What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and today we're going to be talking about the law of attraction manifestation which was made extremely popular by the Oprah Winfrey endorsed book The Secret. All right so there's a dude on YouTube who keeps getting recommended to me and his name is Master Shri Akarshina and I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that I'm going to call him Master Shri just so I don't screw up his name but he keeps getting recommended to me and I don't know why that's just the way YouTube works so finally I decided to sit down check out a few of his videos and he is one of those law of attraction manifestation gurus out there. Three unexpected signs your manifestation is on its way this is the law of attraction and the truth is actually going to shock you here this is Shri Akarshina and I'm really excited to share with you these three signs because when I first started manifesting things I didn't know how to recognize these things and as a result of it I wasn't able to actually it's almost like imagine what you want is on its way and right at the end it kind of slips so you don't want to let it slip that's why we're going to dive straight into it but before we get into it show real hit it and check this out before I get started I just want to make it very clear like although I'm an atheist like if you have a faith a certain type of belief system a religion and if that's helping you guide your life and keep you on a good path like more power to you I have absolutely no problem with that the reason why I wanted to talk about this guru as well as some other gurus here on YouTube is because my fear is that it can negatively impact your mental health when people like master Shri and others are promoting the law of attraction and manifestation it can lead to some negative results right like if things aren't working out for you you can start to feel like maybe you're doing something wrong you know what I mean but something that we're going to talk about pretty soon is science and something that's unfalsifiable because that's very very important and one of the other things that I have an issue with is that if you're following these gurus on here on YouTube or wherever else they're promoting their work like you are far less likely because you're putting all your eggs in this basket you're far less likely to go to therapy and to work on evidence-based methods that can actually help improve your mental health okay but master Shri isn't the only person doing this like there's a bunch of like former monks here on YouTube and they're big on social media and they are making bank all right like you have no idea how much money these dudes are making and it blows my mind because I'm really into like Buddhist philosophy and stuff like that and there's all these like former monks who are just just drowning in riches so just like Scrooge McDucking it into piles of money based on you know making these practices very public a lot of them can help you but we have people out there like Prince EA Jay Shetty Jake Ducey and this dude master Shri so why do this well it's a pretty easy answer like let's take a look at master Shri's top videos okay they range between 820,000 and 2.2 million views okay a lot of them are about the law of attraction a lot of them are about manifestation but the number one problem is is that they lack any kind of scientific backing okay I'm a man of science but I also love philosophy and here's the thing when it comes to Buddhism and Buddhist practices like believe it or not there's actually a lot a lot of scientific backing behind this like they have hooked monks up to brain scans and they see how their brains function differently right they are less susceptible to depression less susceptible to anxiety they are more compassionate they are able to activate these parts of the brain and it is amazing if you're interested in learning a bit more about that there are a ton of books out there but one of my favorite books is why Buddhism is true by Robert Wright very very very good book he uses a lot of evolutionary psychology as well it's super cool okay but but here's the thing like although we could find some science that actually backs up Buddhist philosophies something that science doesn't back is the law of attraction and manifestation and one of the main reasons being one of the main reasons being is because it's unfalsifiable all right I'm going to need you to say it with me real quick unfalsifiable okay so when I was checking out some of master Shri's videos on this stuff he has videos about why your manifestations are not coming true why it seems like the law of attraction isn't quite working out so how do you ignore your current reality and manifest what you want especially when you're going through some chaos right now so it may be in your finances and maybe you want to manifest money and maybe you want to attract love or you know you want to attract a text message or something from somebody and you're in that desperate need right now of that thing so how can you ignore that current reality because if you stay in that vibration and that needy vibration in that scarcity mindset in that fear and doubt low vibrational mindset it's extremely extremely difficult to manifest so I've got seven steps that I've used it doesn't matter if people have broken into my house before took my money before or even different things with regards to relationships and everything I've used these seven steps and it allows me to instantly shift my vibrations to get back on track and manifest what I want instantly so if you want to do that then make sure to stay tuned in this video and here is the issue with it so check this out so somebody like master Shri or anybody else promoting the law of attraction if you get something that you desire something that you want all right boom there it is baby the universe is out there to help you get what you want but if the law of attraction and manifesting what you want doesn't work oh I guess the universe just had different plans for you you see what I mean there is no way to falsify this practice because their explanation just gears you right back towards it right like there is no form of even evidence-based psychology that works 100% of the time for 100% of the people there are explanations as to why it doesn't work that can be proven by science rather than this kind of self justification and cognitive dissonance of oh it didn't work for you well here let me let me keep promoting this thing and I can figure out a way to explain why so when it comes to master Shri and the law of attraction and manifestation let's actually turn to some science let's see what psychology actually has to say about this all right so this right here is Gabrielle Odenjin and she is a professor of psychology at New York University and she also wrote an awesome book called rethinking positive thinking okay and she discovered she discovered that trying to manifest your desires is actually completely counterproductive and here's why so it turns out that our brains are actually terrible at separating reality from fantasy all right so when you are making your vision board or trying to manifest your dreams right when you're doing this your brain believes that you already accomplished that thing right this is the same with like visualizing that thing that you want so what happens when your brain believes that you already accomplished that goal it stops putting resources towards accomplishing that goal all right so you can sit there and manifest it until the cows come home but you are far less likely to put in the work that it will take to get those things that you want all right so when you hear about this manifestation stuff just realize that it's actually holding you back from pursuing what you really want and one of the other issues that I have right and here's one of the reasons why I love Buddhism is because it helps us rethink our values and rethink our desires like the law of attraction and one of the reasons that people like master shrie and j shetty like blow up on youtube is because we are such a capitalistic society right we think that having a new car is going to make us happy having that new house having stuff for that lavish vacation all these other things we believe that those things are going to make us happy something when it comes to buddhist philosophy and which this is why it surprises me that these monks are all about like hey manifest becoming a millionaire right like we we discovered that these things don't make us happy and i'm living proof of that i used to make a boatload of money back in my addiction and i was absolutely miserable and i was so confused why but the reality was was that i was being sold a bill of false goods my entire life i was told that if i could just get that thing then i would be happy so that's another reason why i want you all to be very skeptical if you're coming across these videos about the law of attraction and manifestation because even if the universe works out in your favor and you get that thing that you want just realize there is no guarantee that that thing will make you happy another book i highly recommend is stumbling on happiness this is from one of the top positive psychology researchers and what he's discovered is that we are awful we are awful at predicting what will and won't make us happy all right so