Oh, well that's one way to start the vlog today. Hello and welcome to day seven of the vlog. Today I'm actually gonna do a couple of things that are fun. I keep thinking of things to do, but then it's like life gets in the way because I have kind of things in my like to-do list. Like I need to do this before the end of the year. Here's what's gonna happen today. First of all, let me switch arms. Okay, that's better. So this year I wanted to open up like a PO box or a mailbox for you guys to send stuff. I have had so many private messages and comments on videos and things like that and comments on Instagram. People that have been wanting to send me something like a letter, a postcard, pictures, products to review like whatever. I am so uncomfortable giving out my actual like mailing address like where I live.  So if you want to, I'm not asking you to send me anything. There will be like snail mail down below. So for all of you that have been asking, I will actually be posting it in the description box below. I talked to somebody today. Unfortunately, like the rates are not online. So I had to call actually multiple times because I'm sure they're really busy right now just because of like the holidays and people shipping out packages and stuff. But finally got to talk to somebody, got the rates and I think I'm just gonna sign up for a full year. I end up getting like quite a bit off.  So it's either you pay for three months, six months, nine months or a year.  So I think I'm just gonna do that and then I don't have to worry about it. And then I can just say, hey, if you wanna send me something or you wanna send me a letter or a postcard which I would love to receive letters. I think letters are really cool. You can always put them down below and I will put the information down below and then you can send me things and I will go there at least once a week. It's actually, it's gonna be in Blaine, Minnesota. Obviously I live in Minnesota. I think most of you guys know that. That's why it's freaking cold outside and it's gross out today. But Blaine is kind of right in between my work and my home. So, and the idea is that very soon there's like a car creeping up on me. Anyway, so the idea is that in the next year or two that I will be moving closer to the city which I live or I work really close to the city right now or almost in the city essentially. So I wanted to get something that was kind of in between so it wouldn't be too far out of the way and then also it wouldn't be too far out of the way if for some reason I like moved into the city as well. So I just wanna stick with that address. It's gonna be fine. I'll still be able to go at least once a week. And then it's like literally on my way home from work every day. So that's really cool.  I just need to call ahead in case I have packages and stuff like that. So anyway, I need to go take my body and my car to the UPS store and let's get this party started. I got in my mailbox. I got in my mailbox. 322 is all mine. So over my face right now, I will post my actual physical mailbox. Don't worry if it's UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS. It's a regular physical address. It's at the UPS store but they can accept any shipment. So if you guys ever wanna send me anything, cards, packages, whatever, you can send it there. I will also modify my description down below. So in every video, I'll always have my snail mail information. So if you wanna send something or you wanna send a letter or something like that, go right ahead. If you don't have it ready, that's fine. Not accepting to like get hordes of mail but who knows? From this point moving forward, it'll be attached to all of my video descriptions. So all the previous descriptions, I am not gonna change because that is way too much work. So I am getting with the 21st century and I am going snail mail y'all.  So I am going to show you how to do that. Plus I think I might actually film that as like a separated video. Not really sure how to do that but I think I'm going to do that because a lot of people are very interested in like wrapping gifts. So I think that might be a good video to post for like my Wednesday or Friday video for next week. I think that's gonna happen. I think that's gonna happen. But I'll show you guys too how I do it because I have many things to wrap but I'm gonna use like, obviously like one as an example to like show in the video and then you know, go from there. So I am done talking and I will be home in just a moment, boom! Well I am back from the mailbox place and I just took Doyle on a walk and I'm really, really regretting not wearing a hat because my ears are so sore now because it's cold out, it's really, really cold. But I am gonna get to a wrapping presents. So I figured I would turn you guys around and show you what I have to wrap. It doesn't matter who's watching this because tomorrow evening after work I'm actually going to their house and they're gonna be opening up these presents and this will be actually uploaded probably while I'm still there. So anyway, let me show you what I got for all the people. Okay, and here's all the stuff I have to wrap tonight. So this is all for one kid. There's some Lego City stuff. I don't really know that much about Legos but his mom thought he would like this and then this one's like, I don't know. Also, he's the one