Welcome back to my channel. Today's video, as you can see by the title, is going to be Vlogmas Day 10. We do have a few productive things to do this morning, and then we're going to come back and cook, hopefully, and I'm going to answer some of y'all questions. Really only one or two people ask questions, but one person asks like five, so I'll just answer those while I'm cooking. But if you're new here, hey girl, my name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. So, like I said, today's December 10th. It's 11.59 in the morning, so basically noon, and I don't like my lighting all too well or whatever. I have a few things to do. I have to go return this book. Y'all know I return Amazon purchases to Cole's clothing store. They do them free there, and I believe Whole Foods does them as well. You would think I would choose Whole Foods because it's a little bit closer, but I like to get a free 25% off coupon from the Cole's clothing store. Anyways, I'm returning this book because I only read five pages. I'm returning it because I was reading it, and one of the nurses was like, that I wanted to go to the hospital. She was like, you know that book is online for free, and I was like, huh? And she was like, the book, like she had to listen to the audible of it, and YouTube literally has the whole entire book been on there for like two or three years. So I returned it because she was like, for her, it was kind of hard to like actually like just read the book. She would rather listen to this type of book, and I could kind of see what she meant because I had to go back and reread what I was reading, and also she says he kind of just repeats his self, and I could kind of see that as well. So I'm just going to go return the book. It got here a little later than I anticipated anyway. I'm really excited to read it, but I'm going to return it because I'm just going to listen to the audio version of it.  I usually just listen to Kyle Lashay, her Fair Thoughts podcast, or I'll listen to Crime Junkie. I absolutely love Crime Junkie, and sometimes when I'm in the car, I don't always feel like just bumping music and listening to music, like sometimes I be having my music turned all the way down to like three, to where I can just barely hear it, especially in the mornings. When I begin off a tour of my shift, baby, we ain't blasting up music, okay? Now, this is my last day at work, and then we're going to blast music to turn up. But, yeah. I'm going to go return this. I also am going to go to Plato's closet. I have some stuff that instead of just throwing away, and I just kind of want it out of my apartment, I usually post stuff on my Macquarie app. It's always listed in my bio. I always post a lot of weeks and stuff like that. I used to post a lot on Poshmark, but I haven't really posted in a while. So whatever they don't take, I'll probably just post on there. I'll probably just throw it out because I've had some of this stuff for a while. Some of these shoes appear like this right here. These shoes, I've had since I was in high school. I probably wore these like five times. Who's wearing these anymore? But they're probably considered this like workout clothes, like athletic wear, so hopefully they take these. I'll post it and probably sell these for like $15, honestly. At this point, I'm just ready to throw stuff out, and I'm kind of about to get into really getting my apartment together as well, like after Christmas, like finishing up my apartment. I'm about to do a whole room makeover in my guest room, so it's like some of the stuff like these. I'm taking these Gymshark leggings. I got these, and they were way too small. These are brand new. Haven't I wore these? I tried them on, and they're brand new. Gymshark, baby, they be going for a good book on the McCarrie app, so I'm just going to take them to play those because I really don't feel like the hassle of trying to upload it and then wait for somebody to buy. So yeah, I'm going to take it, and then I also got some Adidas pants that I can't fit anymore. All of this is stuff that when I was like 100 pounds, 110 pounds, whatever, I'm 145, and baby, I can't fit no extra smile no more. So I'm taking a few other things. I got up here, like some jeans, I got a Michael Kors purse, just stuff that I know, like I have no more need for. Like I'm not going to wear this. So I would like to, you know, give us a play-dose, and then if not, then I'll just probably try to sell it or whatever, and then I always say I'll probably try to give it to Goodwill, but honestly, I'm not even going to lie, like I don't. I'll normally just put it in the bag and just throw it out, and plus, I don't even know how to go about that, like giving stuff to Goodwill and stuff. If y'all do, comment down below. Or like a shelter, one of my friends always tell me like the women's shelter or something, but I'm like, I don't know how to go about that, like I don't know how to do none of that. Like I would love to give it away to, you know, someone they need and it's something that can be very useful to someone else without having to pay for it, but it's like, I just really don't know how to go about doing none of that, so yeah, that's that. I have some Receipts to Skin that's always linked in my bio as well. A lot of y'all have been joining Fitch because of me and baby. Thank you because y'all get points, but I also get points as well. Other than Play-Dohs, I'm going to go to Play-Dohs first, drop off my stuff. It's going to take them about, depending on how busy they are, they just opened up at 11. So if they're not too busy, it should take them about like 30, 40 minutes.  They've been giving me 25% off. So I'm just going to look around and see if I can find anything. Other than that, that's really all that I have to do outside of the house. When I come back, it is Sunday, so I may like clean a little bit trying to straighten up. I probably straightened up my guest room. I did want it there to be like a whole separate vlog, but I just need to go ahead and just clean up so then I can really see how I really want to decorate that because I'm about to, I'm thinking of getting a little two-seater couch, or I was thinking of doing chairs. I don't know, but like, we're really about to like jazz up that role. So, yeah, and I wanted to cook with y'all as well and answer some questions like a Q&A, but I wanted to do a roast. I don't have any beef stock, so I don't know how well that's going to work out.   I don't got no chips. So I was like, girl, what are you about to eat? Then I wanted to cook some man-witch or sloppy joe. I don't got no hamburger buns. So I'm like, girl, so I may just end up just having to do a Q&A sitting down, but I need to figure out what I'm about to eat. I'm going to have to probably stop somewhere. I just hate always stopping because I thought I definitely bought hamburger buns on my grocery trip, well, on my grocery pickup. So I have 20,632 points on my Fetch app.  Well, I can get Amazon gift card. So right here, I can get a $3 card, $5, $10, $25, or $50. I'm trying to get $50. So when I get to 28,000 points, I'll get a free $25 Amazon gift card. If I get the 55,000 points, then I'll get a $50 gift card. And I mean, I'm already at 20,000, so I'm like, I can wait it out. So I'm really going to cash out at $25, or I may just try to stick it out and do $50. I mean, we're at 20,000, so, because baby, I scan every single receipt there is. I'm about to go ahead and pack up this stuff that I want to take to Play-Doh's Closet. I left my reusable bag downstairs, it's a Big Lots bag. So I think I'm just going to put this stuff in that, like I'm just going to carry this out just like this. I don't know if I should take the box or not, like do they be keeping the boxes for stuff? I don't know. I'm just going to keep it in the box. And I also had got these heels, I think I showed y'all from Sheet Inn that I can't fit. I wanted to wear them for my photo shoot, but they didn't fit me, so I'm going to take these and see if they want them.  So I'm here.  It's the easiest way I find to do that. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I think I'm giving nine. And we're going to see what they take. So I'm about to just hide it in here real quick. Actually, I think I'm going to need my license. Let me just take my purse. I've been here before. I don't know if they need your license every time or what, but I'm just going to get in my license. I don't think nobody was in front of me, but girl, they don't seem to chill for up in there. Okay. They is not coming in through with the holiday spirit, but I'm about to go to Codes right now. I don't think nobody was in front of me. Like I say, well, nobody up in there. I got a text on my phone. They'll let me know when it's ready. So by the time I go to Codes and be done and come back, hopefully they're done. Like I said, I don't have anything else to do today. So yeah, I'm about to go head up the street to Codes and baby, it is pets. Like usually a Sunday don't many people be out. Oh, everybody out. Okay. What is that? Oh, I forgot we got five guys right there. I need to go eat over there one day because five guys, they burgers be really, really good. They just cost a lot. Come on now. All right. So nearly by the time I was getting my refund from getting my refund from Codes for that book, they takes me and was done. They took five out of the nine items. One thing I got is those heels, some Nike slides, a pair of pants and like a little bodysuit. They took the Michael Kors bag, the Nike shoes, a skirt and so on. I can't even remember what I had girl. But girl got 30, 30 some dollars. Got a whole Michael Kors purse and some Nikes and everything, but whatever. I mean $30 better than trash. So we're just gonna put this, I'm about to go ahead and just, she's cute. I'm about to, since I'm right here by Chase, I'm about to just go put this money in my Chase account because girl, I don't carry cash.  