to kind of wrap this video up i just want to make it very clear there is a ton of science behind how positive thinking um re reframing the way you're thinking or your experiences all these things and how you work with your own mind there's scientific proof that these things work but something that doesn't work because there's no science behind it is the law of attraction and manifestation okay so listen if you like watching this stuff if it helps put you in a positive mindset um i recently read some books that that implemented a lot of this stuff and like talking about your vibrations and everything and i'm like but anyways i can see how it puts you in a positive state of mind and kind of encourages you to move forward if that's what you're looking for with this stuff like do your thing baby do your thing but again my fear is that if you rely too much on this stuff that has absolutely no grounding in science you're not going to put in the work that it really takes to improve your mental health you know what i mean but anyways that's all i got for this video if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that 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Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking today with Melanie. Hello. Hello. Good to see you from Minneapolis. It was just saw you of course at the event and for those that haven't been out to the M365 Twin Cities event that just happened and it's we're back on the twice a year schedule right is that yes we are. So we'll be back in the spring again. So Melanie for folks that don't know you who are you already you already said where you are but what do you do. Okay, so I am an eight time Microsoft MVP for M365 apps and services and I work for Ernst & Young. I am an associate director and what that means in my role is that I am what we call a campaigns lead. This is for enterprise technology and it is for all of our colleagues and the technologies that they use in their day to day lives doing their work, not for our special, you know, client systems, you know, or anything like that that we've developed, you know, for solving their particular problems. This means that I engage with the M365 stack every day, and also other systems as we do deployments as we do deprecations as we retire technical debt and as we try to teach our users to get the business value from all the tools that we have licensed. So that might be something like UI path Studio X or something in the power family. I am part of a group called service adoption. And what we have is we've got a formal intake process where we're taking in things from all the product managers, we're putting it through a qualification input process, do we are do we not engage or do we hand you off to someone else. And then it goes through an actual change management PMO where we've got pro sized certified practitioners who are qualifying all the impacts of that change. We've got engagement, which links out to all of our global business relationship managers, if you don't know, he wise huge, we've got about 400,000 people across 70 countries which means we've got slices from everywhere from top floor partners and principles to shop floor and then we've got all these sensitive Geo so we've got engagement that reaches out to all the BRMs. And then of course I like to say I am content and we are last mile delivery, we are the tail wagon on the dog, and we are the ones everyone yells at when they don't like the stuff that hits their inbox or their teams cards or you know or any other channel by which we reach them. Well, so if you're involved with the internal usage of this technology, how much does I'm sure the company showcases you to prospective customers that they because I mean that's some of I know that that's always the case some of the most popular Microsoft content for example is like how Microsoft did it how they go and actually use the technology. And it's always, it's always interesting to hear that like well what actually worked and what other third party or custom built solutions, did you have to use to fill gaps. Oh, absolutely. I have been licensed for M365 co-pilot and it's going to hit my inbox any day now and so I'm sitting there getting f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 just waiting for it to arrive because I've been reading all about it, but now I'm going to actually get hands on with it and we know of course, that we are going to be the ones who are going to be drinking the champagne, and we're going to be ones helping to go out to our customers and roll it out and start realizing a lot of the process efficiencies and just from my background and this is getting back to where I play and what I do. I am basically a digital strategist. I am change. I am communications. I am technology adoption and business value. So when you think of that golden triangle, which is people and process and technology sitting in a circle of culture. I am all about where that it actually meets the humans and the humans change their behavior and deliver the business value. It's so interesting because I don't know if you knew this about me so I actually have shared it on other podcast episodes but I so before I went to work for Microsoft in 2006 I actually was was accepted into a doctoral program where I was going to study the impacts of collaboration technology on teams on people and look at how the technology is actually changing the way that we work and I was a lot of my background is more on the PMO side so project portfolio management technology that's how I got into knowledge management space. But all the collaboration the social tech like all of that kind of fits in the space. It's been fascinating to see how that's changed and I know you and I have talked about this too about how now the AI tools co-pilot is going to actually is going to change that even more. It will be interesting to just discuss this to talk about it and watch the changes as it happens. Yes and and honestly I think that companies right now if they're looking out at everything that's going on in the marketplace and you and I were just you know kicking off the podcast and just making sure all the sound equipment was working. And as we were the news came across the wires that open AI fired Sam Holtman. This is this is changing in real time it is almost primordial level you know just chaos and real time evolution out there and if companies are wondering what they can do right now. You just mentioned PMO and TMO right project management and transformation management and one thing they can do right now is just get your internal house in order and have fun with the visioning process because this is you know this is all something where it's time to do the experimentation. It's time to get your house in order. It's not the time right now to go pick a pony. Yeah, there is there is so many where there's you know here we are at the end of I just came back from Orlando from the life 360 we had ignite that just happened we were trying to monitor the keynotes while we're sitting in a booth, watching that all the coming out reading through and for folks that aren't aware to with all of the announcements and there's something called the book of news. You find the Microsoft ignite 2023 book of news and you can see all of the announcements and you know there were just looking at co pilot mentions I said did like a search through it and was something like 280 mentions of co pilot and it's not a conference of Microsoft doesn't rename something. So now like you're now like you're being chat it's co pilot right you know so you know all I would say is you know this is who else were you going to get to talk to you by the way Christian who isn't exhausted for this week. Anything that just surprised you anything any any big announcements that that just made you kind of stop in in your in your very, I'm very intrigued by SharePoint premium. Because this is something where I think there's been a lot of questioning a lot of chatter about how SharePoint was kind of starting to fade into the background that it's a core technology. And we had to have the discussion that no SharePoint is this bedrock it's not going away as a product name, and suddenly instead we're going in the opposite direction here SharePoint premium and I need to unpack that goodie bag. Yeah, there will be many articles written about that so there's that the other one I was very excited about was project and and to do becoming one product. I think that's was the last one product or they're merging together they're integrated across which is which has been the direction of the I'm hoping that it speeds up right right. I mean this is something where I remember I think I have an old blog that I wrote out on LinkedIn because you know I write and frequently when I do a publish on LinkedIn, and it was about planner and and the funny thing was I every now and then I would go and I would check and I would still say do they have a recycle bin yet. Do they have a recycle bin yet.  