Good morning. Welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 9th of July and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 12th of July with me Michael Hueson It's been a fairly volatile week for equity markets all told We've seen a continued decline in US Treasury yields it actually would actually now make for successive weekly declines and While the first two weeks Where I think a little bit gradual I think over the course of the past couple of weeks This decline has started to gain a little bit of added impetus. I think that's no better borne out By this chart that I'm going to I'm about to show you here This is the US 10 year yield chart and obviously it's a daily chart So it's fairly fairly straightforward if I change it to a weekly chart This is a trend that has sort of been in place For quite some time. I do digress slightly. We did see we've seen some gradual declines We saw a bit of a rebound at the end of June but see the decline that's pretty much been in place since those peaks in late March early April Would appear to suggest that the market is starting to price out the reflation trade and when you consider The overarching narrative of the last quarter has been reflation concerns Long-term yields have actually been going in the opposite direction Or be it after a very strong start of the year. I think it's important to remember that I think in the context of Where we are now and where we were we are still very much Up on the year when it comes to yields, but certainly if you look at the last four months Yields have been slowly coming lower now. Obviously. We're only a few days into July now So it's too soon to draw any Particular conclusions from the recent price action But I think the fact that we've seen such a big decline Over the course of the past couple of weeks suggests that markets are starting to get a little bit spooked By the prospect that the reflation trade may be dead or dying now I Don't think we're there yet. I think there are concerns about a slowdown in the global economic economic recovery And I think a part of the reason I think why There are these concerns Is the rising cases of the Delta variant? particularly in Asia and we've got a state of emergency being declared in Japan And let's not forget the Olympics starts in two weeks. I mean whoever thought it was a good idea to have the Olympics Is anybody's guess but it now looks like that these Olympics will take place behind closed doors Which you know while sympathise on one sympathisers with the athletes Well, do you really want to be in in a country that's got a state of emergency and is locked down in orbit name? We've also seen Thailand introduce new measures to tighten restrictions in South Korea There's also announced tougher restrictions in Seoul earlier today. So I Think the picture is of Rising cases in Asia in a largely unvaccinated population Against a backdrop here in Europe the UK and the US where the economies Starting slowly and surely to reopen though. I estimate. I do have concerns about the fact that Europe is reopening at a time when Vaccination rates are probably a good three or four weeks behind the UK's For now the 19th of July reopening for the UK economy does look as if it's going to take place as scheduled restrictions are continuing to Get loosened despite the fact that the caseload the caseload is rising, but I think what's important is Less about the caseload and more about the hospitalizations and while the caseload is Back at the levels that it was in January The hospitalizations aren't rising anywhere near as fast. So certainly the vaccination is the vaccination program is having an effect and assuming that hospitalizations don't rise to Difficult levels then I think I Think the fact is that we will probably continue to see Restrictions east and that should be and that positive for the UK economy though recent economic data this morning's economic data out of the UK from May showed a slightly weaker pace of growth Then was expected in some of the early estimates we can see that in Today's weekly market calendar if we look at the month-on-month GDP numbers for here We're expecting 0.8 percent We've got 0.8 percent. We're expecting 1.5. So we fell short by 0.7 percent GDP year-on-year again slightly disappointing Came in slightly below expectations there index of services below expectations construction output missed again and as did industrial output and Manufacturing output which sort of was a little bit Flies in the face of the the PMI numbers that we've seen coming out from market But I think one of the things we have to look at When we're looking at the PMI numbers of purchasing managers index numbers for the UK is That they they don't include the motor sector Which makes up around about 16 to 20 percent of the UK economy So the reason those manufacturing and industrial production numbers are as weak as they are is because they do include The the the motor sector which is obviously suffering from a variety of shortages Semiconductors chipsets and what have you which is affecting the output there And that's why you're seeing the prices of used cars go up simply because there's a shortage of supply of New vehicles nonetheless despite the weakness there the services PMIs that we saw earlier this week have by and large Been fairly positive That being said we have seen a very very choppy week in terms of Equity markets and that's no better borne out by this week's move in the footsie 100 or the UK 100 as I like As we like to call it This is Thursday's price action Made a new high up near to 7100 on Thursday before slipping back quite sharply on the back of these concerns a About Rising Covid cases in Asia slowing down at the global economic recovery I don't know why I've got a five-minute chart there.  Let's change it to a daily chart Here we go. So this is the price action of this week. I'm very strong down move yesterday bit of a rebound today and If we look over the course of the past month or so we can see that we've seen some fairly decent swings Albeit in a broadly 200 point price range and what that's telling me essentially is the price action Yeah, investors are undecided as to the overall direction when it comes to European markets Despite the fact that we've seen more record highs this week for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ so As far as European markets are concerned and concerned and the FTSE 100 in particular, I'm still broadly constructive Decent support in and around 7106,980 apart from these little brief blips below there And in the short term again 7200 that remains the key barrier on the top side. So I think stripping away all of the narratives and We're hearing an awful lot reflation trade this growth scares Deflation what have you The most important thing amongst all of this is the price action and Despite all of the volatility down one day and up the next We are thus far respecting the broader range that we've been in over the course of the past Four to five weeks and until we break out of that range It's probably eminently sensible to continue to play it from that perspective. So that's the FTSE I'm still broadly constructive while we're above 6980 The DAX is also seeing a fairly decent Rebound today as well. And again, it's a similar sort of story for European markets while US markets continue to look fairly well supported We have got European markets, which are broadly trading sideways And there certainly are concerns about the global recovery more broadly China cut its reserve requirement ratio This morning by 0.5 by 50 basis points Which suggests that the Chinese authorities are concerned about weakness in the Chinese economy And that may be why another reason why yields have started to soften a little bit Simply on the basis of the fact that we're not going to get a stronger recovery as was originally being priced and that is now being repriced in the bomb markets and equity markets Striving to make sense of what's likely to happen next. So looking at this chart here as we see it Again, it's a similar sort of story as we've got in the FTSE 100 fairly decent support in and around 15,270 that coincided with the low there and there but also fairly decent resistance up around 15,800 As it can be seen from these daily candles here. So the broader narrative I think for European markets, they're in a range and Until we can get a clearer steer Of how the summer months are going to play out on what the economy is going to look like in The second part of this year and what essentially the central bank reaction function will be with respect to the changing economic conditions that are likely to come about Towards the end of Q3 and as we head into Q4 It's going to make it. I think it's going to make for a highly uncertain and quite choppy trading Arrangement over the course of the next few months if we look at the S&P 500 for example, we're still very much in an uptrend mode As designated by this daily chart here. Now. We've got a very strong bearish reversal there That's nothing new. We've seen them on fairly regular basis over the course of the past few weeks. So You know in essence We I still remain very much of the opinion as Designated by this decent uptrend line here that we remain very much in a by-the-dip mentality when it comes to US markets and it's a similar sort of story or The NASDAQ 100 as well as designated by this daily chart here And what's noticeable about this particular daily candle here is that even though we posted a bearish reversal we've closed well off the lows of the day and We've respected that trend line there. So we've seen significant Divergence on the oscillator That's probably likely to going to continue to be the case until such times As we see some clear evidence of the change in trend at the moment We're just not seeing that so again the trend is your friend So stick with it Japan 225 slightly different story Or be it we are respecting the overall support levels in and around this 27,500 area I have drawn that through there because it's a very long lower shadow And we've also got the 200-day moving average as well. So that that's likely to be significant on any move Towards the downside what's significant is yesterday's chart move lower has been pretty much reversed today So it pays your money it takes your choice, but ultimately equity markets Probably still look fairly decent still look a fairly decent prospect In the event that We see a slowdown or realignment of expectations about the rebound that we're seeing in the global economy so that brings me on quite neatly to the the upcoming week and the week ahead because We've got another busy week of data And I think in light of the triple R cut that we saw from the Chinese authorities Earlier this morning the state of the Chinese economy is likely to be I think a key factor in In in the markets when we look ahead to the upcoming week We've got Q2 GDP on the 15th of July as well as retail sales and industrial production for June So the fact that the Chinese authorities have cut the triple R suggests they are concerned that the economy