locks in here One wing comes around and locks in here So that covers Sort of this half What's going on behind? Well, there's no wings behind. It's just his pack And then the shield on top So the force that comes down on him is going to come down On almost honestly specifically what connects the pack to his back Like that's gonna like come down real hard.  I just said Gotta gotta We we we just we know that this is not how it works like they say it but it's not true It's just like ant-man all over again like um If the shield is literally magic and anything that it hits the force of it just disappears into nothing It's like we wouldn't see everything that always fucking happens throughout all of you know the films Um, but it is pretty amusing the idea that the helicopter is like you could drop a planet onto the shield And it'll just bounce off because that's just like how it works.    So hey it can't absorb So it can't absorb the shock of the shield. Yeah Um, yeah, this was pretty funny Um, but it's not as bad as the one to come at least in the sense of the payoff because this is like a quick like It's fine. I just deflect myself from the dowjers. Anyway, moving on. We got to go. Okay So yeah falcons done his helicopter mission now. No wait, he hasn't even finished it yet He has to get the other people because that was just the nypd portion of it. Um So, you know, we're getting there.  The flag smashes drop some concrete blockades in front of these guys cars or trucks, I guess, um So the first thing I think I was saying we'll be watching this. I was like reverse reverse Yeah, just break and go in reverse because you can't keep going forwards You definitely don't want to just drive right up to it.   You think they'd train you for things like this as an armored car driver or just common sense So all of the flag smashes very slowly make their way to the doors Now the armored truck drivers, they got their big brains on They're like well as much as these super soldiers may be able to breach our doors We have guns so we'll just aim them right in the door because this is gonna be easy shooting fish in a barrel Yeah, this is easy. You wouldn't be able to miss if you were blind here The door swings open any moment now. There it is. See oh, oh, no, this guy hadn't gotten his gun out yet Oh, that's why makes you wonder what you were doing because you certainly weren't focused on driving So and then he has a clear shot. It's just like look at this.  He did what like the greatest soldiers ever could just have a gun He just pointed a gun and shot her and then and then he's like, well, yeah, he's confused why he's hailed as such a hero Like he did something amazing. I was like, well, yeah, I just I shot it with my gun. That's why we have him Do you guys not do that really dumb? Yeah, surprise. She's a lot made it this far, honestly And yeah, so they've taken the truck they're about to leave but here he is bucky coming to save the day does a There's a wheelie and launches himself into I think that's the australian one To start fighting and I remember when we were watching this I was like, this is the finale episode These are the bad guys. He's the good guy. Can he finally be competent? Can he beat the please could he finally punch them would actually like make a difference?  She's like we gotta I think she says something like we've got to distract him So she wants to set one on fire to get him to go after it while they they take the other right? Is that the idea? Yeah, like we got to give them people to rescue or something These pesky superheroes let's threaten some civilians.  He actually cares. Nice. Um Immediately runs up to it. I thought it was a little bit weird, right? So you've got the truck is on fire. The civilians are screaming. I get it. You want to save them? It's surrounded by like five super soldiers Do you immediately go and try and open the door or do you think like, hmm?  I feel like you kind of have to right but Yeah, I'll stop you. They kind of disappear You look at the shot. They're just gone I mean, it's almost kind of like, you know, the whole put that put the little mask that drops down on your head first Because if you're dead, you can't help anyone Yeah So, um, I think we're supposed to believe that they're kind of leaving Which is like, okay bucky's busy with this truck now. So what we're going to do? How are they going to stop the people? What hero can save the day while bucky is busy? You know what?    She says like Lamar didn't matter and his response is like, you think he didn't matter? It's like, yeah, that's one to one.  Also, this is cursed John right now Yeah, that's uh, that's scary John Yeah, we got so much on over here Um, so yeah knowing that he has the the serum and uh, and he's he's on is like if you could say it up like We were still worried that Because of this show you could have him like still go nuts and like tear you're apart and then be covered in blood Screaming saying i'm captain america still you'd be like, eh Let's hope that They do it all right, but uh, they do pretty pretty pretty okay and good. He has a full on fight He honestly like tangles with multiple of them at the same time and he even fights kind of sort of with bucky Which is nice too Um, and just any oh my god, dude. Carly hits his shield with her foot away And it's like it like bounced on the floor. This is her face after doing it.  She's so smug.   It's uh Yeah, you would think so Yeah, um, so I think went to soldier blasts it open and uh This is where you could sort of make a criticism of character I don't know really what it means exactly instead of going to save the people in the other one.   Um, and you get this little moment. I'm pretty sure it's very deliberate Where someone says like thank you for saving our lives to to bucky and bucky's like whoa And I'm I'm guessing like what they're probably going for here is like you see bucky's being recognized as a hero now Not as the as the winter soldier He's done this a lot He's done a lot of good things. I'll allow it. I guess um I have to keep turning a copyright on and off just to protect us from the evilness. Oh, no The evil disnoids. Oh, no Oh Yeah, and so then uh bucky does Kind of save walker from possibly getting hit by something big and it's just like oh my god This is nice. They're finally fighting together against the actual bad guys Because This is the thing they've been in action scenes together before but this never felt like they're working together It's always felt like bucky reluctantly accepts that walker is in the room with him. It's like, okay Um, so this is he hits.  It's very sad Oh, yeah, that felt good every hit she sustains is like yes I think we laughed when this happened. So yeah the the construction site like Suddenly a huge feet So it's yeah, uh, basically I'll take the copper off of this Well, okay very tired, but we're all of us get there. It's all good.  Oh wait, we got knocked for a really far back now. Damn it I'll control all of these things all at once. He gets he gets kicked, I guess and um, he Just falls off into a construction site and falls really far down Before you can accept that, you know, like, oh no bucky's out of the fight now. Is he okay? You don't really know. It's quite the fault.   Here he comes This man is committed. It's like, okay, but I don't know. I feel like This might cause problems for you. Why would you want to jump down? What do you want to stay out?  It's like that that does not seem like a good plan of attack There goes his legs. Yep I just it's like 80 feet like usually when Steve or bucky like jumped high distances like they would tuck and roll. There's none of that. He lands on his legs I'm like, I that should break him. I know he's like a super soldier, but dude You wouldn't walk after that. Oh You have to have limits. Jesus remember bullets kill them.   He just looks at it and goes.   He's a great experience. Well, I don't know We got to delay him.   It's cracked. Yeah You see chair types furniture types are very strong against Shield types Yeah, it only makes it Yeah, um He eventually gets back out saves the day helicopter stuff is done. We really really really don't care Um Walker, I think I even said whatever it cut back to falcon. I was like, I don't care He's gonna save the helicopter people. Can you go back to walker fighting? Carly, please That's like the most investment.  Um, obviously walker goes through one There's a different one that I'm much more interested in and I find absolutely hilarious from like a storytelling point of view Carly think I know what you're talking about Carly's hit a couple times. Everyone's down walk is really happy She gets up and she looks right and this is this is her villain choice moment and it's hilarious to think about, okay She looks at walker Then she looks at the nypd truck and she hears screaming now With everything we know about her what's going through her head right now is Damn it.   There's so This is what I mean about how she's like absolutely reprehensible.  It is weird things to do Because like even with the music it's very much portrayed as like a damn carly. You got to get on point.  Exactly. Yeah Um and so really frustratingly she kicks walker in the head and he's basically out for a moment And I remember us being so upset.  