Well, welcome to condo insider. It's Thursday at three o'clock and we're going to talk about association issues. And as you all know, our legislators, legislators in session and continues to I think it's May 4 when it adjourns, but we're at the midway point. We're going to talk about some meaningful legislation is still circling the halls over there. So I invited a very good friend, an attorney, LaRae McGuire from the Porter McGuire Kiyakona chow firm. Thank you, Richard. I'm happy to be here. Tell us a little bit about your background and all you've been away and about your law background and what she specialized in and I moved to Hawaii in 1976. Wow. When I was a baby. And I'm kidding, but I moved here in 76 and I started with my current firm in 1999. Where did you come from when you came here? Originally, I was from Oklahoma and Texas. Oh. And I moved here for surf. Now that you said that, I can hear a little bit of the accent. There's a bit. A little bit of the accent. You know, I want to our viewing audience to know is that the legislature has a specific process is defined in the statute. So there's cut offs for bills to be introduced. There's cut off for them to be into the final committee. And there's cut off that to be out of all the committees. And first decking means that in both the house and the Senate, they have to be out of all the committees. So those bills introduced in the house have to be out of all the committees it was assigned to. And sometimes it's one committee and sometimes it's three committees. I don't think I've ever seen four, but I guess it's possible. And then the same thing happens in the Senate. They have them, even though you may have, we call companion bills, which says the same thing. They're really not connected to house in the Senate. They kind of do their own thing with their own people and their own votes. They're not communicating behind the scenes and oh, let's use your bill or my bill, whatever at this point in time anyway. So first decking is all the bills have to be out of their final committee. And that means that they're not out of the final committee. They're they're dead for this year, meaning that we this is a biannual legislature. So it could come back next year unlikely, but it could come back next year. And so that's what first decking means is that the 40 bills approximately they were introduced. When you take away all the duplicity in this whole thing, we're down to maybe seven or eight left that are still alive in one form or another. But the ones that have been really hot on the horizon have dealt with what we call foreclosures. And in some cases zombie foreclosures, we're going to get into in a minute. Correct. So there were four bills that were introduced that one was House Bill 76 and House Bill 1557 that it was Senate Bill 551 and Senate Bill 722. And the differences were the zombie foreclosure bill had all these issues of fines to homeowners if you didn't rent out your foreclosed property and it's confusing as heck to me we're going to go into that one minute. But Senate Bill 551 had to do with some appellate court intermediate court of appeals rulings, kind of undoing power of sale non judicial foreclosures. If you're an old association didn't have the language in your original governing documents. So Senate Bill 722 and House Bill 76 died, they're deferred. Sad in a way because House Bill 76 is the same as Senate Bill 551. I don't know if that's foretelling or not but these are really critical issues to these two associations. So I want to talk to you let's start with House Bill 1557 at the industry is appropriately named the zombie bill. Correct the zombie foreclosure bill. That's right. Describe it. I mean, what's the intent of this bill what's it's trying to do. Well, this this bill arose out of a problematic situation wherein homeowners often once they obtain a notice of foreclosure either from the association or from their lender, they will move out of their home. And that's because they think if they move out, they won't be liable to either pay the assessments anymore or to pay their mortgage, which is a wrong assumption. But nonetheless, that is the assumption they make they vacate their unit. And, you know, as as was stated in House Bill 1557, Hawaii has one of the longest periods for judicial foreclosures from beginning to end is an incredibly lengthy process. And as a result, in the very beginning of the process, homeowners are moving out of their homes, thinking that they won't be responsible for the payments. And the foreclosure process itself may not be completed for two to three years in many situations. And so during this period of two to three years, this home will be vacant. And oftentimes there are squatters that go into the home, or oftentimes the home will just fall into disrepair. The yard gets overgrown and you get rodents in there and it just brings down the value of the surrounding homes. So it's become a problem. And that problem came to a head on the big island this past summer. Because of the lava flow. And it severely affected the Pahoa area, the Ka'au area, Lailani Estates, for example. They had all these fishers running through Lailani Estates and all the people in that in Lailani Estates had to evacuate their homes. And as of July, early July this year, over 700 homes had been destroyed. And as a consequence of that, Pahoa and Ka'au had a major problem in terms of housing. They were trying to house all these people that had lost their homes. And representative Joy San Buenaventura, she's the one that sponsored this bill. And it came to her attention because she said when she was trying to assist her constituents in finding homes, she was coming in contact with brokers, real estate agents, who could not rent to her or to her constituents who were displaced, these vacant homes because they were in foreclosure. And so it became very frustrating. And as a result of that, she sponsored this bill to try to prohibit in the future or dissuade, rather, homeowners from vacating their homes by finding them $1,000 a day if they were to vacate their home or not rent that home within 30 days of receiving the notice of foreclosure. The problem is that liability for that fine would be passed on to the foreclosing entity if the foreclosure was later postponed or canceled and the liability was further passed on to the purchaser if the sale didn't close within 30 days of the foreclosure sale. So if it was a non-judicial foreclosure, it would be, or not 30 days, I'm sorry, within a set period of time within the, let's say the hearing on the motion to confirm sale. So what else the house that the people moved out of isn't rentable because it's in bad condition? Well, I mean, that's the whole problem. And one of the things that we have suggested, CAI, is that the legislature require the association or the lender to put a notice in their original notice of foreclosure to the homeowner letting them know, educating them about the process so that they will realize that by moving out of the home, they will remain liable. And thus, you know, right now what's happening is homeowners are moving out and then they're renting other homes, notwithstanding the fact that they're still responsible for that mortgage payment or those assessments. And so now they're paying rent and they're also on the hook, if you will, for the assessments and their mortgage payment. You know, had they known, had they been informed of the fact that they remain liable, arguably they wouldn't have vacated their home to begin with and they wouldn't be taking up space in these rental properties that could be used for other people who are displaced due to lava flow or something of the sort. Has there been any discussion, I'm going to assume that the people moving out of these homes are probably delinquent in their mortgage. It's not that they're already paying their mortgage and everything's currently just decided to move out because it's a bad area or is there some of that too? Well, you know, actually I've seen it both ways because we represent condominium associations and homeowner associations and we will oftentimes have a situation where the owners will stop paying their assessments but they'll continue to pay their mortgage. Likewise, I've seen the situation where they will stop paying their mortgage and continue paying their assessments. So you see it both ways and sometimes it's both. So if you have an owner who moves out because let's say they're struggling and we wish the best for everybody who's struggling in life, why do we think they can then pay $1,000 fine on top of the fact they can't pay their mortgage and the rest of it? Well, in my opinion, they can't and they won't. They'll file bankruptcy or what will happen is that will ultimately get passed on because here's one of my concerns and speaking on behalf of CAI. The foreclosing entity, you know, let's talk about associations. They're not in the business of buying, selling homes. They just want to be able to pay the assessments, right? They have to pay their bills. And so what happens is people will stop paying and that doesn't resolve the situation. And so, you know, okay, this is so embarrassing to the homeowner but I have lost my train of thought. It's okay. Well, it's not okay but I apologize to everybody in the audience. I did. I've lost my train of thought. Well, I guess the questions we were talking about was I had brought up that it seems that they're moving out. They can't pay the bills. And so is there any real teeth in the fact that you're finding them $1,000 a day and then what are the lenders going to say? That was my thought. Okay, here we go. Sorry. Here we go. So basically what happens is if the homeowner moves out and you want to negotiate with that person to save the home so they don't have to move out. And so in doing that, maybe you want to postpone that sale. Well, if you, the foreclosing entity, are now going to be liable for the fines that that homeowner has been hit with over the last 30 days, $60 to $1,000 a day is extreme. It's excessive. And we won't even talk about whether or not that's constitutional. But the fact is no foreclosing entity is going to want to take on that liability. Therefore, in order to negotiate a compromise with the homeowner, they're not going to be willing to postpone the sale, much less cancel the sale because they don't want to have to pay those fines in order to do that. Likewise, you know, with the purchaser, I think the purchaser, if they want to buy it, they're going to buy it. And if they know they're going to get stuck with having to pay those fines, they will close on time. You think it is constitutional? It seems to me there's a lot of questions about this. No, I honestly, I think it's probably an excessive fine and not constitutional. I think that's a separate issue altogether. But I think if this does become law, that will become a challenge. Well, we're going to take a break in one minute. So I asked one more question before the break. Okay. You think this is going to work? If it was passed in law, will it work? Will it solve the problem? No, I don't think it will solve the problem. I really think the problem is housing. I think there's a housing shortage in many areas. And I think in terms of solving the vacancy problem, you have to educate the homeowners to let them know that because otherwise