Good morning and thank you for joining us on the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. We would of course first of all apologize for starting off a little late but notwithstanding we still have a lot of these very interesting conversations coming your way this Thursday morning. I am Osao Ghi. And I am Annette Felix. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm all going to invite Mr Gidi Akinrutimi, a legal practitioner. Good morning. Thank you for being here. Fine. Thank you. So we're starting the conversation this morning regarding Kemi Adoshu. We know the whole scandal regarding her NYC certificate, the whole gate scandal, you know, over her alleged forger of NYC certificate. Now the court has ruled on this yesterday, they say that she basically did not need to have an NYC certificate or even have a first degree to vie for any political office in Nigeria or even become a minister. She's reacted to this now. So we now need to dissect this court judgment with our legal expert. Mr Akinrutimi, what do you make of this judgment, you know, that the court issued yesterday? All right. Thank you for having me. Good morning to you all. My name is Gidi Akinrutimi and I'm now the speaker. I want to say that yesterday I already called the government in part. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Go ahead. I already called the government in part and I can say that what we called actually said like you are going to let me tell us this morning is that she may not tend to have first degree certificate or an NYC probably an exception of this certificate to be appointed as a minister. Let me take us to section one for the sixth, section one for the seventh order of the 1999 constitution, which is our laws and guidelines, the refrigeration, our ground law. That is, there is no place, there is no partner section in that constitution. That says that before you can be appointed as a minister, you must probably tend to kind of Yes, go ahead. Yeah, you can actually tend to your NYC certificate in order to get your first degree certificate before you can be appointed. However, you also have to look at the NYC certificate. So the NYC act, we have the, I have to have it said. I look at section nine, section 12, brother of the time, section 17, article in section 12, it's a production of certificate for employment purposes. That means if you are, if you are for any employment purposes in Nigeria, you must tender either your certificate of NYC or your exception certificate. That means you are exempted from participating because of the age limit. That is above 30. When you are above 30, you need not tender the exception certificate. I don't think that the fact that because my health, that means that there are only just a title, that would have been a record. We have that because, we have that since the 1979 constitution, which on this course, has had a card, if my minister graduated, he does not recognize dual citizenship. And at that time, the minister was a British citizen. So when he graduated, because he does not recognize anything like dual citizenship. So at that time, he was not even in Nijibu. He even participated in Nijibu in Nigeria. And he, she, she, she have done that. If Nijibu has done that, then Nijibu will have to cry according to the, to be, to be, to be dictated of the judgment. So many, at the time he graduated from the, from the university, the constitution did not recognize anyone like that. Any, any, any participation in studies. So the constitution, the only thing would require the student, the sufficient amount of time. So when I read the judgment, I, it was a relief to so many people in Yathura who are willing to participate, join the government of this position or to participate in one area and the other in Nigeria. So I, I would say that there, there, there would be a need of clarity in that judgment to the extent, because three years ago, the constitution was, that constitution was forced. Yeah. So, so, so Mr. Akinro to me, so is there still a, is there still a challenge? Yeah, can we hold on? Mr. Akinro to me. All right. So I want us to hold on Mr. Akinro to me. Can you hold on? If you can hear us, can you, can you hold on? Yeah, okay. All right. Jide, can you hear us this morning? Okay, great. So I want us to take it step by step. All right. You've spoken or you've broken down what the ruling meant and of course gone back all the way to 1999 constitution. The controversy remains with regards to, you know, the aspect of forgery. So with this court ruling now, does it mean that whether she forged a certificate or not, she has no case to answer? I think this is a civil suit, not a criminal action. So the court is only limited to the elite brought before you. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Go ahead. So I think this is a civil suit, meaning it's left for the government to do an action that could not have been against her. So forgery is a criminal action on the throne. And the court is not a civil suit brought by the plaintiffs, which is a criminal action on the court. But what I just saw is that the court didn't even copy anything on that intro. The court didn't even add anything on the issue of forgery. But the court judgment reveals that she did not even submit anything like a certificate. Okay. So it's only left for the government to get to go outside, to ask how they should have acquired a certificate. But it's not accepted or appealed because you're denied that. She didn't even pass it. She didn't even demand any exception. Okay. So that is the point now. Okay. We understand these facts as you've explained it. They mentioned that the limit for you to even serve the motherland and for the NIC is 30. She was 34 years old at the time when she returned to Nigeria and all of that. So she was even ineligible on the basis of her age. But now that the court and the court ruling did not address forgery at all, it was about if she needed to even have the certificate at all, can there be another suit against her for forgery? Is that something you think is likely to come up? Like I said, if the government didn't intend to follow that, you know, actually she resigned. Yes. Not that there was any action taken against her. She resigned and she took the government to court. Just to clear the air whether she was eligible to be appointed as the minister or not. So now that the court has given judgment, why personally I have not given the suit of the NIC. It's just something I don't like. We need to apply to get the suit of the NIC. Probably in this court, or probably next to the NIC, we can get the suit of the NIC. But as a chance, what he calls the NIC is just the eligibility and not the consent of the criminality involved in that. The allegation from many was that the certificate was even forged. That's the exception certificate. We don't know what's going on in detail. But what I don't feel is that if the government intend to look into this certificate itself, an action can be committed against her. That would be a criminal action. Okay. So in the absence of any criminal action against her for forging an NYC certificate, can Kim Yadong be restored? Or can she take up any political office in the future? My virtue is that we are bound by the rule of law. Except it is a appeal. But as a chance, she can be appointed. She can be appointed. Okay. And I want us to also speak on what the court has interpreted. Does this in any way affect the eagerness of Nigerians to go ahead with the NYC and of course get that certificate? Because if it says that you can be appointed minister without having served the nation through the scheme, do you think this might affect the interest of Nigerians in getting that certificate? Yes. Yes. Some extent. I tend to balance with what the NYC has under the constitution. The NYC has a place in that anyone who intends to start in the office of the constitution, in any way in Nigeria, then he is the one. He must present your certificate, NYC certificate, or rather the expression certificate. However, the constitution itself, in some areas of positions, in the offices, does not state that how. For example, in the case of our parents, the way in which they had been caught then, they were about three-four, and the conscience said, you need to go to school. You do not go to university before you can be eligible to conduct an election. You did not. You can't see that it gets all deconstructed. I want you to have the power to do it.  