It's Uh It sucks when I'm like this so clearly telegraphed and it just happens and like, oh, they just they just needed him out of the Scene, that's just all that there is to it.  I don't know if you've ever seen like there's there's always like Well funny slash horrifying depends on where you're going Uh, like if if a steel beam falls off like a truck on a like a motorway And it if a car is it anyway heading toward it that car is going to get shredded by the steel beam It's just like it just destroys it cuts right through because steel beams are just there's there's a reason they construct everything with them They're pretty strong um But this car it's it's going at like 15 miles per hour. It's really slow And it just cuts through it like a bit of butter now There's probably some arguments to be it looks like it disconnects it in that moment there But then they show a better shot and you can see it just tears through it. It's a bit of a weird It's obviously to give us this epic moment of them slowly falling It's uh, it's it's all setting up for a certain thing to happen The same time doesn't seem like the car will be able to pull this off Um, it sparks through and just tears it open Poor steel beam Actually from this shot it looks like two different steel beams that have been connected by a metal plate with like like bolts But I don't think they commit to that because it looks different at different angles Like it's been torn open Well either way it doesn't really matter because what we're getting at here is that uh the car the truck is going to fall Everyone in there is going to die Hmm What what can be done about this everyone We're gonna have something happen Everyone's very stressed out looking at this scenario. It's like, oh god. Who's gonna save the day? And of course this flag smashes are all like jumping up and down with joy So happy to see all these innocent people die. It's like, yes our plans. So glad. Yeah that thing that we Yeah, we were nervous about this before but we're totally on board now So walker arrives and we get this moment and uh, again, this was another one of those like Oh I was sweating bullets As you can see truck is falling. Walker sees that. He also sees carly is right there. He could kill her He could take his revenge And he even stresses out a little bit and becomes cursed john again because feel See he's trying to he's trying to get rid of the possession that is evil walker. He's trying to get him Um Yeah, he has a resolve he gets lists his head up and he pulls that truck back. He even tosses the shield down There is The shield down. He's just like, you know, what's in in the whole series Yeah, it's good. It's like I I really did good. Yeah Yeah, it is after episode four I really did think they were gonna turn them into like Homeland or captain america.   How do you not done this? They would have died because falcon couldn't have made it in time Yeah, and he doesn't take any of the credit at all. No, he doesn't all of it. It's just like any of the credit Yeah, yeah That's awesome.  I like the character I hope I hope they don't destroy him in future stuff.  Yep The fuckers pull him off and drag him down I meant to feel sad when like they're jumping I uh Yeah, it's not like that. He didn't win the fight with them. It's that he couldn't save them It's like that he thinks he let them down. It's like It's completely. Yeah, I think he drops the shield as you mentioned earlier Which it's funny kind of makes it so that he kind of earns it You know Because he needs to save these people which is what captain america would certainly do Which I seriously doubt is something the writers meant to convey Yeah Because that's the thing is sam.  He does this action. It's like Yeah, I feel like that maybe they were thinking that there would be a contest of sorts between walker and sam to see who was really captain america And this was their visual way of saying oh no walker is not captain america. Don't worry sam's getting the real shield He gets to really be captain america Seriously though like because the scene plays great music from civil war But it plays the wrong track if they're trying to do the reincorporation they played the track when bucky's ripping out the arc reactor Um, it's a great song But it would have been better if they played the song that they played when cap drops the shield when when tony keeps telling him It doesn't belong to him part of the problem with light Well, just the captain america march like his captain america's classic theme that could have been awesome too Oh, yeah, but again they reserve the happy music for falcon So part of the problem with the whole light motif thing is that you can basically do all kinds of mental gymnastics to argue Why that was the perfect song for that scene when you just pull different details and apply them in different ways Um, I honestly would have preferred a new soundtrack like potentially I Feel like a lot of the music in civil war was very much civil war stuff And I could see them bringing it back if there were another civil war story and it had related sort of Things that passed through but like I don't know that walker maybe should have gotten his own theme for this Like, uh, well, he got that star spangled remix one that they played when he goes But which is a really cool song like actually really like but it's too happy and he's he's he's the he's kind of maybe An anti hero even though he's literally not an anti hero.  Yeah He's not a villain. He's a hero and so an anti villain.  So if you have I don't let's say these say you have a What would be you have a a dumbbell? Or what's the ring on it on a barbell? It's called the the weights, right? You have one of those in one hand and you have one on the other hand, right? And in the middle you have a twinkie, right? And so you put the twinkie in between these two big heavy metal discs and you Push one of them towards the other the twinkie is going to get squished Our our boy here sam.   It's got a vibranium cloth around it. So it's fine Oh, okay. Well in that case in that case So the vibranium cloth will be perfectly fine. It will be totally reusable however The thing the thing that the cloth surrounds Is going to be squished like a pancake.   It's not damaged at all The the muffin however, it it's a bit it's a bit mushy Yeah, this lads what we're looking at here. No not happening Sorry falcon. You're dead. This makes no sense. This would not work a falcon cannot do this Yeah for one The whole twinkie example that works under the assumption that we believe that his thrusters can lift a armored car Which I do not believe it's like i'm not sure. Yeah. Yeah We're talking this is filled with people by the way Remember earlier we were discussing whether or not he can carry one person and we have examples of him having done that We're like, yeah, he's I think he's carried one person There's like 10 people in this truck and then the truck Yeah, the truck was falling when he was in free fall.  He is.  And yeah, yeah He is dead 10 ways from sunday as they as they say um And so yeah having all of the pressure going from the thrusters of his back Through to the the arms his hands to the truck. His whole body is getting crushed.  I don't even care what falcons do it right now.  Good job, buddy. Walker had to make the sacrifice like hardcore Not only just in you showed up late.  So and yeah for those who are still Those who are still a little bit like oh, okay. Iron man could do it, but he can't So iron man's suit um is like a mech suit and it's it's what you would call an exoskeleton in a sense that it's all connected via like plates and uh, you know pieces that basically Exert all of the pressure to relies exclusively on the suit not the body inside This is why like in iron man one where the car Is like sent to him. He can grab it and it forces him to go on one knee I think and he's stressed out as fuck, but that's the suit that's carrying it The little fleshy body inside is basically directing where it wants the suit to go We already have this in irl stuff wasn't like like suits where it just makes you stronger What's the cool of duty that first introduced that shit where it's like was it the extra suits? Yeah, yeah, that was an infinite No advanced warfare Yeah, power armor is like the same idea. That's that's kind of how it works. Now. If you look at falcon here He's got cloth on that is not an exoskeleton Not even close And his fingers are bare Yeah, his fingers the fingers are bare. Yeah, there's no exoskeleton or even cloth But the thing with the cloth and I think we covered this but we'll just do another example just in case You have your uh, you you slab of butter. You drop the anvil on it splat However, someone's like well, if I put a vibranium Series of cloths over it. What'll happen? It's like splat. Why wouldn't it be splat? What do you think anything else would happen? It's vibranium. Yeah, the cloth is not rigid It will not support the force It will not bear that force in place of the muffin or the butter. It's some crazy nanotech suit.  Why would you want your fingers exposed? He's got like holes for his ears to stick out of it's like why is the helmet designed this way I don't know if they don't leave his fingers exposed then he can't send text messages Someone said isn't black panther Hey, I have gloves. I have gloves that have the little thingies on the fingers.  