that I got these for. If you saw my last vlog, I will somehow wrap those. I don't really know how yet but I'm gonna do it. This is for the adults in the family. She's into planning now so I figured I'd get her a couple of cute chocolate bars and then a gift card to Target because she can use it on groceries or she can buy herself something, whatever. And then I have some kind of Christmasy glitter washi tape and then I have got some stuff from Erin Condren. I've got some sticky notes. I've got a little journal. I think those are called journals and then I've got some sticker books for her. So hopefully she will like that. And then her oldest daughter, I actually got these for. This is one of my favorite makeup palettes. She said that Isabel's really into makeup and I figured she would like this so I got that. I actually hauled this in one of my recent, I think it was Sephora hauls. I had a 20% off coupon. And then also I wanted to get her these. These are my favorite brushes. I actually use these three all the time. I don't really use these other two but I use these three all the time. So yeah, I'm gonna do with those for Isabel. And then Jackson, my nephew, this is what's for him. I only got him one toy but then I got him clothes because clothes are really for the parents anyway. You know what I'm saying? And Jackson lives with his mom. But yeah, so I got him a Mr. Potato Head because I thought that was really freaking cute. And kids get so many toys over the holidays especially when they're super young. Jackson is gonna be two next year.  So obviously I love black and gray and you guys know that. I got this at Target which I thought was really cute. That's from Cat and Jack. And then all the rest of this stuff I actually got at Marshall's. So I got these cute little like Pumas socks and then my brother actually is like obsessed with sweatpants when he was a little kid. So I saw this and I was like, oh my God, these are so funny. I have to get this for your son. So it has like the little Nike symbol and I actually got him a four T. He's already fitting into like, he's like growing out of two T's and he's into three T's already. He's just so tall. So yeah, so I got everything in a four T just so he could, you know, it could be like a little bit bigger. And then I found this really cute jacket at Marshall's. I wish they had it in my size. I'm just being 100% honest. But this is this jacket. It's like a really nice transition jacket. It's really, really fuzzy and fleecy on the inside. And then it's like this built-in puffer, which with a lot of like little pockets and stuff, it's got a little emblem on the side. But yeah, I thought this was really cute. And then it would be good for like fall and spring in Minnesota, because we have like all the four seasons here. So yeah, that is what I got for him. And then all the gift receipts are over there. I'm just gonna put that in the mom's bag of stuff. So if someone doesn't like what they got, then they can exchange it or return it or whatever. But I did approve everything with her, so that's good. That's all the stuff I need to wrap. And then here's the supplies that I have. Whoa, here are the supplies I have. I've got this little bag. I've got like a little Santa bag as well. I think I got all of this at Walgreens a while back. I've got some, this is from Walgreens as well. Kind of goes with those bags. I got some tissue paper. And then also I have these from yesterday that were in my Aaron Condren order. These are like that little free gift that I got. These you will see in a minute. These are like little ties that I can put on my packages. I have a bunch of rolls of ribbons, all different kind of random colors. And then I have this craft paper. So I thought that I would just keep things like really basic and simple and go with the craft paper and maybe wrap some of the gifts in the tissue as well. I don't know, I'm just gonna kind of go with like whatever. There are a couple of gifts, like the one for Jackson.  And then for this one, I think I'm gonna put Heidi stuff in there because it's kind of all oddly shaped as well. But everything else is pretty much boxes. But Gavin's stuff, I think I might wrap these two things in the tissue paper, which would make more sense. So anyway, I'm actually gonna film a little bit for like my actual like a real video. I mean, not that this isn't real, but like a real video for my like Wednesday or Friday video and just kind of show how I wrap a box because I find it interesting because everyone always comments on my gift wrapping skills. So anyway, all right, I'm gonna go do that and then I will show you everything in the end. All right, so I just finished filming my video and here is my done package. This is actually Legos. I do my seams very differently and I also have like a seamless back on there and I also make sure not to have like a bump in my ribbon because my bump is in the front. If you wanna see how I do that, it'll be up this upcoming Wednesday. So stay tuned for that or you can subscribe so you don't like miss anything. So yeah, but this is how I do my stuff. This is just some random ribbon, some craft paper and these are some like little ties. I have no idea where the ties are from. I know I'm gonna get a lot of questions. I have no idea. I think I got these from like a craft store in bulk. Many, many years ago, but I have had them for probably seven or eight years because I have like a total ton of them. So anyway, I need to get back to wrapping gifts. I already did my nephews, which is in that big Santa bag. And then I also did his moms, which is in there, but all the other like boxes I need to get to wrapping. So I am gonna get to that and I'll check in with you guys in a little bit.   