In the case of Nigeria, as well as Nigeria. So, to me, I think that we need to present those in the office. But in Nigeria, let's come to think of it. I think it cannot really give us more people, but rather have the interest to serve the country. I see the situation that it is a need for us to have a main link of the constitution. I was just going to bring that up, because I think we have agreed that the constitution, which is the grand norm, like you said, takes precedence over every other law act in the country. And so that means that in this case or any other case, the NYSE Act doesn't in any way matter, as long as the constitution has said that any person can be appointed minister, regardless of whether they have gone through the NYSE or not. So, I want you to comment on that situation where, as a graduate in Nigeria, for many people, we have millions unemployed, it's very difficult, it's an uphill task to get a job without an NYSE certificate. These companies would ask you to go get an NYSE certificate and then pay you what's not even up to the minimum wage or to sustain you at the end of the day. But to be appointed in political office in Nigeria, where we know that these people end jumble pay, the law is now saying they do not need to have an NYSE certificate, they do not even need a first degree. I want you to comment on the duplicity of what this is seeming like and then the relevance of the NYSE certificate in the first place. I think the purpose of the NYSE Act, it's what happened in your fourth degree, you can proceed to have the NYSE Act, your NYSE Act, you can have the waitlist now, you can travel down to, as well as, to those who have the kind of interrelations with our IPCC, that is the purpose of studies. And the need is mandated, okay, when you get to the quarterly employment, you won't have that, you should pick a graduate. What I'm saying here, Barry, is that, would we need to amend the law such that if a political office holder does not need an NYSE certificate to hold office, right, then graduates should not need an NYSE certificate to get a job. Do you think that's an amendment we need to make? That is an amendment, that is not going to be, that may be an amendment to the Constitution, that I think, but only what I would be is that there will be no need for graduates to go to NYSE again. Is there a choice as an option? What are you trying to say? There will be a mandatory fee of the university to mobilize your service. You can, as a decline, die on the path, because you're going to have to look at it. It is not mandatory to present a certificate for employment. For the public office act, like you have said, I think it is mandatory, because the public should go. Alright, so the amendment that you are asking, that should be made, is that public officers should have gone through the NYSE before they can be appointed in a position as high as a minister. Is that what you are asking that should be implemented? Or are you saying that Nigerians shouldn't necessarily have gone through the NYSE before they can get jobs in the country? Okay, what I would say is that their amendment should be that if there is a new amendment in the constitution as in line with that of the public officer, that of the minister or any other body, it should be that they should be in mandatory. We should present the NYSE certificate or the exception certificate, looking at the years of graduation as required, because when I talk about the person that voted before even the establishment of the NYSE act, which is applicable to the command minister's seat, however, it should be an amendment to the fact that if we don't, like gladness, that we don't present a certificate for a company to be employed. Yes, sometimes those representatives have not met with them. So they should be that close, although it's not going to be, that is the NYSE act, not the constitution. But whether that is legal or not, not to present a certificate for service, if it's a desire. Yes, because we can even see that, even those who are posted to the north, it has caused a lot of damages, a lot of lies. So I think there is a real amendment to the constitution, I don't know, the NYSE act also. They should balance that amendment. Yes, they should be. But we even so wish, because we have an intention to have electricity in the country. I think that would be better for us. Okay. Yes, we do understand your points, Mr. Gide. Yes, definitely. Hopefully we can get your thoughts on this because we know that Kim Yadoshu has published her response to this on her social media page on Facebook. She went on to say that this has vindicated her, and just like you said, she also mentioned that this cut ruling would make way for people in diaspora who are interested in running for political office in Nigeria, but have not been able to do so because of this requirement. So as the matter unfolds, we'll definitely bring legal practitioners like you to weigh in on the judgment. Thank you very much, Barista, for your time on the breakfast. Thank you very much. I appreciate the presentation. This brings back the conversation, and there was a few months ago that there was a conversation about the relevance of the NYSE. Should it be scrapped, should it stay? And I think a couple of people, a member of the National Assembly had said that they would prefer that it stays. But you asked, what's the relevance if you can't get a job in Nigeria without having gone through the NYSE but you can be made minister? Yes, that's unfair. It just breaches all the principles of fairness, equity, and justice that we're talking about. So it's either it becomes a requirement across board, minister, governor, senator, president, everybody. Or it is completely made optional. So you either choose to do the NYSE or not. And that's the conversation that we should move to next because it doesn't really, really make sense. And I think, you know, I agree that there should be amendments to the constitution with regards to the educational requirements for public office. That's it, Asagi. We should. We definitely should. If we are serious. And yes, I understand people who have made jokes and said, oh, you know, you had a PhD in government at one time. And all that, you know, those nonsense statements. But I feel that we should, as a country, if we're serious about moving forward, you have amendments. Let, you know, anybody who is vying for office as high as president, as high as, you know, senator, as high as governor, should at least have reached a particular educational level. I mean, that's it. It doesn't bother you that to even be a security guard in the company, you would be asked for your certificates. But then a court will rule that a minister, someone who makes law makers, people who make laws, who represent the people would, you know, does not need to have a certificate, does not need to have a first degree. And that's, I think that's one of the reasons why we're not moving forward. Because you have people who are not well read, who are not exposed to things. And you make them our leaders. I believe that, you know, while we're talking about the unfairness, it should not be that NYC should be scrapped or not be a requirement. It should be that people who are police office holders should have the highest educational requirements, should have all the certificates that are important and they should be checked so that you don't go and forge it like Kim Adol should did. So we will get, we need to take the news. It's coming up in less than a minute. We will get back into this conversation hopefully before we end. There's some other angles, you know, that I hope that we can also throw in. I remember the NEPA certificates, statements that were made in 2015. I also have seen, you know, NDLEA recruitment list and it doesn't look good. But we'll talk about it, you know, when we come back. So let's take a short break. When we come back, the news at 9 a.m. comes up and then we have a little bit more for you this morning. 