they're going to vacate whether they've got to pay a fine or not. If they don't know that they will remain responsible for those assessments or for that mortgage payment, they're going to move out because they think they won't be responsible for it. So in my humble opinion, the way to resolve it is to educate the homeowner with regard to their rights and their liabilities to dissuade them from vacating the unit. Okay. Well, we're going to take a one-minute break. We've talked about zombie or closure bill and the $1,000 fine and all the humdrum about this which still confuses many of the benefit of this law. And after this break, we're going to then talk about the Intermediate Court of Appeals and regular foreclosures and the humbug were in there. See you in a minute. Aloha and welcome to At the Crossroads. I'm your host, Keisha King. You can catch me every Wednesday. Alive at 5. I'll see you there. Aloha. This is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Welcome back to Kondo Insider. We're talking about two bills before the legislature affecting foreclosure, what affects condominiums and their budgets. And we just finished talking about the zombie foreclosure bill and maybe we should have worn a zombie costume or something when we talked about that. But the last one, which is we're going to talk about briefly, is Senate Bill 551. And essentially, I may not be too bright, but for years, decades maybe, condo associations have had to write by law, current law to do a non-judicial foreclosure called a power of sale. Correct. And the benefit was the association when a person was not paying their bills, they could mitigate their budget deficit because they could get possession foreclose around the first mortgage and tax liens and things like that. Get possession and rent it out because as you said earlier, it takes two or three years to do a regular foreclosure and you can do a non-judicial probably in six months or so. Maybe a little longer than that. Six, nine months. So they have that period where they can recover income stream out of it. So associations have done this forever and then someone took it to the immediate court of appeals. So give us a little bit of background where this stands right now. Right now under a recent ICA decision the court came down with the decision that associations may no longer do non-judicial foreclosures unless their governing documents contain a power of sale provision or unless they have some form of an agreement with the homeowner that allows them to do that. I'm not aware of any such agreement but that was a part of the decision. And newer condos pretty much have power of sale language if what I've seen. The newer developed condos. That's because the power of sale has become more popular since the recent recession in 2008 to date. So anyway we know factually that many associations over the last 10 years I don't know what the statute limitations are. On a contract six years. So in the last six years many associations have foreclosed to non-judicial power of sale language and now the immediate court of appeals says oops that's a mistake you shouldn't have been allowed to do it. So does that mean there's going to be claims against associations and boards and because of the immediate court of appeals saying you can't do that? Yes, that does. There will probably be hundreds against all the associations who have been doing this in the past who did not have power of sale provisions in their governing documents. And I would say the majority certainly those that were developed back in the 70s, 80s I doubt that hardly any of those have power of sale provisions in their governing document. But the deceptive point was if you look at 514 A 514 B 146 subsection A it contains a provision which references the non-judicial foreclosure remedies quote unquote remedies in HRS chapter 667. Well a remedy is basically a method that you can go to do a non-judicial foreclosure. That language is in the statute. And based on that language and the fact that in 2012 the legislature created this section 6 of chapter 667 that allowed associations and homeowner associations to do non-judicial foreclosures. A separate provision specifically to allow them to do non-judicial foreclosures. Based on that, based on the history because this has been going on at least since 1999 based on that I would submit that almost all associations have done non-judicial foreclosures certainly the larger ones have because if you look back at the recession that we went through in 2008, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 but for the non-judicial foreclosure process I would submit that numerous associations would have gone bankrupt because so many of their owners were not paying and associations they don't have another source of income. If you don't pay your assessments they can't pay their bills. So do you think there's lawyers out there now researching all the foreclosures in the past and then contacting these owners who lost, these non-paying owners who lost their property for non-payment of the fees that they're going to now be finding lawsuits and class action lawsuits? Do you think that's going to happen? That's already happened. Yes, it's already happened. I mean they were denied class certification and so there are a few, a handful of lawyers that are doing that kind of thing. It's my understanding one lawyer in particular is going to the Bureau of Conveyances and looking up what they can find in the Bureau and in Landcourt to see what's been recorded in terms of non-judicial foreclosures. And has any of these cases where there's been a foreclosure or gone to a trial where there's been damages assessed? Have any of them gone through? Not yet. Not yet. Yeah, but there are some that are pending right now, yes. And without being specific like dollars or anything like that, what do they allege in the types of damages they have? They lost their home, they lost their equity, but what is, what are their arguments to do? It's a gamut. I mean from, you know, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress I mean the whole gamut in one particular case they allege damages of $2 million. That's just one association and one owner. And so what's going to happen is the non-paying owner who was foreclosed on is going to get a lawyer on a contingency probably and he's going to go and file a suit and if they get a judgment all the paying owners are going to have to pay the judgment to the non-paying fair assumption? Well, I mean realistically what's going to happen is the association is going to tender it to their insurance carrier and after several of those their insurance carrier is going to drop them and they may not be able to obtain insurance after that. You know, but initially they're going to be represented by their carrier assuming the carrier says that they're covered and they don't reject coverage. I was talking to a prominent insurance agent here in town about this issue and she says they're now seeing in the morgue or the Director of Officer of Liability Renewal Coverage. There are now questions about doing non-judicial foreclosures and they have now associations being turned down for Director of Officer Coverage because of their foreclosure practices in the past and what they've done and that on new applications they're seeing applications rejected because of the foreclosure practice which means they probably will be able to get insurance but they're going to have to go out of the standard market into the high risk market and their premiums may go up 10 times. Oh, I'm sure. Really, I'm sure. So what is the bill 551 attempt to do? What it attempts to do is clarify the history of non-judicial foreclosures in the state to show that associations have had the ability as a matter of law to do non-judicial foreclosures for decades and, you know, basically notwithstanding the fact that they don't have a power of sale or non-judicial foreclosure provisions within their governing document. Now, I know this has been the ICA Intermediate Court of Appeals decision. Has this ever been filed to the State Supreme Court? In the Recents to Call case the association did file an application for writ of cert for the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court turned it down. I will tell you, though, that that case dealt with 514A, which has now been repealed. So I would imagine there will be other cases going up under 514B and probably also under 421J. So it's hasn't been looking good, but there's still potential through the Supreme Court. And so do they feel that 551 being passed would be like kind of like another brick on our side of the scale that it shows the intent of the legislature from the beginning that may influence the appellate in the Supreme Court because the legislature is kind of confirming this was our intent from the beginning. Is that what kind of the theory is? Yes, that is the theory. My concern is, though, that the ICA of the Supreme Court is not retroactive. In other words, let's say that Senate Bill 551 passes, becomes law, the governor signs it into law, and then it goes up to the court, to the ICA or the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court could say, well, that is in effect a new law. And so it's not retroactive. So 551, I know this legislature has the ability to make laws retroactive. They do. So 551 doesn't do that. They have to state that in the bill specifically in order for it to be retroactive. Or they also have to state that you have to show the legislature's intent all along was for it to be retroactive. But there again, that's a matter of interpretation. So if that was the intent, it has to be stated clearly and succinctly in the bill. Does Senate Bill 551 do that or not do that? So what it does, I don't know if it does it enough for the attorney general to submit a testimony. They weren't against it, but they understood the issue and provided a clarifying language and I think they asked in their testimony what the intent was of the hearing. Was it to be retroactive or not or whatever and that was going to be a specific issue with regard to that. So should we tell all the boards out there to write into their legislator and support 551? Otherwise they could be facing damages down the road either. Yes. Write your legislator. Find who's your representative write to them, email them submit testimony. Go on to the legislative website and submit testimony. It is so easy and it provides you with instructions how to do it. And I guess my message is pay your maintenance fees so you don't get foreclosed on so we don't have the problem in the first place. Yes. The association does not want your home. They want you to be happily ever after and if you get behind go talk to the board about a payment plan. Don't just ignore it. So you go down to this endless list of legal issues and costs and expenses. I want to thank you for being on the show today. It's always enlightening and I appreciate everything you do in the industry. I know you're on the CAI lack board with me and it's a tough job to fight all this stuff, you know, because you get testimony out there of people who just don't understand what the bill is trying to do and they go off on some emotional thing which confuses the legislators. Thank you for watching Kindle Insider. We will see you again next week, 3 o'clock. We hope you enjoy our show and aloha.