is slowing down And it's in it and it's in a place that they don't really want it to be and they want to try and ease Monetary policy conditions now earlier this year. There was some surprise that China's estimates for 2021 GDP growth was set at around 6% some arguing it was too optimistic another saying it was too conservative particularly since there's been little signs of a second wave I was one of the people who thought that it was actually too conservative. It looks like I may have been wrong And I think that's one of the important things you have to take when you look at markets You have to admit you have to own it when you get it wrong And it looks like that my optimism over the Chinese economy was slightly misplaced So what do we do? We basically readjust our expectations So the jury remains out on how well the Chinese economy is actually doing But it would suggest that it's not doing as well as Chinese authorities would like it to be Retail sales have been showing some signs of gaining traction Although all of this year's numbers have to be set in the context of the enormous skew Due to the shock of the pandemic lockdowns over a year ago. So You're going to get a very big rebound Based on a very slow numbers that we saw in March April May and June of last year Now industrial production has managed to rebound fairly easily But consumer centipede has been much more cautious in Q1. The Chinese Chinese economy grew by 0.6% Now this week's Q2 GDP numbers are expected to see an expansion of 1% as a quarterly expansion of 1% while June retail sales are expected to slow from 18.3% to 10.0. So it's from 10 they're expected to slow to 10.9% from 12.4% in May So I think that's another warning sign that Chinese Officials are concerned about that retail sales are starting to slow Industrial reduction is also starting to slow as well. They're expecting we're expecting that to come down from 8.8% to 8% So to sum up on 15th July China's second quarter GDP is expected to come in at 1% It was as a 1% economic expansion on top of a 0.6 economic expansion in Q1 So that's the key that that's the key data for China We've also got CPI numbers. Now there was an awful lot of concern earlier this year and until very very recently that CPI was basically running well ahead of consumer's ability to absorb it And certainly if you look at US CPI headline numbers there are currently at 5% and the expectation is if recent PPI numbers are any guide that we might see an increase to in excess of 5% now economic expectations or economist expectations are the US CPI which is due out on the 13th will come in At 5% it will remain steady at 5% Despite the fact that producer prices in may jump to 6.6% and the highest level in over 10 years So there is a little bit of concern that the big rise in PPI will filter through into the June CPI numbers Certainly core prices are expected to increase from 3.8% to 4% but given that even if they do push higher there is now some doubt as to whether or not this will be the high point for CPI before they start to roll over again If you'd said that two months ago, I think the debate would have been somewhat different. The debate would have been well how high can it go Now there is a perception that we're nearing the peak and we could well start to roll over as we head into the autumn So we're a bit of an inflection point when it comes to CPI in the US but as well as CPI here in the UK because not only do we have US CPI We also have US retail sales But we also have UK CPI and US retail sales have been underperforming They've been underperforming quite significantly over the course of the past few weeks and months And that has been a little bit of a concern because for all of the optimism over the US economy the decent numbers that we're seeing when it comes to jobless claims in the labor market and the payrolls numbers which we saw last Friday which were a little bit of a goldilocks affair The expectations around Fed policy Haven't really shifted that much but the dollar has actually started and continued to move higher Now I think the expectation around the dollar moving higher is more to do with the fact that interest rate expectations for other central banks tightening policy are diminishing more than the Fed is more likely to tighten And that in essence is helping to support the dollar because if you look at it in the overall round of things The fact is that it's more likely that the Fed will still tighten policy before any other central bank And that is essentially why you're finding that the dollar is benefiting from that It's not that the expectation is the Fed will tighten first. It's just that other central banks are probably going to Be much much later to the party than was initially thought saying for example the Bank of England. So With that in mind US retail sales Is expected to show another decline in June and that's disappointing expecting to see a decline of around about 0.5 percent and coming on top of a decline that we saw in May of 1.3 percent That suggests that while The US economy is recovering US consumers remain very very cautious about spending money going forward So that suggests to me that We could get it's going to be a very very tough call to Think about when it when when we're going to get a tapering of monetary policy when it comes to the Fed And certainly the rates aren't going up anytime soon. So really it's just a question of When central banks are likely to pair their bond buying programs In terms of CPI for the UK going to move to the UK economy now So we've seen the US dollar index here the CMC dollar index The line of lease resistance here suggests we're going to continue to see dollar strength over the course of the of the next few days When it comes to sterling, it's a slightly more next story We can see that here. It's been slowly trending lower But for now it appears to be respecting the support line in this channel that I drew A few days ago So looking at UK CPI we can expect to see another jump From may we came in at 2% in May We can expect to see another jump to around about 2.3% for june However, if the US experience is any guide and we do start to see some measures Of a topping out Then the high watermark for UK CPI we could We could well be fairly near near to it And certainly I think when we looked at the latest Chinese inflation numbers The headline CPI numbers do appear to be just starting to show signs of softening As do the PPI numbers. So again, that feeds into the narrative that The inflation pressures that we've seen over the course of the past six months May be near a topping out and we will know whether or not that Perception is true as we head into The third quarter certainly there's no there's no evidence of food price inflation Which is a good thing Um, it's not to say that we won't we won't continue to see sharp upward moves In the headline number over the coming months Certainly PPI has been trending higher since the end of last year Um in april it might 9.9% And it's around, you know, it's around about 10% now So it really just comes down to how much Consumers or how much manufacturers Can afford to pass through in terms of higher costs UK unemployment again The furlough numbers are skewing that slightly But on last estimates, I would imagine There's around about 5% now of the UK population currently on furlough UK unemployment is expected to edge back up to 4.8% in May What was encouraging in the jobless claims numbers for Um for may was that they fell back to 6.2% which was a sharp fall from the 7.2% we saw in march So we've seen a big drop in jobless claims numbers And that should be positive as the UK economy gets set for a the big opening up on the 19th of july Going forward so There's an awful lot I would suggest to be positive about And that's before we even start to think about the euros 2020 This weekend England versus Italy really looking forward to it. It's coming home Hopefully that will give the UK economy a significant boost over the course of the next few weeks With particular attention, I'd like to draw your particular attention to Um The pubs like marston's mitchell and butlers. We've also got Sainsbury's test goes and morrisons should have done increased sales of of beer and what have you bookies should have done well Um as we'll have delivery companies like uh uber eats deliveroo Just eat takeaway You know right result could well see a nice decent uplift as we head into the summer holidays But i'm digressing ever so slightly. We've also got a host of earnings announcements due out with the start of us earning season and in particular Um, I'll be paying particular attention to us bank earnings and the reason I would be paying particular attention to them was because of The federal reserve at the end of june Relaxing all restrictions on buybacks and the paying of dividends. Now you would have thought That would be positive for bank shares, but This was largely expected And it's important to remember that um just before I'm the fed confirmed the relaxation of those restrictions CEO jamie diamond of j.p. Morgan was very keen to stress that the bank's Second quarter performance was unlikely to match that of the first quarter Trading revenue lower than the consensus estimates of 6.5 billion Lower yields and volatility would have impacted turnover And also he expressed concern About loan demand and income after a bumper q1 the trend over loan demand Was notable in this q number q1 numbers, which the bank said was likely to remain challenged So deposits of right Deposits rose 24 percent year on year to 2.3 trillion dollars in q1, but what was notable I think and what was particularly I'm concerning overall was the fact that um Uh Lending to businesses small business lending was down 50 Compared to the same quarter a year ago. So while the shares appear to be rising on the basis of expectations of higher payouts It's also worth noting that the underlying q2 numbers point to challenges For the u.s economy due to concerns about higher interest rates Well, that's not a concern at the moment higher interest rates because yields are lower But that is a concern yields are lower and a compressed yield curve when it comes to profit margins So when the when we get the earnings numbers, we need to pay particular attention to this support area here On the jp morgan daily chart around about 147 because if they guide lower for q3 as well We could start to see a roll-off In u.s bank shares which have been on an absolute tear over the course Of the past few weeks Though having said that they've gone pretty much sideways since march april similar sort of story for City group more broadly nice little uptrend here, but again evidence is starting to roll over So keep an arm 200 day moving average there and a similar sort of story morgan stanley This is a nice little trend line here that i've drawn in Be very interesting to see whether or not we take out those loads of the 18th of june or whether or not we respect the uptrend That we currently have been in so we've got To summarize we've got jp morgan on the 13th of july