I'm back home from my little outings or whatever. I'm about to make chicken and dumplings, mostly chicken with no, I mean dumplings with no chicken. I have chicken, but it's frozen and I'm needing to cook it like right now because I need to get a video to y'all about like, honestly, here lately they've been going up at like eight o'clock. Normally it's supposed to be five o'clock, but I would like to get the video done, recording and stuff within like the next hour or so. And chicken dumplings only take like 30 minutes if that. So I don't have any chicken breast or anything like that. So I like to use like the chicken flavor, obviously. I like to use the roasted chicken base and then I like to use cream chicken.  So, oh well. But that's why this isn't gonna be like a tutorial on how to cook chicken and dumplings because baby, I don't even got all of my supply. I just wash my hands and like clean the counter and stuff like that. So I like to use biscuits because I don't, I do like to make food from scratch.  I like to make everything from scratch, but my own dumplings ain't it right now. So what I like to do, that is I like to sprinkle a little bit of flour down. Like I said, me saying this on the tutorial, but then tell me y'all what I do. I'm going to be answering a few questions that y'all um, I'm the only one that two people asked me in my last blog I had said to um, you can ask me questions because I was thinking of doing like a Q&A or whatever. So I'm going to be answering some questions that this one subscriber had asked me. She said questions, does Boo ever complain about your recording? And now he doesn't. Usually if he's here and I'm recording like, let's say it's like a sponsored video or something. Like, let's say it's like a Sheehan haul or something like that. Um, no. He'll be in here like watching the game. He can always find some type of game or something on TV. So he will usually watch something online. He'll even be on his phone watching something on TV, something like that girl. Um, no, he never complains about me recording. Um, and most times when we're out like recording, like if you mean like, cause she commented that under the anniversary one. That's when I told y'all to ask some questions or whatever.  So honestly, he's the one who's encouraging me to record and stuff like that and not to miss stuff. So yeah, that's always nice. Um, but yeah, he don't ever, like there's no complaining because he knows this is what I love. This is my job as well. It's just something that I do. And also, if you get with somebody who complains about, you know, like something you love or your job or something like that, then that's not the person that you need to be, you know, be with or entertaining to even be with. So, yeah. But no, he doesn't complain. Um, the next thing she asked was, oh, she said, especially dates. You may have said this before. On dates, no. He actually on the anniversary date, he was like, well, before we started chugging that drink because I had put my camera away and I wasn't going to record anymore. So before we started chugging those drinks, he was like, and you ain't even recording or you missing. He said something before and I'm like, oh my bad, my bad. So then I put the camera out. Now, does he always want to be on camera? No. But he dictates when and when he don't want to be on. Like, I'm not just about to throw the camera in people's faces. Like, y'all know, when I went and got my hair done by that girl, I don't ever just pick up the camera and start recording. I will always ask. Like, even Lindsey, who did my makeup, I had went to her before, but I was like, you know, if you care if I record, she was like, of course not. So anytime I'm about to record something, I will let everybody know I'm recording. And or, you know, if they're okay with this, this and that. Like, for instance, Nikki's wedding, her now husband, he was, you know, crying a little bit during his vows and stuff like that. And I had text her and I was like, do you want me to cut, you know, any of this out? Or, you know, will he want me to cut this out? Like, what do I need to cut out basically? And she was just like, you know, nothing. Like, it's fine. So yeah, I always ask.  So he just got to deal with it. But no, he definitely does not care at all. Next question is any, any new advice for new YouTubers? How is, okay, any new advice for new YouTubers? The only advice I have is to just start. Like, I get a lot of questions of how to start being a YouTuber, how to, how to do basically anything concerning YouTube and just basically how to just start.   But it's like, it's literally as simple as that. If you have a active YouTube account, then you are, you automatically have a YouTube channel. It's up to you to figure out what you're going to make of that YouTube channel. Like if you want to be a YouTuber, start posting videos. It's literally as simple as that. My first video, I had took a screenshot. I probably popped it up on here. My first video was me in Hawaii in like 2013, 2014. And then I literally just recorded my prom vlog in like 2016 when I went to prom in high school. And it got like 60 something thousand views. I didn't get like that overnight, but you know, it started to take off. So I will blog me in college. Just, I mean, literally, this is your own reality TV show. Not even really reality.  This is your TV. So with me, I like to make memories and record memories. So that's what kind of made me want to start YouTube as well as my favorite YouTubers at the time who really jump started it for me. Raymond Elise and Jay LaCourion. So yeah, they made me want to be a YouTuber because I love watching it when it was in college. When it was in college, I was in high school. So yeah, my advice though is just post the content, especially now people are really taking off. And it's so much easier to actually start a YouTube channel, especially because they knock down having. You have to have, I think like a, no, 500 subscribers. Yeah, 500 subscribers now to start getting monetized or 10 million views on your shorts videos. It used to have to be a thousand freaking subscribers. Now it's only 500. So definitely now's the time to start. I am going to make a YouTube ebook as well. The ebook is definitely probably going to be about at the very least 30 pages because I don't want to leave anything out. The ebook I do plan to price it at $50 because it's going to be very informative. And comment down below if y'all would like a video link as well because I know a lot of people don't like to read. So within that book, I was going to have a YouTube clickable link to where you'll be able to click the link. And then basically I'm like talking about everything that's in that ebook to where you can just hear it instead of reading it. That's also why I'm going to price it at 50 because I'm like, you're basically getting like two for the price of one. For the first like 24 hours when I do put it out there, I'm going to have it be like $25. And then after 24 hours, it's going to go up to $50. So yeah, I do plan on doing a YouTube ebook. I do have, I think I have a video kind of about starting a channel. If I can find it, I put it on the screen or something. I'm not sure. I usually just talk about YouTube tips literally just throughout my blogs. Like I literally just give just free game, you know, like I got a lot of YouTube videos on free gaming. So yeah, I do plan to make a YouTube ebook. My tip is honestly just to start. Next question was how is the hair business going? I am super excited. You asked because a girl I just shipped off. I just had seven orders yesterday to like shift off. And for me, that's major. It's definitely more than I started with. Obviously, like I never shipped off seven like packages all at once. Like at the post office, like it's usually like, you know, one or two each time I go or you know, like an order or something. You know, it's not ever as much as like seven at once. And I cannot wait to see where it's hard trying to cook and talking at the same time. But I can't wait to see where this hair business takes me because here is definitely my passion. They's going to get into me talking about like what I do with work and stuff because people, a few people still think I'm a nurse. Some people have commented, one girl commented about me being a nurse. And I'm like, girl, I didn't post it a whole video showing what I do with work. Like literally took y'all to work. I am not a nurse. I'm a patient care tech and we just got trained to be basically at the bottom is because I now take my patients labs, like take their, like draw their blood at work. So patient care techs, we get paid more than CNAs and we do a little bit more than CNAs. And that depends on where you work, like what city and state you're in because some girl was asking me about the process. My process was a two weeks training and literally after two weeks we got put into the hospital and we just started working and we was on like a 90 day probationary period. But anyway, it's about the hair business. It's going well. I am about to stop vlogging and stuff. That's what I want to talk to y'all about as well. I'm going to start, I'm going to stop vlogging this at day 12, like 12 days of Christmas because I am vlogging and uploading and stuff at the same day. And that's something that I did not want to do because I knew it'll just take a lot out of me and trying to come up with videos and stuff like just off the dome when I just be chilling anyway at home. It's really hard. So with that being said, I need more time to plan stuff for my hair business because I do have, I'm planning a big Valentine's Day. Like campaign or sale or whatever.  