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This question a couple days ago, and this is not the first time I've seen this, so let's get into it. This coach asked me, he said, hey, a lot of prospects that I've reached out to, that I've raised their hand that said they're interested in training, they have not joined my program, how should I handle this? And I just told him, I said, hey, I'm going to make a video about this, and that's what I'm doing right now. So here's my response. You have people, and this is the reality, every single business owner, every single coach and trainer, you have talked to prospects who have decided not to join. There's zero percent chance that you've closed every single prospect, right? Even if you are the best sales personal role, you have not closed every single prospect into your program, so you should have a database of prospects who have not bought, right? And they should be on a spreadsheet. So if you don't have that set up, probably a good idea to go get that set up. And if you're really disorganized, then you probably won't find out how to get that set up because you don't remember what their numbers are. You don't know when you called them. You don't have a lead generation system in place. So this will teach you to become more organized, right? So number one, we need to be organized, right? And you need to have a spreadsheet with all of your old leads, people who have said no, or people who've been on the fence, or people who've trained with you in the past that aren't trained with you anymore. They should all be on a list, right? And what we need to do though is we need to be constantly reaching out to them, constantly re-engaging them with your program. Because right now they're just sitting there doing nothing. And maybe when you originally taught them, either the pricing wasn't right or the timing wasn't right. Maybe they had too much going on. They just couldn't commit to it. Well, when you reach out to people and you follow up with them, that shows confidence, that shows that you, as the trainer, want to help them. And it also can give them a new way of joining your program, right? This comes down to being creative. If they were unable to join whatever your current offer was, well, maybe we can sit down and come up with a new offer that's more enticing to them that they do take. Maybe it's more affordable. Maybe it's more flexible, like whatever it is. Or maybe it's more personalized, okay? We don't know that until we follow up with them. Right? And offer them something new. But I will tell you, right now you're probably sitting on, I would say, $1,000 or $5,000 of money. Like right now you're sitting on top of that money and you don't see it. Right? And right below you, it's all of the prospects who have said no, that would love to join your program, but you are too afraid to reach out to them again. Or you're being too lazy because you don't want to reach out to them. If you look back at your list that we're talking about here and you send out a simple text, and I have a video, it's a nine word text message.  I go into detail about the exact words to say to someone who is not in your program that you want to re-engage them. All right, so go search my channel and you can find that. But if you send that message, you will absolutely get responses and you will be able to re-engage them back into your program. And you should be doing this on like clockwork every 30 days. You should be following up with people who have not decided to join your program and following up with people. Like I said, show strength, giving up on leads shows that maybe you're not as confident in your program as you think you are.  Shouldn't you be following up with them all of the time and not in an annoying way, but in a way that's showing that, hey, like I really want to help you. How can we make this work? What can we give you? How can we set this up? How can we change this? All right, that shows strength. And if you want to help more clients, you want to impact more clients lives. Well, following up is going to be a key ingredient to your success. And like I said, right now there's at least $1,000 to $5,000 that's just right under you and you just aren't seeing it yet. And what you can do is take a step back today, go look at your prospect list and I know that's going to, I mean, you're going to make sales immediately over the next 24 hours. If you take a step back, look at your list, start contacting them, start creating new offers for them so they can join your program. So that's it. Shoot me a text. I'd love to see how I can help you and I'll talk to you soon.


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We are on our way to Southampton to get on our cruise. Just gone quarter past six in the morning. We have arrived. Copy our boat is. I mean we have nothing to compare it to because we've never been on a cruise. Jane McDonald. This is your fault. It's got a lot to answer for that Jane McDonald. I didn't even want to go on a cruise until you. I've always wanted to go on a cruise.  Next stop is going through security. Security. We had to go through like the little X-ray machine show like you get the therefore same thing. And now we are just waiting at the boarding gate. You can't even see it in the window. We are checked in. We've got our key card. Also acts as a credit card apparently. We are just walking on to our ship. This is the lift. It's very fun. You press the button outside what deck you want to go to. It tells you what lift to get into A, B, C, D or E. And then it's all in the pre-programmed.  We've made it to the middle of the boat. Which is an outside area. Football's on. Wales around. This is Southampton port. Waiting to leave. The theatre on board the ship. Makes your feet feel funny. Our bags made it. They are waiting for us at our room. Here we go. I'll get the bags. Go on then. We've got a balcony. That wasn't me. Nice. I'm now ready. This is our bathroom. The shower. It's for you, Jamie. Because of you, I've always wanted to do that. Safety briefing on the cruise. We were downstairs. And our legs kind of went... There was a flash mob. Oh yeah, there was a flash mob downstairs. I'll put the video in there. So the weirdest thing, when we first set sail, we didn't realise that we were moving. We didn't even know we'd set sail. So we got outside and started moving. But then we were just walking back up to the room. All of a sudden, the world's spinning. The ground is trying to knock me off my feet all of a sudden. And all of a sudden, he's saying it's malexies. It's malexies. Instead of sea legs. It's malexies. Well, it is rocking a bit. Obviously, there's a bit of... Yeah, but you couldn't feel it before. It was dead still. You wouldn't even know you were moving. You can feel it moving now. It's like the whole world's gone. I'm going to have to sit down.  It'll be fine. We've just got to just get our sea legs. I'm really sensitive to motion anyway. Every bad motion sickness. Can you feel it? I can feel it, yeah. All I can feel is like I feel like I'm being thrown back and forward in my head. But I know it's not that rickety. It's alright. So yeah. First night kind of stuff. Tomorrow's a new day.