along with goldman sacks We then have city group on the 14th of july. We have a morgan stanley on the 15th of july And let's not also forget. We also have the latest numbers for coin base Crypto coin base and those particular shares will be interesting in the context Of how the shares have performed In the wake of the direct listing that we saw earlier this year the They basically dropped below their Their in their nasdaq indicative price easy for me to say All the way back All the way back in june Now they went to a low of around just above 200 dollars since then they've been trading sideways And i say it's been three months that we've seen a little bit of a pullback Over the course of the past few days is with bitcoin just about holding above that 30 000 level But obviously there has been some concerns about increased regulation when it comes to crypto the crypto space And chinese crackdowns Increased regulation could weigh on the numbers in q2 the q1 numbers came in broadly as expected so there is a risk that the Numbers that we've seen and the declines that we've seen in crypto could impact the numbers for q2 in coin bases earnings announcement when it's released on the 15th of july Quickly have a quick look at gold Seen a nice little rebound in that on the back of the lower yields I've actually been struck by the fact that we haven't rebounded particularly strongly despite the sell-off in yields But we're also approaching very key resistance between the 50 and the 200 day moving average So depending on what yields do I think we'll dictate what gold prices do but for the moment 1825 is likely to be a significant barrier going forward. So also we've seen some welcome respite In terms of oil prices. They finally do appear to be showing some signs of topping out But we do need to get back below this 72 50 area here To signal a much deeper correction Yeah, we hit a peak earlier this week at around about 78 dollars a barrel We don't really want to go too much above that But I think concerns about the global recovery concerns about a slow rate of economic rebound Could actually see these numbers start to roll back down again particularly if opec plus can finally agree a consensus on production On production increases going forward So that's pretty much it. Sorry I've gone on for a little bit longer than I expected to But I hope everybody has a great weekend And I'll see you all same time same place next week And let's hope England win the football on Sunday fingers crossed. I'll certainly be drinking to that. Thanks very much


Thank you. I think there are more railway enthusiasts around than musicians but welcome everybody. This is the first time I've given this lecture, I'm kind of breaking cover. The Digi Gurley, a midi herdigurley. Briefly midi for those who don't know is an industry standard that was devised, I think the early 80s, for allowing synthesizers electronic instruments to talk to each other. It's still used today, which is pretty impressive. Felly, y bydd eich bod yn gwneud y hollwch. Felly, dwi'n gwneud y hollwch ar gilydd a ddweud y hollwch, maen nhw'n gallu peth yn gweithio. Felly, mae'n meddyl bod y gweithio'r fideo, ychydig yw'r amser, wedi cael ei wneud. Felly, mae'n gwneud. Felly, mae'r instrument yn ymdyniaeth, maen nhw'n ddweud. Mae'n ddweud ychydig yn ychydig. Rwyf yn gwybod y fwyllt, mae'r wneud yn ymdyn sydd yn gwneud, Dyma sydd eich hun? Mae'n cael ei dŵl yn ymdod. Mae'n byw medliwch, mae'n gwithio'n ymarfer o'ch butau. Mae'n gwithio'n gwahanol. Mae'n cael ei ddod yn llawd yn ymdod, mae'n dziwch angen i'w ddau y gallwn. Dwi i gyd, mae'n rhai allan o'r rhindiau. Mae un arddangos yr un llun. Mae'n creu mewn llun o'r lŷ. Mae'n aelodi, dron sy'n gyffredegu cynnig feithio. ac mae'n mynd i'r rhiffau o'r rhif erbyn. Ymdianeth o'r rhiffau sy'n gweithio. Felly, mae'r pwyntau ar yれ, cyfnodd y rhan o'r rhan o'r ddweud, yn gyfroeddol gael y rhan o'r hwyl, ddim yn ymryd â'r llyfr o'r llyfr sy'n gyfer y Llyfr sy'n ymryd a'r ddweud o'r rhan o'r rhan o'r cyfroeddol. Felly mae'n cech gyda'r cyfroeddol. Efallai mae'n rhan o'r cyfroeddol. ac mae'n gwellau, byddwch chi'n gwellaw'r wheel ac fyddai'n gwellaw'r gwella. Mae'n gwellaw'r drwy'r cyfwyrd wedi'i meddwl i'w ddech llwyllaf. A dyna, mae'n gwneud, mae hynny'n dwylo'r eich cyflodydd, mae'n gallu'r gwellaw'r bus. Ac mae'n gwellaw'r sechysig. Mae'n cyfwyr hyn yn gwneud, ac mae'n gwellaw'r cyflodyd yn fwy oedd. another one instrument. How do the keys work? They basically have these tangents they call which press the strings, as you push the key in, and they kind of fret the strings, a bit like pressing on the fret of a guitar, so that's how they work. You can have several melody strings up to about four, usually there's two, like in this one, and they're an octave apart. You then usually have a drone or two, Ewch yn wych yn llwyddon yn gwneud, ac mae'r rhan o'r rhan o'r bwysig sydd ar hynny'n gweithio'r rhan o'r bwysig sydd ar hyn, a'r rhan o'r bwysig sydd ar hyn. Nid yn ei dda chi'r gwagol yn fawr i'r gweld, mae'n dda i'r ymddangos i'r yrddai a'r rhan o'r gwaith i gweithio. Mae ydych yn 50 sgwm, mae'r gweithio'n 20 sgwm. Yna, mae'r rhag o'r rhag o'r 21 bwysig. There's a very expensive high end one here. There's four melody strings or several drones. It's also got sympathetic strings which just resonate. All this lot have to be tuned and就會 drifft out of tune periodically. So bit of a nightmare as a beginner. Also there are different traditions for different countries and they have different tunings. There are multiple ways of tuning it, unlike a standard guitar. y gallwn efallai rai hynny eich beth mae hynny yn adith. Felly, y gallwn eich hefyd y mynd i'r hynodau? Felly, mae'n cael ei gwaith i'r pethau ar y top. Mae'r gair gynyddu i'r ffordd yn y pub. Mae'n cael ei gael yn gyfarwyddu ar y 10e Centuri. Mae'r gwaith i'r gwaith i'r wyf. Mae'r gwaith i'r gwaith erbyn. Mae'r gwaith i'r gwaith i'r pethau i ymchwil o'r Chirwch yn Santiago de Compostela i Spanish cwylod ar unig. One would turn the handle, and the other one would play it by pulling on stops. It was variously used by travelling beggars almost, up to royalty, nobility in the French court. It suddenly became a fashionable instrument, and so the Luthiers of Time built beautiful instruments for these kind of high-end clientele. So there were lots of variations in construction. Into more recent times popular culture, Spencer Tracy played one as a seafaring kind of guy in Captain's Courageous, but actually, a hurdy-gurdy was not used in the soundtrack at all, and you can see in this picture the strings are actually loose. Donovan, the pop star in the 60s, had this single hurdy-gurdy man, again, didn't feature a hurdy-gurdy anywhere in it. More recently, the internet has been fantastic. Instead of it being an obscure instrument, well, it's still obscure, I admit. In French rural communities, for example, the internet has changed everything. There's a thriving scene all driven through the internet. Here's Patty Gurdie, who's a kind of pop star, if you like. This guy's just amazing. He's Russian, posts videos occasionally. You've got kind of death gore metal bands. This guy's got an organistrum, which isn't really a hurdy-gurdy, but it's a precursor to it. It's so big. He wheels this on stage on a giant kind of trolley. For the younger age group, it's been used in soundtracks of things like the Witcher, Black Sails, Sea of Thieves, which, for some people, just brings them into it because the next question they ask was, what's one of these weird instruments? Then they Google it. Anyway, I knew a guy called Nigel Eaton. I'm very distantly related to him, and in the 90s, he played with Led Zeppelin. He played hurdy-gurdy, he's one of the world's best players, and years went by, and then I thought, well, I asked him, can you build one of these from a kit? Are there any kits? He said, yeah, there is. There's an engineer in Holland who's a mechanical engineer, and he's designed one that's laser-cut from Ply, so it's a repeatable design, because if you don't build them correctly, you can't tune them and they become unplayable. So I built a kit very much like the one seen there, and then realised the same thing that Pipers realised is that, one, I'm a beginner, and I sound terrible, and two, it's very loud, and I'm annoying everybody. So what I need as a hobbyist, electronics hobbyist, is some kind of electronic key box that's compact. I can plug headphones in and just practice to my heart's content, learn a few tunes, not trying to be expert or anything. This has been done for Pipers. Everybody I know who owns bagpipes, so I know a couple, they have an electronic chanter. That's the piece you actually play, so without the drones, you can replicate that electronically, and they all have them, and they all use them to practice. And I thought, well, I want something like that, a bit like this, that you can take on holiday, roll it up in a tower, put it in your case, take it on holiday, learn some tunes, I'm just a beginner. And the second thing is, because I'm a cheapskate, I need to make it really cheap. I don't want to spend much money. So every aspect of this design should be focused on maximum output for the minimum spend, if you like, because your main instrument will cost you many thousands of pounds. So your backup instrument just for practice, for most people anyway, would want it to be relatively low cost. So this is my first attempt. It's not very good. I'd had a 3D printer, not for very long. I didn't really know how to set it up very well, and you can see the whole keybox is 3D printed in four sections and glued together, and the keys here are painted. And that's what I ended up with. It's got a thing called a TeenZ microcontroller in it. That's a bit like an Arduino board on steroids. And it's MIDI enabled, if you like, directly from the factory. So it's the ideal choice, and it's got quite a fast processor too. A small OLED screen, the sort of thing you almost find in e-cigarettes, just like the next size up, very readily available, even in a pandemic. And it's connected to a mobile phone, and my mobile phone is running a piece of free MIDI software, which is like the synthesiser part. So all the audio files are saved on the phone in a thing called a sound font, which is open source, and then the software plays the sounds that the MIDI commands from the device are sending to it as you press the keys. So this is the first attempt. One string, just a melody. It kind of worked. So that encouraged me to make a version two. Now, I had this cunning plan. I thought, I know, I want this to look really expensive, but actually be quite cheap to make. So I thought, I know, I'll use aluminium extrusions, and I use the extrusions that you'll see in a Volkswagen campervan on the ends of the cabinetry. And there, well, you can see there on the left, they're designed for wooden boards to slot into. And then I had 3D printed structures, which fitted onto both ends. And the keys, if you look, they snapped in. And you can see here that's the little computer, that's the microcontroller. Unfortunately, there's