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We enjoy a truly close and mutually beneficial relationship which is an inalienable part of the Russian-Indian strategic partnership. Our cooperation gals beyond supplies of Russian weapons. Our countries produce and develop jointly modern military products. We maintain regular contacts between ministries of defense and general staff of our countries. We improve our combat readiness in August. Indian units participated for the first time in anti-terror exercises called Peace Mission 2018 that took place in Russia. India's servicemen are active participants of army international games in tank biathlon and in competitions of alpine special forces. We have of course paid a lot of our attention during our talks to humanitarian component of our relationship. Russia and India have always demonstrated interest in each other's culture and spiritual legacy. This is confirmed by the huge success of the festival of India in Russia which will last until much 2019 in 22 cities of Russia. India will host festival of Russian culture. I'm convinced all these events will bring the peoples of our countries even closer. There are almost 10,000 Indian students in Russia and about 100 scholarships are provided to the citizens of India annually. India is a popular direction for Russian tourists in 2017. About 220,000 Russians visited India. We received 94,000 Indians in Russia. When discussing international agenda we have confirmed that Russia and India adhere to similar or concurring positions on the key global issues. Bear in this in mind, we have agreed to step up our coordination cooperation at multilateral platforms such as the UN, BRICS, SCO and G20. We will also cooperate closely to strengthen security and cooperation in Asia. We will combat such challenges and threats as international terrorism, drug trafficking and trans-border crime. We have also touched upon restoration of economy and stable political development of Afghanistan. We have exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East. I have informed Mr Prime Minister about the situation in Syria. We have also discussed the situation that came as a result of unilateral actions of the US to withdraw from the joint comprehensive plan of action on Iran's nuclear deal. In conclusion, I would like to thank Mr Prime Minister and all of our Indian friends and colleagues for these very meaningful and constructive negotiations. I'm convinced that their results will help further contribute, will have further step up strategic partnership between Russia and India and strengthen friendship between our countries and nations. As I have already said, Prime Minister and I will have a meeting with the representative of business circles as well as with talented Indian children and their peers from the Russian Educational Centre named Sirius, who came upon Mr Modi's invitation to India. I will also meet with Mr President of the Republic of India. Mr Prime Minister has put forward a number of humanitarian initiatives, such as to renew the publishing of Russian and Indian books and also cooperating in some other areas in humanitarian field. I believe it is very important we will support these initiatives because we believe that cooperation in this field and people-to-people contact will definitely help consolidate the friendship between the peoples of India and the Russian Federation. Thank you. Thank you, Excellency. This concludes the press event. Thank you all for joining.


TfNN, headline news update. Good afternoon everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TfNN headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. 2 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, two hours left to go on the trading day, and we got markets hanging around positive territory. S&P is up 46 points, trading at $27.95. We got the Dow up $464 points, trading at $25,280, and the NASDAQ up a solid about 2.3 percent, up 170 points, trading at $7503. Go contract up $2 at $13.30. We got oil up 17 pennies, $53.41. We got API inventory, two and a half hours from right now. Tom will be on the air for those at $4.30 for oil. We got the notes and bonds, lower price today, higher yield as we see a reversal, 10-year negative 12 ticks, $126.16, we get the 30-year off a point and 3 ticks, $150.405, and to the downside, Bitcoin, now down almost $1,000 to $7,612 early yesterday. We're at $8,800, so a little bit of a pullback in the crypto world. Start things off. Let's jump over to the futures markets, and we'll start it off with, we'll get there, the Dow. So there's your acceleration most of the day, and we're not stopping. At session highs, excuse me, $25,278 in the Dow, kind of been hanging at this level for about the last hour when I came on the air for that one o'clock update. Here's your Nasdaq 100, quite an acceleration, $71.53. I did it last hour, pretty remarkable though for the destruction you saw in the technology stocks yesterday in the Nasdaq 100. We go from $71.26 all the way down to $69.45, and we're now more than 200 points back above $71.54 in the Nasdaq 100. S&P is trading at $27.95. Here's your crude oil chart, $53.50 as we speak had made it down as low as $52.45 early, early this morning. Goal contract at $13.30, made it up to $13.34 at one point, and Euro US dollar, $1,260. In terms of what you have happening across the market, the big news out there is you have 450 points as the Fed signals it will help the economy if needed, and you have some trade tensions easing as well. Also those kind of combining for a big day, you had Powell saying that the Fed will act as appropriate to sustain expansion. As we wrap this up, Fed fund futures chances of a cut September up at almost 90% cuts on the way that's what the market is saying. Stay tuned folks, Dave White coming up with the power trading hour right now, Tom O'Brien live from 3-Til-5. Stay tuned, have a great Tuesday.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So we're gonna be talking about Chuckie season 3 in this video here today So we know that Chuckie season 3 is going to start the second half of its season next month in April And today we got a first look at episode 5 So official stills have been shared online at the media village and it looks like we have confirmation on a few key details Related to the upcoming episode this series as I mentioned again set is is set to return Around April 10th, I believe but it's a hundred percent back in April And we know this season would at least include these few these few events It'll feature a seance as Don Mancini has teased in the past Tiffany facing lethal injection likely escaping prison Jake and Devon visiting the witch doctor John Waters is back in this franchise as the newly introduced good guy creator Wendell Wilkins and much more granted I think Wendell Wilkins his presence is gonna be mine. That's easily the most Important thing I'm looking forward to right now because of the fact that there's so much surrounding that character that I think Will be very insightful to just know about considering before the announcement I never once was even thinking of such a character granted there obviously had to be a creator of these toys So it's nice that we're going to meet the genius behind the good guy creation It'd be nice to know what he thinks about this what he thinks about Charles Lee Ray How this might have impacted his image in the public eye all of that good stuff. So Here's what we can expect in episode five based on these new images Jake and Devon will indeed be going to the witch doctor during this episode to get answers on Chuckie Likely after Caroline either rats Chuckie out or through other means that they managed to track this which doctor down through Lexi and Colin's son seem to be getting close and kissing Jevin gets some romance as well Chuckie and Tiffany will share a phone call and I assume this is where she gives him that pep talk that we've heard during the promo that Dropped last October President Collins will make some sort of announcement from his podium Henry will comfort Joseph who we know is just Chucky masquerading as his dead brother Charlotte may or may not be attacked by Chucky and Chucky just looks ugly as hell and should be executed now That last one was a joke But Chucky does indeed look very terrible if you remember during that original child's play film There was a elderly woman getting out of the elevator or whatever you want to call that with her Husband at the time and she looked back at Chucky Who was also becoming more human and just starting look very ugly as a doll and she said ugly doll Now seeing how ugly he is now It's almost as if that woman had some sort of insight to his future And was just letting him know straight up before he even got to this point that he's ugly as hell And yeah, he looks even worse than he did at the end of that original film he definitely looks like he just needs to be executed and sent off into The never or sent off into the next plane of existence that is not life because he just looks terrible But we'll see how this season ends. What do you guys think about this first look at episode 5? Are you excited about it? I know a lot of people probably do not like that Lexi is kissing Collins's son who I can't remember his name right now, but we'll see where that