So yeah, listening to Pandora hip hop barbecue, if anybody's interested. It is like the best Pandora station if you like like 90s and early 2000s wrap. So I just finished wrapping up. All of the gifts took a little while and I filmed a video, which will be up, it's upcoming Wednesday, if you're actually watching this in chronological order. I never want to assume anything. Some people don't watch these in order. They watch them out of order, which is totally fine. So let me show you all the things that I wrapped up. That's not like great, but whatever. Here are all the gifts that I wrapped in that little bag. If you want to see what a few of them look like, you can go to my Instagram because I did Instagram a couple of them. I have my Santa bag, which is my nephews. The bag with the green tissue is my nephews mom and then my mom actually sent all of this stuff. I really don't even know what's in there, but I guess I'm going to find out tomorrow. So all of those gifts need to be loaded into my car, which I will do in a little bit, but I'm starving. It is like 6.30. And like I've said before, I actually eat like really early typically. So yeah, I need to eat. So I am going to make, I think I'm just going to make tacos tonight.  But tomorrow night, I'm going to go and see all the kiddos and give them gifts. Not sure if I'm going to film that yet. I'll film like little parts of it, but I'm not sure if I'm going to like show faces and stuff because I haven't really like talked to their mom about it. So yeah, I mean, I never want to put someone in an uncomfortable position, but I will film at least like their hands opening gifts, but no promises. You never know. So anyway, I am going to let you guys go for now. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. And thanks for all the positive response from the vlogs. Everyone's been really liking them, which is kind of cool.  It actually is a little bit interesting right now, just because it's the holidays and I've got like lots of packages coming in the mail and stuff like I don't get packages every day. This is just like a really random fluke thing that's been happening recently because I've been placing orders or I've been doing stuff for like getting my, some stuff ready for my channel and all of that. So anyway, I don't get packages every day and I don't do fun things every day. I'm usually like doing a whole lot of nothing, but there's really cool things coming up because I am going to be going to Florida very, very soon.   Also, I'm going to have other family members around, which will be kind of cool. I know a couple of you have commented that you want to meet my brother and my brother, you will meet, I promise. So I'm going to get going. I'm going to let you guys go. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. Make sure to give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and also subscribe. I'm almost to 5,000 subscribers, you guys. Like that's insane. So if you haven't subscribed yet, feel free to hit that little button there. I really, really appreciate it and thank you guys so much for all of the love and support. I will see you in the next video. Bye.


Save 10% with my code BOBBY10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel if you're new manumers, Bobby. Guys, today we have a very special video for me personally because we're gonna watch, I asked the Muslims in Germany if they can recite something from the Koran. I never expected this by Abdeen Tube. So why is this video very special to me if you don't know it yet? I grew up in Germany and I talked about this in previous videos. I was in contact with certain Muslims that weren't really good representatives of Islam. I got to find out once I read the Koran by myself. Once I started studying Islam, I understood, hey, those people weren't really true believers, but they were simply cultural Muslims or they were simply born into a Muslim family. On top of that, I have to repeat this one more time. In Germany I was surrounded by a lot of drug dealing, criminality, violence and in most cases it was the Muslims that were the criminals. This is my personal experience within Germany. So with no further ado, I really want to see what the German Muslims have to say. Let's have a look. The question is here in Germany, can you recite something from the Koran? I start by you. How confident, yes, man. Bro, that's the Shahada, that's not in the Koran. There's no Koran. It's not from Koran? No. Wait, wait. Make it things. Why? Come here, brother. No, it's no problem, brother. It's no problem. Come. Wait, wait. It's come. That's the question. That's hilarious. But yeah, it of course confirms what I was thinking after researching Islam. As I already said, most Muslims are simply Muslims by being born into a Muslim family and the same applies to Christians, Buddhists and Hindus as well. Most of us we do not really learn about our religion. This guy really assumed that the Shahada is a verse in the Koran. Okay, it's no problem. It's okay to film you, huh? Okay. What's your name? Berat. That's good. The question is here in Germany, can you recite something from the Koran? I start by you. You were so confident. It's no Koran. It's not from Koran? No. Wait, wait. Make it things. All right. Come here, brother. Come. Wait, wait. No, please. There's no problem, brother. It's no problem. Come. Wait, wait. It's come. That's the question. You can't. Okay. I will come back to you. And you? I can't also. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah means when you convert to Islam, then you shouldn't say that. Yes, the Shahada. It's not the first of the Koran. Again, to be fair, if you would ask Christians the same question, if they can recite something from the Bible, a whole verse from the Bible, most wouldn't be able to do it. What do you mean the first? The first or chapter, Sura, the first chapter of the Sura of the Koran is Sura Al-Fatiha. Do you know Sura Al-Fatiha? No. Alhamdulillah, Lord of the worlds. I know this, but I can't. You can't recite? Yeah. And you? Me either. Okay. That was the question. It's very important because this chapter, if you can't recite it, then you can not pray. Pray to Allah. You Muslim? Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. We should know this, inshaAllah. All right. That's the thing. And again, it's not a mock on those guys. I fully understand. People are identified as Muslim or as Christian yet again, and they simply do not re-understand what it takes to be a practicing Muslim. So this is what I was surrounded by. People can say, salam alaykum. They can say astaghfula. They can say mashallah and whatnot, but ultimately they can't even recite the first Sura of the Koran, which indeed is needed in order to perform the proper prayer. It's good. Thank you very much. I'm on the wrong way, you know? No, I'm not going the right way. Very interesting, man, because I was getting the same exact response of my Muslim friends. Back in the day, we all used to smoke weed. When I smoked weed with my German friends, we had fun. We were just smoking weed, talking, watching something, playing PlayStation, having the muntries. But every single time I would smoke with Americans, Turkish, Kurdish, they would tell me astaghfula, bro, now this is from the sheytan. And I would always look at them and tell them, bro, if it's wrong, then don't do it. Oh, bro, I'm on the wrong path. They would tell me they go to hookers. They are addicted to drugs. They're beating their girlfriends. And all of this is the sheytan. Extremely strange attitude that you will see in Germany. What? He bring me to the right path, inshallah. The Koran is the only book that brings you peace in your heart, understand? Listen to this. The most powerful surah of the Koran. Mashallah. That's it. Salam Aleykum. He flexed on them. Salam Aleykum. Aleykum Salam. How are you? I'm good. What about you? I'm good. The question today is, what's your name? Tanyei. Tanyei? What are you from? I'm from Germany, but I'm Turkish. Okay, nice to hear the question. Yes, it's no problem. I film it. Yeah, I get your permission. Yes. Okay. Thank you. The question is, can you recite something from the Koran? Can you recite or something first Koran? Like a verse? Or like a chapter? It's not my ausprache. Which surah? Ausprache means pronunciation in German. Yes, but... But... The guys are really flexing on them. Finish. She says she cannot pronounce it. That was the question. We are asking people here to recite something from the Koran. Thank you very much. No problem. What's your name? Jihad. Jihad. Mashallah. Very beautiful name. The question today in Germany, can you recite something from the Koran? Yes. Mashallah. Which chapter? Let the guy do it, man. Mashallah. Mashallah. How old are you? Nineteen. Nineteen. Mashallah. And originally, which country? Palestine. Free Palestine. Free Palestine. Mashallah. Brother Jihad recited from Surah al-Baqarah, the second surah after Surah al-Fatiha. Thank you. Thank you. The question. What's your name? Ilaida. Ilaida. Ilaida. Ilaida. Where are you from? It's okay. Kosovo. Okay. Nice. The question is, can you recite something from the Koran? Again guys, I'm just a Christian watching Islamic videos, but looking at those two girls, I cannot see any religious affiliation. Not Christian, let alone Islamic. Believe it or not, yes, even Christians have dress codes. Of course, they're not as strict as the Islamic ones. But nevertheless, Christian women are commanded to dress modestly. And this is, of course, the exact opposite of being modest. We can see the breast here. We can see the belly. The hair is exposed. A lot of makeup, et cetera, et cetera. So from an Islamic standpoint, from Sharia, what I have learned, this is absolutely forbidden. This is absolutely haram. Under Sharia law, which is understood to be God's law from an Islamic perspective, Muslims wouldn't be even allowed to run around like this. And therefore, if you identified with a religion, if you identified as a Muslim to run around like this, essentially kicks you out of the religion. Can I get your permission? Yes, it's okay. It's okay. Thank you. The question again, can you recite something from the Koran? No. No. Okay. Do you know Surat al-Fatiha? No. No. I know only... The most powerful surat. This year again, absolutely confirms