vibe beast moon home, which is quite interesting new variants of the class hamster for order calf lawns and There's also a chance at the end of the pet promenade to get the updated Ravenwood hamster, which is quite cool That's also from the decathlon generally All-cost formula for hatching pets have been adjusted and I have seen some of the things in the kiosk and it is very expensive So I'll look at that. I'm not too happy with this But yeah, kiosk prices will generally be more expensive as your pet ages and pedigree develop as we mentioned above We also add pet mastering talents. So it kind of means like You spend a lot, but you can train it up really quickly, which is We also are adding the kiosk limit talent searches to tour at a time as a result It should find it less likely to get the pet unavailable era dammit. That's unfortunate When attempting to hatch at the kiosk egg timers Beginning with this update pets that acquire from quest loot drops crowns purchase hatch instantly There's no hatch timer pets that you acquire by hatching with another pet However, have a new timer that varies based on the agent of the parent pet older pets take longer to hatch Obviously because they need longer to go You can now pay gold to hatch these eggs faster And the cost will drop as the timer limits, which is called gold is really good No more hatching elixirs for crowns, which is great This new event which is the pet prominent similar to the spiral showcase But focused on pets obviously Basically you want a game five times win a pet game five times a day you get five points for each so 20 Feed a pet so basically the same as normal in the spiral showcase about 25 times a day And then hatch a pet one a day and feeds pet snacks for happiness 25 a day and you get 1.3 which is quite cool So yeah that I think it's up to about a hundred. I would say about a hundred. I think I'm not 100% sure Actually, no way not maybe not quite even a hundred. I'm not that good a math. This will really early in the morning item UI revamp basically You can see the difference between the gear so for example the mythic paradox conical and the helm The vanguard's home you can see that you get minus two damage If you were to equip the mythic helm vanguard helm you get 18 crit though 4% PS and a bit of Health and you get a mess myth Math mess myth trap card. It is very early in the morning. So yeah, you can see it also looks like it has I Think you can see that it's been stitched with that ground. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but yeah Um The most significant thing with it is the compare feature I allow you to compare two items showing a third window and then UI Yeah, and then there is set bonuses which is essentially if you have a Set of gear so example all of the dragon the dragon spire Tragun's gear so the universal one you can see the set bonuses here. So it's pretty self-explanatory Most MMOs have that by now on and speck which is really cool. So if you thinking oh look look at that really Disgusting robe.  You can click on it I guess and the from your friends list and Find out where they got it so you make you can pay for it in the pandemonium four pack You can get it by defeating these bosses and you can get it from harvesting this and you can also get it by opening gold chests And the good of harmony and heavenly Palace that seems interesting gold chest. They must be pretty only chest. I'm assuming Just suggestion there if the item is stitched you can choose to find the appearance or the stats So for example, if you wanted the really cool hat that looks really cool You can find out where it is or if you want the stats for you can find out where the stats are from Which is really cool beast moon maps awesome was sourced at a video on all of this because this was his teaser They got so I'll let you go and watch that but basically to new To new beast moon forms join his group Which means you can group up with other people, which is really really cool anti-grouping Something along the lines of penalty box, which is dope. I'll go on to that more later And then the key boss, which is interesting. He has some new badges as well once for soloing, which is really cool That's weird little teaser of spoiler. I should say and then he's in the catacombs Goes onto a bit of his law he has Yeah, basically basically his law skeleton key boss and friends with the in Sistinal fortune fortune you can enter the Fathomless tomb which is where he is and determine for yourself if the fell spawn is real or not Basically wasn't city catacombs the fathomless to requirements must have no place like catacombs and ankle key Level 130 chance to drop the true goons equipment set chrysalis fishing really excited for it one two three four five six Seven eight new fish one introduced in Zafariya, which is interesting And you can find these new fish in silent market mooncliffs lost wood Crescent Beach, Sardonyx, Condor desert and of course the hub zone of bastion and they will look cool I'll probably catch all of them in test drum and then advanced move castle decorators basically improving the movement around Get to level 15 and then you'll be able to open all that's possible with decorating your home It's tough enough to be moving around. We'll probably look at this really quickly sometime in a video But basically it looks like you can change the More precisely the direction that it's facing the sensitivity of that. I guess and Then you can also reset it. So that's pretty cool and then first time user experience As the first two hours or so of gameplay they've already changed a bit of it and and This few is centered around old town and triton quest flow Improvements just like unicorn way and we've added new pet content to the main line and old town Which is what we saw on k out live. There was a lot of updates Which you may notice as adventure through the zones As you eventually through the beginning zones We've made a quest help it automatically point you back to the main line quest and the rare event You lose it and if you've done the tutorial before we allow you to skip it at any point Which is fantastic And then turn based planning phases for tournaments are now implemented in standard PvP. So that's quite a big one This is just miscellaneous updates by the way PvP tournaments are now free Which is cool. We plan to add rewards and cost back later. So that's kind of interesting We'll see how that goes shadow spells no longer double reduced backlash in a turn that is interesting to note Shadow spells backlash has been adjusted and starting value now caps at 70% Interesting so you're guaranteed to take damage. I would say that's very interesting. I'm gonna play with that I don't know if that's just PvP or in PvE as well It'll be interesting to see players and team up Q can and teams in the instances again without with a warning about access Player can now buy treasure cards from the bizarre via Harold August and that was updated a week while ago editor second chance chest at the catacombs, which is dope Um Big you TC from Isle Eye of Bartleby is now rank three. I'm assuming they mean the guy But I'm not a hundred percent sure But that TC is now rank three. So three pips various monster spawns and display issues resolved several minor audio adjustments and several performance and stability tweets, but that is all for today. That is the Patch notes for test drum. I will be streaming a test drum from as soon as this video is Up on my twitch channel linked in the description below or twitch.tv slash craft underscore box and Otherwise, thank you for watching. Remember to leave a like and subscribe Tell me your most wanted thing down in the comments that you are most excited for about this test drum And I'll catch you all next time remember to craft outside the box