I think it'll make sense for you to have that Uh, so someone said isn't black panther suit vibranium cloth.   You know what I mean? Like it's like if I tried to lift a car It doesn't matter how strong I am as a human big. This is impossible and um Like they they clearly want to argue that it's like, oh, you know, well, it was hard for him You know, he had some trouble. He was he was exerting a lot. It's he's dead Stop it It's like no, it was really hard do this you can't survive this this will crush you This will crumple you up His fingers should be pointing in the opposite direction now The only way this works is if the truck is resting on the backpack Yeah, which it's not really here.  That's the problem Oh The last thing uh, he gets his win and that's why he didn't earn it walker totally earned his Falcon didn't he just got the he got paid.  It's like, yeah, you're the hero, buddy And and I and I want to draw attention again to the idea that he's the one who gets all the press He's the one that gets the speech and even gets a nod from walker But walker doesn't do anything for the showboating. He just accepts the fact that he did the right thing Because he doesn't care it's not about the glory boosters on the hood. Well, just lift the hood off the top of it Yeah, it could do and yeah Worth adding walker didn't give his speech of all he thinks is right politically after saving people's lives He just saved people's lives. Yeah. Well, he's white.    It's just falcon There's an amalgamation of black people Look the black people are congregating They wish to comment Uh, yeah, this this scene is bizarre to be so genuinely if we were all standing watching this happen We didn't have any of the context of this actual show. We just saw this happening We saw falcon in this suit and some guy went it's black falcon. I'd be like It's falcon. It's sam wilson falcon.  No, that's captain america I'd be like, no, it's falcon. What what is with you people? It's just falcon He's got wings for christ sake Oh, so cringy because it's like the writers It's like it's like the writers were like see people think it's about race when really it's about I I don't know anymore. I'm confused because all of the characters Random black people They gotta have a comment thing It was wonderful.   I'm gonna do anything Um, unfortunately that would be incorrect. He stands there for a good 15 seconds to let them escape and then says Ah, I can see them with my thermal x-ray vision. Follow me And so that gap gives all of them the time to separate into the proper positions They need to be in for all of the final payoffs Oh boy, I love writing like that. It's always wonderful. It's great I have all the people who shouldn't be familiar with their gear. It's falcon a character who is gear That's all he has is gear. So, uh, we'll do the easy one first. Uh, winter soldier Decides he will go with john because it it comes across as basically right the enemies have gone in two directions And falcon's like they split up because I can tell from my footprint detector um So walker immediately goes one direction that falcon wasn't going and then they both see walker do it and falcon's like I'll go And the implication is like oh, we can't trust walker to be on his own And I like I don't appreciate that. I'm just like, okay, whatever Yeah, you gotta have make sure winter soldier babysits walker. We wouldn't want him to save people's lives or anything Gotta make sure you're Careful about that.  He did it And yeah, so that's the end for them the main the actual story it's falcon running down.  Was she in a boy band? Aaron Carter Yeah Am I thinking of something else someone else I think I think I'm just being I'm just being into someone else. It's fine It'll be Aaron. Uh, so I think it's Aaron Carter There's really bad exposition again. I didn't want to shock you guys too much there. I know I should have warned you so Sharon's like I am just no no carly says I'm disappointed in you Then she's like I'm disappointed in you you came to madrepoor And you were a great student, but then you betrayed me But then she's like I didn't want to do what you would do and I wanted to do my own thing like well well Isn't that something You should come and work for me again these characters would know these things So it wouldn't need to say them to each other. They're not characters the problem The writers would probably just like oh, we should probably explain their history at this point. I guess I don't know. Does anyone care?  Typically with that it's like I have leverage over you now if you make any wrong move I shoot you like I win. Yeah carly decides. No, I'm gonna aim my gun at you And nothing changes Sharon allows this to happen. Yep.  She's dead.  You're just gonna Then it gets even weirder because batrock shows up and he pulls a gun on carly Not quite sure why He says he wants more money from Sharon and if she doesn't give him the money He will reveal to the world that she is the power broker Which has nothing to do with killing carly Yeah, but he pulls the gun on carly and it's really strange. I really don't get why he does it Like I've seen this scene like three times and I'm just like are you doing that? um He's like I want four times what you said you would pay me and then she says like well I'm not okay with extortion, right? And so this happens like try and follow along here because it's really weird He's got his gun on carly Sharon raises hers to shoot batrock. She kills him. I think I can't remember if he's definitely dead But it doesn't really matter. I think he's dead Pretty sure at least So carly then raises her gun and shoots Sharon. Can we pause it right?   Yeah, double damage. I don't know maybe maybe he's got a perk where it's like the more damage you take The more damage your bullet does and so he purposefully damages himself to make this do extra bullet damage to It's called blood merchant Yeah, that slide cut. Oh boy. Yeah, that's I don't even know why he's using a gun man. He should have just brought some chairs down here Sort of kicking those things Yeah, that'd be funny. He's like before they're done with their conversation They hear the sound of like a guy in four chairs scraping against the walls in the floor And he walks in with like six chairs. He's holding them all awkward Just jumps them out on the floor. He's in a kicking position. All right.  It's just like, well, he's at the top of the line. You know, what else do you need? I will come at you. It's like metal fold out ones.   I'm like, yeah, like, yeah, these are really expensive top of the line So anyway, he's gonna kill Carly. Okay. I don't know why Sharon kills him I guess that's because he's trying to extort here. She says I'm not into extortion. So that makes sense But then Carly shoots Sharon Why Yeah, she's Yeah, she's not the one you need to be worried about She's the one who's apparently okay with giving up her position of power over you letting you pull a gun And then she even put her gun down And he's the guy you need to worry about Because he's weirdly pointing one at you for no reason. Dude. Look at this shot. He I think he's got the He's holding on with both arms now. It's kind of a distant job.   It's the only language these people understand Stop saying that Oh And so when we first watch this right you have Sharon is down Bleeding and the power broker stuff is not something Sam knows about Sam walks into this room.   This is canon. Okay. He said earlier in the season Yeah, sorry. I forgot about you. He then baited Help from her by giving her her pardon.  Don't you?   Sharon's so annoying If only now I can de-radicalize you so that we can make babies. That's gotta be it I don't see how it could make sense in any other way And so yeah, he's like, hey, please be nice You gotta I think he says like how many more people have to die before you stop instead of just being like Yeah, so you're insane.    I Snatched other people out of helicopters. I blew up helik remember the first scene of the series was him blowing and shooting up terrorists with missiles and machine guns and So this is right Why is this show trying to like generate so much empathy for her character? It's like what has she done to earn any sense of empathy at all? It's just because the writer agrees with her just not her methods Listen, listen, she has a point. She has a point. I need to do better.  So, you know Friend wasn't important. It didn't matter.  It's like top tier versus No, remember the thing that the guy said that one time Psy Psy indeed It's just it's like it is like civil war and winter soldiers defective cousin. That's just crawling around on the floor and they're like It's like some weird mutant creature from a bio testing laboratory. We're all the same It's like And so yeah, these scenes are separated merely by a scene that we talked about already with Walker and bucky the last thing she said to sam was stay down And then when we cut back to her she is hitting him over and over again shouting fight back Now I don't know about you guys, but those seem like conflicting interests, you know, they do now that I think about it. Oh, no Hey, this wasn't me.  