It's, I'm so excited to see this, this maturing and finally unifying. I mean, oh, can I also tell you that I am absolutely looking at everything that's going on with AI coming in, and how it can take in and how it can make sense of unstructured data sets I mean bad quality data. No unstructured data. Yes. Look at Viva engage and think of it as unstructured data and Viva engage longitudinally is Yammer for one thing redheaded stepchild no respect no respect whatever but it's not on the graph. Yeah, what happens when you have a good AI engine and you can point it at all that unstructured wonderful rich data in Viva engage. I am, you know, honestly that the what I'm most excited about in the future of course I look I work for a smaller organizations we're not even eligible yet for for the co pilot which is you know 300 seat me are you caught in that 300 seat vacuum. Yeah, we're so we're in the SMB space so we're under 100 employees but which is unfortunate I know that Microsoft will see something in a couple of years and and of course is RDS and MVPs will get access to it so it's not about that but being able to go in and utilize because we do use engage we're you know a hammer shop as well on that side of it but to be able to go and use engage with amplify for me to be able to look in across those conversations as well as my personal like my one note. All of my records because everything that I've written in the last decade is captured in one note and I want to be able to tap into that. So I've had many friends tell me it's like well Christian you know you can go do that without co pilot you could go and build an AI model around that data today so there are plenty of things you go and do but I want that in context to all of my content to my work activities to my email. So I'm looking forward to this next step. Honestly, I think it should just work it should just work and we are one step closer. Yeah. I'm going to spend the weekend reading the book of news I know that sounds great doesn't it. Well we were sitting there going through it on the on the expo hall floor and there's a lot to go through. But what so what are you speaking on and writing on right now what are the kinds of your hot topics. Well the thing is that I just delivered last weekend when you were there for the n 365 twin cities was I was delivering about the the connections. And then how you needed to be ready for that feed in Viva connections by leveling up your game in Viva engage stream and SharePoint news. And I think that Viva connections simply it's not yet getting I think the attention that it's going to merit soon it's a little bit quiet and I think it's going to turn into the blob that ate New York and I'll kind of tell you why. Intranet operations over the years is basically something where it's hideously expensive. Every time you rearchitect your intranet you know that this is cha-ching it's a huge team it's a huge investment. And over the years, as speaking as a person who's done this work, we have struggled, and we have really tried but we have failed to deliver on a place that realizes the big two of what you're trying to get there. One is a portal to absolutely everything that a person needs with the personalization level that we would like to deliver according to level and Geo and rights. But then second that integration to what is the stuff I care about the files I've handled that I'm looking for my task list right other things like that that matter to me in my line or that sort of thing or even in my language. And the thing that connections is bringing to the table quietly and right now at least for the bargain price of an E3 license is it saying hey turnkey turn it on. Turn it on and then personalize it and you can do so in draft you can do so with the number of experiences you want they are quietly the more I dove into this to create that presentation. The more I recognized how deeply they are preparing for organizations in all their messy complexity of subsidiaries and global footprint and specialty, you know, architecture. It's all going to be there and Microsoft is going to continue to build and build and build resources into this until if you're a company and you're looking at this saying look I know I've got all kinds of technical debt over here and I've got a lot of people who are used to spending if not years possibly decades fighting turf wars over this. But what are my usage analytics. What's the value I'm getting for that investment. And why wouldn't I stand these up side by side and just quietly grow it and see how it works. And then eventually see if you know what, maybe it's time to move on over, because I really think this is going to be disruptive long term. I think there's the fact that Microsoft moved away a couple years back but they really moved away from the idea of SharePoint as a Swiss Army knife. In fact, Jeff Tipper said many times he's like I don't like that, like we try to correct that that the core of SharePoint strength is your collaboration document collaboration. Yes, but is intranets. It is at the court intranet. And the I kind of missed the messaging the inner loop outer loop. I thought that was great message. Frankly, I'm I'm I still use it I'm still a fan and look go ahead haters going to hate it works. You know the whole thing about a model is every you know a lot of models are useful and they are all partially wrong. Right. Well, Microsoft I think just as they do they've got like the new season they've got the new messaging around there to update but like I never moved on from the inner loop outer loop because people got it then the light went off and they understood the tools that you use in exchange and where teams versus the intranet versus, you know, a Yammer now engage, you know, each of those pieces fit within. If you think about if you think about how we organize even just our mental models for our friends and our family, we have our inner ring of the people that who are closest to us and we recognize that it goes out in concentric circles. It just doesn't work. That's because people recognize truth and I mean this just this just maps to my existence and if it doesn't map to yours. I always like to say your mileage may vary. Yeah. Well Melanie, so for folks that want to reach out connect with you get in touch with you where are you most active in social where we're only I am only on LinkedIn and that's for reasons. Okay, so, so the thing is, I was back in my years at Cargill, which is where I originally became an MVP because rolling out back then Yammer in 2012. Yes, I'm old. I ended up in a social media governance role. And that meant that I was tied into and saw a whole lot of the sausage behind the scenes for everything from Facebook to Instagram to the rise of TikTok and all that sort of thing. And to be honest, I started to have opinions about okay what they're doing with my data, and the fact that they are building up profiles, even for my children who haven't joined. And I understand that this is the currency of the economy. I understand the barn door has been open for 15 years and though and every animal is already out in the fields. I know it is. In the meantime, once I moved out of that role, and I was not required to have my account connected to Cargill's Facebook and all that sort of thing. I eventually decided, you know what, this was especially around 2016 or so I decided I was going to quit. And I used a vendor called my social book, and I printed out all my history of my posts because I didn't want to lose all of that stuff. And I then grandly started deleting my accounts and the only one I'm still on is LinkedIn. So you will find me there.  But the few things that I publish, I stand by so you will find my writing back there as far as like 2015. That's great. Well, I will, we'll make sure we'll have the link in the profile to tell you so my wife is right there with you so she removed herself from just about everything and, you know, for some of the same reasons. Well, you know, I used to be hot and heavy on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, still part of the core job for me still have to be involved with the stuff. In fact, I am getting pressure that they want me to go do some stuff on Tik Tok. So. Oh, okay. Well, separate identity for that. I know I'm going to have an approach to that as well.  I know, I know. But really appreciate your time and thanks for participating in the MVP buzz chat. Absolutely. Always great to talk with you and I'm sure we'll be spending time talking about AI soon.