relationship goes I'm excited to see what is in store for Jake and Devin specifically their encounter with this witch doctor because as you saw in that image of Jake not Jake But Devin was holding up a picture of Chucky Obviously to the witch doctor and I'm curious to see at least here I also can say what the witch doctor is going to tell them about Chucky and Their relationship and how long has Chucky been coming to this hospital. That's another key thing Or maybe Chucky just firstly discovered it with Caroline in the last bit of the season I think that's what it was presented to us like but maybe Chucky has been coming here for some time Because the way they were talking to each other it just seemed like they knew each other and it just felt very very odd At the time of it being presented to us So we could learn a lot more about Chucky's relationship with this witch doctor during that encounter between Jake Devin and that doctor. What do you think is in store for Tiffany? It does not look like we're gonna be seeing Nika in episode 5 But that's not confirmed that she's not going to appear Let me know all that down below if you haven't already of course make sure you subscribe turn on post Notification that you never miss a video in the description. I'll have links to all of my social media accounts I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there to let me know if there any movies news or reviews You like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


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And of course on dollar moves Simon Michelle from FIG live for you at the camera there in Sydney Simon I mean in terms of in terms of the pace of this next wave of fed tightening any meat on the bones this week you suspect or it's too soon to chart that course and it will be more still an explainer of the action from last week how do you sum it all up. G'day Carson look I think that's that's the key point of the moment we do hear from Ted 10 fed officials this week including Janet Yellen and I think it will be about explaining why we didn't see any adjustment to those future projected forecast of further rate increases. We saw the increase we didn't see any building in a higher growth forecast in the future and that really goes against what we've been seeing apart from today in the in the equity market so you know I think you're absolutely right I think people are starting to wonder what's happening there why we're not seeing that sort of growth inflation forecast start to be reflected in long-term rates and you've had just overnight long-term yields the 30 year rate back down to 3.03 percent about 20 basis points below where we've seen the peak this year. Which is counterintuitive on every level is it not and understanding it what does it what does it come down to how do you put that into your into your frame of reference. Look I think what we do when we look at long-term rates is we see you know around the 10 years really a bit of a proxy for growth and inflation it really gives us a bit of an idea of what the market is building in over a long period of time. Now you've had the equity markets they've been very much running off the back of you know policy expectations through the US of significant infrastructure spending that that would flow through to higher growth you know the Dodd-Frank laws you know providing more growth in the banking sector as well. We're starting to see a little bit of that unwind and you know we've spoken over the last couple of weeks how the bond market just wasn't buying into the same irrational exuberance and we're now seeing the equity market come back and we're just not seeing any movement in those long term rates so that means that the debt market the bond market is not convinced on these higher growth forecasts that you have seen commentators use. How does it square with the banks saying that they are facing in an offshore sense elevated funding costs. Now when you're talking of that static story is that aligning with the banks commentary. Well I think you've got two things as well I mean you know if you have a look beyond the US you know you're certainly seeing some higher levels come through and some support being pulled back as well and that is certainly impacting. There's been a lot of issuance as well so investors are demanding a little bit of a higher return for that. You know we are sort of getting you know to the point where you know we only have four major banks so you know your exposure to that does reach a limit at some point. You know we've seen a lot of refunding we've seen a lot of bond buybacks refinancing. You know at some point you know the market does sort of pull back you know a lot in sovereign as well like here in Australia for example a lot of government debt issuance. You've seen the demand start to pull back as those volumes have increased. On top of that you've got China selling out of its treasuries as well so you've got a lot of global movements of cash being influenced by movements in rates. On the China story you know you're highlighting and you're pulling out some under the bonnet concerns about small lenders and the interbank market and does that snowball. Does that actually have the potential to become a you know from something peripheral to something core concern. Look it's something we've known about for a while and we know that the Chinese government and central bank has been pulling money and using that to throw into its financial markets and support liquidity. We know that as part of the maturing of the debt markets in China they want people to experience default. They don't want to jump in and support all of these lenders when they get into problems. You know learning that there is a default mechanism is part of the development of the bond market. So I don't think at this point Carson I think you know we've seen an increase in short-term lending rates money market rates that reflected tightening liquidity. So where these lenders aren't able to pay their loans back the government is throwing some money into the system to provide some credit availability. I think it's certainly something we're watching but I don't think at this point we think it's going to lead to you know beyond expectation because you say I mean on the one hand you know they've got to learn from their mistakes. Let the market be the market. On the other hand if they're putting some money their way it's kind of you know it's a it's a mixed message. It's a mixed commitment to the market. You either with us or you're not with us. Well that's true. I think what you're saying is you know the investor is learning that you know you have to take care and there are going to be defaults and that is something you have to be aware of and that the central bank is not going to step in and support those smaller lenders. However they will support the institutional system to ensure that there is liquidity in there to compensate for these for these defaults essentially. Okay let's go into I was the issuance because I'm interested in auto developments as much as on the Rezzi front. So let's look at the Hyundai connection first off shall we. Yeah Hyundai so they're looking to do a kangaroo bond. So this is a Hyundai capital out of South Korea coming to Australia issuing an Australian bond in Aussie dollars. We've seen a lot of that happen recently as investors diversify their exposure to global markets. I've also heard this morning that A and P are looking going around having a bit of a chat to some of the banks about an issue. But as you mentioned there Carson also just in the last week quite a lot of residential mortgage backed security issuance. So this is an ability for the banks to remove mortgages from their balance sheet and sell them as individual bond assets. And we've seen a lot of issuance in that space right across a range of issuers recently and no surprise given where the housing market is. And just briefly as well if you touch on the South Korean connection all the political instability of late has that fed through into money markets in terms of the funding. And do you see do you sense that that could be an added spur to have come down under if there's been a domestic tightening of conditions even. I mean what's been the prevailing attitude through that crisis of domestic lenders. Look absolutely look a very interesting point. I must admit I'm not across South Korean rates so unfortunately I can't contribute to that conversation. But I think what you are seeing is you're seeing both a maturing of the Australian debt market. So there is strong demand here and that's been reflected by our domestic issuers being able to get a lot of debt away. And you know we don't have a very mature debt market in Australia. Our allocation to direct bonds is very very low. So there's a huge amount of upside there. But I think at the end of the day you know US market European market you know generally they'll be fairly swamped there and it is about you know diversifying through different sovereign tax areas as well just to diversify where it's part of your businesses. And we saw this with Apple a couple of years ago coming into Lendersville. So it sort of just matches where their business flows as well. Indeed. Follow the money. Talk to you soon Simon. Follow the business. Thank you. Do stay with us.


