Tonight or today you're going to be focusing on Ziaat Ashura specifically and of course as we know Ziaat Ashura has many different components one of the components interestingly is association and disassociation Tawalli and Tabarri so association is associating yourself with the infallibles with Allah SWT and disassociation from the enemies. So why is it you're focusing on this aspect of the Ziaat today? You see with association and disassociation Not only is it in Furu'at-deen. So when we look at Furu'at-deen and we have all the Furu'at and then we come to the specific association and disassociation We find that Imam Hussain alayhi salam one of the main stances he actually took in history relating to Muharram was this association Which is in where he was Where they asked him to give bay'ah to give allegiance to Yazid Ibn Amawiyah and He stood there and he started describing his actions Shahraibun Lil Khamr, he drinks alcohol He plays with monkeys and pigs and etc and he started to describe his very bad attributes And then he said something very important. He said Mithli La Yubaya Mithla someone like me would never pay allegiance to someone like him So what you're saying is Imam Hussain is is is developing a criteria of An ideal human being and a not ideal human being so he's he's painting the the picture of What I am disassociating with is for example drinking alcohol or Playing with certain animals or being of a corrupt nature and what he says is everything that I do is The opposite the opposite of that


Are certain exercises making your joints hurt? Do you avoid those exercises or just go lighter? Listen to this. All right. Our next caller is Kyle from Maryland. Hey, Kyle, how can we help you? Hey, guys, how are you doing? Thank you for allowing me to come on here and ask my question. And as always, thank you for all that you guys do for the community. My question is specifically in regards to trigger or mobility days. So I'm currently in phase two of MAPS performance. My second time running performance, I bought at the beginning of last year, ran it then, and then I ran anabolic. Finished up anabolic, moved back into performance. Through anabolic, felt great. Kind of stuck to the trigger sessions as programmed, moved into performance. And on the mobility sessions, I seem to be overdoing it. So when you guys talk about practicing a movement or tailoring your guys' programs towards an individual, would you suggest maybe doing some of these movements, such as practicing like a clean or a yoke walk towards the end of a foundational day? Or would you suggest keeping it on a mobility day? But when you talk about practicing and like a weight, are we thinking like 20 to 30% of like a max or I tend to find myself maybe in like a 50 to 60% weight-wise of a max? So having a few more aches and pains through performance or just looking for some guidance on maybe tailoring it more towards what I continue to like to do with being a little bit more athletic and looking forward to hearing from what you guys have to say. Okay, well, so here's a nice rule of thumb. When you feel like you're overdoing it, your body's talking to you and you feel like this might be a little bit too much, aches, pains, stiffness, right? Probably are. If you think you are, you're probably not. Yeah, well, I mean, in other words, you are, but here's the rule of thumb. The first thing that I would change is the intensity. That's the first factor, the first component to manipulate. So rather than taking those movements out, just reduce the intensity way down. Start with that. So you said 20 to 30% do that. Just bring the intensity way down and what ends up happening is they end up start, they start to become more recovery minded. They start to facilitate recovery more than creating damage. Now, if that doesn't work, then I would start to take movements out and just include more rest. You would do that with what he, so he brought up like carry, yoke carries and what it was the other one. Like those are kind of queens. You got farmer walks. Yeah, not really something. Yeah, farmer walks. Yeah. Probably something I would put on my foundational days and then add that to the end of my workout. I would say that, but also too, I mean, there's a way to do farmer walks where you're really just hyper focused on your posture and you're doing more of a posture walk. And I think that that would be a good option for you. You could carry weights that aren't like super demanding and just really just focus on keeping your body under control and the great posture and stacked well. So I think there's a way to do it. And I think that you're on the right track in terms of thinking you need to reduce your intensity and kind of bring that down. Because I honestly, I think there's a lot of value in practicing these movements at a really, really low intensity. Totally. You see a lot of Olympians do this specifically. So they hone in on the skill of that specific movement. Totally in the comment, like on the other side of the question, which was should I put them on foundational days? Technically doing all the exercises that are hard on one day is going to be more demanding than even splitting them up and doing them more frequently. So I know it sounds sometimes counterintuitive, but it's not. It's actually worse to do all the intense stuff on one day rather than just lowering the intensity and doing those movements on the following day. So that's where I would start. I would start doing exactly what Justin is saying. There's a lot of value in those movements with light weight. There's tons and you just really you're just and if you ever watch, I don't think I don't know if Justin's ever done a video on this, but I'll see him sometime is doing these in the studio where he's doing a former walk and he's holding like, you know, 40 pound dumbbells, which is, you know, he could easily use with 120 pound dumbbells, but he's walking with like super purpose, very focused, you know, posture is perfect. It's heel toe. It's lined up. It's activated core. And so he's making a lot out of that movement, but the damage on the body is super low. And in many cases it's actually, it actually facilitates recovery. Are all those movements in performance? All of them are? Not the power cleans, but high pulls are. And I suggest actually to a lot of athletes to replace that the second time you run it with cleans. So to me, that's what I would do with some of these movements that you like doing is I would, I would find exercises inside performance and replace it on my foundational days and then stick solely to mobility on mobility days. Yeah, that's another, that's another. I mean, that's, that's what I would, I would find movements that are in performance that you, that are, that you could interchange some of these movements in there. And I'd put it on my foundation. I still would take the advice though of having days where I go light. Yeah. Cause I do this, right? So I'll, every once in a while, you'll see me kick my shoes off. I'll go barefoot and you'll see me do these carries with a lightweight. And I'm just, I'm, I'm paying attention to the way my, my foot hits the ground and I'm like actually like gripping my toes on the grass while I walk. And I'm thinking about my posture, my chest is high, my, I'm tucking my chin. Like, and I'm just, I'm thinking about every, every part of the movement. And I'm more focused on how I move than I am, how strong I am. But then maybe I'll come back on the next week and I'm like, you know, now I want to test my strength a little bit. So then I do want to carry some heavy weight. When I do those, I definitely want to replace it with something else that's probably intense inside the foundational days and it would go there. And I, I mean, this is, this is all personal, right? So this is, this isn't, you have to do it this way. But I like in performance, I like sticking to the, to mobility work like that. It's switching that mindset of it's just, this is all about, you know, mobility and active recovery. I don't like blending my active recovery type of mindset with something that is, you know, challenging like that, like that where I'm going to be pushing the intensity or even an exercise that I like to push the intensity because then I'm more likely to do that. Where it's like, it's just like, you know, we tease Sal sometimes about his music and stuff, but this is where like, I even shift, I shift my music, right? I do that. Like it's mobility. Right. Like I don't, I don't want to throw lamb of God or rage against the machine on what I'm doing mobility. No. I'm going to do so. Like that's when I listen to my hip hop, right? I'm going to listen to something kind of easy. Our country. That's right. So I'll listen to something like that. And it's a whole mindset, right? That's my mobility days are, you know, and I had to do this because I come from a place of the overtraining and pushing the intensity all time and always wanting to see what I can do. And so, you know, when I go into my mobility days, I don't like to, to muddy that or convoluted with some other type of movement that I'm going to be more likely to push intensity. And you know, consider this too, Kyle. If a movement is too much, then that means it has no value.  