Let's just say a lot of people on the internet keep score. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, if we kept score, oh man, it's crazy.  So the problem's not there.  You're like, then why do we come to the food court? Right, you're all about saying the truth, but then not caring about it, right? I feel like that's like, no, I feel like that's like your- Do Asian-Americans have too much internalized self-hate? How does this affect dating between Asian men and Asian women? And why is this particular clip going so viral? Let's talk about it. Yeah, let's talk about it. Sunnyside TV said something and made it on TikTok. Dorel Rivera made a response. Just run the clips.   A lot of Asian girls love coming on this platform and preaching that they love white men and that they'll never date an Asian guy, their own kind. What kind of guys do you like? White boys. I'm not into Asian guys. Why not? The thing is they're a lot shorter than I am, which is something that I can't- And the thing is, majority of us guys don't care.  Like, there's a huge difference between having a preference and like, literally a hating on your own kind. The common thing that many Asian women say, which is, I'm not attracted to Asian men because they look like my brother, uncle, et cetera. Article points out, do you ever see white women or Latina women saying, I can't date white or Latina men because they look like my brother or father? Here's the thing, all women should be able to date whoever they want, but you can date whoever you want without insulting the men of your own race. Maybe all of you hurts are whole.  Just don't make us feel any less than. I just feel like this always touches a nerve. There's thousands of comments on this Nexshark Instagram post. Joining us to discuss today is comedian, Andre Kim. Hey, what's up, man? Thanks for having me on this front line. It is race war. Yes, inter-race gender war, whatever you want to call it. Why does it feel like this is almost like corn tortillas versus flour tortillas in the taco world. Pineapple on pizza versus classic pizza flavors. You know what I mean? It just feels like it's just something that just never ends and the debate rages on. Yeah, I mean, to your analogy, I think it's more like the Philly roll in sushi, like cream cheese in sushi, which is gross, by the way. But it's kind of like that. Is it gross? I kind of like the Philly roll. You like it? The Philly roll or California roll, which is the better Americanized roll in another debate. I get what you're saying. It's like cream cheese is like white and creamy and American, and then the sushi roll is Asian and fishy, maybe. But I guess like, based off what they said, I felt like that the conversation surrounding this clip is a lot better than other past clips when like the Asian dude is super bitter. This guy's very like empathetic. He's trying to be understanding. And I think what he said was very agreeable. Most people would agree. Like Asian women do date whoever, just don't disrespect Asian guys on the way out. Do you think it helped the conversation that they were both like, I'd say that, you know, they're both like good-looking influencers in their own right. It's like, it's way different than having a, you know, two chromogeny looking people do it out, right? Yeah. I guess. Yeah, for sure. But it makes it more viral is what I'm saying, because people can make assumptions about their dating life. You know what I mean?  Yeah, that's true. That's real talk. That's what he's saying. Andre, I guess we were talking about earlier how the girls clip on the eggs and bean podcast, she didn't deny the dynamic. She just said, I don't love the narrative. I don't love how that is the way it is. But she didn't deny it. Yeah, she's basically not taking accountability. And she's saying, I don't love the truth. You know what I mean? That's basically what she's saying. Right, she doesn't like how people are reacting to this dynamic that I guess everybody is acknowledging. Both Dorell is acknowledging it and Sunny Side TV is saying, yes, perhaps a sizable portion of Asian girls seem to date white guys, but this is how the narrative spins from that point they're arguing or I guess having feelings about it.  And I'm like, yeah, that's because it's like Jeremy Lin. He's the only Asian in the NBA. He's gonna get celebrated because it's just rare. I'm not saying it's better. Beating the odds, beating the odds, right? Yeah, it's just not, it's not necessarily better than everybody. It's just, it's just rare.   And I think that that's why the comments section went to such a productive place. It was kind of nice to see the discussion move to almost want to say like a 1.5 or like a 2.0 phase. What is your general perspective on this?  Someone who does care. You see what they see too, right? Yeah, I think it's weird to like kind of like keep score of like what, like, you know what I mean? Like, well, this race dated 45, wait, man, this month, man, and then you got 72 Chinese is catching up.   I see what you're saying too. I totally think that what you're saying is true, but you acknowledge that if we were to keep score, the scores might be kind of far from it. Let's just say a lot of people on the internet keep score. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If we kept score, oh man, it's crazy.  So the problem's not there. I see what you're saying though, cause I know you spent a lot of time around in the African-American community too, right? I guess. Yeah, I mean, but like they almost have the same split but with black men dating out a lot more often than black women, right? Right. And then sometimes it's also the same thing where the black guys are like, oh man, and then some black girls, they say like, I'm happy with myself, so I don't even think about it. But then obviously some, like we said, there's always a variance in any community in terms of like how people process the viewing of a dynamic, right? So before we get in the comment section, David, what do you feel like is a point that a lot of people are not bringing up in this discussion? Where it's like, where does the self-hate actually come from? Yeah, I think to be honest, the self-hatred from the Asian community, which may manifest itself in a dating sense, we're only just talking about one outcome of this larger symptom is that like, I think Asians feel incredibly different to who won, right? Like if Asians view like white people as the winners of like global history over the last 200 to 400, 500 years, however, you guys, you historians can debate about it. Like it's like the way Asians react to that is with a lot of deference and buying into that. So Asians themselves might feel like we're inferior.  Or little people, you know, I'm trying to use the right term to say it, right? Peter Dinklage. Peter Dinklage, he's a dwarf, right? And there's also like other dwarves that are really known in the community for being like super good looking. Those people can date regular people that are not other little people. Right. But Peter Dinklage can date like a model in the regular world or like sort of dwarf person. A non dwarf person, but there's other dwarves that are more like staying within the dwarf world. And it's crazy, I'm saying to say that, but I'm saying sometimes the Asian community can almost view ourselves as the dwarves. Yeah. No, I think that definitely there's some truth to it. But anyways, guys, let's get in the comments section. You let us know in the comments down below where you're thinking so far of this discussion, but there's a whole bunch of comments. And yes, I do think the discussion is much better than other discussions about this before. I think as time goes on, it's just gonna get better and better. So let's get into the comments. Yeah, somebody said, yes, internalized racism is always an issue. However, the misogyny from Asian men isn't something to be ignored either. Claiming that it is to protect Asian women, like we don't have the capacity to figure out if we're being fetishized or used on our own. We never ask to be protected and we don't need the judgment either.  Asian women are not responsible for Asian men being triggered by the system of white supremacy that we all suffer from. Yes, it all comes back to white supremacy. This is from a Asian girl that I think is, you know, this is, was it one of the top comments that got upvoted? I would call that a moderate pro Asian female comment, but not like 10 out of 10, you know, like a seven out of 10. Well, how do you feel about that comma, Andre? Like, I guess like, does it, it makes sense? Well, I think it's weird to like, say it's something's misogynist when you're kind of just criticizing a community. You know what I mean? It just shows how sensitive people are. You're saying misogyny is kind of a strong word in this case. It's like dramatic. Yeah, because you're saying Asian guys, they haven't really, when it comes to this conversation, they're really, to be honest, if anything, it sounds more like complaining from Asian guys. Yeah, it definitely is. We're just kind of like, we're not even protesting, but I think a lot of Asian guys are like, hey, what's going on here? That's what, it's just like a guy in the corner being like, whoa. You know, at one point back 10 years ago, I felt like it was even taboo for Asian guys to point it out. Nowadays, you know how everything's out in the open and everybody's canceling everybody? It's like everybody's just saying everything now that they notice, right? Yeah, I just think it's dramatic. Like, you know what I mean?  I mean, that's a heavy label, dude. No, no, it's a strong accusation. But Andrew, to your point, I think that Sunnyside TV, she came moderate with it. I think Dorell Rivera, his response with moderate. So that's what triggers all these thoughtful, modern responses. This is a moderate pro-Asian male comment. I think it's important to acknowledge that we can't look at Asian American and Asian American women as if they've had the same cultural standing throughout history. Historically through media and just American culture, Asian men have been desexualized and seen as undesirable, whereas Asian women have been put in the complete opposite situation, although they were being completely fetishized and sought after. Personally, I have some issues seeing Asian women with white guys because of this. I do, however, have no issues at all dating them, seeing Asian women date people of another race. It just personally sucks to grow up and through Western media and see Asian women always following for a white guy and then doing so in IRL. Oh, because yeah, it is true in commercials and everything you see, definitely that couple. It's very common. Would you agree that this was more moderate pro-Asian male the other way, but not, but still a little balanced? That seemed more fair, you know what I mean? It seemed more neutral. And I don't know, I think it's one of those things where people grow up with white males being the lead role, like the Caprio or something like that. So I think that's why- Because we're living in Western society right now. So I think that's why the wiring of people's brain, I think that they're attracted to that more. Yeah, I mean, obvious, I always think media plays a part. Of course, media influences your life, but also it's just like your environment, you know?  