Leptin tea and Leptin soup present inner sanctum mysteries. Good evening, friends of the inner sanctum. This is your host, the squeaking organ. Just, um, sliver in and let me dispel your weariness with a bit of eariness. Oh, no, no, no. No, please. Don't sit in that chair. I'm, uh, saving it for rigor mortis to sell in. Oh, dear. I see this is going to be one of those nights when my favorite character gets killed. Yes, Mary, but down-screen blow murder because this is a corpse of a different color. Well, if it's going to be that kind of a story, I'd better tell folks about something cheerful first. Yes, I mean Leptin tea. Leptins is such a friendly welcome drink. And that's because of its brisk flavor. Now, that word brisk is important. It means that Leptin tea always tastes fresh and full-bodied, tangy and vigorous. It's never flat or wishy-washy. That's the reason why Leptin seems to make good food taste better and why Leptin tea is the perfect beverage to serve on your entertaining friends. So even if you're not a regular tea drinker, you should try Leptins. That brisk flavor makes all the difference in the world. And now let's leave the world temporarily, of course. Tonight's story is called The Lonely Sleep. It's an original radio play by Christopher Mayo, who scribbled it during a nightmare. And our star is Carl Swenson, who plays the role of Archie Gold. Murder is a specter which nudges all of us anywhere. Most of us will never murder. But can any of us say we never will? Certainly Archie Gold, 30-ish, bald and mild manner never thought he would murder. Archie was the window display man for Greg's department store. At night the store is a fantastic nightmare of eerie shadows, covered showcases, cavernous depths and dank stale odors, with only his own hollow footsteps for sound. Because windows are dressed at night. It's night now. And Archie's busy in his storeroom creating his favorite mannequin for shipment to the mannequin factory. Being a lonely man, he talks to the mannequin. And being in love with Esther Newman of the store's accounting office, he naturally calls his favorite mannequin Esther. You've been very mean to me, Esther. The last time I asked you to go out with me, you snickered at me. That's not nice. That's why I had to do this to you. Archie tucked Esther's smooth pink torso into a crate. There. Perfect fit, darling. Perfect. Then Archie wrapped Esther's slim legs and arms in Excelsior. Tucked them into another crate. So you wouldn't put your arms around me, darling? Well, you won't get another chance. She picked up Esther's pretty head and placed it on his workbench. Oh, Esther. I'm so lonely. Why don't people talk to me? Why can't I be popular? But what's wrong with me?  What Archie never dreamed was a real Esther Newman was at that moment slamming the last of her monthly report books closed, flicking off the light and starting out of the finance office toward the rear door of the store. She stopped by Archie's half-open door when she hears his voice. No, listen to me, Esther, darling. I am making enough money here to buy us a little place over in Jersey.  You're so beautiful.  Why, Archie, go! Sitting there proposing to a dummy. And the dummy's name is Esther. What a coincidence. Esther, you worked later? I didn't know.  Yes, I give the mannequins names. Sort of a game. That's him. Well, they don't talk back anyhow. No, they don't talk back. But they're sort of kind. They smile at me. See, I'm lonely. I work all night. Esther, will you go out with me Sunday night? Please, just dinner and the movies. Are you kidding? Why don't you ask your dummy friend? Hey, say what a swell idea. She won't eat much. You can maybe get her into the movies for half price.  Why are you looking at me that way? You shouldn't laugh. You're crazy. You're trying to scare me. Yes, that's it. No, you're not. You are crazy. Don't come near her. Archie! You shouldn't laugh. Archie, don't! You shouldn't laugh. My turn to laugh. See, my turn to laugh. You shouldn't laugh. People shouldn't laugh when you're lonely. You see, the specter of murder had nudged Archie and he's obeyed. This was no mannequin at his feet. This was a woman, warm, beautiful, and dead. Then being scared and lonely at whatever, Archie talked to his mannequins again. This time to Frank, painted and rouged and handsome in Greg's bargain 2950 tweed suit. You heard her laughing at me, Frank. I just couldn't stand her laughing at me again. Look at her, Frank. You think she was asleep. Her neck's broken. See, what am I going to do with her? I've got to think. I've got to hide her. I've got to dress the front window, too. The window. The sale of cozy kitten mattresses starts tomorrow. It's a big sale. Sleep on a cozy kitten... I've got it, Frank. The window! I've put her in the window on a cozy kitten mattress. No real no. And then tomorrow... So Archie used some pancake maker bringing life to Esther's salivating cheeks and purple lips. He placed her dead weight in a hard truck. He rolled it at the lighted window. An hour later, Esther's corpse covered with gleaming white sheets and sleazy satin quilts. Smiled and peaceful bliss at the empty street. Archie found his work well done. Nothing more to do now. Just wait. I'll go home and wait. It's a good window. You look very pretty in bed, Esther. I've been watching you, young fella. Saw you do the whole thing. I... What's the matter? Are you scared here? No, no, officer. I mean, I didn't know. I've been in the doorway across the street watching you. A lot of work to make enough one of them windows, ain't there? Yeah. You saw me do the whole window, you mean? Saw you put the mattresses in, make the bed, put the signs in, then fix the lights. Then you put the girl in the bed and fix her face up. Yeah, it's a nice job. Say, you look bad, son. Yeah. Anything wrong? You sick? No, no, no, no. I'm just tired. I'll throw for the night? Yeah, I'll throw. Good night, officer. Good night, young fella, and don't worry about your girlfriend. I'll keep an eye on her every night. So Archie went home, as you were I might have done. And because he'd been too busy setting his little post-mortem stage, the impact of his crime began to seep through only as he neared his rooming house. Maybe the girl in the doorway, he passed, started thinking because she left. Are you kidding? Just a girl in her date. You can't blame Archie for hurrying. You would have thought it was Esther too. Archie hurried. He hurried to the rooming house. He raced up the steps. He had to get to his room, get in and close the door. Close the door. That's it. You can't laugh at me here. I won't find me here. This is my room. I'm nervous.  