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So today is Monday and I wanted to make this video because over the weekend, a very important tournament kicked off, which was the Under 20s Men's World Cup tournament, which is being held in Argentina. Now, on Saturday, I watched the US against Ecuador, right? Now, for those that don't know me on a more personal level, right, I like to watch football soccer from all around the world, okay? But what I've started to do a lot recently is I've started to watch a lot of the younger age groups, so a lot of the under 21s, under 20s, under 17s. And the reason because I've stopped kind of watching the more popular teams and the men's is just pretty much the main reason is because most of my clients are at the youth level. So watching those type of matches, I can kind of relate to what my clients need help with or where the game is going. Okay, so if you are a soccer coach, right, and you've got a business, something I would definitely encourage you to do a little bit more of is watch the younger age groups. Okay, a lot of the coaches always focus on the popular popular games such as watching Manchester City, watching Arsenal, watching Liverpool, watching Barcelona, Real Madrid. Now, that's all fine, okay? And that's all fine if you coach men's soccer, men's football. But if you coach at the youth level, then it's really good to watch the younger age groups, okay? And the reason is because you get to see what the future of the game is going to start to look like and how you, with a training business, can adapt to those changes, right? So wanting to come on here and make this really short video because something I'm seeing and the future of this game, where this future is going by simply watching the US men's national team is, you know, as trainers, we are in a very special position, okay? And if you have a business at the moment, okay, it's time to step it up now because the game is, well, it probably has already, but the game is going in the direction where it's becoming very technical and players need to be at a really technical level to get to that next level, okay? So something I've seen from watching the US under 20 men's national team is that the players today, they have to be good with possession, right? So essentially they have to be good with the ball at their feet. They need to be able to make quick decisions. They need to be able to be confident at 1v1s, okay? So all of these things, how does it relate to my business, which you're going to be asking me, right? All of these things are really important because they relate to your business because when you sit down and you look at your coaching program that you have in place for your clients, you can start to pinpoint areas where the game is going, okay? So if players are coming into me who are serious, they want to get to the next level, this is how your coaching service is going to help them to get to that next level. By watching the older age groups, so watching the under 17s, under 18s, under 19s, under 20s and seeing how those players are being developed, okay? And adapting your coaching to solve the problem of your clients. So in my academy, right? And in my business currently, what I specialize in is I specialize a lot more on possession-based soccer or football. So everything we do in our training sessions is done with a ball at the players' feet and being confident at passing and receiving. Every single drill, every single session, every single activity I do, I make sure that everything is touch, go, touch, go or pass, receive, pass, receive, pass, receive because that's where I see the game going, okay? That's where I see my clients getting the most success with and that's where I see my business growing to the next level because that's essentially the problem I'm looking to solve for any new clients that are coming into my program, okay? So you as a coach, right? You might not think the same, which is completely fine and that's the beauty of this industry. Everyone is at a different level. Everyone has their different philosophy with their business. That's completely fine. But something I definitely want to encourage you to do is watch tournaments such as the under 20s or the under 21s, under 17s. Watch games, watch tournaments and see where this industry is going in terms of player development, okay? Because even though we have a business, we have a service that we're offering clients, we still have to be up to date with what is going on and where player development is going, okay? Because most of the plays we work with, they do play for teams and teams and clubs, they have a specific philosophy and that philosophy tends to be attached to what your local football association or soccer association in that country you're in, are currently doing, okay? So something I'm seeing with US coaches and US players, it's technical. Technical, technical, technical is growing, right? So players have to be confident at receiving, playing one touch, right? They have to be confident on the ball in one-on-one situations, right? And also now, okay, if you watch a soccer game today, it's very rarely do teams play the ball from goalkeeper straight out to the attacker, right? To the striker.  So the ball starts from the goalkeeper, goes into the defender, into the midfielder and then straight into the striker and it finishes a goal, right? So what that means is that your clients, okay, have to be able and have to be able to play into feet, okay? Into feet in tight situations and they need to be confident at playing one touch, two touch, okay? And playing gives and goes, okay? Because that is the way the game is going and in terms of your development and in terms of how you're developing your clients and how you're making them more successful, that is definitely an area or a type of training that you need to be implementing because it's gonna get great results for the clients you're working with, right? So essentially, my message today is watch the younger age groups, don't focus so much on what adults are doing, okay? Even though it's fun to watch, it's exciting, but if you work with youth players, okay, you'll be able to relate a lot more on what the under-17s, under-20s, under-21s are doing because it's kind of the next step from where your players are currently are at the moment, okay, and then what they're doing, you can kind of adapt into your clients and develop them in a way where they're getting great results, great success and you're pushing them to play and to become the player they wanna be at that next level, okay? So if you need any more help with anything that I talked about today, okay? Get in contact with me, send me either an email to makemoneycoachingsports.com or we can schedule a free one-on-one call where we jump on Zoom, I see where you are with your business, I see where you wanna get to and I can show you some actionable steps to take this week to grow and scale what you're doing, okay? Thank you for watching before you go, you subscribe to our channel.