I'm not making fun of anybody's face. Okay.    That's just not possible So well, so it's not really that important because I'm going to make a second point But just I just wanted to clarify. Do we believe that this suit is bulletproof or no? What are you what are you guys right now? I imagine it is It's from Wakanda. I could believe as well. We just need to see it spark a bullet at some point and then it is Um, well, well, honestly, like is sam's original suit vibra. I mean, I don't think so because I'd imagine it was Was it not? It just seemed like I don't I don't know how it makes it clear. I was gonna say I can't even tell. Who knows?  Yeah saving his life as well from the psychopath who is literally about to shoot him Yeah, Sharon just shoots her three times. I think and Then happens what I think everyone can pick different parts for what infuriates them the most But I think I said earlier.  He could not care less about her. It's like what? I can't it's like what were you thinking? I feel so bad for Sharon if someone's like, well, she's a power broker She's evil.  You're right. He doesn't know that He does know that she's evil manner. He does know how evil Carly is. Yes.  You're letting your watch blood pour across the floor.   I made you threaten. I'm sorry.  Watch this. She's like Oh, don't but she's like, oh, they're actually having a moment. I'll just sit here and suffer. It's fine. That is her face She's looking down at it. We're just like, yep, I'm gonna have to sit here for a little longer before he realizes Terrible terrible terrible terrible his character just going up in flames. How does it feel such and such red leather media? Yes I will say I wasn't hugely invested in falcon as a character to begin with but anybody who was I don't know how you could be now I really liked falcon man. I love winter soldier loves civil war and it's like You know, he's largely attached to steve as a character. You kind of like need them to create a dynamic So I wasn't sure how are they how are they're gonna continue along but good god what they did to his character Well, yeah, I think this season could have elevated him to a character I really like instead of just sort of like yeah, he's cool. Yeah, but now I hate him. Yeah Yeah, I don't think I hate him. I'm just like I don't understand why I don't hate him. I hate him. I hate him I I get what you mean. I just it's like I don't even know that I can hate somebody I don't believe exists and you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't believe that you can exist like I don't believe that you exist I can hate someone who isn't real Yeah I know what you mean fringy like he just doesn't seem like a real person at all human being.  It's just like I don't know man. Like what a waste as well. Sam could have been like because he I liked him He just needed more But then we got more but it was really crap It's time And seriously that judgment I can feel it that judgment to look by the way that Sam gives to Sharon after she dies He's like, what have you done?    She's just looking at this shot again.  I was just like, okay. She's dead I'm like, I'm happy. You can have this little tragic moment with her. It's like, I don't care It's like she's gone Just flinging her in an ambulance like a fish in a barrel Oh, well, so this is the thing. He says she died for like what she believed in whatever She's put on a gurney.  Okay watching new mcu writers. You don't get to have this one back You know, they frame it like that like she she like closes her eyes.   I'm just like, oh, I hope she doesn't end up in a hospital What do you put dead bodies? You still gotta put them on a gurney, right? Yeah, you can put live bodies on gurneys though, too. That's my concern. Well, no, I know.  Well, we already loathe this scene. We have talked about it I don't know garbage. What else you guys really want to say about if there's particular quotes you want to talk more about It's infuriating to watch it is literally somebody who has a set of ideas They have no solutions and they want to tell you that you're wrong for thinking anything otherwise. That is the scene Yes, it's blind patronizing basically. It's just like yeah, you don't have anything good to say You just want to say do better. It's like how it's like. I don't know just do better It's like good for you, dude. You anyone can say what you're saying I think I think the the most egregious thing because you know all the shit like oh you could You could change borders with a phone call.    I hate it so much Like I cannot I cannot believe that they put that into this show for the hero to say at the very end of the triumphant moment That's a good point. I don't understand maybe less knowledge is better When is knowing things ever benefited humanity? Well as um I think as you said when we first talked about the same thing you were like, uh, maybe they're gunning for the principle of like I don't have all of these different things complicating my Ideal which needs to stay strong and I would just be like falcon. What do you think their ideals are underneath all of the policies?  I'm sorry. You have no idea and you admit that Part of like what's so funny about this show is that the writers seem to almost acknowledge the flaws and the throughout the show There's loads of examples of it. I've been trying to use the word lampshading a lot to try and Sort of bookmark every time they do it or at least the ones I noticed.  It's like Yeah, you nailed it.  Okay. We know this is but at the same time pandering To the same people, you know, put the money put the money in their bank account I'm pretty sure I said to you guys as well when we were watching Uh I think episode five I was like, we still got time for this show to pull back a little bit and and I think you guys well I will know after what is a or is said You know, it's done. I was like, no They might have it because I said we know that he's gonna end up with the stupid Everything he'll end up being captain america Probably be on tv and isa will probably be at home watching it as he says stuff that goes kind of against what isa said it's literally that but Like they don't go too far.    Let's do everything falcon said and falcon lost his opinion.  I was right about the avengers.  You ever think about why they're a predator? Like what's up with all these labels? Okay.   You know, maybe they got a point How long does this scene go on? It goes on for like three four minutes, right? Like yeah, it's a long few hours. Yeah Goes on for a long time And uh, it's well, it's peak self-indulgence again. We've been across this and other stuff But just yeah, like the the right to just jerk it himself off. It's like, oh her self I don't actually know who wrote this.  He's after the character. He wants to He literally picks a scrawny little guy. Yeah, he's like five seven and he's white 90 pounds or whatever Five seven. He's like five two. He's white. It's white You know that one there and blue eyes. Uh, he did have that when he was scrawny Well, see and this is part of the what I would call cowardice to a degree, right? So let's say old man steve like knocks on falcons door in a couple of days And he sits down has some coffee and then he's just like What did you mean when when you said that I'm not just out here with blonde hair and blue eyes?  Is that what we were?   Like it wasn't it was it's just Like a speech if you listen to what I say.  I just I actually don't see any value whatsoever. They're still gonna make a saint out of me, but I said nothing of value I'd say something negative value, but Oh, yeah, it's definitely well, I'd say it's further than that, right? It's taking stuff away.   We should we should go and then as she leaves falcon's like Oh, yeah, I I'm gonna keep my promise by the way the whole pardon thing.  I feel bad for even though.  It's she's done all of the work It's like if she was a sociopath building a really strong Look of a friend and not getting appreciated for it.  Like what the hell is that?    It's like, well, uh freedom like the power to the individual honesty justice and uh Just doing right by a fellow man. What about these guys like Better than that. That's their thing. Do better. They're like, we're like that but better I'm like, that's not really anything is it.  Just tell them to do better. They'll get it One one lost one lost good scene. All right.  Is it?       Just like Oh, no So sad What else we got? Oh, yeah falcon is like, hey isiah Ain't it cool that everything's worked out and then they take him to the um The memorial where isiah's got a uh a place in it now, um I think I feel the same now as I did when we watched it. It's um, it's a really good moment basically because of the acting Uh, again Now I'd be like, well wait, what's wrong with the moment itself? It's like, all right, so Because of all the problems we already come up with through all the history that got bolted on to this The mcu with isiah I feel like if we're gonna ignore all of that and pretend now that it is 100 percent official And that we just don't have the records for it like so this should be a really like a drooling task To get this accepted as actual history if it's been erased That's like first and foremost Um There should be like a lot of things you have to go through lots of different ways of trying to gather proof And testimony and stuff and then I think that if you really have to rush it like they do because fucking hell They have to rush everything. Um, I think it would have been cooler to have had a very minimal Appreciation for him in this place so that he can see that his name is here and a record is here And it's a start and that they're going to try and build on it and be like a bigger But like immediately he's got this huge golden statue all of this like writing all these videos playing It's like would you get all this stuff from like?  