And that's, it's one of those questions that leads into a philosophical dead end because it's not well posed. There isn't any such thing as self-interest. All right, no, this is going to be, this is going to be very interesting, right? Because he just said there isn't any such thing as self-interest. And what is there is a question you should keep at the top of your mind. What is there if there's no such thing as self-interest? What is there for Jordan Peterson at least if there's no such thing as self-interest? And you'll notice that how I think convoluted this gets in terms of his own thinking because he can't be an egoist. He can't be an egoist. So he has to, he has to fight it and he has to try to denounce it. But on the other hand, what are the 12 rules? The 12 rules are an attempt at least to tell people how to live better, how they should live, how should they make their lives better really for themselves. At least that's one of the goals of 12 rules. And it's certainly part of his advice makes sense from a self-interested perspective, although the methodology is wrong and we'll get to that because he doesn't understand what self-interest is. Because he doesn't understand the fundamental question that ethics is asking, he can't really articulate those 12 rules in the right kind of way. Obviously in a popular way because everybody's listening to them, but in the right kind of way that actually gives meaning morally. All right, let's keep going here. It's not the right way to think about it because you're not alone. And so this is, so note this again, and I'm going to cut him off a lot. As I said, you're not alone. Well, okay. Nobody said you are alone. Self-interest doesn't mean you're alone. It means your interests, other people could be part of your interest. And he'll talk about that. He actually described how other people are part of your interest. But he's already accepted a straw man of self-interest, which is this idea of self-interested people want to be at the desert island. Self-interest means thinking only of yourself in some way excluding other people, even though those people might be important to self. So he's bought into kind of the conventional view of what self-interest is and how we should think about self-interest, which is, I think, really unfortunate. Piaget, John Piaget, because he thought about this intelligently. Look, first of all, whose self-interest do you mean? Do you mean your immediate self-interest in the next second? So that would be impulsive pleasure.   Well, extremely short-term and it'll just auger you into the ground in the medium to long-term. Yes, we agree. Pursuing one's whim short-term is really bad for whom? Who's it bad for? For self, for yourself over your life. But he has no concept of life here. He has no concept and you'll see this as we go along. Of what you are and over your lifetime. So first of all, there's no such thing as immediate self-interest. What does that even mean?   So if you're acting in your own self-interest, let's take that apart. Over what period of time? Your self-interest in the next second? Your self-interest in the next hour? Like if you're impulsive and you want to gratify an impulse, you're obviously acting in your self-interest in the next second or the next two seconds or the next minute. But you know, you'll pay for that.  So well, it was great in your self-interest in the second, but like future, remember that Simpsons episode? Homer drank a quart of mayonnaise and vodka and Marge and all his kids were telling him not to and he said, well, that's a problem for future Homer. I sure don't envy that guy. It's like, which is one of the best Simpsons lines ever, I think. And well, that's it exactly.  That's the one that'll have the hangover, by the way. And there's next week you and next month you and next year you.  I see this a lot among psychologists, among philosophers even. This idea that you are not you, there are many yous and you are not you today. You're not the same you as you were last year. It's a different you.  And it's very much consistent with this idea that Jordan, I think is a little concrete bound and a pragmatist. No, you are at this moment, what you have been, what you've become, you are the accumulation of all the choices you have made in the past and you are the projection of what you're going to be in the future.  It has a beginning, it has an end, and it has everything in between. That is your life.    So it's not you're trading off you today versus you tomorrow. You are one entity. You are one thing. Your life is a whole. And idea, if you're self-interested, if what it means to be self-interested is to think about your life as a whole and to think about the things that you do today, how they affect you, not just in the moment, but how they affect you over a lifetime, over that life as a whole. And for that, for that kind of thinking, and in order to do that every minute of every day, on every choice that you make, on every decision, every important decision certainly, the only way that is possible to do, and this is, I think, why Peterson has a hard time with this concept. The only way to do that is with principles, moral principles. You have to hold certain moral principles so that you don't have to every moment say, should I start the cooking? Shouldn't I? Should I lie? Shouldn't I? Should I go to work this morning? Shouldn't I? But you are guided in your life by moral principles that guide you, not just in the moment, but guide you in the moment for the rest of your life, with the context of your rest of your life in mind. The context of the rest of your life in mind. And so if you're going to act in your self-interest, you have to take that collective of use across time into account. But there is no collective of use. There's just you. Now, he's right that you have to take into account the future. But he's using that collective of use. He's using the future to deny the existence of self. To deny the existence there is a self with an interest, that there is something that's good for you right now. And that what's good for you right now is to take into account the consequence of your actions into the future. But he is denying that. Your decision. And now here's the cool thing about that. So then let's say, well, that would be acting in your self-interest, writ large right across time spans. But the thing is future you and someone else that you have to live with right now, that's not you, are pretty much the same people. Now this is the kind of stuff he says. This is the type of stuff that he says that, you know, sounds deep. And I think a lot of people like, but the fact is it. No, it doesn't make any sense. I'm, I'm no philosopher, right? But that just doesn't make any sense. Future you is the same as other people. No, he's not future you as you other people, other people. And there are other people in the present and there are other people in the future. But you can't, and he does this, he'll do this a lot in the rest of his video. He, he merges all of reality into a blur where there's no difference between you and other people. And ultimately there's no difference between you and your room. And there's no difference between you and existence. But there are borders. The things do have identity.  