The theme from the Sears Radio Theater. Tonight's story is a comedy with Andy Griffith as your host. Here's a preview. Master, I am a genie. I come from a long line of genies. You might say it's in your genes. I might not, Master. Don't I get three wishes or something? No, Master, with inflation you now get five wishes. The Sears Radio Theater will begin after this message from your local station. This is Andy Griffith. In these days of rising prices, the typical American family strains to make ends meet. Cutting corners here and skimping there as shrewd housewives just might stretch her husband's paycheck to the next payday. Amy Meaghan is one such shrewd housewife. Her budget may not allow her to shop in Chicago's loop, but she does the next best thing. That is to attend Neighborhood Yard Safe. Hello, Mrs. Folden. How's the yard feel going? Well, I've done very well, Mrs. Meaghan. As you can see, I don't have much left. Oh, I should have come by earlier in the day. Yes, I sold the sofa and television to a man from a Skokie. A young couple from Berlin bought the refrigerator. Oh, which sounds like you're liquidating entirely. Oh, I've had to. What with Elmer still under observation? Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Folden. Is he any better? Well, the doctors say it's the worst case of delusions they've ever seen. Oh, my, he's this pretty. You find something? Yeah, it's lamps. How much do you want for it? Well, I'd give it to you if I didn't need the money so bad. How about five dollars? It's a deal. Here you are. Oh, this is heavy. Thank you, Mrs. Meaghan. Goodbye, Mrs. Folden. Well, we should have better luck with that lamp than my Elmer did. And that's just the beginning of our story. Radio Theatre, a new adventure in radio listening. Five nights of exceptional entertainment every week. Brought to you in Elliott Lewis' production of the Sears Radio Theatre. Our story, As You Wish, by Mark Trella. Our stars, Norman Alden, Jean Gillespie, and Marvin Miller. The Sears Radio Theatre is brought to you by Sears Robach & Company. Sears, where America shops for value. He's 46 years old. He works in a factory in Chicago. And 46 years is a long time to wait for your wishes to come true, which is what Eddie's been doing. That's him over there, sitting in an after-work watering hole with his pal Russ. Eddie, did you hear the news? The company's been taken over again. Yeah? Who bought us this time, Russ? Some outfit from Ohio. Unified rubber and elastic products, I think. I wish they'd make up their minds. One day I tell my kid I make plastic ducks for a living, and the next day I'm making ladies unmentionable. Yeah, I know what you mean. It creates an identity problem. Well, as long as I get my name right on the check, that's all I care about. How long have you been working here, Eddie? 16 years. And how many mergers have you been through? Five, counting this one. This company's been absorbed so many times we should be making sponges. Did you ever feel insecure, Eddie, about your job? Me? I'm an institution around here. I just like the coffee break. It must be nice having all that seniority and not having to worry about losing your job every time the company changes in. I never worry, Russ. I just wish I didn't have to work. Hmm, doesn't everybody? Yeah, I guess so. But I mean, I wish I had a long, lost rich uncle or something.  Yeah, it's real nice, Eddie. Hey, you leaving already? Yeah, I gotta get home, put on the feed bag. Well, see you tomorrow, Eddie. So long, Russ. Up now, your father will be home any minute and you know how he hates music. I love music. It's noise I can't be bad. Oh, hello, honey. Larry was just finishing his lesson, weren't you, Larry? Yes, ma'am. Hi, Dad. How are you? Much better. All right, Larry, you get cleaned up for dinner. Well, do I have to eat now? Billy Sims is starting a band and our first practice is it's set. You know we eat dinner at six o'clock. Oh, let the boy go, Susie. That'll leave more for me. Oh, thanks, Dad. Someday I'll do you a favor. I won't hold my breath. See you later. How was your day? Okay. As of today, I have a new employer. Well, James, who is it this time? An outfit from Ohio, Russ said. What's the dinner? I'm starved. Beans and Franks. No steak? No steak, Eddie.  Okay, tomorrow's payday and you can play Galloping Gourmet. Tomorrow is also Larry's birthday. I almost forgot. What are we getting him? For openers, we could make a payment on the piano. The friendly finance company called and they weren't very friendly. Fultuous. How many payments behind, are we? Three. Eddie, what are you doing? Looking for the paper. Times like these, I need my comic section. Oh, they raised the delivery rate again and I had to cancel our subscription. No funny? No funny, Eddie. Gee, this is serious. Maybe Larry could get a paper out to help us out. My son is not delivering papers. He's a pianist.  Hey, what's this piece of junk? Do you like it? Not until I find out how much it cost me. It's an antique lamp, Eddie. It's probably a thousand years old. How much, Susie? Only five dollars. Oh, the price of a good steak. This is a piece of junk, Susie. But it's from the Middle East, Eddie. Arabia. Well, maybe after dinner you can take it back there. Eddie, if we clean all the paint off and polish it up real nice, I better be worth about ten times what I paid for it. Huh? You think so? Let me see it. It's heavy enough. You know, it might be made of silver or some other precious metal. You really think so, Eddie? Who knows? It might even be made of gold. Have Eddie Meaghan's thought turned to gold? Hand me that letter opener, Susie. What are you doing? I'm scraping the paint off this lamp so I can tell if the lamp is worth something or if you've got a wide elephant. Oh, his paint's really on here. Here we go. I'm almost down to the metal. Wouldn't it be something that turned out to be really valuable? Boy, I quit my job so fast. Oh, we could get Larry a real good piano. Hey, there's an inscription on this thing. Oh, where did it go? In a minute, in a minute. There. In whose hands this lamp may rest are three wishes for the best. What do you think it means, Eddie? It's me. Probably means good luck. Well, that's worth something, isn't it? I suppose. One thing's for sure, this lamp isn't worth much. It's cast iron, probably the cheapest metal around. Oh, well, it'll still make a pretty decoration. It would make an even nicer gift to somebody. You wouldn't dare think of giving it to Larry. Or would you? Now, you know me better than that. Well, that's why I asked the question. Where are you going? I'll be downstairs at my workshop. I might as well finish cleaning this thing up. This lamp has possibilities. If I polish it up a bit, I might be able to take it to Mr. Sacks. I'll give you a weasel of sob story. Who knows, I might get 50 bucks for it after all. Now for a little rubbing compound and some elbow grease. All this smoke. What the heck? Who are you? I am the genie of the lamp, master. Is this some kind of a joke? Is that you, Russ? I can assure you, master, this is no joke. Are you sure? With an outfit like that, you can't be serious. Look at yourself, gold vest, gold earrings, bracelets, diamonds, rubies, pointed slippers, and a turbine. That's turban, master.  Master, I am a genie. I come from a long line of genies. You might say it's in your genes. I might not, master. Well, since you're a genie, don't I get three wishes or something? No, master, with inflation you now get five wishes. Five wishes? You mean I can wish for anything and you've got to grant it to me? Anything your heart desires, master. Oh, boy, that's the best five bucks I ever spent. Now, what will I wish for? Eddie, phone call from Mr. Wozniak. Oh, not again. He always wants to borrow something. Eddie, are you still down here?  I'll be right there. Why do I always get interrupted at times like this? I wish Mr. Wozniak would stop pestering me. As you wish, master. Now, Susie, did you do that? That was what you wished for, master. Oh, come on. You're not going to count that as a wish, are you? I mean, that's just an expression. You have four wishes remaining, master. Use them wisely. I guess I'll have to. Say, genie, do you like how I cleaned up your lamp pretty fancy, huh? I am most grateful, master. Such kindness is rare indeed. Ah, don't mention it. Seeing as how I'm new at making wishes, genie, can I ask you some questions? You know, give me an idea of what to wish for. I am at your disposal, master. What do most people wish for? The Rolls Royce automobile is quite high on the list. No kidding. What would I do with a Rolls Royce? And many people wish to become movie stars. Ah, not me. That's one headache I don't need. And still others wish to have their own television shows. Ah, so that's what happened to television. Generally, the wishes are for material wealth, fame, and a long life. Now, that sounds more like it. Inevitably, the owner of the lamp is corrupted by the power. The wishes are almost always selfish ones, I'm afraid. Well, you won't have to worry about Edward Patrick Meaghan. There's not a selfish bone in my body. I know what I'll do. I'll make a list of every possible thing I could wish for. Then I'll trim the list down to five wishes. You have only four wishes left, master. And you have a good memory, genie. I have two. Hand me that scratch pad, genie. Now, let's see, I could use a new fishing rod, real tackle box, an alfalfa motor. Mom, I'm back. So I see, what a long face, sweetie. I can't be in the band. Why not? I don't have an instrument. What