Well, if that exercise is too much, it's not valuable. So, and I think we sometimes we do that. We think, oh, I don't want to skip cleans. I don't want to skip farmer's walk. Those are so good. And they are when they're appropriate. When they're not appropriate, they're not valuable. So that's the mentality that you have to have when you're trained. But honestly, intensity, if people just manipulated intensity appropriately, you could get away with doing a lot of stuff. You really could. So you don't necessarily, and what Adam said about mindset is totally true, but you can also do this. And I've done this before. I've done traditional exercises, let's say traditional bodybuilding exercises with the mobility mentality. So like if I'm going to do squats to build my muscle, I might have 315 on there, 365. If I'm doing it for mobility, it's 135. I'm going slow. I'm sitting at the bottom. Yeah, I'm challenging my range of motion. Now it's like a mobility movement. Does that make sense? Right. Yes. Okay. Do you have NAPS Prime Pro or Prime, by the way? Because I think those are really good. Yes. Okay. Yes, I do. All right. You know, there's nothing that doesn't say also that on those other days, you just take some individualized correctional exercise mobility movements from Prime Pro and doing those in replace of the mobility sessions that are in performance, just to make it more individualized. That's also an option. I also want to just commend you for having the awareness too of knowing that you're probably overreaching a bit because your body's trying to talk to you. It's amazing to me how many people, including myself, ignore those signals and want to just keep pushing through it.  Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. No problem, Kyle. Thanks for calling in. Absolutely. Thank you, guys. Thank you. You know, it's a little frustrating when they have the programs I want to give them for free. So I didn't, I guess I did realize that we programmed all of those into performance. I'm trying to picture where they're. Yeah, so we actually have those in some of the mobility days and they're specifically for like farmer walks, for instance. Like athletes. Yeah, it's for athletes. It's also supposed to be light. It's not supposed to be like a super demanding. That's why I don't want to. Because it's not programmed into foundational days. Dude, I didn't want to, because we have a couple different versions of mobility sessions in there. Yeah, and I'll tell you, man, farmer walks and overhead carries and these movements. It's okay, I'm diving deep in on these. Those movements done light versus heavy, totally different. No, you're right. It's such a different experience. It's such, and it's such a great thing that I think most people don't do. No. And it was a great opportunity to highlight that because I've seen all of us do that. I've seen all of us have a day where you're doing something really, really light that traditionally is done with a lot of load. And that's what it looks like. I love to kick my shoes off on that. That's exactly what I was going to bring up. Yeah, I do that barefoot. It's the perfect time to do that. Yeah, I do naked. But, okay, so here's the, I don't do it. Of course you do. Just to give an example for someone listening or watching, that's like, well, what is the weight difference between the two? Because that's a big question, right? What do you mean lower intensity? Do I drop the weight in half? I'll give you an example. If I do trap bar, farmer walk, so that's a trap bar, deadlift bar, and I'll do a farmer walk. If I'm going heavy, I'll go up to 405, 455. That's the heavy version. When I'm going light, it's 135, 100 pounds. That's how big the difference is, but what we're talking about. The truth is the weight should not be that actually relevant. Well, I'm saying that just so people know. It's so light. I almost think it's like, I just want to be holding something so- We're about to control your body. Yes, yes, yes. So it's like, you pick a weight that the thing that, when you stop your set, it's not because it got too heavy for you to hold, you know what I'm saying? So absolutely.


So the day began with the ink he's getting some bad news bullpen wise Justin Wilson going on the injured list. Meantime there's good news on the bullpen front because Zach Britton pitched his first game for Somerset in his rehab assignment. He pitched an inning gave up just a hit 18 pitches 10 for strikes. Let's hear from Britton about his outing today. Overall you know it was pretty good. You know obviously not sure where I want to be but very similar to maybe my first person in spring but I'm feels good excited to get out there obviously with with fans having pissed in front of fans and you know whole year so just getting used to everything and getting on the mound again facing a different jersey things like that. So looking forward to polishing you know all my pitches up as I move forward in the rehab. And what's something or what's the hurdle you need to clear before you feel like you're ready to get back here. You know I think there's a few you know when you're going through spring training you know you're looking at you're getting a good feel for your pitches command in the ball.  I think for me right now it's going to be just polishing up you know the definitely the command of my sinker and not getting out of whack as much of my delivery as I am right now. And there's definitely times in the year where maybe you have a little hiccup in your delivery but right now I feel you know pretty raw. I just need to get that tuned up and it's not anything I haven't done before. Obviously it's just you know a few more times off the mound. I think that I'll just naturally go. OK just a reminder if you have questions raise your hand put in the chat. Next up Mike Ashmore. Go ahead Mike. Hey Zach what have they told you about the plan here moving forward with how many of these outings you think you might need. You know I think that's kind of a moving target. I think you know in spring in wise of anywhere from 7 to 10. I don't think I'll need that much here. But a lot of it will determine I think the next couple outings I'm really good understanding of what I really need. You know it's hard after the first one. But I think 2, 3, 4 innings in. I think I have a really good idea of you know when I'll be back after that's right now probably a little too hard to say but when I come into New York tomorrow to my rehab I'll talk to Mike Shuck and we'll go over the next the next step of the schedule. I think we would just want to see how I responded after this outing.


Look, this is never easy to do, I'm really sorry, I'm already apologizing, but recently I made a video, god what an idiot I was, I made a video recently called these Nintendo TikTok creators need to be stopped, and you know at the time I'm not thinking about the people behind the content, I'm not thinking about you know their lives or their feelings, I'm just trying to make a funny video and I don't think about what I'm saying and all of them just reaching out to me and just sharing that same sentiment that essentially they loved being in the video, yeah they liked it, maybe TikTok doesn't need to be stopped I was in a recent would be the most video where he reacted to Nintendo TikToks I still don't understand what is happening on this platform he just brought up my video on the palm of his hand was that in built into TikTok did he edit that these are the questions 30 year olds will never know but what if you're watching this I have a whole playlist of Nintendo and then he just goes on to kind of promote the rest of his stuff which see I don't think this man was upset at all I don't think any of these people were upset I really can't believe my video was featured on beat em ups video you're welcome my guy cozy Kim Chia if you remember them I don't think they made a video about it but people were commenting like oh I found you through woods videos now I'm a fan of yours which I love that I said a lot of nice things about this guy three things that you need to know about my guy again is this my counterpart is this the me of TikTok wait let me reenact it with you that's a thing on TikTok right do we just become best friends do you want to do karate in the garage all right you can you can stitch that in a weird coincidence there's only one person I watch for Nintendo Switch content and they reacted to one of my Nintendo Switch viral videos oh yeah he was the one that threw it away I did find that funny and also it's funny because we've reviewed the A and E and I've talked about how much I like it so that's all my new besties thank you TikTok for being so nice about it also if you didn't see the last video you might be a little bit confused very different style of content but everyone loved it last time begging me to do another one Kim never watches my videos even though she swears that she does but she watched the last one it was laughing and I was like oh my god I made Kim like this is a good video so I want to do it again I want to look at more TikToks and I asked you guys on Twitter to send me funny ones so that I had good ones oh how long is this camera been here for oh well while you here let's talk about today's sponsor audible audible is the best place to listen to literally whatever you're interested in I use audible for a lot of reasons and no it's not actually to listen to my own podcast and on tender podcast which is on audible along with an array of popular and fantastic podcast that you can get into but start with mine it also has 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themed tiktoks I want to laugh wait why does this say wood on beat them up I was thinking about this of the other day nothing is ever going to be as funny in any of my accessory videos then when I was trying to build that thing and I screwed it to the desk I'm sorry that I'm laughing at myself but this is actually