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What's good, George Boar Ross back again with another video. So we're going to check out random champions title runs out of nowhere. Now, sometimes WWE, mainly Vince McMahon and his ultimate decision back in the day. And a lot of times, not even back in the day, he still has some, some creative input as well, even now. But there'll be times where he just pulls a swerve and he'll give someone a title, a title championship or not even a title opportunity like a championship win that doesn't really make sense on paper, but only to swerve the fans. And a lot of times it's kind of confusing. Sometimes it can be interesting and lead to something great. But a lot of times when you really look at it, someone may have been a champion for a while and all of a sudden their championship rain ends to something random. Someone randomly who's never been built up or or even seen as a viable champion at the time, built up to be like one ends up winning the championship or whatever they're, you know, whatever match they're in. And it's really just kind of Vince trying to swerve the audience and thinking one thing, you know, audience think, you know, one thing's going to happen and it doesn't. So it's it's really for Vince's enjoyment a lot of the time. So we're going to check out some of these instances, instances that where Vince was like, you know what, I'm I know what's best. I know what's better for the fans and they think one thing's going to happen. But it's not. Let's check this out, man. Sometimes a title rain makes all the sense in the world, whether that be because it's part of a long built up story, such as was the case with Hangman Page and AEW or because the person holding the title is the undisputed king of the company. Yeah, such as been true with Roman Reigns in WWE. On occasion, though, a new champion seemingly comes out of nowhere in the most random of ways. What are the biggest examples of this? Excuse me while I rip this out.  That's exactly what we're going to be looking at today. And where better to start than with the time Vince McMahon became the World Champion with the. Yes, the company we both had on both got on two rags. Oh, man, which once prided itself on being the rebellious, beating hard of the wrestling industry had fallen hard by the point the mid 2000s came around. And that was because after it went out of business in 2001, McMahon himself bought it up and pretty much killed any remaining goodwill it had left with fans to the infamous invasion angle. But as they say, time heals all wounds. And so when the extreme brand was revived once more for a special one night stand pay-per-view in 2005, for a brief moment, at least, it looked as though things might be back on track. That was until the ECW revival made its way to the sci-fi network, of course, because there in their weekly TV show, it quickly became apparent that this was going to be nothing more than a developmental show for WWE's main roster. That's literally what it became. It wasn't about the essence of ECW. It was just about seeing how Vince could get some people, you know, on television in a, like you said, like he said, a developmental role. It wasn't like anything that ECW stood for. It was it wasn't even ECW light. It was the name ECW, but it was Smackdown and Raw light. That's all it was. Like this was, I guess you consider, you can consider it NXT before NXT was really a thing. So one which if you want to compare the likes of the big show, Bobby Lashley, even though it was in my opinion better, some of the more hardcore originals, the company was put on still though it could have been worse after all, they at least were actual wrestlers. So when they inevitably had their runs with the ECW World title, there was some sense of realism to the whole thing.  The same couldn't be said in April 29th, 2007's backlash then as it was here in a three-on-one handicap match that the boss with the help of both his son Shane and Umaga pinned then ECW champ Lashley to take the belt home for himself. Obviously, then this upset the hardcore faithful to no end. Of course, and they let Vince know this when he showed up on the next episode of ECW TV with the title and do rag in tow. But why wouldn't they boo the booking here as this was the belt which had once meant so much when it was being held by the likes of Terry Funk, Taz and Tommy Dreamer.  And as it happened, this would mark the beginning of the end for WWE CW in many ways with it getting scrapped altogether just a few years later. But that wouldn't be the only time Vince McMahon made a controversial decision to book himself as world champion because he'd already done so eight years previously when he became WWF World Champion. That's right. It was back in 1999 that Vince got involved in an on-screen feud with then champion Triple H and it was during this feud that he was even convinced to have a series of one-on-one matches with the game, the first of which came on the East September 14th episode of SmackDown. Of course, this wouldn't be any normal match though. No, it would be for the world title itself. Why had Triple H put his belt on the line against his boss? Well, because he believed there was no chance in hell. Of course, we're going to lose it to him. But what he hadn't counted on was the fact that by that point Steve Austin had come to an agreement with McMahon where the two were briefly on the same page and with Austin also hating the game to incentivize to get involved and the bout and help the CEO of the company to score the winning pinfall and that was how at the height of the attitude era, yes, McMahon became WWF champion. Sure, it was a screwy victory and so it wasn't like Triple H was completely buried, but even still, this was a pretty bad idea all around. And what made it even worse was the fact that Vince immediately vacated the title on the episode of Raw thereafter, meaning the whole thing was pointless as he never actually put anyone over. Yeah, honestly, it was an idea where the events grew so so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to learn he was still the head booker in New York at this time, which is, you know, which is, uh, it makes a lot of sense. It didn't. It makes a lot of sense. Just as we shouldn't be surprised to learn he'd do the exact same thing when he jumped over to WCW and made himself their world champion in 2000. Now brace yourself because we're about to jump into WCW 2000, probably the worst period for any major wrestling company in history. Well, some of the absolute whoppers, that's wild winning the big one or Goldberg refusing to follow the script bad enough, arguably nothing over this 12 month period was worse than the time Russo himself held the big gold belt above his head. Sure, like Vince McMahon, he'd win it in a screwy way when he was speared through the cage by Goldberg during a steel cage bout with then champion Booker T, meaning he unintentionally exited first, but that didn't change the fact that the most vilified man in the entire industry was now in possession of the prize once held by the likes of Harley Race, Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes.  There's a it's not just him. There was a multitude of things that was, you know, pretty much burying them like multiple, multiple things that caused the death of WCW. Not when just only him is there were some other egos at play. And then on top of that WWE, they just they had it. They had it in the bag. Just better on screen television and stuff that some went for the most part made a lot more sense. And there's all that much worse when only two days later Russo vacated the belt, meaning fans would never get the satisfaction of seeing a baby face beat him up in order to win it back for the side of the good guys. So really then the only purpose this one served was to fuel the ego ego maniac and send WCW spiraling even further into its death. But not all random title reigns are this damaging to the company involved. No, some are just there to create a nice feel good moment as was the case when Bret Hart won the United States title in 2010. But wait, how did this one come about? After all, by 2010, the hitman had long retired after a severe concussion picked up in 2001 left him unable to get cleared by any doctor under the sun. Well, the answer to this was there was a loophole in that as long as he didn't take any bumps Yeah, could actually still be booked to step inside the squared circle. That's pretty much what it was. That was how we got a situation where on May 17th of the former year, the Miz was forced to put his US belt up against a member of the Hart family with him at this time and no doubt expecting this would either be Tyson Kidd or Davey Boy Smith, Jr. How surprised he must have been then when Bret Hart came out to the ring and accepted the challenge obviously surprised enough that he was so thrown off his game he'd lose in short order after tapping out to a sharp shooter. Yes, just like that. The hitman had gold around his waist again. It's cool moment. Got one last chance to celebrate. It was cool moment. And it's like I said, getting in the video. Sometimes it it it may not make a liquor sense that that don't make a liquor sense, but it's a cool moment. You can kind of work with it. You can kind of, you know, bypassed just the nonsensical of it of him going out there and being the one to challenge the Miz for it. But who's going to complain? It's a legend. It's a goat. So some of them you can get away with some of them. You can't unfortunately though. This was another example of a random title reign, which was short-lived because with him unable to have a full match where he'd be required to sell for his opponent, Brett realized he couldn't fulfill his duties