Amy and today we make some delicious apple dumplings and what makes them even better is this amazing carob sauce homemade. Golly nothing says fall like an apple dumpling. Nothing can beat the delicious homemade carob and the taste of a fresh apple in the fall. All right we're gonna start doing something really simple just mixing up some cinnamon sugar. I'm gonna use about a quarter cup of sugar. Put it in a bowl separate. Let's go back to a table. I mean a teaspoon not a tablespoon. Now if your tastes are you love a lot of spice in your pie then of course you can use apple pie spice or different spices and mix them together. I'm just making an old-fashioned country way of doing it and we just use cinnamon. Most of my life that's about all we ever used. We didn't use nutmeg or allspice and I know a lot of people do but we just didn't. Okay so we're just gonna make simple apple dumplings today and of course you can spruce them up if you want to. I had even gotten out some raisins and pecans and I know Chris don't want those but a lot of y'all might want an apple dumpling with the works. So we're just gonna peel the apples. This is gala. A gala apple is tart and sweet. I like to use gala. I like to use Fuji is also tart and sweet. And golden delicious is tart and sweet. Now golden delicious will get done in 30 minutes no problem. I don't have any golden delicious. We're using this gala and it'll get done as well. Now if you bake the whole apple you know you got to bake it for a while. If you want to make a whole apple dumpling and the only difference in doing a whole apple dumpling and what I'm doing today is that you core the apple and you wrap the crust around the entire apple but it takes a lot more crust and a lot more apple to feed everybody that way. I used to make these for our church's fall festival and it was just enough for everybody to have a delicious bite of apple dumpling you know when you get more than one bite and not have to eat a huge apple dumpling. So these work really well to take to festivals and family functions this time of year because you don't have because a whole apple dumpling is enough dessert and you don't really want anything else so if you make them this size then somebody can have a piece of cake in your apple dumpling. If you got an apple core use it and if you don't of course you don't have to. I'm just going to cut half of the apple off the sides all the way around on four sides and if you get any of the pit in there get it out. Okay we're going to be using a refrigerated pie dough because that's what is so easy about this recipe and refrigerated pie dough I don't care what he may tells you it's delicious just try it. If you don't believe me make a pie dough buy a refrigerated pie dough put them in something and taste test them and you'll find that the refrigerated pie dough is really delicious this is really cold steel. You're supposed to let it come to room temperature before you roll it out. I'm breaking the rules a little matter of fact I think I'm gonna throw it in the microwave two seconds. Ten seconds that way when we get ready to pull it up over the apple it'll be a little more flexible. Much better that was perfect still a little cold right here but I can handle it. Okay circles to make our dumplings with I used the bottom of my sifter because it's just the right size to me to make these so you should be able to get about one two three four five around the edges if you use the bottom of your sifter. So there's five dumplings and we're gonna roll out another one and you'll have at least six dumplings and we'll save a little bit of the scraps to fix the tops if they don't come together just the way we want to. Now this is gonna be our scrap so let's see we had six we'll go ahead and divide it up into six pieces if you want to you can make a matter of fact let's do that. Let's make little leaves to go on top of them real quick. If you have a cutter you can use a cutter or you can just use a paring knife and cut them out yourself which is what I'm gonna do and we'll just put a little leaf on the very top of it and just make it pretty. So I'm gonna do little maple leaves all over here and then here's some extra dough I'm gonna separate it make it six pieces just so that I'll have the same amount for each top of each dumpling that we do. So there's two six pieces good enough. Alright here we go we're gonna take the bottom of the dumpling and we are going to put, do we have butter in here? Oh yeah I'm gonna take butter and I'm gonna spread on the dough like so and get some of our sugar we mixed up put it in here like so about two spoons worth and then you're gonna put your apple in the middle here like this you're gonna bring it up and press your dough up towards the top like so because it don't really want to reach that very very top we're gonna take one of these little dough pieces and close off the top and if you were really picky you would want to do it might want to do it a little different but I'm not I'm gonna put this leaf right here put a little butter on it it's going in so you're gonna do each one that way two more y'all why go to the trouble of making your dough when you can have on this good now mama also made you know the ones and I know y'all had it the ones that you make with a croissant dough and you use the sprite well they're really good too but this is more like an old-fashioned apple dumpling because it's a pie dough and we're gonna make the real old-fashioned caramel to go on top of it so even if this part is a shortcut you're not gonna be able to tell in the end that I did any shortcut because it's still pie dough the end the last one so one thing of pie dough one crust and there's two in a box will make six of these round apple dumplings that you can cut out with the bottom of your sifter don't turn them up because this is apple and you want it to get done these are gay like apples so they are a little bit they hold their shape a little better than like a granny Smith or a golden delicious a granny Smith is very sour so if you use a granny Smith with this type of apple dumpling they're really good in the sprite kind because they got a lot sugar in them but these don't have as much sugar in them so you really should buy like a golden delicious a gala a few a foodie something like that we're gonna make some delicious caramel sauce so easy all right so you take a stick of butter and you melt it in a saucepan it's gonna make about a cup and a half so just make sure your saucepan is large enough to hold it if you've got a non-stick skillet you can use it to and that way if you feel a little bit intimidated by making a caramel sauce or your friend it's gonna burn use your little non stick skillet of work gonna put some vanilla when it's done you're gonna be using some evaporated milk you can use whipping cream if you have it but we always have evaporated milk so that's what we're using and you're gonna use about a half a cup this will be using about three-quarter cups of brown sugar this is a half and it's gonna be packed of course so that's a half cup and then I'm gonna add a quarter cup very very simple and very very good just gonna take you a spoon or spatula whatever you got mix this up good you're gonna cook this at a medium temperature or not high like a low medium and now I am going to I'm gonna add my vanilla last we're gonna add about a couple of teaspoons of caro syrup it's good to me the milk is what scorches and the sugar is what you need to get melted that's what the most important thing so you know what it's sitting here with this butter it's not gonna stick when it's in here with this butter and start getting hot and then put your milk in there it's still a little greedy but we're gonna add our milk because you don't want it to candy first so here's our milk and it needs to be evaporated milk or whipping cream at this point I'm using a whisk so that's guaranteed to be beautiful and smooth now we're gonna bring this up to a medium-high heat at this point bring it to a boil once