a much funnier tiktok than I remember I think Zack edited this one actually did you Zach the supercut is painful hold on this is how cheap I am why replace a perfectly good table for one little screw hole can you see that okay that is not a freeze frame I appreciate I'm sorry to inform you but your newborn is a different color from you and your wife who I saw this one earlier today I didn't watch it but I saw it because it said don't let your boyfriend see this and literally in the last one of these videos we did there was one that said don't let your girlfriend see this who are all these boyfriends and girlfriends hiding all the switch accessories from each other share it's so it's so it was that a you who that's why you shouldn't let your boyfriend see it because if I caught Kim drinking a you who I'd be rethinking the reason I'm kidding I'm kidding I really I was cringing hard at that one I was like is this 50 minutes of Mario screaming in pain but Luigi doing it was actually pretty fun Nintendo SD cards are yes I have never bought a Nintendo one and I don't recommend it y'all ain't funny Walter White in Mario Kart Wii it is such an impressive edit that is to the level of the Splatoon edit from the last episode which can we run that back Zach because that's still the best one I've seen can I get an ice car I got that was just really good editing not funny wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait we have another Splatoon one pretty good pretty good pretty creative oh someone linked me a Bobby clip all right let's see how funny Bobby is I just played this game in my last video all right Bob and I complained about tiktok some more you have like five second videos and to get the context of what's happening before the talk is over you have to read the book they're right on the screen Nintendo when I thought they would announce a new rhythm heaven for the switch now we have the context hey buddy you need a ride I was just on my way to the big two fist convention and then you watch it and you wonder why you wasted your time reading conspiracy talk some fans believe that the animal crossing games are little too good to be true this fan theory suggests that your animal crossing character actually died and your little island is your version of heaven I don't think a perfect heaven would have that much debt I would like to stress that I asked people to send me funny tiktoks and someone sent that wow that is that's what I was sent so once again it falls on me shut up tiktok once again it falls on me to do the heavy lifting and find the funny tiktoks three Nintendo switch accessories I know this guy he's a friend of mine his name's Brett number one the m classic m cable is better number two the split pad pro the satisfied grip is better and once they're paired with your switch they instantly connect with just a few click break better all right well I disagree thanks Brett we is so much simpler than it looks in fact the sensor bar is just two infrared lights that the remote uses to figure out where the TV is that means you can actually replace this with two candles no come on man wait wait what is this video this guy shows you how to do it and then these two guys who I guess actually own this tiktok these two very handsome guys by the way how many candles are you gonna buy before you just buy a wee bar they can't be that expensive you know it's expensive buying candles all the time I was on a mission to buy a switch at the Nintendo store that's probably the best place to find one you can go with friends or even if you go by yourself you can play against a really currently I need to go back to the Nintendo store and make a tiktok not a YouTube video I went to the Nintendo and there was a giant boser and oh there was a giant boser hmm sorry I'm salty because I didn't make a tiktok this might be the coolest accessory for your Nintendo switch this is the Orion from upswitch yeah I saw this Bob made a video on this too I just think it's too much alright I went to tiktok and typed in Nintendo and the word funny hoping to hit the algorithm to find tiktoks that people have uploaded with the intention of it being comedic sorry I gotta sit down just for a second I got I need like a whole ass minute that can you show them one please you take over for a bit and that Nintendo switch commercial yeah I was right in the last one maybe tiktok is do need to be stopped what kind of Photoshop is this there was actually as I can bring it up because I'm lazy a leaked Nintendo switch concept that was completely fake back when it was called the NX and it looked kind of like this thing where the buttons were on the screen which I don't know why anyone would ever want oh somebody did a Patrick impression I'm willing to pay you here nope no purchases allowed why not put the games on switch they are unavailable on switch don't you have a switch he shop yep so you could make your legacy content available there at any time yep I'd like to purchase those games on the he shop with my money without resorting to piracy which you so thoroughly despise that makes sense to me then do it we currently have no plans to offer closet content in other ways and also don't pirate our games wow the voice work there was on point oh yeah the Nintendo Wii manual in Japan was wild the Wii does not taste good oh my god Japan you can't I just it's so funny like some of them are funnier than others wait what don't let your we drive what was that one supposed to be for oh is this the guy again I think you peaked with the Kirby if I'm being honest trying to give side quests to strangers dressed as link someone is kidnapped my princess we must defeat the dark wizard and save her I need you to help me get her back he would have to be zelda buddy yo zelda's one hot mama will you join me I'm gonna certainly will my friend definitely I will do my part oh my god one hot mama this one's hard to watch because all he had to do was hold it there for like a second he was doing it also miss click pointed out the same thing and I love miss click that's not funny man alright we got some skits I already know where this is going that one was good I love the head turn at the end this guy really goes for it huh that image will now forever be boned into my brain as my new sleep paralysis demon I had a funny thought and I was like what would happen if I put beat em ups in the talk to tick tock at the top there's me and my failed attempts at getting on to the platform and then there was this guy we talked about him when he made a song for me which by the way that song slaps so hard my favorite youtubers hey look it's me oh that's so nice my comfort youtubers am I gonna be here am I gonna be here where am I okay let's keep going this is good for my ego yo I appreciate that immensely man some of y'all opinion of me is way too high me jacksepticeye and Markiplier that is a trio I have never been associated with holy crap my guy the fact that even one person out there sees me and the same tier or level as those two absolute beautiful goliaths is insane sadly I think there's a lot of tiktoks using the word beat em ups incorrectly rather than it being about me it's about either beating people up or the game genre beat it up there should be a lot more tiktoks about me about this guy you know what I mean about me there's like nobody doing funny Nintendo tiktoks I typed in funny Nintendo tiktoks and like my video was one of the first things that came up I don't understand what was going on in that video but that's pretty funny oh I like these edits oh my god that was incredible no no no no oh he was the one making these two with Homelander very similar story to the breaking bad one alright some people it's just too talented unlike me who just reacts to other people's talent hey I don't know if I can do another one of these it would really all depend on you guys if you can send me enough funny stuff maybe I just don't know how this platform works but I can't find any more I have looked so hard for funny tiktoks for this video I'm already scraping the bottom of what I thought was a very big barrel but apparently turns out to be a very short Donkey Kong barrel but I hope you guys still like this video I hope it turned out good comment subscribe and I'll see you guys either on Twitch or right here on YouTube I do both now full-time also have a podcast I do a lot of stuff you can find it all here bye


So, during pregnancy, cutting down on meat consumption may decrease the risk of allergic diseases. But what about after children are born? Well, preliminary study in Poland recently of vegetarian children suggested the benefits of meat restriction may continue after birth, concluding that some elements of a vegetarian diet may promote protection against allergy. And indeed, according to the longest-running study in history, comparing vegetarians to non-vegetarians, women who eat meat appear to have 30% greater chance of reporting chemical allergies, 24% more asthma, 17% more drug allergies, and beasting allergies, and 15% more hay fever, though in men, meat eaters just had a significantly greater chance of chemical and drug allergies. Now, this was cross-sectional data, meaning that this was just a slice in time, so you don't necessarily know which came first. Yes, eating vegetarian was significantly associated with fewer allergies, but maybe people suffering from allergies are more likely to start eating healthy, hoping it'll make them feel better. Still, after adjusting for other factors like smoking, the findings do suggest a favorable effect of a plant-based diet on the prevalence of allergies.