Other people, other people. And it depends which other people, you know, he'll give an example here in a minute about your wife. Well, sure, but that's a particular person with a particular relationship to you. Your wife is just not any other person. It's a specific person. All right. Let's keep going.   And so that's going to be a catastrophe. So you have to act in other people's self interest because if you don't, it's not in your self interest. Now, again, there's an element of truth there, right? If you treat other people with justice, if you treat other people the way they deserve, which is in your self interest. But you could argue broadly in their self interest as well. That's good. That's in your self interest to do so and to treat people unjustly is wrong. Right. Would be bad for you, but it's still you are the standard here. But he's going to, he doesn't want to create a standard. He doesn't want to draw lines. He doesn't want to draw identities. Everything kind of merges into a blur. So you want to act out what's good for you now and what's good for you next month and next year. And you want to do that in a way that's good for you and your family and your community right now, next week and next year. And you're going to take all those things into account at the same time. Now notice, see there it is, right? He's saying you have to take all these things into account at the same time. And yeah, and that's impossible. And it is impossible if you have to do that every time you make a decision, every single time you make a decision, you have to make a list of everything.  You can do it. He's right. So to help with tell us self interest, right? But no, but this is what morality is about. This is what principles make possible to do. Once you figure out and we're not going to go into figuring this out right now that lying or being just the people that lying is wrong and being honest is good and that being just is good. Then you don't have to recreate it every single time. And of course, he knows this to some extent. And this is why he doesn't integrate his knowledge because he knows this from the example of honesty. He's very, very good on honesty. It's the one virtue, the one virtue that he nails. If you've seen his talks on Pinocchio, right? And you've seen his talks on honesty. He is very good at it. He's the best non-objectivist and he's actually better than some objectives on this topic.  So he gets honesty as a principle, although I don't think he defined it that way. And he doesn't define honesty exactly the way we do, but he gets why lying deception is bad. Bad for you, bad for your self-interest. Again, in short term, long term, in all terms, because it is. Because the you, which is you, is unified. But he's a committed pragmatist. So he can't think of it as a principle. And he can't then integrate it into, well, maybe there's other principles by which if one lives, right? It has to be very concrete.  They are principles in the background, but it's very, very hard for him. It's very, very hard for him to, you know, to actually think in terms of integrate and to think in terms of a real principle, even though implicitly they're principles. Because when you have rules, what do rules mean? Well, they're very concrete rules, but behind the concrete rules there are principles, but he won't, he won't identify them. He doesn't go there. He doesn't go there.


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No way. I mean, this is hurting cats. Who would possibly want this job? My name's Dan Rothschild. I'm the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. So I found out about the Mercatus Center through our sister organization, the Institute for Humane Studies. And I was finishing up with school and I was looking for a job. And a friend of mine had told me about IHS a few years before. And so IHS had a job board and I looked at positions and I found this place called the Mirror Cat Center or something like that. I wasn't sure how it was pronounced. But I looked at their mission statement, I looked at the work that was being done at Mercatus and I decided it was a place that I wanted to work. So I applied for literally every single job that Mercatus had open, including ones I wasn't even vaguely qualified for. And I guess eventually they got tired of me emailing them my CV and cover letter. So they brought me in for an interview and somehow or another I managed to talk my way into a job at Mercatus. That was 2005. There were 35 of us at that point. Today we've got almost 200 staff and scholars at Mercatus. In 2011 I'd been at Mercatus for six years and I was offered a great job by Think Tank in Washington DC and I went there. And like so many people though at Mercatus after about three years I got the itch to come back. And fortunately I was given that opportunity. Brian Hooks who was my boss at Mercatus previously, the person who'd hired me when I wouldn't leave him alone sending him copies of my resume. He called me up and asked me to have lunch with him. And we hadn't connected in a while. I thought it was just a friendly get together. And that's when he let me know that he was going to be leaving Mercatus. And he asked if I was interested in his job. So of course my first thought was no way. I mean this is hurting cats. Who would possibly want this job? So I went home and I made a list of all of the reasons to take the job and all of the reasons to not take the job. But ultimately I just kind of threw the list out because what it came down to was I care about the organization. The people who are here are some of the most intellectually curious, engaged, exciting, friendly, conversational, unconventional people that I've ever worked with. And if I could do anything to help advance the organization, to help the scholars and staff around here become more effective, advance the mission, advance this important intellectual inquiry, I wanted to be a part of it. So that's why I came back to Mercatus five years ago and I'm really glad that I'm here.