do you call a piano? I can carry the piano over to Billy's every time we practice. And dad would go to the ceiling if we practiced here. I can talk to him about it. Don't bother. They don't want a piano in the band anyway. I need an instrument that fits in better. I see. Like a guitar? An electric one. Billy's cousin is selling one for only $20. He's going into the Marines and he's got to sell it real fast. Can I get it for my birthday? $20. Well, that is a deal. I'll see what I can do that. Oh, gee, thanks, Mom. You're the greatest. Oh, thanks for the compliment. And the kiss. Now, I'll sit back with you. I knew I could count on you. Good night, Larry. There's games in a Rolls Royce. There. I'm ready, Genie. Genie. Hey, Genie. Wake up. Uh, yes, Master. Fine, Genie, you are falling asleep on the job. A thousand pardons, Master. Okay, okay, I have my list ready. Wonderful, Master. Look, I've been thinking. The thing I want most is to be like these independently wealthy guys who never have to work. Merely wish, and it is done, Master. Right. Look, I have to be careful. I don't want to waste any wishes. Please, make you wish, Master. All right. All right. Here goes. I, uh, I wish I don't have to work anymore. As you wish, Master. Ah, that's beautiful. You know what, Genie? Tomorrow morning, I'm sleeping until noon. I'll be through that thing. Just rub the lamp if you need me. Okay, Genie. You get some rest. We had a busy day ahead of us. The cast iron lamp is really a magic lamp with a wish granting Genie. And Eddie Mieson has already made two wishes. But he may not be ready for the way his second wish comes true. And he still has three wishes remaining. Eddie, get up. Today's the day, you know. Eddie Meaghan doesn't have to work anymore. I'm sleeping until noon. Is your father up yet, Larry? Oh, not yet, ma'am. Oh, God, ma'am. I gotta hurry if I'm going to catch that bus.  There. I got everything. I almost forgot the most important thing. I can't pawn that lamp if I don't have it with me. Oh, Mr. Sacks. Good morning. Oh, Mrs. Meaghan, how are you? I'm good, just fine. What can I do for you today? Have you come to buy something back? No, not this time, I'm afraid. I'd like to sell something. And what you'd like to sell, Sacks, is in the sack, right?  In this business, you read minds, faces, palms, anything. Let's have a look. There. This is it, Mr. Sacks. And what is this? A magic lamp with a genie? Oh, I wish it was. How much can you give me, Mr. Sacks? I could give you a hundred dollars, Mrs. Meaghan, but my wife would have me committed. I'll give you ten bucks. Ten dollars? Is that all? This is Meaghan. This is cast iron, a very common material. Oh, but the lamp is so uncommon. Look, look at its shape. The genie handle, the pointed spout. It's even got an inscription. That's even worse. Fifteen dollars, Mrs. Meaghan. I need twenty dollars, Mr. Sacks. Twenty dollars? What am I a charity? I should have my head examined. Only for you would I do this, Mrs. Meaghan. Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Sacks. You made my boy very happy. Today is his birthday. I'm thrilled. Mrs. Meaghan, don't you want your ticket? Oh, no, no, Mr. Sacks. This is one item I won't be returning for. An item taken care of, and Larry can get his guitar. Betty, Betty, what are you doing home? Why aren't you at work? Betty and Meaghan doesn't have to work anymore. Are you all right, Eddie? Sure, I'm all right. I never felt better. Well, then why aren't you at work? It's payday, and we could use the money, Eddie. What's for breakfast? Breakfast. You mean lunch. It's almost one o'clock. Oh, what's for lunch? Beans and Franks. Beans and Franks. Eddie, I was counting on your paycheck. I wish I could get groceries without money, but it just doesn't work that way. Last night's beans and Franks. Meaghan residents? Susie, it's Russ. Is Eddie home? I'm sure Russ. Eddie, it's Russ. Hi, Russ. What's up? Nothing much. How are you, Eddie? Never felt better. Why?  No, nothing like that. I just decided I'm never going to work again. Well, that's kind of what I called about. What are you talking about, Russ? The head man from the new outfit was in today. He was going to make you form another whole shift, Eddie. But since you weren't here, he gave it to me. He said something about being in the right place at the right time. Eddie, are you still there? Of course I'm still here, Russ. Well, he also said he was going to have to let you go. Economize.  Well, I'm really sorry, Eddie. Sorry? I've got to go, Eddie, so long. Those bums. They can't do that to me. 16 years, and they can me for missing one lousy day. Eddie, did they fire you? Oh, before this is over, they wish they ever fired Edward Patrick Meaghan. Where are you going? I'll be in my workshop.  Oh, I wish someone would tell me what's going on. All right. Where is it? Where is what? The lamp, my magic lamp. Magic lamp? Have you fled? Humor me, Susie. Where is my lamp? I pawned it. To get enough money for Larry's birthday present. Mr. Sax again? Oh, my lamp. Well, I thought you wanted to get rid of it. Things have changed, Susie. Oh, say, next you want a flying carpet. Did you at least get a ticket for it? Well, I thought you never wanted to see it again. Oh, now where are you going, Eddie?  Meaghan, what brings you here? I don't do alterations anymore. Alterations? Oh, the robe. It's the latest thing. Well, I wouldn't know anything about that. I might know about the lamp my wife sold you then. Well, I might, Mr. Meaghan. Look, I don't have the ticket, Mr. Sax, but I'd like to buy it back if I may. You may not. Now, don't get technical, Sax. This is important. I'm sure it is, Mr. Meaghan, but I no longer have the lamp. I sold it already. You sold my lamp? To an elderly lady, a lamp collector. Why don't people stick to stamps? What's the lady's name? Oh, I can't reveal my sources, Mr. Meaghan. I see, Mr. Sax. This is where I'm supposed to grease your palm. Mr. Meaghan, such language. Let's call it a gratuity. Look, I left my wallet at home. How about if I owe you the bribe? What can I say? Her name is Mrs. Arthur Trewick on Lakeshore Drive. You're all right. You're all right, Sax. I'll send my boy around with a dollar tomorrow. A dollar? Don't bother already. You played the piano? Oh, Larry, you're home. Is it that time already? Uh-huh. Did you get the money for my guitar? Oh, if you only knew how much trouble I had, Larry, bring me my purse. Here it is. There you go, young man, and happy birthday. Oh, you are the greatest mama guy ever had. Oh, I know. I'll be back later with my guitar. Oh, gee, it sure doesn't take much to be happy. Well, I better figure out what to do about this. Hello, Meaghan resident. This is the friendly finance company. Is Eddie Meaghan there? No, he's not. Is this Mrs. Meaghan? Yes, it is. As you know, Mrs. Meaghan, you are three payments behind on your account. Yes, I know. You see, my husband gets paid today. We need the money today, Mrs. Meaghan. Well, I'm afraid that's impossible. I'm afraid we'll have to pick up the piano. Oh, you can't. Oh, please, wait until tomorrow. Sorry, Mrs. Meaghan. You had three chances to make a payment. Just one more day, please. That is our policy, Mrs. Meaghan. A truck will be by to pick up the piano this evening. Goodbye. I'm coming. Oh, my goodness. Mrs. Treywick? Yes. And who are you, young man? Lieutenant Meaghan, ma'am. Why are you staring at me?  Oh, this robe. Well, you see, we're short-handed downtown and they got me out of bed. I've been sick, you know. Oh, I hope it's nothing serious, Lieutenant. No, no, no. Just the flu. It's going around. I'm almost over it, though. Well, do come in, Lieutenant. Perhaps you can explain what this is all about. I intend to, ma'am. Would you, uh, would you care for some tea, Lieutenant? No, thanks. I never drink on duty, ma'am. Well, please have a seat. Don't mind if I do. Well, Lieutenant, what is this all about? We have reason to believe that you are in possession of stolen goods, Mrs. Treywick. Oh, oh, my, that's preposterous, Lieutenant. Oh? You did purchase a cast-iron lamp at Sac's Pawn Shop today, didn't you? Why, yes, but... Why did you purchase that particular lamp, Mrs. Treywick? Well, I happened to be a lamp collector. Likely, story, lady. It's more likely that you knew the lamp was valuable and stolen. Why? How could I possibly know that? Well, we'll let the judge figure that one out. Where's the lamp now? The judge? Oh, you're not going to arrest me. That all depends. The lamp, Mrs. Treywick. Where is the lamp? The lamp? Oh, my word. Well, it's there on the mantle, Lieutenant. Oh, it's long last. Does this mean I'll go to jail, Lieutenant? Jail? Oh, no, I don't think so, Mrs. Treywick. It appears to me that you were an innocent victim, uh, dupe. No, I don't think you'll be going to jail, after all. Why are you taking the lamp, Lieutenant? Evidence, Mrs. Treywick.  Lieutenant, I don't believe I've seen your badge. Badge? Yes, my badge. I don't think you're a Lieutenant at all. All right. All right, so I'm not a Lieutenant. Hey, you don't have to pull a gun.  The police? I got to get out of here. Operator, operator, get me the police. This is an emergency. The lamp, Eddie, make a wish.  