life gets easier as you get older. Maybe? Keep watching to find out what book we're talking about today. It's Kyla Denigno and you're watching Kyla's reading day. So today we're talking about the book If I Survive You. This book was written by Jonathan Estoffery. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is literature short stories. So this book is really funny to read. Okay?  You got flat tires and it follows the characters Trulani, Delano, and Cookie. Okay? This book was all about If I Survive You. For Trulani, I believe that you is himself. He had to get over himself. He had to get over being the second born. He had to get over the loss of his family, right? Being a child of the boys, not getting the house, all of that stuff. Delano, I believe that If I Survive You is if he survived his father. All the pressures is that put on him the pressures to be this great man. And then If I Survive You for Cookie was all about surviving his dad. His dad was fouled.  He's teaching him how to get all this stuff. And then you get a surprise later. Okay? And so Trulani makes some friends when he gets older. And one of the friends is this Asian American in school with him. And she goes, I guess I just feel too privileged to not be white. Right? She wasn't saying that she wanted to be white, but she just was like, why doesn't the class part of my lifestyle and my heritage count for more than just my color count for more than just my race, my designation. And so that part is really important to the book because Trulani goes through this entire identity crisis where he's like, I'm brown, but I'm not black. Right? I'm Jamaican. People always want to know why does your mom talk like that? But I'm also not the terrible black people that I see my neighbors and my family members talking about. So he was stuck in between privileged enough to not be a black American, but not so privileged that everyone else in the world saw him as being this immigrant with this diverse culture, diverse heritage. So he was really stuck in this really weird place. And then he eventually goes to college where he ends up being the token black boyfriend for a lot of girls. You get to a part later in the story where he just is desperate for money and ends up these cragglist ads and you're just like Trulani was finding himself and searching for who he was in the entire book. So while you're here, go on and subscribe to the channel. If you want to hear me talk about more books like this, more books written by Jamaican American authors, go on and subscribe to the channel. So if I Survive You is all about whether these young adolescents can crawl and scratch their ways up to getting some little bit of success so that they can find themselves, respect themselves and realize that they have made it through a hellish ordeal. And now they're on the other side. Okay, so if I Survive You was really great, it's it was a bunch of really short stories put together. But they were all about the same characters and they were all about identity. All right, so now let's get to the last point, which is would I reread this book? This one I would not reread it. Okay, my criteria on rereading a book is if I would miss the characters, if I wonder what they were doing in a couple of years. And I wouldn't do that necessarily. Trellani, Delano and Cookie were great characters. But no, I would not reread this book. All right, so thank you for hanging out with me as we discuss the book, if I Survive You. Okay, so let me know. Have you read anything by Jonathan Escoffrey? Or do you enjoy coming of age books where characters are trying to find their identity, find their place in the world? Okay, so I appreciate you for spending your time with me today. And I will see you next time on Kyla's Reading Day. Bye.


Thank you, Rector Lagunov, and I want to thank all of you very much for a very warm welcome. It's a great pleasure to be here at Moscow State University, and I want to thank you all for turning out. I know you must be very busy this week studying and taking your final examinations. So let me just say, Nancy couldn't make it today because she's visiting Leningrad, which she tells me is a very beautiful city. But she too says hello and wishes you all good luck. Let me say it's also a great pleasure to once again have this opportunity to speak directly to the people of the Soviet Union. Before I left Washington, I received many heartfelt letters and telegrams asking me to carry here a simple message, perhaps but also one of the most important business of this summit. It is a message of peace and goodwill and hope for a growing friendship and closeness between our two peoples. As you know, I've come to Moscow to meet with one of your most distinguished graduates. In this our fourth summit, General Secretary Gorbachev and I have spent many hours together, and I feel that we're getting to know each other well. Our discussions, of course, have been focused primarily on many of the important issues of the day, issues I want to touch on with you in a few moments. But first I want to take a little time to talk to you much as I would to any group of university students in the United States. I want to talk not just of the realities of today, but of the possibilities of tomorrow. Standing here before a mural of your revolution, I want to talk about a very different revolution that is taking place right now. Quietly sweeping the globe without bloodshed or conflict. Its effects are peaceful, but they will fundamentally alter our world. Shatter old assumptions and reshape our lives. It's easy to underestimate because it's not accompanied by banners or fanfare. It's been called the technological or information revolution. And as its emblem, one might take the tiny silicon chip. No bigger than a fingerprint, one of these chips has more computing power than a roomful of old-style computers. As part of an exchange program, we now have an exhibition touring your country that shows how information technology is transforming our lives. Replacing manual labor with robots, forecasting weather for farmers or mapping the genetic code of DNA for medical researchers. These microcomputers today aid the design of everything from houses to cars to spacecraft. They even design better and faster computers. They can translate English into Russian or enable the blind to read. Or help Michael Jackson produce on one synthesizer the sounds of a whole orchestra. Linked by a network of satellites and fiber optic cables, one individual with a desktop computer and a telephone commands resources unavailable to the largest governments just a few years ago. Like a chrysalis, we're emerging from the economy of the industrial revolution. An economy confined to and limited by the earth's physical resources into, as one economist titled his book, The Economy in Mind, in which there are no bounds on human imagination and the freedom to create is the most precious natural resource. Think of that little computer chip. Its value isn't in the sand from which it is made, but in the microscopic architecture designed into it by ingenious human minds. Or take the example of the satellite relaying this broadcast around the world, which replaces thousands of tons of copper mined from the earth and molded into wire. In the new economy, human invention increasingly makes physical resources obsolete. We're breaking through the material conditions of existence to a world where man creates his own destiny. Even as we explore the most advanced reaches of science, we're returning to the age-old wisdom of our culture, a wisdom contained in the book of the Genesis in the Bible. In the beginning was the spirit, and it was from this spirit that the material abundance of creation issued forth. But progress is not foreordained. The key is freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. The renowned scientist, scholar, and founding father of this university, Mikhail Lomonosov, knew that. It is common knowledge, he said, that the achievements of science are considerable and rapid, particularly once the yoke of slavery is cast off and replaced by the freedom of philosophy. You know, one of the first contacts between your country and mine took place between Russian and American explorers. The Americans were members of Cook's last voyage on an expedition searching for an Arctic passage. On the island of Unilaska they came upon the Russians who took them in and together with the native inhabitants held a prayer service on the ice. The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. They are the prime movers of the technological revolution. In fact, one of the largest personal computer firms in the United States was started by two college students no older than you in the garage behind their home. Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the free market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones, often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way. Yes, it's what they learned from failing, like an athlete in competition or a scholar in pursuit of the truth. Experience is the greatest teacher. And that's why it's so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world. There's an old story about a town it could be anywhere with a bureaucrat who was known to be a good for nothing, but he somehow had always hung on to power. So one day in a town meeting, an old woman got up and said to him, there is a folk legend here where I come from, that when a baby is born, an angel comes down from heaven and kisses it on one part of its body. If the angel kisses him on his hand, he becomes a handyman. If he kisses him on his forehead, he becomes bright and clever. And I've been trying to figure out where the angel kissed you so that you should sit there for so long and do nothing. We are seeing the power of economic freedom spreading around the world. Places such as the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan have vaulted into the technological era, barely pausing in the industrial age along the way. Low-tax agricultural policies in the subcontinent mean that in some years India is now a net exporter of food. Perhaps most exciting are the winds of chains that are blowing over the People's Republic of China, where one quarter of the world's population is now getting its first taste of economic freedom. At the same time, the growth of democracy has become one of the most powerful political movements of our age. In Latin America in the 1970s, only a third of the population lived under democratic government. Today, over 90 percent does. In the Philippines, in the