So we're here with Asahi Kasei, and hi, so who are you? I'm Chugashi. And this guy is very famous right now, he gets the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he's part of the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, your company, nice. So your company is doing many different products. So what do you show here? I see all the... Is it chipset? Yes, chipset. Chipset is in here? Energy harvest device. How's it working? Is it solar? It's harvest... I don't know. I don't know. I see it now. Is it inside here also? Yeah, okay. So how's the harvesting? That is vibration harvesting. Vibration harvesting? Just the vibration inside the room? That is the vibration. You can't touch it. Yes, vibration. Right? Oh yeah, there's a little bit of vibration, I can feel it. So it's taking the vibration and making power out of it. What is this one about? That is... Micro evaporation detection. Another chipset. So also there... And you are here in the video. It's about... What does it do, this one? Vital bit. So this little bit... Measured my pulse just by the video. Wow, I have a pulse rate of 81. It's because I'm excited I just did a video with the Nobel Prize low rate. If I turn on the light, it doesn't change anything. Cool. And this is the CO2 sensor. Yes. Where is it? It's an IR LED and IR emitter here. It can detect the concentration of CO2. All right. Evolution tool. What is this? It's just an IR sensor. It detects a human coming. If... That is a signal. It detects a human coming. The last one is a 3D sensor. Three axes. One sensor. Three axes, what? Three axes, it's XYZ, axis, magnetic field. Yeah. Is the demo is working? Yes. Can you show? Yes. Rotate this way. Then that body field axis is a... How does it sense? That is a magnetic field. Then under here, there is a sensor. If it detects a rotation, and it pushes, it can detect a pushing. In just one sensor, it can see axes. You can see what? It can detect three axes. Three axes. So it's useful for all these things. It's an application. Cool. And around here... Can you go there inside? Can you go there? So what is this? Using the... Yeah. So what can I do? Sensing? Maybe it's not powered on right now. But you have something inside here? Yes. What is it doing? CG of the cube. You can trigger just with your hand in front. Touching. So it's a hands-regester systems around here. And what are they doing? We're just down here, sir. So what is she doing? Demonstration... Many things are used in the house. So what is the camera? It's a main sensor. So what is it? Some are aswestern. So, sir, somewhere? So, sir, somewhere? So, sir, somewhere. So, sir, somewhere. So, sir, somewhere. So, sir, somewhere. After starting to exercise, we are looking at the 3D space, which has been switched to the BGF, for a long time. Yes, yes. For a long time. Yes.


Hello everyone, welcome again to another NARC survivor live video. We've just checked into this room Just did a TikTok video as well. In this one we are going to be talking about something you do that the narcissist really hates something they really can't stand Because there is something that you need to understand about narcissist. I Mean this is kind of basic information really it's nothing Advanced nothing that I haven't spoken about so many times already Since the very beginning of this channel But to put it quite simply Narcissist they do know exactly What they are doing They understand the effects that their behavior is having on you They do see the difference in you.   I mean I'm sure all of you who are watching this right now. Yeah, the narcissist has seen you Change completely over a course of time And they didn't care about that. They never took any responsibility for it. They blamed you for everything For everything that they did to you for all of the ways that they changed you That was always your fault And at the same time they were actually molding you into the type of person that they needed you to be That was the purpose of it And I would go as far as to say that Anyone who is involved with a narcissist? I mean you can look at that person before the relationship. It could have been a very Happy go in positive cheerful person. They could have been relatively normal, but then look at them in The middle of the relationship and towards the end the very different And that person you see towards the end of the relationship with the narcissist That person is everything the narcissist needed them to be the narcissist Specifically And intentionally molded that person Into the character that they became by the end of it They molded you to be that on purpose deliberately So that you could fuel them and be their source of supply and that's why it's really Pretty obvious to tell if someone is going through narcissistic abuse. You can really see the changes I mean the changes in them are blatantly obvious All of the signs will be there. They will be Maybe a bit more anti-social shy with drone with drawn into introverted They may seem less confident in themselves. I mean it will just affect everything about them It really will the way that they carry themselves their body language the way they talk It will affect all of these things They may even be quite slow to respond As though they always have to think of what to say before they set they're always walking on eggshells Because the narcissist changes us completely By the end of the relationship. We're like a completely different person To who we were at the beginning if you look back at the beginning however many years That you were with them You will remember that you were completely different And if there's any videos of you before Any photos you can see You were a different person You were very different back then because now they've molded you into who they need you to be and that brings me To the title of this video And what they really hates it's something that you do That they can't stand and before I reveal this very important information to you Please remember to hit that thumbs up button down below It's very important as it will help to get this message out there to other survivors as well Who may need to see this but again here's what they hate That you do This is something they really do not like at all. They really despise it.  It's just like a blank stare Like there's just no response and it's because you're just not used to it There's a lot of banging coming from this ceiling.  It's just a natural It's just instinctual for me. Whatever.  