as champion going forward. And so that's why he chose to vacate the title the following week on raw. But for as sad as it was, this was so short-lived. It wasn't as if he was the only legend of a prior generation who'd get to win a title during this period and that was because just a few years prior to this, Ric Flair was fulfilling a lifelong ambition when he got to team up with his hero, Roddy Piper to win the World Tag Team title. I forgot this even happened. That's right. It was at November 6th, 2006 Cyber Sunday that Hot Rod was one of three options fans got the chance to vote on when they were asked to pick a partner for the nature. Would y'all want to see like a another Cyber Sunday Blondie? She Blondie I'm recording. Y'all can't see it, but she's like right under my desk. I'm going to take you out once I finish recording Blondie calm down. But have y'all would y'all like to see like another version of Cyber Sunday to come back to WWE? I think that would actually be kind of interesting like to I don't know if they would call it Cyber Sunday or whatever. Obviously most of the pay-per-views are on Saturday now, but basically a pay-per-view where the fans get to actually vote on certain matches and stipulations. Let me know if y'all would be interested in that since I mean WWE is all about their social media presence now and social media is the biggest has ever been. I think I'll be actually pretty cool if they did something like that boy during his tag team title bout against then champions the Spirit Squad and when Piper won out over both Sergeant Slaughter and Dusty Rhodes then Flair was overjoyed as after a fight which lasted for just under seven minutes he'd find himself one half of the new tag team champions. That's crazy. Yes, in a moment no one could have foreseen ahead of time two of the 80s most prominent figures were now holding gold all over again in the middle of the 2000s and they looks to be having a great time in doing so. But while this run wouldn't last for long the count of them losing to rated RKO a week later it still gave fans a fun moment of nostalgia for a week or so at least it's just a shame the same can't be said for another random tag team title rain then as we're pretty sure no one was clamoring to see the alleged dream team of Kenzo Suzuki and Renee Dupree take on the gold in late 2004. Definitely don't even remember this valued the tag team division as a whole was at this point we can't exactly call this one two out of the blue as it was the period where makeshift duos were the order of the day and of those teams who weren't just randomly thrown together and had at least some kind of thematic connection well those wouldn't be much better after all need we remind you of the horror that was the likes of Deuce and Domino for the Bastion Brothers neither of those teams which serves as the most random WWE tag team title run of the mid 2000s in the end as they each fit together to some degree when it came to Suzuki and Dupree though they couldn't have been more ill-suited to one another and that's because one was a French Canadian who'd come up in the New York system and who was pretty much a poster boy for the kind of sports entertainment figure Vince McMahon wanted while the other was a man whose prior success had been out east in Japan and sure there's an argument that opposites attracted here is on September 7th of 2004 the payor were able to be thrown in to win the blue grand version of the tag team goal but that doesn't make the whole thing feel any less random hell even as they were winning they clearly had no chemistry together and this lack of chemistry would only continue on as they defended said belts across the weeks and months which followed really were baffled the duo held on to their titles for as long as they did because it was like watching chalk and cheese work together but somehow they managed this and maybe that's a testament to the individual skill of each that well it's either that or a condemnation of how bad the tag division was in the mid 2000 definitely is the latter not exactly sure which yes outside of a couple of notable periods tag team wrestling has never been a big focus for Vince McMahon nope and that's not the only division he seemingly had no interest in either despite repeated attempts to revive it over the years when it comes to the cruiserweight division however they never even got to have that high point on the main roster and to make matters worse their low points also time horn swagger became champion now we're sure you can understand the kind of joke the boss was probably trying to go for here the cruiserweights are too small so let's have a literal literal person hold on to the belt for a while sure it's not particularly funny but then this is Vince McMahon we're dealing with yeah and that's not one point horn swagger was his illegitimate son or some shit it was just it was yeah yeah against horn swagger now he'd serve the purpose on TV at this point as a manager to Finley someone who often helped the Irishman to pick up a screwy win whenever he was struggling to best his opponent but when that role was then extended to have him be the de facto best cruiserweight performer in all of New York it started to stretch itself a bit thin yeah after all let's not forget that this was a period where the likes of Hoven to Guerrera Billy Kidman and Gregory Helms were working for the company so it wasn't like the talent wasn't there but as has always been the case with WWE's chief if your height starts with a five and you're not very mysterious then you're not going to get anywhere in his company yep I can't I'm 5'8 man so and I'm not very mysterious so me making it in WWE is a no well I don't know maybe it'd be a little bit different I'd have to do a lot of flippy flips my finishing move would involve a steel chair so I get disqualified every time so pretty quickly each of these performers were made to look like jobbers in comparison to the real heavyweight main eventers and that's what led to a situation where the cruiserweight title became a complete afterthought with no consideration being given to who was holding it at the best of times even then though it still came as a surprise to many when Hornswago pinned Jamie Noble to take home the gold at July 22nd 2007's Great American Bash as at this point he was barely even considered an active wrestler on the roster and to make matters worse not only would this be a random title reign it would also be the last one the division ever saw until 2016 as it was in September of the same year that the belt was formally retired when Vicky Guerrero deemed the Wisconsin native incapable of carrying on his duties as champion anymore that said for as crazy as it was at the time even the saga of Dylan Postal's cruiserweight champion may come second in terms of complete randomness when compared to another who held that same belt a few years prior who are we talking about here why Chavo Classic of course yes despite having a storied career which saw him spend the 70s and 80s wrestling for territories such as mid-south wrestling the AWA Championship wrestling from Florida and all Japan pro wrestling what most younger fans probably know Chavo Guerrero senior four nowadays is the brief run he had in 2004 as a member of the SmackDown roster and that's because after coming in then to help out his son Chavo Junior during his feud with Eddie Guerrero the El Paso native decided to stick around with him differentiating himself from his offspring at this point by referring to himself as Chavo Classic of course now that he decided he was staying on the roster a little while Chavo Classic had no intention of being an afterthought and that was why he started staking his claim at some gold soon thereafter what would this gold be well for him it could be nothing other than the belt his son was holding already and that was the cruiserweight title sure for fans watching it might have felt surreal to see a 55 year old man start challenging for a belt his offspring had made his own and that sense of the whole thing being a strange nightmare only got more intense when on the May 18th episode of Smackdown that year Chavo Classic actually pinned his son to become the oldest cruiserweight champion in the company's history. That's right. In 2004 Chavo Guerrero Senior was the de facto best cruiserweight in the world and if that doesn't make you wonder whether life is real we don't know what will but this wasn't even the weirdest part of the whole thing as during his subsequent 28 day run on top the former 28 day world heavyweight champion actually scored victories over both John Cena and Jacqueline all before then dropping the belt to Rey Mysterio that's crazy 15. Honestly, if you told us this one was all something we made up in our heads, we might believe you if it wasn't already there on film. Yeah. And the same thing could be said for an even wilder title run which came over a decade later as this one. This one not only was it random not only was it forced because they were trying to tap into that Indian market and we could see right through and we knew what they were doing and they didn't even succeed on that.  