Like y'all be seeing me shipping off orders and stuff like that in the blogs. But it's like, I literally just don't have, you know, time to just sit down and just really plan out stuff for the business. And I know I still also have a real, you know, clock in job at the hospital. So I worked this weekend in Friday and Saturday. I'm not going to give y'all no videos. Like I'm just going to be real with y'all. If I was to be doing vlogmas Friday and Saturday, if I don't have anything pre-recorded, I'm not going to wait. Like when I go to work, I go to work and come back home and sleep all day to like 5.30 when I got to give back up and go to work. So that's why I'm going to stop it in 12 days. But I am still going to post videos every Thursday and Sunday. So for the month of December, I think y'all are going to get about 19 videos out of me. That's including the vlogmas videos and my regular uploading days. So, yeah. And she also asked me what is my next goals besides quitting my hospital job. That's definitely the goal. But I think even when I'm well off with the business, I might still just keep that job as like a, like PRN. PRN, I think you only got to work like once every like 60 or 90 days. And it's just to have that, you know, always stability in the back of your mind. Like obviously when I get like well off with the hair business, then you know, I'm not going to need it. But you know, another pandemic may happen or something to where everything shuts down again.  Yeah, I'll still be getting paid for YouTube and stuff. But you know, like I'll always like to have that little cushion there for right now. So I'm not going to completely quit unless I just become rich in the next year. But I'm still going to have that job as PRN. So I can like always like fall back on that just in case I need, you know, like there's another worldwide emergency. What is your next goal besides quitting your job? But yeah, my hair business, I definitely plan to really take off with that. That is why I am deciding to stop blogging this at day 12, because I do need time to actually prep and plan for this next like big hair campaign. Because I was going to be doing a photo shoot, but I don't think I'm going to do a photo shoot anymore. Simply because the photo shoot will cost me about $1,000 to even just do the shoot like this. Makeup, hair, clothes, like the whole nine. And I'm thinking I just want to invest all of that money into getting inventory for y'all so I can have a lot of stuff on hand for my Valentine's Day sale. So yeah, the future for me is just, I mean, continuing with YouTube, continuing on my business journey and obviously, you know, not having to have my hospital job be like another main source of income for me basically. And then she also, the other question she asked was, I'm not comfortable telling people, I know I'm trying to do YouTube. Did you tell family and friends when you started or was I a little shy? Me, I don't really like, I feel like I have a big family. My family's like, we're close or whatever, but like, I don't even really know half of my family, you know, like, I know that makes sound weird, but it's like, I was like, for, I don't know what example I want to use, like we'll be like family functions. And I'm like, who is that? And they're like, that's so, so, I'm like, well, baby, I don't know.  And literally, nobody really just, you know, doing YouTube. Like now that we're in 2023, it's all about content. Like the internet is consuming us real, real bad. But like, like now, it's all about content.  Some people only do it for a quick buck. And when people asked me about that, like one girl had hit me and she was like, I don't know, think about the YouTube channel stuff like that. I don't care to help. But she was like, and is it paying good? Because if not basically like, is it paying well enough? Because if not, then I'm not even gonna try to like waste my time. But it's like me, I believe in doing something that you love, like a job that you love. That's also why I started to sell here. And I stopped really just like trying to make a lash business because I started off with selling lashes and stuff. And it's like, that's not my passion. That's not what I love. And when people just DM me asking about YouTube for like money aspects. Of course, yes. Like we need to know like, you know, is it good enough to pay your bills? Obviously yes. Like people were making thousands of dollars. That's with sponsorships, all kinds of stuff. But if you're hard-nighing and if it's not something that you really see yourself, you know, doing and enjoying and loving, I don't really think you're going to succeed. And I'm also going to be talking about that in my ebook as well. Because doing something for a quick book never really just works out in the long run, you know? So yeah. But no, I didn't tell my family that I'm doing YouTube or whatever. I got my family on Facebook. If they see me post the videos, then they see me post the videos. Like even at family functions, like no one ever just says like, you know, just talk about YouTube and Plus. I'm the youngest out of all my brothers and sisters. So nobody like my older family, like my aunts and uncles and stuff like that. Most of them probably don't even really understand, you know, like what a YouTuber is and stuff like that.  You know, now if you're younger and you want to tell your parents that like if you don't want to go to college or something like that, like, oh, I want to be a content creator. This is met. Maybe they will understand how old your family is. But me, no, I didn't tell nobody. Like it literally just started off as a hobby. And then I started to get, I think I started getting paid when I was a freshman in college. And then I got my first YouTube check and I was like, okay, that's cool. But even then I wasn't consistent. I didn't start being consistent with content until the year of 2020 when my video went viral. I got like almost 400,000 views on that video of me moving into my first apartment by myself. So that's when I was like, oh yeah, I think, I think my first little check, because my checks before then was only like $50, $100, $200. But after my video started, like that first week my video went viral, I saw my pay go up to like $1,000 and then like $14,000. And I'm like, oh baby, like yeah, we about to keep doing this. But even still now it's literally just a fun hobby. Like it's nothing that I'm doing to just, you know, get paid for. So I used to be on here talking to myself starting from zero getting paid nothing. And I'm still doing the same thing to this day.  So that's just my take on it. And I think that was all of her questions as well. Let me check. And was I shy? I'm still shy to this day. A lot of people always say, how are you shy in your YouTuber? Because baby, all I do is talk to this camera, like ain't nobody in here. Ain't talking to nobody but a camera in print. And he probably think I'm insane. So I'm shy, but I can, I can talk to a camera, you know? Because it's, I'm an introvert. So it's a lot easier to just talk to myself right now and then go back, edit it, whatever, then post it on the internet.  Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, I thought about doing it on YouTube though. It's one of my blogmas days, like maybe like day 12. And then I could just talk to y'all in like real time, but I've never went live on anything. I'm too shy for that. I don't like it. So with me, it's easy for me to blog. It's easy for me to be a YouTuber because I talk to myself all day anyway.  I got so much on my mind or whatever. So it helps me in a way as an introvert. Now, if you're someone who can't even talk to a camera, baby, I don't know what to tell you, but I say go for it. You know, it's so much money in the world for all of us. We all dating and doing the same thing. We all selling here. We all selling lashes. We all selling clothes. We all YouTubers. We all, you know, everybody's always doing something the same. So go for it. It's too much money in the world to just give to, you know, one person. Like, baby, look at Collie Jenner. Helen and her sister both got to make a lot. Like, come on now. So it's just, it's just so much you can do. But yeah, I hope I answered all your questions. Good. No one else asked me any questions and my camera is about to overheat as well. So I'm going to leave it at that. Anything else y'all want to know I can answer in the comments. So yeah, my camera is about to go off on me. So I'll talk to y'all probably tomorrow. And I've been talking for like 10, 15 minutes. My dumplings. The only thing I do is just put all my stuff in there. Add some milk and butter. Put my dumplings or biscuits in there. Let it cook. If I had chicken, I would be putting that in like two minutes after. I don't want to tell me not to put milk in the door. But I don't really use milk like that. And I don't leave my door open for that long. So it's fine. Because I don't got no words to put it. Yeah. I usually add in my chicken after about two minutes when I dump my dumplings in. And then just let that cook and you can add what you want. And that's my chicken and dumplings. So yeah. And I need to use this milk to say the daily race. But I think it is far as like on the 15th. So I'll see y'all in my next vlog music video, which is tomorrow. I know y'all don't hate that vlogmas is ending on day 12. But baby, it's just too much. Like I literally have no more video ideas. I do have ideas, but I need to do the videos at my time. Like I want to do, I keep saying I'm going to make up in my guest room. I don't even have the stuff here to do that yet. So it's like I can't really just base videos off of that because I got to wait for it to be shipped out and stuff. So we're still going to be going this normal, normal programming for every Thursday and Sunday. But I think I am going to have to go ahead and do the 12 days of Christmas for 12 vlogs. And then just let that be it. And maybe I don't measure nothing. Okay. That's what I've been from my mom. We just cook with love over here. So yeah, hope you like this video. Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe to my next video just tomorrow. I'll see you love this thing. Bye guys. Now if I had my chicken in here, this would be so fire. But it still smells like chicken. It's going to taste like chicken because I use this as well as the cream of chicken. And yeah, it's fine. It smells like this all the time without the chicken. I don't care. But we smell so good up in here guy.  So girl, I just love chicken and dumplings. It's so good.  It'll do. See ya.