I'm sure many of you do that automatically as well.  I know I was Because we learn we know that exactly what they're trying to do They want that emotional reaction Their narcissistic supply They don't care about who we are as a person that does not matter to them They view us as an object that they manipulate and abuse to get the reaction that they want So that they can Dial up the kind of feeling or emotion That they want to feel in that moment Which can change from moment to moment it just depends on whatever it is that they want to feel That's why they hate it when you Take control You take charge of your own life Your own emotions Your own ideas opinions and beliefs and you have that passion fire in your heart Where you Love something you have this enthusiasm towards someone or something and it makes you feel powerful Influential as though you have the ability to change do or be something Yes, they hate that about you They hate it when you do that Because they see it as though that's just taken away Any influence or control that they would otherwise have over you And that's all that it really is because with the intensive Courses of indoctrination and brainwashing That they're trying to put you through Of course, they want to be your only source of influence They don't want there to be any other outside sources That could disrupt the message that they're trying to send to you To what they want to make you believe about yourself or about them Or about other people or the world around you They don't want anything else to disrupt that Transmission that signal that they are trying to send to you That's why they really hate your passion and you may find that they hate anything That you do that is outside of their influence and control It's getting a bit noisy over here as well people walking around Trying to come back in the room Through the bang and once that again Yeah, that's um Other things that they really hate Where it comes to your passion Other sources of influence that could be anything that you enjoy anything that you are Emotionally invested in To where it has your attention your focus your interest It could be something Like reading a book Watching a TV series a movie It could even be your work Just anything that you're absorbed in any kind of hobby or interest Any kind of activity that you enjoy that you are absorbed in They hate all of these things unless they can find a way to bring it back into their realm Where they are then able to control it and Manipulate it so that they can gain some Advantage over you To where they then have control of your mind and you may find that they do this I've talked about this in previous videos. Yes They will use music Any kind of whatever you are Interested in they will use it To manipulate you They will create these subliminal messages And they may even go as far as to if they know that you are About to listen to a certain song Or you're about to watch a certain television television show They will actually take the time to listen to that song or to watch that entire TV show before you do So that they know Exactly what you're going to be receiving through your eyes through your ears in the sound and in that way they can create these subliminal messages and it may be through Anything that you are seeing or hearing Any kind of words that you're listening to Any kind of characters that you're seeing on the television in the movie and then You're thinking about them When you would otherwise be watching this television show or listening to Your favorite music Now instead it's taking your mind your attention your focus back to them When you may have just been trying to distract yourself from them So you see how they just they hate it When you're thinking about anything other than them They want to be your only source of influence The only thing that you're ever thinking about and if you're ever thinking about anything else or involved in anything else They want to try and manipulate and control that as well and leave these subliminal messages So that even then it still takes your attention and focus back to them Even though It may not even be anything that they're interested in that they even care about It may not hold any significance or relevance to them But they will find a way to get themselves into it and If you ever really like look back At how they they've done that it will really Make you laugh sometimes I mean it could be something where you're just watching a Movie Are they imply to you that they think they look like the main character or something stupid like that And then it's like every time you watch that movie now you're thinking about them But then you think about it and if you were to tell someone like your friend about how They're meant to look like this main character in the movie It would just sound ridiculous. It wouldn't make any sense Especially if you imagine that if the main character actually met the narcissist They'd be thinking You think you look like me Or you think that you are Anything to do with me at all Because that's probably how it would go down of course But they managed to manipulate your mind To where it's like anything that you're interested in anything that you're passionate about They managed to get To get it to where it's relevant to them To where it's connected to them and then you just can never Get your mind off of them, which is of course not going to be any good for you and they know that because I Mean their low value. They have nothing to offer to you They're not of any good to you So your your minds could be on them all you want or all they want It's never going to result in a favorable outcome for you Because they just they need you You do not need them. You never needed them. They were never any good for you They targeted you for supply, but yeah, everything they do is manipulation and control It's all to get into your mind to affect you emotionally To get you to react to give them their supply To validate the illusions of their false self That's all they care about. That's all that it's intended to do And that's all that it really is So of course they hate it when you do this When you're passionate about anything This is why they can't stand it when you're trying to leave when you're trying to move on You're trying to go no contact Especially if you've met someone else They will do anything they can to try to sabotage that relationship The last thing