all of my preconceived notions. This is what I grew up with in Germany. I haven't seen really practicing Muslims. Then when I moved to France, man, I have to say that I've seen so many more practicing Muslims. There is a huge difference only between France and Germany already. And now being in Southeast Asia, I see even more practicing Muslims. My perspective completely shifted. Chapter of the Koran. Listen, ladies. The most powerful surah of the Koran, chapter, Surat al-Fatiha. That begins and starts with... Drop it. No. No. It's very important because this chapter, if you don't know it, then you can't pray. Do you pray to Allah? Yes. Yeah? No. No. How can you pray to Allah if you don't know this chapter? Question to you. I don't know this, what you sing, but... Surat al-Fatiha is very important because... I don't know what you sing. You start with the German accent. Unbelievable. When you pray. Okay. Then I learn it. Insha'Allah, you go to learn it. Because it's very important, Ileida, and it's your very... Al-Ghura. Al-Ghura, Ileida from Turkey and from Kosova. This chapter from the Koran and also something from the Koran is very important as Muslims. You are Muslims. We are here in Germany, spreading the Koran. And maybe, insha'Allah, in the future, you go to recite, insha'Allah, al-Fatiha, maybe more surah of the Koran. Okay? Insha'Allah. Insha'Allah. Thank you. Insha'Allah. Masha'Allah. As-Salamu Alaikum. What's your name? Rayyan. Rayyan. And you? Abdulrahman. Okay. The question is, what can you recite something from the Koran? Impressive. God is the Greatest. Good voice. Good. JazakAllah khairi Habibna Al-Ghali, and you? Bismillahirrahmanirrahim How beautiful it is when we see young people like this MashaAllah reciting Quran Especially in Germany, very much people are singing, are dancing, but nobody are reciting Quran These young people MashaAllah, love the Quran, you love the Quran Allah, of course Alhamdulillah, say, choose in Germany like say in Germany people Alright guys, and this is it for today's video I pretty much said already everything I wanted to say This really confirmed my upbringing Now you got a look onto my upbringing as well Right now I have viewers all across the globe From Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Europe, America and whatnot And now you got a glimpse of what I was surrounded by Most people already secularized They bought into pop culture, rap culture, drug culture and whatnot Islam is only a identification Almost as the white nationalists are identified with Christianity in some instances So are the foreigners in Germany identified with Islam It is just a label and not a true spiritual practice anymore in Germany Very very eye-opening video for my viewers here I hope Alright guys, but this is it If you like the video, leave it a thumbs up If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so And if you want to support me via Patreon, check out the links in the description box below As always, may God bless you all Much love and peace


Every first Saturday in September is International Vulture Awareness Day. Sadly, vultures are the most threatened group of birds in the world. The hooded vulture for instance is a species with two lifestyles. Here in West Africa, it leaves near people in towns and villages, while in Southern Africa it's a bird in the bush and protected areas. How do we protect this unique gift of nature from going into extinction? Thanks for joining us to look at this in the news is Dr. Joseph Onnoja is a director, technical program, Nigerian Conservation Foundation. Thanks for joining us Dr. Onnoja. Thanks very much for having me. Alright, interesting conversation here. There's hardly any animal we don't eat in Nigeria. We call them bush meat. Are vultures one of those? Yeah, certainly so. Some people use them for meats. But what is driving their population down is for belief based use. It is used for traditional medicine. In Nigeria, that is what is driving their population in other areas. It is caused by probably power lines, they collide with power lines, but we don't have those problems. Most of our problems is because people use them for traditional medicine and that has driven down their population. Okay, and now let's talk about Animal Conservation Court. We don't have a lot of that here in Nigeria. How do you think we can encourage this? Yeah, that is why a day like this is normally established International Watcher Awareness Day. So I'll be able to create that awareness that people will know that we live in the environment not alone. We live with these animals and nature has put them in place for us to play their part because without them playing their part we may run into problems. For instance, the vultures are put there. They are known as the Environmental Sanitation Officers. So if they are not there, cacuses will be left and these cacuses will develop different diseases, cholera, butsulizine and so on and even antrax. And it will come to the human population and it will affect us because we will not be able to stand. So these animals have their roles that they play in the environment and that is why we want you to create awareness that people will be aware of it. So people consider it an elitist kind of thing, but no, it's not elitist. In fact, the surge of the different, even the pandemics that we are seeing is