I've got to act normal. Sure, just like nothing happened. I couldn't help it. She made me do it. Don't forget about it. Why, Archie's gold. No. No. No. You can't laugh. Now you're good. I'm in Greg's department store. I don't believe in ghosts. It's just my mind, my imagination. That's right. You're too clever to believe in ghosts. What a ghost, Archie. I'm in your mind. I'm part of you now. Give out. Drive you out. Don't listen. Unless you replace someone else. Yes. Yes. That might do it. Someone else. Another girl. See? That's how a murderer thinks. Oh, yes, yes. You do the same thing. Archie never thought he would murder her. Now he's ready to do it again. Get rid of his conscience to get rid of her voice. And Archie let her cigarette. He poured himself some milk. Ignoring the laughter in his brain until he pushed through again. Oh, crooked and hard and clutching. Oh. Like they were on my throat. I'm sorry. Archie threw himself in the bed and jammed the pillow against his ears. Fell into a dream worse than reality. Hello? Archie Gold? Yeah, yeah, this is Archie Gold. This is Mr. Greg Archie. I know this is your time to sleep, but it's important that you get down here right away. Is anything wrong, Mr. Greg? I can't tell you over the phone. Come down here. Goodbye. All right, Mr. Greg. After each shave and dress, Archie felt a little better. After all, if they'd discovered anything, Mr. Greg wouldn't have called. He'd have sent the police. Feeling of confidence stayed with him until he stood across the street from Greg's. He lost it then. It dropped with a sickening pain about his heart and a dry pinching about his lips.  He caught sight of a policeman's cap following Mr. Greg's bald head into the store. Well, were you thinking of going window shopping tomorrow? Want to be popular? There are lots of people crowding about you on the sidewalk side of a plate-class window. Want to be a mannequin? Look up Archie Gold. He's the mannequin-doer. Well, all I can say is, I'm glad that murderer is about to be caught. Why, Mary, don't talk that way. It was really kind of Archie to put her on the mattress. She was so sleepy. In fact, she was dead to the world. Yes, the one of you sorry for his Archie. Why the poor fellow shivering? Why don't you make him a cup of Lipton tea? Lipton's is too good for him. And besides, he's probably too scared to taste the difference between Lipton's and ordinary tea's. Yes, folks, Lipton tea is different. In the language of tea experts, Lipton's has a brisk flavor. And when they use that word brisk, brisk, they mean that Lipton tea tastes tangy and spirited, really full-bodied. It's never flat or weak. So, get acquainted with that brisk flavor. Or you just don't know how good tea can be till you know how good Lipton's is. Well, let's see how good Archie's alibi is. Remember Archie, the lonely little man who dresses Greg's department store windows at night? He just couldn't stand being spurned by Esther Newman any longer. She laughed at him when he asked for a date, and now Esther is a lifeless mannequin advertising the restful qualities of cozy kitten mattresses in the window display. And Archie enters the store to see what's in store for him. Uh, Mr. Greg, I'm... Archie Gold, come in, come in. Close the door. Sit down. My boy, you know Mr. Newman and our bookkeeping department? Yes, sir. I knew her, but I'd like a chance...  Before leaving on a week's vacation, Mr. Newman completed our annual report. Mr. Newman is on vacation? Yes, yes, yes. Which isn't important. A report shows we sold 16 cozy kitten mattresses in one year. Well, that's not many, is it, sir? It's terrible. We were stuck with 1,500 of them. Just a minute now. Jenkins. Jenkins. Yes, Mr. Greg. How many mattresses have you sold now? 802, sir. You hear that gold? Yes, sir. 802 mattresses in a couple of hours. And your window display did that.  Uh, Mr. Greg, I... No, no, no, no, no. I know just what you're going to say. Any man who has the imagination to put a woman dummy asleep in a window. And such a dummy. So, so peaceful. How much we pay you, Archie? 36, 47 a week, sir. Starting today at 72.94. And the private office.  Stunger, huh? Everything I've always wanted. What's more? I've had pictures taken of that window with the crowds. And the paper promised to run it in tonight's edition. With your name. Good? Yes, sir. I want you to know, sir, I appreciate it all. Oh, nonsense. Greg knows a bargain. Now go home to bed again. Or take the night off. Oh, no, no. I have work to do. Ah, got more good ideas? Good, good. Uh, Mr. Greg. Yes, my boy. If, uh, if the mattresses are selling so well, we won't need the display. I can take it out. Oh, nonsense. Don't touch it. We'll run this sale for two weeks. I just ordered 1,500 more mattresses. Success and popularity was sweet to Archie's taste. But Archie knew a corpse, no matter how beautiful cannot survive the sun beating through glass for long. And Archie knew that. It was a wretched rainy night. Greg's department store had long since closed its doors. The night belonged again to Archie. Now he had a nasty job to do. He drew the curtains across the big window. In case the officer was watching again. Esther was just a mannequin now, a mannequin of flesh and bones, but a mannequin that Archie spoke to his mannequins. You've had a hard day, Esther, darling, haven't you? Well, it's all over now. You never did anything for me alive. Dead, you brought me success. Now I've got to send you away. You're stiff and cold, Esther. And you can't laugh now, can you? Esther couldn't laugh. And Archie opened the crates, which contained the mannequin he had originally planned to ship. With a few simple tools and lots of work, he made Esther the real Esther conformed to his original shipment. A torso. A pair of hares. No. Who? That's the alley door, somebody's there. See, a cop maybe. I've got to act natural. She's well hidden. Could I come in? Please, I'm so wet and tired. A girl. It's a girl. Yes, yes, come in, get out of that range. Thanks.  Come into the workshop, I've got a heater in there. Gosh, thanks. She was sent to me, someone to take Esther's place. Feel better now? Yeah, that's better. You're very kind. How did you happen to pick this store to knock at? Well, the alley seemed a good place to get out of the wind. Started to rain and I saw your light. Oh, I see. And you're broke. Yeah. The usual story, I came to town from Philly to get a job. Job was there all right, but the boss wasn't on the level. Don't you have a home? Parents or a husband, I mean? No. Oh, that's a shame. Look, stay, stay right there now. I'll be right back. You're not leaving me, are you? No, no, I'm going to get a blanket to put across your shoulders. I'll be right back. Of course you'd be right back. Wasn't this just what he needed? Another mannequin to satisfy Esther's voice? It made sense. The second time it's easier. It always is. Don't move me. I'll put it across your shoulders. All right.  How do you know that?  