I've got my eye on you. Gee, Jeannie, I need you now. I'm not afraid to use this gun if I have to. Jeannie, am I glad to see you get me home? You must make a wish, Master. Don't either of you move or I'll shoot. I wish I was back home right now. As you wish, Master. I've just been robbed and the thieves just disappeared in the same air. With the concluding act of, as you wish. Now, if I understand you, Mrs. Trewick, you let the robber in assuming he was a police officer. He questioned you concerning a lamp you purchased at Sack's porn shop, and when you produced the lamp, he attempted to leave with it. Yes, Officer. Did you get any names, Mrs. Trewick? Of course, Officer. You're not dealing with a nitwit. The one fellow called himself Lieutenant Negan, and he called his friend Jeannie. I see, Mr. Trewick. And the lamp is the only item missing? Yes, Officer. I believe I have all the information I need. And a great help, ma'am. I'm in the kitchen, Larry. Is that our piano and the truck our friend? It was never really our piano, Larry. What do you mean? We were making payments on it and we missed a few. So now they're taking it back. Aren't you going to do anything? There's not much I can do. I thought you were taking up the guitar anyway. Well, I was for a while. We're here. You can have your $20 back. Why? What happened? Well, Billy's cousin got greedy. He only wants $50 for the guitar. Oh, I'm sorry, Larry. Anybody home? We're in the kitchen, Eddie. And how's my family tonight? Okay, I guess. I'll be upstairs if you need me. What's eating the birthday boy? They came and picked up the piano, Eddie. They did what? Didn't you tell them I got paid today? You're ready, but they wanted the money, not another promise. We have missed three payments, you know. I know, I know. You think I can't count? Well, don't get upset, Eddie. You were in a good mood when you came in here. Did something good happen?  Well, better than that. I got the lamp back. See?  Going right. The lamp can get us out of this mess. Somehow I think that lamp got us into this mess. Well, you don't know how much trouble I had getting it back. I really don't want to hear about it, okay?  Well, what's for dinner? I suppose I'll run down to the corner market. I can use the twenty dollars I got from the lamp for groceries. See, the lamp's helping already. I'll be in my workshop. And don't take too long. I'm starved. Yes, master. Now, Mr. Sacks, about this lamp you sold Mrs. Arthur Traywick. Now, if I knew it was going to cause this much trouble, I would never have bought it from Mrs. Meaghan. Did you say Meaghan? Yes, officer. He's a regular client of mine, you see, and a real fine lady. Do you have Mrs. Meaghan's address? Yes, officer. Yes. Here, here. One, four, two, seven, South De Quincey. Thank you, Mr. Sacks. You've been a great help. We're going to have a nice long talk. You're on right, Jeannie. I got some questions for you, and you better have some answers. Yes, master. I've used three wishes, and I don't have a thing to show for them. In fact, I'm worse off than I was before. Now, what's wrong, Jeannie? I don't think the problem lies at this end, master. I've granted the wishes exactly as you made them. Oh, I'm out of it, Jeannie. Oh, I'm out of a job, and my boy doesn't have a piano. You must be precise when you framed your wish, master. You wanted to be independently wealthy and never have to work. But you only wished that you never have to work. You did not wish for the wealth. You got me on another technicality, Jeannie. Those are the rules, master. So whenever I say I wish, you'll grant it. It's that simple, master. I'm glad I got this straightened out. You wait right here. I'm going to get my list, and I'll be right back. Hey, you're back already? Eddie, could you help me with these bags? Where's Larry? Can't he earn his keep around here? Thanks, Eddie. Thanks a lot. Look, I'm busy. I've got important things on my mind. What could be more important than helping others? Oh, you'll see. Here it is. I wish you could take a look at yourself, Eddie Meaghan, because you really changed. Oh, here. I'll help you with that, miss. Oh, thanks, Laurie. At least someone around here has some consideration. Oh, Larry, could you take these groceries into the kitchen? I'll answer the door. Good evening. Is Mr. Meaghan here? Why, yes, officer. Is something the matter? I'll have to speak to Mr. Meaghan before I can be sure. Well, certainly, officer. I'll get him. Eddie, Eddie, there's someone to see you. Well, I'll be right up. Who's here to see me? A police officer, Eddie. Huh? Evening, Mr. Meaghan? I see you're wearing a robe. Yeah, is something wrong with that, officer? It all depends. I'd like to ask you a few questions. Now, go right ahead. I've got nothing to hide. What do you know about a cast-iron lamp, Mr. Meaghan? That lamp. I knew it would get you into trouble. Quiet, Susie. What am I supposed to know about a lamp? Mrs. Arthur Preer claims you stole the lamp from her while impersonating a police officer. Eddie, is this true? Stay out of this, Susie. Well, Mr. Meaghan? I'm not saying another word until I get a lawyer. Eddie, it is true. I think you'd better come down to headquarters with me. You leave my father alone. He's not a criminal. Just take it easy, son. No, please. No, they took away my piano. Now they want to take away my father?  Come along peacefully, Mr. Meaghan.  All this fuss over a lamp. I just wish everyone would forget all about this business of the lamp. As you wish, master. Where was I? I don't remember, officer. Do you, Larry? I can't remember a thing. Do you do it? Well, as I recall, the officer was just leaving. Weren't you, officer? Yes. I was just leaving. Well, thank you for your help, officer. Good night. Good night, folks. Larry, I'm sorry about the piano. That's not the birthday present I had in mind. That's all right, dad. It's about time I got a paper route so I could help pay for another anyway. Yeah, that's a good idea.  Well, I'll be right in. Jeannie, I know I've only got one wish left, and I'm going to use it now. I wish for the best piano in the world for my boy. As you wish, master. Oh, Jeannie. Yes, master. Could we have a nice satin sheet to cover it? Ah, a nice touch, master. That too is done. Can't wait to see the looks on their faces. Larry, Susie, you want to come in here? What's up there? Yes, Eddie, are you feeling all right? Oh, I never felt better. Now, if you'll both close your eyes, I will lead you into the music room. You sure you're all right there? There's nothing in there. Oh, yes, Eddie, what are you up to? You'll see. Open your eyes. What's under the sheet? It couldn't be a piano? Voila. Oh, my gosh, Eddie. Oh, it's more than a piano. It's a grand piano. How did you ever manage this? It was worth losing my job just to see the looks on your face. Oh, I've got it. Meaghan residence. Is Eddie here, Susie? Oh, one minute. Eddie? It's rough. Oh, hello, Russ. Hi, Eddie. Sounds like a party in your room. Yeah, a birthday party. Larry, Larry, hold it down, OK? Eddie, about this afternoon, I hope you're not angry. No, after all, that's what I wish for. Well, I hope you won't be angry when I tell you this. Tell me what? The new head man, he wants to transfer me to the main office in Ohio. Well, that's nice, Russ. What's that got to do with me? They're going to need a foreman to replace me, and I recommended you. They said OK. You're not angry, are you? Angry? I could kiss you. Hey, I got to tell everyone, Russ, goodbye, and thanks a lot, pal. Good night, Eddie. You are now looking at the new foreman of the day shift for the Chicago plant of unified rubber and elastic products. Oh, Eddie, that's wonderful. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Now, what's for dinner? Just name it. I wish... I wish we could all have steak for dinner. Close your eyes, Eddie. Close them tight. Huh? We will lead you into the dining room. Ah, what's going on?  Oh, boy. Candles, a tablecloth, the birthday cake, the good China, and steak. Well, is everything as you wished? Everything and more. Happy birthday, Larry. Thanks, Dad. And many happy returns. Thanks, Susie. Thank you, Jeannie. As you wish, Master. As you wish. Has been brought to you by Sears Robot and Company, where our policy is satisfaction guaranteed for your money back. Sears, where America shops for value. As you wish, was written by Mark Trella, produced and directed by Fletcher Marshall. Your host was Andy Griffin. Our stars were Norman Alden, Jean Gillespie, and Marvin Miller. Also heard were Lou Horn, Jack Carroll, Shepard Menken, and Irene Tedros. The music for Sears Radio Theater was composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Art Gilmore Speaks. The Elliott Lewis production of Sears Radio Theater is a presentation of CDI.


I think the technology itself is not that new. People have been working on small sensors and actuators and so on for at least 20 years. I think the big change is so many businesses now have invested so much money into products and we're seeing a lot of them actually out there in the hands of consumers, businesses and so many big businesses and governments are very excited about the potential for cost savings and new revenue streams so I think those things have all come together this year.


Enough of the violence. That's what dozens of feminist demonstrators are saying in Senegal. They have marched through the capital city Dakar to denounce the justice system and the tolerance towards violence against women in the country. The spokesman at the protest, Aishatou Sene, says the women expect the state to provide structures, shelter and everything needed to support victims. The demonstration is sparked in part by the rape of a minor who was then filmed and video shared. Last year, Senegal passed a law that prescribes a maximum punishment of life imprisonment for rapists and 10-year imprisonment as a minimum sentence.


