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starting with Jim I'd like to have a

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follow on to what York said last year

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yes s he was meeting at Yale and I was

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had a new book that was just coming out

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and I asked Bob John if they would give

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me a blurb you know good stuff read the

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book and that was he good to do but

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prophetically one of his last comments

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to me was you know were on the home

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stretch best to do tribute to Jimmy

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Chanin who's better known probably in

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the herb circle a friend of mine and I

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met nearly 40 years ago who was a

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brilliant Imagineer he was a phenomenal

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artist and many of the symbols that he

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used originally these are some examples

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of it are actually can be found in the

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military today as symbols that are used

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in the various diagram and this is

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running away

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are we there okay anybody here these are

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examples of some of Jimmy's artwork what

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was great as you could work with him and

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say I have an idea and I have trouble

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with straight lines and stick people and

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that and then he would go oh and here's

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what you do and by the way here's what

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you forgot oh there was something I met

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him with we spent a lot of time with

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task force Delta which is not Delta

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Force but we were known as the high

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command for a reason that you might want

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to explore but it was you know what is

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the difference that makes a difference

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in this is some of Jimmy's symbology

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that was in there

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he's also well known for something

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called the first Earth battalion first

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of all this was not a real army unit but

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a rather a notional unit and what he

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would do is put pictures out there and

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as a way to allow people to think about

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things it was originally done literally

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in black-and-white the pictures weren't

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quite complete but it was so people

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would take their imagination and

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fill in the blanks and some of those

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things were XA of a force of hearts or

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the National Guard then the natural

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guard

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remember we're talking early nineteen

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eighty-two timeframe and seventy Wow one

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of my favorite stories has to do with

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general Thurman at the time of this

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incident he the three sorry the deputy

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chief of staff for personnel many he had

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responsibility for all personnel actions

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and he was going to do a presentation he

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liked to do one-upsmanship with other

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three-star generals if you can imagine

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competition at that level so he was

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doing cradle-to-grave literally you know

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all the way from recruitment through

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retirement and all of the personnel

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actions that could be accounted for

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there and a number of us worked with him

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and he turned to me and he said John

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give me some of those big words that you

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use and you know we were talking like

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psychokinesis and remote I guess remote

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doing but you know precognition and

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though that it's illogical preparation

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except that he says I want to just put

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some of those up so we were working late

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and remember this is before powerpoints

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and all of those we're using a monster

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Graham and Jimmy has to make all of

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these charts so I gave him a piece of

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paper and said okay just write these

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words down and you're working throughout

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the night and so the next morning I come

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in and I see the chart and I don't

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recognize the words I said Jimmy what

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have you since well I lost your chart so

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I had to make them up and things like

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remote viewing had become soft eyes and

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all of this oh my god in two hours our

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boss has got to go I have got to come up

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with definitions for these words that

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I've never seen before

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which it was exciting more exciting was

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that years later

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these charts continued on with the

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definitions that they literally made up

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on the fly because Jim had lost the

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paper that night somebody will know

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about men who stare at goats it was

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built totally on a false premise no

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goats ever died from being stared at but

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and it's based on a book in the book we

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are all identified you know by name but

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one of the key issues was that Jeff

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Bridges actually was playing Jim

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one-for-one did not have the ponytail

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but sell it was quite quite an honor for

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him and that what we thought is the

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positive sight of goats him always liked

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to use humor and he says with humor you

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can create confusion and actually inject

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a lot of ideas that otherwise would be

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seen as scary so you can inject

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controversial concepts with the use of

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humor he considered himself a proto

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mythologist who is and at the house and

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his war cry was ittle dare to think the

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unthinkable this is a jam he was invited

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speaker at the irva meeting and this was

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taken in 2010 actually here in Las Vegas

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a lot of people don't realize it Jim

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really and have a family here's a

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picture of his daughter Brooke and son

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Parker with with their spouses he lived

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on the Big Island in Hawaii and Jim's

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work kind of continues today you can

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find it on the internet and spaced out

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there and I would enter with or end with