How does that prove I'm lonely? I like lonely people. Why? Because I'm terribly lonely myself. I've got some coffee in the thermos here. I'll get you some. I like it here. I like to look at the mannequin, especially that handsome one there. What do you call him? What do you mean, call him? Well, you must talk to him. I would. You're wonderful. You understand. I do. I do talk to him. His name's Frank. Frank meets May. This is Frank. Hello, Frank. I'm sleepy, Frank. Oh, May. Why did you come tonight? Why couldn't you have come two nights ago? You're sleepy? I'm warm and sleepy. Look, I have three hours before my window has to be finished and I have an errand that'll take me about an hour. You climb into the bed in the window and... People will see me in the window. No, no, the curtains are drawn. I'll... I'll awake here when I get back. All right. Looks like the kind of bed I could sleep on forever. Ever. Doesn't always work out the way you plan it, see? Archie didn't want to murder Esther, but he did. Archie wants to murder Mary, but he'd rather not. Well, Archie drew the saddened quilts over May. She smiled, closed her eyes with a murmur of thanks, and was asleep. Archie knew now he loved her that he must never listen to her speak again. While Archie carried the crates containing Esther's remains into the station wagon of the alley, a little man with a sad, droopy face and a derby hat argued with the night captain in the local police station.  I stopped at Greg's window four times today. I know a corpse when I see one. Well, I saw that window, too. That's a dummy in that bed. I know a dummy when I see one. Well, I don't doubt that, Captain. You've had more experience with dummies than I have, but I've had more experience with corpses than you have. Where's that dead girl in the bed? Now, what makes you so sure? I've been an undertaker for 40 years. My name is Hewzak. My establishment is down the block from Greg's store on 10th Street. OK, we'll check. Operator, get me Mr. Greg. Yeah, Greg's department store. Of course it is home. What else of this hour? Archie had a plan. Excitement gripped him. But that habit of yours was strong, and he talked to Esther as he piled her three coffins in the station wagon in the alley. Don't you worry, Esther. In a half hour, you'll be at the bottom of the river. You shouldn't have laughed, Esther. Then... you'll be at the bottom of the river. You shouldn't have laughed, Esther. I'll come back to me. Sure. Archie had a plan, all right. But it didn't include the little old undertaker who knew a corpse when he saw one, or an angry, sleepy Mr. Greg, or a confused one. We're right then, coming to a stop and follow the store. This is an outrage. A preposterous, fantastic fox. Getting me down here in the middle of the night. Prove I have a corpse in my window. I know, Mr. Greg. I feel silly about it myself, but Mr. Hughes right here seems so sure. The curtains are drawn in front of the window. We'll have to go inside. In a minute you'll look very silly. There. Does that look like a corpse? No. You're right. It's not a corpse. It isn't a dummy either. She's alive and breathing. Something queer here. I'm going to look around outside. Archie! Archie, go! Archie! Archie! Archie didn't hear himself being paged. But at the entrance of the alley, he saw the police car in front of me. He heard the police captain shouting from the sidewalk. That was when Archie decided it was better to be lonely. The lonelier the better. They found out. That's the police. They still haven't found out. Hey! Hey you! I'm going to get away now. So if they won't catch me, they won't. That's the light, friend. I've got to go through. Faster! Faster! Why can't it go faster? The truck turned right! No one ever heard Archie's last words. They bubbled through his torn throat. He lay in a glass smashed window through which he crashed. No one. I'm... I'm... so lonely. Lay... so lonely. Well, Greg, here's your Archie gold. Wet those crates will be interesting. Awful. Awful. Yeah, quite a mess. No one was cruel enough to point out a gruesome bit of grisly humor. The lonely little man who'd spent so much time in display windows had created his final masterpiece. Archie had decorated his last window in Hugh Sack's funeral parlour. The lesson we learn from Night Story is that murder doesn't pay. It's a losing business. Murderers are always in the red. And it's strenuous work too. You're bound to find yourself a little stiff. Mr. Host, I did not like that story. Well, neither did I, Mary. Imagine the cozy kitten mattress company pulling a smart advertising stunt like that on Lipton's time and for free. Now that's not what I mean at all. And if you're worried about Lipton's, I assure you that Lipton's is the largest selling brand of tea in the whole world. That's the kind of popularity that really comes. And folks, if you'll just once try Lipton tea, I think you'll be convinced too. Well, I have to run along now, folks. Got some shopping to do in Greg's department store. Oh, I know it's late, but you see, Archie and I shop at night to avoid the shrouds and... By the way, this month's Inner Sanctum Mystery Novel is Puzzle for Wantons by Patrick Quinton. Well, here's a special announcement. Next week's Inner Sanctum Story, directed by Hyman Brown and brought to you by Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup. Next week's story is about a man whose dreams always come true. 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Good day mate, 40 here. So listening to a little bit more here from Richard Spencer and company and just reminds me how many people when they get red-pilled, they want to make each charge of the Light Brigade online. Remember the charge of the Light Brigade was for a war in Crimea? Crimea in the 1850s where the British Light Brigade was just mown down by their opponents, I think the Russians, and it was a futile charge just like Pickett's charge during the American Civil War. Absolutely futile. The men just got decimated. Now a lot of romantic poetry and song has been written up around the charge of these futile but brave men and I noticed a lot of people when they get red-pilled that they want to make their own Light Brigade charge, right? They just want to do it online and doesn't turn it doesn't tend to turn out well. The first person I'm thinking about who's coming back, Jared Taylor. What kind of impact might Jared Taylor make? Ultimately, one big question, how far could you go on, say, all across revisionism? Like where is the line going to be for serious intellectual work? I don't know if you're asking Richard, but I kind of have a response to that. Go for it.  All right, these guys are mounting their own charge of the light brigade Online just absolutely futile You know destroying their lives destroying the lives of a lot of other people I was talking to some friends Happy for them So remember this is what they think is growing spiritually So I mean how many people do they really think you know Kanye is persuading or waking up or red pilling How many people are seeing this Kanye West episode and think oh This is really the path forward Now that the light is starting to shine through the light of truth Right overwhelmingly people who pay any attention to the Kanye West episode I think you know what a bunch of losers Anyone who says what Kanye West is saying is a loser Right so to deny that what Kanye West is doing Is working is to you know is to just miss out on the the deeper truths Kanye West victim hood is not going to be terribly persuasive to very many people.  