a massive spaghetti of wiring, which is difficult to keep tidy, but that was sorted out later on. And I ended up with this. I was quite proud of that. It's got the screen, the screen's recessed, so you can't easily damage it. The keys snap in for fast assembly. It's got a little handle that pulls out that you can use to hold in your right hand while you're playing it with your left, because you play it with your left hand like this. So I was quite pleased with that. So I posted this in the Herdy Goody Facebook group, and people kept challenging me to do more. They were saying, oh, it's really good, but the keys look funny, because of course, when you play it, you can only see the backs of the keys, the stems, which run right through to the other side, and they look a bit weird. I thought, okay, sure they do. And they said, well, we want a crank system. We want you to replicate this crank system. That probably sounds easy, and it's probably going to actually be really difficult. So I carried on experimenting. Now what have I got there? Anyone who had a bicycle in the 70s might have had a dynamo on the back and rubbed on the wheel to generate power, which turned the light on on the front. So what I was doing there is I had a gear motor from a toy robot and attached a fishing wheel handle to it, and when you crank it, it generates a little bit of power, and I had it running a pager motor. And my initial plan was that the pager motor would vibrate against the deck, replicating the buzz. And then I thought, oh, no, I'm not going to do that. I'll do it in midi instead. So what am I doing here? I've got a torch bulb shorting out the terminals of the motor, because if you short out a motor while you're trying to physically turn it, it will resist you. And if you keep doing it, it will actually burn out the brushes and things inside of the motor. So I partially shorted it out using a torch bulb. And I thought, oh, that feels about right. And so I built these little add-on modules that fitted onto the end of my previous design. And you can see I've got a gaming button, which is like an override. So when you press it, in fact, there's one on here, it just simulates cranking. It will just play if you can't be bothered to actually turn the crank. And there's also an adjustment knob somewhere on here, which sets the speed at which that buzz sound comes in. So now I'm replicating the buzz sound, the rhythm section, the little vibrating thing I mentioned earlier. I'm simulating that now with its own midi channel. So it's getting more sophisticated. And I've also got the light bulb. And then I had the idea, well, it would be quite funky if that little light bulb came on with each of the buzz sounds. And it had a little sort of, it was like a little ghost in the machine. And I found these, what are they, pendants with a sort of ghostly image on. So I grafted them onto the front there and came up with this kind of design. So this has now got a crank, it's got the key box, it's now got several channels, it's got the drones, it's got the medidi strings, the buzz rhythm section, and it's even got the click sound that the keys make. So I was quite pleased with that. So this guy's having fun with it. And some serious fun with it. So hardly it doesn't sound like that. So that illustrates a point. With midi, you can actually make the instrument sound like anything you want to. It just depends on the audio files, the sound font, as it's called, that you're using. So you can actually make it sound like a guitar or piano if you really wanted to. Now there were some faults with that previous design. The main fault was the bulbs kept burning out, which was a bit of a problem. So I replaced the bulb with a very low resistance resistor, a wire-wound one. And that did the trick. And also the motor wasn't up to the beating it was taking by people aggressively cranking. So I upsized the motor to a larger one. Again, made for hobby robots. It contains its own little gearbox. And again, I lengthened the aluminium structure and enclosed the whole thing. And the other big thing I did was I took the plunge and had a PCB made. So the PCB is unusual then that it runs along the whole front of the key box. There's a switch under each of the keys. The microcontroller plugs into it so you can easily remove it. And the keys actually pass through the PCB, which is why it has all these strange square holes running through it. That hugely simplifies the build because all the spaghetti wires has now gone. The idea of putting the computer on the front isn't as crazy as you think. Some people are not into electronics at all. They're artists. So when I want to do a software upgrade, I can email it to some people or they can download it. But some people actually just mail me the whole microcontroller. You just unplug it, post it to me, I'll send it to you back with an upgrade of code on it. It seems a bit left field and strange, but for some people it works absolutely fine. So here's this version being played now. You see it's getting closer to the sound of the real thing. And it's nicely playing it, the guy who inspired me in the beginning. And here I've got it attached to an iPad and each string has its own channel with its own volume slider. So again, that app only is about $8, being the cheapskate that I am. So that's probably the best combination. So was the design now finished? I'm now to design iteration, I don't know, three or four, software version 50 or something. No, people said, ah yes, but when we put it on our lap and then we try and turn the crank, it sort of falls off your lap because obviously a real herdinger is this great big thing. So can't you make something the right shape of the whole thing? Some people are just never happy, are they? No matter what you do, keep asking for more. But I sort of took it as a challenge really. So this is the latest version. I've paired up with the guy who originally designed the laser cut kit. And he designed me a sound box which is the lower part and the key box on this one comes off. You see it's got the screen, it's got standard US MIDI ports if you want to use the old fashioned five pin MIDI outputs, you can use them. You can get wireless dongles that plug into those that will connect it to an iPad completely wirelessly, if you want. Or you can connect it via the USB lead to your iPad for example and it's powered from the iPad. And the beauty of that is then that there's no batteries to recharge or anything like that inside. So usually I play it wired to an iPad through a USB lead but you can set it up to run wirelessly. I've got a little video here just shows you the general layout of the latest one. So you've got the USB lead, here's all the switches and it's all made of laser cut ply. The switches are soldered to this PCB you can see there and then there's the microcontroller. That sits under the removable 3D printed front panel. The key box comes off with a multi-connector. So the people that want something small and portable to take on holiday can still use that on its own, it plays on its own without the crank. So for learning a melody that's fine, there's the gear motor removed the crank handles and here it is being played because it's still getting better all the time. Then actually I did a version I thought actually you know what I personally would like something that's really small I can take on holiday. That was the original design I had in mind that horrible red thing I built originally so this one is now the super compact version which is why I brought it here. The key layouts exactly the same as on a real herdi-gherdi but the whole thing is just smaller in depth that way and it's got finger loops here so instead of having that handle on the right hand side I just put my fingers through there, rest it on my lap play with my left hand and it works absolutely fine, it runs the same software as the larger version and it's much easier to build. It's a mixture of 3D prints and laser cuts acrylic now it's bright orange just because I could I could make it bright blue, yellow, black anything or make it out of wood and I just use this as my personal one to practice with there's just a couple of shots of it. Also just for a laugh I thought I'd do a heavy metal version you've got your folk musician types you've got people who think of instruments like this it's like Maurice dancing it's a bit weird and you have to have a beard and be old and I thought okay fine guys you've come into video games or things like black sails I'll do you a heavy metal one a goth one so I came up with this and I made a little promo video for that to show you at the end the other one I've made for somebody as a one off has its own sound board the sound boards are quite expensive because there are six channels of audio all of which have to be turned on or off WAV files on a memory card with low latency as the commands come in from the microcontroller you can't just use any old sound board so there's this particular one which does work quite well for simplicity the internal power supply for this is a big mobile phone battery pack auxiliary battery pack and that can be built in with a charge port and it works quite well so that particular one you can just plug headphones into and play but these boards are quite expensive unfortunately and just as I'm running out of time this is the metal version which I actually sold to an ex-military guy in the US who just wanted it badly and it does go up to 11 give people what they want these are the tuning setup you can set up the tuning every virtual string on it and turn the drones on that was just a bit of a laugh and finally last weekend I went to the part of the MIDI Innovation Awards someone persuaded me to apply because I'm right on the verge of setting this up as a small business now because it's a hobby that's gone totally out of control I actually won the category so you're a great audience thank you no, I was actually talked into entering by somebody who's just totally into this sort of thing and I was amazed I actually did win that category so I'm off to California to the NAMM show next year at some point where basically you meet all the manufacturers of synthesizers keyboards, synth drums and all these kinds of things so it's something I probably should go to but that's been a really good boost and it has probably just kicked me up the backside a little bit to actually make this into a formal small business I think that's it, thank you very much hope you like it, you couldn't have a go afterwards thank you, thank you very much we're actually five minutes ahead of time if anyone has any questions we've probably got time for a couple of questions I've got one quickly actually which is could you with the crank could that actually power could that actually power the instrument or is it just a... people have suggested that people assume that when I mentioned the dynamo that it's powered by the crank I'm not sure if it's I'm not saying it's impossible I mean you'd have to have a buffer in between like a big capacitor or a battery it might be possible the thing about having it it's got six channels so it's got two melody strings what, imaginary melody strings a drone and the trumpet string which is the name for the string with the buzz on it then there's the channel for the actual buzz sound and the channel for the sound of the keys have a characteristic click it's part of the sound of the instrument so I actually added a key click channel which you can adjust the volume of right down to zero if you don't like it in theory you could add as many strings as you like but then you spend more time in the tuning menus so it's a balance I've also got four presets for beginners because one thing I found as a beginner was I didn't even know how to tune it you know there's a French traditional way of tuning it then it's completely different in Spain and it's like well where do you begin so you're presented with four basic tunings which are the tunings most people would agree on but you can have about 121 different combinations if you go into the advanced mode so we're trying to make it simple for beginners but give it everything an expert would also want within reason so you could add more strings but then you'd probably end up with 802 tunings I don't know Anyone any other questions? No? Okay if you do anyway outside later and thank you