they want is for you to have any passion or purpose for anyone else Even if you have broken up When you're trying to leave They really don't like that Because they want all of that energy and attention to be directed towards them They don't want to see you falling in love with anyone else Or sharing something that is outside of their influence and control Because that just completely takes away their supply and all they care about is their supply They don't care about anything else All of these things they said about you about how you're not good enough You'll never be good enough for anyone or anything Try Try to be good enough in their Their terms of how they see it try to be that Try to be good enough for trying to be good for someone else Whatever they say and is wrong with you try to change or fix it And watch how they respond That's when you will see the real problem because the real problem is that they don't like it They don't want you to be better or to be good To be greater and anything That's the last thing they want They want to keep you down.  They can't stand it Yeah, they love to complain about it. They'll have to put you down. They love to Isolate you and triangulate you with other people. Yeah, they love to do that But they don't want you to actually try to fix what they're saying is the problem with you They don't actually want you to do that They just want you to stay down and just Take everything that they pummel you with All of these insults and put downs and everything that's meant to be wrong with you These are all double binds If you're not familiar with the double buying tactic, please search it on YouTube You weren't damned if you do or if you don't No matter what you do there is no winning with a narcissist Whether you win or lose you still lose Because if you win then they will try to sabotage you they will try to put you back to push you down again Because that's not really what they want they just want to take the opportunity to Label you as bad crazy or wrong and to go up and tell everyone about it To smear you but they don't actually want you to go out and fix everything that they're saying is wrong Because then that means there's no problem Then that means that They should be on good terms with you They shouldn't be doing any of the things that they are doing and it just kind of makes them look bad because If there's nothing wrong with you Now there needs to be nothing wrong with them. They need to be In a good position as well. That's not something they can do because they have a Disorder this is why there has to be things wrong with you Because as long as they can get everyone to focus on you Then no one's looking at them and thinking That they could be the source of it That they could be the brute cause of the issue.   They're negative. They're no good They're flawed and then for them It's not just that they feel guilt as though they've done something wrong It's more just shame When they feel that they're a bad person and That is what they are trying to avoid feeling or reflecting on That's why they've got to keep you down Try to destroy your passions or interests or to try to Gain influence and control over them to where even when you're engaging them you're still Constantly thinking about them because they've got you to connect these things to them whether it's certain words and a song or a Character in a movie whatever it may be They've managed to get you to connect it to them to where you're still thinking about them Even when you're watching a movie reading a book listening to music wherever it may be Like you're passionate about that you enjoy doing This is what they have to do to keep you under their control As their source of supply That's why they hate it whenever you're passionate about anything because that's really good for you As I've said before passion is very healing when you're passionate about something. It really heals you Gives you energy.  It gives you drive and it takes away their power and control over you Which is why of course they don't like it They can't stand it Unless all of our energy and enthusiasm is directed towards them Then they're quite comfortable with it, but even then after a while they might want to keep it down Because I can make them look bad as well If you're constantly directing all of this energy and enthusiasm towards them, but then they can't reciprocate it Then it makes them look bad. So they still want to kind of keep that down But yeah, that's it. That's the message for today I hope you found it helpful. If you did you can show your love and support down below By giving it a thumbs up Very important as it does help the YouTube algorithm To get this message out there to other viewers So if you haven't hit the thumbs up button yet, please do that. 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So right now, while the show gets underway, or whenever it's light of time for you, be happy. Go Lucky. Enjoy Lucky Strike, the best tasting cigarette you ever smoked. For the taste that you like, light up a Lucky Strike. Right now. Light up a Lucky. It's light of time. Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Rochester, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, and yours truly, Don Wilson. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to the last Jack Benny show of the month. It's also the last program of the current series. And as a matter of fact, it's the last show of the season. So now I bring you a man I thought wouldn't last, Jack Benny. Thank you, thank you. Hello again, this is Jack Benny talking. And Don, I know that you're trying to be clever on the final show. But how could you possibly have thought that I wouldn't last? After all, a man my age is just in the prime of life. I guess you're right, Jack. They've been priming you for 20 years. I'm global. Dynamoscope stomach. Now, Don, control yourself. But, you know, you may be right. After all, nobody can last forever. You're sure working on it, Bob. Well, I see we have another candidate for the unemployment insurance. You better watch it, sister. Jack's right, Mary. He deserves a little more respect from us. After all, he's one of the pioneers in the broadcasting business. You're darn right. Why, when I did my first program, there were hardly any radios in the country. And darn few people. Darn few people, darn few people. Plenty of people when I started. They may have had fetters in their hair, but they were