And how do they feel about this? And what about isiah the guy remember isiah this surprise for isiah It's like the dude told you do not reveal this. They'll kill me, but you did anyway Yeah, also I fucking hate america Yeah It all feels so strange and they were like, you know, he just has a memorial It'll be it'll be nice and you'll cry and it'll be really great and it'll be like respect in history Because that's remember one of the lines he says is that america has been erasing our history for 500 years or something like that Like it plays in to how evil america is but now they're remembering things which is nice everyone remembers stuff They write stuff in books Great and then they all dance And I've always wondered about filming stuff like this where it's totally not what it seems Everybody's on set and it's like all right three two one everyone dance. Yeah jump up and down Everybody pretend to be happy It's so great I'm loving life for you guys too. Yeah, okay cut the guy would go home now The way it ends is just so abrupt Yeah, they're best buds now Um, I I would not blame you for not believing that yep at all. They didn't earn it at all um And it's it's incredibly cheesy everyone's smiling dancing singing taking photos the world is saved Like I said, they never solved the money problem It never happened.  We're at the credits. You know, you don't need to bring it up. You're like, all right Everyone that was Everyone that was sympathetic to the flag smasher's cause is still out there. Yep Give it to Graven says nothing's really changed in mind He changed it. Oh, that's something I didn't mention the um the patch act it got like changed or amended or moved or whatever, right? Yeah, so they made no changes. Oh no borders.   The terrorist one You know what I I kind of miss I I kind of miss how not preachy Zack Snyder's justice league was That Hey, I'll agree. I'll agree.  So yeah, like yeah, okay. Yeah, it's pretty unreal So why is it so hard to just write a story where the good guys are obviously the good guys? Why do we have to do this? I'm on board with there being shades of gray I think the problem is where the cut the content can't tell the difference where they create something horrible They're like, whoo, you're like no show. No, no, no, no, that's the bad gray area.  Well, it's all good Think about this, right?  That's basically it. So it's just like wow you keep missing all of what you're doing You think you're doing x but you're doing y and it's really annoying. So it's completely incompatible Oh Yeah, and they end with we kind of went over this earlier, right? But captain america and the winter soldier First of all Captain america is a governmental role a rank provided not Just just taken by anybody But if we are to agree that it can be earned by anybody and that it's more than just the shield or the outfit Which i'm happy to agree with and I think walker has that title Yep Falcon on the other hand is falcon He's falcon enjoy being falcon with your little shield and your colors and your stars and stripes Doesn't mean you captain america might want to be but not yet. Let's see how we go Also bucky is still just a winter soldier. Yep. He hasn't moved on This this season was clearly about identity They clearly bait over and over again that the winter soldier is a part of him He's trying to escape and make amends for and yet they have the balls to be like. Yes falcon has discovered a new identity But bucky has not Damn, okay And uh, that's the season No, right. There's that little end credit of sharing evil bad guy. Yeah. Oh, yeah Well, again, I don't have anything to say about it because I need more context until I find out what's going on with Sharon I can't really say anything about it. I like I said some people might call that she's been assassinated I completely agree if she is Sharon kata if she isn't then Yeah, well, it's just like if she's if she's a scroll then it's like what is What is being in madra poor helped her with her position? I think it's it's a lot of things right like if you're If who where is the real one?   Yeah So she's got a double mask. God damn This is part of why I don't even want to talk about it because there's like a bazillion things They could make it and until we have it I can't judge it So for now, I'm just like, yeah, she's this weird creature doing weird things. I don't know Kind of lame. I can't really judge anything. What if she's brainwashed maybe because that happened in the comics ones? Yeah, she's a chair. Oh my god.  So it's like I wouldn't cast her as a scroll Secretly being a chair About 10 hours ago we said right then time to get to references there are your references 10 hours of references, okay With a few discussions in between show is awful To just just topped the bottom bad and it might be like wow So really all the new stuff you guys have been watching is really really really bad. It's like listen We call it as we see it. What do you want us to do? What do you want us to I don't want it to be bad. I would like things to be good. I think we all would Yes, just I don't have a lot of hope for the mcu moving forward though man because like this stuff It's like this is what post endgame mcu is going to be like it's just you can't really recover after endgame I think black widow will tell us whether we can expect this of the movies, too Yeah, just any of the movies. That's the thing because that's like kind of a post endgame movie And it's like it's taking place before endgame. So it's like have they just given up and just grow out whatever it's like I guess shang chi right and that that movie looks really great. Doesn't it looks so generic It's just look very generic And then you like someone said Loki looks good. It's like guys. It's probably gonna be a disaster too It is not It is about an irrelevant version of Loki from endgame who escaped with the tesseract. It's like what Why would we follow his story? Well, he's gonna get back. He'll be integrated back in.  Uh, there's no way Unfortunately, we are another efab where we can't get to super chats because funnily enough We're close to hitting the cap again. I said close. Oh, no 40 minutes. I'd say What a chunky this makes up for the short. Yeah, the last one. Yeah No, god damn Rags and I have we'll have to find something. We're gonna it's gonna be just a lot of catching ups I'm afraid just lots of different circumstances over the past few efabs that have prevented Which has been read out But I do think that anybody who just you know wanted some good old-fashioned efab content You just got a giant sandwich jelly in between Oh boy, enjoy the that hopefully Uh, it'll get put out on moolah as soon as I'm allowed to from how Processing works. Um, but obviously if you hang on to this link listening now, you can get the unlisted vision for as soon as you want it um But uh, yeah, I think but before heading out, uh, thank you all cast people for for hanging out with us today Yeah, it's everybody for having around Mary being here Quite a bit of fun Yeah, if you if you want before we get let's let's talk about what what we what's what's in on coming down the horn That's what the kids say go. Yeah. Hello first. What are you up to buddy? What's happening on your channel? By the way guys links in description for any of these channels if you subscribe aruno to all of them And any of them do your discretion, but go right ahead Oh, thanks. I have a youtube channel Um, very busy with work, but I have some time up and I'm gonna make more videos for it So stay tuned for that That's all I got. Thanks for having me What what do you want? Do you want more specifics? I can get more No, I just I just wanted to tell them that they need to subscribe to you to see what's going to happen And it's this big you have to you need to there's a very Uh, intense e-fap meme coming to the channel soon as soon as I finish it intense Intense very intensive and it's taking way too long, but it's going to be funny. I hope so my god to for that and reviews of devs And I'm probably gonna make a video ranting about how mank won the best cinematography oscar Even though it looks like dog shit, so stay tuned for that. Yay Oscars will happen. Well, this was going on They sure were I noticed that one.  