Like they can all still find those guys attractive, but they still like to date Asian men. What did you think about his comment where he said, due to the media of seeing Asian women always being paired with white guys, that's why that's the only one that triggers me. I never get triggered when I see an Asian woman out with a black or a Latino guy. Or like the Arab guy or something like that. Because they're saying that there's no media context to make him feel bad about that. But you know what I do, and I understand why this is, but I kinda hate that we have to put so much focus on white dudes. But of course, I know why we do, because that's the most common couple that we see. Like interracially, that's a very common couple. Then we see that everywhere. Yeah, no, it's specifically Anglo-Skando. I mean, I've looked it down before.  That's true. If you're white and watching all this, you're probably like, I don't know what you want from me, dude, I'm just fucking... I'm just living my life. Yeah, I'm killing it, dude. I'm laundry. Like, hey, man. I'm killing it, dude. You want me to just like... Yeah, I'll just laundry. Play the white guy real quick. Hey man, white guy, you're like dating a lot of Asian women. What's up with that? What should I do? How should I feel? I don't know. Maybe you should get surgery or something. It's pretty nice, dude. Killing it with these odd Asian chicks. I think a good-looking white Chad, if they're like, got some swag or whatever, they date anybody. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, you know what I mean? And you know what it is? I don't always want to focus on Asian and white, but like, it is like... I mean, they just date a lot of ethnic women. Anyways, guys, let's get into a firmly pro-male Asian... So like we said, we had moderate comments supporting both sides. This is more firmly in one camp. I think it's an interesting dynamic worth talking about. I come from a perspective that Asian-American guys have been unfairly placed lowest in the attraction dating pool due to all types of biases, and white guys are at the top. And they could plausibly date any race that they want. So every time an Asian girl dates a white guy, that's one less option for the Asian guy, and the pool for us just gets smaller and smaller. That is true. You know, statistically on dating apps, Asian men have the least amount of like matches. Yeah. percentage-wise.  Right, they're saying they compare those dynamics, right? It's also like this, you know, I don't want to fall into this like victim mentality, but it's just the truth. Right, right. You're all about saying the truth, but they're not caring about it, right? I feel like that's like... No, I feel like that's like... David's funny, dude. You're like saying, yeah, there's, you know, that's the macro score. That's how many homeruns Barry Bonds has, or like McGuire has, but like, who cares?  Dude, was that you back in school? You're like, grades, yeah, grades, but who cares? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And grades do determine the college you get into, and the college you get into does determine a lot of your life. But who cares, dude? But going off of Nelson Young's comment... Who we know personally. Yeah, Nelson's a good guy, but I think there was actually a debate underneath his comment that was like, well, why do you feel like Asian women are in your pool? Why don't Asian men just be dating all different types of women? And then there was a whole conversation to be like, well, a lot of non-Asian women don't like Asian men. Now, it's increasing, we understand. The times are changing. It's changing as 2023, the extrapolation of the trend. Like I said, guys, Asian men, just trust me, you're in a way better position than it was 15 years ago. So cherish this moment and keep the ball rolling. But yes, it's true that less Asian women are interested in Asian men. I do think, and I'll always say this about Asian dudes, I do think they focus on Asian women, maybe a notch more than they should. Like they're like, oh, I only want to date them. What do you mean you're saying they have the blinders on to the whole field? Yeah, yeah, like open yourself up just a little bit more, that's fair. This is an interesting point because you were bringing up the similar situation of I guess black males date out a lot more than black females do, and Asian females date out a lot more than Asian-American males do. This is a comment from a black woman herself. This is the same argument with black men who don't date black women. It's really sad what colonialism has done to all of us. This is from a black woman.  You should put a lot of the clapping hands. So this is kind of going back to the whole like what the Filipino guys said in the beginning where he was like, listen, Asian women, date who you want to date, but you just don't gotta diss Asian dudes, don't diss Asian, what's the point? What does that do? Why?  Everybody's fine. We're not stopping you from doing anything, but can you just stop talking about talking down on Asian men? It's like we live in America, dude.  Like and you God forbid you date. It's like, why live here then? Are you saying it's like the food court? Like you walk into a food court and there's all these different stalls?  You're like, then why do we come to the food court? I don't remember. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. But isn't it a little bit, I'm playing the devil's advocate here. Isn't it a little bit different than a food court? Cause a food court, they always want you to be their customer. But I feel like a lot of Asian guys feel like, it's almost like they had, they got into the food court and they were like getting denied access to some of the other food stalls from other international food courts. I'm not saying this show, I'm just saying this is the perception. No, that's the problem with analogies. It's not going to be a hundred percent accurate. You know what I mean? You're doing great. I'll just course in the food all, everybody is like coming, going, going. Yeah, but I think that, he's doing that thing like food courts don't have feelings, you know what I mean? Well, there's people outstanding outside of the store. Me like, come here, eat here, man. You, are you hungry? Right. You want the teriyaki chicken? Oh, you want the, you want that? I would say it's almost more like if you're pledging a fraternity or sorority, getting like a bid from some sort of exclusive club, right? Well, that's why a lot of Asian guys are moving outside of the country and going to Latin America, where they feel like- Passport pros, baby! I knew we were going to bring this up. Like they feel, they feel like by going elsewhere in the world that, you know, that food stall is being like, hey, we're welcoming everybody. Come on down, boys. Or like, maybe they don't sound like that because they're more like- Yeah.  Papi, papi, papi, chino, papi, chino, papi.  After a certain point, it just sounds like a bunch of dudes that don't get laid. Yeah? She just sounds so bitter after a while. I see where you're coming from now, for sure, for sure. I mean, I used to be the same way. I think it also comes down to like, sometimes you have to do reflection on yourself and maybe be like, maybe I just don't have good games. You know what I mean? Because I used to say this thing when Stop Asian Hate was a thing. I made a video. I was like, Stop Asian Hate.  How about we do that? You were encouraging that as a way to contribute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to donate to this charity, whatever, right? It's also, I don't know, it's like, like I said, with the keeping score thing, like with dating, it's weird. It's like, where do you draw the line?  You know, it's like, you just keep track of every time someone hops out of their race. Yeah? I don't know, I think, dude. Where do you draw the line on that? I know where you're coming from. I know where you're coming from. Somebody said, I don't feel like it's actually internalized racism. It's more just like trauma from my own experiences. I no longer want to be part of the Asian culture or the Asian world.  Mine is enough to deal with. I just don't like the culture. And to your point, it's almost like the food court analogy. So this does end up fitting. Like I'm tired of being Asian, walking into the international food court and eating Asian. That's what they said? That's what these girls said. Oh, I think I found a match. I like, you know, I think there's so many reasons and I think some reasons sound more legit than others. I think this reasons, I give it like five or six out of 10. It's not a horrible reason. I've heard it before. You can't deny it. This is based in like legitimacy. You know what? And if this is how they feel, I don't want to take that away from them. Obviously the whole like, oh, they look like my brother thing. I was like, how many brothers you got?  