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My name is Mr. Prepper and today we are playing Kevin, a game all about preparing for the worst. Ow.  I like there's a massive nuke here and then I'm focusing on the soup over here like I'd rather be over here. I like how his idea of prepping is just sitting back and watching the world burn. Alright let's start a new game. Tip, prepare yourself for the worst. I have news for you. I am the worst. Do you want to play the tutorial? No, I am a professional gamer. They call me Mr. Prepper. I'm pretty sure no one calls you that.   Call me Mr. Prepper and we are back at your place of residence citizen. So this is when he tried to escape. He's been brought back here. So I'm dystopian future. So there is over there. Here is over here. There is also there. Somewhere is over there. Over is over here. Here is here and somewhere is over there. I'm not surprised you didn't manage to get away with directions like that. For an intended escape we've confiscated your vehicle. This is standard procedure. I'll come for a brief inspection regularly. Just following him. I'm like I want to hang out with you. Come on. Let's go grab a pint somewhere. Oh he's gone off screen which means he's ceased to exist. Fine. Back to the house I go. The ultimate plan. Let's take a look at your ultimate plan. I swear if this is drawn in crayon I'm going to be very upset. Goal number one survive. Okay. Goal number two escape. All right. Establish a food source. Grow some plants in my bunker. Do I even have a bunker yet? You'll need five room soil. Five seed bags. I haven't even started my bunker and he's already thinking about making a farm underground. The mailman's just waiting. Do you have to wait every time you bring a letter? Because if so you must have a long day. I assume I have to go down here with my bunker because there's like gas lines around here. So I don't think that's a good idea. How are you Mr. Prepper? Oh no don't enable him. Don't call him that. Okay. Let's build our first little basement area. The door is even open. They can see him. There we go. Got our first room but he's no way of getting down there. Okay. I should probably try and make a workbench. Metal and wood. Can I just disassemble things or maybe order something? I fainted at the mailbox. Perfect sake dude. You could have just gone inside and gone on the couch. I can't just for 11 hours 48 minutes.  I just slept on the lawn. Wait. Do I have a workbench already? Let's try and see if I can make anything. I do have a workbench. Can I make stairs? All right. I think I actually need this to craft. So let's try and get that wood and metal. Ash or eat some beets. You can't beat it. Can I just like disassemble one of these for metal? Is that possible? Disassemble. Okay. That'll get me five metal, which is what I need. Then I just need a bit more wood. There we are. Disassemble my table. Probably use that but oh well. Now we can make a ladder. Oh no. I need three metal. All right. Let's just disassemble one of these again I guess. I don't really want to. What is this? Is there anything else metal that I could disassemble? You know what?  Just get rid of the oil. Oil will be fine without it. All right. So I just dragged that over there. Is this going to be secret enough? I don't know. I'm just going to do it anyway. If they come to inspect, I think they might be worried about this. Okay. It's super dark down there now. Can I make lights? Wall lamp. I need glass. All right. Time to raid the kitchen. Oh God. I'm starving. I'm starving and I'm just destroying plates in the garden. Hold on. Oh God. I need to sleep as well. For feck's sake. Why do I have to have basic human needs? Should I move the workbench? Can I move the workbench? I just feel like it's a bit suspicious. Just out in the garden here crafting all of this stuff. I don't want to get caught. There we go. Now we're talking. Why does every game I play end with basements? Like I know this is kind of fitting for this game but I just feel like it always comes back to basements. There we go. Now we got our workbench underground. It's a bit more convenient as well. That kind of helps. All right. He wants to build a garden but can I go down a bit further? I don't really want my garden immediately here. You should go to sleep. What? But I'm fine. I'm not tired. I am a little bit now. Okay. Now I might go to bed. Oh, this is my inspection day I think. I'm the 8th so I'm good for now. I just ate three cabbages. Your preparedness is low. He's not feeling prepared enough so he's getting pissed off with me. We need one more metal. Can I buy some metal from who was it? Surgi. There we go. I bought one box. That's enough to make my ladder. In the meantime, I'll be in my basement making more wall lamps.  He needs a nap. He's such a sleepy individual. Like he's complaining I'm not prepared enough but he's the one who's begging to sleep all the time. Now he even got an achievement sleepy head because I'm just sleeping all the time. Oh there's the mail man. Again just waiting for me to come to the door. Just any sort of social interaction he's begging for it. Come on I don't get my mail. I'm not even going to say a word. I'm just going back inside. I looked him dead in the eyes and then just walked away. He's still hoping I'll come back. Maybe he's just breaking it indoors and he'll come back out again. Let's disassemble this box I just bought. That's what I think of your box. I'm just going to build a straight chain of ladders straight down so you better not fall because if you do you're in trouble mister. Oh into the void. Look at him. He's just down there in the void. Oh my god he's starving again. I really got to sort out that farm down there. I'm going to put some soil on the floor and grow some plants I think. There we go.  Seeds perfect. Alright we're going down and planting these seeds in my little garden. Honestly why can't I just do a garden outside? I don't know is that frowned upon in this dystopian future? I hope to god I don't have to keep watering these things because that is going to be a pain unless I can get some sort of sprinkler system. God this place must be so damp down here. At least I got it done before I go to bed. That's impressive day's work. Establishing a whole extra floor in my bunker. Honestly how he did it by hand? I have no idea. Who's standing at my door? I need to eat first and then I'll go answer the door. Why are you just lingering there? You're freaking me out.  Is that a blimp carrying a tree? Did someone put on the chaos mod? Wait that thing auto opens? I think that's a trap door more than anything now. Oh god she's walking away. Even the way she walked was terrifying. Where can I go? Can I go to the forest? I'd like a day trip somewhere. I don't know if I should leave my home unlocked with everything going on but well we're in the forest now. I don't know if these are poisonous but I'm taking it. I'll eat them. I'm happy either way. Wait there's a lever?  Wait there's someone in there. What are you holding? A suspicious bush. Are you the herbalist I'm looking for? Oh fudge I wasn't hiding just picking some berries. Oh my god she emerges like Homer emerges from the bush. There's a really vicious wolf hanging around constantly. I feel like I've just entered some folklore story or something. She wants me to get rid of the wolf. Even he's like it's a red hood and no basket required for this mission. I'll deal with the wolf. Is that a good idea? She's literally talking to our plants.  This seems like a big ordeal. Do you have poison? Because I like what am I supposed to do? I have to go find some sausages, find some poison and then come out into the woods and try and feed a wolf. This seems like a suicide mission. Everything's slowed down. I don't feel prepared enough. He's just obsessed with his bunker. He just wants to go home. To be fair I'd use any excuse to get out of fighting this wolf too.  I'm not I'm not dealing with this right now. Oh my god she's hanging outside my house again. She's just coming by and staring right into the camera at times. I need to go out and say hello at some point but I'm just so socially anxious around her. She's scary. Baseball bat. I don't think the simple trap would work on the wolf but maybe the baseball bat would. It's just a little box with a stick. I don't think a wolf is going in that and even if it does I'm pretty sure it could get out. There you go nice and watered now. Should I name my plants if she's named her? She called her plant Bob.  All right I guess I'll go sleep and then in the morning I'll go fight the wolf. Quite a busy day ahead of myself. Like even at home aside I'm going to raise suspicion if that guy comes for an inspection I'm covered with scratch marks. What have you been up to citizen? Fighting wolves? All right well I guess it's time to fight the big bad wolf. We've got to stop procrastinating on this. Can I equip my baseball bat? I can. It looks like a man on a mission. Wait oh I need one lever to repair this for a cable car. Ooh that's interesting. Okay I don't know why I'm doing this service for the community. I don't know why I'm doing any of this honestly. I'm just trying to prepare for doomsday so I can go straight to level two now is it? Ah I can't why did the ladder come down? I guess because I'm going to cable car? Okay fair enough well I'm here now. Danger. Is this the way that old lady hiding in the bushes sending me? It seems like it's a risk. Ooh a lever again. This is where I'm going to get attacked isn't it? I can see something here like a tail popping up or something. Yep.  He doesn't look that tough.  