it starts boiling we're gonna reduce it and let it do a low boil for three minutes but let's bring it to a boil first at my jar it's boiling once it comes up to a boil like that I'm gonna turn it down to medium and let it boil for three minutes so let's turn on our timer three I'm gonna turn it down a little more needs to be at a low boil it's pretty good rolling boil hot jar I've got these that kids use to drink through straws I use them at the holidays for them to put their drinks in and I put a straw in there but when I serve my apple dumplings and I do this for Chris's work and everywhere I take them I put the caramel sauce in this to transport it I flip this upside down put this on the top like so to do the transport and then when we get there I flip this back over and put it on the top now when you transport it you don't want to have it laying down like this in the jar or they'll have caramel all over this make sure you keep it upright during the transport if you're afraid that you can't keep it upright during transport then don't put it on the jar till you get there you got a minute and a half left some people make the caramel sauce pour it over all the apples you know and put it back in the oven and heat it up but I actually like to just serve it on the side you can warm it in the microwave and that way people feel like you know they're getting to pour their yummy sauce on the top of their apple so I'm gonna take this off the heat we're gonna add a little bit of vanilla a little bit or a lot right so when you pour it up be careful get out our stainless steel funnel and we're gonna get this in the jar if you don't have a set of good funnels you should look on our website and shop in our shop now links because we use these things all the time I use them to make tea I use them to pour up gravies and sauces and just do all kind of stuff with them so if you don't have any I love them because the stainless steel is I don't want to get something that's already got sugar on it you don't want to pick up something that had sugar on it already granules of sugar make sure you get a clean spatula but anyway stainless steel is good it cleans up well it's already getting creamy so delicious y'all so good I'm ready to eat these and they're brown and pretty turn the light on so y'all can see them I take them out go ahead and cancel the oven they smell so good when fail that's not bad not bad odds right so we're gonna get one and put it out on the serving tray and pour some caramel over it and let y'all see how delicious it looks all right here's our little apple dumpling little leaf fell off put her back up there if I can now then we're gonna pour some we're gonna pour some caramel on it watch this how it pours it does so good does that look good or what or what we're gonna give it a taste well I like being the taste tester so you can see our little leaf right here I'll show you how nice and flaky this pie crust is that you get at the grocery store see comes apart and everything it's delicious it really is good so you can see it's just enough to get a good bite of an apple dumpling without it just being too much just enough to be delicious golly nothing says fall like an apple dumpling nothing can beat the delicious homemade caramel and the taste of a fresh apple in the fall it's so much better than a caramel apple the kids can have the caramel apples and the adults will eat all of the apple dumplings you say I can't quit eating it thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks and this year instead of making that Sprite dessert take a stab at this one thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did bye y'all love ya


It's normal to get anxious at times, whether it's before a big test or for a job interview. But do you feel anxious often without knowing what's causing it? When you lead a busy life, you can come across many different factors that trigger those racing pulses. But the more you understand the common causes, the easier it is to manage them. Here are six situations that can give you anxiety. 1. Caffeine Do you have a hard time starting the day without a cup of coffee? Or resort to energy drinks when you're pulling all-nighters? Caffeine can be incredibly addictive when we rely on it in order to function, but studies have shown that patients with social anxiety or panic disorder are more sensitive to caffeine. On the contrary, some patients with obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD can actually benefit from caffeine. We recommend that you pay close attention to how your body reacts the next time you have a caffeinated drink. If you feel more anxious, it's best to swap your Starbucks latte for a soothing cup of water. 2. Parties This is especially common if you have social anxiety. What's more daunting than entering a crowded room full of strangers? Just the loud music and chaos can get your heart racing, and if you're self-conscious, you might worry about whether you're going to embarrass yourself or make a wrong first impression. Although you could avoid parties by using excuses to stay at home, there's only so many times that that actually works. What happens when your best friend hosts a wedding party or it's your cousin's 21st birthday party? One helpful tip is to show up early so you can adjust to the environment and get to know a few new faces before it becomes too overwhelming. 3. Public bathrooms This is actually a social phobia. The term for it is called perurosis, or otherwise known as bashful bladder syndrome, BBS. People who grew up with overly critical parents, bullying, or a traumatic event involving the inability to urinate when they were supposed to may develop this phobia. Common treatment for it is graduated exposure therapy, where the individual works with a behavioral therapist and gradually uses public bathrooms in difficult situations. 4. Public speaking Ever experienced stage fright right before a competition, live performance, or presentation? Unfortunately, we can't graduate school without building our public speaking skills, and it doesn't stop there. In the work world, we are asked to speak in front of others, whether it's for public events or conferences. To alleviate some of the anxiety, you can ask your friends and family to give you pep talks or treat yourself to a cute outfit because when you look good, you also feel good. On the day before your public performance, you can also try Amy Cuddy's power poses that she demonstrates in her TED Talk. It's totally worth checking out if you want to build self-confidence. It's one of my favorite TED Talks. 5. Eating in front of others Having social anxiety isn't just about being nervous in front of new people. Sometimes, it also means being afraid to eat or drink in public. This can be especially difficult during holiday gatherings or dinner dates. Common concerns include looking unattractive while eating, spilling a drink, and choking in front of others. One helpful treatment method is cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, where you can train to replace your negative thoughts with rational thinking. And you know what? You probably look really cute when you eat. Shout out to all the wonderful mukbang videos on YouTube. 6. Stating your real opinions Are you a people pleaser who worries about hurting other people's feelings, or often agree with others just to avoid conflict? Social anxiety can cause the individual to hold back their honest opinions, whether it's not speaking up about a problem or not revealing your romantic feelings to your crush. People who have anxiety over these situations are usually afraid that they might come across harsh or fear that others will reject them. To reduce these stressful feelings, you can practice gathering your thoughts ahead of time, create discussions more than debates, and remember that people's memories are short anyway. Which of these situations make you anxious? Think you might have anxiety? Check out our video here to learn about the subtle signs. Thanks for watching!