But- Everybody from the same ethnicity actually looks like- Yeah, but I understand where, cause maybe if they go to that Asian food stall and then the Asian service is like so overbearing, like, how well you want to eat, huh? Come on, come on, hurry up. Okay. Okay. Well, you're Asian like, and then they just speak to them in the, in like their Asian language. And then it's like very uncomfortable for them and then Asian girls just say, I don't want it. According to Dorel Rivera's logic, you can go to any other food court. You can go to the burgers and fries or the steak and frites food court stall, but you just can't keep dissing on the teriyaki. Yeah, don't- Don't diss over it. That's what he was saying. He was like saying, listen yo, you want to go over there? Interesting. I can't say anything, but just don't be over there. Yeah. Leave a negative one star, Yelp reviews all day. You know why you can't diss the teriyaki stall when you eat at the Jamaican stall or the burger spot? Is because everybody else in the food court is going to see you talking trash about the teriyaki spot.  Oh, well, maybe, maybe I don't want teriyaki. Yeah. That girl's talking trash on it. I heard like the chicken, I guess is like kind of dry and they give you small pieces. So I'm not going to go. Yeah, you're right. That's, I heard to have small pieces. This girl, hey, just don't create different IP addresses. Get the VPN so you can leave multiple views, guys. This girl said men consistently degrade women via this type of racism. And I'm not interested in male tears at all. The energy you're receiving from Asian women is the energy that you gave Asian women for decades and centuries. This is the sins of a father approach because it is true. We would all agree that Asia, it varies country to country is more patriarchal though, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's very traditional. So what do you think about the argument is like, this is just a get back for how you guys did us.  Like I'm saying the Western world, you want to point out all the things that they were doing too. I don't want to go tit for tat history. For history point, let's not do that because trust me, it's going to get really, really crazy, but I just think that, like I think this attitude from this person, like I support a lot of Asian women's opinions on this, but I'm not sure about this one. I'm not all about this one. Right, because it seems a little bit unfair you're saying because the whole globe was patriarchy. She's like, for a century, you did this and then I'm like. I don't know. I mean, she said, I don't know. I thought her point, I give it a five out of 10. Well, you can't. Yeah. The Western world was super like, you know, misogynistic and patriarchal. Racist too. What are you talking about? Like yeah, super racist and super problematic. White guys have only been liking Asian women for maybe like 50, 60 years now. Right? Well, it's because they weren't available to them. Or they were like enemies in a war too. Well, that too. Yeah. Well, yeah. It's tough to say. Listen, listen. Was that Tom Cruise movie real? Was it where he was like the last ever ride? Was that fake? Dude, nobody's getting mad at women who date a man for a better life. Like that makes total sense. Like if you feel more comfortable or you feel safer or you feel more accepted, that's fine. Like no one's arguing with that. Right. Well, I think that this goes into the whole like hypergamy thing dating up because this leads to our next comment saying this guy said, Oh, please date outside their race. Let's be real. Asian girls only go for white guys. I don't see them with black, brown, Latino or South Asian men. Like it's only the top of society. White guys. They haven't been to New York City. Everybody's dating everybody out here. Right. More so. But you know what I mean? I'm talking about, you know, on the people keeping the macro score, I guess, tracking in their mind, is that true that it's mostly just like tall, anglo or scandal dudes? That's all. I mean, that's all I see. Yeah. Nothing, there's anything wrong with that. Yeah. I would more say that that's the majority distribution.  Also, too, it's like at a certain point, you just, like I said, you sound like. Why are you sort of him? Why don't you feel like that's kind of like what you sound like when you keep, not you, but the people? Right, right, right. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, no, no, for sure. Somebody just said, what a generalization. I know a lot of Asian women who prefer dating Asian men or minority due to cultural issues. Nothing against white folks, but that wouldn't work for me. And then someone said, yeah, it's actually more about height.  Do they? I feel like Asian dudes are a little above average. Like I'm 5'11". Yeah. Korean guys are kind of tall, though. Yeah, so wait, wait, I'm 5'8". Where's your, where's your, where's your white girl? Where's your balacruz? No, I was, I'm. Which type of girls do you mostly date? Because it is true, it's true at 5'11". You do have more of a, you know what I mean? Like you have more options. You got more options. 5'11 Asian guy, yeah. You think so? I would say so. You guys mean that? Yeah. I think, I generally, I would say this though. Andre, you got potential, man. You know, to this point, to this point, I will agree with this. I think that height has as much, if not just potentially with some girls, even more to do with their attraction than race. Really? Like people, a lot of, you know, different people hard filter, like women hard filter for particularly like height and race. I don't think, I think the Asian guys height does not change the internalized self-hate, but I think it changes how much non other types of women might like Asian guys. So it would open up the options for other types of women if Asian dudes were taller. I think so. I'll be honest. I don't, I don't see height. You're height blind. But girls though are not. Oh, they see it. They see it.  Moving on to this next one. Somebody said it actually has to do with Asian guys not liking different types of women. They only like glamorous fob chicks or ABGs. So actually I'm more of like a bohemian like writer type.  Oh, I love that. Like thrift, thrift shop, you know. Oh, yeah. Like, because that's the type that likes comedians. Yeah. But like, I'm saying that like they were saying that they never felt the love from the Asian guys that they felt attracted to and that they were all the Chad Asian guys were only into ABGs or like, you know, K-pop stars. I think, I think there's truth to this. I agree with this. You didn't like me begging it. Well, you didn't like me. You didn't show me any love. And it's like, I see what you're saying where it's kind of like, well, the Asian guys didn't show me love growing up. So now I don't like them anymore. Yeah. And then the Asian guys like, what? How come you don't like Asian dudes, man?  I can't see it any other way than that right now.  Yeah. The stubby. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then somebody, another girl said, I am a very thick Cambodian woman and growing up Asian men we hung out with didn't appreciate this full body woman. So I found men that did.  Yeah, he probably couldn't handle you. Yeah. You're too big. I mean, don't blame someone. But I feel like Cambodian dudes would be into the thick girls. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, listen, if that's their experience, I'm not taking that away. Do you think Asian guys are shooting themselves in the foot by only going forward?  But like, what is that? No, you're just not, you know, you're not feeling a major, a little bit of an outlier. I'm just saying, like, do you think Asian guys shoot themselves in the foot by only liking, like, just Hiori or or ABG 10 out of 10? What's Hiori? You don't know who Hiori is? No, I don't know anything. Any references, you guys. Oh, I swear to God. Yeah, yeah. But no, to your point, I do think they, I think it is they do shoot themselves in the foot, for sure. Yeah, this is, we're getting our last couple of comments, guys. Andrew, whites are still at the top of the societal food chain here in North America. Women have always been hypergamous. They have the right to like whoever they want. But aside from physical attributes, I suspect that a lot of Asian women also like white men for the societal status boost. They can enjoy the fruits of white privilege that the man gets. My sister married a white man. And some Asian girls I've known also refuse to date Asians because of their poor relationship with their fathers growing up. There's multiple reasons. But I think that that is one that a lot of people do not like to talk about as much. Well, I guess we'll see how much self-hatred there actually is as the generations go on. And then you can't blame it on the overly traditional Asian dad anymore. So I guess we'll see in 10, 15 years when Asian people like us and like the 40-year-old guys that are not super traditional have kids. And then we'll see how mixed the world can be, you know? Right. Yeah, it's like, how much longer can you use that excuse? Right, right, right. Now there was like a ton of other comments, guys. We could just go on. What if they start using an excuse? My grandfather was really overly traditional.  