Look at him. He looks vicious. Get him. Just hit with stick, hit with stick. Is that it? Oh no. No of course that's not it.  Is that it? Oh no. I just had to say that wasn't too bad and then this huge one starts coming out. Okay I did literally no defense. A good defense is spamming left click. One wolf, eight wolves. What's the difference? I'll tell you what the difference is. I'm going to murder that old lady. Oh this is the cabin though. Okay great. She said I can take anything from the cabin. I'd take the fecking cabin honestly. All right anything of value is mine. Take it all. Even this, this family photo they have. I'll just take it. It's mine. My guy's being far too generous. Like I want to take all of this stuff but I just can't. I want to take all the furniture, all the food, all the plates, everything. But fine we'll settle for that. I got a lot of seeds at least. That's something. But like there's a literal forest. I'm sure I could find more seeds. Look at her with fecking bob. Oh my god she's even written bob on the side of the plant. Just in case she forgets which one is bob. All right Jenny unlocked. Who knows what she's going to do for me? I guess I buy seeds from her. She wants me to go fetch mushrooms from an old mine. She gives very extreme quests. How are my plants looking? Oh they're looking pretty good. I think I can harvest them. I can. Straight out of the dark. Don't even wash them. Just start eating those carrots. Yummy. Wait all this food's spoiled. What? What was it? For feck's sake. I just had it on my person too long. I didn't even realize I had food on me. You know what? We're still doing kind of okay. We got some fresh food in there now. I should probably put away this bloody bat in case anyone comes in. I know a suspicious person ever. This fecking neighbor. Go confront her quick.  Okay she just left. All right that is fecking weird. She's literally living there. That was so weird. I'm going to put a crate for storage instead of carrying every single item on me. It's starting to feel like Skyrim now.  What is she making with these? This is obviously some illegal drug ring. She's running. This is so dodgy.  Who are you? Why are you in here? He wants me to fix the elevator and then he'll allow me in. I mean is it even your mind? I think he's just wandered in here too. Repair. Do I need a lever? Because if so I have 10 metal.   Oh my god there's some goodies down here though. I like. I want to get in here. We're surging. I need more metal. All right I need one more thing so I'm taking the cookie jar to get one more metal. God he's resourceful isn't he? Oh no inspection in one day. I hope I don't get caught. I don't know if I should try and hide the basement more. You won't look under the hatch. Why would you? There we go. 10 metal. Fix that thing up. Bob's house unlocked. Okay he's inviting me over to his home now that he fixed the elevator. I don't really want to go to his home. I want whatever this thing is. Oh no. Oh no.  Oh sweet Jesus. Mole rat or something. Okay it's dead. That wasn't too bad actually. Of course there's more. Of course there's more. Why did I think I could just get this card? Oh that wasn't bad actually. It looks like I can just get this card. A mining pass. Why do I need a mining pass? I don't understand. I'm down here anyway. Once I have this mining pass I'll just collect these rocks I guess. I don't even have a pickaxe. I'm just picking them up. Oh gold. Nice. I knew there was gold in them hills. I came here for mushrooms but there is literally nothing unless it's out this side. I don't understand. Maybe that old lady should do something for herself for a change.  I'm going home trying to get prepared for the apocalypse over here. I don't need to be running these chores. All right I think it's time to sleep even though I'm not tired at all.  And we'll see if I pass the inspection. That's all I can hope for. That creepy neighbor's outside again. Are you doing the inspection as that is?  I ran out of salt. Can I borrow some? I don't even have salt for myself. Here I have some exotic base. No you don't want that. Okay I like how I didn't even tell her I don't have any. I just left her stand there. Can I harvest these? I can. Oh I can cover it. Oh there we go. Not suspicious at all. It's even going through to the next room. Good thing I realized that like minutes before the inspection starts. I hope he doesn't come upstairs and see the ultimate escape plan up here. I need one inspiration. I'm not a very inspiring person apparently. Wait what is this? A mining pass? Does that work? No. I just realized I can use that to go to the next level in the mine. Okay now I understand. Find inspiration. How do I do that? I guess I just continue with the quests like bringing the mushrooms and stuff but for now I'm just gonna wait. Oh that's the mailman. One rocket photo. Very inspiring it says. All right let's see you brought a lot of mail for me. I hope the agent doesn't not see the house like this. What's wrong with it? Like other than the weird rogue placement. All right here's my inspiration. A picture of a rocket. I need 10 glass 20 metal and 50 stone to build my rocket silo.  You go from planting seedlings to that. Oh wait here's my inspection. Open the door agent has arrived. Okay all right hold on. Yeah come in. Don't look under there though. No keep moving. Go on. This is standard procedure. Yep sure is. Don't oh don't notice that you hear those metal sounds. No don't go upstairs. Oh don't look at the ultimate plan. I should affect and hit it. Can I turn turn run? No no. I didn't realize I could hide you enough blueprints of the feckin rocket. He's like dangerous dream citizen. Oh no.  Suspicion level 50 percent. He like puts a circle around it. He's also upset that I'm missing my table and I'd have no plates whatsoever.  I don't need table or plates. Just realized the place is called Mericaville as well. The house is not ready for the inspection. I better hurry on. No. He's going to do another inspection like four days because I was so suspicious. I didn't even turn the board. He didn't eat fall for it next time. I just turned it around. He's like I'll check out. I'm retreating to my bunker. I hope he doesn't go. Oops. I forgot to give him this. It just comes back and sees the hatch.  I hope you enjoyed. I'd be open to play some more of this so let me know if you want to see more. If you're new be sure to hit subscribe. Would love to see you around but that's about it. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you tomorrow. Bye for now.


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United States of America has acquired leadership position in the world, not just militarily, politically. See, if you hear, wear these blue trousers, half the world, without knowing why, they're also wearing blue trousers. If you tear your trousers, half the world is tearing up their trousers. I'm watching this with great interest. Now the entire world is looking up to you. Is it not important that we fix ourselves and set the right example for the world? Today I'm telling you, in the rest of the world, for a whole lot of youth in the world, America means free-flowing alcohol. America means drugs on the street. America means living a freaky life. America means war. We must change this. America means healthful living. America means joyful living. America means responsible behavior. America means a great life. Participating in the democratic process is not politics. It is the fundamental responsibility of being citizens of a nation. Democracy means, in Indian languages, in Tamil, for example, it is called Jananayakam. That means it's the leadership of the people. Well, in this country, they have told you of the people, by the people, whatever. Yes, it is leadership of the people. We are not electing one person. We are asking one person to represent us, yes? Now, the world is in a unique situation. That is, there was a time, we've developed this mentality, which I see everywhere in this country. We've developed this mentality probably in sixties and seventies, during the Cold War period, that we must be suspicious about everybody, we must dominate everybody, we must control everybody. You are living in the past. Those days are over. We... we need a leadership. We need a leadership which thinks for the future, not which thinks from the graveyards of past. There was a time, when there were two big guns on the planet, both super suspicious of each other, who is going to shoot fast? Now, one is a broken gun. This is the time. This is the time to take the world to a visionary new way of living. You ask any human being on the planet, what do they want? That's what everybody wants. Everybody wants well-being. Everybody wants opportunity. Nobody wants war. Nobody wants poverty. Nobody wants exploitation. But we are not looking at the world still like that, particularly for the leadership in America. All of you as citizens of this nation should not think who is better, who is worse. That's not the point. Whoever they are, they must do what you want.  