Uh, I'm working on my video at the last of us part two. I've um, I'm editing it right now So I've played the games again and got my footage and recorded my audio Not sure when it's going to be out, but I I'm in the process of making it essentially and After that I'm planning to make a video on el Camino a breaking bad movie So don't know when I'll start writing that one, but those are the two videos that are on the horizon Uh end game video Why what's wrong with end game the fuck? Yeah, wow too much man that this script is ballooning. It's very intimidating. There is a lot to talk about well Um, you know, he took us what like 11 hours to talk about a six hour thing So how long will it take you to talk about a three hour thing? You tell me it's gonna take me five hours to talk about anything No, please no, it'll be three once that's edited down. That's probably actually like reasonable. That's probably might be what it is Who knows? Yeah, maybe Yeah, that's what i'm working on and i've been streaming and working on the comic and by working on it. I mean not but I will Um, excellent jay longbone. What are you up to these days? But well, I was working on a A review for the craft legacy and I still am but I'm setting it aside for a falcon in the winter soldier review Because that's got my And uh, yeah, I still got to get out. Um Uh episode 11 of batwoman that reaction I have to start working on And yeah, I got some other stuff coming out too sweet Um, me what are you up to? It's like, oh, I've been all kinds of things Uh It's funny. There's so much stuff recorded for efab that just still needs to be processed edited and gotten out Obviously the dceu arc is soldiering on falcon the winter soldier got right in the way because you know It's just so awful that it just interrupts everything for everybody um The boys is still being tooled away dad and uh, there's just there's just more things all kinds of things And uh, as far as I know now are we how long have we got before something new comes out anybody? Uh, loki comes out in early june, I think. Um, what else is on the horizon? So I mean we have a month a month of no new movies or tv shows. That'd be nice, please No, oh, yeah, we need to do that. Um, Uh, we have seen we watched, uh, I don't know. I always feel like is this kind of a secret I don't think so. We should be okay. We had an eight man watch party for Mortal Kombat 1991 Mortal Kombat 2021 by 95 in 2021 Or otherwise known as cano's grand adventure. Yes so We've seen the new Mortal Kombat as well as the super old one That'll be that'll be out sooner rather than later. I believe uh, dash bullshit will be tackling that one He's also in it. It's gonna be great eight man indeed.  I look forward to it coming out And we're gonna record for a Godzilla versus Kong at some point and that'll be out too All kinds of all kinds of things all come into your doorstep on on mubishly channel second channel and uh Yeah, what what are you up to rags? How things going on things are going a okay video will be out when it's out There you go. That is the best See all of us were fumbling around all these details there's rags nailing it In an instant and to the Incredible satisfaction of not only the audience but the cast as well which He's just kind of wanting and to the end now. So um, thank you all very much for hanging out with us for 11 hours it's been a while since you've done one of these ones, you know feels weird, but It also felt right winter soldier kind of deserved this the show. I mean, uh And yeah, thank you very much for all of the donations And we we will get to them as soon as we can in some form of a catch-up in some way. Um, yes, we will do a catch-up. Yes um Yeah, anything you you don't want to say before we we sign off Uh, no, I think uh do better John walker did nothing wrong. Don't walk is a legend Add a titan a king And everyone else That was the TV show. Thanks for watching everybody. Goodbye Goodbye. Good night. Thanks for sticking around Rags video on saving snow when saving snow Hello snow


President of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate this opportunity to be here with you today. One of America's greatest assets is the skill and professionalism of its men and women of commerce and industry. The peppery can-do spirit of our business community is in stark contrast to the inefficiency and poor performance often associated with other economic systems. Of course, mistakes do happen. There is the story of the fellow who ordered a bouquet of flowers to be sent to the opening of his friend's new branch office, and when he got there, he was shocked to see flowers with the inscription, rest in peace. He was so outraged that on the way home, he stopped at the floors to complain. And don't get so upset, the floorer said. Just think of it this way. Today, someone in this city was buried beneath a flower arrangement with the inscription, Good luck in your new location. I understand we've got some students with us today. One of the joys of my presidency has been getting to meet and know the young men and women who in the not too distant future will be America's champions of freedom and enterprise. And I don't have to tell you this new crop of young people filling the ranks of our businesses and corporations are as talented and diligent as any we've ever had. Today's young Americans will come into their own with freedom, know-how, and resources far beyond anything the world has ever known. Henry David Thoreau once wrote of Free People, This world is but canvas to our imaginations. Those words were never more true than they are now. We've got every reason to look to the future with unbounding optimism. Today, a refreshing breeze can be felt across the face of mankind. Winds of freedom are blowing, clearing the air, opening the view of a new and wondrous horizon. In a few days, Nancy and I, as you've been told, will be heading west embarking on a journey which will accommodate in Tokyo with a summit of the major democracies. And as we lift off aboard Air Force One, circling half the globe, the winds of freedom will be propelling my mission. Those winds are blowing in Latin America, where in recent years we've witnessed one of the greatest expansions of democracy in history. Today, 90 percent of the population of this hemisphere lives in democratic countries or countries in transition to democracy. In Europe, the new vigorous democracies in Spain and Portugal and the revitalized democratic process in Turkey have proven the pessimist wrong. The democratic workers' movement in Poland, solidarity, though suffering repression, still persists. In Nicaragua, Angola, Afghanistan, and Cambodia, freedom fighters struggling for liberty and independence inspire the West with their courage in the face of a powerful enemy. As I fly westward over our majestic land, I go knowing that we're witnessing an awakening to those self-evident truths to which our forefathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. In future years, I think we may look back on the period we're going through as the eternal, the vernal equinox of the human spirit, that moment in history when the light finally exceeded the darkness. In the 1970s, the Western democracies suffered economic and political reversals which sapped their confidence and gutter the resilience of their social systems, the maladies to which I'm referring with a logical result of wrong ideas and flawed policies. The innovators, entrepreneurs, and profit-seeking risk-takers who had always been in the cutting edge of change were gradually being pushed out or phased out. The resources and decision-making of the West were being channeled into the hands of central planners, government officials, and bureaucratic managers. In our country, government spending tripled in the 1970s, and the federal tax take doubled between 1976 and 1981. By 1980, we suffered double-digit inflation, economic stagnation, sky-high interest rates, and unprecedented national uncertainty. Nothing could be done, we were told, to escape this quagmire. Our citizens would have to lower their expectations. The American people never believed that guffin. I didn't either. Looking out over the United States today, I'm confident that our country's best days lie ahead. The winds of freedom are endued blowing, and if America puts its mind to it, there's nothing we can't accomplish. By bringing the growth of government under control, by easing the regulatory burden, by reducing the tax rates, giving people incentives and rewards to work, invest, and build, we've set America on a new upward course. Astounding the so-called experts, our economic engines have powered us forward with 40 straight months of growth. A record 669,000 businesses were incorporated last year alone. Interest rates are down, inflation has remained low. Over the last three months, it has been minus 1.9 percent, the lowest in almost more than 30 years, and for the last 12 months, it has been 2.3 percent. Almost 10 million new jobs have been created here in the last three years, while Europe has seen a net loss of jobs in the last decade. Today, the world, especially the developing world, is leaving behind the dismal failures of statism and redistribution. Central planning and government authority did not, as promised, usher in a new era of plenty. Instead, Marxist-Leninist models of development have left a path of poverty and deprivation wherever they've been tried. The late John Dos Passos put it well. Marxism, he said, has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food. The developing world has been told that it's necessary to give up freedom in order to