Hi guys Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be sharing with you guys the books that I read in the month of January. So this month I read a total of 10 books and that is really really good for me. I haven't read that much in a while. Mind you these are a lot of like short stories and things that I read for school. But for some stats I read 10 books this month. Eight were classics because of school. One contemporary and one fantasy. My total page number was 1127. And again this is kind of low I think compared to other peoples because I read a lot of short stories. I read eight ebooks and two physical books. Eight of the books I read were adult one middle grade and one YA. I also have read out of the authors that I read this month. Five of them I've read before and five of them were new to me. So that's like a perfect balance right there. For ratings I gave no ratings. So a few books I gave no ratings this month just because I didn't want to just put a number on it just because I'm supposed to rate all my books. I really didn't know what to rate it. So I'm just gonna talk about it but like I didn't give it a rating. So there's four books like that. Uh two three star books. Three 3.5 star books. And one for one four star book. So the first book that I read here was 4 3 2 1 by Courtney Stevens. This is a young adult contemporary novel.  So 19 people died and there were four survivors. So we follow those four survivors and how they all processed trauma and how they all process it. So for the four survivors we have Rudy who is now in a wheelchair. We have Carolyn who was the bomber's boyfriend. I mean the bomber's girlfriend. And we have Golden Chandler who were a couple at the time and who were not even supposed to be on the bus but they were. And how that impacted not only them separately but their relationship. I found this story super interesting and it was like a great way to start off the year. I really liked the multiple point of views in this book and how we got to see each individual and how they coped with their mental health issues and their own guilt surrounding the incident. Overall I thought this read was super engaging and interesting. I would definitely suggest this book if you're interested in picking it up. It does have some trigger warnings for bombing, suicide, self-harm, cheating, PTSD, death and toxic relationships. Keep that in mind before picking this book up but I found it very interesting to see not only how trauma can affect each individual but how it can affect relationships and how sometimes in a relationship it could either split you apart or bring you closer together. So that's what I found super interesting about this book and I gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars. The next book I have here is a short story so this is called The Story of an Hour by Kate Chompin. Chompin? Chompin? Chompin. Chomp. I pictured a little like dinosaur when I said that. Okay this is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard and her husband dies and she has a heart heart condition and that's like really all you should know for a synopsis just because I have short this is and I don't want to give anything away but it has a feminist vibe which is super nice and overall it was like a pretty good short story. I would recommend picking it up. I give it 3 stars. This one I'm gonna struggle with because I'm looking down on my computer because of I have I have a nice dock full. So the next book I have here is Iphigenia and Terrace by Euripides. I totally could have said that wrong. I 100% could have said that wrong.  This is different from the other Greek tragedies that I read because this one actually kind of has a happy ending so this one was super interesting. I don't really know what else to say about it but I didn't write this one. This is one of the ones I didn't write but it was still like a good experience and I'm glad I read it for class but it's not it's something that I do not know how I would write it. I don't know. Next here we have The One and Only Bob by Catherine Avalgate. So this is the sequel to The One and Only Ivan and this is the middle grade book that follows a bunch of animals. It is so cute so this book follows Bob who is the little dog on the cover and the gorilla named Ivan is from the previous book so you get to see him again and the elephant rubies in this as well. So this book talks a lot about friendship and family and it's just like a really wholesome story. There's some like little illustrations throughout it. If you're looking for a fun middle grade I would recommend this series. I still liked the first book better in my opinion but this one was still like so wholesome. So wholesome. I gave this one a 3.5 and there are some trigger warnings for animal cruelty so keep that in mind. Next here I have Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. So I've read from Ernest Hemingway before but it was a very very long time ago. It was the old man in the sea. I read my mom's old copy. This is the first time I've read by like this is the first time I've read just a little short story by him so this one was basically about a man and a woman talking in a cafe and it talks about abortion. That's really all I think I can say without giving a lot of weight just because it is so short. Whatever they're talking about you have to kind of dig deep like dig a little bit further to understand exactly what they're talking about but like once you do it's like a really good short story. These three were probably my favorites. These were all plays. I'm going to butcher this author this play writer's name. Absolutely but it's basically a trilogy with Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and Humanities. I looked up pronunciation guides before this video and I'm still struggling with this author's name so I'm just going to put it full blown on the screen just so you all know. This one the first two plays I didn't rate. I thought the first one was probably the best in the trilogy but the first two I didn't really give a rating to until I finished them and then I rated the trilogy as a whole. So as a whole I rated it 3.5 stars. These do deal with like death, suicide, rape and cheating so keep that in mind. This was Agamemnon 10 years after the fall of Troy. Yeah it was a very good trilogy and I just have been really I've been reading these for my mythology class and I'm just really enjoying flying through all of these and I find them I don't know I just I love it. I love it but overall I really enjoyed that trilogy and yeah if you guys have read any Greek plays let me know your favorite down below. I would love to know. I still don't know my favorite. I don't think I want to read way more before I can like pick you know a favorite but let me know if you guys have any favorites down below. We only have two more here so next is the rocking horse by DH Lawrence. This is about a young boy named Paul who learns to predict the winners of horse races with the help of his rocking horse so this talks a lot about family and money and it's very insightful in that way. It is like a gothic tale kind of vibe. I overall gave this one 3.5 stars. I thought it was super interesting. It's not really what I expected at all but these like little gothic short stories are becoming like my favorite thing ever to read. I think they're so interesting. Last but not least we have Rose for Emily by William Faulkner who I've never read anything by as often before. This one does have some string warnings for poisoning, suicide, and death. Also there is a few N-word drops in here which I noticed and was like so I just wanted to mention that as a trigger warning that there are some N-word drops in here. This follows a woman named Emily and it's told it's basically a group of people telling the tale when she's at her funeral so they all gather together and they're kind of like talking about her life and like all these things about her and they're doing this at her funeral because the whole town went to her funeral which is like one of the first lines of the story. This kind of gave me this was my favorite by the way uh this was like one of my favorite short stories that I read but it kind of had the virgin suicides vibe where these other people were like an outside point of view was narrating about a particular person and their struggles. So that's why how I kind of caught that similar vibe I guess. But honestly a Rose for Emily was really good and it was like a darker gothic tale. I gave it four stars. I thought it was very good. If you're interested in it I would also suggest picking that up. So there you guys have it. That was my January wrap up. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below and your favorite book in the month. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you enjoyed it give it a like down below. Subscribe, follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, any of that kind of thing if you're interested and I'll see you all super soon with a new video. Bye!


Have you ever given any consideration how because hey tanking works Astros tanked Cubs tank they won World Series the the Orioles of tank for five years and now they've got a good exciting young team Do you not just think that your fans could take it or you don't have the stomach for it to to lose on purpose for four years? For all the talk that I'm not like my dad in a lot of ways that that's one way that I just like my dad It's not my DNA. I want to be in the playoffs every year I believe if you get into the playoffs wild card or not You've got a legitimate shot to make it happen in any given year and then our fans expect that you guys know that better than I do you deal with this every day and My family expects it now. It's not it's just not a consideration. It's not where we play It's not the city we play in and it's not not our motor fans want does does it bother you? How that as one of the highest generating revenue teams in the league that you kind of fund the teams that decide to tank And try to get better through losing Well, let me let me put it this way And I'm not sure what teams are referring to and if that even happens or doesn't happen, but they're clearly teams that have struggled through the years No, I believe it. I believe I've said this numerous times I believe every fan and baseball should come to spring training thinking that their team has some type of chance to get to the playoffs And if that's not the case, it's just not good for baseball as a whole So no, I don't like I don't like to see teams struggle mainly and I certainly don't like it If I have you know, I'm under the assumption or I have the idea that they're doing it on purpose You know if that's actually ever happened or if that's actually the case that that would not be something I would be happy about that's what you're asking how have there been any personnel moves Trade signings lack thereof over the last few years that have gone away that have really stuck in your craw ones You wish you could get back Yeah, that's a good question, you know, I'd have to think about that You're talking about trades that there's what exactly talking about trades that we made that we shouldn't let the person go sure either either Direction either a move to get someone it didn't pan out or someone you let go of and saw them perform well somewhere else. Oh Well, I mean look I mean look at Sunday great, right? But I mean that's just that wasn't happening in New York He just he just was not thriving whatsoever in New York and you know, there's there's gonna be other players This is a difficult market to play in you guys know about better than I do So you're gonna get some of that. I mean look I we can talk about the month last trade so far had it has not worked out, right? but Putting myself back the last year. I would do it again I mean we we got rid of two minor league pitchers for proven major league pitcher We knew he had injury history, but he was healthy and believe me I was in the middle of it all we do our homework and the medicals were actually, you know, better than We thought there would be so but we knew we were taking a chance So but that's something I would do again because you're getting somebody you can plug right in the middle of the life I feel the middle of the rotation do the I mean you mentioned the injuries the team has to get healthy and it's it's almost been An epidemic of injuries and I know that you and your family are spending a lot of money on sports science and stuff like that And brought an Eric Cressy, but the injuries continue to happen. How frustrating is that and do you wonder why? Well, it's frustrating Some of the injuries sliding into a base crashing into walls not much we can do about but it's the just the oblique and hand strength in The fobs that drive me crazy We did change a lot three or four years ago As you know about bringing in Eric and new strength and conditioning people and techniques that we do in the weight room But I'm gonna meet with Eric this weekend when I'm in New York You know, he just he just made up a report that I just got and I've read a couple times And we're gonna continue to try to get better and better. I mean, I do know that this year. We're above average with entries I think we all know that but if you look at the last two years Believe it or not, we're pretty close to the major league average now I want to be below average obviously So the question is what areas can we approve it and we're always striving to do that We're never gonna never gonna quit asking that question. Believe me