Hey guys shave every 1,000 here today we have one of these little wine coolers Okay, we're gonna talk a little bit about it how we got it and a little bit We're gonna touch a little bit on how how it works. So Join me and let's check this thing out together. We have this little wine cooler here Monkey's mother gave it to us. She said it didn't get very cold Kind of stayed in the 50s or whatever. I don't think there's really anything wrong with it She said it didn't it didn't cool down like it should but a lot of people don't understand an Actual wine cooler. This is not a refrigerator.  You don't want it in the 40s You know, so that's why they they used to keep their wine in sellers wine sellers and keep around 55 degrees down on a good wine seller Or you know when you got in the basement of an old home or whatever you can tell it's like a lot colder Unless you know you've furnished it and made it like the rest of the house. He didn't everything but normally it'll You know it summertime. It'll stand around 55 57 degrees ish Depending and also she doesn't like to run her air conditioner very much these things these these thermoelectric is what it is These thermoelectrics, they don't have a pump like a refrigerator. Okay So a little bit on how it works it's got like a heat pump in it and Right mounted to the back of the heat pump. Okay There's an aluminum bike device with fins. That's called a heat sink All this thing really does is pull the hot air out of the inside pulls it out Out the back. Okay. That's pretty much really in a sense. It's kind of what does it does a little bit more But you know now this is not gonna be real scientific like like leather reviews and stuff. I Don't have a thermometer that can check this but it does have a built-in one right there Okay. Now on the back of these also really all you got to fan running in this thing, right? So on the back there is a filter and I notice the filter is dirty and But first we're gonna plug this in Okay, and we're gonna see what the temperature is right now in it and Then I'll spin it around and I'll show you how to change that filter. So let's get this plugged in Well, actually, it's it's a washable filter. Okay, so you just take it out and you just kind of hose it off Just kind of like a black and air conditioner filter. You'll see what I'm talking about and you just wash it off with with water Or compressed air if you happen to have an air compressor, but I noticed it was pretty dirty. So let's see what we've got here All right, right now Get you down here so you can have a look at that whoa Okay, right now. I don't know if you're seeing that it is 72 degrees see that guys Let's make sure it's turned all the way down Okay, it only goes down to 54 now. There's nothing wrong with that because you they say perfect wine temperature the ideal wine temperatures 55 degrees so That's telling me why it doesn't go lower than 54 and I I think I heard her saying something about it doesn't go lower than that What's not supposed to it's a it's a wine cooler. Okay, so right now it's a 72 degrees And it the the fan is running So let's spin you around here Spin this around Right here now This exhaust out through this filter right here. That's a filter. I was talking about okay And that's what where the warm air from the inside comes out of okay now Look how that's that's really really dirty, right? so Let's take this This filter out See that's even dirty in there, and I heard the fans speed up I know you couldn't hear but see there's the inside and here is the outside now What I'm going to do is I'm going to take this right now, and I'm going to go And I'm not going to blow the water this way. I'm going to take the little nozzle the hose on the Out there at the kitchen sink, and I'm going to Blow it back that way and we'll get more out of it that way or you can you can blow it out Was compressed air But I want to use water And we're going to come back and we're going to put this in there Okay, and then we'll see what we can get the temperature to go down to hopefully it'll go down around between 54 and 56 hopefully now a lot of this since really doesn't have a pump a lot of it has to do with how cold or Hot your house is to if your house is 80 degrees inside because your air conditioner quit working or something for a couple days This thing not gonna work.  It doesn't refrigerate It just sucks the hot air out so you would be essentially just kind of circulating the warm air So if you got one of these and it doesn't doesn't want to go down below 55 or 56 you're okay There's nothing wrong with it. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, but we'll find out So I'm gonna hose this off and I'll be right back with you Okay, guys, we're back. I lured you down a little bit here I've got this all cleaned out See all I did was run some warm while hot water whatever with the hose down through there Out of the kitchen sink let this dry completely. I did wipe this off a little bit the best I could I didn't really want to fire up my air compressor just for that but as you can see that's a lot cleaner and Also, you can't see it, but inside there's the fins of the heat sink us Tony bow up inside there Sometimes they can get clogged Same with the refrigerator because it's think about it guys if this gets called see this is blowing air out here. Okay, and When you put this on here that gets clogged you know it's It can't blow out and what it's doing is bringing the warm air from inside your house Even if you have your air on at 70 degrees this thing can't get no colder than that Because it's only gonna be it can bring in the warm air, but it can't exhaust it out of here So it actually makes it worse if this is clogged. So let's spin this around I'll show you a couple other things to check for if yours not calling right So let's go ahead and turn this around here See what we're all right. We're down to 60 degrees over here 60 degrees So it's already dropped what 12 degrees, okay? And it has a light there. It's got a light inside. Whoops There's the light button right there The light inside and let's see. Oh Yeah, yeah, it's uh Yeah, it's cool. It's cool. Like I said, I don't have a thermometer or anything to check it also Check your seal when you clean these keep these seals clean the same way with your refrigerator especially these Because since it's not a refrigerator It's thermoelectric. You want to make sure this has a good tight seal all the way around that. Okay? You're gonna want it to seal good all the way around here. So let's close this up and See it is already went up seven degrees. I don't know if you can see that or not Just having it open that little bit So what we're going to do is I'm gonna give it. Oh We say let's give it Whoops Oh See it drop down to 65 already So let's give it another half an hour 45 minutes and we'll come back and check this out. Okay? Okay, guys We got this thing down to 54 and that's all the farther. It's supposed to go on this model I guess, you know some of the bigger ones are they make they do make them that will go down to like 45, but They they say, you know the ideal temperature is 55 degrees on wine. So there we go. We've got whoops 54 degrees and As you can see you can't set it any lower than that because they you know, so there you go and What I've got here It works on the kind of like the same basis as An air cooled engine.  I took this apart on one of my previous videos. My niece is a Troy built Weed eater. All right. Now as you can see on this head You know, this is the top of your engine All right, there's your spark plug hole now. This has got a plastic shroud around it now inside this one It had a little fan. Okay. Now if you don't have a fan your flywheel that spins on the engine it will have Fins fins on it shaped a certain way. So it blows air around and It blows it into that shroud and around these fins. These are cooling fins Okay, and that's how the engines keep cool without overheating and without having to put any antifreeze or whatnot in it That's how they work. This is essentially the same way. It's got the fan It's got the heat sink which has the fins on it. It's bringing air past there and Second the air out of here. So Anyway, just kind of a quick, you know, that's kind of how they how they work So it's it's not it's not like a pump. So that's why you can't hear this thing running. I can I can hear the fan But that's It's actually quieter than my PC which a lot of the desktop PCs Not only do they have a fan in there. They also have a heat sink. Okay. Now they have a heat sink Kind of like this Which keeps it cool inside there to keep all the electronics cool So that's kind of how that works same way with your desktop PC. You got a fan running. You got a little heat heat sink Most of them do even laptops. I know my HP all in one computer. It has a small heat sink in it by the fan So but it is down to 54 degrees and that's what this is supposed to go down to so there's nothing wrong with it We're fine. I would say one thing Well, you know, they can't drink wine anymore, but they used to like like have their wine and you know, you keep it in here And it keeps it keeps it cold, you know, like so if you buy a nice bottle of wine You get get a high dollar bottle of wine you get a good deal on it You don't want to put it in your fridge for say Thanksgiving special occasion or something like that It's it I am not sure what it does with it I'm not a connoisseur a wine connoisseur by no means, but I know a little bit about it What you want to do is keep it around 55 degrees. Get you one of these They got this pretty cheap. I think a couple years ago. They bought it for like 50 bucks 60 bucks or something like that But you know keep it in something like like this keeping around 55 degrees in it. It'll last a lot longer Also, don't put this inside a cabinet. It can't get enough air. It's not gonna work Right.   