Republic of Korea, free contested democratic elections are the order of the day. Throughout the world, free markets are the model for growth. Democracy is the standard by which governments are measured. We Americans make no secret of our belief in freedom. In fact, it's something of a national pastime. Every four years, the American people choose a new president, and 1988 is one of those years. At one point, there were 13 major candidates running in the two major parties, not to mention all the others, including the Socialist and Libertarian candidates, all trying to get my job. About a thousand local television stations, 8,500 radio stations, and 1,700 daily newspapers, each one an independent private enterprise, fiercely independent of the government, report on the candidates, grill them in interviews, and bring them together for debates. In the end, the people vote. They decide who will be the next president. But freedom doesn't begin or end with elections. Go to any American town to take just an example, and you will see dozens of churches representing many different beliefs, in many places, synagogues and mosques, and you will see families of every conceivable nationality worshiping together. Go into any school room, and there you will see children being taught the Declaration of Independence that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that no government can justly deny. The guarantees in their constitution for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion go into any courtroom and there will preside an independent judge, beholden to no government power. There, every defendant has the right to a trial by a jury of his peers, usually 12 men and women, common citizens. They are the ones, the only ones, who weigh the evidence and decide on guilt or innocence. In that court, the accused is innocent until proven guilty, and the word of a policeman or any official has no greater legal standing than the word of the accused. Go to any university campus, and there you will find an open, sometimes heated discussion of the problems in American society and what can be done to correct them. Turn on the television and you will see the legislature conducting the business of government right there before the camera, debating and voting on the legislation that will become the law of the land. March in any demonstration, and there are many of them. The people's right of assembly is guaranteed in the Constitution and protected by the police. Go into any union hall where the members know their right to strike is protected by law. As a matter of fact, one of the many jobs I had before this one was being president of a union, the Screen Actors Guild. I led my union out on strike, and I'm proud to say we won. But freedom is more even than this. Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea scoffed at by the experts and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to stick to dream, to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience, even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters. Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. America is a nation made up of hundreds of nationalities. Our ties to you are more than ones of good feeling. They're ties of kinship. In America, you'll find Russians, Armenians, Ukrainians, people from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They come from every part of this vast continent, from every continent to live in harmony, seeking a place where each cultural heritage is respected. Each is valued for its diverse strengths and beauties and the richness it brings to our lives. Recently, a few individuals and families have been allowed to visit relatives in the West. We can only hope that it won't be long before all are allowed to do so. And Ukrainian Americans, Baltic Americans, Armenian Americans can freely visit their homelands just as this Irish American visits his. Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic. But Americans are one of the most religious peoples on earth because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned. But a gift from God. They seek to share that gift with the world. Reason and experience, said George Washington in his farewell address. Both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. And it is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive. A system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in family and faith. But I hope you know I go on about these things, not simply to extol the virtues of my own country. But to speak to the true greatness of the heart and soul of your land, who after all needs to tell the land of Dostoevsky about the quest for truth, the home of Kandinsky and Skriabin about imagination, the rich and noble culture of the Uzbek man of letters, Alishir, Navoye, about beauty and heart. The great culture of your diverse land speaks with a glowing passion to all humanity. Let me cite one of the most bellicant contemporary passages on human freedom. It comes not from the literature of America, but from this country, from one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Boris Pasternak, in the novel Dr. Givago. He writes, I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats, any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself, but this is just the point. What has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but an inward music, the irresistible power of unarmed truth. The irresistible power of unarmed truth. Today the world looks expectantly to signs of change, steps toward greater freedom in the Soviet Union. We watch as and we hope as we see positive changes taking place. There are some I know in your society who fear that change will bring only disruption and discontinuity, who fear to embrace the hope of the future. Sometimes it takes faith. It's like that scene in the cowboy movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which some here in Moscow recently had a chance to see. The posse is closing in on the two outlaws, Butch and Sundance, who find themselves trapped on the edge of a cliff with a sheer drop of hundreds of feet to the raging rapids below. Butch turns to Sundance and says their only hope is to jump into the river below, but Sundance refuses. He says he'd rather fight it out with the posse, even though they're hopelessly outnumbered. Butch says that's suicide and urges him to jump, but Sundance still refuses and finally admits, I can't swim.  By the way, both Butch and Sundance made it in case you didn't see the movie. I think what I've just been talking about is Perestroika and what its goals are. But change would not mean rejection of the past like a tree growing strong through the seasons, rooted in the earth and drawing life from the sun. So too positive change must be rooted in traditional values in the land, in culture, in family, in community, and it must take its life from the eternal things, from the source of all life, which is faith. Such change will lead to new understandings, new opportunities, to a broader future in which the tradition is not supplanted, but finds its full flowering. That is the future beckoning to your generation. At the same time, we should remember that reform that is not institutionalized will always be insecure. Such freedom will always be looking over its shoulder, a bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope can always be pulled back. And that is why in my conversation with General Secretary Gorbachev, I have spoken of how important it is to institutionalize change, to put guarantees on reform. And we've been talking together about one sad reminder of a divided world. The Berlin Wall. It's time to remove the barriers that keep people apart. I'm proposing an increased exchange program of high school students between our countries. General Secretary Gorbachev mentioned on Sunday a wonderful phrase you have in Russian for this, better to see something once than to hear about it a hundred times. Mr. Gorbachev and I first began working on this in 1985. In our discussion today, we agreed on working up to several thousand exchanges a year from each country in the near future. But not everyone can travel across the continents and oceans. Words travel lighter, and that's why we'd like to make available to this country more of our 11,000 magazines and periodicals. And our television and radio shows that can be beamed off a satellite in seconds. Nothing would please us more than for the Soviet people to get to know us better and to understand our way of life. Just a few years ago, few would have imagined the progress our two nations have made together. The INF Treaty, which General Secretary Gorbachev and I signed last December in Washington, and whose instruments of ratification we will exchange tomorrow. The first true nuclear arms reduction treaty in history calling for the elimination of an entire class of U.S. and Soviet nuclear missiles. And just 16 days ago, we saw the beginning of your withdrawal from Afghanistan, which gives us hope that soon the fighting may end and the healing may begin, and that that suffering country may find self-determination, unity, and peace at long last. It's my fervent hope that our constructive cooperation on these issues will be carried on to address the continuing destruction of conflicts in many regions of the globe, and that the serious discussions that led to the Geneva Accords on Afghanistan will help lead to solutions in Southern Africa, Ethiopia, Cambodia, the Persian Gulf, and Central America. I have often said nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. If this globe is to live in peace and prosper, if it is to embrace all the possibilities of the technological revolution, then nations must renounce once and for all the right to an expansionist foreign policy. Peace between nations must be an enduring goal, not a tactical stage in a continuing conflict. I've been told that there's a popular psalm in your country. Perhaps you know it. Whose evocative refrain asks the question, Do the Russians want a war? In answer it says, Go ask that silence lingering in the air above the birch and poplar there. Beneath those trees the soldiers lie. Go ask my mother, ask my wife, then you will have to ask no more. Do the Russians want a war? But what of your one-time allies? What of those who embraced you on the Elba? What if we were to ask the watery graves of the Pacific or the European battlefields where America's fallen were buried far from home? What if we were to ask their mothers, sisters, and sons, do Americans want war? Ask us, too, and you'll find the same