It was just so funny This guy thinks he's growing spiritually here By participating in this discussion By getting into a polywism Somehow that's growing spiritually Wouldn't you know it? What's wrong with my phone? Come on mate Here we go Yeah having a message come from a black guy Part of the press class and we're getting on Twitter and spreading you know like these are kind of like easy ways out And we're not gonna be able to take the easy way out I think that we need to work on ourselves and on a race like spiritually and that's a long-term project That's what we're doing here Richard's cosigning everything he just said like that whole delusional rant Right about how Kanye is breaking through with important truths And we're working on ourselves spiritually and on our race spiritually It Richard just said he cosigned everything you just said You know it's also there's another element to it as well I think I saw a black nationalist say this and he was like I don't like it when Kanye is losing money You know like Kanye lost his Adidas Kanye is losing He lost his confrontation. He's lost a billion dollars, right? How disconnected from reality Would you have to be to think that in this occasion Kanye is winning now it is possible to lose a billion dollars and be winning Right Donald Trump probably lost you know a billion dollars two billion dollars by becoming president in the United States I just don't think in this instance Kanye losing a billion is a win like who thinks this is a win And I'm sure he's made millions in music industry, but I really think it's Adidas things huge It was 12 to 10 percent of like Adidas's entire revenue stream was just some insane thing like that So the the easy or easy brand or whatever it is and so he's gonna lose like a lot of money And he was like and the black nationalist was like I don't like these people like saying oh he went martyr He's given it all up for the truth or something. He's like we he was making kind of like a power play basically He's just saying I want Kanye to be super rich What that's a real speed. Yeah, I might have been him. Yeah Exactly what he did losing two billion dollars to own the Jews. It's like You know, you kind of just screw things up when you know again I know that everyone knows that there are a lot of shoes in the music industry, you know Like and you've now enveloped that just like obvious truth with all of this just your chin And yeah, I don't think it's a good thing. Oh, like I don't think anyone is born like now or something Well, it's sort of fascinating how this this guy's been fine. I mean he's a wealthy guy I mean his lifestyle is I have the effect of these effectively didn't be banged and financially castries just in terms of business Wait Richard just said the opposite Percy said he cosigned what he said then he said obviously Kanye lost his confrontation So Richard seems to be all over the place in his reaction, but just the delusional rant about how They're growing spiritually and Their race is growing spiritually from these conversations about Holocaust revisionism and Jewish power is delusional If your focus is on the flaws of our groups, I I didn't think you're growing spiritually all becoming more effective.   I'm gonna call for a start again One thing I would say though, remember he's he's according to Kanye. He's mad at the president And he's clearly in a manic phase right now. If we assume that that's a correct diagnosis Yeah, he's in a manic phase and that is followed by a depressed episode So I still would not be surprised if we get two months of groveling here It's um, Richard, remember when I was saying the point that this is the right pieces about the replacement Theory is not so much that the media is saying it is or isn't happening But that it matters that it's happening and that's the part of why they're attacking you It's kind of similar to that with saying everybody knows that there's a lot of Jews in the media or music industry So why do many people Launch into these suicidal online online Destruction right when they have so many good things in their life And yet they just insist on destroying themselves And I think it's because many people feel You know tremendous fear that their lives are insignificant And so people are reaching out searching for a way to anchor their lives into something significant And so by going on some kind of online jihad To spread the red pill that that's going to provide the significance And if you can feed people's need to feel important to matter to be attached to something transcendent right then You've got something powerful people get a taste of you know, basic truths that are denied by the media And then they think everything they're told is a lie And so then they go on an online jihad to red pill the normies and they destroy their lives It's uh I think it's a terribly productive path forward But rather than condemn it what I really want to do is just get clarity on it. I think it is under lane Underline underlaid by a tremendous need for significance That they might think that or they might know that but they think it doesn't matter that And that's the part that you're attaching value or meaning or battering to it that there's a Jewish agenda That is the part they are just not that just the fact that there are there Right, but it's up to Kanye to articulate what that agenda is outside of they've screwed me over Because that's what I basically heard from him on the jews and when he goes into Big picture talk he is declaring that he is a jew And he's the africans of the blood of Christ. I mean, this is what his philosophy is or his theology or whatever But they're terrified that my yeah, it's a variation on when he was tangs. It's like the Hebrew version, right? Yes. That's a good point Blackie was we was They're terrified that you might just him bringing that stuff up at all. We'll get other people like us or regular normies I get it. I get talking about it. Yeah, well, and I think in some ways, they're right I mean you you do kind of open the dam a bit and You know, I I said this like multiple times. I think they're gonna be there's gonna be more of this They're gonna be more cognates in the future I don't think they're gonna be fewer despite the fact that he has lost He's well, but whatever it is. It's like it's kind of weirdly opening the dam You know, it's like we we do have these kind of weird politicians now. There's marjorie taylor green talk about space lasers There's oren bober talking about an imminent apocalypse. There's mostriano. He seems to be like he's going on gab You know, it's it's gonna get kind of weirder and I guess my challenge and You could call me cynical or whatever, but it's like weirder is not better like that that whole overton window thing just Get rid of That kind of get worse like in some ways like I would rather Rather someone like that be in charge than these like insane loopholes who would actually kind of make