They must do what you want as people of this nation. It is time instead of thinking, whom should I vote? Why don't all of you, because today we have medias and mediums through which you can contact them, which was never possible in the past, why don't we set this much? That in the next four years, it doesn't matter who rules this country, they will not open up one more theater of war. Why don't you get this commitment? From those who want to get elected, believe me, when they want to get elected, they're willing to make commitments. Later on, we don't know. But now, in any country, this is true. The best time to talk to politicians is pre-election time. So, we must do this. We must shift our way of thinking. World is changing, but leadership is not changing in its mentality. Everywhere, not in any one country. But America's leadership is important, not just for United States of America, but for the rest of the world. If you do not know, you must come and see. For example, in India, I'm traveling wherever I see it is there, especially in India. People are looking at American election as if it is their election. It doesn't mean a damn thing to them. But they're looking at American election as if it is their country's election with that much interest and involvement. When this is there, it's time we conduct this in a certain way. That we become an example. We must give up these ideas of conquest, of dominance. Instead of trying to conquer somebody, it's better to embrace somebody.   When I say embrace the world, for example, it seems they're telling me they've spent about 1.2 trillion dollars in war in the last twelve, fifteen years. Nearly a million people dead, two, three nations destroyed. Maybe I will assume that they entered there with good intention. But this is the result, all right? It doesn't matter. I entered, I tried to do good things to you, but all that happened is you got crushed. But still, there is something to do about it, isn't it? I was driving within the speed limits, I was driving properly, but somehow you came in my way and I smashed you. Is it not necessary that I get down and see what I can do for you? I'm saying instead of sending hundred, hundred-fifty thousand soldiers and spending these billions of dollars out there, with ten percent of this, you can educate every child in Middle East, you can nourish every child in Middle East, you can skill them, you send your doctors, your engineers, your business experts and America's business will boom and world will love America. Just… just look at this. Suppose… suppose United States of America takes up every child's education, not just in Middle East, in every other country where they're not able to do it, because it costs nothing, I'm telling you.  You don't… that drone, that missile, that bomb is costing you billions, isn't it? Instead of that, you can make the world yours. You can make somebody yours either by sitting on their head or just including them, isn't it? See, never before this was possible. This is unique times because today one nation is in this position where they can do this. They have the necessary economy, necessary strength. Military usage can come down to two percent of what it is and just use it only extremely selectively where it is impossible to fix things. But everything else can be fixed. It is important that America moves from trying to dominate the world to include the world. If you educated half the children around the world, you could pick the best. You could pick the best and ask them to come into your country. You're fearing something that you don't have to fear.   People are looking at you as exploiters. Why don't they look at you as educators?  You must skill the world. If you skill the world, you will have opportunities. American business has tremendous opportunities if they go out, along with the U.S. government, to do things. You can spend ten percent of the money that you're spending on the military and do things in the world where the world will become yours out of love, out of involvement, out of gratitude. Not by conquest, because by conquest it's not going to work. Well, we have understood that it doesn't matter what you do. One nutcase with a nuclear bomb can do things to you. Instead of living in fear, we can live with earning people's gratitude and love. It's very much possible. This is some… not some naive idea. This is… I'm saying it in a simplistic way. I have thought through this, I have written documents on this, how this could be done. It's just that in some places there is mistrust. You can live it for some time, take those countries which are good and say America is willing to educate every child, nourish every child on the planet who needs it, believe me, in five, ten years entire world will be looking up to America. This is what you must ask out of your leadership. Who is willing to do it?  Are they willing to make this commitment that we will not open up another theater of war? There are other ways of handling problems. Because even if you enter with your weaponry with good intentions, the result that happens is neither good for you nor for anybody, it's just going on. I'm saying with the expertise of business, technology, engineering and schools that you've built here, you can go build across the world and make a business out of it too. Not all of it is charity. You don't have to give it away. Business today does not mean that I spend ten dollars, I must get fifteen dollars or twenty dollars next month. Let's leave this short-sighted nonsense. If we develop a humanity with a certain skill and talent and gratitude, the nation is made in future, isn't it? If everybody with the best talents want to come to United States, which is how this country has grown, this must continue. For this, you don't wait. You don't wait for those poor countries to develop talent and you steal them. You go there and develop the talent.  Because I see not one American looks like the other. Obviously you come from many different corners of the world. We can still continue that, not just that. A time has come where national boundaries will not mean much in future because people are communicating across borders. Technologies have unified nations. It doesn't mean anything. The boundaries that we built in the past does not mean anything. I want you to understand this. At one time when kings were ruling these different little countries, they always built big fortresses. Why did the fortresses become irrelevant? Suddenly because we started flying. When people could not fly, a fortress was all safety.  The same thing today, national boundaries will not mean anything in future because we have technologies with which people are communicating everywhere. Now you're trying to put up cyber walls. What is needed is not cyber walls. We have to use our cerebral material to connect with the rest of the world and make the world ours. Not by conquest but by love, by inclusion, by embrace. Please ask your leaders if they can do it. The first and foremost thing is no new theaters of war must be opened. We have seen in our own lifetime. It's not history book that we're reading. World War I happened, World War II happened. So many millions of people died, any sensible human being. I've always wondered how did the people let it happen in those times? Not one or two. Thirty million people, fifty million people dying, how did they let it happen? But well, in our own time it's happening. Yes? In our own times, in twenty-first century it's happening. Is it not time when the time to vote comes, this is what it means.  So the question is not whom you elect, you can elect whoever you want.  When I say don't behave like tribes, I'm amazed. I'm just watching the language on the news channels. You are either a Democrat or a Republican. You already decided, without consideration, democracy will be a democracy only when it is a considered vote. Not when it's a committed vote, you're pre-committed. This means you're going back to tribal days, you're going back to feudal ways of living through democratic process. Democratic process has to be successful means. Just a day before the election, here seeing what all they're promising, will they do this or not? You must make up your mind as an individual, not as a Democrat, not as a Republican, because that means you're destroying democracy and going back to tribal ways of functioning. Anyway, I am this, I'll vote for this. No, it must be a considered vote. It should never be a committed vote and all of them who stand up for elections must know that this is a considered vote. They're going to consider it's not a committed vote. Anyway, they're blue states and red states, I'm amazed. There should be nobody blue or red till that day comes. Hello?


For the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation hosted their annual dinner tonight in Niswa, the Gull Lake Center was full of community members celebrating philanthropy in the region. This year's philanthropy recipient, Stuart C. Mills Jr. was recognized at the celebration tonight. I think Stuart is so special and I want him to feel that way also. So Stuart is very, very patriotic. He was in the military and it's very near and dear to his heart. So we went with a patriotic theme. Each year award winners are nominated for doing philanthropy work in the community by making long-term solutions to benefit the area. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


The Holy Spirit is Heaven's greatest evangelist. When it comes to preaching the gospel and evangelizing the lost, we must be careful not to rely upon techniques, systems, or programs. Now, when I say that we mustn't rely upon systems, I'm certain that you'll affirm that truth. But, ministry can become so familiar to us that we enter a place of human effort often without realizing it. In fact, almost everyone who is relying on human effort for ministry is doing so without knowing it. After all, what believer decides, I think I'll do it my way instead. No believer would intentionally stifle the work of the Spirit, so if one does stop depending on the Spirit, they usually do so without knowing it. And most believers would become offended at the suggestion that they moved away from the Spirit's method of ministry approach, so I encourage you to honestly evaluate yourself. Ask the Spirit to reveal areas of unhealthy self-reliance.