answer, the same longing in every heart. People do not make wars, governments do. And no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. A people free to choose will always choose peace. Americans seek always to make friends of old antagonists. After a colonial revolution with Britain, we have cemented for all ages the ties of kinship between our nations. After a terrible civil war between North and South, we healed our wounds and found true unity as a nation. We fought two world wars in my lifetime against Germany and one with Japan. But now the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan are two of our closest allies and friends. Some people point to the trade disputes between us as a sign of strain. But they're the frictions of all families and the family of free nations is a big and vital and sometimes boisterous one. I can tell you that nothing would please my heart more than in my lifetime to see American and Soviet diplomats grappling with the problem of trade disputes between America and a growing exuberant exporting Soviet Union that had opened up to economic freedom and growth. And as important as these official people-to-people exchanges are, nothing would please me more than for them to become unnecessary. To see travel between East and West become so routine that university students in the Soviet Union could take a month off in the summer and just like students in the West do now, put packs on their backs and travel from country to country in Europe and with barely a passport check in between. Nothing would please me more than to see the day that a concert promoter in, say, England could call up a Soviet rock group without going through any government agency and have them playing in Liverpool the next night. Is this just a dream? Perhaps, but it is a dream that is our responsibility to have come true. Your generation is living in one of the most exciting, hopeful times in Soviet history. It is a time when the first breath of freedom stirs the air and the heart beats to the accelerated rhythm of hope. When the accumulated spiritual energies of a long silence yearn to break free. I am reminded of the famous passage near the end of Gogol's dead souls. Comparing his nation to a speeding troika, Gogol asks, what will be its destination? But he writes, there was no answer save the bell pouring forth marvelous sound. We do not know what the conclusion of this will be of this journey, but we're hopeful that the promise of reform will be fulfilled. In this Moscow spring, this May 1988, we may be allowed that hope. That freedom like the fresh green sapling planted over Tolstoy's grave will blossom forth at last in the rich fertile soil of your people and culture. We may be allowed to hope that the marvelous sound of a new openness will keep rising through, ringing through, leading to a new world of reconciliation, friendship, and peace. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much and God bless you. Dear comrades, Mr. President, the business agreed to answer your questions. As far as I understand, there is not so much time, about 15 minutes. Therefore, if you have any questions, please come to the microphone and ask them. Dear friends, Mr. President has kindly agreed to answer your questions. But since he doesn't have too much time, only 15 minutes, so those who have questions, please ask them. Mr. President, I am glad to welcome you to our university and allow me to ask you this question. I think I will have a general opinion of my comrades and students, if I say that the breakthrough in the improvement of relations between our countries will be a successful completion of your presidency. What do you think about this? Is it important for you, as for the President, as for the politicians, as for the people, to achieve a new concrete agreement at the end of this year with our Secretary General? Thank you. The first question is that the improvement in the relations between the two countries have come about during your tenure as President, and in this regard he would like to ask the following question. It is very important to get a handle on the question of arms control and specifically the limitation of strategic arms. Do you think that it will be possible for you and the General Secretary to get a treaty on the limitation of strategic arms during the time that you are still President? The arms treaty that is being negotiated now is the so-called START treaty, and it is based on taking the intercontinental ballistic missiles and reducing them by half down to parity between our two countries. Now, this is a much more complicated treaty than the INF treaty, the Intermediate Range Treaty, which we have signed and which our two governments have ratified and is now in effect. So there are many things still to be settled that you and we have had negotiators in Geneva for months working on various points of this treaty. Once we had hoped that maybe, like the INF treaty, we would have been able to sign it here at this summit meeting. It is not completed. There are still some points that are being debated. We are both hopeful that it can be finished before I leave office, which is in the coming January. But I assure you that if it isn't, I assure you that I will have impressed on my successor that we must carry on until it is signed. My dream has always been that once we have started down this road, we can look forward to a day, you can look forward to a day when there will be no more nuclear weapons in the world. Mr. President, you have said in your speech that the university discussions and debates are trying to influence public opinion and politics. I would like to ask you how did the U.S. and the U.S. students' problems with your youth and our days have changed? Excuse me, what has changed here? The hearing is bad. Repeat the question. How did the youth and the U.S. students' problems with their youth and our days have changed? I haven't heard the last one yet. How did the youth issues have changed? Since the days when you were students up till now. Wait a minute. How you have changed since the era of my own youth? How just students have changed? The youths have changed. You were a student. At your time they were one type. Now they have changed. Well, I know there was a period in our country when there was a very great change for the worst. When I was governor of California, I could start a riot just by going to a campus. But that has all changed. And I could be looking out at an American student body as well as I'm looking out here and would not be able to tell the difference between you. I think that back in our day, I did happen to go to school and get my college education in a unique time. It was the time of the Great Depression when in a country like our own there was 25% unemployment and the bottom seemed to fall out of everything. But we had I think what maybe I should be telling you from my point here because I graduated in 1932. That I should tell you that when you get to be my age, you're going to be surprised how much you recall the feelings you had in these days here. And that how easy it is to understand the young people because of your own having been young once. You know an awful lot more about being young than you do about being old. And I think there is a seriousness. I think there is a sense of responsibility that young people have. And I think that there is an awareness on the part of most of you about what you want your adulthood to be and what the country you live in. You want it to be. And I have a great deal of faith. I said the other day to 78 76 students. They were half American and half Russian. They had held a conference here in Finland and then in the United States. And I faced them just the other day and I had to say I couldn't tell the difference looking at them, which were which. But I said one line to them. I said if I believe that if all the young people of the world today could get to know each other, there would never be another war. And I think that of you. I think that of the other students that I've addressed in other places. And of course I know also that you're young and therefore there are certain things that at times take precedence. I'll illustrate one myself. 25 years after I graduated my alma mater brought me back to the school and gave me an honorary degree. And I had to tell them they compounded a sense of guilt I had nursed for 25 years because I always thought the first degree they gave me was honorary. You're great. Carry on. Mr. President, you have just mentioned that you welcome the efforts paid at the settlement of the Afghani question. And it might promote the settlement of other regional conflicts. What conflicts do we need? Central American conflict, Southeast Asian or South African? I am grateful in advance we are. Well, for example, in South Africa, where Namibia has been promised its independence as a nation, another new African nation. But it is impossible because of a civil war going on in another country there. And that civil war is being fought on one side by some 30 to 40,000 Cuban troops who have gone from the Americas over there and are fighting on one side with one kind of authoritative government. When that country was freed from being a colony and given its independence, one faction seized power and made itself the government of that nation. And leaders of another seemingly majority of the people had wanted simply the people to have the right to choose the government that they wanted. And that is the civil war that is going on. But what we believe is that those foreign soldiers should get out and let them settle it, let them, the citizens of that nation settle their problems. And the same is true in, well, Nicaragua. Nicaragua has been, Nicaragua made a promise. They had a dictator. There was a revolution. There was an organization that was aided by others in the revolution. And they appealed to the Organization of American States for help in getting the dictator to step down, stop the killing. And he did. But the Organization of American States had asked what are the goals of the revolution? And they were given in writing. And they were the goals of a pluralistic society, of the right of unions and freedom of speech and press and so forth. And free elections, a pluralistic society. And then the one group that was the best organized among the revolutionaries, seized power, exiled many of the other leaders, and has its own government which violated every one of the promises that had been made. And here again we want, we're trying to encourage the giving back, or the making those promises