It is a Q&A extravaganza for today here on the FanDuel Live Q&A. We've got MLB DFS from now until 4.30. And then at 4.30, Aaron Dolan will swing by and break down your betting questions for today. And Aaron has the right vibe over on YouTube saying, let's do this. Jason on YouTube wants to get this money. Let's do it. Let's talk some MLB DFS for now, and we'll talk some betting with Aaron later on. This is the FanDuel Live Q&A right here on the FanDuel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com here to answer your questions for the next half an hour. To get you set for Thursday night slate of MLB DFS. As always, no matter where you are watching, you can get your questions. And if you're watching on YouTube, put them in the chat section. We'll all stay questions from Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter as well. So no matter where you're watching, feel free to get your questions in and also make sure you subscribe to the channel of your choice. And if you're watching YouTube, hit that like button because that does help us out quite a bit. Let's start off the questions over on YouTube with Matteo. Do you like the Reds offense for tonight? The Cincinnati Reds facing a bullpen game for the Atlanta Braves. Yes, an in-depth answer here on who they are facing. It's just bullpen is what I have on there for today. But the Braves bullpen, not a shutdown unit, a 4.76 ERA this year. I go with ERA over skill interactive ERA when it comes to pulling bullpen numbers because it's a larger sample to stabilize more quickly. So I'm OK going ERA over skill interactive ERA, 4.76 mark for the Braves so far this year. Not the best bad at ball numbers, not a super high strikeout rate. So I think the Reds are an option for today. I still don't wind up being crazy, crazy high on them because bullpen games don't tend to be the super high scoring affairs we would think of in those situations. But I think they definitely work for today. Josh Tomlin is one of the reasons why the Braves bullpen ERA is a little bit higher. And so I think that you can look at these guys for sure. India has been hitting the ball decently well recently. So I would say if you're looking for some value, potentially go there. But either way, I do think that the Reds do work. Not my favorite stack, but definitely one I would consider for today. Jason, how about that Astros stack last night? Nice home run pick. I don't recall who my home run pick was last night. Was it Abraham Toro? I actually I don't entire was it I might have Matt Olson. I don't know. Either way, I don't recall, but the Astros did do well. It was great. The only thing that OK, it was Matt Olson. OK, so Matt Olson was the home run call for last night.  And like all the dudes I had in the stack wound up leaving the game early because they were just up by too much. That was one annoying. So Jason, they did too well, and that was very annoying. Let's talk to Clinton over on you. I'm not actually annoyed. I'm joking. Let's talk to Clinton on YouTube. Noel Thube first night. Yes, you are correct, Clinton. The Astros lineup is out. Miles Straw is batting leadoff. And I was talking to our producer Cal before the show and I was upset when I saw the Astros lineup. And I saw Straw at the top because I was like, hey, man, like what's going on here? I'm not a huge Miles Straw guy, but did pull up his game log here on fan graphs and believe I'm recalling this correctly. Miles Straw has four barrels this entire season. And I believe three of them are within the past couple of games. I think he has a barrel into straight. The exit velocities have been pretty good on him recently. I don't like making decisions based on this. If I am being fully 100 percent transparent with you, I am looking for reasons to justify using Miles Straw for tonight. But honestly, like you know, I said, an exit velocity of at least 100 miles per hour in for the past five games, some hard hit balls. Again, three barrels in the past. I can't count quite this fast seven games. So he's been trending up. He can get some stolen bases nine steals so far this year for straw. So do I actively would I use Miles Straw if he were batting ninth? No, absolutely not. Will I use him batting lead off? Sure, I will. I don't feel great about it, but I'm going to do it because it just makes sense. Outside of that, the lineup is pretty much as you would expect. Kyle Tucker batting down in sixth. The guy I really enjoy using because a couple of sources of upside of Tucker, good power numbers, good speed numbers, $3,000 for today. So he works out well if you're going with the Walker Bueller lineup for today. Kareya and Alvarez in there as well. We'll pluck them in and let's see what happens if we do this with Garcia, because he is my number two pitcher for today. $3,000 left. You can make that work pretty easily. So you don't even need to go toro. And I think toro is fine. Totally down for toro. But you don't need toro necessarily to make it work with Garcia and those four guys. Let's check it out here. If we decide to go with Bueller at pitcher as opposed to Garcia and 2650 left, a little bit thin. So maybe you swap out Kareya, go toro or swap out Tucker and go toro. But either way, you can make an astro stack work and I'm talking myself into Miles straw, even if I might not necessarily usually get there. Let's talk to Aaron who has switched to YouTube. Okay. So Aaron is I like it. We're switching all platforms. Aaron pull up Twitch too. We can get all the all the stats at the same time. You know, I appreciate it for sure is Marcus Semi and too high salary. The answer there is no, because Marcus Semi in is very good at baseball. And I'm saying this without looking at Marcus Semi and salary. I'm just telling you in general, because he's a good baseball player and a good matchup, I could pay pretty much anything for him. I think he's 39. He is 34. Wow. Okay. So he's actually like, I would say he's under salaried personally at $3,400. I thought he'd be 39. He's 34. Semi and versus right this year, 256 ISO, 48% fly ball rate, eight stolen bases. That is stud material for DFS two sources of upside, a lot of power. Semi in deserves to be near the top of our list for today. Obviously Vlad does too. I think that if we're going to stack the Jays, it might work out better if I decide to do that with my Joe Ross line up. But I think that Joe Ross is actually pretty fun. Oh, Jason is running me. I had Ryan O'Hearn as my home run call. Yes, you're right. He homered like right away. I think it was the bottom of the first. It was really soon. It was right after I think that there was, I think Austin Meadows might have gone deep right away too. It was really fun. I was a big fan. So that worked out pretty well. But yes, Ryan O'Hearn was yesterday too. So let's build out this blue J stack here. If I go Joe Ross, I'm pretty sure I can get every blue J that I want in there. Let's check out to see if their lineup is in yet first before we go too deep into this and no lineup for the Jays yet. But we kind of know what they're going to do. We're going to go Vlad. I'm going to skip over Springer. I'm going to go Semyon and I'm going to go Bichette and then it's between Bizio, Teoskar, Gritchick and Springer. It'd be one of those guys. I might go Bizio depending on where he hits. I'm hoping he'll be higher than seven, but I guess we'll see where he winds up. But I would say it would be between those guys and with Joe Ross, you can get to all of them and I do think that that is it's pretty easy to justify. So if you go Joe Ross, you can do whatever you want with your blue J stack for today. So no Aaron Semyon, not too high salary. Jackie Moon is back on Twitch. What's up, Mr. Jackie Moon. Glad to have you back once again. Hopefully things went well for you yesterday. Let's talk to DJ. Is there a way we can get a stack using Luis Garcia as a pitcher and the firstly batters for Washington? If so, can you show me how so I can't technically show you how so mean filling out almost an entire lineup. And just for like ethics reasons, we're not going to do a full lineup. Let's tinker around here and see what we got here with Garcia. All right, we got that there. The Nationals. Okay, so the Nationals are facing Cody Poteet. Poteet's fine, but does let up some impactful contact. One thing I would say as a negative for Washington is that that's not going to be a good part for hitting for today. So Washington not super high on that radar, but just in case you do want them in there, let's play around with it to see where we're at. Okay, so Schwerber, Turner, Soto. Those are the guys you would want if you were to go with a national stack. So let's get Turner. Let's get Soto. Let's get Schwerber 2560 left. So if you go 2560, you're just basically looking for whatever the best value plays you can get would be. And guys in the list are Miles Straw, Abraham Toro. If you're looking on the the Astros side of things, they would be top tier value plays in my eyes. As far as the Reds go, India's salary is probably not going to check in as a value, but let's check out the Reds salaries here. I can never figure out the chronological order thing. It's very difficult when they all start at the same time. Vados 28, India's 26, Naikwin is 24. So whoopsies. Naikwin, $2,400. He'd work as a value play, obviously not as good as he was previously, but still think that he would work if we're looking just for values for that. So I would say Naikwin is someone you could turn to there and I think that's probably the main guy. So Toro, Straw, India, Naikwin. Those are the main guys I'd be turning to in terms of trying to get salary savers. Not a ton of value on the blue jays. I would say that the Orioles are a good salary saving stack for today. Based on Anthony Kay, a guy who probably is going to struggle. The numbers I have here look okay, but that's his peripherals. His actual results have now been as rosy, both the AAA and the major. So I think that we you can make it work, but just be wary that the nationals aren't in this park for tonight and you'll have to skip around and try to get some value. Alvin, are you avoiding Gouriel once again? Avoiding is probably might be too strong. I think the word I would use is not prioritizing, which is not a word by the way. That's a phrase. I'm not prioritizing Gouriel for today just because I like the other guys more. So we're talking before about Straw and Toro. They're gonna be the top value plays. Carlos Correa has a lot of power versus righties. We want to get there. I've been talking about Michael Brantley and his improving power since he came back from the injured list. So I think that Brantley definitely be a good play. Jordan Alvarez obviously a good play. I talked about Tucker before. So if I'm ranking out guys I want to use on the Astros, I am putting Correa, Tucker, Alvarez, Brantley above Gouriel in the studs and I'm going to put Straw and Toro above him after considering salary. So I'm not avoiding him, but I'm not actively seeking him out as a way to phrase it.  So I will naturally wind up using him, but I'm not seeking him out as a way that I phrased that. Jackie, two pitchers of the five plus ERA starting in St. Louis versus Pittsburgh might be some lower salary options for hitters in that game.  I was talking about that this morning where like if you look at their projected lineup, I'm guessing it's not out yet. Oh, okay. So there's that. So you look at this lineup, Brian Reynolds is the only guy with an ISO above 190 versus righties this year. Really rough. So like I could find one offs there who work. I think Reynolds is like $2,800 or something like that. Like you can get one offs there, but I can't get a stack on them because I lied. He's $3,200 but I can't get a full stack there just because there aren't four guys I want to use. So you can definitely do it. You can justify because Martinez pretty rough. I won't be able to get there myself because I am so wary of that team in general. Chad Cool. You could you can consider guys against him. I just don't like the Cardinals either. So both offense is bad enough where I think that I wind up lower. One thing that's in your favor though, Jackie, that's probably not your actual name. I don't know if it is Jackie. Let me know on Twitch, but either way, I'm going to call you Jackie because why not? But the one thing working in their favor is that it is very warm 87 degrees. The warmest game on the slate. So that definitely helps too bad pitchers just also too bad offenses, which I have trouble stacking personally diffuse talking about a stack for the Blue Jays Simeon of Vlad and bow. Obviously, yeah, I think they're the top three guys and then there's like a teardrop. It's a it's a pretty massive drop down from those guys and then I think that I would say Springer, Pioscar, Gritchick and Biggio all in the same tier. So that one, it's Vladdy by himself at the top. Second tier is Bichette and Simeon. Third tier is pretty much those other four guys down there. Jason, do you like the twins today? I like the twins every day, Jason. Gosh, gotta represent the twins. I'm from Minnesota. So I like them in that sense. I am not looking to stack them though. Jean-Carlas Mejia does a good job of suppressing hard contact. He's allowed a 34% hard hit rate. This is over his four starts this year with a 29% fly ball rate allowed. He's not like a great pitcher, but the twins also aren't like some great offense right now. So I'm not really looking to get there again. It's fine. He's not great. They're not terrible. So you can definitely do it. And like you can see here, the results have not been good, but I think he's better than what those results would say. So I'm okay being just kind of mild on the twins for me personally for today. DJ, what do you know about St. Lewis's outfielder Lars Newtbar? So he got called up yesterday and like in the projections channel and number fire. I refused to believe that was a real name. They typed it out as saying he's called up and I didn't believe them, but let's look at looking him here. Let's look at his numbers in AAA and see what we can learn about Mr. Newtbar. Great name. Tremendous name. So in AAA this year across 93 plate appearances, 18% strikeout rate to 28 ISO. It's a decent little number there. Let's check out the bad at ball numbers. Fly ball rate of 21%. So it seems like he kind of got by by every ball he put in the air leaving the yard. So, you know, not a lot of fly balls. The lower tier minor league profile was not dazzling either from an upside perspective, not a big stolen base guy. So I don't think he'll wind up being a super high upside play from a DFS perspective, but high upside play from a name perspective because that is top tier for sure. Aaron tougher fade Guerrero or Alvarez? I I can't use that that word with Vlad. I can't say the fade word because my like my survival instincts kick in and like, no, no, no, no, no, don't do this.  So it's the tougher fate is Vlad. I can't do that. I have had times where I've been lower on Alvarez for sure. I have not had times where I've been lower on Vlad. So definitely Vlad there. Jackie Moon isn't that like a Will Ferrell character from like a movie? I could be wrong. I think it might be. I've not seen the movie, but other way. Cardinals fan and you were looking at the Cardinals there. Yeah, I think that it's a it's a rough off the better against lefties. So Jackie, if you're looking to stack the Cardinals stack them against the lefty, I think that would definitely work. Cool is not great. So you can definitely get there, but try to find them against the lefty. Aaron, the twins game close to warmest at 84 degrees. Yeah. So a target field for today, 84 degrees for that game. Definitely don't want to go Cleveland. Jose Barrios has his issues, especially versus lefties, but he tends to be better at home than on the road overall. Pretty decent numbers this year. Good contact suppression. So not on Cleveland. If you were to go there, I would go to the twins. But like I said, especially with my beautiful boy Byron Buxton being on the injured list. Once again, I it breaks my heart to try to stack the twins. So it's a personal preservation type thing. Brad, who are your top three stacks for tonight? So DJ said Houston, Washington, Toronto. So not Washington. Washington is not super high on me. And DJ also asked the answer about Lars Newpar. Yeah. So I talked about it before you missed it. He's not going to be super high upside. Seems like the power he should in triple A might not be super sustainable based on this fly ball rate. So I am skeptical he retains. Let's go back to Brad here. So Houston is going to be up there. The Blue Jays are up there for sure. Other one that I like for today is I tried to look through the words and remember, oh, the braids. The braids facing Tony Santian. Santian struggled in his first two starts so far with a lot of hard contact, a lot of fly balls. Got him in big trouble last time out. The braids very good. It is warm for today. Good park for hitting as well. So braids, Astros and Blue Jays top three stacks. I would say the oils are a good stack. If you want to save some salary and then the Dodgers are in consideration as well. Let's talk to Kyle over on YouTube. Favorite value picture. Try to get some higher salary stacks. Glad you asked Kyle. I'll slip you the 20 bucks. I promised you for getting you to ask that question later on. My favorite value is Joe Ross. Joe Ross was really rough at the beginning of the year. However, he's a good example of why I try to look at changes in pitch mix and see what guys are doing now because it can make a big difference. Joe Ross this year, his expected Woba versus his foreseeing fastball is like in the 460. You can find that number at Baseball Cervantes whereas the expected Woba versus his slider is like 260. So you see the beginning of the year. He's throwing his foreseeing fastball 21% of the time in his slider at 29%. The results were not good in that time. 4.80 skill interactive ERA. But here you can see the foreseeing fastball. You should shoot down the slider. You should shoot up and suddenly he's got a 3.80 skill interactive ERA strikeout rate is around 24% 24.2% and he's been he's been beasting eight innings nine strikeouts against the Giants. He had seven strikeouts against Atlanta. Obviously the results not all great in that time, but overall pretty solid now facing the Marlins. They have a 92 WRC plus versus righties 25% strikeout rate. So I think that Joe Ross is a really solid value play for today. $7400 that means that you get a lot of salary savings Aaron is not on board with Joe Ross. I am. I think that there are a lot of reasons to like him. So $7400 that gives you a lot of flexibility to jam in whatever hitters you want. I see cause for thinking that there's upside there. So I'm going to take it Joe Ross despite some struggles. I still think a high quality play for today in MLB DFS. Now let's see here Jason Dodgers. I think rock Davies. Yeah, I think that they they are in a pretty good slot for tonight Davies. This is numbers for the full season 5.63 skill interactive DRA. His expected DRA over at Baseball Savant is I believe north of six 14% strikeout rate 11% walk rate decent on a hard contact. The reason that they weren't quite as high is because he does get some ground balls. But you add back in Cody Bellinger add back in Max Muncie and suddenly the Dodgers are pretty close to full health. So I think it's a good situation. I do have them below the others in part because of the park at 72 degrees in Los Angeles for today. Whereas the other stacks of the most part are in warmer weather Braves in 86 degree weather Astros in 85 degree weather Blue G is not quite as high in Buffalo at 76 degrees. But I like their match of quite a bit. I like their offense quite a bit too. So the Dodgers definitely an option for today and I am okay with considering them there. Deandre over on YouTube. How about the Cincinnati Reds for tonight? Yeah, talked about them a bit before facing that bullpen game for the Braves. Josh Tomlin will be the starter. Probably not going to go super long. I would not guess. But Tomlin is a guy we can stack against broadly. So I would say the Reds work out pretty well. Again, I know an equine has not been as hot as he was previously, but still good numbers overall. So I would say if you need value turn there, but also the Reds are in play for a full team stack also DJ. If you were to stack Pittsburgh against St. Louis's Carlos Martinez, who would you use? Uh, that's the issue DJ is I can't list out guys I want to use there. There aren't any. I don't really want to use anybody on the pirates. They're pretty bad. Brian Reynolds would be like the one guy who like from a process perspective. I'm like, yeah, okay, I can get there, but let's just for fun Z's check out what we see here with Pittsburgh. You want to look for guys with power and they don't have a lot of guys who check that box. Reynolds does have a 207 ISO versus righties. Gregory Polanco has had injuries once again this year, but can steal some bases seven stolen bases 192 ISO. So I guess like I would go there. Keep Brian Hayes 157 ISO versus righties. So those would probably be the guys returning to calm Iran, maybe, but like I'm talking myself into them. And I know I thought I did this miles earlier, but like, I don't want to have to talk myself into someone. I would rather just like have them be a straight up good play Reynolds works, but from a full stacking perspective, the pirates are they're pretty rough. That is for sure. So that's why they're not on my list for today. Just difficult for me to find four guys. I want to use on that team. Let's talk to diffuse over on YouTube rank the Dodgers. Okay. So we got Bueller starting for today, which means I'm guessing Will Smith will catch, which means he'll probably be pretty high on my list. Let's just go through this here. Both the Dodgers numbers versus righties so far this year and then pull up their salaries over on Fando, I believe Muncie and Bellinger are both still at $3,500 on the dot. Indeed, they are. Mookie is sick. That's upsetting. He wasn't available off the bench. So we'll see if he's able to go for today. Okay. So potentially no Mookie. Hopefully there is because would stink to lose him right when we have Muncie and Bellinger back. But assuming Mookie plays, I would have to have Mookie number one Muncie. Let's see what he's done in the two games since he didn't miss a lot of times. I'm not super worried about him. So I guess we could just say Muncie will Smith always winds up being a guy who I adore because the power is so good. $2,700 for him. I think given the power that he has, if he does wind up playing, it's so hard to say no to that. Gavin Lux playing a lot better since probably the start of June or so. I would guess if we're looking for when the turning point was for Lux, 173 ISO now versus righties, that's pretty solid. So I think if we're looking for a stack here, let's go with a Bueller stack just because I think we could probably make that work actually with the Dodgers. We're going to go with Smith first under the assumption he plays and I'll go Lux to say some salary that we're choosing between Muncie, Bellinger and Betts. I'm going to go with actually we'll put Muncie at second base and then we're going to push Lux over to shortstop and then we're going to put Mookie in the outfield. If we do that, we are at 2,800 left. That works pretty easily. Abraham Toro at third base, stages and salary. So you can make it work pretty easily to stack the Dodgers with Bueller if you are inclined to do so. And yeah, Jason, good timing asking about Lux, the Dodgers, good timing. I think that things that looked a lot better for him recently, he had a pretty rough start to the year and things have gotten better. I want to see if he's kept up the hot pace that he had at one point earlier on this month. Let's check out the stat cast data on Lux. The hits have not been there, but let's see if the hard contact has three hard hit balls last night. Those are balls of the next velocity of at least 95 miles per hour. So making good contact there. Overall, if we look at the month of June for Lux, not a ton of barrels, but pretty much in line with his regular numbers, strike out rate is at 22%. So ISO is down to 092. Maybe I'm a little bit too high on Gavin Lux. That's very possible. But overall this year, 173 ISO for him versus righty. So I don't want to overreact to what has been a slight down tick for Lux. You know, I think he's still a good option. One guy we have not really discussed yet thus far is Luis Garcia starting forward the Astros. I think that he's number two and the way that I'm viewing things for tonight at pitcher is I think they're just three pictures in the same tier. It's Bueller, Garcia and Ross. Ross is nowhere near as safe as those guys because Bueller is just like a good pitcher, good pitcher. 3.93 skill interactive ERA and four starts of the last movement. That's not like great, but like, you know, longer term, he's a good pitcher. He can get strikeouts facing the Cubs who will strike out 26% strikeout rate. I like that safety as far as Garcia facing the Tigers, 26% strikeout versus righties. Garcia is at 28% himself. This is over three starts with decreased fastball women to strikeout rate for the full season or at least since he rejoined the rotation, I think is 30%. So he's been rock solid, good matchup for him as well. So I do think that he deserves to be number two Ross really just a value play to get me access to all the Astros that I want all the Blue Jays that I want. So full disclosure, it is salary driven, but I think there is reason to do so given how goodies look since that slaughter usage increased and based on the matchup here with the Marlins for tonight. Let's talk to DJ over on Facebook. Would you stack against Waka or Peveta? Waka is weird because he doesn't tend to go super long in games like here is pitch counts as a starter. And this is since he returned 24, 25, 24, 42, 28, 77. I have no idea what his pitch count will be. So I have no idea how long he's going to be out there for today. But when he's out there, not a lot of strikeouts does get some ground balls. So I'm not like actively seeking out the Red Sox, but they do work. Peveta gets too many strikeouts for me to stack against him. So not looking there. He does let up some fly balls in hard contact, but too many strikeouts for me to stack against him. So I'd rather seconds Waka with the Red Sox than Peveta with the Rates. Let's finish up here with home run calls from Jason, the home run picks. He's going with Gavin Lux and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. I like those picks. I'm going to go. So I probably want to Blue Jay because of Dean Kramer. So let's go Marcus Sending. We started off the discussion earlier on with Marcus Simeon and asking whether or not he was over salaried. I don't think he is. So I'm going to go Marcus Simeon and I guess I haven't seen if a Cunha is in there yet because I know he was sick. I haven't seen their lineup yet. It might not be out to do to do no braze lineup as of yet. So we'll go with Ozzy Alby's Ozzy Alby's Marcus Simeon to middle infielders, the home run calls for today for me. That's a new for the DFS side of things for today, but we are going to have an extended chat for today, especially a little treat for everyone because we're going to talk some betting now with Aaron Dolan. Aaron, you know her from sports grid. We had her on covering the spread for both the Super Bowl and for the NCAA Championship. You heard her knowledge there, but also Aaron is someone who knows a lot of NBA knows a lot NHL. She can talk baseball too. So for the next half hour, we're going to have Aaron on the air here to answer your questions live on air and get all of your bets ready for tonight. Aaron, it is a crazy time for you as a sports fan. How are you doing today? I'm great. How are you? Thanks for having me on. I'm very good. I've got a couple of minutes before we let you go. I've got this Ben Simmons, NBA Top Shot that I'm trying to sell. Can I can I interest you or is the hurt still too deep? Not to me. Not to me. OK, OK, well, I can't sell it on Top Shot either. So, you know, it's a same market here right by that. Absolutely. Jackie Moon is a fan. Aaron, apparently you impressed Jackie last night over on Twitch, you were on with Rob and obviously that went pretty well. Now you're back on here today. So what are you eyeing up for today? What are you doing on Stanley Cup playoffs? You look at NBA. What are you most focused on for today? I mean, obviously, I'm a much bigger NBA fan than I am NHL fan because the Flyers were absolutely terrible this season. I'll be watching both those games, but tonight I think the Suns will probably get it done. And then I actually have the Canadians upsetting the biggest Golden Knights at home. OK, perfect. So I have to go. I'm going to go open up my app and get these in. But Aaron, have fun. Everyone get your question for Aaron. No matter where you're watching. Aaron, I appreciate it. Good luck and talk to you again soon. Yes, sounds good. Hello to everybody that may not know me. My name is Aaron Dolan. I work for FanDuel. I'm excited to talk some NBA. We can talk some hockey. I know that Jim was just talking a ton of MLB. But if you have questions, I have a ton of notes written down for some of the games. So you can kind of just hit them in the chat and they will be pulling up some of them. So Kate, can you please tell me why I can't hammer the Suns Moneyline? I'm scared. Well, the first part of this question, everyone calls me Kate and I don't know why maybe because Aaron Kate and people think that they can ignore the Aaron part. But I will always answer when I'm called to Kate no matter what. Well, the question is, why can't you hammer the Suns Moneyline? I feel like that's more of a personal question as I pull this up. So minus 118, I feel like that's good value. So if you think that they're going to win, I feel like you are in a really good position there even at minus 118.  For me in this game, I think the Suns win it. But a lot of articles that I've been reading have been saying that they like the Clippers first half spread. So if we click in to the game, we can kind of find that line. Let's see. No, I wouldn't be playing that. These lines are moving around like crazy. Can you please tell me again why I can't hammer the Suns Moneyline? I'm scared. I wouldn't be scared to hammer the Suns Moneyline. This is a do or die situation for the Clippers. I see them coming out really hot, but then I see the Suns ultimately winning. I think with CP3 back, it's kind of a no-brainer here. And the reason that this Clippers team has been so great in game 3s in the past two series when they were down 0-2 was because of Kauai Leonard. And they're probably not going to get him back. He's absolutely not playing in this game for certain. So I kind of feel like at this point it might be the Suns sweeping. If they don't, if the Clippers don't win this game, I think the Suns easily win in four games. But I mean, this all is basically revolving around Kauai Leonard's health and availability. And last game was absolutely wild. It was so close and I get that. And Paul George should have hit both of those free throws then obviously the last second basket by the Suns was unbelievable. But I mean, do what your heart desires there. Go Knights, go Knights in New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup finals. So I took the Islanders last night. So I got lucky with that one in terms of hockey. We'll switch over to those lines quickly and then we'll go back to some of the props that are like for the NBA. So Canadians plus 116, Vegas go Knights minus 136. So an interesting stat that I read today is the Canadians four and one in the last five games and playing at home while the Vegas Golden Knights are one and four in the last five games being played on the road. So for me, I feel like you should just go with the Canadians here at plus 116. Even if they force a game seven, then the conversation is going to switch because the Canadians are going back on the road. But as for the Islanders, let's look. Oh, they took their team, their series down. The team futures lightning plus 155 Canadians plus 310, which is interesting though is that if you do click into this, you have the Canadians minus 188 to win it all, which I feel like might be a tad confusing for people just given that the Canadians are underdogs tonight and then you look at team futures and you see them at plus 310. This line is just adjusted to the fact that if the Canadians do obviously win tonight, they got to make the line somewhat even in terms of that. But yeah, I'm rocking with the Canadians tonight because one, I hate taking favorites. And why would I do that in a game where they're playing at home? If you're going with a three by two boost, if they have it, let's check that out. Last game, it did not hit. There were so many three-point attempts last night in that Milwaukee Bucks game versus the Hawks, which was crazy. Let's see if we can get, find it on the boost. Actually, sorry. All right, so three by two is not up for tonight's game, it seems. I don't know if it will be going up later, but if it was, always take the three by two. It's always fun. All right, I wasn't sure if it's on TNT. I'm assuming it's not on TNT tonight. In fact, I can find that out right now. Might be ESPN. Let's see. It's not telling me right away on Google, but I'm assuming it is on ESPN or else we would have done the over-under. All right, more questions. They really tried to hit it, but they were close to it. Yes, three by two TNT games. Rob did say that yesterday. But let's also stick with the NBA since that's one of my favorite things. In case you haven't noticed, the Suns are on a nine-game postseason win streak, which is pretty wild. They're 4-0 against the spread, which is also something to keep in mind for the road game. So the Suns really play well on the road, and even during the regular season, they played really well on the road. So that's why it's kind of hard not to take them on the spread, but when I see something at like minus one, minus one and a half, at that point, I'm just going to play it on the money line so you can get somewhat of better value. In terms of the Clippers, I believe they actually opened minus one, and then after, Kwi was finally officially ruled out and CB3 was put back in for the Suns. This line switched in favor of the Suns. But the problem with the Clippers is obviously we know that they've battled back from an 0-2 deficit already twice in this series. But again, it's just really that Kwi Leonard factor. I mean, Marcus Morris as well, he's also battling through knee pain, and I feel like you can kind of tell that. So it's really on the back of Paul George to kind of get everything done. Plus, I will say in game two, Patrick Beverly did a very, very good job at stopping Devin Booker. He kind of held him two below his points prop as well. Obviously, as we know, he'll be wearing a face mask probably tonight because he did get in the space a little bit too hard on that one play. But now that CB3 is back in, it's going to be interesting to see if he'll take the reins and kind of start more of the scoring. I know against Denver in those last two games, I believe he had 37 points, 27 points. So what's interesting about his player points, I believe it's 16 and a half for Chris Paul tonight. Yeah, 16 and a half. So I wouldn't be surprised if he hit the over there. Also, I'm not huge at taking a lot of the stars player points just because I feel like sometimes they're inflated to begin with, but Devin Booker 28 and a half. I can see him in this game going over that just given that CB3 is back in and maybe Patrick Beverly has to kind of adjust between both of those players to try to control them. So that would not be too surprising for me there. And then there was two player props that I loved for tonight. One being Reggie Jackson, his points prop 18 and a half. He's hit this total in the four games that Kawhi has missed. So he's going to step up on the summing and he's averaging over 18 and a half in this post season so far in all the games in all these series. Eight and over 10 and a half rebounds minus 120 on the Fando sports book as well. He had 14 rebounds last game and he's averaging 10.75 rebounds this post season. So I like him over in terms of the rebounds. A lot of times personally, I look for rebounds and assist props instead of going with the points props because like I mentioned, sometimes I feel like they're pretty inflated especially for some of the stars. I was totally off last night when I was hounding and saying Trey Young under 28 and a half. That did not go well for me whatsoever. I believe he was like hitting that number by the third quarter. So that was not good for me. But those are two player props that I like and yeah, I mentioned ever bookers 28 and a half. There's the two. Do you guys like any player props in the comments? Eight and points props night. Sorry, I'm just I have so many tabs open. 15 and a half. Let's see what he's averaging for anybody who sometimes I feel like I got a lot of questions on where do you find your information or some things of like where do you research? One really cool place is called stat news and you write in the top line like your exact question. So if I say eight and postseason points bridge, it'll come up with the exact amount. So he has 16.33 points this postseason. So he's technically hitting this over. It's minus 122. That's also just mentioning with the numbers in terms of value minus 122. Sometimes I feel like with player props when you want to take the over, which of course everyone wants to bet the over. It's not always the best value, which is why I kind of stay away from props unless there's one I truly, truly like. Another really fun part of finding props. I feel is that these player props match bet A, B and C. For some reason, I feel like these are always overlooked. So I will go and go on stat news and look up the stats, compare them and see how these players are going to play against each other technically on paper. But sometimes you can find really good value there, plus money. I've played a few of these in terms of the hurry up and they've gone well for me. LAC at home, 5319 at home last two seasons, only 119 without one. The suns are so good on the road. I know that in this comment, you're factoring in the last two seasons. I just never factor in previous seasons. I only factor in the most current games. And honestly, for all these teams, even though, for example, with the suns, I'm saying they play great on the road. There was like that long stretch where they were winning and covering on the road and just in general. But really, when I'm doing my research for a lot of these props and when I'm picking for these games, I'm only looking at the postseason and their last series. I'm not going back to previous seasons. If you were to bet it, who is most likely to go off with five plus threes? I don't even know who's scoring five plus threes. I'm going to have to skip over that, Mr. Jackie Moon. I don't even know. CP3 assist over eight and a half. Give me two seconds. See how many is averaging. He's averaging 8.7 assists in this postseason. So over eight and a half assists, not a bad play. If you think he's really going to be, let me see, Chris Paul. Am I missing it here? Or are you in this tub? I definitely wouldn't take it minus 2.25. Am I skipping over it, Reggie Miller? Paul Jor. You only have alternate. Is this, I'm assuming this is what you're in. Over eight and a half minus 1.30 You probably wouldn't bet it would probably just do over nine and a half if I was going to do that. He's averaging like I mentioned over that number anyway, so I would just take nine and a half at that point. Yeah, that's what I would do in that one. All right, let's see. What other questions? Carter has to do for a bounce back. You'd think that. You'd think that. I feel like for some of these players, I don't know. If someone has an off game, you're always expecting them to come back the next game. I think for the Clippers going home, that's going to be a huge, huge advantage for them being back in the Staple Center. But this again just all depends on Kauai Leonard. I think that the Clippers come out hot. I feel like the Suns will be down. They'll probably cover the first half spread and then I think the Suns will be able to pull it off. What about lingering COVID issues for CP3 or did he even have COVID? So good question. He got the shots in February, but somehow tested positive. I know he was doing the TikToks with his kids, which then made me think, okay, does he actually have COVID or not? I guess somehow he has some type of strand of it, but they let him back. He didn't have to do the full, I believe whatever 10 to 14 days it was. I believe he'll have no lingering issues, which would have been different. Let's say if Kauai was to play in this game because the last two games, he didn't even travel with the team to Phoenix. So I thought maybe there was a potential. He would play in this game three, but again, he's injured where CP3 is going to come back and he's going to be absolutely fine. Obviously he has that nagging shoulder injury, but he'll be fine. What is your biggest advice for new betters? Would you tell them to stick to sides over, unders, et cetera? I think when you're starting out in betting, one, it's always good to watch videos on how to bet and things like that. But obviously where I'm circling right here, the spread, the money line, the total, these are the most traditional markets. Very easy to spread. I won't get too crazy complicated into that because I think that is very confusing for new betters, but money line straight up, who's winning yes or no as compared to the total over, under. So I feel like those are the two simplest markets. It cannot get more simple than that. And then when you kind of feel more confident after betting a few times, go into the first basket. These are all the fun markets. And then when you go to the same game parlays, this is something exclusive to Fandall. Player points, player rebounds, player assists. Very, very simple. I feel like you just have to kind of place a couple bets first with your friends and stuff, kind of get used to it, eased into it and then kind of, you know, just go from there. I probably, since you're asking, would you stick to side? So I feel like the spread is probably not the easiest way to start betting on certain games. So I would just stick straight with money line in total if you can. All right, guys, we need more questions. We need more flooding in so I can answer them. What is a good bankroll to start with? I know like in poker, they tend to stay 100 by and see. I think your, your bankroll, quite frankly, depends in various person to person. You definitely should not bet your entire life savings on one game. You should definitely not put your entire life savings into the Fandall Sportsbook app. It is all a personal preference on what you should be betting with. If I were you and you've never placed a bet, put a dollar on something like literally a dollar and just start betting like that, learn how to bet and then let's increase from there. I definitely don't want you to go put a ton of money to something, especially if you're just starting out. All right, let's see. We can kind of, I'm trying to get a truck though, Erin. I wouldn't do it through betting. I would do it through continuous hard work.  Everyone always asks me this and I can't remember. There's a five-legged parlay and I cannot remember the teams that were on it but it was during the NFL season and it was because the Falcons came back in one game and it was a really big win for me. And I forget who else was in that but it was a five-legged NFL parlay two years ago, not last season, two years ago. Okay, why don't we talk some NHL because there is some trends and you guys can comment which team that you like winning tonight with the Vegas Golden Knights versus the Canadians Montreal 3-2 in the series. In the last 10 games, they're 8-1-1. They're 9-1 in the last 10 games, played on one day's rest, 10-2 in the last 12. All trends for this game are pointing towards the under head-to-head, the under is 2-0-3 in the last five meetings. So what are you guys taking in terms of this game? Please comment it below. I already said that I'm taking the Canadians. I actually had them as my dog of the day because the Canadians 4-1 in the last five home games while the Vegas Golden Knights are 1-4 in their last five road games. So I'm banking on the Canadians playing at home tonight. And if nobody's going to comment that, we're switching it back to NBA. I think Kerry first stuff to be, you got to ride the Hockey. Yeah, I feel like in hockey, it really is riding the right goalkeeper because since I'm from Philadelphia in case you haven't noticed with the Eagles helmet, I have Gritty right here. If you don't have a good goal tender, like the Philadelphia Flyers, you really just cannot win. Golden Knights done. I agree with you, Austin Smith. I very much agree with you. I don't really know much about hockey. It's fun to watch in person, but I don't watch on TV much. I will agree that watching hockey on TV can give you a headache because sometimes when I go and watch at a bar, I feel like my eyes are going crazy. Going to a game is really, really fun. I always love going to hockey games. Very exciting hockey and basketball games are my two favorite sporting events to go to. Sometimes I feel like going to NFL games is a little too slow for me. Again, I'm an Eagles fan, so it gets kind of rowdy in there. And I think I'd just rather be outside at Xfinity Live. I actually am not eyeing any goal scoring props tonight. I didn't even honestly take a look at them, but there are so many fun markets available right now. You guys have to comment which ones you like. I miss living in Denver. Nuggets games are always a blast. The 76ers games are so much fun. There are so many things you can bet on in hockey for this game and everything seems to be tons of close money. How are the player performance bets looking? Are we talking NHL or are we talking NBA? Eagles to an NFC East. I wish, buddy. It is not going to happen. In fact, I haven't even looked at those lines because I was so disappointed the last time I looked. Where the heck are they? No, season wins. They take these down. Now here we go. There we are. Philadelphia Eagles plus 550. Terrible. Cowboys plus 110. Washington football team 260. I don't really agree with that. Giants plus 400. Philadelphia Eagles are probably going to be the death of me during the NFL season. Never go Cowboys. I might not ever answer one of your questions again, Mr. Jackie Moon. Kidding, but I do have a question. I live in Virginia and we're new to online betting. Why can't we bet on individual things like MVP's, hazardaries? So depending on where you live, it's all up to, I believe, the state legislation on what you are allowed to bet on in certain markets. I know I live in Pennsylvania, but if you cross the bridge in New Jersey, sometimes there's different markets. A lot of times during the NFL season, there was really fun markets on certain players and where they would play next. And it was only available in Colorado, but I couldn't get it in PA or in New Jersey. So it really just varies state to state. It's not like Fandle is trying to give certain things to certain states. It's definitely a legal thing. Let's see, all right. So for those or anyone that is just joining, we have the NBA game three tonight, Suns versus the Clippers. I already said my two player props that are like eight and over 10 and a half rebounds, Reggie Jackson over 18 and a half points. I think the Suns will get it done in this game with CP three coming back. Then in terms of NHL, I have Canadians winning it plus 124. And then I know we're starting to get some NFL questions, Dak Prescott MVP. Good odds. We can't really switch over into this is my last NFL. Where are we that player features 15 to one? I'm surprised Aaron Rodgers is even up there considering we still don't really even know what's going to happen with that. Tom Brady 12 to 1, no surprise there. Mahomes, I'm kind of surprised. Mahomes plus 500 for MVP again. I don't know about that. I probably wouldn't bet that. You like Hertz as a call play caller. I got to see probably more from Hertz. Eagles are a disaster. They're a disaster right now. So there's really no nothing positive. I really have to say about them, but I wasn't a Carson Wentz fans. I'm happy he's out of here because he was too much. J Crowder five threes is a lock. What are you getting that at as well? Five threes. Can you please drop where you're finding that? Yeah, I'm a little confused on that. All right, guys. Well, three more minutes here. Last questions. Last questions. Also probably the last point I should make considering that we kind of spent this whole time talking about the NBA for the Hawks and Bucks. The Bucks are laying eight basically the same exact line that they closed out for the last game. Total 225 and a half. If you like Atlanta like to win the series, I feel like that's still good money. It was obviously way better money before yesterday's game. I believe it was like plus five something. And the Bucks minus 200, but there's also really good value. As you can see in the series, correct score. If you think the Bucks are going to win for three, for two, for one, or you think the Hawks this and that, there's obviously such good value in this market. A lot of people don't really look at that same thing with series total games. Like look at all this great obviously value here. If you think, for example, you know, the Bucks are going to win for one instead of taking them plus, you know, 430. You can also get it plus 270 throw money on either of that or just obviously mean better value of plus 430, but there's definitely, definitely a lot of value in these markets also for the series spread. This is moved. It was minus two and a half yesterday for the Bucks. It's now moved to minus one and a half and a plus money. So that's another thing to take into account if you think that they close out the series pretty quickly. Bucks and six plus 155 plus 320. You can get some good money there. Good value. I should say as well. I don't have a same game parlay for tonight, but obviously those are unique to Fandle. Great thing to be betting on using X, Y and Z. But yeah, I'm excited for tonight's game. Kind of upset that, you know, the Bucks aren't playing in Philadelphia, but I won't get too much into that. Jim kind of mentioned that as he tossed the baton to me today, got a little jab in a Ben Simmons. I feel like all week I've been getting jabs about him. So she's been a tough one by tweeted out today. I think I need a spicy margarita, which is, which is very, very, very true. But yes, Mr. Jackie Mooney. Again, I am still in shock that 76 years lost. I am as well very much, but honestly, when they came to play game seven, I wasn't surprised. There was no way they were getting seven points. I thought with the Hawks. So if you have, I had a ton of friends in Billy Hammer, the Hawks, so it was good for them. At least they won some type of money after a disastrous performance. But Jim did a great job kicking us off here in the Q&A, doing a lot of MLB. Hope this helps you guys in terms of some NBA. Also, of course, talked a little bit about the NHL and there's a ton of MLB games on tonight. Some that are really good. And my last thing I'll just answer, how often do we have these little shows on Twitch? Is it random or scheduled? I believe some of them are scheduled pretty soon. I'll be on every Wednesday night. I also right now am doing it on Wednesday nights with Rob. I believe from eight to nine. Not believe I did do that last night from eight to nine. And then Jim comes on at, I believe, four to do some of the Q&A. And then hopefully I'll be doing some of that after just kind of to get familiarized with Twitch, et cetera on YouTube. But yeah, we're definitely going to be pumping up the content on YouTube, Twitch and all that stuff. So hopefully during the day, you guys can pop on here and I'll be asking a ton of questions and we can help through some of the betting advice that we have for you guys. But thank you for joining this Q&A. We will see you tomorrow four o'clock with Jim again, probably giving you more of the MLB breakdown than I'll probably come on, give some NBA. So we will see you guys then. Thank you for joining this Q&A.


The People's Democratic Party crisis deepens as reps urge Uche Secundus to resign while the national chairman himself reaches a deal to resolve the crisis in the party.   The People's Democratic Party PDP Cockers of the House of Representatives has called on its national chairman Uche Secundus to resign from office to pave way for the resolution of the crisis rocking the party. Meanwhile the People's Democratic Party PDP Governors and the embattled national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secundus appeared to have reached a new deal as part of efforts to resolve the crisis which engulfed its leadership and ensure lasting peace in the party. Joining us to discuss this is Ikwere Local Government Chairman in River State, Samoan Wanusike, and former Executive Director of Public Affairs and Social Media to the Adult State Governor Greg Ogiyogwa. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. Gentlemen, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Thank you for the opportunity. Okay. I'm going to start with you Wanusike. It's interesting what's happening in your party and I know that the PDP has been experiencing this crisis for a few months before the members of the BOT even decided that they were going to resign. But let's start with the fact that on Monday there was some form of protest for and against the chairman of the party. What exactly is the grouse of those who are saying that the chairman should resign? Well, first of all, let me thank you for the opportunity of joining this program. I want to say clearly what's happening in our party is rebuilding a political party to position itself for the forthcoming assignment of the taking Nigeria from the misrule the progressive Congress have provided for the people of this nation. If you will know and if you will remember that the people of the National Party is the only political party that have structures in the 774 look after making Nigeria. And so what Nigerians are expecting is a political party that has credible alternative to what is happening today because that is democracy. And so the people of the National Party as the structure today led by this current National Working Committee has lost the confidence of even its members of National Working Committee. You had the information given by those who resigned their office from various positions. They said it clearly and that is why the party leadership, the night and the beauty have to come in to say look, we need to save the only hope the Nigerians have come 2023 to rebuild this nation and make Nigeria the future that it is. We need to rebuild it. We need to bring it back. And that's why I thank God Almighty that all parties, including the National Chairman has say reasons from those who had the mind that it's time to rebuild this party to position the party to be able to produce a credible alternative. Nobody has any personal problem with the National Chairman of our party. No. What we're talking about is that look, this time we need men and women who have what it takes to produce this credible alternative that the APC has made Nigeria go through. When you say that nobody has a personal problem with the Chairman of the party, there are those who are directly asking for him to resign and this is not today. They've been asking him to resign. I'd like to quote directly members of the House of Representatives who are in the PDP. They had leveled several allegations against the Chairman. They've accused him of not having a clear roadmap, a blueprint and, of course, not leading the party are right. And if you say that this is not personal, the Chairman is the Chairman. He's the leader of the party and if he's being accused of these things, it means that the people who are accusing him somewhat think that he's incapable of leading the party and that makes, that sounds a bit personal to me. No, we cannot be personal because the party chairman is not sitting there as the national chairman as seen in his personal business alone. People's democratic party is a effort that is carrying millions of Nigerians to a destination. Like you know, as we talk, as we stand today, the Constitution does not recognize what they call it, what they call people running with that political party. The Constitution does not recognize the... Independence. Independent candidates. Thank you very much. So everybody who holds in this political party, and that political party is a beaker, that will bring you to acceptance and give you the incredible opportunity for you to participate in a march that will be refrained by INEG. So what we are saying as a party, he has done his bit, but as we speak today, from what we have seen, even you that is asking this question, You know that the losses and the errors of the APC is so enormous that any opposition political party at this point would have raised the tempo politically and Nigerians would have started by now seeing what the case, the government they are expecting to commit in 2023 would have been. So we as a political party, we have been practical. Nobody has any personal problem with anybody. What we're saying is that we need a political party that can be able to win the election against 2023. Not the political party that is supposed to be standing as an opposition. Yet members are drifting from this political party to every political party that is constantly in trouble. So there's something absolutely wrong. And that's why the next and all every critic has to take over. All those... Oh I think we lost connection there. All those whose lives and programmes and principles depend on the political party. They will never keep quiet. They will never keep silent. They must make sure that they have a verbal vehicle to be able to transmit or to position for 2023 and 10 Nigerians the message they have. Okay. Mr Oggyogwa, over to you. Here's making a case that the party needs to move to a position where it can take out the APC, which is the party in power. But how do you take out the party in power when your main soldiers, your foot soldiers have crossed over to another political party, the same party that you're trying to fight against or trying to take over power from? And they have gone there one way or the other to solidify the strength of that party. Shouldn't the party members, no matter how bad the situation is, stay within the party to grow it and form that formidable force to take out the APC in the words of members of the PDP? Great question, ma'am. Fantastic question. You've got it right there. But the thing about it is it's not the foot soldiers that are moving. It's the middle line management. You see, the foot soldiers are the ordinary people. You and I, I mean, not you and I. I don't know about you, but, you know, me and my brother on the other side who was speaking, people like us are the foot soldiers. We're the ones who go out before the elections, on the elections, and after elections to secure the votes and to secure government in place. So we haven't moved. You have fortune seekers, political fortune seekers who will wave and who will move from place to place looking for what you would call the greener pastures, greener political pastures. So you find a lot of that and you find some of the governors, especially within the PDP fold who are thinking, you know, that some way or the other that they will get a presidential ticket, especially those from the southeast that they will get a presidential ticket in 2023. So I'm sorry to speak over you, but I'm curious as to how these people in a space of a few days have become, you know, economic power seekers or whatever you call them. These were men and women who were members of your board of trustees. These are the people that you gave the management of your party to, aside from the chairman, and in one breath they have become the enemy all of a sudden because they've decided to go to another political party. No, no, no, nobody said there were the enemy. I just said political power seekers. I didn't say enemy. We don't have any enemies within the political space. We might contend on political issues and ideology, but we're not enemies. We are brothers and sisters. We are fellow citizens of Nigeria. There's no enmity within the Nigerian family, not from our perspective. But the thing is this, now it makes you wonder, look, are we better off today? Is Nigeria better off today than it was four years, five years ago? Is Nigeria better off today than it was in 2014, 2015 when the PDP was in power? Now, even if that is contentious and even if that is arguable, the bottom line is this. Do we have enough reasons to support APC in power any longer? Obviously not. The APC came to power with very, very specific reasons, specific mandates. One, was the security to secure lives and property. Two, was the economic recovery. And three, was corruption, to fight corruption. Now, I'm sure that anybody across Nigeria will agree with me that they have not succeeded on any one of those. But they will argue with you that they have. They will tell you that they have been able to do this, that and that. I mean, I remember talking to an APC representative on this show and he said that the country is better off now than it was under the PDP. Oh, really? Well, I mean, that's a matter of opinion. And everybody has an opinion. But I can tell you one thing for free. The average man on the street does not believe so. You have seen the NSAS riots, the NSAS protests. And you know that those things, that protests almost went out of control. It almost became what you would call a fight for democracy. People had already started asking for the president to resign. It was no longer an end to police brutality. It had become, you know, a question of the systematic or the systemic rule of the APC. And we're seeing that everywhere. I mean, you look at what they're trying to do with the ban on Twitter, which is basically to try and restrict the free flow of information and expression of independent opinion. That's what they're trying to do. And we're beginning to see that more and more. And so anyone who tells me now that people are moving to the APC because it is a progressive party. The party is not necessarily true. They're not progressive. The APC is no longer progressive. This is basically what you would call, well, a retrogressive party. They're no longer progressive. Well, call it whatever you may. And I'm not in any ways, I'm not a spokesperson for the APC either. But your party members are moving. And it's not just one, not two. They're moving to the APC. The same party that you are saying is retrogressing, is not doing or has not fulfilled its promises. But then members of your political party are going there in their numbers and not just at the national level, but at the state level. So there has to be something in that party or there's something that they're doing, right? That is attracting members of your political party. For whatever reason... Sorry, sorry. The one thing that they've got right, the one thing that they've got, not that they've got right, the one thing they've got is that they are empowered in power. And for a very long time, Nigerian politicians have always gravitated to the center of power. One of the reasons why people are asking for restructuring. So if you restructure, the center of power is no longer in Abuja, but across the different states where, you know, federating units. And people do no longer have to co-tow to the center. That's one of the things. Now, and then there are also a whole lot of situations. I hate to bring this up, but there are a whole lot of situations where you see governors who have down first terms want a second term. And they think that federal might bring them into, will give them a second term. That is what they think. We've proven them wrong in adult states. We've proven them wrong in adult states. That doesn't necessarily have to be. Now, another thing is this. If you look at what they consider as the winning formula of what you'd call short-sighted, myopic politicians who think that because the APC controls the federal government right now, that APC will win the next election. All they have to do is to look at 2015 and see for themselves what happened. And I can tell you one thing, another thing for free. I told you one thing for free before. I'll tell you another one thing for free. The Nigerian public will decide the next elections. I'm going to put a pin there and come back to talk about the Nigerian people deciding the next election. But let me go back to Wanoseke. He raised issues about the APC and, you know, it being regressive, but I still see people moving to the party. But this is where I'm going now. The governor of your state seemed to be one of those who were asking that the party chairman resign. But I remember years ago when Mr. Seconders was about to, you know, assume power, he supported him. He stood by him. But then all of a sudden, the governor of River State, Governor Wieke's name keeps coming up. And many have, there have been whispers in certain quarters that he probably is angling for something. So I ask you directly, what is your governor angling for? Is he trying to run for something? What is his interest in Mr. Seconders' chairmanship? First of all, let's take it one after the other. He raised some issues, so let's take them one after the other. Governor Wieke said, go do fish. He has no hiding place. So if people talk about him, he's expected. We are proud of him. We are proud of his achievements. We are proud that River State has sought body like Governor Wieke to present to the legitimate people at their appropriate time. That is not the basis of this discussion. Governor Wieke is a member of the People's Democratic Party. And he needs the very full People's Democratic Party to be able to translate his aspirations, his wishes, his ideas, his programs of policies to the people of Nigeria. That is the only variable that he can say. He will use to say, look, you knew when we were in power. This was not what we were doing. We lost power. These people came and said there's some problem that they will solve. Now, have they been able to solve the problem? No. What are they using? They are blackmailing and casually people to come to their party. Of course we know. Wieke vessels are those who have gone to their party and don't want to brush up on that. 2023 will decide if they have the capacity to manage the fortune of their state or not when that time comes across that bridge. But in concentrating on what we are discussing. Governor Wieke is saying, yes, there's nothing wrong with me supporting you to come to power. But if the idea that we are using supporting you is not achieved, then what is the essence in staying in that support? Governor Wieke is not a spirit. He is a human being. He has the right to say, look, I think this man can do it. But if the man gets there and has issues that is not confirming with his aspirations and with what he believes that the party should be doing as a party he belongs to. He has the right to say, no, we will bring new blood. We will bring new set of people to be able to reposition this political party so that we can have a credible vehicle to be able to transmit our ideas and tell Nigerian people, yes, there's a problem that has been created by the President Buahare, APC-led administration. We are here to solve that problem. We, the Democratic Party, give us this confidence. We have the structure that someone has followed in Nigeria. We have the ideas to be able to reprand Nigeria and make Nigeria the future of Africa. We want to work with tango to do that. Kuchu Sokondu himself has come to agree that, yes, we will work together. Let's do this conversion in October rather than in December and let's be able to reposition our party to be able to get this job done for the Nigerian people. And we are all working together now. So I think we need to move forward. Let's talk about the issues that have been raised against Mr. Sokondu. He has even responded saying that so far all of these allegations that he's heard none of it has really warranted his resignation. And, of course, his time in office is yet to expire. So I'm still really wondering why everybody's pushing. If there's a problem in the party, the party should fix it. Should it be, I mean, if changing a person and putting another person, because you said it wasn't about Kuchu Sokondu. But now, if you're saying, take Mr. Sokondu, after the picture, and you bring another person, is that really going to heal the party? Will that bring an immediate solution to the party? I also want to understand why the PDP as a party, many have concluded that the PDP has not been able to play its part as a viable opposition to the APC. Since the APC came into power in 2015, and here we are in 2021, the PDP is still struggling to put its party together. And now we see it looking like a house divided against itself. How formidable can the PDP become 2023 if in 2021 was still having to deal with issues like this? Okay, look at, you know, even in this discussion we're having now, you yourself as a presenter have answered part of the question. You just said now that the PDP has to have the PDP has to have today, a lot, the PDP has to have today to be able to convince Nigerians that they can be able to correct the mistakes of this present administration. So that is another reason why members and leaders of the party are saying, please don't worry, let's work together, let's be able to produce a credible executive that can be able to rest in power from these people. Wouldn't you like it or not? Nigerians are expecting PDP to come with a clear program and policies, a clear alternative to what the PDP is doing that they can be able to touch, they can be able to hold, they can be able to see. Are you sure that Nigerians are expecting anything from the PDP anymore because they've not really seen the PDP play in the administration? Including you, including you, who is even asking this question. In your deepest of heart you know that you're expecting Nigerians because it's not even so good for even you that is even asking this question. I didn't know that you could read minds. Nobody is in truth. How can we live in a nation where even you cannot even travel or road from one set of journey to another, where you sleep with all your eyes open. In a nation where you're not sure of what the economy policy of the nation will be tomorrow and what is the dream anybody is chasing in this nation. A nation that all our qualified people are living in this country, we're having brain drain. Today as we speak, recent doctors are still having issues. People are dying in our hospitals. A nation that has no program and policy, all we have is lies and intimidation. See, the truth of the matter is that Nigerians have made up their mind. But what's happening in the registration, the INEC registration, young people are getting registered to say we don't want to protest in the street again. We want to protest with our vote come 2023. And that is why the ABC stand. That is why they have to vote in the National Assembly to manoeuvre the process to stop class 52 in the Electoral Act. So that they can be able to stop the issue of transmitting results from the cooling units. They know that Nigerians have made up their mind. But your PDP members were also part of the Senate. Your members of your party were also part of those who said no to the electronic transmission of results. So you can't really hit this at the table of the ABC, can you? No, no, no, no, who is in charge of the both houses? Well, it doesn't matter. If your party wants to... We shouldn't see members of the PDP on that list. When the People's Democratic Party, when the People's Democratic Party was rejigging the Electoral Act, they were rejigging the Electoral Act in a positive direction under the People's Democratic Party. They brought in the quadrilla. Of course. So we are saying that if you have the majority, I want Nigerians to move on. You know, civil society, entire Nigerians are saying we want to save the life of INF workers. We want to save the life of security agents and elections. We want to save the lives of reporters like you on Election Day. We want to save the lives of voters who don't want the issue of hijacking of results, rewriting results as coalition centers. Let the true reflection of the votes of the people that are casted at the polling units do what will come to an end summer. That's what we're saying. All right. Back to you, Mr. Ogoyiguwa. Let's go back to that thing we put a pin on. You talked about the fact that the People's votes will decide in 2023. But I just want to talk about a litmus test. For example, let me use Lagos State. A few weeks ago, we had local government polls. The polling units were virtually empty. Just a handful of people were there. There seems to be, I mean, we could call it whatever. Some people are saying that there's voter apathy.  There's so many ways to describe the low turnout for, you know, the elections here in Lagos State. And Lagos is the economic capital of Nigeria. I mean, talk more about other parts of the country. If you are so certain that the voters will decide in 2023, we'll especially start now to understand their mindsets. And their mindsets is what we saw in Lagos local government elections. Except you can convince me, you know, on the opposing side. Oh, I think that we have lost that connection with Greg Ogoegua. Let's come back to you. So I'm going to ask that same question to you. If the voters are going to decide, I'm sure you had my question. So if you can attempt it, people seem not to care. Hello. Yes, I can hear you. Did you hear my question? All right, go ahead. Yes, I heard your question about Lagos State local government elections. Now, two things. First of all, local government elections are under state, under state laws. So first of all, it's the Lagos Independent Electoral Commission that conducts elections where not the Independent National Electoral Commission. But there are still elections. There are still elections. People still show up, upholding unions to cast their votes. Yes, I just pointed one thing out to you. One is general, the other one is... Come on, Mom. We're going to come here and do a program. Okay, go ahead. Your mom will cook a good shift for us to job for this program.  Now, the next one is based. You see, not voting at an election, not participating at an election, is also a statement. It's also an action. It's an electoral action. There is participation and non-participation. For example, if you have anything less than maybe 40% participation at an election, then you know that it is not totally participatory. The generality of the public or the generality of the voting public do not necessarily mandate or endorse that government, even if they have won the elections. If the number of people, the number of the voting citizenry are less in proportion than ought to be. So there is a standard by which you can say that, okay, 35% of the voting population don't vote. I mean, I have voted only 35% of the voting population voted. Then you have 65% who have also made a statement. And that statement at times is what you call the silent majority. You understand what I'm saying? In fact that Lagos state, they had what you would call some sort of slight victory for the party in power in Lagos. And you had a majority of the people that did not vote. It tells you one thing. That not voting is negative. It's a negative vote. But then the APC wasn't just the only party that vied for that election. And let's not forget, let's not even play this down in any way. Local government elections, whether we like it or not, are the most important elections in any populace. It's the most important because that's the closest government to the people, even though these days in Nigeria, local government elections are sham. But it's very important and to totally jettison the idea that it cannot be a litmus test, I have a problem with that. But again, let's refer to the 2019 election. Hold on, I'm coming. Let me just drop this point. Let's go back to 2019. We can't really quickly forget 2019 because it's just a few years ago. The number of people who showed up to the polling units was not up to a hundred percent or if 70 percent of the people who registered for that same election. So we're still talking about the issue of voter apathy. I think it was less than 60 percent. Exactly, exactly my point. So if in 2019 we had that low turnout for general elections and then just using Lagos here as a test for local elections and we saw almost empty polling units with sometimes one voter. Of course, this stays a lot. We had the white people, we had so many other parties there so we can't really say because the APC people didn't show up so it's a bad light for the APC. The PDP members also were fine for those offices. I didn't say it was a bad light for the APC. I said it was a bad thing for the political system, for the system itself. It means that people no longer believe that the system will throw up the leaders that they vote for. It means that they no longer believe in the electoral system. People believe that their votes won't count no matter who they vote for. You remember what happened in Lagos during the last elections. We saw that very clearly. There was a lot of violence and everything and a whole lot of people felt that their votes just won't count no matter what it is. And it happens in state elections at the local government election. I know that you said that local government elections are the most crucial. They ought to be, they ought to be, but they are not. They are not the most crucial. Because local government elections are just what you would call Jarrah, you know, for whoever it is that wins the stage. Local governments are just Jarrah. You would take every single local government that you wish. So you just simply write the names of the local government chairmen and the councillors and you've got them all. Now, but the thing is this. So you're saying that... You're telling me that one of Monosike's election was a sham. I mean that the parties in power just decide who would win. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, they do it all the time. Anybody who says it's not true is to come and argue it anywhere. Monosike, Monosike, do you care to respond? Because this puts your local government election and your winning in the local government area to question. No, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. I am waiting. I am waiting for my opportunity to respond. When that opportunity come, I will respond. Yes, I don't know the particulars. And I believe that, you know... I'm waiting. Yeah, I don't know the particulars, but from what you have described and from what you have spoken, as you have spoken, you are pretty articulate and you probably know your people very well. So I will not say 100%, 100% that the elections, local government elections are a sham. I won't say so. I participated in them myself. So I won't say 100% that they are, but I can tell you that majority and, you know, majority. So let's say 90%. But going for that, what I want to point out is that what you call apathy is not necessarily apathy. It could be a negative way to call negative energy, a resentment that has some sort of energy. Because when people refuse to vote, when people stop voting, then they are preparing for revolution. When they stop voting, when they stop believing in the electoral system, when they stop believing in power by the ballot box, then they are preparing for power by any means necessary. Okay. So when you say apathy, apathy is a wrong word to describe the mood of Nigerian. I don't think that they are apathetic. I think that you are seeing Nigerians becoming more aggressive and beginning to become, beginning to think that, look, okay, look, if government cannot protect us, if they cannot provide for us, we better think about this thing ourselves, whether it is at local government level, state level, or regional level, you know, thereabouts. Okay. So Mr. Oseke, don't take it, don't get it wrong. Oh, come on. Let the man speak. Let the man speak. Mr. Samoan Oseke, your elections have been called to question. Are local governments elections across Nigeria sham? And this is not the first time that people have questioned local government elections. There are state governors who have for a long time decided not to have local government elections, and they have stayed that way. But you are a two-time local government chairman for a query. And I want to know... But first of all... Yeah, go ahead. First of all, to my brother, who is on the other side of this program, I have no... I hold no issue against him. He's entitled to his opinion. That's why he's a living being. In river states, we practice clear-cut democracy. And I know, even you as the reporter, you followed our local government election process. You even interviewed me in this station as regards the local government election. Now, I want to say clearly that in river states, we participate based on the wishes of the people. And if you're not popular in river states, you win the election. If the people don't believe that you have the capacity to provide an evidence of democracy, the one vote for you. If you understand the way the people of river states think politically, we know that there are people who believe in practical activities. They don't believe in wishful promises or storytelling. Now, I have been given the opportunity this is the second time I'm elected local government chairman in my local government. And the records are there to show for itself that I have delivered the evidence of democracy to the people of river local government in all spheres. Quality in agriculture, quality in education, quality in security, quality in works infrastructure. Now, projects littered on the 13 political works in my local government have rebuilt the local government headquarters to the FV of all and building an international wish market in conjunction with NGDC. I am building projects in all the political works in rural local government and I'm making sure that the people of rural local government have the full taste of democracy. Okay, I have a question. Now, talking about legal state, hold on before you ask a question. Talking about the election in legal state and the message the people of legal state have sent to the government of legal state which you know in the APC-led administration. What you have seen if you go and just approach the online administration going on today, you will know that the people of legal state have just told the legal state government, AP government that wait for us in 2023. We are not interested in this local government process. We are interested in 2023. That is why we are registering and in legalists we will show you that the current APC cannot hold legal state in 2023. That is what that message is telling. So you're pointing fingers to the APC who's you know at the hem of affairs when it comes to the state level. Of course the governor is an APC member and so you're saying that by virtue you know the party runs the state but I want to ask you a direct question. I hope you can answer. If the PDP was not in power in river state, if Governor Nesongwike was not your principal in river state, would you be a local government chairman? Do you think you would stand a chance to win that position as local government chairman? Do you think that all those people because I know that the river state, every single person who occupies the local government office right now is a member of the People's Democratic Party. Let me just answer you. Let me answer you. The people of the government decides who will govern them. In fact, even in this People's Democratic Party that I belong to, the greatest opposition I've faced were my party members. They were the actual people who gave me their opposition in my place to come back as chairman of council. I am saying if it was the APC that was leading your state, do you think that they would let a PDP person win in any local government election? The point they're making is that if it's the APC that leads the river state, hold on. If it's the APC that leads the river state and APC conducts a credible election at the nuclear government level, one of the tickets someone will win. So why have APC members not won in any local government area in river state? Or any other political party? He doesn't even have to be the APC. Hold on. APC didn't contest the election. You know. So let's talk about that. The APC was scared of losing the elections. What about the other political parties? The point we are making is that you don't just sit down in the comfort of your bedroom and say, to this election, you got principles and say you want to come and run the election. There must be track records. We have a leader that leads the parties to transform the river state and transform the river state to the construction site. Let's suppose there's a weekend to show the river state leadership. And everybody in the river state is talking about this party. And so that is an advantage of this vote. But the election weekend is not running for local government. Nobody is voting for the election weekend to work at the local government level. Okay. Hold on. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. APC has a party to run in the election. The problem why people are afraid of running the election under APC today is because the government has said that who made so much promises has failed. The reason... What the point I'm trying to make to you is that the river state is going to weekend somewhere at the leader of the party. And that's why 3B is the shining light. So the major point we have in the political party at the local government level in the river state is that it's an inter-party issue. I'm sorry. Just hold on. Go ahead. Can you minimize the sounds coming from your end so we can hear other guests? Thank you. I'm sorry. Go ahead. The point I'm making is that because the leader of the party has learned the party right, the party has not been placed in a position of interest. Everybody is interested in the political party. That party will follow them at the local government level. They will do more at the local government level. I know in our first time in office a lot of my colleagues worked so hard to also grow the party at the local government level. I worked so hard to grow the party at the local government level.  I went there and I showed them I think we lost the connection there. That's the point I'm making. No, the point I'm making is that it's a boy who has provided that. Please need a leadership. If the Mohammed Bahrain had succeeded APC would have been flying high in Nigeria. But today in the three points in which he campaigned and kept off it, he felt woefully in all the trend. People have been looking at everything. That's why they are trying to look for corners to be able to hold on to power. But let me tell you, like my colleague have said, the people of Nigeria will shock them. How many are they? There are less than how many people. Don't worry. They will learn from the loss of Jonathan. Alright, we'll take a quick break and when we come back we're still talking about the crisis in the PDP and how the PDP plans to claw itself out of this whole take a short break and we'll be right back.