Is your body weight fluctuating big numbers up and down you want to figure out how to speed up your metabolism watch this Our next caller is Allie from Illinois. Allie. What's going on? How can we help you? Hi guys, um, had a quick question. I First want to say thank you for taking my call my question, but um a while back I was listening to an episode and it sparked a thought that Although I know about Macros and have a pretty good idea of how to track I don't have a good idea of what it's like to build metabolism I think I specifically heard you Sal talking about how you helped your wife build metabolism and stay lean With increasing her calories, and that's definitely something that's been difficult for me So I wondered what is the method for that? Yeah, no good question But do you mind if I if I get into a little bit more brown stuff detail because I'm looking at your question here The one that you wrote in do you mind if I go through some of this Allie? Yeah, no problem.  Is that correct? Definitely usually a diet phase down to 140 and then just more recently having difficulty Getting back down. Okay. Allie. I'm gonna Get maybe a little bit more personal. Okay, if that's if that's okay. I know the sport of Gymnastics, especially for women is one of the most challenging in terms of body image issues It's there's it's just really hard because yes, you are judged by your performance But body size is often talked about quite a bit. I've known I've coached some athletes Who've actually had their coaches weigh them before practice and all that stuff And so we've had to deal with some of the damage of that after do you feel like you've had some body image issues? As a result of that or is this something that is not an issue Um, I'd say a mix. I feel like I also coached so I kind of have that Like mental space to help other athletes get through it, but definitely as a child it was there to like that pressure to Look a certain way and perform a certain way. Okay. Absolutely. Yeah, and the reason why I'm asking is when you see big weight fluctuations That usually points to a relationship with food.  So when it comes to tracking, I'm always hesitant to recommend That someone in this maybe a situation like yours goes and really starts to measure and Track things because what that tends to contribute to is is what you've maybe been experiencing, right? Your track and so everything's like on point and then you get sick of tracking for whatever reason maybe because it's maybe motivated by Self-hate or maybe you're just done with it and then you go way off in the other direction So I would recommend for someone like you to to not pay attention to those things and rather look at behaviors instead And performance so I would what in your workouts? What brings you join your workouts?  Is it the strength or the stamina or the body control? Do you have anything specific like that? I? Think definitely more of the body control like I enjoy like Also, just like the melodic of it like increasing weight seeing that progress Okay, and then like the workout just I guess yeah seeing games and strengths perfect So there's another thing that you're you're not asking or that I think is important, right? So If she doesn't have body image issues and that's not a problem The other thing that I see with gymnast is their their dedication to training and consistency and intensity is Can be way overdone you have that and that's just athletes in general It's a switch and so if you have been applying that mentality for most of your weight training life I would be that's what I would be looking at right away So let's just say there's I mean for sure Sal is right to look into The body image issues if there's anything there that you feel you're self-conscious and maybe that's driving some of your behaviors But let's say it's not Then the other thing I would say is your athletic background may be driving the way you're programming Which means are you the person who's training? You know six seven days a week and you're doing cardio sessions for an hour for three to five times a week and also Cutting calories down below two thousand if that's you then that's your way over doing it and Somebody like and if we're going to rebuild your metabolism, it's gonna look something completely different I'm gonna cut your cardio sessions. I'm gonna make you only train three days a week doing something like math's anabolic If you need to move and we need to find a way to counter some of the calorie increase that I'm gonna do to you I'm gonna ask you to walk. We're not gonna do any intense cardio and we're gonna focus on building strength and I'm okay with you tracking if you don't have the issues that Sal say if Sal is hitting something that you feel is on point Then I think he's right then going towards a more intuitive way of paying attention like versus weighing and tracking and you know getting out of out of control with being super hyper focused on that but if you feel confident that there isn't Insecurity stuff going on or body image issues going on and it's purely I'm just trying to figure out I'm not what am I not programming right to in order to build my metabolism then I would be looking at the amount of volume intensity that you're doing in your training and how little you're eating in comparison to your your body size and I would want you to be up towards 25 to 2700 calories not right away But that would be the goal is to get your your body size and type up to that With you not training six days a week with a ton of cardio on top of it Yeah, and you know, here's some nutrition advice that doesn't involve specific tracking. You can try something like this Ali You could try just a few things one Avoid any heavily processed food.  I do have access to maps out anabolic and I My program before was loosely kind of based on that So I've adapted some of the trigger sessions into what I was already doing. Okay, so you're working out what five days a week then Yeah, five to six and how long your workouts typically Maybe hour and a half including a warm-up. Okay, and so okay. I appreciate your honesty I would so go maps anabolic as it's laid out Yeah, follow it to a T just follow it to a T and then do the things I said with nutrition and then start from this too Before you eat the sound silly, but I swear to God it makes a huge difference, right?  I think what we tend to do especially when we when we see body weight fluctuations is We don't do that around the foods that we don't want to be around Aware around so I'm not gonna do it right now because I'm gonna eat this you know sleeve of Oreo cookies or I'm gonna overeat this Whatever so just try doing those things and then kind of allow this process to work So, you know based off everything we said again if you feel like that that was your tendency in the past I would go in that direction and I think it'll it'll definitely move you in the right way And those are some of the details I left out when I talked about my wife and speeding up her metabolism She had some of those issues before and we did I did coach her through them through working on behaviors And it was hard it took a year of her to really Finally mentally understand, you know kind of what was going on because she wanted to go back to what she was doing before Allies any is anything striking a chord for you? I mean is anything sound like it's possible you Yeah, I feel like it's maybe halfway like I definitely do have the tendency to be like more driven in like just my past like It has to be this way. I have to train this way and eat this way And then maybe a little bit of the body Self-image as well. Just like I definitely try to be aware when I eat But I know that it's just tendency I slip on my phone and don't think about it And then I go to the kitchen to put something away and I pick up a handful of whatever yeah, and it doesn't go in So yeah, definitely a bit of both seems to be a bit of intensity there I think you know sort of relieving that from you will go a long way and just kind of you know being able to Not be so hyper focused on what's good. What's not good? And just try to find things that'll help nourish you and have you feel good in your performance Yeah, you know, you know Ali you're I'm gonna make a guess here. You said you're a coach I bet I bet you are an excellent coach to the people that you work with and I bet the advice I'm giving you or we're giving you right now is what you would tell One of your athletes if they came to you. Yeah, and I'm and this is true for all coaches and trainers I'm gonna say this right now. Maybe not all but 90 something percent of us We're way better with our clients and we we are with ourselves. I Have practices I do with myself that I would come I would never tell clients to do and I'm fully aware of this It's very challenging. So one of the practice one of the things that I do before I do certain things I say would I have a client do this? How would I advise a Client if they came to me with the same challenge and that usually gives me the best answer Doesn't always mean I'll listen because sometimes or often I don't want to listen to myself But it does give us the best answers. So give that a shot say to yourself, okay If I was a student coming to me saying this, what would I tell them? It's it's also important that you recognize that The greatest Challenge that you're going to have doing this is you probably will see a little bit of weight gain I mean, we're trying to increase calories. You're trying to get stronger. We're hopefully gonna be building muscle I'm glad you said that because yeah, so one of the things that you've got to trust this process And this this is always the most difficult part is you talk to these guys that give you advice about speaking retabolism We tell you something like hey Reduce all the the volume of training you're doing and also let's increase some calories And then you get you're getting on the scale every day and you're like, oh my god I've gone up three to five pounds and you freak out and then you go back to your old behaviors But you got to trust the process here and stay and if that means that you stay away from the scale for a while Then do that I'm okay with the tracking scale stuff So long as you got the self-awareness to know that to know that this could be a tendency or the things that Sal's kind of alluding to But just be aware of that that that's going to be the first major hurdle is you're gonna probably see a little bit of weight gain But don't be focused on that focus on your strengths focus on yours I'm looking what I'm looking for is you to get stronger and to tell me things like man Adam I'm getting hungry now my appetite's kicking up like these are all positive signs that we're moving in the right direction Regardless of what we're seeing on the scale. Allie. I'm gonna send you the intuitive nutrition guide if you have it I think that'll help you Okay, I don't but thank you. All right. Thanks. All right. Thanks for calling him. Yeah. Thanks guys. Have a great day You too. Did she say she had anabolic? I didn't know she's uh, you know what Doug? Let's send her that too. I think she said she had it. Okay. I'll put it in there. I think she did say she had Yeah, I think she did.  I've trained X like synchronized swimmers and divers Figure skaters synchronized swimmers. They have and they're and they are they're really a man. I tell you you ever watch that So random Yeah, oh, yeah, I can't say I've trained a lot. I've actually trained a lot of gymnast. Have you? Yeah Yeah, I had a client botchy ballers.  That was directed at me I actually had a client who was an alternate in the Olympics and synchronized swimming But it that growing up in that environment. Yeah, you it's I swear when they became when they came to me It was always like we got to deal with this this these old behaviors This body image issues. It's really really challenging and then what you said Adam so true They have this switch that they've trained so hard where they can literally turn it on ignore pain ignore tiredness Ignore body signals and just go because that's what got them successful.  You know, it's just tough because a lot of times You don't see that about yourself. You don't see that, you know, that may be causing you You know a bit of struggle a hundred percent of time It's either either one of the things that we were talking about or a blend of both. Yeah, right? It's either either we've got major body image issues and that's driving your behaviors and your training in your dieting or You still got that, you know Athletic switch in your head where you know, whenever you go after your workouts or dieting you apply the same type of mentality or nothing Yeah, there's an Olympic athlete, you know, and it's just like so different when we're talking about health and Longevity and body composition like it's a different ball game So I have found that training clients like this It is either either one of those things we talked about or a blend of two always Totally and I do I want to say this too about athletes like this because I've had people ask me this question and say well If if if training too much is detrimental Then why are gymnasts and divers and you know athletes like that, right? Maybe ice skaters Why are they training so many hours during the day? Aren't they over training and my answer is they are however Those sports are so technical that the frequency and volume of training really is about perfecting their skill and technique It's less about training their bodies. They're fit as hell already if anything They have they end up losing some of their fitness and strength because it's so much training But it's about if you watch a gymnast. Yes, they're explosive and strong But look at their lines their body control that comes from so much nuance that comes from addition to yes Sports aren't healthy for you. Yeah, that's true. They're not that's actually that level definitely No, I mean all sports they really are not healthy But does that mean that you can't incorporate some of the sports that you love and have a healthy life That's not what I'm saying, but competitive sports, especially at the high level is not healthy any of them You're you are doing you have to recognize that and be able to move forward. Yeah and live a lifestyle where you know It's totally different than that going into longevity. You have different goals Yeah, when you when you were when you're competitively playing a sport I don't give a shit if my body fat percentage is up or down or I'm getting great sleep or my health or my libido No, that all it cares is I'm I'm better at my sport today than I was yesterday And so and sometimes that means I'm training five hours a day to get to that level It doesn't mean that it's it's bad or wrong It just means you have different goals And so you get these athletes that were highly competitive and good at their sport and they try and apply that same mentality Towards getting in shape or being healthy and they're they're two different worlds You know how many female athletes I've trained who didn't get their period until they stopped their competitive sport Yeah, because their bodies were so hammered all the time So it's just it's one of those things Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe


to Global Connections. I'm your host, Carlos Juarez, and thank you for joining us today. We've got a great show. I've welcomed you a friend and someone who's going to share with us some very important insights and perspectives on a topic very relevant. Right now we've got with us my friend Betsy Kawamura. She's founder of Women for Non-Violence and joins us today from New York City. We've got a topic called Women, Peace and Security in Northeast Asia but we'll really be touching on a range of issues. So let me first just welcome you Betsy. Welcome to Global Connections. Great to reconnect. I know it's been some time but I'm really delighted and as I understand you're joining us now from New York City, a global citizen that you are yourself, always moving around. So thank you and welcome Global Connections. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it and it's a joy to come back to your conversation where we left off in 2013 when I was in Hawaii. So that was some time ago. Oh my gosh and you're all you know making it sound as if we're old but maybe it just means we're like you know we're like wine. We get more seasoned and a little bit wiser I hope. And yet of course you know we look at a world and again as our so global connection makes clear I mean we've had opportunities and yourself you've had connections to Hawaii over the years with family at times but also very important you know you're somebody who while you're deeply connected in Europe for quite some time based often in Oslo in Norway or times UK as well you know born in the US but as you may share in a moment with us raised partly in Okinawa if I'm not mistaken right. Yes. But more importantly for us I mean a topic that we want to get to after you know I want you to share maybe just some initial background about yourself with some of our viewers and you know it's a topic that right now I'm curious to see some of the challenges some of the opportunities that you've seen as you've been working on these issues for many years particularly dealing with sexual gender based violence a topic that on one hand it's been around a long time obviously and particularly when we look at Asia, North Asia, the legacy in the history of World War II and the comfort women and the like but of course more contemporary issues that persist and continue and today a lot of your work is taking you more recently look at North Korean refugees right and some of the very serious challenges there so let me stop I want to maybe let you get started with us but I look forward to a dialogue and gaining insights so our viewers can well understand better these very violations so tell me Betsy a little bit about again where things are now what's on your face these days what are you working on now. Yes thank you Carlos just to recap a little bit back in our conversation 2013 I'm Betsy Colomer of course and I'm the founder and the director of Women for Non-Violence which is like a rather small NGO that I had founded in Oslo, Norway back in around 2000 oh god 2000 more than more than about 10 years ago and the the premises of that was that I am a survivor of sexual gender-based violence out of Okinawa which is a tiny island south of Japan and as a survivor advocate I wanted to try to empower other North Asian survivors of gender-based violence and Hawaii of course is in the Pacific Isle and of course Hawaii has like a lot of ties with mainland Japan as well as Okinawa and I think there's a lot of Uchi Nanchu people in Hawaii as I understand so during that time I really want to create awareness of the activities I was doing in in Hawaii but the thing is that you know a lot of good things have happened actually since the time that UN has spoken you know amazingly the Black Lives Matter for instance um Asian hate awareness as well as the Me Too and the times of women have come up almost simultaneously in the last two to three years and I consider this to be a really opportune time to basically guard our attention to the topics that we're talking about a world peace and security for Northeast Asia and I think the reason is that you know we've come to we've come you know quite far since 2013 which is about eight years ago where social media plays an incredibly active role in in amplifying the voices of women um Asian women you know Black women minority women and I think this is an opportune time to discuss the situation of you know sexual gender-based violence but also as like empowering ourselves as to what we can do instead of saying that we are victims or even you know I would I would say it's okay to be survivors but I would refrain from using the word victims because it disempowers us and I think you know what is really important is that you know instead of isolating ourselves as like survivors or basically those who have been marginalized we need to basically you know synergize and blend ourselves with with the community to basically create solidarity and what could be done to prevent the situation now you know what what is still unfortunate is that you know I spoke into a few Okinawan activists here in New York you know believe it or not there are like a group of women of mainland Japan and Okinawan women here in New York City who work on empowerment issues and I think that this is very interesting for Okinawa and as you know you know there's there's still like a lot of heavily politicized discussion on Henneco and the situation of the US military bases in the United States now what what I wanted to really relate to the general public to your program today is that the more the USA seems to present in North Korea and China as a potential threat or aggressor the more pressure there is going to be on creating US military bases in Okinawa and what a lot of people do not realize that there is a direct connection between amplifying the so-called threats of North Korea and China and the maximization of potential six-field gender-based violence to women of Okinawa and Japan in general and the reason is that is that the status of force agreement which is an agreement between the United States military and the countries around the world who are hosting the US military have unfortunately create a situation where there are loopholes where the US military armed forces personnel often get away with crimes against the hosting country population especially in terms of Okinawa even mainland Japan of women who have been assaulted by US military members who have not been prosecuted and my my colleague Catherine Jane Fisher in mainland Japan she is also like a survivor of gender-based violence by the US military between herself myself and very others various other scholars you know they have compiled a list of survivors since 1945 and the list is quite astounding and the thing is that you know I find it to be quite painful that the women of Okinawa and Japan are not fluent in English as as far as Kathy and I are concerned you know as fluent as us and have the international reach because you know I firmly believe that if the survivors in Okinawa and mainland Japan as well as the activists had access to multilingual you know capacities and the availability of resources to go to the UN in New York to visit the human rights offices in in Switzerland and other international NGOs it would create an incredibly amplified voice to to really create like a much more urgent need to reanalyze and and redevelop the status of force agreements between the United States military and countries like Japan and Okinawa and you know I certainly believe that this is of major importance because the SOFA agreement covers basically 700 to 800 US military bases all over the world in about 74 to 75 countries all over the world so this is not an isolated case of the SOFA agreement creating loopholes only for Okinawa and Japan. We are moving into basically the 20th or 25th year of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 of World Peace and Security and it is pretty audacious to think that despite the fact that the United States has created the executive order for the National Action Plan for 1325 that was put in action by President Obama there has been no pointed action by the UN nor any other international agency to to to you know to I guess catalyze the United States to rethink of their National Action Plan in terms of the status of voice agreements they have with countries around the world that enable sexual gender-based violence to happen without much thought of adjudication or prosecution. You know some of the larger international NGOs back in 2019 just two to three years ago and myself thought that it'd be really nice to have like a like a very high level roundtable discussion on that to potentially include and invite the chief prosecutor the ICC for instance and the former Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Margaret Waldstrom to such a roundtable discussion to create international awareness of these issues but unfortunately COVID came and as I was explained to you a few minutes ago our initial meeting our initial ideas and ambitions got capitulated however I think with social media and other film and media mediums we can create some kind of virtual roundtable discussion where people at the high level can't come around to discuss these issues and you know I appreciate the fact that you discussed North Korea issues as well which I did bring up back in 2013 because North Korean refugee women are another group of women who have gone through really bad sexual gender-based violence especially when they're trafficked from North Korea into mainland China. The reason they are trafficked from North Korea to mainland China is because they wish to escape North Korea and it's extremely harsh regime and many of the women unfortunately go through forced marriages with Chinese farmers as like perhaps the only means of finding any kind of economic survival strategy when they are in China and on top of that many of them become hung into the sex industry and I even heard a pretty sad stories about North Korean refugee women who managed to finally find refugee in South Korea they also do unfortunately find themselves in the sex traffic trade I mean not sex traffic but the sex industry as well. So we do have this we do have a really significant group of women and perhaps men also who are victims or survivors of sexual gender-based violence in Northeast Asia but as I said before because of the lack of international awareness in general about this region and because of the extreme hardship of the language barriers that you know you cannot expect these women survivors to be fluent in English as Catherine and I are and you know you cannot expect them to have the reach level abilities that that we do in the UN and with people like yourself or the academy here that we are finding a minimization of their voices as opposed to being amplified so I wish to take this opportunity and I thank you again you know Carlos for letting me explain the situation to you that I think it's about time that we create like a very strong international solidarity of creating awareness of these issues so that the voices of far East Asian women who have gone through sexual gender-based violence whether it's through trafficking of you know from North Korea to China or whether it is through the US military sexual violence that does happen in Okinawa and mainland Japan that avoids prosecution so you know I mean and one of the stronger reasons I keep on mentioning this to you as before is that in my experience of being located in Norway in Oslo Norway it's it's absolutely a fabulous place in terms of training for human rights and gender-based equality issues the Norwegian civil society is very strong on UN UN Security Council resolution 1325 on one piece of security and they really try to catalyze other countries around the globe to really look at a national action plan however when it comes to looking at 1325 for far East Asia namely Okinawa Japan South Korea North Korea and China I mean there is virtual incredibly minimal amount of information on this and part of the reason is that the Norwegian national action plan does not really prioritize far East Asia and I think this is because of the unfortunate assumption that gender-based violence is not such an important field to look at in the