things worse Wait Richard wants to get rid of the whole overton window thing the overton window is an incredibly powerful Insight into how the world works Like why on earth would you want to get rid of it? Like he's so overdosed on talking about the overton window. It's like people swing from extreme to extreme So they may overdose on the overton window And then should I catch this ferry or not? All right Here, let's see if I can show it All right, here comes the ferry Picking picking me up at darling point. Take me back to circular key jump on light rail Don't you love the public transport we have here folks? Beautiful But yeah, people swing from extreme to extreme overton window is an incredibly powerful Idea that the overton window refers to those ideas that are publicly acceptable and those ideas that aren't That's a powerful idea and Richard just wants to get rid of the overton window because he's seen the damage and the harm done When people take it too far Right, but you can take any good thing too far. You can drink too much water. You can get too much exercise You can love too much You can be too religious You can eat too much. You can have too much sex Right, you can be too wrapped up in your spouse or your kids All right, there are all sorts of good things that you can take too far the idea of just dismissing them right That seems crazy to me. Why would you do that?


Indecision doesn't end when you become decisive. Let me say that again.  What we're talking about here is the mental activity that leads to indecision. And it's such a good thing to become aware of and become really, really curious about. To start noticing it a lot. Notice it right in your life. Indecision. I should do this here, but I want to do that. I should do this, but I shouldn't really do that. I'm doing this, but I ought to be doing this. This mental activity is going on all the time. Now, what I said earlier is this indecision doesn't end when you become decisive. What happens is this indecision just continues and you start to see it as mental activity that is of completely no use to you at all. In other words, you start to hear the mind play out the game of debating. And as you watch that, you're withdrawing from it, because if you can see it, there's a gap. It's not you. You're disidentified from it. And you start to realize this whole thing, as it's been framed, this indecision of should I shouldn't I? Good, bad, right, wrong, is how it was set up. It's kind of a trap that you can't ever resolve. Pick this while you get criticized by this. Pick this, you get criticized by this. You can't win. You can't win with that. And it's so helpful to realize that you can't win if you play the game and you entertain it. And then you start to take that seriously and you focus all your time and attention on that. Try to figure it out. So as you withdraw from that, you very naturally step into an intuitive allowing of where you go next. There's no debate about it. It usually is quite obvious. And as you're realizing, you know, from this place, there is no right and wrong decision. There's no thing I shouldn't shouldn't do. There's just what I'm doing. There's just what I'm doing. And as you're in that phase, you'll still hear all this going on. This indecisiveness doesn't end when you become decisive. It's just all about seeing it for what it is. A trap that there's no escape from when you're in it.  I did this last week but I should probably do it again now. You know, it's never ending and it leads you nowhere. Even when it works, it doesn't work because you get criticized for not having done the other thing anyway. Dropping attachment to the idea that you have to get it right and that there is a right thing to do. That's how you get out of this.  I have to do it. I don't want to do it. I have to do it though. Yeah, but I don't want to do it. That just goes on and on and on. And if you start to just see it for what it is, it's like it's mental noise. It doesn't work. It can't work. It's at war with itself. It's not you at war with yourself. It's at war with itself. It's not you. It's mental noise. That's all it is. It's full of threats.   Sounds like great fun, doesn't it? But it's just doing what it does. If you can start to withdraw from it and see it as completely useless, completely... You start to become disinterested in it, really. You get bored of it. When you start to get bored of it, that's when you know... This is interesting. I'm really bored of this. It doesn't work. How many times do we have to do it before we realize that doesn't work? Doesn't. And it never will. It will never work. It's very egocentric. It's like little me here. I have to figure it all out from my little limited perspective of David. I have to figure it all out. I don't know enough to figure it all out, really. This is why there's a much more intuitive system that can come through. It's not about what's good, bad, right or wrong. Appropriate, inappropriate. It's much more about things like, what's doable? What can I do here? What wants to be done? What wants to be done? It also tends to have a flavor of what you actually want to do. This is all about fear and consequences and threats. And one of the biggest things you can get for yourself is when you start to realize fear and threatening is not actually a good way to operate. It's actually not very useful. So it's that little have-to voice. It's have-to mental activity. It's not you. The voice that says, I don't want to do it either is not you. Or mental activity. I don't want to, but I should. I'm not ready, but I have to. How are you going to win that? How are you going to beat that? You can't. If you buy into that, you're done. It won't work. So what we do, what we do is we start to get really interested in it. Let me just watch this thing here, okay? That's interesting. Threats, a lot of fear, a lot of shame. When you woke up in the morning, did you tell yourself, you know what I'm going to do today? I'm going to threaten myself all day long and it's going to be so helpful.  