I might have said it blows it out, but it doesn't hit it Actually, you know sucks it in through the fan through that filter and then blows it out through the fence And if that fan is clogged it can't bring any air in so it's not want to be able to take any air out of this thing So that's how they work basically. It's pretty much in a nutshell It's nothing, you know, like I said, it's not a compressor like your refrigerator's got and You know stuff like that This you know, it does have a little Thermometer or thermostats out here that let's see you got it set at 57, you know one gets to 57 You know, it'll it'll shut the fan off and then if it jumps up 58, it'll kick fan back on So anyway, that's that's pretty much how it works. So You know and and you're not gonna keep this. Oh, yeah, it's nice in there You're not gonna put, you know, see it jumps up really fast 58 But you're not going to use it like a fridge and I'm gonna expect to put beer in here pop or Water and expect it to be nice and cool like when it comes out of the fridge because it's not a refrigerator. It's just a cooler so But so you put your wine in there and you know, you're not gonna be getting in there and out of there Every ten minutes. So it's you know, it's gonna stay since already back down to 56 So this is working fine. So anyway guys, there you go I just like said, I wanted to show you this to kind of explain to you how also the air cooled engines work like Like your weed here or your your lawnmower, you know, that's on the same basis it just runs air over them cooling fins and It exhaust the hot air and brings in cooler air So this is kind of on the same basis, you know But it's pretty much suckin the hotter. How you know, it's bringing air in fresh air And then run it through the fins and as it as it escapes you can feel it actually pulling The warm air out from inside here. So it doesn't actually refrigerate it. It just cools it down.  Thanks for watching Appreciate it.  This is Saturday. So you probably see it tomorrow, which would be Sunday So I want you guys to have a have a great day great evening whenever you're watching this and have a great week So that being said she bear 1,000. I'm gone for now The myth demand legend. Don't forget it. All right guys. Bye. Bye. Thanks for watching


The forthcoming 2023 elections, the truth about the character of the late chief earner Shonekoi and more, Amayalishore joins to discourse these and other issues. And in an article titled what is Nigeria's government for, the Financial Times questions the Nigerian system and its government. This is plus politics and I am Justin Akadone. As a presidential aspirant, Amayalishore has popped in and out of the news several times over the past few months. The latest that was had from him was his description as dead on arrival. The presidential ambitions of former governor of Lagos state and chief head of the all-progressive congress, Bolatenebu, vice president Yemi Oshibaju and former governor of a number state, Peter Ubi. In his New Year's message, Shoreh has called on Nigerians to resist any attempt to succumb to the antiques of the president, Mohammad Buhari-led government, that the party will liberate and rescue Nigerians from poverty and hardship created by the regime. He also described the late earner Shonekoi as a traitor and not a leader as many claimed he was. He now joins us to discuss all of this and much more. Good evening to you, Amayalishore. Many thanks for joining us in plus politics. So bringing me in. Alright, let's talk about the race to who governs the mission of government in come 2023. This actually is actually heated up and lots of people have indicated interest or there's a portion other names for it. But let's talk about how your description of some people who have shown interest. That's the former governor of Lagos, the chief den of the old progressive Congress, Bola Ahmed Jinnabu, also the vice president, Professor Yamio Shibaju and Peter Ubi. You have this crowd your ambitions as dead on arrival. How's this so? Well, with regards to former governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Jinnabu is very obvious that he was just testing waters. He's not widely accepted by Nigerians and this is as a result of his records as in addition to the fact that it's very frail, sick and one of the politicians that are tired and put Nigeria where it is today. So I'm speaking to these ambitions based on what we're hearing from the streets that Nigerians no longer want people who failed them. And the same thing applies to the vice president, Yamio Shibaju, who I described as a coward who was vice president to present Muhammad Buhari for almost eight years now. This is last year in office and under his regime, the violations of human rights, the economic times and securities almost, they've lost almost every battle in the security arena. And for some such a person to come and say he wants to be president, what is he going to tell us? Would he say this will be continuity or would he tell us that his hands are tied as his supporters and minions like to tell people, of course, this will not happen and that people have rejected their candidacy. And they, as you could tell, their candidacy fizzled out as soon as they came on board. And with regards to Peter Albi, his candidacy is based on what I said, which I stand by or stand up with, that he's one of the failed corrupt politicians that govern the states. They have nothing to show for their governance of such a, just as Sinu was a governor of Lagos State and Lagos State did not approve in any way, the same way Peter Albi governs Anabra State. He's a very divisive figure, by the way. He was one of the people who removed people they call beggars from Anabra State and returned them to wherever he thought he claimed would be a state, which is naturally against the constitution of, their own constitution of Nigeria. He was also accused of investment of funds at the points he was moving up funds out of Anabra State and the police intercepted about 250 million, they said it takes out of Anabra State every weekend, it was a proper office. So I don't see how someone who cannot point to any record of development while he was going up for it, which he has come and sentimentally tried appealing to people that he, if it becomes the president of Nigeria, he will be a better person. So I'm dealing with those who have come out, this is not to in any way say that I have any sympathy for candidates who are planning to run for, as they come out and continue to provide analysis, but what we're saying categorically is that it is a tone of credible Nigerians to be president or to preside over their face of a country called Nigeria. All right, let me just take you back to one of the things that you just said in your opening salvo. You said these candidates that these are the APC chieftain, Borla Tinibu, the vice-president, Professor Yemio Shibadru and the former governor of Anabra State, Peter, you said they have not been accepted by Nigerians. What do you think did you use to come to this conclusion? Well, I talk to a lot of people. I also am a junkie politically. I don't need to tell you that. So which means I listen to a lot of channels, especially among young people who want to see Nigeria move in a different direction from where it has been in the last 60 years. And a preponderance of opinion is that these failed positions are no longer acceptable and also that their platforms, the party platforms are operating on PDP and APC are not acceptable to the majority of Nigeria. These are political parties have failed Nigerians repeatedly, both at local, state and federal levels. Nigerians are saying it categorically that they don't want these political parties or the operatives or their leaders or members to have anything to do with their future, especially at the presidential level. All right, fine. You have mentioned the party platforms that they are running. That's the APC and the PDP. You also urged Nigerians not to give up saying that the AAC will rescue the country from visa greedy politicians. That's the way you actually captioned that. So let's talk about the acceptability of the AAC. How do you see Nigerians accepting the AAC come 2023? The African National Congress, which is a party that we formed in 2018, is a brand new party and a party that's now been around for about, I would say, between, I mean, for three years practically and has the most acceptable manifesto that we turn around the fortune of Nigeria. And when we were campaigning in 2018 and 2019 on our manifesto, some people thought we were joking, but it turns out that the bigger political parties, when I was a big legacy parties as they called it, were listening on our manifestos and stealing our ideas. It was from us that the area of minimum, which came about when they implemented it, it was done not in a way that suits the interests of workers. It was from us that the area of making June 3rd an opacity came out. It was a pronouncement we made in Abel Kuta. It was from us that the issue of classification or pretty multiplicity of electrical electricity sources was sold to Nigerians. It was from us that even the most talented marijuana exports agenda was brought to Nigeria. And then the three years that every country is adopting it now. And from what I heard, the National Assembly is debating it now as well. It was also from us that the idea of cutting costs that National Assembly came about, we proposed at that time that Nigeria doesn't need a bicameral executive system that will be good enough to have a unicameral system that's repetitive enough. And now a lot of people have also lashed on to that. So several other things that are available on our website, aacparty.org, and we traveled around this country to our four states and the federal capital territory. And we did town competitions and campaign everywhere. We didn't have private jets. We didn't have Godfathers. We also, first time in the history of Nigeria, did raise funds crowd through crowd funding, which is now something that some of them are embracing. So and for the first time, also in the history of Nigeria, when we were done with elections, we did publish our election accounts. The public, it was made public and it's still available online today. So that party, the AAC, is the party that can take Nigeria to that level that will make Nigeria the pride of all nations, both in the continent of Africa and the world. And we've also described how extensively we can resolve the problem of unemployment, turn around the Nigerian economy, fight corruption, you know, fund education appropriately, you know, put in place a world-class health care system and use technology as a background taking care of all the issues that we have described to you since I started talking about the party. So the question that most journalists ask is, where are your structures? But my answer is very simple. The legacy parties that you talk about all the time and you give your airtime to, they don't have any structure. We just have transactional partners, criminal transactional partners to boost your personal funds and the buy votes, private police, security agencies, professors and universities who hire by and make and the right results and these results when they are contested in courtrooms, the right judges and they love themselves so far as I was saying, that will, our party will bring an end to that.  