achieve progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. Freedom and economic advance go hand in hand. They are two sides of the same coin. The main spring of human progress is found not in controlling and harnessing human energy, but in setting it free. The most valuable resource is not oil or precious metals, or even territory. It's the infinite richness of human potential. The creative genius and diligence unleashed when people are free and working to improve their lot, and that of their families, is the greatest force for good on this planet. The winds of freedom are nowhere more evident than on the Pacific Rim, which of course includes my home state of California. Seriously though, after the Second World War, Japan was in ruins and devastation was heavy throughout the region. It's becoming difficult to think of the Pacific as being undeveloped, but only a generation ago that was a fair characterization. Pacific nations with almost no territory and few natural resources have become dynamic centers of commerce and production almost beyond imagination. Over the last 15 years, annual growth in the region has averaged about 6 percent. This was accomplished despite rising oil prices, and at a time when some countries, short on land to begin with, were forced to absorb influx of refugees. The energy and enterprise on the Pacific Rim is changing the economic center of gravity. The United States and our northern neighbor Canada now exchange more goods with Asia and the Pacific than with Europe. Almost one-third of total U.S. trade now flows west. Our trade enriches the quality of life on both sides of the Pacific, and while much attention has been focused on our imports from the region, we must not overlook our exports. Today, we export $54 billion worth of American products annually to East Asia and the Pacific compared to $20 billion just 10 years ago. Again, the relationship between freedom and prosperity between democratic government and economic progress is clear. We recently witnessed an upheaval in the Philippines. A major cause for discontent in the Philippines was that much of the country's business and trade was not open to all citizens. As a result, the Philippines lagged behind its Pacific neighbors. Today, the Philippine people have new opportunities, economic and political. As their friends, we wish them the very best and will help where we can. Of course, those countries forced to endure centralized communist planning face the prospects of continued stagnation, this while much of the Pacific marches into an exciting new age of enterprise and commerce. Vietnam, isolated from the dynamism of its Pacific neighbors by its continued occupation of Cambodia, is perhaps the best example of what I am talking about. On my upcoming trip, I will stop in Indonesia, and there I will be discussing Cambodia as well as other economic and security issues, with President Suardo and with representatives of six nations which make up ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Most important through my trip, I'll be reconfirming that the United States considers itself a Pacific Rim country, and we will continue to be an important part of the economic and political forces that shape the future of this vital area of the world. If the next century is the Pacific century, as some have suggested, America will be leading the way. From Indonesia, I will head to Japan, the site of the 12th Economic Summit, that this meeting is in Tokyo reminds us again of an emerging Japan. Over these last few decades, this former enemy has become a trusted friend, a major political and economic partner, and a strategic ally, the pillar of our Pacific policy. Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan is moving his country toward a new and expanded international role, together our country's exercise enormous political and economic influence on the world. I think that all our peoples can be proud that we're using our power for benevolent ends to secure democracy, to foster economic progress, and to maintain peace in a dangerous world. Japan's is a dramatic story of democracy's success, that it has been built into the world's second largest market economy, and is now taking on greater international responsibilities, bodes well for the future. The winds of freedom blow both east and west. Man's desire to improve his lot, his longing for freedom, and his yearning to live in dignity and peace are never limited by geography. These universals tie all free peoples, and those who would be free, together. Our annual Economic Summit stands in glorious defiance of the totalitarian theory that sovereign democratic societies are too independent, too bogged down by short-sighted self-interest, to be able to cooperate on matters of significance, especially matters concerning money and finances. Well, the issues may vary, but if there are two watchwords of our Economic Summits, those words are freedom and cooperation. Each year's gathering is an opportunity to renew acquaintances, to stake stock of economic prospects, and to discuss frankly and openly issues of common interest. And this year there is much to discuss. The continuing upward momentum of the American economy has been a major impetus to growth in the rest of the world, in both summit and non-summit countries. Now we urge others to join us in tackling those domestic policies and structural problems that inhibit growth and serve only as roadblocks to progress.  The substantial decline in world oil prices offers the industrial democracies as well as the developing world a dramatic opportunity. We hope our summit partners will translate the benefits of lower oil prices into stronger growth and higher employment. Now is the time to accelerate the pace of structural change and pave the way for higher sustained growth in future years. These economic summits with a new map of the shock waves that went through the world economy after the oil price hikes of the early 1970s and oil cartel artificially jacked the price of petroleum far beyond its true market value. Today's implosion of that cartel is evidence that in the long run the market works. Those oil price increases remind me a bit of the businessman who every day would stop at a pretzel stand just outside his office and every day he'd put 25 cents on the plate but he'd never take a pretzel and this went on for quite some time. He'd stop put the quarter on the plate and walk on into the office never taking one. Then one day as he put a quarter on the plate the woman running the stand grabbed him to the arm and he said you probably want to know why I've been putting 25 cents on your plate every day and never taking a pretzel and she said well no really I just wanted to let you know pretzels have gone up to 35 cents. The United States has demonstrated strong growing economies in the major industrial countries will do much to help those in the developing world succinctly put our policies toward the third world should be aimed at establishing partners in trade not recipients of aid. Our approach should be to keep open our markets not to empty our treasury. Last October Secretary Baker proposed as I'm sure he will further explain in his remarks a program for sustained growth intended as a declaration of independence for deader nations. Its purpose is to move them towards self-sufficiency to assist them in developing free market pro-growth policies and to help them climb out of the pit of indebtedness and up to the level plateau of competitive enterprise and productivity and then one well the dead initiative that's proposed by Secretary Baker which we'll discuss in Tokyo is focused not just on postponing a day of reckoning but on solving a problem it has the strong support of the international community. Our legacy must not be to engender dependence among deader countries but provide the incentives the tools and the opportunity for them to work produce and grow their way to self-sufficiency. We want all people in every country to live healthier more productive opportunity filled lives free and unfettered trade between nations is a vital part of the formula for achieving this goal. We're ready and willing to work with those with whom we have commerce to maximize the benefits of a worldwide open trading system. Keeping trade fair and open will be a major topic of discussion in Tokyo. Our summit partners have already helped start up the preparatory process for a new round of multilateral trade negotiations and we hope they'll continue their efforts to ensure that those negotiations are launched this September. As an economics major I was taught the law of comparative advantage and it ought to govern the exchange of goods and services across national boundaries. If our farmers in California can grow larger and cheaper oranges than their counterparts in Japan the housewife in Osaka ought to be able to buy those oranges without additional cost. At home our citizens should have the same right. Protectionist moves basically profit special interests at the expense of the consumer into the risk of retaliation costing Americans their jobs. Now admittedly the strong dollar has been a legitimate concern of those of you trying to sell overseas. The value of the dollar is in the process of adjusting as the