come true and letting the people of that particular country decide their fate. Mr. President, I'm very much anxious and concerned about the destiny of 310 Soviet soldiers being missing in Afghanistan. Can you and are you willing to help in their search and their return to the Motherland? Very much so. We would like nothing better than that. The realization of the unalienable rights of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution faces certain problems. For example, the right of people to have arms, or for example the problem appears, or an evil appears, whether a spread of pornography or narcotics is compatible with these rights. Do you believe that these problems just are unavoidable problems connected with democracy, or they could be avoided? Well, if I understand you correctly, this is a question about the unalienable rights of the people. Does that include the right to do criminal acts? And, for example, in the use of drugs and so forth, no, we have a set of laws. I think what is significant and different about our system is that every country has a constitution, and most constitutions, or practically all of the constitutions in the world, are documents in which the government tells the people what the people can do. Our constitution is different, and the difference is in three words. It almost escapes everyone. The three words are we the people. Our constitution is a document in which we the people tell the government what its powers are, and it can have no powers other than those listed in that document. But very carefully, at the same time, the people give the government the power with regard to those things which they think would be destructive to society, to the family, to the individual, and so forth, infringements on their rights, and thus the government can enforce the laws that has all been dictated by the people. Any more questions? Mr. President, from history I know that people who are involved in the great power, with great power, with great hard work, are part of the power. In connection with your upcoming resignation, what feelings do you have now? And if you had the opportunity, would you be left with one more term? From history I know that people who have been connected with great power, with big posts, say goodbye, leave these posts with great difficulty.  Well, I'll tell you something. I think it was a kind of a revenge against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected four times, the only president. There had kind of grown a tradition in our country about two terms. That tradition was started by Washington, our first president, only because there was great talk at the formation of our country that we might become a monarchy, and we had just freed ourselves from a monarchy. So when the second term was over, George Washington stepped down and said he would do it, stepping down so that there would not get to be the kind of idea of an inherited aristocracy. Well, succeeding presidents, many of them didn't get a chance at second term, and they did one term and were gone, but that tradition kind of remained. But it was just a tradition, and then Roosevelt ran the four times, died very early in his fourth term, and suddenly in the atmosphere at that time they added an amendment to the Constitution that presidents could only serve two terms. When I get out of office, I can't do this while I'm in office because it'll look if I'm selfishly doing it for myself. When I get out of office, I'm going to travel around what I call the mashed potato circuit, that is the after dinner speaking and the speaking to luncheon groups and so forth. I'm going to travel around and try to convince the people of our country that they should wipe out that amendment to the Constitution because it was an interference with the democratic rights of the people. The people should be allowed to vote for who they want to vote for, for as many times as they want to vote for him, and that it is they who are being denied a right. But you see, I will no longer be president then, so I can do that and talk for that. There are a few other things I'm going to try to convince the people to impress upon our Congress the things that should be done. I've always described it that if in Hollywood, when I was there, if you didn't sing or dance, you wound up as an after dinner speaker, and I didn't sing or dance. So I have a hunch that I will be out on the speaking circuit telling about a few things that I didn't get done in government, but urging the people to tell the Congress they wanted them done. Please, do you have any more questions? Super Yulya, Biological Faculty. Mr. President, I heard that the Indian group of your fellow citizens came to Moscow, and they couldn't meet you in the United States. Please tell me, what prevented this meeting? If you don't have time to meet them here, will you meet them at home? American Indians have come here because they couldn't meet you in the United States of America. If you failed to meet them here, would you be able to improve to correct it and to meet them back in the United States? I didn't know that they had asked to see me if they've come here, or whether to see them there. I'd be very happy to see them. Let me tell you just a little something about the American Indian in our land. We have provided millions of acres of land for what are called the reservations, or the reservations I should say. They, from the beginning, announced that they wanted to maintain their way of life, as they had always lived there in the desert and the plains and so forth. And we set up these reservations so they could, and have a Bureau of Indian Affairs to help take care of them. At the same time, we provide education for them, schools on the reservations, and they are free also to leave the reservations and be American citizens among the rest of us. And many do. Some still prefer, however, that way of, that early way of life. And we've done everything we can to meet their demands as to what they, how they want to live. Maybe we made a mistake. Maybe we should not have humored them in that wanting to stay in that kind of primitive lifestyle. Maybe we should have said, no, come join us, be citizens along with the rest of us. As I say, many have, many have been very successful. And I'm very pleased to meet with them, talk with them at any time, and see what their grievances are, or what they feel they might be. You'd be surprised, some of them became very wealthy because some of those reservations were overlaying great pools of oil. And you can get very rich pumping oil. And so I don't know what their complaint might be. You were invited by the police. You can, but the police is at the reception. You see, and if you're serious, I just wanted to know how you feel about the meeting, about the refusal of the Soviet people. You might, yesterday, just refusing, so dissidents. And the second part of the question is just what are your impressions from Soviet people? And among these just dissidents, you have invited a former collaborator with a fascist who was a policeman serving for fascists. That's one I don't know about, or maybe the information hasn't been all given out on that. But you have to understand that Americans come from every corner of the world. I received a letter from a man that called something to my attention recently. He said, you can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany. You cannot become a German or a Turk or a Greek or whatever. But he said, anyone from any corner of the world can come to live in America and become an American. You have to realize that we are a people that have made up of every strain, nationality and race of the world. And the result is that when people in our country think someone is being mistreated or treated unjustly in another country, these are people who still feel that kinship to that country because that is their heritage. In America, whenever you meet someone new and become friends, one of the first things you tell each other is what your bloodline is. For example, when I'm asked, I have to say Irish, English and Scotch. English and Scotch on my mother's side, Irish on my father's side. But all of them have that.  So there in America, Americans all feel a kind of a kinship to that country that their parents or their grandparents or even some great grandparents came from. You don't lose that contact. So what I have come and what I have brought to this General Secretary, and I must say he has been very cooperative about, I have brought lists of names that have been brought to me that are from people that are relatives or friends, that know that they believe that this individual is being mistreated here in this country and they want him to be allowed to emigrate to our country. Some are separated families. One that I met in this the other day was born at the same time I was. He was born of Russian parents who had moved to America way back in the early 1900s. And he was born in 1911. And then sometime later the family moved back to Russia. Now he's grown, has a son. He's an American citizen. But they wanted to go back to America and they're being denied on the grounds that, well, they can go back to America, but his son married a Russian young lady and they want to keep her from going back. Well, the whole family said, no, we're not going to leave her alone here. She's a member of the family now. Well, that kind of a case is brought to me personally. So I bring it to the General Secretary and as I say, I must say he has been most helpful and most agreeable about correcting these things. Now, I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming bureaucracy. We have the same type of thing happen in our own country and every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, stop doing what you're doing. And this is the type of thing and the names that we have brought and it is a list of names all of which had been brought to me personally by either relatives or close friends and associates. You're all very kind. I thank you very much and I hope I answered the questions correctly. Nobody asked me what it was going to feel like to not be president anymore. I have some understanding because after I'd been governor for eight years and then stepped down, I want to tell you what it's like. We'd only been home a few days and someone invited us out to dinner. Nancy and I both went out, got in the back seat of the car and waited for somebody to get in the front and drive us. Mr. President, we would like to remind you of your visit, to give you a souvenir. Where are you from? From the University of Moscow.