That's the electoral act amendment, which is still, you know, having some back and forth as it is. Let me get your candid opinion concerning this new electoral act. What are your thoughts? What are loopholes, if there are any, how do you see what we really need right now? You know, I would tell you that there's never a time the electoral acts are lower as ever at the time in the outcome of an election. So I don't know why people waste much of their time discussing the electoral acts, what I signed to law or not. The people who want to steal elections, want to hijack the political space, don't care about your electoral laws. What people should worry about are those characters who have now populated INAG, that is the Independent National Electoral Commission, who are members of the APC, the All Progressive Congress. And that's something that nobody's been attention to, that a lot of commissioners, national commissioners were recently approved by the Senate or National Assembly, who ordinarily should not be allowed near pre-election. Some of them we found and placed their voters' cards or membership cards and their members of the ruling party. So those are the things we should worry about. With regards to the electoral laws, well, you know, I do not care too much about those laws as much as I care about the human resources that are going to conduct elections. And INAG, as it is presently composed, is made up of people who do not have the credibility to conduct free elections. All right, let's talk about the state of the nation. Let me just quote you, Verbertim. You said that in this year, 2022, the year will be a wash with a lot of neoliberal attacks, a democratic right to be violated more by the state and the civil state would continue to shrink. I needed to throw more light on that. You know, I'll give you an example. Nobody taught in that in 2021, Twitter will ban Nigeria and it's become this, you know, it's become one of the major indicators of how vibrant the civil space is. And I see more of that happening. In fact, in 2022, if the government can't cope with the vibrancy of civilians in the country, when I meet civilians, what I've seen people who are generally operating in the civil space, you will see them clamp down on more platforms. It won't be Twitter alone. Probably they'll go up to our Facebook, but they could even start shutting down mobile telephone companies or start targeting individuals, hacking into their mobile phones and ensuring that, you know, they don't have, we don't have that free will to communicate freely. You must have heard that this year, for the first time in the history of Nigeria, my national identity number was deactivated. And as a result, at the bank account, I needed to open, couldn't be open. I used my INEG card, it was also deactivated. Deactivated my passport. It wasn't until I threatened to sue them that they reactivated them. And I think probably they are doing it to a lot of people who are not aware already yet. So don't be surprised if you get to INEG to vote, I mean to vote an election, then they tell you your card is not working because it's intact in case the government doesn't like you. But beyond that, we've noticed a lot of clampdown on individuals, socially, social media users, the point of view, detention, people who have been arbitrarily arrested. And you also have arbitrary, a strategic killing of protesters in the country. I was shot at in 2021. And I ended up in the hospital because the police officer targeted me at a protest. My younger brother, my middle younger brother was also killed in 2021. And that I'm seeking with you today, nobody within the security agency told us what happened to one arrest, made an arrest. And, you know, so that's one of the things that government is desirous of ensuring that they are made to shut down the civil space and they will do whatever it takes to do that. I'm also referring to the ruling party because the APC supports this sort of revolution of rights without any remorse. All right, let's talk about political participation of vis-a-vis the young people. For the first time in the history of Nigeria in 2020, the youths, they were all in unison. They came out to protest against police brutality, bad government and all of that. But over time, we'll find out that when it comes to election, it's as though the youth, they do eruptivism more on social media on election day and during election year in, we don't really get to see much of the youth. How do you see that playing out in 2023? So, a study was carried out by a group of election monitors and they found out that people have progressively lost interest in the electoral process because it doesn't deliver the kind of results they expect. And whereas in 2015, there were about there were over 50 to 100% participation in elections. As of the last election cycle, it had depleted to 42%. So, young people no longer find elections as avenues for electing desirable candidates and they generally just stay away from elections and what ends as showed to us is that they weren't actually fighting against police brutality. They wanted to end what had become a burden on them, which is what we call governance in Nigeria. And the president of Nigeria, in one of his interview, read that correctly. He said, these guys wanted to come at Chasers out of power because people have lost have lost confidence in the electoral process. And what you will see in 2023 is that there will be a true track engagement for young people. One is a number of them who still believe that democracy is not a bad idea, but there will also be a very solid group of young people who are waiting to see these politicians for the ruling class make a mistake.  And I have said this even before answers that the revolution is coming because people have lost interest and confidence in the democratic process that Nigeria is practicing. Democracy is beautiful, but we are no longer practicing democracy in Nigeria.  All right. Just last week, the nation buried one of its elder statesmen. You seemingly have a different and perspective to his character. Speaking about the late chief Ernest Shoneko, you said that he had actually some questionable character. You had some unsavory words to describe him. Why is that? Yeah. Well, I was shocked when he died and people were saying he was a great statesman. He was interim president of Nigeria. And I think one of Nigeria's biggest problems is that we have very little memory to the point that when the speakable characters betray us, they stop us in the back. We forget too quickly and we think that when they die, their peer origins and standby to make them look good. I felt my voice as a person who was a student activist in the 90s when chief Ernest Shoneko hijacked or was used to destroy Nigeria's democracy. But in 1992 and finally, 1993, where he was illegally appointed by, at that time, General Ibrahim Bavanguda who fled Abuja because he lost out in power. When, in fact, there was a winner of the election, M.K. Wabiola Moshub Hashimowo Olawali Wabiola was waiting to, you know, as an amount of leadership. I mean, won the incredible three-year fair election. And Chief Shoneko was a spoiler who came in and accepted to be the interim president for 84 days before he was kicked out. Had he not played that role, I feel I would have been able to assume his legitimate position as president of Nigeria. And Nigeria would not probably be in a situation that it is today. So I was very shocked that they were celebrating him. But after that intervention, a lot of people started to realize that he truly was a traitor. And I think finally when he was buried a few days ago, the best way he's buried could be announced was that he was buried in a taxi million Naira casket or it was somewhere in the desert not because he was an interim president. I hope one day the position of interim president of any presidential position that was described to him will be scrapped. And whatever he was picked, you know, either as retirement entitlements who will be taken back and given to their bill and family who rightly deserve that. And this should serve as a notice to other people who have betrayed Nigeria. Not to think that when they die, we'll forget the role they played in destroying this country. I refer to the likes of Babangida, even Naira Shibu, which had gone back to jail, who was a two-time president who acted terrible in eroding confidence in our democratic space and process. All right, just before we go, the final question for you would be about the nation's unity, which has actually been threatened over time. It is a build-up to the 2023 election, and we have been seeing all sorts of unpost, all sorts of comments about which region, the south and the north, who is better, who is more qualified to rule the country. Would you really say that all of this issue or ethnicity has been a bane to the country, or is it that our politicians have not really been able to unite the country as they should be doing, what would they talk about zoning and all of them, all of these issues that we get to hear every day? You know, I'm not interested in zoning. I hope that Nigeria will continue to search for competent Nigerians who can run this country effectively, efficiently in a just and egalitarian manner so that these ethnic jingoists will not have a say in how we run our lives. We have done this whole rotational presidency for 20 years now. We've taken the presidents, Nigeria has taken the ruling classes, taken the presidency to as many places as possible. But what they have not taken the presidency to is the zone of competency, zone of justice, zone of man of integrity. So if we make the mistake again of zoning to another incompetent character simply because of the location of his village, well, you know, we will regret it. So I'm hoping that Nigerians, especially young Nigerians will not play into the hands of politicians who are asking for this ethnic propaganda about a man interested in zoning. I just hope that Nigeria can once and for all have a president as competent, regardless of where he comes from. And someone who cares about everybody, who cares about humanity, not someone who cares about his village or the size of his church or mosque. All right, we must say a very big thank you to you, Amar Yalishore, for joining us and bringing clarity to some of these great areas that we have. I would do appreciate your time. Thank you so much for bringing me and having a good day. Yeah, you too. All right, we'll take a short break now. And when we return, we'll discuss the Financial Times report and the government's response to it more in a moment. Do join us again.