I'm I'm changing the channel bro. This was a low point in SmackDown. I know he has some fans out there. Congrats. You guys were happy. The rest of us were like No, this is awful. It was in 2017 that in one of the most surreal booking Oh my God became WWE champion. Quick imagine going back to 2016 and telling yourself one of New York's biggest jobbers would soon be dethroning Randy No one would believe you prize in the company you'd probably laugh at yourself and call yourself crazy. And that's because no one could have ever foreseen a future where gender mahal the man whose most notable moment prior to this was as part of a comedy undercard trio in 3MB would be in a position to even challenge for the belt. But this is exactly what happened when upon winning a random number one contender ship out on the April 18th episode of SmackDown the Calgary native suddenly found himself next in line. And while this victory came completely out of nowhere it paled in comparison to how random it felt just one month later on May 21st at Backlash when he not only stepped in the ring to square off against the Viper but he actually beat him. Yeah, somehow gender mahal had become WWE Champion. I am already the greatest WWE Champion of all time. Unfortunately though it quickly became evident during his subsequent time with the belt that he wasn't quite ready for the big time with many fans claiming this to be one of the worst championship runs of the modern era. Bax. That said for as out there as this title run was there may still be one rain with the top belt and here's the thing I don't want people to think I'm just hating on Jenner to hate on them. Like I said at the beginning of the video no one had ever looked at gender mahal nothing more than a job or a J.A.G. There was never this Cinderella story that all of a sudden he's starting to get wins. I know he had changed his look he had looked completely different. He looked like a Vince McMahon guy like Vince McMahon would want to push him but he never did even when he changed his look the difference between him and Drew is Drew he was supposed to be the chosen one that didn't work out he left came back made a real name for himself went to NXT went back into WWE on the main roster and you can tell he had star written all over him and they were booking him for the most part like a very big deal gender mahal comes back gets a little bit more buff a little bit more swore a little bit more rocket they still treated him like a J.A.G. and when he came back there was never any instance of gender mahal being something more than that maybe a mid card ceiling that's it so that's why it's hard to buy into him winning the championship when all of a sudden now he he's able to beat Randy Orton and then when you really look behind the curtain on this whole situation the only reason why they put the title on him is to capitalize on the Indian market that's it and it still didn't work that's why people look at this title reign as complete hot garbage because you literally through the month that the belt on him to capitalize to make some money that and it still didn't work there was no buildup to it there was no organic a month two months of him actually winning matches actually looking like somebody important they just hey we're going to win this one random one a number one contender and then you're going to shock the whole world when you beat Randy Orton clean I believe it was clean I believe it was clean I don't think he cheated at that time I could be wrong I think I think he may have cheated that match I don't fucking remember it was awful dark days dark days in SmackDown history bro WWE which trumps it and this is because after spending years is either a mid-card singles act or tag team guy during the attitude era and beyond in 2004 Bradshaw suddenly found himself morphing into JBL and winning the WWE title now here's the thing I get everybody's like yo this was a shock to a lot of people but the thing about this and they took a very big chance some could say his matches were to be desired but I will say this his character worked him being this low it's not even low key he's like obnoxiously like he's like he shuns other people he's this rich you know guy all of a sudden from Texas he's this rich guy that shuns other people in other races you know what I'm saying it actually worked he was a great despicable disgusting heel that you wanted to see lose but it worked bro it worked himself surprisingly it worked that he had a great career after that it's easy to look back in hindsight and argue JBL was always destined to win the big one but if you were around at the time you'd know this couldn't have been further from the truth as the sweetwater native was struggling to get over so much he was actually on the verge of being cut all together mm-hmm Helen since been suggested the transformation into the JR Ewing-esque mogul was actually the last role of the dice for Bradshaw and then I could see that work then Vince McMahon was going to throw in the towel completely so it's just as well it did work as only a couple of months after debuting it he'd be challenging Eddie Guerrero for the top prize on SmackDown and actually going as far as to beat him for it of course this new title run took fans a little bit of getting used to it first as it had come so out of the world many of them must have felt like they had whiplash after all this was the same man who at the start of the year had been an entirely different character one who was primarily known for drinking heavily and teaming up with Farouk but after a while the shock started to wear off and JBL settled into what was at the time the longest run as a champion in SmackDown history and when he finally did lose it to John Cena at WrestleMania 21 a year later the whole thing would have elevated him to a point he'd be a made man thereafter yeah it worked and he wasn't the only person who became a made man after a surprising title win either though in the case of Santino Marejo Santino definitely deserves to be on this list event scene afterwards I remember watching this live his victory and subsequent success would instead see him become a mainstay as wwe's top when he became the intercontinental champion he had exactly been portrayed as a comedy guy when he first appeared on the when bro I remember watching that live and the crowd went crazy I was like yo this is actually kind of wild he became the intercontinental champion April 16 2007 episode of Raw airing live from Milan Italy as there he was basically just playing a random member of the crowd yeah but this only made it that much more impactful when Umari came out to the ring and announced he'd be putting his intercontinental title on the line against a handpicked opponent from Vince McMahon why was this well the person Vincent chosen was none other than Santino himself so when he made his way through the people and then went on to defeat the champ in short order then it fell to the Italian locals like one of their own had just done the impossible yeah of course his time went on though it became clear to all the fans that the Ontario natives real strength lie in his comedy chops and so that was why he eventually moved away from this more serious champion role into one which portrayed him as more of a bumbling goofball yeah pretty much and in some ways this makes his initial big title win feel even more out of the blue in hindsight as for any fans going back and watching it today who only know of Morella for the funny segments he was a part of seeing him defeat Umaga in a matter of minutes must have been a crazy thing to witness oh it was definitely crazy like I said I watched that live and I was like holy shit what the hell I thought it was just some random what the hell's going on beat Umaga obviously with the help of Bobby Latchley they had their thing going on but I was like yo what's going on it was a good feel moment in hindsight you know hey they probably should have did that but it was a good feel moment to set up some other stuff so but yeah comment down below let me know some other out of nowhere doesn't make sense title range can you think of that wasn't on this list that just had you scratching your head whether they were good in the end so I appreciate all love and support guys are showing on channel road to 150K and I am still young speedy you to rest in champion world please don't keep me seeing the next one peace


Hey guys, what's up? It's Isaac David and this is The Daily Disciple where I help you follow Jesus daily. Today we're doing something a little bit different. I asked you guys on Instagram, asked me any questions about theology, life, personal, whatever, and you did not disappoint. So today we're doing a little Q&A. If you want to submit a question next time, make sure you're following me on Instagram at its Isaac David. Now, without further ado, let's get into it. There's a lot of questions, so I'm going to try to keep my answers pretty short. First question is, how do I overcome doubts about God? I'm not sure if this is in context to his existence or his goodness, but in either case, look at the evidence of his existence in all of creation and of his goodness in your life. The fact that you have family relationships, a place to live, like food to eat, that is all evidence of God's goodness. So let that play into your belief in his goodness, right? It's evidence for it. So there's no reason to doubt, even still, our feelings don't always reflect reality and sometimes we may still struggle to trust. But in that case, we got to continue to follow our values even when our feelings don't line up. What's the biblical answer to loneliness? Well, I would say is that ultimately the answer to loneliness is full connection with God and intimacy with Jesus. When we experience loneliness, that's an aspect and a result of the fall because our connection with others and with God was broken off. But because of Jesus, now that relationship can be mended and even though we still experience those, that loneliness, that disconnection on earth, we can get a taste of that connection and intimacy with God when we trust in him and follow him and continue on in intentionally pursuing that relationship with him through reading our Bible and through prayer and also fellowship with other believers. When are you planning on writing another book? I'm not exactly sure. For those of you don't know, I've published a book already led her to my father, what your son wants to tell you, but doesn't you can pick it up if you have a dad or whatever you are a dad. It's great for fathers and sons. When am I going to write another book? I'm not sure. Writing a book is a lot of work, so whatever the topic is or issue, I need to be really, really passionate about it in order to get a full book's worth out. So I'm just waiting for that kind of thing, that idea to spark. What are your thoughts on the balance of waiting and action in life and love with God's timing? This is actually something that I've thought a lot about over the last year or so because I used to be of the mindset that it's like, no, you just do your thing, don't even worry about it, and eventually God will present you in terms of like a romantic relationship. He'll present you with somebody and it'll all be good. But we don't treat a lot of other things in life that way. We don't treat like having food, right? We have to go work for food. We have to go out. We have to do things in order to live our lives.  