United States nor in far East Asia and I think there's also like another real politic issue is that even if Norway as a country understood that the United States has its you know aggressions and egregious acts of sexual gender-based violence in some of the Northeast Asian countries there is not much political will for Norway to approach the USA on this because of their common interest in NATO understanding that Norway has like a common border with Russia so you see you know the the constant with gender-based violence I mean you know if you if you talk to the popular person on the the street of course most people would say yes it's really important to stop violence against women however if you really really take this from a politicized level stopping violence against women can be a politically very sensitive subject when countries like the United States are asked to approach Japan Okinawa and other countries and to really re-evaluate their status-force agreements and for me for example to ask the country of Norway as well as other countries to reprimand the United States are not re-evaluating their status-of-force agreements so what I'm trying to tell you is that you know like a very simple principle of trying to minimize violence against or sexual violence against women children can have enormous political real politic implications that make it virtually unrealistic for a individual person like me to expect changes but this is part of the reason I'm here in New York is that because you know I do hope to create more awareness of this to my UN colleagues and I plan to go into Washington DC to create more awareness of to the think tanks I do know yes let me say that and I really appreciate what what you've shared is I think a very good panorama of the really on one hand the challenges that you see from many different you know actors different players and then big puzzle but also what can seem at times of frustration because at an individual level we want actually want to do things and we try and yet consistently we're up against the frustrations whether it's our own government or whether it's organizations with the United Nations itself which has lofty goals and ideals but also easily criticized because that security council at the end of the day is all about power politics and if it's something against the interests of the U.S. or the challenges it or the Russians or the Chinese nothing gets done in the end now that's not to say we throw our arms away and say nothing needs to be done at the end of the day all of us do have you know the communities that we're connected to and curiously you know what I like to is you know you mentioned we connected to what is now eight almost five years ago and a lot of the same issues continue there the challenges what what continues to be I think also interesting and you describe part of it is the role of social media on one hand and you can see parts of it as as opportunities helping and as you were describing for example the difficulty of let's say language barriers for many victims who simply don't have either access to the information can't share their story etc again I'm just thinking out loud quickly but there are you know probably opportunities where social media could maybe help connect people who have that language proficiency to translate in a way that maybe in the past it would have required them to go and the connected person again just just thinking out loud there but let me get more to the point what I think and as you know as a professor myself I can you doing some ongoing teaching but thinking more from the conceptual academic point of view you yourself have been an activist very much directly involved in NGO work working within this framework of the international system the international organization like the UN and its many umbrella pieces the many foreign governments and I know that you've mentioned Norway and Norway is always a very curious very important piece in this area of peace studies it has a tremendous concentration of expertise and then and and institutions and capacity and yet it has limitations too it's a small country and you described at the end of the day what what we can only say is real poly peak if it's that power politics of the US and nor which have a very important alliance that they're a part of and which the US is the bigger you know dominant you know super power but I wonder if maybe just from your own perspective of many years working on these issues would you how how might you describe the way in which social media because it's a topic that continues to have double-edged sword it can help it can it connects us as virtual communities allows us today to speak from you know different parts of the world and share that but at the same time we also see there are other darker elements whether it's the way in which you know more sinister interests can use both for media or authoritarian leaders you know in so many places and deeply polarized environments and then it gets harder to put something so important like this human rights rather rather something that requires us to know history to know law to know you know substance and too much of the world is like driven by just little simple answers you have to know an emotion and and this gets brushed aside but at the end of the day we need we need to know the story we need to know the history we need to educate people about it and those who are choosing not to hopefully we can marginalize them but today sadly social media is giving them a platform in some ways to to subtly push out and it reminds me a little bit of the way you were describing sometimes you have these issues that we all agree are so important and we can all agree we need to do something about it why can't we and and there's no simple answer but there are many reasons a lot of them are the different interests that the actors have like the states you know whether the US government or reaching government or the limitations of institutions that you work with so I wonder if you can maybe to put it as a real quick question it would just be how do you see the social media either as opportunities and and and ways in which maybe it has helped transform even the activism that you do because you know today we see more of it it was not as much 10 years ago and certainly not as much 20 or 30 years ago well you know one of the very positive things that that happened is that since Biden came into the presidency not too long ago you know I'm very thrilled to hear about the new White House Council on Gender Policies and I think that this is really welcoming as I understand the former members of the Times up are heading the White House Council on Gender Policies which is fabulous and as I understand I've read their social media and their website quite often and they talk they speak a lot about social responsibilities and accountability and I suppose what they mean by accountability is to bring those who are accountable for gender-based violence or you know or violations against gender equality to to the forefront and I think that these issues are very important they do speak about international policies that they're concerned with I haven't seen too many other social media that do cover international policies but certainly on the domestic front I do see a lot of the social media coming from Jennifer Klein Times up the the new White House Council on Gender Policies to discuss this you know my plan my strategic plan is with some of my colleagues who are also survivors I thought that it would be really nice to approach the new White House to approach President Biden and his colleagues and the office cabinets involved in the new council about a few things about you know as I spoke to you it's about the status of voice agreements that that govern the relationship the legal relationship between the United States and the military forces around the world nearly 800 and another issue that I would like to bring into the light is the the apparently it's a terrible name it's called the Recreation and Amusement Association the RAA you know just very quick of the Recreation and Amusement Association was created in 1945 around September this was when Japan capitulated to the United States the United States basically came into Okinawa in Japan and basically it was under President Eisenhower Truman and General MacArthur you know the United States the Allied Forces were there as a kind of way to repair and to build up the the country of Japan unfortunately the Recreation and Amusement Association which was formed by the Japanese government with the total understanding of the U.S. military was to provide Japanese women as sexual slavery for the military the U.S. military and I heard some gruesome accounts of some of the women having to have about 45 clients and they were paid two dollars a day who wants to have 45 clients and be paid two dollars a day and many of the women of Japan they were kind of clandestinely recruited into this program to sexually serve the U.S. military as a way to kind of serve their country and I find this to be extremely disappointing and talk about you know erasing any trace of dignity for women and what I find equally heinous is that you know despite the USA being proud enough to present themselves as the the freedom givers to you know in world war two in terms of the Nazis I mean why would they in Japan basically say yes to being sexually served by a group of extremely impoverished and desperate women who have got have nothing and they had were capitulated you know for the U.S. government I mean this r.a.a lasted for at least six months the only reason that the U.S. government decided to shut it down is because of rampant spread of sexual transmitted diseases but even after officially the r.a.a was shut down there was the phenomenon of the so-called pom-pom women Japanese women who were so-called civilian freelance prostitutes who basically sexually served the U.S. military who continued to because it was lucrative there was there was extremely other means other any other means of financially surviving during that time and it was a very sad situation where many of the women apparently they were looking upon the pom-pom women with some form of jealousy because these women were able to afford western clothes were available you know we're able to afford purses handbags modern clothing nice hairstyles and chocolate and food and this shows you the desperate situation and I basically find it unconscionable to think that a U.S. military service person would stoop that low to say yes to the with the sexual slavery of these women and unfortunately many of these women are dying out they're in their 80s and 90s and my originally plan was to go into Japan to to trace them down with the help of some academia but obviously COVID has completely nullified that effort so I'm also reaching out to academics in mainland USA several of whom I know as well as some in Europe I'm hoping to identify and in Japan and Okinawa to basically amplify or preserve the stories of these women original women who served the U.S. military under the RAA I just wanted to note the huge difference the huge difference between the comfort women in southern Korea and these RAA is that the South Korean comfort women have received enormous support from the South Korean government and the American government but the women of the RAA I really doubt that they're going to have any kind of support from Japan or the USA so it's up to survivor activists like myself especially of Japanese or Asian background to amplify their voices or preserve their stories while you know we still can so I just wanted to mention that also no well that's a very commendable point and it's so important particularly what you're speaking of is the need for an oral history that that can capture the stories before these now you know aging and you know soon to be all gone it's a serious challenge and then the disparities that you describe you know the legacy for the South Koreans and what role their government and society chose in terms of perhaps dealing with it it underscores how gosh a lot of times we need to understand different cultures and you know again I'm just speaking here because especially with Japan I'm certainly not the expert on it but I know it is so important to look at either different aspects of the culture perhaps more pronounced more prominent than in other societies in a way and whether it has to do with you know keeping silent about this not wanting to show faith you know lose faith and so on there's some you know that's relative you know you could say almost like a stain on the image where I don't know I'm just speaking out loud but as an educator myself I can imagine that the history in Japan that is taught is not including a lot of information about the comfort women or what the governments did I mean just as you could see so many examples in US history doesn't say a whole lot about you know the marginalized communities or the plight of you know endless you know different minority interests well Betsy we've come to the end of our conversation here but I really I want to thank you for sharing this and really it underscores again there's a role for all of us and you as an individual yourself a survivor of gender-based violence have been able to harness that in ways that you connect with the other players the institutions the experts whether you know through your base in Oslo or connections in New York and Washington D.C. now to further you know I guess give a voice to this and I think I'm grateful for this opportunity as well I you know share this with with an audience that brings connections and young leaders from all over the world particularly Asia but otherwise you know students who are learning about it this is one of those things that we can't you know let just be kind of swept under the rug it has to be brought out and discussed it as difficult and uncomfortable but I'll have to close it on that I really do appreciate this opportunity to hear your you've shared these insights and we'll continue the conversation perhaps another chance when we can thank you for joining me here on Global Connections part of our Think Tech Hawaii series and Betsy I'm grateful to reconnect and maybe next chance I can get to Europe I'll find a way to connect with you there okay oh yes thank you excellent take care and I love you bye bye