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Some people might be able to empathize, but I don't think you'll truly ever understand. For those of you who don't know who Elle Mills is, she is an amazing, amazing creator, and she's super young as well. But not too long ago, I think it was maybe two or three months ago, she had a very, very public freakout, and she's been talking more about mental health. She was in an article for NPR, they did a little interview too, and recently she talked to Bobby Burns about mental health. So in this video, I'm going to be explaining how Elle Mills, as well as many other YouTubers, suffer from being terminally unique. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution.  So what I try to do, I try to take things that are going on in the YouTube community and teach you how you can improve your mental health. So if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. But yeah, this is a great example of so many things of what Elle Mills is going through, of what Bobby Burns went through, and so many other YouTubers. So Bobby Burns just released a video that he made with Elle Mills, where they're talking about YouTuber burnout and YouTuber mental health, things like that. In the intro of Bobby's video, he talks about Ethan and Ela from H3H3 Productions. I've done some videos on them if you want to check them out. Now, what we're going to do, we're going to be talking about this video, Bobby and Elle Made, and we're going to be talking about three different things here. The big one that I want to focus on is what it means to be terminally unique.  All right. So the first thing I want to touch on is Elle Mills Freakout video. And Bobby Burns played a clip of it. All right. And here's what that looked like. But because her channel blew up so big, and she was doing so much, the anxiety and the depression really got to her. Elle Mills, during this freakout, she's asking herself, why? Why am I so unhappy? Why am I not happy? This is everything I ever wanted. Why am I not happy? And this is what I'm trying to tell people, right? You were sold a lie. Elle Mills was sold a lie. Bobby Burns was sold a lie. You know what that lie is? It's a lie that so many of us are sold that if you reach this, you will then be happy. There is no promises in that. So for most YouTubers, it's like if you meet a certain amount of subscribers, you will be happy. For a lot of us, if you get this certain career or this certain job or this certain boyfriend or girlfriend or husband or wife or children, or if you make this much money, then you will be happy. This is the lie that we are all sold. Happiness must come from within. I talk about this over and over and over and over on my channel. And Elle is fairly young. Bobby is younger than me. But this is why I have this channel. I try to teach all of you that. We need to decutter our brain and get away from that idea that once we get this thing, then we'll be happy. I've talked about it before. People think that success brings happiness, but it's the exact opposite. Happiness will then bring your success. All right? Now, the second thing we're going to be talking about is expectations and irrational fears. So something that they talked about in this video was the expectations they put on themselves and their fear of taking a break from YouTube. Do you feel like people's expectations are a cause of a lot of that kind of thing or the way you perceive those expectations? It's less them. It's more me coming up with what they're thinking almost. I'm like, oh, my audience would not like this video. But I don't know that. I'm just, I set these expectations in my head. I've set a bar. I now think that every video has to exceed that bar. I know when I take long breaks, I all I'm thinking about the anxiety of like, oh my god, I haven't posted in a month. I need to post now or else this is all over. The channel is done. No one's ever going to watch my videos again. Exactly. This is a very irrational fear about taking a break from YouTube. Very, very, very irrational. Like, okay, to prove my point, let me ask you, okay, and if you want to feel free to leave a comment down below, what causes you to unsubscribe from a channel? Right? Is it because somebody took a break or is it because they make bad content? Which one is it? Have you ever like, I recently went through like a subscription purge and I unsubscribe from a lot of channels that I just don't watch anymore. You know what I mean? Or ones that I subscribed to and thought I was going to watch and then I didn't really like the content. So I went through and cleaned it out. But very rarely is it somebody who has very good content that is taking a break. You know what I mean? So in our lives, it's very important to look at rational and irrational fears. This is a huge part about managing anxiety, by the way is to separate these things. A lot of YouTubers who have taken breaks, they don't lose any of the views. They don't lose many subscribers. You know what I mean? So it's important that these YouTubers who are getting big and need to take breaks like normal people do, they need to overcome that irrational fear. But the other thing that they talked about was their expectations, right? And they were having this kind of conversation this back and forth of, you know, is it the expectations that the audience is putting on us or is it the expectations we're putting on ourselves? This is something that you need to ask yourself as well. When you are living in fear, right? Is this good enough? Is that good enough? Da, da, da. Whose expectations are you trying to live up to? Yourself or others? You know what I mean? Like for me, you know, back when my mental health was really, really poor, like I always thought that I had to be the best and da, da, da. I had to impress people and the people in my life who love me, they were going to support me no matter what. You know what I mean? So a lot of those expectations I was putting on myself. So we need to start looking at realistic and unrealistic expectations. You see what I'm saying? And this is especially true for any type of creator out there. Like I talked to so many creators just now that I'm more into the YouTube community and stuff. And there are so many people who just overthink and I am just the king of overthinking. I get it. I make stuff and I put it out. I make stuff and I put it out because if I overthink of it and I'm just like, oh, is this too much? Is this not good enough? Could I have done better? And if I keep thinking about that, I will never just put any content onto the channel. You know what I mean? This is why we have to start building confidence. We need to overcome that imposter syndrome. All right? So the last thing, the third thing that we're going to be talking about is being terminally unique. All right? So I was watching this over on my Twitch stream with some of my followers on there. So make sure you go follow me on Twitch. But this part made me just go on this huge rant. YouTube is like a hotbed for creating mental health problems, I think. I agree. I think it's created a whole new set of problems that people have never even had before. I know. I agree with that. I honestly, I think maybe it would be on a lower scale, but if I hadn't done YouTube, I don't think I would have a lot of these mental health problems. I really truly believe that. And it's sad. A lot of people who are outside, like watching in would be like, then stop it.  It's my passion. I know nothing else. I would not want anything else is all I've worked for. The thing that makes you the most happy is also making you the most unhappy. All right. Like, yes, like, okay, so what's it mean to be terminally unique? Okay, let's break that down first. Terminally unique is something that people told me about because my mental health was extremely poor. Those of you who don't know me, I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. And I always thought you can't help me. There's no saving me. You don't know me, right? I'm different. Okay, this might have worked for you, but I'm different. So I was so different than everybody else.  We have brains that look for the differences rather than the similarities. So when I saw L and Bobby talking about this, I'm like, Oh my God, these kids are terminally unique. Like the fact that they think that they're like, YouTube has bred this whole new, you know, type of problems. No, it hasn't. It hasn't.  It doesn't matter. These are problems that people go through. Okay, it doesn't matter if you're on your YouTube or you're just a workaholic. You know what I mean? Yeah, sure.  But YouTube is not the first platform where people have created. People have been painting for thousands and thousands of years. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, they had to present something. These are not problem specific to YouTubers. And that's one of the reasons why a lot of them have poor mental health, because they have this brain that says, nobody understands, nobody gets it. I'm the only one who's going through this. No, and this is why people need to get in more support groups and things like that. Even if your support group is just a group text or a discord channel or a Facebook group, whatever it is, it helps to let you know that you're not alone. Now, what I did like is that you saw Bobby and L connecting on that. They realize like, oh my God, you get it. You understand how I feel and everything like that. You guys, let me tell you, that is literally the best thing that you can do for your mental health. That's why I try to encourage you all to leave comments because just reading through the comments, when you're seeing that you're not the only one going through something, it is just a breath of fresh air. But like I said, they need to get out of this terminally unique mindset that they're the only ones who are going through this. And this is what creates a lot of arguments in our society is people think they're so much different.  It's all relative, right? They are like, oh, you would understand if you worked the job that I work, oh, you know, and all that stuff. Like it is important to say, like no matter what job people have, there's going to be their own stresses. It's all going to be, you know, their own specific things. But you know, like we all go through the same emotions, the same feelings, sometimes the same misery, sometimes the same fears. Like this is why I try to get down to the root of the problem. You know what I mean? So for example, when they're worried about what kind of content that they're putting out, they have this fear. Okay, it's a fear of not being liked, right? Or fear of being negatively judged or any type of fear. These are fears that people have at any job. You see what I'm saying? So when we get down to that baseline to the root of things, we start to see that we have a lot more in common than we thought. I've mentioned this on my channel before, but this is one of the reasons why I absolutely hate social hierarchies. You know what I mean? People believe that their status means that they're so much different. But something I learned a long time ago is that we're all going through our own stresses and struggles and we can find common ground with anybody. I learned this years ago and it helps me relate to everybody. Like I developed this ability thanks to people training me how to do this. I've developed this ability where I can sit down with just about anybody and I can relate. I can relate to what they're going through. Okay, I'm a father, but I can relate to people who are mothers, right? You know what I mean? Like even though I can look at and say, well, I'm a man and you're a woman, so we don't have anything in common. No, no, no, no, no. I have an ability now to see the similarities. But anyways, that's all I got. I am glad that Bobby Burns is talking more about mental health and things like that. Let me know your comments down below. What are your thoughts on YouTuber burnout and all that kind of stuff? Okay, but that's all I got for you today. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up.  Make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You are all amazing. And if you would like to check out some sweet rewired soul merch, click or tap right there. Alright, thanks so much for watching. Quit being terminally unique, and I'll see you next time.