repeatability try this again repeatability one more time repeatability that's repeatable it is highly repeatable which makes it which demonstrates repeatability again repeatability how about one more time just repeatability right it's the ability of a behavior to occur repeatedly through time i suppose there are some behaviors that couldn't occur repeatedly through time it's probably a bit morbid to talk about those on the camera um but uh largely speaking most behaviors are repeatable assuming you have the skill in your repertoire it wasn't just accidental or someone did it to you you know and by hitting you with a hammer or something in the way you behaved after that probably not very repeatable uh maybe it is but again unethical and just just too dark to put on camera um so repeatability it's important why uh because it's the it's the kind of one of the cornerstones by which all behaviors are measured if you can't repeat them there's probably no point in trying to measure them that's it repeatability i'll do it one more time for you repeatability can you repeat that


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So fast food franchise is a game that I won. I got a full web and it's basically just monopoly. This game is monopoly. You roll the dice. You move around the board. You buy stuff. But instead of buying hotels, you sort of by this weird system, put little squares of your, of your, you know, fast food franchise in this grid in the middle of the board. And if you were able to connect your grid and I was able to, I picked the ice cream, which has the most possible squares. Yup. Cause they're not, it's, it's not symmetrical. Right. It's, you know, if you choose the fancy one that pays out more, you get less squares to work with. I picked ice cream had the ice cream scream. Right. Just randomly I picked ice cream, but I had the most squares. So I was able to make a full 100% connection between all of my ice creams on the entire board with a full web. So anyone who landed on my ice cream had to give me a million dollars. And when I passed go, I got like a zillion dollars. And the only thing that separates us from monopoly is actually pretty big deal is that number one, you get eliminated fast. If you land on my ice cream, when I'm set up like that, you just die. Yeah. That's the way I describe it. Take monopoly and it's almost, and you get a, you get a ton of money. When you pass go, you've got stuff set up. And if you get a million dollars, you just win. So it's imagined monopoly ended after like 20 minutes, but it's basically the same game with a very small amount of decision making. Well, the thing is, so I would say that this is almost a deconstruction of monopoly or a game like that. But a deconstruction of monopoly would be mad magazine, the board game. Well, but what I was about to say, if you deconstruct something, this is where you're trying to lose all your money. No, but it's it's almost too close to monopoly and too true to the feelings of monopoly to it's not like Monica, where you took, you know, the magical girl's genre and I got a look at it from another angle. I should watch this. This is more like a monopoly. Look at it from this like pure distilled angle, where it'll give you a lot of the feels that monopoly would give you, but in a much more streamlined, elegant, fast failure model where it has the snowball of monopoly, but then just as the snowball crests the peak game over, it's done like in both games that I played of this, I got eliminated. I was just out. And you know what? A monopoly, you're eventually just out. Eventually, but eventually in this game, like you're eliminated. The second you can't come back anymore.  You get just trapped in monopoly because you're it's like you've already lost, but you have to keep playing because you're not eliminated, but you didn't officially lose yet. But at the same time, fast food, but monopoly at the same time. It's it's weird how it scratches a few itches around nostalgia and also like some of the gameplay.  Pats you on the back. Like it's great anymore. Fine. Stop playing. Yeah. And congratulations. You won. Stop playing like faster franchise walks over and says, Hey, do you have that itch that says, Hey, maybe I should play monopoly. It scratches that itch really, really good. And then it walks away. I think the thing it's missing the monopoly has is the sort of like dog boat. Mr. Monopoly. Go to jail. It has that because it's got chicken surprise. If a chicken surprise isn't as good as like, Oh, go to jail. Do not pass go kidding chicken surprise or fast franchise. You don't have called chicken surprise and you don't have bank error in your favor. You have to click on the link and look at what this game looks like because we don't have a win. You don't win the beauty pageant. The yes. Yes, you do on those cars. Isn't it second place in beauty pageant? Yeah, but the aesthetic of this game be no railroad.   That is horrible. Right. Well, because this is a small press game from the nineties, right? Yeah. Oh, so if you think about like, you know, the the the relative production value of like indie game, indie tabletop games today to, you know, the super professional ones, think about what an indie tabletop board game looked like in the 90s got the logo of chicken surprise is so wonderful that that is the equivalent of the top hat. It's not a battleship blowing up a top hat. I think it's on the same level. I don't maybe I'm just really into chicken surprise. I want to make a t-shirt. I'm also I'm also kind of into the, you know, monopoly dude characters. No one remembers this game.  I'm gonna make the chicken surprise t-shirt is going to be that color and it's just going to be the chicken surprise logo blown up front and center and that's it. Do it. I'm going to make that shirt on Amazon just so I can buy myself a copy of it. Shit talking is happening. I don't think you understand how quickly I can make a t-shirt.  I don't know which ugly fan I've done. The one that's like stylized, random, stimpy looking versions of our faces. Maybe. There's Dave and Joel one too. I made a poll in the Patreon of, Hey, if I made this Geeknice t-shirt, would you buy it?  Everyone is already giving us money. They definitely want the t-shirt. No, they don't want the t-shirt because they they hate the t-shirt. Emily looks at the design. She's like, no, no, but it wasn't there a shirt where we were playing. We were dig dug. Why don't we make that shirt? Oh, I don't remember that one. Find me that one. I'll make that t-shirt. Someone made a fan art of us like a million years. I don't have nine, 10 years ago. We were dig dug. Find it for me and I'll make it because I can I don't think it was high res enough to make it. Well, I could get someone to draw it. I don't think the colors are good enough either. Yeah, but I could get someone to redo it just in the concept. But Scott, I can make 250 t-shirts and just sell them on Amazon. If you want to buy a t-shirt with dig dug, but it's me, I'm making the chicken surprise shirt. And then I'm going to email. Oh, is this Tom Lehman? Who made this game? It was. I think it was Tom Lehman. Lehman brother. No. Yeah, Tom Lehman. So I'll email and be like, yo, I made a chicken surprise shirt. Do you want any money from it? Like, can I, can I be the official distributor of chicken surprise t-shirts as forgiveness instead of permission? Well, I'll make one because I just want to buy it for myself. I have to put it in the marketplace, order it for myself on Amazon. And then I could just take it down. But I want to go to and be like, look, can I make like one t-shirt for each of the franchises in this and be the official t-shirt franchisee of fast food franchise merchandise 50 50 profits. Let's go. Because I really like ice cream scream is also a really good logo. It's just like this minimalist guy yelling in an ice cream cone. But it's also like the graphic design is like really minimal and weird. But at the same time, it's kind of beautiful because you look at this map and you like this born, you're like, what the fuck? But then you realize that it's actually a surprisingly accurate map of the United States in a grid. Sure. And it is. And it actually works out that way. Sure. But I mean, I don't want to really get into the mechanics, because we're kind of just talking about our impressions of these games. But fast food franchise is worth playing. Just get some people who are on your same wavelength. Find a copy of this game somehow. Good luck. Find Chris Reimer at any convention. If you live in Pennsylvania, just track this dude down, knock on his door and be like, yo, rim said I could play fast food franchise with you guys. I think this might be useful game. If you have a family that refuses to play a real game, you couldn't even get into play ticket to ride. But it's but it's but you can get into play Monopoly and that way you can play this and that's the compromises they'll play it and it won't take forever. This is both simpler and more complicated than Monopoly though. It's hard to someone who refuses to play ticket to ride but will play Monopoly could possibly be convinced to play this instead. But they might be scared away by the weird abstractness of it. It would be an improvement. But I think this is a good game to get like high rollers Scott like people like us or like Jared Sorensen or Chris Reimer and do a live stream. Let's play of this game like all in. I think this is mostly a game of luck. And it's gamble on this game and it would be a lot more interesting than gambling on other games that people know. Here's what we do. We play the game and we all put up money and we do a live stream play the game with real money. But the lot the YouTube live stream we do a separate thing where it's basically salty bet and everyone is betting on which one of us is going to win. It's not exciting. Salty bet works because you can get a lot of bets on a lot of fights real quick. If this be one long game like 20 minutes no one wants to bet on that the kind of person who would be fascinated by this game is the kind of person who'd be all in on that. You're getting two people. Anyway seriously if you if you care about game design at all if you're into this stuff if you're into tabletop I'm not saying this is a good game. I am saying you should play it once and just see what's going on in there because I enjoyed my time with this game. You can just read the board game. You can see what's going on. I don't think you can. I think you need to play it once and experience it. You're never going to find a copy so doesn't matter. And I guarantee at Pax Prime you're going to see me wearing a chicken surprise t-shirt.