Did you decide that? And if you didn't, then why are you taking ownership and responsibility of all the threats that are going on in this mental activity? It's not you. It never was you and it's never helped you, ever. That's a big part of the attraction we have to it. We think, or it thinks, because it's the salesman, it thinks that you need to listen to it. Otherwise, your life is going to fall into chaos. It's not you. And one of the most beautiful things is when you start to come out of that mental activity and you just start to realize there is no good and bad. There's no right and wrong thing to do here. It's just, let's just get into the natural flow of life itself and see where it wants to go. How does life want to express itself through this? No threats there. No shame. So my invitation in this video is to realize that when you become decisive, this doesn't have to end. You can still have that there. It's just that you're withdrawing your attention and interest in it. You're not taking it really seriously anymore. It's allowed to do that. It can be conditioned. It can still be there. So we learn to withdraw from it and we learn to... That's really it. You just have to recognize it is kind of not you. And very naturally, then, the thing is you don't have to come up with a new operating system or a new way to live. The new way is the old way, the really old way. The way before all this stuff came in and was conditioned into us. This comes back in very naturally. This is just flowing. This wants to live. And you will find that automatically when you start to disengage from this. It's not you. It's not mysterious what I'm talking about. This is not mysterious. This is the simplest thing. It's like you're making decisions and there's no drama. There's no drama. I think I'll do that. I'd like to do that now. And it's just done. I'm open to that. You do it. There also does intend to be these really poor boundaries we find down here because we're afraid of everything. It's like, I'll do it and that's that finished. And now I'll rest for a while. Let's see where we go. What else wants to come through? There's no guilt. There's no threatening. There's no big song and dance about it either. There's no real need to congratulate ourselves and give ourselves a gold star. It's like, it's natural. It's the most natural thing there is. Every child is born with that.  So guys, what do you think of this? What do you think of this? Can you, can you recognize any of this within your own mind? And if so, tell me if it's been useful or if you believe that it's helpful. As I mentioned there, there is a big part of us that believes it's helpful. Or maybe you have learned that disengaging with it and not taking it seriously and stepping into want to choose to have to allowing what's doable, what's easy has been a better operating system for you to live your life from. But in the meantime, thank you guys so much for watching this. And I will see you again very soon. Bye-bye.


In this presentation we will take a look at multiple choice questions related to budgeting. We'll go over the questions then we'll practice test-taking skills with them. First question formal statement for future plans expressed in monetary terms a projection b analysis report c what if report d budget e variance analysis we'll go through this again and then use the process of elimination formal statement of future plans expressed in monetary terms a projection that sounds like a reasonable term i'll keep that for now b analysis report and it sounds kind of reasonable i guess i'll keep that for now c says what if report that seems like a fairly strange named report possibly not a very formal report i'm going to cross that out d says budget that of course is what we're concentrating on here so we would think that that could very well be an answer e says variance analysis and that sounds familiar but it's not exactly what we're looking at here but that might be something we kind of do with a budget but i don't think that's going to be applicable we'll keep a b and d let's go through this again formal statement of future plans expressed in monetary terms is either a projection b analysis report d a budget and of those three we would think we would have d here considering we're on the budgetary area now if you have a larger type of test and you're not focusing just on the budgets of course then it may be a little bit more difficult for us to go through this and note also that if you see something like a projection you might pick that and say hey that sounds correct and you could argue the case that possibly a projection is correct in some ways


Now, mitigation, even if we succeed, is still not going to solve the entire problem. We have already seen that the Earth has warmed with already observed many impacts that we have seen over the last two days. Therefore, we also need adaptation very strongly in the solution space. So let's devote the final keynote speech to this issue. And we are very privileged to have Professor Salamu Huuk with us to discuss the issue of adaptation. Professor Huuk is a director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development based at the Independent University in Bangladesh. Prior to his professorship there, he headed the Climate Change Program at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, UK. He is also a co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Program on Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation and has been a coordinating lead author on adaptation to climate change in the third, fourth and fifth assessment reports of the IPCC. He is an expert on adaptation to climate change. Professor Huuk, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, Diana, and good morning to everybody. Let me start with an apology. For those of you who are addicted to PowerPoint slides, I'm afraid you're going to have to go cold turkey. I don't have a PowerPoint slide, you'll just have to listen to me. So what I'm going to do is to take you through some reflections and these are very much personal reflections of where we are in the adaptation solution space and the adaptation science space. And I'll start by recollecting a discussion or a debate that occurred five years ago at the first adaptation science conference called the Adaptation Futures Conference which was held in the Gold Coast in Australia, where Professor Neil Adger, who is a very eminent adaptation expert at the University of Exeter and a lead author of the IPCC for many years, and I had a little debate in which the question was is adaptation science a separate science? And his argument was that it isn't. It's just usual science of natural sciences, social sciences that needs to be brought to bear and that is sufficient. I argued that it may not be a science yet, but it is a science in the making. And in 10 years from now, it will be a science. And I will assert that five years since then now, it is very much a science. It's still a young science, but it is a science. And the presentations at this conference and the posters at this conference are a very good testimony in my view to the fact that it is now a growing body of work on climate change adaptation taking place across the world and that we are certainly going up in a very rapid knowledge curve on developing our understanding of it. And I'll use the IPCC assessment reports as a sort of marker or indicator of this. The first assessment report which came out 20 years ago in 1990, 25 years ago, was very much in working group two which is on vulnerability impacts and adaptation focused on impacts based on models looking at what the future would be under different climate change scenarios up to 2050, 2080, 2100 and you are all familiar with the maps of the world that's increasingly get redder or browner as we go through time. Those are the impacts of climate change and those alerted the world to the problem of climate change and the need to do something about it. A few years later when we had the second assessment report, we