My great-grandfather was way too traditional for an Asian dad. It's in our DNA. You know, they started doing that then. What do you think about this comment from some Asian women that said Asian women here? It's not just about being ripped and having tattoos, because I'm not really into that. It's mostly attitude. Asian guys tend to be shy and awkward and timid, and they don't take rejection well. That is why a lot of Asian girls end up with white guys, because white guys go and talk to them and hit on them and fail, but also succeed a lot.  That's what I was saying before. You should self-reflect. Maybe it's you. Right, you're saying you don't have game. You're not smooth. You're not being proactive enough. You're not being proactive. You don't know how to text well. You're taking everything personally. Maybe you're too clingy. You know what I mean?  Right, right. For sure. I guess, Andrew, let's just get into the takeaways. Like I said, we can just go around and talk about this forever because there's so many endless amounts of comments. This might want to say for Nexshark, 3,000 comments is like almost some of the most I've ever seen. So it goes to show you clearly a lot of people have a lot of opinions on this topic. The gender wars of the community. It just keeps continuing. Asian men versus Asian women. I think that my overall takeaway, guys, we're going to wrap up this video. Gosh, we talked about it for 30 minutes. We could keep talking about it. I think that when you diss your counterpart of the community, you are dissing yourself, too. And I think that as long as you disrespect Asian men or if you're disrespecting Asian women, it's all going to come back around onto you. And people are not going to respect you. Personally, I think it's going to show.  Especially within your community, but also everybody else. I wanted to circle back and I hope I don't get canceled for this, but I want to circle back to my Peter Dinklage and Dwarf comment, because I actually don't believe that the Asian community is dwarves. And let's just say Anglo-Saxons or white people are regular people. But I could see that some people, the main vitriol on the internet from Asian guys is towards girls who do feel that way. You know how like everybody, like there's like a variance. I'm saying that like, I think the variance between like the Asian community and the Western community, let's just say at a top end, it's more like Lexuses versus BMWs and Mercedes. You know how those are all good cars, but some girls, they, even if they're Asian, they only want Mercedes and BMW. You know what I mean? Because even though Lexuses, you could argue are like even more reliable and like got more gadgetry, nothing can be the elegance of a BMW, you know? I feel like, so, but I'm saying that I think anger from Asian guys is, and I can't speak on all of them. Definitely some of them are problematic. Definitely there is toxic Asian male attitudes, but I want to say that it's more like, they're like, dang, you're Asian and you didn't even want to give these Lexuses and Accura as a shot. Like you just thought they were just, you know what I mean? I did the work. I was a Honda, I was a Toyota, but I upgraded myself. I got a good job. I go to the gym. And you still don't want to test drive? You know what I'm saying? Like I'm not the Corolla. I went from the Corolla to the Corolla XSEs to now I'm a Lexus ES 300 and you still don't want me because you want the old BMW, you know what I mean from like 1999. You didn't even want to take out a short-term 24-month lease on me.  I think that that's the only thing that I think is in the community. But I guess, like you said, if I was gonna give advice to Asian guys, I would say, let's say for example, you're born a Hyundai, like a base model, right? Or you're born a base model Corolla.  You know how the Genesis is that whole.  They're all of them. Even the sedans, the SUVs, all the Genesis's are good. So I feel like you gotta do that, Andrew, but you just can't worry about the girls that are obsessed with having a BMW or a Mercedes. Yeah, you mean just the ones that are open to it? Because there's some that are not open to it and just don't worry about them. Yeah, because what can you do mechanically? So anyway guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below. Andre. Was he just like our last thoughts? Yeah.   And you just really gotta be careful of not becoming what you hate. You know what I mean?  You know what I mean? It's like you start doing that thing. So you'd be like an Asian supremacist is still in the similar thinking as a white supremacist. That's what I'm saying. You're different, but there's a similar dynamic.   You know what I mean? Yeah, I agree with what you're saying. So you are more of an advocate for Asian guys, be in lexices to get sold up, go drive or get sold to other communities. Yeah. Go eat at the other food stalls. Yeah, go have a good time. Hey. What? Andre Kim, no, I believe you. Okay, okay. I think there's multiple sides to this issue and multiple ways to feel about it. But like you said, you can't change what people like. So you gotta just become what some other people like. It also has nothing to do with you what someone else does with their dating. You know what I mean? So it's like, why even bother? For sure. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. We're gonna leave it right there. Let us know in the comments down below. And thank you for watching the Hop Hop Boys until next time. Oh, check out Andre Kim stuff. I'll leave his Instagram down below. And until next time, we out. Peace.


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A member representing Ohaji Egbema, Oguta and Oru West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and member of the PIB committee, Uju Kings-Lichima, has hinted that a passing of the Petroleum Industry Bill is the greatest achievement of the Night House of Representatives. He said this while explaining the benefits of the bill to the media at the National Assembly. The lawmaker says the bill, when finally passed and ascended to by the President, will make the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, accountable to Nigerians and fully commercialized. This according to him will subsequently provide a very organized governance policy in the oil and gas sector. What the National Assembly or the bill has been able to serve is, Oguta, don't worry, keep whatever thing you feel can expand in your prosy, in quotes, security management. Now the host communities becomes your own security in times of managing your assets within that locality. And what this means is with the 5%, the host communities should be able to provide electricity within the context of their fund available, should be able to talk about infrastructure like roads, should be able to talk about scholarships, should be able to talk about even having internal security within the local village. And this is one of the greatest achievements of this bill, is not only going to give you opportunity, opportunity to get more funds, but it's going to bring stability in the oil and gas sector and provide security within the oil region of Nigeria.


From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Oh, hi, Tom. What's up at the moment 50,000 bucks worth of life insurance? Oh, yeah We got a policy for that amount in the life of one Edward Russell Russell never heard of him She the beneficiary right so what do you want from me? Well, how do you know anything did maybe he just walked out on his wife For what I can gather Russell was a hothead could be had one argument too many Yeah, it still could be just a guy getting away for a while a car in a storage garage in Colorado Springs. Oh It turned up this morning with part of his luggage in it interested I'm on my way Tonight and every week day night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. It's truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to amalgamated life associates home office Hartford, Connecticut Following is an accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Crystal Lake matter Expense account item one a hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents plane fare and incidentals to Denver Tom Wilkins hadn't given me much to go on so I figured the logical place to start was with the missing man's wife Leona Russell Their house was in a moderately prosperous suburb of Denver a white ranch house with a shake roof Everything looked neat and well kept but somehow a forlorn feeling came through to me about the place Then the door opened Right away. I was sure something pretty bad had happened to Edward Russell You don't just walk out on a wife who looked like that Yes, Mrs. Neona Russell. Yes, I'm Johnny dollar insurance investigator. Oh, yes, mr. Dollar Mr. Wilkins sent a telegram about you. Won't you come in? Thanks? Cooler in here. I try to keep the house shut up during the day. It helps Please sit down. Oh, thank you I've already told the police what little there was to tell when I filed the They missing persons report. Oh, sure. This is just a routine investigation, Mrs. Russell You probably don't feel too much like talking about it But if you wouldn't mind going over what information there is again Well It was just a