Any idea how hard it is to edit footage in this little monster?  Admit it, Lewis. Admit it. He's not gonna own up to it. So he tries to pick my keys off the keyboard one by one if my laptop is open.   His name's Lewis. Bye, Lewis. Hey friends. So one of the weird side effects of the medications that I'm on is I will have these like half awake, half asleep, crazy dreams and or nightmares. And I had those like all night last night until the very early hours of the morning.  So it's just not my favorite and pretty tiring. And then I woke up with a migraine. So I'm gonna turn this light off. Try to let the migraine medication set in. If you're wondering, my migraine is not left. But one thing that is helpful is caffeine. So we made ourselves some coffee. And I have my counselor coming over. I've been going to counseling once a week for a while now. And I don't know if you think it's weird that I share that. But I'm pretty open about the stuff that I go through in general. I was told by a fellow amputee before I went through any of this that it is super important to learn how to grieve the loss that you've been through. And so I wasn't counseling before all of this happened. I kind of figured that after my amputation like all of counseling would just be about the loss and the grief and learning to deal with it and everything. And you know, it hasn't been. I kind of thought all my emotional priorities would rearrange. And the weird thing to me is that all of the things that were difficult and that I initially went to counseling for before surgery are still the hardest things, the heaviest things on my mind. We spent like one session talking about specifically my amputation and then it's come up like a couple other brief times with like a few things I've struggled with. But for the most part, it's still been like trauma counseling for the past stuff that I've gone through. And it's funny because I don't know about you but I kind of thought that like when I went through something like changing like this all of my priorities would rearrange which I think is probably a pretty naive thought. And I guess in a way that's kind of a good thing. So I have a counselor in place to help me when and if emotions come up from my amputation but at the same time we're still working on the stuff that needs to be worked on. So, so far so good. So I'm gonna sip some coffee, get some counseling done, get my brain in a better place. I just like smoking your coffee. Yes, it smells delicious.  I wouldn't know, I'm on drugs. This butt is on fire. For real though, like what's burning?  So realistically, Brian decided that I needed an outing and we are going to Office Depot to find an office chair because that's the kind of life we leave. On the edge, crazy. We're gonna find him a race car, office chair seat because he's five. Me, it's not like I'm a five year old. We get to go down the ramp. This is, this is pretty, this is oh my god. I'm terrifying, but there's like obstacles. They don't care for the handicap. It's terrifying. We've arrived. Yes. We got that last year, didn't we? Uh, yes. Remember? Because I think we're candy addicts.  Do you remember how annoying these things were? Trying to decide if I need one of these or not. I think the answer is no.  They remind me of my childhood. It wasn't that good if I remember. No, it was, I mean, it was alright.


So let's talk about Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, Rush Limbaugh, the giant, the talk radio show giant, really a person who created the medium, who changed media and political commentary in the United States forever. It will never go back to the way it was. He was an entertainer. He was a commentator. He attracted tens of millions of fans. He was funny. He was serious. He was angry. He was upset. He was a lot of different things. But he clearly and unequivocally, and in ways that I think are quite profound and that people will be analyzing for decades to come, he completely changed the media landscape of America.  There really wasn't Fox. CNN was there, but nobody really watched CNN. There was a, you could subscribe to magazines, newspapers. You could read editorials. But there wasn't this media existent that we've had over the last 30 years, really.   And maybe over the last 10 years, five years, 10 years, some of that has been replaced by Facebook and Twitter and online commentary has moved to Facebook and Twitter. But the whole attitude of constant, ongoing politics, commentary just didn't exist. C-Span is not commentary. Somebody asked when did C-Spanic start? I'm not sure. Sometime in the 80s. But it was never commentary. You'd watch the proceedings in the House, the proceedings in the Senate. There was, you watch the news. You got your local newspaper. You may be subscribed if you're conservative to the National Review and to commentary in a few other magazines. And you read articles. You read our ads by George Whale and by Bill Crystal's father, Irving Crystal and others. And that was political commentary. But Rush turned political commentary into, if you will, spectator sport, into entertainment, really into entertainment. And if you remember, there's a famous line Rush used to have, let me quote it exactly, said, people turn on the radio for three things. Three things, write these down. They turn on the radio for three things. You guys listen to YouTube channels for three things. Entertainment, entertainment, entertainment. And what Rush was a genius at is turning political commentary into entertainment. And he truly was, and this is why he was as influential as he was. He was truly brilliant at it. He could engage an audience for three hours with very little script. I mean, he had a staff that helped him prepare but with very little script. And would talk and entertain and be funny and engaging, particularly in the early years. And keep a conversation going. He'd really have guests. He really took calls. It was just him talking into a microphone. He didn't have a co-host for three hours every, single day. That's hard work. Now, I know, because I tried to do something like that. And those of you who are young and who only have heard Rush Limbaugh over the last, let's say, five, six, 10 years didn't really experience Rush Limbaugh at his peak, at his height, at his best, as a radio commentator, as an entertainer. I mean, that's the early 90s when he was at his best. Now, look, I never agreed with Rush on many, many things. He was always, some extent, a political hack, a defender of Republican politics, a conservative and a piece of religion, even though you never got the sense that he was very religious. Jennifer reminds me that Walter Williams periodically would guest host a show for Rush when Rush was on vacation or something. But in the early 90s, Rush was really funny. I mean, he had some great segments that were unbelievably entertaining, powerful in the way he made fun of the left. But in a fun kind of way, not in the vicious, angry, hateful, and maybe they deserve it, but vicious, angry, hateful way that I think he sure evolved into. But in the early 90s, it was fun. There was the tuna. You remember the tuna commercials?  This tuna has dolphin in it. Oh, you know, this tuna is dolphin-free and I think they keep complaints of the tuna doesn't taste quite as well as good as it used to taste when it had dolphin in it. And he'd make fun of at the time there was this big environmental scare about, oh, tuna cans have dolphin in it. Dolphin meat because they kill some dolphins when they catch the tuna. And there was all this hysteria about it. He made fun of the, he had this environmentalist corner that he used to start out with the chainsaw, starting up the chainsaw, the big sound of a chainsaw. So a big sound of a chainsaw and chopping down the trees and he would go into his environmentalist corner, which were typically good, engaging and often funny. He had the a condom bungee cord.  But he was good at what he did. And to the end, he was good at what he did. And I think in the 90s he had integrity. He tried to try to shape the conservative movement and he had an impact. And he was also generally in the 90s, he was a Reaganite type of conservative. He was positive. He was optimistic. He was energetic. He had a positive view of the future of this country. He made fun of the left, but he never had this attitude of viciousness towards all of his political opponents. He dealt with callers beautifully and brilliantly and amazingly. But something turned. It started really under the Bush administration where he became an apologist for everything Bush did. Post-911. He criticized any critic of Bush on any issue and he would go after them. And he started to become angrier and more depressed and more pessimistic. Then of course with Obama, he really turned vicious. But the real turning point was Trump as I think the real turning point for all of the Republican and conservative politics was Trump. Rush started out being very skeptical of Trump, mildly criticizing him after the early debates. And he got a big pushback from his listeners. And you could tell, as somebody very aware and alert as he was, to his audience that he was taking note. And as his audience pushed back, he changed his tone completely towards Trump. And soon he became one of Trump's biggest supporters, admirers, and he took on the tone of Trump. The angry conspiratorial world is coming to an end, vicious attitude. And as Trump won and as Trump was successful in rounding up support among Republican party, really dominating support among Republican party, Rush became a bigger and bigger and bigger supporter. Just as Mark Levin did, maybe the biggest extreme in terms of shift was Glenn Beck who literally campaigned against Trump in 2016, was anti-Trump in a way I was on his show during that time when we had a conversation about Trump and he was viciously anti-Trump. And he too was convinced by his, he lost a huge amount of his audience. Ultimately, he really lost this whole TV network, he lost his prominence as a conservative radio talk show host and a video talk show host, Glenn Beck did, because of his lack of support of Trump. And as a consequence, he had a shift. He had alter. He had a completely turn. And again, Glenn Beck became one of Trump's biggest supporters. So sadly, I think Rush ended angry pessimistic conspiratorial. I never got the sense of conspiracies. Again, anger and defeat from him in the early days. But he certainly reflected that in old days. I listened to him a little bit in the 90s. I never could listen a lot. Who has three hours during the day to listen? I'd listen in the car when I drive to campus and back as a student and a little bit when I was a professor. But the hours would never fit when I was working. I was working in the evenings. I didn't want to spend listening to politics, still don't. He, I listened to him a little bit in the years, later on, segments here and there. His just ability to command the medium, his ability to command his audience was always impressed me. Even when I disagreed with him, I was amazed at how good he was at his craft, how competent he was, how engaging he was, how he held that audience. So, in spite of our differences, I have an immense respect, had an immense respect for him. Sad to see him passing away at a relatively young age for these days.  So it's sad where he landed up. But that's where conservatism and the Republican Party landed up and it's sad for all of us that that's where conservatives and the Republican Party landed up. So it is where it is. I think Rush to Logics and symbolizes kind of that shift. He started out as a Reagan optimist and ended up as a Trump pessimist, as a Trump conspiratorial just pragmatist. One of the last things I remember us saying was that, oh, yeah, deficits don't really matter. We just make a big deal out of it when Democrats are in power, but we know it doesn't really matter. I don't know that he ever thought that when Democrats were in power, but it was one of his ways to rationalize his support of big government Trump. He started out, I think as a football or baseball commentator, sports commentator on local radio, I think it's Sacramento. Yeah, Jennifer says he was real hypocrite about drugs. He wanted them illegal, but then got away with illegal things himself, including drugs. I mean, he was part of this opioid epidemic. He was taking painkillers for a long, long time. And you know, this is a guy who knows better and can afford to get treated for it, can afford to go off of it, but did not kick the habit for a long, long time and stayed on those drugs. But yeah, I mean, I think like a lot of conservatives, the hypocrisy is there. Again, my great admiration for him was as a professional, as a pro, as somebody who pulled this off. I remember when Lena Peacock tried to do, well, did a radio show, but tried to do it daily, three hours a day. Just, I think he tried two hours a day initially. And how hard it was and how exhausting it was and how difficult it was for somebody like that to just be able to do it day in, day out, like cock works and keep his audience, grow his audience, pretty impressive stuff. And he did provide me with quite a bit of entertainment and interest in those early days in the, I'd say early nineties. So, you know, it was sad in spite of our differences, in spite of his hypocrisy, and in spite of how he ended up politically, ideologically, philosophically. He was good at radio, he was good at radio. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, broods. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes, that should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  Start liking it, I wanna see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this, and you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego, it's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So, you know, and if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes, but if you like it, don't just sit there, help get the show promoted. 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The Navy honored two unknown USS monitor sailors with an internment ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery March 8th Family, friends and complete strangers gathered to watch as these sailors were led from a chapel service to their final resting place on above and below the sea United States sailors have always braved great dangers in times of peace as In times of war. It is a dangerous profession Today is a tribute to all the men and women who have gone to sea but especially those Who made the ultimate sacrifice all 16 crew members who died will be memorialized on a group marker from the defense media activity I'm petty officer Amara Timberlake