had better modeling on the impact side but we also went into a lot more on the vulnerability side which is on the ground. Now from an impact top-down model you would look at a delta region like the Netherlands and Bangladesh and they look very similar but when you visit Bangladesh and Netherlands they don't look very similar. The Netherlands has a lot of economic power. It has technology. It can build protection for its population whereas Bangladesh cannot and so the underlying vulnerability of the nation, the community, the place, the city has to now be taken into account if we are going to do something about the problem. And so the second generation focused on a bottom up vulnerability assessment combined with the top-down impact assessment. It's only in the third assessment report of the IPCC that we then moved into the issue of adaptation and adaptation was only part of one chapter and that's when I joined the IPCC as a lead author. I was one of the lead authors of that chapter 18 where we started to talk about adaptation. In the fourth assessment report it became central. There were two chapters on adaptation. I was a coordinating lead author of one. And in the fifth assessment there are four chapters on adaptation, chapters in working group two, chapters 14, 15, 16 and 17 and I'll give you a very short description of them. 14 talks about planning, 15 talks about implementing adaptation, 16 talks about the limits and barriers to adaptation because you can't adapt to everything and 17 talks about the economics of adaptation which can be quite costly. But it shows you how both the literature has grown and the interest of the policymaking community has grown on the issue of adaptation. And I will also argue that when you move from impacts and vulnerability assessments which are essentially analysis of the problem and getting better and better at analyzing the problem into adaptation you're actually moving a phase change into solution space which is the topic of this session. Adaptation is about solving the problem, not just studying the problem. And so it takes me to my second argument which is that our knowledge on adaptation is going to evolve by combining practice and learning. So it's a learning by doing process which means we have to do something and then learn from it and then hopefully do something different and better in the next phase. And I think of these in half decade scale five-year increments which ties in also neatly with the INDC five-year review process. Every five years we assess where we are on adaptation, what have we learned by doing things and then we can plan the next five-year process of how we do that. I'll also mention the evolution of the scientific community on adaptation. I mentioned the first international conference on adaptation science or adaptation futures in Australia. Since then we've been doing this conference every two years supported by Provia. You heard about the global program on vulnerability impacts and adaptation. And we had the second conference in the United States in Arizona in 2012 and we had the third conference recently in 2014 in Fortaleza in Brazil and typically we get 600-700 people to these conferences, mainly young researchers working on adaptation. The next conference for those of you who are interested will be in Rotterdam in the Netherlands from the 14th to the 16th of May. And in fact the theme for that is also solutions. So moving from studying a problem to studying doing solutions to the problem and then learning from those solutions to the problem. And we are now moving into that solution space very rapidly. So even though it's a very young science I'm going to share with you a couple of dimensions in which I think we have moved forward. The first dimension is the dimension of scale. We initially used to think of adaptation as being very localized. It's very context specific. Every place has its own vulnerabilities. The population has its own vulnerability. And the solutions will have to be done at the local level. That remains true at local and national level. But there are also larger dimensions. There are ecosystems which have similarities, large deltas like the delta, Ganges delta, the Nile delta, the major other deltas of the world, high mountain ecosystems in different continents, drylands in different continents. These ecosystems have a great deal in common with each other. And therefore we can learn across continents on how to deal with adaptation in those different ecosystems. And finally at the global level we now have another dimension of adaptation which is the potential migration of people from one place where they will not be able to inhabit particularly some low lying at all islands in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. And we will have to deal with the movement of population that's a global problem that we have never faced before. And that in a sense is also an adaptation. People are going to have to move from where they are. And then we also have other dimensions which at a conceptual level and I'll share that with you. We used to think at the initial phase of dealing with maladaptation. So we'd look at vulnerability and we find that a lot of things that we are doing like building on flood plains for example are actually making us more vulnerable rather than less vulnerable. So the first adaptation if you like is stop making ourselves more vulnerable, stop doing maladaptation because we're already going in the wrong direction and doing maladaptation. I think to a very large extent this has now been examined and agreed and assessed. We then moved into the second phase which we are in now and well into it which is incremental adaptation. So looking at future investments, particularly investments in infrastructure like bridges and embankments and roads, how do we climate proof these investments in future based on future models of climate change which are no longer going to be an extension of the previous decades of climatic changes. So this is now being incorporated people like the World Bank for example, major development banks and even commercial infrastructure banks are taking on board the fact that they need to plan according to the potential impacts of climate change and incorporate an additional factor on adaptation. Typically in infrastructure projects it might add a little cost maybe 3%, 5%, no more than 10% to the cost and they can absorb that and put it in so that the infrastructure can be as it were climate proofed. This is now happening. Where we are at the moment is on the threshold of moving into the next phase which in the IPCC 5th assessment is called transformational adaptation which is not just looking at adaptation as a risk that needs to be dealt with which is true but also an opportunity that we come out the other end better off than we were before. And I'll cite the example from my country in Bangladesh of people living in the coastal area, fishers, farmers, where there is already salinity intrusion and in time they may simply be inundated by sea level