week ago that Ed Mr. Russell left you were here when he left. Yes He told me he was driving up to Boulder on business that he'd only be gone overnight. What sort of business is he in? He's in real estate older, huh? But his car was found in Colorado Springs. I know I Can't explain that When he didn't come home on time I got worried I'd call the hotel in Boulder. He never checked in there Yes, I see Did he know anyone in Colorado Springs? Just business contacts as far as I know He might have decided to go there instead of Boulder, but he would have called me, but he didn't know I Haven't heard a thing from him since he drove away from here a week ago Mrs. Russell, do you happen to know if your husband had any well enemies? No Ed was pretty impulsive you might even say hotheaded, but I just can't believe that anyone would hate him enough to To do anything to him. Well, we don't know that anyone has I know Funny that things that run through your mind at a time like this. Uh-huh. What sort of things? It sounds funny, but I've almost been wishing it was in an accident or something like that In a hospital where he might not have a chance to call me, but at least was safe and alive You've checked the hospitals all of them I Did that before I filed the missing persons report Tell me had your husband and been unusually depressed before he left If you're suggesting that Ed did away with himself That's just not possible. Mr. Dollar That's one thing he'd never do. He just wasn't built that way Everything was fine between you two. Yes Of course, we had disagreements arguments in the six years. We've been married who hasn't But nothing serious. I Guess I'm I'm not being very helpful to you, Mr. Dollar. Well, I'm sure that's not your fault You've no idea at all where he could be then or what could have happened. No none at all except except what well, I don't know if it means anything or not, but I I found this under some of Bill's papers on his desk just this morning travel folder Crystal Lake Where's that? It's a resort up in the mountains as I say, I don't know whether it means anything or not Has he ever been there before? Not that I know I'll mention it to you. No, I don't I'm sure he hasn't Well, I'll check it out Thanks, Mrs. Russell. Oh just one more thing. Yes, you're the beneficiary of his life insurance policy Yes, I Know what you're thinking, Mr. Dollar. I'm not thinking anything. I'm just asking questions. It's my job. I know But let me ask you a question, Mr. Dollar Do you think $50,000 or any amount of money could possibly make up for for it One thing about my job you have to ask such nice questions sometimes After Leonel Russell's answer that didn't seem to be much left to say So I told her I'd let her know if I found out anything and I left I Looked at the travel folder again Crystal Lake pretty slim lead, but when you have nothing to go on anything at all looks promising Expense account item to $45 and 20 cents. I rented a car and drove to Crystal Lake It was a beautiful spot 7,000 feet high clean thin air fragrant pines and the clearest water this side of the Jackson Hole country I Parked a moment and looked out over the lake Great place to drop a hook But I had a strong hunch that the fishing I'd be doing was of a little different variety One thing was obvious. There was a lot of money up here Most of the cabins would be insulated to be called cabins and had their own boat landings The village was nestled at one end of the lake a colorful collection of Swiss chalets I had it for the office of the local law deputy sheriff named Ansel Garrett Tall thin rob-on lad in his early 30s who looked like he'd spent all but the first few hours of his life in the open clear keen eyes that showed he had his wits about him Have a seat dollar. Thanks Edward Russell you said yeah, that's right Disappeared about a week ago left home in Denver hasn't been heard from since So so he could have come here. His wife found a travel folder about Crystal Lake in his papers It's supposed to prove something. No, it doesn't prove anything ants, but it's my only lead Yeah, take a look at this picture You recognize him yeah looks sort of familiar you've seen him up here at Crystal Lake Yeah, I think so four or five days ago. Oh, what do you know looks like my luck's changing I hit the jackpot of my first nickel. Well depends on what jackpot you're talking about Johnny What do you mean? Well for one thing I could be wrong about the identification I guess you haven't been wrong about many of them in your time. I suppose he was the guy so what? Why are you looking for him anyway? May need to find out if he's still alive What makes you think he's not nothing definite, but a hunch that's getting stronger by the minute. Oh Insurance investigators are operating on hunches these days. Huh once in a while just like deputy sheriff's hands Yeah, all right, so hunches sometimes do pan out, but you could be way out in the pasture Johnny Maybe the guy just had an argument with his wife and he walked out. Oh sure. Yeah, I thought of that But then I saw his wife Nobody in his right mind would walk out on her Like that like that Look ants. Can you give me any dope on this guy? No, not much. He came to see me about five days ago Why you're mainly to ask me a silly question silly. Yeah He asked me if there was a guy named bill around Crystal Lake somewhere. Oh, I take it there's more than one No fistful Johnny bill Cullen who tends bar at the hotel bill Jensen who runs the boathouse bill pickings who clerks at the hardware Yeah, okay. Okay, I get the idea. I take it Russell didn't know which bill he wanted, huh? No Well, at least I know he was here at Crystal Lake now You were you haven't seen him since huh? Yeah, just once that same night. He was in the bar at the hotel talking to Betty Norton who she heirs to the Norton estate Mining she's got a big place in the other side of the lake near lookout point No, anything about it fuel. I want to oh he travels at a pretty good clip. I see Well, thanks for the information. It's you know, what are you gonna do now try to find Edward Russell alive or otherwise That the hunch of yours still operating. It hasn't gotten any weaker. Oh just one thing Johnny This is a pretty high-grade resort here. Things are nice and peaceful. I Yeah, I like to keep it that way sure so don't go off half cocked, huh? For instance For instance, don't start accusing anybody of murder unless or until you find a body And if I do find a body, oh then looks like we'll have to start doing a little accusing I left Ansel Garrett's office and walked around the village All I knew so far was that Edward Russell or somebody who looked like him had been in Crystal Lake several days ago inquiring about a man named Bill and then he'd been at the bar with a dough heavy girl named Betty Norton There were a flunk of bills in town, but there was only one Betty Norton So I decided to start with her I drove around the lake to her home an elaborate large-type place that sprawled along the shore Betty was down on her boat dock in a bathing suit, and she was a pretty elaborate looking job herself I was just going for a swim. Come on join me. I'm sorry miss Norton. I'm not equipped at the moment Oh, there's some trunks in the dressing room. Yeah, well look, I'd like to talk to you about something But I don't feel like talking right now. I feel like swimming, but this is important So is swimming. If you want to talk to me, you've got to go swimming first Okay, we'll play it your way. That's the only way I ever play it. Mr. Dollar So we went swimming and I swam hard But mainly to keep from freezing to death The water should have been accused by the feel of it, but Betty seemed to think it was normal After a while we climbed back on to the wind Wonderful, huh? Here's a towel It's great sure only about 20 degrees too cold Makes the sun feel better hot and cold Johnny contrast That's what puts the charge in life. Is it I wouldn't know Hey, look, do you mind now if I ask you a couple of questions go ahead? You know a man named Edward Russell. I Don't think so. I think you do you had a drink with him at the hotel several nights ago So this I do once in a while am I supposed to remember all of them this one might have mentioned he was looking for a guy named Bill Well, I remember now he thought the bartender might be the one he was looking for Bill Collins. So what happened? How should I know I left you haven't seen Russell since no Haven't missed him either.  Oh, we met Well, uh, what do you do with your spare time? Well a I don't expect to have much and B isn't that sort of a leading question. I'm pretty good at leading You must have trouble finding guys to dance with huh? Why don't you try it sometime? Huh I left on this feeling like a fly who spotted the web at the last moment and Right now I was feeling just about as useless as a fly to I wasn't getting even close to locating Edward Russell Went back to my room in the phone Johnny dollar and scared Johnny Sheriff's office. Oh, hi. Well, you can quit looking for Russell. We found him Well, that's good news. Is it now? Here's our start to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story tomorrow Cabin with a lovely view of a beautiful like a nice comfortable quiet spot for murder Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by Robert wife It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking