A fiery horse with a sea of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Little Ranger. With his faithful Indian companions' huddle, the daring and resourceful mass writer of the plains led the fight for law and order. In the early western United States, nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Returning with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the Great Horse Silver, the Golden Ranger, once again, home to it, a story called, Home to It. Jack Lewis owned one of the largest wrenches in the territory and ran it with the help of his wife Kate, who had been born and raised in the rough wild country of the far west. Kate could ride and shoot as well as any man, and when she and her husband adopted an orphaned nephew, Larry Lewis. Kate was determined the boy would grow up to be one of the best riders and one of the best shots in the territory. I, Thunder Jack, I'm going to see to it that little Larry grows up to be one of the shooftiest riding the sound waves in the west. He'll make a real man. Well, with you training him, Kate, I begin betting on him right now. Yes, sir. Larry lived up to the hope of his uncle and aunt, and at 25 was a tall broad shoulder fellow. He was as fearless as Kate herself, and even better with a gun and in the saddle. Late one afternoon, Kate and Larry were returning to the big Lewis ranch house after a trip to town. As they turned off the trail and rode in toward the house, they were startled by the sound of distant shooting. Larry, did you hear that? Yeah. That shooting came from the direction of the ranch house, didn't he? Something's happening there.  Right. Get up there.   I don't see anybody near the ranch house. You? I see three horsemen riding the back trail at least. Yeah, I see them now. They're too far away for us to make out who they are. They were up to something you can bet on that. Ho, ho, ho. Oh, there's... Come on. Yeah, right with you. Holy smoke. There's Uncle Jack lying on the floor. He's been shot. Jack. Rob. Jack, what happened? Oh, yeah. It's... it's to me. Kate, hey, Rob the safe. It's a cattle money. I came in, caught it, and shot me down. Get some water quickly. Sure, right away.  Larry, a ride for the dark hometown. No, you're scared. That is sad. They took me by surprise. Easy, easy, Jack, you're right. Get some water, please. Help me raise him up. Sure. Here, here's water. I'm done for, Kate. No. No. Where are they? What do they look like? Three of them. One tall, red-headed, another heavy, short, scarred. Where are they? What do they look like? Three of them. One tall, red-headed, another heavy, short, scarred. The leader, masked. Go on. Go on, Jack. What about the leader? He, honey, get a lone ranger. He, he... Larry, get a doctor, hurry. No, no. No, Aunt Kate is too late. A doctor can't do anything good. I can't believe it. Jack, go on. Always. We only came a little sooner. Come on, Aunt Kate. Oh, Jack, if I could ever get my hands on those dirty tiles who did this, I... I just remembered something. What did you remember? You heard what Uncle Jack said, that the leader was masked. He said to get the lone ranger, whoever that is. Oh, I can tell you that, Larry.  I saw him once and Jack told me a lot about him. But I never thought he went in for robbing and killing. But Uncle Jack said the leader wore a mask. And then he said to get the lone ranger. Then you think you lent the leader with the lone ranger? Yeah, don't you? Come to think of it, I... I guess that's what Jack did me. Aunt Kate, I'm going to hunt him till I find that masked man. And see that he pays for what he and his men did, Uncle Jack. He'll be a hard one to find, I reckon. I'll think of a plan that may cause him to hunt me. So that someday we'll meet. What kind of plan? I'll tell you about it later, Aunt Kate. Right now, I... I'd better go for the corner. Then tell him I'm in with him. With three days later, when Larry entered the living room with the rent cards and called out to Kate, who was in another room... Aunt Kate! He's here in the military. I brought her on that spied white Arabian from the North Rhine. I can't see why you want to give up riding the academy or after all the trouble you went through. That white horse is part of my plan. Yes. For land, say, for a minute, I... There's only thing like the outfit the long-range wears Aunt Kate. Oh, really? Just about like it. Still just about his size, do we?  Don't you think so? Well, sure will. But didn't you tell the sheriff about the masked man and the other two hombres? I told the sheriff, Uncle Jack said there were three men. But I didn't tell him more than that. But not. Uncle Jack brought me up the same way he would have raised a son if he'd had one. I'm going to do what he'd expect of a son. I'm going to do a personal job of tracking down those killers and turning them over to the law. Well, now I don't doubt that you can do it, but... I can ride as well as anybody. I'm a good shot. And I'm not afraid to face any embryo in this territory. Sure, I know all that, but how do you... I'll search every cafe within miles around. The last one I need is the red-headed outlaw, the one with a scar on his wrist. And I'll force him to take it to the lone ranger's house. But why are you dressed in that mask, man? I figured that the news was fresh. When he hears someone dressed like him is riding the territory and searching the cafes, he'll be tempted to search again. At least we need to get the best of him somehow. You need somebody along to make sure he don't get the best of you, Larry. He can't tackle the job alone. But who could I trust to take him on? Me, that's who. You! But you're a woman, it wouldn't work. I can pass for a man if I lower my voice and don't talk too much. Of course, I'd rather be looked upon. But, and...  All right. Come on, if you want to. We won't return to this spread until we get all three of them. Especially at Lone Ranger. During the next few days, Larry, who had fixed up according to his idea of what the Lone Ranger looked like, sat out with Tate, who was dressed as a man. They visited one cafe after another in the nearby town. Oh, hello there, he said. He should do his thing. Get him up over here!  Next, learn the most and look him over. All right. All right, you, Omri. Line up over there with your hands high and be quick about it. For a couple of Omri. Come on, get moving! That's the same bad time we're held up the cafe over at Preston. Don't let them get away with it here! Come down, somebody! Come on, come down, who's right now? Anybody else want to try a shot at me? Whatever, you'll get the same. Come on, let's get going, the honor here. That's right, they are. Let's go. All right, then we are. Don't anyone try to follow us? And so it was in town after town, as Larry and Tate continued their relentless search for the men who had shot Jack Lewis. One evening, in their camp in the hills outside the town of Stockton, the Lone Ranger looked up at the Tunnel Road in the central town. Oh, come over there! Need to be in a hurry, Talo. Let me bring news. What is it? You hear men say, masked man wearing white hat, riding white horse, pulled up cafes in towns nearby. Come on, posing as me. Get it? Ah, you have other fellow with him. Then go into cafes, line everybody up, look them over, and then leave. You mean they don't rob anyone? That's right. Then not take gold. Just look at them. Then leave. That's strange. No one find out reasons. One who wears masks, can be quick and raw, in shoots, straight, right, can be good. Looks like they're hunting for someone. I think we'll have a search of our own, Talo. I'd like to meet that imposter and find out what's going on. It seems logical that sooner or later they'll hit the cafe in Stockton to keep a lookout for a while. That's a good idea. Go to town right now. I went on the outskirts and you go to the cafe to watch. Excuse me. Very curious to know what's behind it all. Excuse me. Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. We'll see you in a minute. For several nights, the loom-ringed juror and Talo kept watch on a cafe in Stockton. Then one night, his Talo stood at the end of the bar on Stockton's cafe. It happened. All right, don't move, anybody. I've got to tell it. Is that mad non-realism? Yeah, the one who's going to every cafe in the park. All right, I'm up. Then we'll look him over. Get your hands up and line up over there. An ordinary looking bunch. I still don't see the ones we're hunting. Hey, look at this, Andre. Well, it's all red-headed and tough looking, huh? Hey, what is this anyhow? You haven't got the right.  I'll look here. You can't. Don't jump. Then you'll take us to your leader if you want to live. Now, start walking out the door right, Ed. Listen, you can't come here. We are here. We're taking you with us. I guess moving to be quick about it. Rest of it. Don't move or you'll get some lead. All right, let's go. Get after them. Don't let them get away with it. Hold on. If they don't open that door, you might get caught. There they go. Come on, man. Come on, let him. While the crowd pushed outside after Larry and Kate, Tahoe, who had been watching from the rear of the cafe, went out the back door. A few minutes later, he joined the lone ranger at the edge of town. He told the lone ranger what had happened. I heard the commotion. All right, he's gone out to the other end of town. That's right. But there's something else coming up. Oh, what's that? When Masse Fuller, full red-headed man, out of line, he sees Alba Fuller, short, heavy-set Fuller, sneak out back door and ride back trail. That's interesting. Here's Oliver. Do you trail Fuller with Masse? No. We'll follow the man. They rode the back trail. Do you think he'll lead it to Masse Fuller? Fuller nights over, I think we'll come face-to-face to the man who's posing as me. And we'll have a showdown easy there before. Fuller! The curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scene, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now, to continue, trouble watching in the cafe had seen the hold-up. He had also seen a short, heavy-set man leave by the back door, as Larry and Kate went out the front with red. Solo reported matters to the lone ranger, and they started out to trail the man who had sneaked out the back door of the cafe. In time, one of the men from the cafe hurriedly entered the sheriff's office. Sheriff? There's been a hold-up at the cafe. Oh, that's the same? Well, not exactly that. You see, a masked man and another unbrave busted in with drawn guns a little while ago. They lined us all up against the wall. Then after looking us all over, they picked out a tall, red-headed ombre and, well, made him go along with them. They made. That must be the same, too. There's been busting into cafes all over the territory. They got a report on a tall masked man, another tough-looking ombre, doing that daughter thing. That must have been the same, too, then. Honey, they didn't grove all of you. That's proud they can't make out. Must be some reason why they do like they do. Well, I remember hearing the masked man say, I'm really looking a bunch, but I don't see the ones we're hunting. Then, all of a sudden, the other one grabbed a hold of a big red head and pulled him out of the line. You don't say. Yeah. And then he said something about taking him to his leader. His red-headed ones lived, and they forced him to go along with them. Well, I reckon this is my chance to try down that masked ombre. Look, why is it to locate that deputy of mine? All right. It's time to get enough men to farm a fortune. All right, sure. Time to have the men meet me out front within five minutes. I've got the trailer and three ombreses before long flight from this. I'll have that masked out on his friend behind us. They'll get going. Hurry it up. We need your attention. In time, the lone ranger and a cop who had no difficulty following the man who had drawn out the back door of the cafe. The moon was bright and the trail was clear. As they trailed the short, heavy checkman, they noticed that he rode into a small canyon. When they reached the canyon, the lone ranger pulled out the door. They took a trail at the side of the tunnel. That's right. It's been easier to ride the trail to the other side to reach the point he's going to. Why do you think you're not going the way? It might be as the others are riding the trail. This man will be up there first for some reason. What do we do now? We'll continue the following. I'll do it. Reaching the top of the canyon wall with Dr. Hortman, Dr. Cora Shag, Oh, there. Hi, Joe. That masked man came to the cafe and stuck it. Stu, I'm sure he's after it. What makes you sure? Because he and his partner took red with him. That's why he's red. Yes. You remember we heard they was going from cafe to cafe looking at people's wrists and taking off their hats? You said yourself they might be looking for me with my scar or for red. What happened to red? I figured they might make red, lead them back to our hide out here. So I sneaked out and red saw me sneak away. Good. We'll go out and wait for them to come up the main trail. Rather bring them that way to ask them. We'll catch those and raise by surprise. Now, let's go. Meantime, Larry and Kate were the outlaw red riding between them. Follow the main trail towards the hideout. What if he isn't taking us where we told him to? He's better if he knows what's good for him. I swear this is the way to the hideout. The bolders ahead there. Stack it just beyond. Good. Make sure you don't do any signaling. First sound on the onions feel left. As the three approaches to the big boulders, they slowed their horses. Then as they passed the boulders and turned on the trail, Larry and Kate were suddenly startled by a sharp command from behind them. Keep running, bolder! Don't turn around and you just pull it to him. All right, son of a man, you sure must have thought I was a fool giving so easy? There's a shack just ahead.   I was afraid something like this would happen. We're not like kids.  Oh, you know who he is, huh? Maybe you know who I am. Well, I was a woman. That hat hid all her hair. Yeah, but why did you... I'm Jack Lewis' widow.  I'll see all three of you hanged. Yes, Kate. I'm sure. Sorry. Things turned out my way. Oh, forget it, man. Just lay your hand in law.  So you two know about it, huh? That's bad. Mighty bad. What are we going to do with them, sir? Well, since they know too much, they'll be roaming around loose. Oh, yeah. But what are we going to do with them? They'll take a little think control. They're going to be the mighty star they know so much. And if they came here looking for them... As the outlaws inside the shack discussed the situation, two figures cropped beneath the back window of the shack, listening and watching. But, oh, Jack Lewis' widow and nephew. The nephew was posing at me. And then you think lonely and pure. What about while I could kill her husband? I don't know how they got that idea. Right now, she thinks that I've lost two of me without my mask.  Maybe you... All right, you two sneaking coyotes. Don't move. I got two guns at your back. Hey, Joe! Come here! Joe, come quick! What's up, man? I found these two armories here at the window. Let me take them inside. All right, sure. Hey, look, if one of them struts just like that Lewis fella would strut, man, it's quite headlong. Hey, don't savvy that. Come on, you two, get inside.  Hey, look what we found outside, too. Well, what do you know? Another mask on bread. White hat and everything, just like young Lewis is wet. But, hey, I'll bet he's... That's him, Larry! He's the Lone Ranger! Yeah, keep him covered, boys. All right. Then you weren't in this game at all. That's right. But when my uncle was gone, he said, get the Lone Ranger. I thought... I knew your uncle was a friend. He must have meant to get your health in tracking down these outlaws. I'm sure that's what he meant, Larry. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought if I made up like you, it would bring you out of hiding... That's all right. At least it brought us together with the men who killed Jack Lewis. We're together all right. That just makes four to get rid of instead of two. Think I got him that strong. Red has been standing behind the Lone Ranger and Cabo. He holstered his gun as he moved forward, knowing that Stu and Jill, facing the Masked Man and Indian, had them covered from the front. As Red came up behind him, the Lone Ranger thought fast, and as Red reached out, the Masked Man dropped his hand in a lightning-like movement, grabbing Red's right wrist and pulling the outlaw around in front of him. The move had been unexpected and quick, so that with a fast draw, the Lone Ranger, shielded by Red's body, commanded the situation with a gun at Red's back. Look out, Red. There you are. Both of you. Hey, look. The Indian has his guns, too. Stu, don't shoot. If you or Joe shoot, you'll hit me. That's right. They will. You deserve it, that clumsy coyote. Oh, well. You both got me covered. Get their guns. Hello. Get three heads. Two for our guns and retain in. Now, you get them from Redhead. Now you take them. Now you get over there with the others. Stu, it's a blame for Robin Lawson's planning. Get over there. A court distance back along the trail with Larry and Kate had followed with Red. The sheriff and the posse rode along until they reached the big boulders. There they reigned to a halt. Look there. Two horsemen came out from behind those boulders and rode along with the other three. I swear I don't serve any of all this at all. Maybe somebody was awaiting there behind the boulders and ambushed, Sheriff. Don't make sense, like you say, but that's the way it looks to me. Oh, Ryan's crazy. Could anyone warrant a waitin' ambush with them outlaws unless it was the law? Well, it's under the whole King's Creek. The mask man riding around busting in their cafes here and there, lining people up, and then never robbing. Maybe one outlaw came to war against another, did you ever think of that? Coveted that Redhead, his fellow, was with a gang, the man somebody fell out with or something. We haven't passed the case by Jiminy. We might catch two gangs at the same time. That'll be a further in your catch, Sheriff, isn't we? We won't catch nobody. We just sit here in the saddle, join about it. Well, you're trying to tell me what to do. After all, I'm just trying to figure this thing out. But I'm the sheriff. I don't need you or anyone else to tell me what to do. Hey, you hear that shot? Sheriff, send them up ahead of me. Come on, we'll find out about it right now.  Meantime, after the cooks were lined up on their hands, Ty, the chief spoke. We'll have to get them to the sheriff to start them. You should have let the sheriff make his party get up to these men, Larry. There's a risky thing for you and Mr. Lewis to do. Mr. Randt-Ted is a mass running. She can ride. You'll get it. Forget it, Larry. He messed things up. Yeah, I guess we did. That's all right now. It's wonderful, isn't it, to do what you did. Hey, listen. A lot of riders come in this way. Keep these cooks covered, Larry. We're leaving now. Follow me to the sheriff and my party to follow you from the cockpit. Oh, but wait. You don't have to go, just because... Go now. Adios. Don't do that. Don't stop. Larry... You just never heard I was... And just think I had the nerve to pose it. Oh, no! Hurry up! Help! What's going on here? There they are, sir. I guess. And then who loves him? He's my husband. You did the shooting.  Why should I?  You tell Louis he knows it. Well, we'll take all three of them. We trailed that masked man here, Larry. Where did he go? Masked man, you trailed here, sir. It was really me. There's the mask and the white jacket. I thought a man who dressed like that was the leader of the gang who killed Uncle Jack. Well, are they... You were the one who went in all them cafes, then? That's right. You were looking for the man Uncle Jack described. We never cooked anything. We found one of them tonight. Yeah, they sure is a joke on these old boys. No, no, sir. They weren't fooled again.  This don't make sense. We were saved by the masked man, the one I made up like. He was a tall, handsome hombre. And quick as lightning with a gun. I get it now. When you talk about an hombre like that, I know just who you mean. Because there's only one like him. Who was that? You mean you really know who Larry's talking about, Jimmy? Yeah, I was fooled for a while, but now I know. He's the Lone Ranger. This is a feature of a Lone Ranger incorporated, created by George W. Fendle, produced by Fendle Campbell Enterprises, directed by Fred Bower Day and edited by Frank Fleischer. A part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.


Injustice. Few things cause stronger feelings. Moral beliefs are some of our deepest held beliefs, and perceptions of injustice can spark protests, political movements, or can even become a preface to war. When people believe morality is on their side, they can become emboldened to make serious changes in the world. Everybody has some perception of injustice in society. For some people, it's blatant racism or sexism that fires them up. For me, police brutality fills me with an indignation faster than anything else. When I witness some meathead bully that's harassing an innocent civilian, my blood pressure goes through the roof. I immediately feel the tension rising in my chest. However, strong feelings of indignation can also be dangerous when misapplied. My desire to wallop some power-tripping bully should be based on the accuracy of my perceptions. If my perceptions are inaccurate, then my desire to intervene to do something about it might end up causing more harm than good. Same for example, you're walking in a mall and you see some guy rip a purse out of a woman's hands. You might chase after him thinking he's a crook.  You might feel pretty good about yourself. Your sense of justice has been satisfied. But what if you made an error? What if the woman stole the purse in the first place and the man was simply taking it back for his wife? What if she shoplifted the purse and the man was returning it back to the store? So your attempt at correcting an injustice would itself become an injustice. Now that's embarrassing at least, if not downright harmful. Alas, this counterproductive behavior happens all the time. People act out of moral indignation before carefully thinking about their perceptions. Especially dangerous is trying to correct injustices with the tools of government. No matter how well-intentioned people are, exercising political power is a dangerous proposition and it always seems to cause more harm than good. Consider an example which periodically comes up in the United States. Reparations for slavery. On the surface, proponents of reparations make a good point and they point out a clear injustice. Before the Civil War, millions of Africans were enslaved by white plantation owners in the southern United States. These slave owners stole 100% of the slaves' property and labor by implication their lives for years. Not only did the slaves themselves suffer, but their descendants did too. Slaves were unable to accumulate as much wealth to pass on to their children, which gave their offspring an unfair disadvantage in society. Similarly, the slave owners were able to pass on their ill-gotten wealth to their children, giving their descendants of slave owners an unfair advantage in society. The solution, they claim, is to try to best right the wrong in the 21st century by the U.S. government paying reparations, essentially some predetermined amount of tax money to black Americans. It's not a perfect solution, but at least it would try to correct some of the socioeconomic injustices caused by slavery. In my opinion, to put this proposal in the best light, it sounds nice and that's about it. The entire story gets caught up in imprecise abstractions and their fix would end up causing more harm than good. The more concrete this proposal becomes, the more absurd it appears. Now, because people are always quick to assume the worst of you, let me unfortunately state the patently obvious. The institution of slavery is nothing short of an abomination and in no circumstance can anybody construe my beliefs as being ambiguous on this topic. Slavery is the most reprehensible of all human institutions and those who practice it are self-righteous barbarians. So in this regard, supporters of reparations and I are in agreement. When reparations try to go from abstract to concrete, things immediately get fuzzy. For example, exactly who is paying the taxes to whom? If the principle is to redistribute the slave owner's wealth, surely we can't favor reparations by general taxation. I mean, only a tiny fraction of Southerners owned any slaves. The vast majority of Southern whites were too poor to own any slaves. So should their wealth be confiscated too? Or more precisely, should the descendants of entirely innocent Southerners be forced to pay reparations for crimes their ancestors did not commit? The same goes for Northerners who never owned any slaves. And what about my great-great-grandfather, who was an abolitionist preacher in Virginia? He didn't benefit from slavery. In fact, he was kidnapped from behind a pulpit, tied to a horse, and dragged to his death. Does that make his family exempt from the taxation? My relatives' lives and mine, as a result, were directly affected by his murder. Am I entitled to some compensation from the descendants of my great-great-grandfather's murderer? And while we're talking about who pays for reparations, what about all the immigrants in the United States who had absolutely nothing to do with slavery? My wife's grandparents moved here from Norway in the 1900s. Are they also forced to pay? What about all the particular stories of the families involved? Take a scenario where a slave owner drank all of his ill-gotten profits away. Let's say my great-great-grandfather had to start from scratch because his slave-holding father was some irresponsible drunk. How could it be considered a justice to hold his descendants liable? They didn't benefit one penny from slavery, part of the reward for hard work is being able to leave money to your children. And if the man received nothing from his corrupt slave-holding father, it seems like a great injustice to take away part of the gift to his offspring. And what about the African slave owners who arranged many of the slave trades to white Europeans? Are they liable to? Can a black American sue citizens of Ghana because of the actions of their great-great-great-great grandparents? In fact, many Europeans were enslaved by North Africans. So do North Africans actually owe me reparation? Now, all of these questions need concrete answers if we're to carefully pursue justice. Let's ask some more questions about who actually receives the money.  It would surely be an injustice to forcibly take money from some innocent white American to give to a black American unaffected by slavery. What about black immigrants from the Caribbean? Does everybody need a verified, documented family tree to present to some judge? And what is a just amount for reparations anyway? Is it proportional to the time that their ancestors spent as a slave? Or perhaps it's proportional to the amount of abuse they received? You can imagine justice having some relationship to the brutality that was suffered by slaves. So for example, the horribly treated and cruelly whipped slaves should be entitled to more than those slaves who were treated relatively kindly, right? And what if somebody was enslaved for just a few months? Does their families then get less compensation?  If the latter, then reparations are an extraordinarily crude way to correct an injustice that happened 200 years ago, essentially stealing from one group of innocent people who had nothing to do with slavery and giving that money to another group of people who are far removed from slavery. So concretely speaking, you might end up forcibly taking money from Italians who immigrated in the 80s to give to Jamaican who moved here in the 90s. Now there's not a shred of justice there involved. Another question, just how far back do these reparation claims go? After all, if we go far enough back, I bet everybody has ancestors who were slaves. Say that I discover I'm a distantly related relative to some Egyptian pharaoh. Do I owe Jewish people some small amount of money because of their bondage in Egypt thousands of years ago? I mean, surely I cannot possibly be held liable for the actions of an Egyptian pharaoh. I mean, perhaps my position in life is slightly improved because of the exploitation perpetrated by my ancestors in ancient history. I mean, at some point, we must recognize the futility of trying to right a wrong in the past. As you can see, while it's easy to point out the injustice of slavery, nobody disputes that. It's quite difficult to come up with a solution. To me, all of these uncertainties and difficulties make it impossible to justify forcing everybody to pay for reparations through taxation. In fact, my own view takes this a step farther. Not only is it virtually impossible to discern the specifics around who owned slaves. It's actually irrelevant in almost every case. I am not liable for the crimes of my parents, much less my great, great, great grandparents, whose names I've never even heard of. So what's the connection between my liability in 2015 and their crimes in 1840? My DNA? Give me a break. I'm no more liable for the damage that they cause than I am the decisions of my ancestors in the 11 hundreds or in 5,000 BC. Forcefully taking the fruits of my labor to satisfy some transgenerational justice campaign is simply theft. It's theft in the present to pay for theft in the past. I can only imagine one scenario where it might actually make legal sense to justify intervention. So imagine that my great grandfather was a proven slave owner and he claimed complete ownership over his slaves. As a result, he took one of their family heirlooms, let's say a ring. Now imagine that that ring never changed ownership and it stayed in the little metal box for 200 years. I can see a case in that circumstance that the ring actually belongs to the provable descendants of the slave instead of the descendants of the slave owner. Now, this is where a lawsuit might actually be legitimate, but in no way would that involve general taxation for everybody unrelated to the parties. It's clear cut in a way that avoids all of the impossible to fix problems caused by government reparations. Because it seems nearly impossible to correct these injustices without creating more injustice, I can only conclude not all wrongs can be righted. It's tragic, but it's unavoidable and unfortunately it's demonstrated all the time. When people are wrongfully imprisoned, they permanently lose part of their lives and no amount of compensation can ever make up for that. When somebody is wrongfully killed or murdered, their surviving family might receive a check, but that doesn't fix the injustice. Sometimes nothing can be done, it's that simple. In the case of slavery reparations, everybody who was on earth at that time is dead. All of their children are dead too. So it's wishful, abstract and ultimately harmful thinking to believe that 200 year old atrocities are going to be fixed by punishing their distant relatives in the present who are only related by accident of birth. Granted, reparations would make a lot of people feel better about the past. I mean, it would certainly placate their guilt and sympathy and I understand this desire, but it doesn't justify committing any further injustices. Rather than deal with grand abstractions in a distant history, I think people should focus on the very real injustices that are instead taking place right now. Become indignant about the unequal application of drug laws which disproportionately affect minorities or the sickening cases of police brutality or the powerful connected people who get preferential treatment in our court system in the present. Or the slaughter of innocent civilians overseas or the hundreds of thousands of children that have died because of sociopathic politicians. People should be outraged by their atrocities. If justice seekers are itching to file lawsuits, there are plenty of legitimate ones to file, but it's unwise to let moral indignation go unchecked. Too often it becomes a greater cause for harm than good. The transgenerational justice warriors need to turn their attention to cases which can be concretely resolved and leave the distant past alone. If you like the sound of these ideas, if they resonate with you, then make sure to subscribe. And if you want to help create more content like this, then check out patreon.com slash stevepatterson and you can help support the creation of a more rational worldview. To read this article or to learn about my books, check out steve-patterson.com. Thank you.


I'm excited to be here with Faith. She is one of my favorite people to, you know, content on Instagram is very entertaining. So, and on Facebook as well. So be sure to check out, of course, I will have links. But Faith is a successful business owner. She has a six-figure Young Living Oils business, which means that she mentors a lot of people. A lot of people, she looks up to her for business, you know, sort of leadership. And so I'm really excited to have her share, her thoughts about productivity, joyful productivity basically, but she, yeah, because, you know, Faith has had the experience of building up a successful business, but also along the way, kind of like, you know, just like a lot of us have dealt with some burnout and then needing to find a way that's much more sustainable personally for her to keep going and to be able to show up with joy and with vibrance and creativity on a regular basis, because a lot of people look to her. So Joy, thank you for being here and I'm excited to have you share with my people. Hey, hi, thanks for having me here. I'm so honored and grateful to be on your platform as well, to talk about stuff, yeah. Yeah, yeah. For me, business is pretty exciting because I think it's very interesting in the longer in this business, right, the more I realize that maybe the way how women see business and entrepreneurship is so different from men, at least for what I understand when I speak to my husband because he runs his own business as well. And I think this has come to an age where for us women, we come into our own family tea, our own intuition and gifts as to how we create and how we grow our business with a lot of joy and purpose there as well. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for mentioning that. I do, definitely we should talk about this. One other thing I forgot to mention is that not only are you a successful business owner, you're also a mother of two fairly young kids and they're hilarious, they're wonderful because sometimes they show up on the videos too. And it's a lot of work because you have to caretake for your kids, for your husband, I'm sure there are other caretaking responsibilities in your life, personal, but you also have to caretake for all these people in your organization. And on the side, if that's not enough, on the side, you're also a coach. You're also, besides the young living oils business, you're also a coach for women on these things about joyful productivity. So the first question I have for you, there's so much we can talk about, but you talk sometimes about how so many people assume that to succeed in business means it's a hard slog. You have to suffer, you have to work hard and suffer so that you can become successful and then enjoy the fruits of your success. So you're trying to change that paradigm. So tell us about that, what's the alternative? And how can we actually make it work? Okay, so to me, I guess for me right now in my current season of life, I'm more about being sustainable in my business because if I'm on the thought that I have to really squeeze myself and spring all the way to the finishing line, I don't know whether my business will still be around today. I have done the other part before whereby like the first few years of my life, I was definitely hustling and pressing and working hard, you know, doing the 18 hours kind of stuff every day and things like that. Yeah, so I think for me was that, I think it's very interesting that when I speak to women who yearns to get out of the red race, like in the corporate world or having that time flexibility for the family, for themselves and for the children, I realized that the first thing they jumped to when I asked them, would you consider building a business? It would be that I have no time. So it's a very interesting statement then because already with that sentence, it really comes to the thought that there must be certain sacrifices to be made because usually for this woman, what I've noticed is that after saying they have no time, they will say that, yeah, my family and my work keeps me very busy. So I'm always curious because I'm just wondering like, what were their assumptions behind that? You can, especially right now in the social selling world, especially right now when you can use social media to build your business, to build your presence, right? It can, you can take it as slow or as fast as you want. But the most important thing I feel is to create a journey that you enjoy. Yeah. Yeah, that's really, really good. Yes, and the journey that's enjoyable is one that we're more likely to keep going on, right? Like the journey that's enjoyable is one where it brings out the best in us. Like if we're not enjoying it, we're probably not going to treat ourselves well, number one, our self-care, but also we won't treat the people around us as well as we could if we were enjoying it because then with the enjoyment comes more of, more creativity, more, I thought I could just say love for other people and people can sense that, you know, people. So, okay, I think this is important to talk about given that a lot of the women that you work with are building their business on the side, right? Like they're not going into business. Some people are lucky to be able to say, all the time, I have 40 hours a week to build my business. Most of them are just trying to squeeze out a few hours a week, right? So because you have so much experience with that and you're also a busy mother, what is any advice or any perspective about how do we find that time? So what is your advice when someone says, oh, I would like to have my own business, but oh, I would like to grow my own business, but I'm just so busy being a mom or caretaking for others or being at work and I come home tired. So how do we squeeze out some time? Well, I think that the first thing when I ask people to find the time, right, is really to have that daily schedule around them and have them to invite in, okay, the things like the non-negotiable, right? So whether you're speaking to a woman who has a full-time job or even who's a full-time homemaker, there are so much stuff women tend to be very busy with. So I get them to fill up those first, okay? Because usually there are pockets of time. It's just whether do you want to use those pockets for creating a business? Even half an hour a day is good enough. And I say that because I have been in seasons where I just gave birth to my second child, so that's my son. And in the first six months, right, he was really sick, you know? And so what happened was that and my second pregnancy has a lot of complications. I have preeclampsia. So there was a lot of medical complications around that and around my son as well. So for that one year, right, we were in a season that we don't have someone to help us to take care of our kids. It's just me and my husband full on board, 24-7 parenting with two very young kids. So it was impossible for me to even sit down for 20 minutes at my desk to work. It was really like taking my phone, say I'm nursing my kid, right? So I just text as I go. So the pockets of time can be found. We just need to be intentional about it because some of the things I've noticed, especially for moms, what we tend to do is that sometimes when we're so busy that we tend to check out quite a bit, like with social media, you know, watch our favorite Korean drama. So there are times that we check out. And I'm not saying that you forego that and you go and slog away truth. I'm just saying that why don't you just take maybe like half an hour, even 20 minutes, right? It's good to just take a little step here and there. Sometimes we just feel that this thing looks so daunting, but like how you taught us in TLC, when we break it down into tiny steps, it looks a lot more doable than, yeah. Yeah, and it's of course very helpful to have a coach or a mentor like you who's been there through all of the building of business while having really young children or just having very little time and energy that you were still able to build it successfully. And we're just really worth studying. And because sometimes I hear people saying, well, okay, I have half an hour to say 20 minutes that you said, I've got a pocket of time. But I hear people say, what can I do in 20 minutes? What can I do in half hour? Why bother? Because what's kind of impact is 20 minutes or 30 minutes going to me? So what would you say to that? What's your response when they say that? Well, what's 20, 30 minutes going to do? Okay, so I have a perfect quote for that. So the question is, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? And so that's how it is. It's not so much about like you pushing through and clearing through a huge chunk of work at one shot or in a short while, because I have seen people who really burn out after that, including myself, but it's really about consistency. Because as you build up that muscle of consistency and sustainability, the momentum kicks in, the result snowbound. There is a study by, okay, now it's just starting to kind of be the author. Isn't it Seth Gordon? He was talking about that, the tipping point. Okay, I probably will have misquoted him, but I think the one thing that I really found very interesting about the graph is that as so many points in that graph, we will want to give up, like this is the valley of, oh my God, there's no results. Like, okay, you're posting on social media and there's no results. There's no one engaging whatsoever. But we just don't know when that tipping point is coming about. So to me is that this one, I feel that having that pleasure in your journey before you got the results that you wanted, it's so important to have that to cheer you on and to have you carry on this journey as well. Yeah, I appreciate you bringing that word, that idea in, having the pleasure in the journey. So, okay, again, let's stick with a busy woman who has a half hour pocket every day, to work on her business. What does it mean to bring pleasure to that half hour pocket to build her business? So if you want to give any specific examples, so let's say, you know, let's say one of your mentees has a half hour later today, what would you advise her to do in that half hour and how might she bring some pleasure to it? So to me, it's that I found it's very interesting trait about my, about women, including myself. We tend, okay, this is where I feel, okay? This is where I feel that men in this aspect is smarter than us about, so sorry movement, but that's why I feel, and the fact was that, and the fact was that we tend to make things a lot harder for ourselves. Yeah, then we should, you know? And I give you an example, okay? Recently, I had one of my Dubai team members, she came to me and said, hey, you know, I want to look at building the young women business and like, great, okay? And she was like, okay, I'm gonna talk to some enrichment centers for advertisements about the young women products and whatsoever. And then she went, do we have this adverts? Can we shoot stuff? And I'm like, no, what you should do is that go to the company, pull out the existing videos they have, because those have already been professionally done and it will apply. I mean, it's an easier way out, saves you so much time. So generally these days, when I work my business, I ask myself the question, how can I create more ease for myself?   And I think that for women, maybe we feel that we needed to show up in work, like work hard, show your worth, but sometimes it can be as easeful as asking for help, asking for opinions, asking for resource, asking for network, rather than trying to pull that out from yourself first. Yeah. That's so great to hear you say that. And yes, I believe very much in half assing our weight group, because that's usually how I've reached the success of my business too. And I think that's very interesting. You said that there's the women and men. And of course, I just wanna say, we all have feminine aspects within ourselves. We all have masculine aspects, right? And some women have a harder time or easier time with this. And some men also the same thing. But there is something about the feminine, which I think it's to me, here's how I interpret it. I think the feminine cares for the whole more, cares for the holistically more. And so because of the care, they see more connections or they feel more connections. And so therefore it feels a higher stake and they have to do it more perfectly.  I just do it the easy way. Or the masculine is much more like direct and just like almost like a bowl in a china shop, just crashing through kind of situation. So I agree it is to be aware of that feminine or masculine tendency. And when we have the half hour pocket, we just kind of need to half-ass it or at least to find it, just like you said, find the ease, find the fun or ask for help and yeah. So this is really good. So another thing I want you to talk about is using the same situation, the woman with the half hour pocket of time, say, okay, yeah, faith, I am gonna do some outreach. I'm gonna do it, but faith, I don't feel I have confidence of doing it or I'm not motivated to do it right now. So maybe I'll wait till later and maybe motivated later or maybe later I'll feel more confident. Maybe I'll, let me go get some more training, maybe get the certification, that certification. Then I will be more confident to put myself out there. What is your thought on that? There is nothing like taking action towards your goal that instills and grows even more confidence, okay? And I say that because I have been in places, especially early on in my business where I was terrible at showing up on live video, I started my way through in classes, I had done things like poor lighting, not being audible and being so serious that it scared people on the screen, okay? So I've been through that and I think that I realized that the mere act of putting myself out there to do this stuff and getting, and having patience and compassion for myself to get to mastery, like right now we're asking to come, come and say, can you jump on board right now in this one hour to teach? I can, because I've done so much of this and basically just blotched my ratio to here that confidence is like, I don't need that. I don't need that. I don't need motivation to get there. I love what one of my favorite authors say. So her name is Sark, S-A-R-K, Susan Arre, Rainbow Kennedy and she actually created this thing called Tiny Movements. And she was like, could you just do something around your dreams, just two minutes a day? So she gave me an example of like saying, let's say I need to clean up my cupboard behind me, it's a huge mess inside. And to put the slide two hours to clean up feels very daunting. So the first thing you do is that on the first day, you open the cupboard bowl.  The third day, take out two things to show. These are small things, they're so small, these steps and it's easy, everyone can do it. And I think that in terms of growing a business, it can be about that. When we talk about confidence and motivation, right? It's not sustainable emotion. It's something that e-apps and flow, sometimes confidence and motivations comes from external environment. Like someone tells you, oh, good job, you did so well with that. Or that you feel great about what you did. But it's not something that is constantly there. It counts and it goes, it counts and it goes. But for us to have the results that we wanted, consistency is a lot more important over here. Yeah. Yeah, thank you for people. I hope you'll watch this again because there's a lot of nuggets in this short interview. Yes, I totally agree with you that I too, you know, people look at me and they look at my videos and they say, oh, George has all the confidence and motivation in me. Look, he shows up consistently. He must be motivated and confident all the time. And I have to remind people, whenever I click go live on Facebook to make my weekly videos, that moment I am almost certainly not confident and not motivated. But I know myself by now, that if I just click go live and start talking, that's probably usually three to five minutes later. I feel okay enough to keep going. It takes me, and same thing with my writing, same thing, I don't feel confident and motivated to write. That's been one of my hardest lifetime lessons because I started learning English when I was in my formative years, when I was Chinese. Anyway, so it's like I learned to be traumatized by writing early on. And every time I write, I still don't enjoy the first 15, I still, I'm not motivated, I'm not confident in the first 15 minutes, but I just keep trying, I try. I love your example. Oh, open the closet one day, you know? Next day, look at the items, you know? I think it's brilliant. And the same thing with my writing.  I'm just going to open a blank document. Okay, I could do that. Okay, next thing, I will just write one thing about the topic. Doesn't have to, one crappy thing about the topic. Just one sentence, it's okay. Or whatever, it doesn't have to be sense. One thing. Okay, let me write one more thing. And it just keeps going like, oh, I have one more thing I could say, maybe. Okay, so this is, yeah, I appreciate that you're sharing this message. So as we start to conclude, I also want to ask you about when, okay, same idea, the woman who has little time, she's building her business, it's still not to the place where she wants it to be. Okay? So how do we stay encouraged to keep going when we're just, especially when we're just starting? Now, some people who are watching are just starting and some people watching this are somewhere in the middle, but they still are, they have a big dream.  Oh, look, it's so wonderful to have a six-figure business, but I'm not very far from it, it feels. How do we stay encouraged? How do we keep going? I think one thing that I found really helpful in this is that it's also something that I'm learning from you as well, and I'm doing this like every Sunday. What's it do a weekly review? So my weekly review has been very simple. It's just basically first thing, one of some of the things that I'm celebrating about for the week that has just passed. The next one is that, okay, got some stuff that I can see that is coming out for me is growthful areas for me, areas that I can choose to grow into. And the last thing is that what is my affirmation or my intention for the coming up with, like it can be just a word, it can be a sentence to anchor myself to that. And the reason why I talk about this is because, typically I find that we are very hard on ourselves. So often the things that we do do, we go like, it's just a small thing, nothing worth mentioning, but it is something worth celebrating. And I learned that from my husband when he realized that I was so hard on myself in the early part of my business. Like if I didn't get to my goal, to my certain rank with certain timeframe, I get really hard on myself and I start to dash myself up repeatedly for what I did not do well. And he was like, but wait a minute, you haven't seen what you have done so well. You haven't do that. And the thing is that if I don't practice that, my kids will not practice that because they see the mom doing that, neither will my team members too, because that creates a certain kind of culture, right? So to me, it's like, I actually invite every single entrepreneur out there, if you are feeling discouraged, if you're feeling that, nah, I'm not there yet, you know, sit down, write down three things. What's three things that you've done that's worth celebrating?  You, we can't, I mean, much as we like to, but I don't think we can actually say this is business and it's segmented so much away from the rest of my life. Yeah. Yeah, I totally agree. It's a sense of fulfillment and sort of like personal empowerment that just like you said, when we do the things that you mentioned, we increase that feeling within us, the feeling of, yes, look, I can do something. I'm contributing, you know, and that feeling spills out into the rest of our life too. I so appreciate that exercise. It's very good. Well, let's talk a little bit about your coaching. Some people watching this would be like, oh my gosh, I would love to have faith as a coach.  So someone who wants to work with someone like you who brings joy and fun into business and to do it in very doable ways, how do you enjoy working with clients? Or maybe I could ask you, what is the ideal type of client that should contact you? Okay, so for me, right, after going through my journey of burnout and everything, I'm very passionate about reaching out to like-minded women out there.  You're feeling stuck. You feel like giving up. I would strongly encourage you to reach out to me. So my Instagram handle is faith at flow, faith in flow and on Instagram. So reach out to me that, I mean, just dropping me a simple DM and we can always have a chat. To me, I'm just feeling that this is an age where I think for us women to kind of like, to stand in their own power. And I truly believe that entrepreneurship is one way that we can do that actually. So I would love to connect you there. Thank you for that. I will of course put the link to the Instagram, your Instagram profile below the video. And let me ask you one more question and then we can end. So let's say some, well, first of all, if someone interested, they'll direct message you, but let's say they get started working with you as a client. Give us a little bit of a picture on what you would start to work with them on. I know it depends on the person, of course, but anything you find important to start with and then, you know, or what kind of technique do you use that kind of thing to share? Okay, so professionally in terms of my certification background, I am certified as a master practitioner in neuro linguistic programming. I'm also certified as the neuro linguistic enneagram practitioner as well. So I am trained in terms of using the enneagram as a diagnostic tool. I basically use quite a few tools and it depends on what the person resonates with as well. But one of the key things that I start people on is actually to look at doing the thought model because so often the actions that we take is based on a feeling that we get that is based on a thought that we have. So, and so often we are in a space that we believe our own thought. We think that they're true. They might not be true, it's just our opinion, but having a certain thought shapes the way how we feel, shapes the action we take. You can take an action where it goes like, let's say reaching out, let's say net carrying, reaching out to people on IG and creating that relationship, right? If you have a thought that goes like, oh, okay, fine, let's do it today. You know, by having that thought, what kind of feeling do you get? Of course you feel like, drag, okay, let's get that over with. Definitely the way how we reach out to people will not be something that, I mean, it could be, but I just feel that the energy would drag the action down, you know?  I can get the next thing that's more interesting for me. But if we have, if we look at our thoughts and we pick at the one that's saying like, hmm, what if we could find someone that we really love the content about, like for a Georgetown, right? And then we go like, it is so amazing to connect through that way. So imagine when you have the thought, you're feeling what you get, you can fight men, you get like, yeah, or your curiosity. So of course the action that you take and further down the line, the result that you get would be different because your energy has shifted a bit. So that's the key thing that I also teach my clients about to do that. That is so important because that's one way to coach ourselves through situations that we have blind spots too. Yeah, then after that, what I could do is to take people through the anagram to have a deeper dive on their blind spots, how they show up when they are stressed and also like a lot of times we don't realize that when we are stressed on our alignment, we are thinking certain thoughts. But the way how we show up to people out there is very different, you know, and that cause that can create miscommunication, misunderstanding and misalignment too. So that's an interesting tool that I like to use for my clients as well. Yeah. I love that. I'm a fan of the anagram as well. I think it's a really profound tool and it's so great that you work with your clients on that. And yes, I totally agree that the thought, I love it. I love that you emphasize that in your work with clients because if we learn better, more effectively how to manage this, the rest of our life changes. And that's like the highest leverage benefit you can bring to your clients. So thank you for that work. Well, Faith, I think people are lucky to be able to work with you. And I hope anyone who's watching this feels connected to what Faith is saying and reach out before while Faith is still available. So, you know, check out the links below and Faith, thank you. Thanks for the work that you do. Thanks for having me here. Thank you.


And right back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa G.D. Johnson will be joining us For off the press G.D. Johnson. It's good to have you join us this morning. I'm going to say I don't know why I'm saying that this is January, you know the 27th if I'm not mistaken I mean the the season is over already when we're in reality We're seeing live as it is. It's good to have you join us Good morning messy and then good morning poofy. You know, it's the first time we are seeing live About the past two weeks we've done it But with output audio my voice is alone because there was no light there's no foil and there's no way I could connect through audiovisual means and today I'm fortunate to be in Cadence For a program and That's why you see that I could join to this. It's a pleasure to have you guys and to see you guys up in here It doesn't really matter. Yeah, whoever never is someone newly you just tell them I'm up in here And coffee you are looking fresh. Yes And some are as beautiful as ever I know Thank you very much We are looking fresh This light matter and the feel matter is something that we're still grappling with in in Lagos So those who have a lot of lights, you know, maybe about 18 hours light they now have to pay more, you know Paying more way more than we used to pay but we thank God for life Well, we need to get to the crux of the matters right away and we have the punch newspaper in front of us this morning I mean looking at your screen you'll see that paper Mega churches, schools, bar old Niren notes payment Offering Sounds like, you know something that you know already New notes, shortage, forced banks to short ATMs, costumers demand extension Reps threaten emethyly with arrests, insist CBN governor must obey summon It was a conversation I and Kofi were having, you know, before this time Law professor, Sue CBN, NLC rides Buhari over debt line extension These are the riders you find underneath But just quickly we have another one says AJR pays $446 million a Jakuta judgment debt ICPC arrests, former jam registrar talking about issue of grafts And tribunal rules today, please want troublemakers, the Adeleke and Oye Toler's case Now, just before we move this also, you know, that picture that shows what happened yesterday The fire incident in Balugu market where traders be mourned, they are lost as fire gods ligus market I mean, it's such a difficult time Petro's scarcity, protesters block ligus benware espress, ligus benia beg your pardon espress And that's the much we can take but I think quickly, par tariff shortfall now 2.5 trillionaire According to the federal government All right, very quickly the nation has the following headlines to take a few of them Petro crisis, BDP colluding with Saboteurs says Tinnable Riders to that, Attico trying to pit Tinnable against Buhari protesters block Benin ligus road More from the nation's CBN plans all card transactions through Africa We'll have a discussion on that later Nigeria's elite are selfish says Buhari Nigeria's elite are selfish Pantami 2.2 million jobs created in two years Immigration processes 9.3 million passports in seven years To solve the headlines on the front page of the nation We'll have the daily trust and candidates blueprints cannot solve Nigeria's problems That's what panelists the court had to say And two major parties lack ideology identity or ideological identity Manifestors are mere academic work They are more desperadoes than Democrats among candidates Kaviru Yusuf is saying We have full confidence in INEC the United States is quoted to say oh well Banks short of new notice ATMs dry up Reps tackle commercial banks over new currency policy We are constrained by CBN guidelines Banks executives I mean what exactly is going on We find we followed 66 attempts to hack FEC virtual meetings That's what the federal government is saying What exactly would have happened if you know that was the case I mean who exactly is planning to hijack the federal executive council meeting Troops neutralize 84 terrorists in North East and North West rescue 122 victims in two weeks That toll from natural world bombing increases to 40 This is according to Governor Suley That's it this morning on the daily trust Let's take the final one which will be the guardian Big one in front on front page on your screens test And Peter's Nigerians tackle CBN deadline on cash swap Ogoni after seven years residents lament slow pace of cleanup Youth protest as Buhari Commission's projects in Katzina ICPC uncovers fresh evidence Rear SXJAMP registrar Jarenda Talk about affliction rising a second time I didn't criticize Buhari over fuel scarcity NARA redesign only offered advice Tainable clarifies some of the headlines on the front page of the Guardian Look at them as we go on And time to bring at this point to today Gidey Johnson, sorry Senior lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism Gidey, the one that I think will give us some Interesting and not too serious take will be the mega churches and schools According to the punches of Buhari, the members, the customers From using the ordinary notes for school fees and for offering That's quite interesting That's the major headline as far as the newspapers are concerned But the real headline it's worth the people The downtrodden The people in various communities, cities and across Nigerians are facing Commuters Commercial drivers, commercial buses are rejecting this money Those that are selling goods and services So beyond the headline of the mega churches Which is not the top place you should expect that it has happened in the past If you go through the major headlines of newspaper Anytime we have issues with currency, currency change Or what have you The churches will tell you not to come to church With that and schools will not collect it as school fees But the reality on ground is that it's beyond the churches And the real schools is the reality that is going on On every street, on every neighborhood And in every buses and every transaction That is going on all across Nigerian I'll tell you, we are here in Kadna for a major program And all of us are in the middle class We are dispensed of all the ordinary notes that we have Because the fillers you get is that nobody is collecting it Nobody is collecting it And I listened to the interview of the president When the president said it was three months Three months that was given And that three months he'll have been sufficient enough But were policies put in place to enhance the efficiency Or to effect the efficiency of this new policy I'll tell you, last week Friday I went to the bank And I made a transaction that amounted to 200,000 of Naira I was given old thousand bills And the bills were dirty, they were torn And I went to the bank, I took to a major bank And I said, why should we say no? We have not been supplied with the new Naira notes I think that we didn't put in place a well oiled system That would effect the transition from the old notes to the new notes No, but that... Now, Jina Jocelyn, I mean, what's the sense And what's the ideology behind having a deadline For the withdrawal of, I mean, the usage of the old notes And then not having the new notes in circulation What's the ideology behind this? That's what I don't understand In Great Britain, you know, it is the portrait of the king Or the queen of the royal that is used Now, that of Charles will be used to replace his mom And it's a gradual process I think that sometimes we carry out policies Without looking at the logistics of effecting that policy The policies are good, is with good intention But the execution, when you have good policies and the execution is flawed You have challenges The bottom line is that these new Naira notes The banks are not having enough of it What sender bank government should have What sender bank, let me talk about it What the sender bank should have done Is they have given this bank enough... You know the money is in circulation The central bank is in charge of money to policy You know the daily transactions of all the banks You know the volume of transactions we made So you make available that Beyond those that are keeping money at home Beyond those that have access back to the banks There are people that don't come to the nomad mystic They go to the back door And those ones are the first line of attrition The first line of people you deal with The majority of the people that come to the front door Are the ones suffering the consequences of this Logistic problem that we have with the sender bank And it is the same logistic problem you have With CBA, with the petroleum distribution And it is the same logistic problem you have With election materials being distributed To the various polling units at cousination Just wait until February 25th When we get to monitor the elections You see that we have this logistic problem And you have to yourself Do we need to locate science to solve Basic logistic problem You don't need to locate science All you need to do is to have your facts And your facts are gotten from data Your facts are the interpretation of your data Those facts are evidence Those evidence is you got your decision making It is purely simple It is not rocket science Maybe it is also another ploy To reduce the money that we have in circulation And also reduce the rate of spending Do you think that there might also be That intention of CBA Should we have a large amount of money in circulation Or we will have cashless policy There have been various policies That have been put in place in the bank By this present central bank governor By this administration of his present Central bank governor And the previous central bank governor What is the essence of the BVN What is the essence of the volume Of the transaction you can make It is already cashless policy But even I said it on this program It is the same government That said you run cashless policy Because it is Government and public officials That go to the bank and collect A large amount of volume of money Who are those that first protested When the daily limits And the weekly limits And the monthly limits Were issued by the central bank governor Who are those Who are the governors If you do transactions with state government If you do transactions even with some ministries They pay you in cash That is the truth You made a point there I mean that is an allegation From your part But we have to quickly make good time With a couple of other stories Before we say goodbye to you Staying with the nation The front page, big one there The all progressive congress Presidential candidate Is saying that the PDP Is colluding with saboteurs To cause the petrol crisis In the country Is what he is saying So invariably he is saying That the petrol crisis right now Is artificial and it is a sabotage To enable PDP win The forthcoming general elections Well You have asked me a question And now first and foremost This is a spin They are trying to correct A major Food and sleep from the presidential candidate That is a spin To what was said To what we had And to what we saw We both listened to To that storm pitch By the presidential Alright I think A comment I have come through His advice Okay You have asked me Absolutely They are saying that Is PDP that is colluding With saboteurs Then use gross Incompetence on the part of The MPC government And the part of Minister of Petroleum Whichever way they look at it There is still There is despair on the president Because the president is the minister of petroleum And the minister Is the minister of petroleum Is the minister of petroleum ministry If there are saboteurs In his effort when it comes to that Issues that probably there is Incompetence or capacity On the part of whoever is managing The petroleum industry and we all know Who is managing the industry But I think that a blaming PDP Concerning the petroleum Product is just playing to the gallery The man said what he said And what he said Is clear for an hybrid man on the street To interpret is just a spin They are trying Do we still have you Jileh Johnson So it is just a spin So as far as I am concerned How PDP be responsible The government has been in administration for the past 8 years In 2015 they blamed 16 years of PDP So APPC government Has paid 8 years So they should talk about the 8 years of their government And not blame PDP on this As far as Nigeria is concerned This is our problem So our problem Before coming to KADNA I knew I came for an R To buy fuel And I bought the fuel I bought the fuel We may take the next speaker So apparently Jileh Johnson We probably have to just Let this slide For today Unfortunately the network has not been favourable And we can't say that that's attributed to your We can't attribute that to your location We can't say But hopefully We get some better time To talk more about National concerns and issues on the papers Thank you so much Kofi we have to go We will be right back after a break Of course look at the moves The move by the CBN to Take charge As far as card transactions And payments are connected To a new Scheme launch called AFRIGO Quite interesting To try to find out what this means And the effect it will have on business transactions In Nigeria Stay with us