rise over the next few decades. Now we know that they will not be able to continue that. What we can do though is we can educate the children so that they don't have to be fishers and farmers themselves, they don't have to live there. They can become engineers, doctors, lawyers, move to the city and then take their families with them when they want to. That is an example in my view of a potential, we haven't done it yet, transformational adaptation where we end up, we use the problem to find a solution that ends up leaving us better off than we were before. My final set of comments is to do with the nature of this co-production of knowledge. We, as I said, it's a learning by doing which requires that the research community, the academic community, the theoretical community as it were, need to collaborate effectively with the practitioner community, both the planners, decision makers at the global and national level, sectoral level in agriculture, health and other sectors and practitioners on the ground, farmers, fishermen, people on the ground, ordinary citizens. They all need to be part of this process of adaptation and they need to be part of this process of co-production of knowledge on adaptation. And those of you who attended the parallel session yesterday on co-production will have heard a number of very good examples of scientific community reaching out to decision making community in different countries in trying to co-produce the knowledge on adaptation to climate change. How do we do? We practice, we learn, we practice again, but differently and so on we're going up what I call the adaptation knowledge ladder. I would like to add one more dimension to that notion of co-production, which traditionally we think of scientists working with other communities with another notion of co-production, which is the south and the north, the developing countries and the developed countries. The traditional paradigm that we have, which is true for mitigation and also true for many other arenas of human endeavor and science, is that science research gets done in the north and then gets transferred to the south. The rich countries do the research, they come up with the technologies. This is very true for mitigation technologies and then those need to be transferred to the developing countries. It's a technology transfer not to south. I would argue that when it comes to adaptation that is not the only dimension and indeed in fact the reverse may be the case. As of now, the 48 least developed countries in the world, the poorest countries in the world have done more planning and are doing more implementation and going up the learning curve of how to do adaptation faster than any developed country. And I would say that we need to do co-production of knowledge where the south learns from each other, so south-south technology transfer, knowledge transfer, but also south to north technology and knowledge transfer. And I would say that in the south, there are many developing countries that are moving ahead on this, I will pick out my country Bangladesh as an example and argue that in Bangladesh, the government of Bangladesh, the people of Bangladesh, the researchers in Bangladesh, the NGOs, the media have all taken on this message several, six, seven years ago. And since then, we have been implementing a climate change strategy and action plan at a very fast rate, which the government of Bangladesh has been investing in with its own money at the level of about $100 million equivalent every year. And we have been going up a knowledge curve very, very fast. And I'll end with one example and one invitation. In particular, our focus is on the most vulnerable communities. And this growing body of knowledge and work and practice on community-based adaptation, which I and my colleagues run an annual conference on. We had the last, which is the ninth in the series conference in Kenya in April. We had 400 people from all over the world, from about 90 countries, come for seven days. The first three days, we send all the international participants in groups of about 20 or so to spend two nights living with the vulnerable community and seeing what they're doing to deal with the problems. And then they come back to a conference setting like this and we share with plenary and parallel sessions on our knowledge on this. The theme for the conference that we had in April in Kenya was on measuring and enhancing the effectiveness of adaptation, which is a scientific problem at the moment because adaptation is not an easily measured phenomenon and there's a lot of discussions about how do you monitor and evaluate and measure adaptation going on at the moment. The current paradigm is a very top-down donor-driven paradigm, which is value for money. We've given you $10, what did you do with the $10? You have to show us what you did with it. And right now, that is what is driving the notions. But the communities, the vulnerable communities have very different views. It's not about money, indeed, if it's anything, it's about what you, the polluters, are doing to stop the problem. So we had a very good discussion about that. And the next conference, the 10th in the series, Community-Based Adaptation Conference, will be in Bangladesh in April, from the 21st to the 28th of April. And the theme is going to be on building resilient urban communities. So far, we've tended to focus on rural. This time, we're going to focus on urban communities. And I invite any of you who may be interested to look it up on the website and do come if you're interested. I'm going to use my last minute or so to come back to the issue of Paris in November and December at the conference of parties here. I think at the conference of parties, adaptation is not the major issue. We have agreement on adaptation several years ago at the Cancun conference where we have the Cancun adaptation framework. We know what we're going to do. Countries are doing national adaptation plans. We need more funding support, but we've been promised a fair amount of support that's beginning to flow. These are all good things. The most critical thing, as we've just heard from the previous two speakers, Fateh and Otmar, is to agree on the mitigation target. Because unlike mitigation, where if you do not emit a ton of carbon, you make the impacts of that one ton come down to zero. You avoid them. You cannot avoid impacts with adaptation. Adaptation avoids some, but they're always going to be residual. And the higher the temperature, the less effective adaptation is going to be. So we may be able to adapt to two degrees. Some people in some places may not be able to do even that. But three degrees, four degrees is very doubtful that adaptation will be able to be the solution to that. So we need a solution on the mitigation side. And we're looking to Paris to do that. And I support the previous speakers that this really has to be the major message, the major part of the agreement that comes out on the 11th of December here in Paris this year. Thank you very much.