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The President's Press Conference from the State Department Auditorium in Washington, DC, July 24, 1964. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to announce the successful development of a major new strategic manned aircraft system, which will be employed by the Strategic Air Command. This system employs the new SR-71 aircraft and provides a long-range advanced strategic reconnaissance plane for military use, capable of worldwide reconnaissance of military operations. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, when reviewing the RS-70, emphasized the importance of this strategic reconnaissance mission. The SR-71 aircraft reconnaissance system is the most advanced in the world. The aircraft will fly at more than three times the speed of sound. It will operate at altitudes in excess of 80,000 feet. It will use the most advanced observation equipment of all kinds in the world. The aircraft will provide the strategic forces of the United States with an outstanding long-range reconnaissance capability. The system will be used during periods of military hostilities and in other situations in which the United States military forces may be confronting foreign military forces. The SR-71 uses the same J-58 engine as the experimental interceptor previously announced, but it is substantially heavier and it has a longer range. The considerably heavier gross weight permits it to accommodate the multiple reconnaissance sensors needed by the Strategic Air Command to accomplish the strategic reconnaissance mission in a military environment. This billion-dollar program was initiated in February 1963. The first operational aircraft will begin flight testing in early 1965 and deployment of production units to the Strategic Air Command will begin shortly thereafter. Appropriate members of Congress have been kept fully informed on the nature of and the progress in this aircraft program. Further information on this major advanced aircraft system will be released from time to time at the appropriate military secret classification levels. I'm pleased to announce today that in the year ending July 30th, American exports of farm products broke all records reaching an all-time high of $6,151 million. This represents a 20% increase in farm exports in a single year, a billion dollars, and a 35% gain over the levels of the year 1960. Once again, American agriculture has demonstrated its ability to succeed in highly competitive world markets. The trade surplus in agriculture last year was over $2 billion, the highest in 50 years. This represents a substantial contribution to the plus side of our balance of payments ledger. Farm exports contribute to the increased prosperity of our farm economy. The latest revised estimates from the Department of Agriculture show that net farm income in 1963 was $12,518 million.  The net income per farm increased from $2,961 in 1960 to $3,504 in 1963. An increase in this period from 60 to 63 of more than 18%. I think I should comment briefly on a number of international problems. First, I think most Europeans know that the United States has never had any interest whatever in trying to dominate Europe or any other area in the world. On the contrary, the United States has constantly supported the strengthening of the free nations of Europe. We believe that Europe and the United States have great common interests, common purposes, and common obligations. So we have never supposed that any European country would need to choose between its ties to the United States and its ties to Europe. We believe that any effort to force such a choice would be bad for Europe, bad for the Alliance, and I have found, I might say, general agreement on this view in my talks with Prime Minister Hulme and Chancellor Erhardt and President Sene and many other European leaders who have been here this year. Second, I should like to call your attention to the excellent series of meetings which we have had in Washington this last week with the leaders of Australia and New Zealand and Malaysia. These meetings have allowed the United States to underscore its support for the freedom and independence of three most important Pacific states. And our friendship and understanding with these governments, I feel, has been greatly strengthened. Third, in the continuing discussion of Southeast Asia, let me state American policy once more. We are determined to support the freedom and the independence of South Vietnam, where Prime Minister Khan and Ambassador Taylor have established the closest understanding with each other. They are in continual consultation, and the policies of the two nations are the same, namely, to increase the effectiveness of the whole program in that country, political, social, economic, and military. It is true that there is danger and provocation from the North, and such provocation could force a response. But it is also true that the United States seeks no wider war. Other friends suggest that this problem must be moved to a conference table. And indeed, if others would keep the solemn agreements already signed at a conference table, there would be no problem in South Vietnam. If those who practice terror and ambush and murder will simply honor their existing agreements, there can easily be peace in Southeast Asia immediately. But we do not believe in a conference call to ratify terror, so our policy is unchanged. For ten years and in three different administrations, the United States has been committed to the freedom and the independence of South Vietnam, helping others to help themselves. In those ten years, we have taken whatever actions were necessary, sending men and supplies for different specific purposes at different times. We shall stick to that policy, and we shall continue our effort to make it even more effective. We shall do the same in our support for the legitimate government of Laos. Fourth, this week I have conferred with the foreign ministers of this hemisphere at the White House, and our eyes turn to Latin America. Down in Mexico, there has been a highly successful meeting of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress. The foreign ministers are working here to meet a challenge to our peace and freedom. That meeting is still in session, so I must announce to you that I shall confine myself to the hope that in the spirit of the hemisphere, a sound and I believe an effective answer will be found. These poor problems are not the only ones that we have to deal with in the world today. There are many, many others, such as dangers in Cyprus and disturbance in the Congo and difficulty in the Kennedy Round. But we still work for peace in Cyprus and the Congo and for progress in the Kennedy Round. We are a steadfast people in the United States and in the larger sense, the world is less dangerous, and we are stronger than we were four years ago. So our work for peace must go on and will go on with success, I believe. I understand that we have with us today a group of journalists from Latin America who are here to cover the meeting of the foreign members. I would want to extend to them a very cordial welcome, and now I'm ready to answer any questions you may have. How do you feel about the statements that have come from various officials in New York City, including the mayor and the deputy mayor, to the general effect that there are indications of communist involvement in the recent racial violence in New York City? And have you received any such evidence that would back up such indication? I receive detailed reports, the close of each day, with regard to the investigations that have been carried on by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I do not care to comment in detail on those reports until some conclusions have been reached and some recommendations made until I think it's more appropriate to do so. I would not hesitate to say that the impression I gain from reading those reports is that there are extremist elements involved, and at the appropriate time I think that their identity will be made known. President? Would you comment on what you feel might be accomplished with your meeting with Senator Goldwater? Senator Goldwater, through his office, asked the legislative representative of the White House for an opportunity to meet with the President on an unpublicized basis. We informed the White House representative that we would be glad to meet with Senator Goldwater. We met with his senators every day, and we would certainly be glad to meet with him any time that he thought a meeting would be useful, and that the 530 arrangement today was made. I cannot anticipate all the subjects that will come up, but I'm very glad to talk to him and we'll try to be responsive and make the meeting as fruitful as possible. Mr. President, in an elaboration of your statement on South Vietnam, President De Gaul yesterday called for France, Communist China, the Soviet Union, and the United States all to get out of Indochina and leave them to settle their problems themselves, would you address yourself to that proposal, sir? I think that I have already done that. I pointed out that we had already had one conference, and we would carry out the agreements reached at that conference table, that there would be no need of our presence there, but until there is demonstrated upon the part of those who are ignoring the agreements reached at the conference table some desire to carry out their agreement, we expect to continue our efforts in Vietnam. Mr. President, after Senator Goldwater said last week that if he were president, he would give at least the NATO commander more latitude in the utilization of nuclear weapons. The Republican Convention rejected an amendment to the platform restating the traditional civilian authority over the military. What is your reaction to these actions, and could you give us your philosophy of civilian military relationships in this particular area of nuclear weapons? Well, I think there should be complete understanding and confidence in this country, and among all of our friends abroad, the control of nuclear weapons is one of the most solemn responsibilities of the President of the United States. A man who is president can never get away from that responsibility and can never forget it. The American people rely on his good judgment. They want that authority vested in a civilian, that they do not expect to abandon this duty to military men in the field, and I don't think they've ever seriously considered that since the founding fathers drafted our constitution. I myself give close and continuing attention to maintaining the most effective possible command and control over these awesome weapons. I believe that the final responsibility for all decisions on nuclear weapons must rest with the civilian head of this government, the President of the United States, and I think and reiterate that I believe that's the way the American people want it. President, President, President, in view of the opposition that your administration has shown in the past to Mr. Schombay, how do you plan to deal with him now that he has returned and taken over control of the Congolese government? We are going to be as cooperative and as helpful as we can in an attempt to see that the people of that area have as good a government as is possible and we have every intention of being understanding and cooperative. Mr. President, to go back to your meeting with Senator Goldwater, do you and Senator Goldwater intend to enter into a pact to take the issue of civil rights out of the campaign? Well then, I would say to the architect of this meeting this afternoon that I do not believe that any issue which is before the people can be eliminated from the campaign in a free society and election year. After all, that's the purpose of elections is to discuss the issues and if candidates differ on important questions, it's up to the electors who must choose between them and in order to be able to satisfactorily choose between them and must to hear their views. Now I believe that all men and women are entitled to their full constitutional rights regardless of their ancestry or their religion or the region of the country in which they may live. I believe that disputes are no matter how bitter or should be settled in the courts and not in the streets and I made that