people. Mary, if I were Jackie Gleason, you know what I'd say? One of these days. One of these days. Pow back to the May Company. If you were Jackie Gleason, I wouldn't have to go back. Oh, Jack, why are you so touchy? Can't you take a joke? Certainly I can take a joke. But here we're doing our last program of the season and everyone comes in and insults me. I didn't insult you, Mr. Benny. Huh? Oh, hello, Dennis. Hello, sir. Well, you see, Mary, Don, Dennis knows how to treat me with respect. Certainly. I feel that when a man keeps you working all these years, he deserves respect. Well, naturally. A man doesn't get to be the star of a radio and television program unless he has ability and talent. Thank you, Dennis. No star can keep a loyal following of fans loving him through all the years unless he's an outstanding personality. Well... Can I go now, Mr. Benny? Why? I can't keep reading this stuff. It's making me sick. Why did I have to let him go on? Why didn't I stop him when I was ahead? I should have stopped him earlier, like in 1946. Oh, well, it's the last show of the season. I won't be seeing him for quite a while. Oh, say that reminds me, Dennis, what are you going to do this summer? Well, Don, I'm going to visit my uncle in Las Vegas. I didn't know you had an uncle in Las Vegas, Dennis. Yes, he's married and has a lovely wife and three slot machines. Oh, gee, Dennis, I envy you going to Las Vegas. I'd like to go there, but it's so expensive. What do you mean expensive? Last time I was there, I got a room for $2 a day. $2? Must have been an awfully small room. Well, yes, it wasn't too large. As a matter of fact, it didn't even have a bath. Jack, do you mean to say that you stayed at a place without a bath? I didn't need one, Don. They cleaned me before I got to my room. You know, that's a funny joke. You may have feathers on it, but it's a joke. Anyway, I'm going back to Las Vegas this summer and stay at the Flamingo Hotel. Say, Mary, what are you going to do this summer when we're off the air? Well, I think I'll just stay around the house, spend all of my time in the backyard in my garden. Well, that should be nice. Here in California, you can grow some wonderful flowers. I'm going to grow vegetables. I got to eat. Say, Mary, that's smart growing your own vegetables. Where'd you get the idea? From the present Jack gave me last Christmas. What'd he give you, Mary? 100 pounds of Vigoro. Crap, yes. You're going just a little too far. That's right, Mary. How can you say such things about a man who's so nice, so generous, so nice, so generous, so nice, so generous, so nice? Dana, turn the page already. For heaven's sakes. Anyway, Dennis, time for you to do your song. And since this is the season's final show... Jack, I think the sound man is trying to get your attention. Yes, he is. What is it, Twombly? Well, this is the last show of the season, and all my relatives is listening in. Well, that's nice. No, it ain't. All they're hearing is people talking. They want to hear sound effects. Look, Twombly. A guy imposes on all his friends and relatives and gets them to listen to this program. Now, what are you here? Yackity, yackity, yackity, yackity. Look, look. You may not know it, but in Canoga Park, I'm a big man. For heaven's sakes, Twombly, there are sound effects at the end of the show. Yeah, but all you got is ordinary ones, like a knock on the door, a telephone rings. I want something complicated that'll let me show my artistry. But look. I like them dramatic shows. Can't you do a show like A Tale of Two Cities? This is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever did before. Goodbye. That's the guillotine. Twombly, we're doing a radio show, and you'll come in with your sound effects only when you hear your cue. So just keep quiet and listen. Ah, yes, sir. Now, where were we? Oh, yes, come on, Dennis. Let's hear your songs. Really a wonderful arrangement the orchestra had for Dennis' number. Thanks. I also want to thank you for the discipline you brought to the band. I've noticed during the last few weeks, right up to tonight's final program, the boys have been behaving much better. And they all... What was that? Remly fell off his stool. Couldn't quite make it to the end of the season. Well, isn't anybody going to pick him up? No, Jack. We usually let him lie there during the summer. The rest does him good. Well, okay, let him stay there, but I want him up when we go back on the air next fall, you see.  Imagine Remly falling off his stool like that. To the rest of the world, it might have been Remly who fell, but in Canoga Park, they know it was me. Not from that reading, they didn't. Now look, Kwamli, this is your last warning. I don't want any more talk from you.  Uh, yes, sir. Tell me, Melon. Melon, what are the other boys in the band going to do this summer? Most of them are taking summer jobs, all except Bagby. He's going on a pleasure cruise to Hawaii. Well, Charlie's going to take an expensive vacation like that. Isn't he going to work at all? What does he have to work for? He hasn't even spent half the money he got from that Brinks job in Boston. Melon, how can you say a thing like that about Bagby on the air? Even in jest, now the police will come and get him. And what are you bowing for? Right now they're applauding in Canoga Park. Look, I don't want any more of your silly talking sound effects. You just give us the sound effects on the right cue and that's all. Uh, yes, sir. Say, Jack. Yes, Melon.  And they selected Sammy the drummer to make the presentation. Come over here, Sammy. Okay, Melon. Mr. Benny, on behalf of all the boys in the band, it gives me great pleasure to present you with this token of our esteem. Well, thanks, Sammy. Thanks a lot, fellas. Let me see what it is. Oh, isn't that nice? It has my initials on it, too. Yeah. Just what I've always wanted. A monogrammed ice cube. Gee, thanks, fellas. And remember, at the start of next season, don't call me. I'll call you. Just wait. I think we better get on with the program. I want to leave early so I can get a quick start. Who can that be? Come in. Hello, Mr. Benny. Why, Mr. Kidzall? Mr. Benny, pardon my intrusion, but I just dropped in to say goodbye. Well, that was very nice. Wait a minute. How'd you know I was going away? At least I was ignorant, but I know I'm going away. Oh, really? Where? I'm going to Europe to visit my relations. Oh, that's wonderful. What country do they live in? Ireland. Gosh, Mr. Kidzall, I never knew you were of Irish descent. Just on my mother's side.  