And I think that's the same way with relationships. I don't think we should be desperate or forcing anything to happen, but I do think we should be intentional in engaging in friendships and relationships, being intentional in community and leaving opportunity for those, I don't know, connections to be made and for those relationships to flourish. What does that look like practically? I think that means intentionally getting in a community with guys and girls, people from the opposite gender and forming friendships with them. And that doesn't mean forcing anything or like you have to be with this person. But it does mean intentionally spending time with people to really like, I don't know, invite and open those opportunities up.  Like, no, we got to go out, take action that doesn't mean forcing anything. How have you been doing during lockdown? For those of you who don't know, I live in Canada, Winnipeg to be specific, and COVID restrictions are still insane up here. I know for a lot of people in the United States and maybe across the world, I'm not sure. But for people in the States, it's like, I'm seeing everything open up and everyone's getting back to their normal life. That's not the way it is here. So it's been challenging. It's definitely given me a lot of opportunity to work on ministry, online ministry and stuff like that and study and self development. But it's been really, it's been a taxing season and I'm looking forward to the next. If you had to move anywhere in Canada, where would you want to live? Well, I already live in Canada, but somewhere else in Canada, I would move to Banff or Jasper. Absolutely beautiful if you've ever been there. Some of the best that those are like two best places in Canada, in my opinion. Do you think more men are embracing purity, waiting for marriage, even if they weren't before? This is interesting. I don't know if more men are per se, I guess I'm in a community where a lot of guys are committed to pursuing this kind of life of purity and sexual purity. I know pornography is still a huge issue for people in terms of like relationships. I think there is a significant amount of guys that are like Christian guys that are committed to saving themselves for marriage and I think that's awesome. I think the big trouble right now is though the pornography issue and recently actually launched a boot camp. It's called the online purity boot camp that helps you break free from lust and online pornography. And if you're interested in it, you can go to the link in my bio and get it. It's a 10 part video series and it's going to help you break the shackles of lust and online pornography. It's such a big issue. Even if you pray with faith, why do bad things still happen? This is the biggest, the biggest question I feel like we all have to deal with is even though we have faith, why doesn't God just fix things? Like why doesn't God just make people healthy that we pray to be healthy? Or why doesn't he protect people that we pray for them to be protected? Or why doesn't he give us the things that we ask for and pray for with faith? And I mean the prosperity gospel movement will try to convince you that it's because you don't have enough faith that you don't get those things, that bad things happen. You need to have more faith and if you've had enough faith, then God would give you everything you want. Money, fame, popularity, health, wealth, success, all of it. But that's not a biblical perspective. According to the Bible, suffering plays an important part in the life of the believer. In Romans 5 verse 3 it says this, more than that we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope and hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. We can't pretend to know God's exact plans or purposes and why we experience these different sufferings or why these bad things happen, but what we can have faith in is that God is using them all for our good, our eternal good and His glory. And if we can truly trust in Him knowing that He has the standard of goodness, He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is in control, He is sovereign over circumstances and He is a loving Father for us, I think that's where we need to be even when we don't understand. How do you deal with spiritual discouragement? This is a really tough thing. I think I'm going off the last question. When you have a prayer, like a very specific prayer and it doesn't seem to be answered, that can be really discouraging. You're asking God, why are you doing this? I really wanted this. Like, this was something that was really, really important to me. And it's almost like a close friend, you ask a close friend to do something and then they fall through and you're kind of like taking it back. You're like, I thought we, I thought we had that connection, right? And so that spiritual discouragement can be real or even just getting apathetic in your faith. I think the first thing that we need to do is understand that our emotions, like all that disappointment and maybe that discouragement, like those things will try to fuel us into pulling us away from God. Those things will try to reaffirm lies that we're already believing. God doesn't care about me, God's not with me. All this doesn't really matter. And it'll try to play into those things and pull you away from God. But what we need to do is see, okay, these are negative emotions that I'm experiencing here, but I want to reorient my focus off of these emotions onto Jesus because I want to follow Jesus. I want to follow my values over what I'm feeling. That's where I need to be led and that's where I need to be going. So even when I do feel discouraged, I keep moving towards Christ. Even though it may be tougher and it's not as pretty and it's more messy and maybe my Bible reading isn't as enthusiastic or my prayers are more stale, I'm going to continue to move towards Christ because it's not about how I feel, it's about where I've put my trust because ultimately my trust is in Christ and even though my feelings doesn't reflect that always, I'm going to continue to move towards Him and that's what I encourage you. Don't just put a stop on everything just because you don't feel it today. No, continue on knowing that your feelings don't need to define your walk with Christ. Feelings will come and go. There'll be beautiful joy and fulfillment and just excitement in Christ and some days there'll be discouragement and disappointment but we continue to follow Christ because He has given everything for us to know us to have that intimate relationship with us. Where do you see yourself in five years? I have no idea. I have no idea. Like I could tell you where I would like to be in five years. I'd like to be self-employed, I'd like to be married, maybe a kid, I don't know, but that's kind of like where my heart is. I'm just going to try to work hard and do the best I can. Even though feelings of insecurity and not measuring up come up quite a bit, I'm still going to press on and we'll see what happens in the next five years. But yeah, that's where I'd like to be. I'd like to be doing Daily Disciple and Redeem 180. For those of you who don't know what Redeem 180 is, you can follow it on Instagram at redeem underscore 180, I'm pretty sure, or just at Redeem 180.  Like some of those ministries, man, that is my life right now, that is what I'm so committed to. And when I'm able to do that full time, I will be like so thrilled with that. That's where I see myself in the next five years, maybe in a relationship, maybe married. Yeah, but I mean, ultimately, I think we can get so out of hand with these five-year plans, 10-year plans is where I want to be. This is where I'm going. And I used to be really obsessed with that. But then I just realized that all of those things, every time I made one, it was just total, like, not true. God led me in a different direction or He moved me in a different way. And ultimately, we don't know. And so I'd rather be responsible, plan for the future, strategize, do all that, yes, but also know that you are following Christ.  And that's going to be the best thing for you. You can trust Him in that. Okay, I don't want to make this video too long. So if you have another answer to one of these questions, leave it in the comments down below. I'm sure people would love to hear from you. Thank you so much to all my patrons on Patreon. There is an amazing 40 patrons on Patreon. The goal is to get to 50. So if you can help and support on a monthly basis, five bucks a month, and you can join on Patreon, that would be absolutely amazing link in bio to do that. Thank you so much guys for watching and I will see you next time. God bless.