economies in other nations improve and now is not the time to surrender to trade killing protectionism. The trade imbalance should be solved through multilateral negotiation that open markets not unilateral legislation that closes them. The right answer is not decreasing imports but increasing our exports. I'll resist any attempt to restrict or close our markets. It would cost Americans jobs. It's bad for the consumer bad for business and is bad for America. I'm old enough to remember the smooth holly terror fact which helps spread the depression worldwide and I'm not about to let that happen and on the other hand I can assure you I'm not about to let this good and great country be taken advantage of. Our trading partners have been sent the message and I'll reinforce it in Tokyo that the United States is moving forward aggressively and vigorously to keep the markets of the world open and to see to it that American interests are treated fairly. In Tokyo we'll primarily be discussing issues of economic importance yet all of us meeting there are fully aware of how totally dependent economic progress is on maintaining a peaceful and stable world. Those who will gather in Tokyo represent countries which by working together have given the world 41 years of peace in Europe ushering in the greatest strides in science and industry in the history of mankind. The United States in pursuit of peace is working in close consultation with its partners seeking a more stable and constructive relationship with the Soviet Union. In Tokyo we'll discuss arms reduction and other initiatives connected with my meetings with General Secretary Gorbachev last November. During those meetings General Secretary Gorbachev and I talked together about the differences between our systems. I challenged him to compete with us not in the manufacture of bombs and weapons but in the arena of ideas we can and should have peaceful competition between our systems. We should let the world decide based not on the size of our arsenals but on the attractiveness of our ways of life. Let us be measured by our results not our rhetoric our deeds not our words. Now whether the General Secretary takes me up on my challenge remains to be determined in the meantime preserving peace is not just the business of the United States or of the United States and the Soviet Union our summit partners each share this responsibility. One area of exemplary cooperation has been our mutual efforts to combat international drug trafficking which undermines the respect for law and attacks the fundamental health of our nations. The threat is particularly grave to our youth Nancy has taken on the war against drugs as a personal mission and she's made me very proud and while I'm in Tokyo she'll be carrying her message to Malaysia and Thailand where she'll join in a comprehensive review of the anti-drug efforts of those two important nations. Coming to grips with threats posed by such evils as drugs will require all free people to work together the democratic nations decided long ago they would stand shoulder to shoulder in such fights nowhere is this more imperative than in the battle against terrorism these vicious cowardly acts will if we let them erect a wall of fear around nations and neighborhoods it will dampen the joy of travel the flow of trade the exchange of ideas in short terrorism undeterred will deflect the winds of freedom and let no one mistake this for a conflict between the western democracies and the Arab world. Those who condone making war by cowardly attacks on unarmed third parties including women and children are but a tiny minority Arab nations themselves have been forced to endure savage terrorist attacks from this minority we hope and pray the Arab world will join with us to eliminate this scourge on civilization I might add that Colonel Gaddafi's expectation of unquestioned support from the Islamic world strikes me as hypocritical nowhere is the slaughter of Muslim people greater than in Afghanistan and yet Colonel Gaddafi allies himself with those perpetrating this crime on Islam and all of mankind decent people can no longer tolerate cowardly terrorist attacks government sponsored terrorism in particular cannot continue without gravely threatening the social fabric of all free societies unilateral response is not enough it must be dealt with forcefully and collectively and this undoubtedly will be a topic of discussion in Tokyo James Russell Lowell in a poem entitled the present crisis and later made into a familiar hymn wrote once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide in the strife of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side well over the past few months we've had to make some tough decisions but in the end the decision was made for us when a despot despite our political economic and diplomatic attempts to change his ways continued his murderous attacks on our fellow citizens well America will never watch passively as our innocent citizens are murdered by those who would do our country harm we are we're slow to wrath and hesitant to use the military power available to us by nature we prefer to solve problems peacefully but as we proved last week no one can kill Americans and brag about it no one we bear the people of Libya no ill will but if their government continues its campaign of terror against Americans we will act again buried his wife his baby daughter and his mother-in-law all were innocent victims of the bombing of a TWA airliner after the memorial service his baby daughter lying in the coffin with her mother warren clug told his fellow citizens in the world to those responsible for this cowardly act you've succeeded in devastating our family but you will never destroy the heart and spirit of America all of us stand united hand in hand with the club family and the others who suffered we're all part of the same family as your promise president I promise you that we as a people will have the courage and the honor to do what is right this is and will remain the land of the free and the home of the brave the winds of freedom will be preserved not just for our citizens but for all mankind and in Tokyo I'll remind our allies of the truth of what Edmund Burke said long ago when bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one well together the free people of this world will ensure that liberty not only survives but triumphs and that our sons and daughters too will know the blessings of the winds of freedom thank you god bless you


We're going to squabble and we're going to bicker, but it's not going to be about money. We've eliminated one of the things I think that can tear a couple apart. For me, it goes back to the 50s. The man pays for everything. He has the job. Everyone else stays at home. So growing up in that sort of environment, that's what you learn. The expectation was the woman wasn't going to have a job. And that's so terrifying to me that I would be completely dependent on a man. That kind of got me thinking, okay, so maybe the 50s way of doing things isn't the right way of doing things. One of feminism I think is not only women having financial independence, but what the burden I've always thought it was on a man to be the full-time breadwinner. And that's, again, going with this idea that feminism is about fairness. And it's beautiful when you can come together as 50-50.  You're not giving up your own identity in any way. Your life can be as it was before you married this person. In the past couple years, we've seen a shift. Right now, we have folks marrying older. You're seeing both people have their own identity, have their own stuff, have their own money. The general thing that I've been seeing is if you do decide to merge finances, you're still having your own separate money, but having a shared bank account for joint expenses. What we do is pretty radical because there's no joint account where we contribute to equitably. And we have sort of a running tally of expenses like the gas bill, the electric bill, or a mortgage. And we each calculate our portion of it and then, OK, cough up your end of it. What doesn't everybody do it this way? Keep it separate and, OK, it's a math problem once a month. This is a very practical thing. In fact, it's very unromantic, but it's it's peace. I actually hope that you've had conversations about money way before you had a ring on your finger. And whether we like it or not, money is a huge part of our relationship dynamics. And we know that actually the number one cause of divorce or separation is money related issues. When we don't have those conversations with our partner, there can be points where we feel resentful. I love doing what I call a money date, setting aside designated times for financial self care. I look at, OK, how much debt do I have? Oh, how are my investments doing? Looking at my credit card statements.  If you don't feel comfortable having financial conversations with your partner, that is kind of a red flag. I don't want to sound as I'm an evangelist for it, but I just know what works for me and has worked for us until this point. We could resent each other about something here or there, but resentment is completely out of the picture in terms of money.


Now we'll do finger to nose.  Okay, excellent