statement many times to press conferences over the country in the last several years and that is the reason that after more than two-thirds of the Democrats in Congress approve the civil rights bill and some 80% of the Democrats and the Republicans, 80% of the Republicans in the Senate supported the civil rights bill that I signed the civil rights bill. I believe that all men and women are entitled equal opportunities so that they can be judged according to their merits and not according to some artificial barrier. Now to the extent that Senator Goldwater differs from these views or the Republican Party differs, there will of course be discussion and I intend to carry on some of it if I am a candidate. The test of a free society is that it discusses and resolves these issues intelligently and doesn't sweep them under the rug when they become difficult. I propose to discuss and debate the hard and difficult issues in the spirit of attempting to resolve them and on the assumption that the American people are willing to listen and are intelligent and are unafraid. No word or deed of mine that I'm aware of has ever or I hope will ever lend any aid or any comfort to this small minority who would take the law into their own hands for whatever cause or whatever excuse they may use. If Senator Goldwater and his advisors and his followers will follow the same course that I intend to follow and that I expect the Democratic Party to follow, which is a course of rebuffing and rebuking bigots and those who seek to excite and exploit tensions, then it will be most welcome and I think it will be a very fine contribution to our political life in America. To return to the trouble in Southeast Asia for a moment, can you hear me? To return to your statement three in your opening statement on Southeast Asia, do you and the Defense Department foresee a possible withdrawal of our military wives and children from Saigon or other Southeast Asian command posts in the foreseeable future? No, we have no plans along that line. Over the past several years I have heard rumors of that effect. I've seen news stories making predictions along that line but we have no plans at the present time for any such action. Recently in San Francisco some rather rough language was directed that you as being president by the Republican opposition. I wondered if you felt this might be some sort of a signal as to a rather rough campaign for the presidency that's upcoming. Most campaigns are rough campaigns. I'm an old campaigner. I've been at it 30 years. One of the first things I learned, at least as far as I'm concerned, the people are not much interested in my personal opinion of my opponent. Your statement that the meeting with Senator Goldwater was to be unpublicized suggests that you're unhappy at the publicity about it. Was there any breach of faith by Senator Goldwater announcing that he was going to meet you? Well, he asked two questions. At first there's no such suggestion at all. I'm not unhappy. Hope I don't look unhappy. I don't feel unhappy and I don't know who suggested that to you. But the question was raised that it was unpublicized and knowing the initiative and ingenuity of the American press, I didn't think it would be unpublicized very long and I just suggested that that was rather difficult for a fellow to take a glass of water at the White House or even go out to hydrant and get a drink without it being adequately publicized. I can't even visit with my dogs without it. A lot of publicity. So I'm not unhappy about it at all. I just explained that I thought it would be better to put it on the record and so far as I know Senator Goldwater is perfectly happy with it. There's no breach of faith on his part and none on my part. I realize that someone might indicate because we suggested in all of its entirety what carried out there might be some difficulty between us but my object in life has always been to not provoke fights but to prevent them at possible. President. President. Without regard to the Inter-American Conference now I take it you don't want to discuss the topic under negotiation. I wonder if you could tell us what your interpretation of the viewpoint of the American people is on the Cuban problem and what should be done about it. I think that their viewpoint is the same as the viewpoint of their government. I think that generally speaking that viewpoint is being considered by the foreign ministers who are meeting here now. I believe that we all recognize the challenge to peace and freedom which exists and the necessity for not only being aware of that challenge but attempting to combat it with every reasonable and wise means available and I believe out of this meeting the hemisphere will find a sound and effective answer and I think that there are some indications now that the policies that we have pursued here before and the ones that we are suggesting be followed now are being effective. President. Assuming you are not ready to name him yet, sir could you describe for us your ideal running mate in terms of his characteristics and attributes? The convention will meet Atlantic City select a candidate for president, nominate him and I assume he will make his recommendations and then the delegates will act and I think that for me to make any announcement at this time as to my personal preferences which and I have none I have made no decision to matter would be premature. President, Senator Goldwater has said that he will make an important issue out of what he views as increasing lawlessness and violence in the streets of our major cities. Are you willing to take this on as a campaign issue? Well I am against sin, I am against lawlessness and I am very much opposed to violence and I think we have to put a stop to it to the extent that we have the power to do so and the federal government we are doing so we are exerting every action we know to keep violence to a minimum we do not have a national police force in this country and we have not assumed power that we do not have and we don't intend to but wherever there is violence we respond to it within the limits of our power and our authority we do have confidence in the local authorities we do respect the sovereign states and the executives of those states we have communicated with the mayors and with the governors and have made available to them all the facilities of the federal government to cooperate with them and work effectively with them and we will continue to do so and we deplore a man taking the law into their own hands and man disregarding the law wherever it takes place and we treat them all alike and I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind in the United States that the President of the United States and the power of the presidency and the people of the United States are going to do everything within their power and within their authority to stop violence wherever it appears but our judgment is that it is not up to us to take over the authority of all the local governments and not up to us to take over the authority of all the state governments and I seem to have read and heard that other people too are opposed to the federal government to usurping the rights of the state President President are there differences of opinion between the United States and the South Vietnamese officials on the question of attacking North Vietnam and if there are differences what are they please Answers no and I stated it earlier but I repeat Mr. President How do you assess your opponent this November very gold water and do you anticipate a close race? I think that what I think about Senator Goldwater and my prediction is to outcome the race is not very important I think that's a matter for the American people to decide I think what the people want to know is how I stand on issues and what my policies will be and what my party stands for and they are much more interested in what the Democratic nominee advocates and what he thinks about his opponent or his chances of winning I have every confidence that the Democratic party will adopt a good platform will select the candidates and they will present their views to the people without regard to personalities and the people in their wisdom will make a good decision Mr. President About ten days ago Senator Goldwater used some very strong personal epithets to challenge your own sincerity of purpose in the civil rights issue Now would you sit down this afternoon to discuss civil rights without clinging that matter up first? Yes, yes I am not concerned with Senator Goldwater's opinion of me Of course I would like for it to be a good opinion but if it's not that's a matter for him he's entitled to his view and he has the right to express it if he thinks it's a proper thing to do and a wise thing to do and the American people will make their judgments of the various statements that he may make from time to time and I'm perfectly willing to leave his opinion of me to the judgment of the people of this country Mr. President could you give us your assessment of the effect Governor Wallace's withdrawal from the presidential race will have? I have been rather busily engaged the last few days and I haven't spent a great deal of time evaluating that situation I don't know how much support Governor Wallace had I don't know how it would affect the platforms and the nominees of the two parties all I know is that he decided to withdraw and I had heard and anticipated that he would do that and he confirmed it but what effect it will have in November I don't know Mr. President how active a campaign do you plan to conduct this fall? Whatever I think is wise and necessary and I expect to appear in various parts of the country and be very concerned with seeing that my party and my platform and the views of my candidates are properly presented and I'll make whatever contribution I can consistent with discharging my other duties and try to be as helpful to take it as possible all time. Mr. President can you tell us if you plan any further action any further federal action in New York City and can you give us some elaboration of what you meant by extremist elements involved in the recording? I said that we get reports from there every evening I don't think there's any question but what there there are some extremist elements involved and the violence take place there I think that must be evident to everyone who reads the newspaper and so far as we're concerned we're prepared to take whatever action may be necessary and desirable we have Mr. Hoover keeping very close watch on it he has an adequate supply of manpower available to him he has them assigned on specific investigations at the moment and we'll follow it very closely and do whatever needs to be done In presenting your views this fall and discussing the issues that you want to present would you be willing to debate Senator Goldwater on television? We'll cross that bridge and we'll get to it Mr. President Sir there has been the claim in the campaign that across the board attack on the foreign policy of the United States during these years this has raised questions here and abroad as to whether this wholesale kind of attack could cause your administration to trim its foreign policy in any major way Any questions, sir? I think that foreign policy is an appropriate subject for discussion I think the people of this country really need no advice from anyone else other parts of the world about the decision they should make but I think they will certainly want to be sure that the foreign policy of their country is a proper one and I am prepared to present the views of my party on that subject and we'll do so at such time and such length as may be desirable Mr. President Sir, in response to an earlier question you said that you hope neither Canada's words or deeds would encourage extremism do you feel that anything Senator Goldwater has would encourage extremism? I'll leave that up to the judgment of the people in you I don't want to be passing personal judgment on the acts of another individual I have given you my viewpoint on it and that's a little mission you'll have to do for yourself I think that the American people are perfectly capable of making their own decision in regard to the parties and the candidates and I think that they will do that without the necessity of advice from anyone on the road Thank you Mr. President