And then from there, I'm going for a full week to Paris. Paris? This is in France. I know, I know. Tell me, Mr. Kidzall, while you're there, are you going to see some of those Paris nightclub shows? I'm planning to go every single night. Every night, but the whole show is in French. You won't understand a thing. Mr. Benny, I'm going for looking, not listening. You know, this I understand in any language. I know. And then, while I'm over there, and since it'll be summer, I think I'll swim the English Channel. Swim the English Channel? That's right. But Mr. Kidzall, you can't try a swim like that on the spur of the moment. You've got to train and train and train. And cook. Now, swambley, cut that out. Come on, Dad. Option like that, and I'll have you fired. And I don't care how strong your union is. I'm sorry I lost my temper, Mr. Kidzall, but this has been going on all day. You get your right. I was just leaving anyway. Oh, well, goodbye, and bon voyage. Thank you. Micky, good-bye, boy. I was a man of fire, and he came from County Court. They read anything they want. Now, kids, as I was telling you, I want to get an early start on my vacation trip, so I'm going to... Oh, wait a minute, Jack. Wait a minute, hold it, hold it. Oh, what is it, Don?  The sportsman and I are prepared for the last show. Is it a good one, Don? Yes, it's the boys farewell to you because they're going to Europe. Oh, to Europe like Mr. Kidzall. All right, fellas, let's hear the song. Oh, lucky is made of that fine white tobacco. Oh, I say, oh, the chappie, you'd make me bloom and happy if you'd spare a lucky strike a what. And every Frenchman would like to have a carton of those better-tasting lucky strikes. Viva la lucky! You can try. He keeps you smiling. It's the toasted cigarettes. That's right, Governor. Don, I must compliment you and the boys on that commercial. It was really swell. Well, thanks very much, Jack. I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, but don't you think it would have been even better if I had accompanied the boys on my violin? No. Don, why not? Well, Jack, I don't like you playing your violin during the commercial because we sell cigarettes. What's that got to do with it? People can't smoke when they're holding their noses. Well, another witticism from my chubby little chum. I suppose you thought that was funny, too, eh, Don? Yes, I did, Jack. Well, Don, at this point, I think it's only fair to remind you of that old Chinese proverb, which goes, and I quote, When employee make joke about employer, then he soon find out that er, fire, em. So watch it, kiddo. Dennis. Dennis, what are you laughing at? I just got it. People can't smoke when they're holding their noses.  Only on my father's side. Full-blooded, I'm not. Everybody keep quiet. I want to call up and have my car sent around to the front of the studio so I can get right home. Say, Mabel, what is it, Gertrude? Mr. Benny's line is flashing. Yes, Mr. Benny. Yeah, I'll tell him. Goodbye. So what does he want? He wants I should call the parking lot to let them know he's leaving soon so they can get his car ready. Well, ain't he an eager beaver? What's he in such a hurry about to get his car? He always does that. It takes 15 minutes to get the boiler hot. Why does he drive around in such an old jalopy? Well, that's because he's so sentimental. Oh, he loves the car. And I loves money. Hiding all the time. Hasn't he heard that famous expression, you can't take it with you? He's had it all right. But he thinks he's worked out a system to get around it. Taylor is so pockets in his skin. He's a kid, Jack, about being cheap. But I happen to know he has a generous side too. Well, make sure you say that. Well, the other night we were having dinner at the sportsman's lodge. And you know how most people only leave 10% of the bill for a tip? Uh-huh. Well, Jack insisted I leave 15. The parking lot is busy. I'll keep trying and tell him you want the car. He'll be ready by the time you are. Oh, thanks a lot. Thanks a lot, Gertrude. Well, kids, the program is nearly over. And it looks like we've come to the end of another season. At a time like this... Hello? Hello, Mr. Benny, this is... What is it, Rochester? Nothing important. I just want you to know that I've done... Good, you put in all that stuff from my medicine chest? Yes, sir. I packed your nerve tonic, stomach tonic, liver tonic, blood tonic. Tonic tonic? What have I got that for? In case any of the other tonics feel run down, that's what they do. Rochester, did you pack my new gray suit? No, sir, it's dirty. I'm going to send it to the cleaners. But I want to wear it tomorrow in Las Vegas. But, boss, that gray suit doesn't give enough contrast with your golden... But, Rochester, what can I do? I don't have any other new suit. I know, but you've got other locks. These are your two-tone spike shoes. I don't want any spike shoes. I'm not going to play golf in Las Vegas. I know, but if you win some, you'll want to get out fast. I didn't think of that. Pack the brown one. It looks awful. Rochester, I'll have you know that bag is genuine cowhide. Oh, boss, this is cowhide. Well, only on its mother's side. Full-blooded, it's not. Rochester, I hope you memorize that nightclub act I taught you. As your agent, I've arranged for an audition for you at the Flamingo. And I think I can get you booked in there. I know, and I appreciate it. Only... Only what? Well, I read that contract I've got with you. What about it? Ain't I supposed to get the 90 percent? I'm putting the rest of that money away for you to use as a nest egg. Well, push the hen off! Stop worrying about it. You'll get everything that's coming to you. Now I'll be back as soon as the program's over and we'll leave right after dinner. Okay. Goodbye. Goodbye. Jack will be back in just a minute, but right now, here's a suggestion for you. It's light up time. Be happy, go lucky. It's light up time. For the taste that you like. Light up a lucky strike. Relax. It's... That's a grand idea for a pleasant Sunday evening at home. Or any time at all when you want to enjoy a really great cigarette. Just lean back and light up a lucky. Because every lucky you light is sure to give you better taste. And here's why. First, luckies are made of fine tobacco. Lucky strike means fine tobacco. 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