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I just got back from seeing Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, here's my thoughts. Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, just to summarize, is not good. It may be my least favorite Jurassic Park movie yet, and that's saying a lot. Just so we're clear, Jurassic Park 1 is one of my favorite movies of all time, possibly my favorite. I go back and forth on a few. Jurassic Park Lost World, I do not like it all. I kind of hate it.  I only like it more than 2 because it's shorter. That's the only reason. And there's two dinosaur neck snaps in it, which is just ludicrous and awesome, all the same. Jurassic World is fine. It's better than the other two crappy ones. It's nowhere near Jurassic Park 1. And now we have Lost Kingdom, takes place after the fallout of the first, the islands and ruins. Humans have to go back and save the dinosaurs from the poachers who are going to sell them. This movie starts out really good. It's ominous. It's dark. It's kind of scary. There's creatures lingering off in the distance. You don't know what it is, which is always far scarier than what you actually know what it is. But that's very short-lived. Then we have a bunch of island shenanigans, which are actually really good. It's moving really fast. And I'm thinking, holy crap, if this keeps its momentum, this could be a top tier Jurassic Park movie. We could have a real good return to form. I loved all the island stuff. All 30 to 40 minutes of it is spectacular. Yeah, it's silly.  It's gripping. It's engaging. But the problem is there's another hour and 15 minutes to go. And all of that is pretty awful for me. In the five or six people I went with, my wife hated it easily. Her least favorite. She just kept rattling off all these things that made no sense, which for her says a lot because usually she can forgive a lot more than I do. My kid's Connor, he's six. He thought it was not great either. I thought for sure he would have loved it, but he's like, it wasn't scary. I want some thrills. I want some chills.  The last one. He thought that was really good. Olivia loved it. She's nine. She thought it was great because what happens here is in this one the dinosaurs are more the victims and the heroes. They really play up that aspect, which is fair. That's fine. I'm an animal sympathizer. I don't think it's cool when people go out and hunt and then like mount the head or take a photo next to one. I'll gladly eat the meat that you provide, but I don't need to see how it's made, you know? When you see the conveyor belt of McDonald's cows getting slaughtered, just hand me my Big Mac, let me live in my happy place. Although that's not really what I'm saying. I'm saying McDonald's can slaughter all the animals they want. I just don't want to see Ronald McDonald's like wearing a chain necklace with the remains like the cow hooves.   And then they just throw the meat away.   I'm sorry. Anyway, there's some of that in the movie, like the hunters collecting the teeth.  There's a ton of dumb stuff in it.  And you could tell it was just the writer was like, oh, I got to get a jab in there because nobody else is doing that. The first half, maybe the first third, I guess, is really good, or I at least really liked it. There's dinosaurs battling. There's chases. There's all the things that you want from a dinosaur movie.  When that's like stalking around and trying to be scary, it's not working at all.  Maybe I'll talk about it in the spoiler section if I do one, but this movie doesn't care enough to provide any sort of logical structure to its story. So why should I care enough to even talk about that non-structure? The dinosaurs look better, I think, here than they did in Jurassic World. There's definitely a lot of CG going on, but it looked like there was a bit more animatronics at play, especially when there's closer shots of the T-Rex and some of the bigger dinosaurs. There's, like I said, a couple of darker, scarier tensor moments that were missing from Jurassic World. I don't remember really any, and I kind of like Jurassic World, I just, I don't know why. It's not good. I just, you know what, I'm a sucker for dinosaur movies. Let me get that out of the way.  So I'm already half in.  It's like, we're gonna watch Lost World again.  Okay, I'll watch that. Fine, because there's an awesome 30-minute scene where people fall to their doom instead of an RV while two T-Rexes are gang-banging the thing. That's gonna drive me home. The humans kind of all suck. There's some new recruits. They don't do a whole lot, and then they just kind of unceremoniously leave at some point. I don't even know what happened to them, honestly. At the end of the movie, I don't even remember where they went, or care. You have Star-Lord, who's smoldering his way through this whole film, constantly doing those kind of confused sexy eyes, and he does this so goddamn much. I almost thought his hand was stuck like it. It's like, come on, blue. Come on, blue. And he uses his accent maybe 15% of the film, that Southern draw. He has it once in a while, but then it's gone. Then you have Ron Howard's daughter, what's her name? What's her name in real life?  That gets people in the seats. She's just ridiculous with this.  She doesn't care about the kids. She just wants to run this park. She just wants to make sure everything's working all the time. She works around the clock, has no interest in seeing the kids until the end of the film. And then in this one, she's suddenly just this loving, caring, nurturing person, and she loves the dinosaurs more than anything else. She wants to get back to the island, she wants to save them. It doesn't fit with her character. You can have a change of heart, but her personality is completely different. She looks completely different somehow, the makeup or something. I don't know. But there's nothing about this character that's remotely similar to the last movie.  If you like it, great. There's plenty to like. There's dinosaurs in it. That's enough for some people. So most of the dinosaurs are gone by the second half and you're just left with the one that's not even based off of a real creature. So there's also that. Blue is a goddamn superhero in this one. If you didn't think he was ridiculous enough in the last film, hang on tight. I'm not going to tell you not to see it or to go see it. That's not what I do. Just, you know, you have your own decision to make, make up your mind, come back here and listen to my spoiler talk, which is starting now. We're going to jump past everything on the island because that stuff's all good.  Still cool. I'm going to skip past all that. We're going to go to when they get to the mansion because that's where I think things really fall apart. I'm just going to go right on and say it.  Why is this in the movie? This is a dinosaur movie, not a clone movie about people all of a sudden. That's a quick jump. That's a big leap. This girl's a clone?  And why?  There was zero investment in that character. And then you have the old man where they do the whole thing where he's like, oh yeah, John. John, I remember him. We were best friends. We had this vision together. Really?  And his story goes nowhere.  The girl's left to cry and scream and go be with Chris Pratt and Howard. I don't know why don't I remember her name? I don't remember her name, Ron Howard's daughter. I don't remember anything about her. I can't remember it. Okay. It's going to come back to me in the middle of the night. I'm going to wake up at two in the morning and I'm going to go, it's her. Bryce Dallas Howard nailed it. Okay. So Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, they have their on again off again relationship that's so cliche. She rolls up to Chris Pratt just working on the ranch, working on building his new home. In the first one, he's fixing a motorcycle. You know, this guy's salt to the earth, just a, just a blue collar worker making ends meet.  He's like, here we go again. She just can't stay away from me. I got a, got a little bit of a, a draw now I'm going to get rid of it in a sec. So random all over the place. But yes.  And so she left him, but they weren't even sure who broke up with who. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good relationship to put this girl into this clone baby girl.   This one has one with a hammerhead. I can't remember the name of the dinosaur. I'm terrible with names today, but the one with the chrome dome, he runs slams into walls, somehow Chris Pratt's character, Ewan or whatever, Smolder guy, Gus, Charlie Chip, something like that. His only ability is to get dinosaurs to do stuff just by going like, by whistling or by going, he's a little clacker, a little clapper thing. But there's a hammerhead on the other side. I know that's not what it is. That's a shark. But he's just going like, come on. And the things just smashed in its head into this brick wall for an eternity. Finally gets through. He's dodging it. And then this thing just goes on a rampage, eventually ending by like sliding up to the camera and winking. It's not that on the nose, but it's pretty close. And blue does this like half a dozen times. Blue is indestructible. He takes on not only the Indominus Rex in the last movie, but this new one that's even, I guess, better. I think he's better except for Pratt's character thinks he can't see in the dark for some reason. He shuts off all the lights. Or is it a female or all the dinosaurs still female? Are we still doing that? Like in the first. No, they moved past that a while ago because they found a way. I don't know.   We're going to weaponize them because that makes the most sense.  No, no, no, no, no, no, we want to we want to weaponize these guys, maybe a mount some Gatlin guns on them, a saddle, ride them around in war. That's where we're going. So they they kind of keep that going because they bring back the scientists from Jurassic Park One, who was kind of like a nice happy guy.  They're only females. You know, they're bred that way. And then then he turns in Jurassic World. He's like, I've created the most evil dinosaur ever for money. And I'm horrible. And to be fair, I did read the books and he is a lot worse than those than he is in Jurassic Park One. But still, there's no consistency here. There was a part. I don't know if they did this for the trailer to make people go, no way. What's going on here? Where Bryce Dallas Howard, Titi McTitterson points her gun at Chris Pratt at at Charlie and he's got the laser on him because that's what makes this this vicious beast attack people is you point the laser and then you push a button. It's technology.  They make a drone joke in it so they know what they are. For some reason, Titi's points it at him with the assumption that they're on the same wavelength. I mean, which she was right. They were because he runs headlong into this snarling beast. Slides down underneath the creature. He knows the creature is going to jump because that's what creatures do. They pounce. He pounces over him. This super smart, super fast, super heavy beast jumps over him into the glass, almost falls down, but grabs on. The baby blue jumps on top.  He's dead.  Why didn't she just point the laser at the glass and push the button? The thing has to do what they say. She could have pointed it in oncoming traffic and pushed the button.  There's a lot of things she could have done. Get creative with it. Point it under the car. Have it walk over and lay under it. She just slowly backs over him. We'll go again. Why didn't the creature leave? Just get out of town if it's so smart. I don't know. You could pick this thing apart a million different ways. Bottom line is I just wasn't invested. The island stuff was great, but then they got off the island and it was just over for me. I just found myself bored, wondering why things were happening the way they were. Why did they imprison boobs and hand pop? Why didn't they just shoot them both? Because the guy even says they died in that volcano. Let's just be clear, but we're going to just have them in this prison to rot forever because I just don't have time for this right now. I think that was the thing. Nice of Goldblum to show up for two minutes to cash a check.  He narrates a couple things and that's it. He's out. There's a ton more I could complain about. A lot of things are just kind of rushing through my head right now, but I'm going to leave it there. I think I said some of the highlights for me at least that I noticed. I will be putting together a movie feud episode for this. We'll probably do Jurassic World 1 versus 2 because that was one in the polling that I did on the YouTube community tab. That's where I do things now for a little while at least until YouTube inevitably gets rid of that.  Is that why they made her a clone so that she could push the button? Because that's the only way someone would do that.  I am interested. I do think they can have fun with the next movie because the creatures will be out terrorizing the world.