as a result of our not taking care of the animal's environment because they are meant to do some work they ought to do. Yes, all right. And you know, can you share a little bit more about the average vulture's lifespan and maybe a little more on its lifestyle also? Well, yeah, the vultures can live up to 20, 25 years. And the way is, you know, if you find a dead cacus before it starts decomposing, they go in there to clean the cacuses and you can see the way their head is. Somebody thinks that because their head don't have feathers, that is to allow, that's the diabolology, allows them to stick their neck into the cacuses and they are able to clean up the cacuses very clearly. And then they do it in such a way that you will not find anything left. So, and when it goes into their system, if they have acidic content in their stomach, they are able to digest all of these pathogens without affecting them. And that is why they are very good for them. So they are well-adapted and they have a very keen eyesight where they are able to site cacuses or dead animals on the ground from far above where they are. In those days when we used to grow up, once you slaughter an animal, the abattoir, or even in neighborhood, when you look up the sky, you see vultures are already circling around. They are sorry and are waiting for you to get out of there so that they will go up and clean up the place. So it's very important for us to continue to let people know that when they see their heads without feathers, it's actually meant for them to be able to do what they do not because they are good for you or for any of those things. All right. Share with us, you know, from our concerns. What is your projected vulture survival rate for the next decade if things remain the way they are? Well, we have to reverse the trend. If we don't reverse the trend, we may wake up tomorrow and our children will not be able to load vultures. They will just be seeing them and reading them in the books to expose us to a lot of pandemics and a lot of diseases. So if we continue this trajectory, then we may not even find vultures. The buddha vultures, which is very cosmopolitan, those of us growing up, the vultures that you see commonly in towns and around abattoirs is called the buddha vulture. Now there's what we call the IUCN conservation statutes. It used to be least concerned. That means we have a lot of them in the environment. But in five years, IUCN has lifted them from this constant to a particularly endangered. That is 95% of their population have been driven down. So that if we continue this trajectory, then they will go into extinction in Nigeria and we don't want that to happen. Because that will expose us to rats and dogs going to clean cacuses. I know that rats and dogs normally find their way into the human population easily and they'll be able to spread the disease. So if we continue this trajectory, then we will not find vultures. And that is why as Nigerian Conservation Foundation, we're trying to create this awareness and not just create awareness. We're trying to know the numbers and where they are so that we'll be able to talk with the communities in the importance of conserving these bird species. It's not just these bird species, but other bird species as well so that we'll have them in perpetuity in our environment so that we'll continue to play their part. Finally, I just want you to, as quickly as possible, share how you think this message can be passed to those who use them for traditional medicine purposes. They may not really care much about the environment and some of the things that you're saying. Yes, actually, we have won our market service. We have won to beat them. We have even discussed with the traditional healers themselves and they agree with us that their raw material or their trade is no longer available as it used to. So we are trying to also discuss with them on how to get alternatives to these things and how to change their behaviour in that sense. I know it's not easy to change behaviour, but we'll find our best to see what we can do. And we are talking with them both in the south-west here and we're going to as far as in the north. In fact, my team are currently in the southeast and engaging different stakeholders as we are reaching them one on one and trying to bring them to that awareness so that they will know that we are running out of stock of these and it will eventually hit us hard when, for instance, we have this pandemic and it's related to our interaction with the environment and animals and then if we don't have vultures at all, that will expose us even more to more deadly pandemics in the future. Dr. Nogia, thank you very much for sharing with us and I wish you a very interesting work, save and vultures. Thank you very much. Absolutely.


The late, great Joan Rivers was best known as the Queen of Comedy. One of the world's most successful comedians from the 1960s onward, Joan was widely recognized for her in-your-face stand-up sets and her politically incorrect sense of humor. She was also the author of a dozen books, appeared in multiple films and designed her own jewelry alongside a host of other business pursuits throughout her 55-year career. Right up until her death, Joan Rivers lived in a stunning palace on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a penthouse suite in the sky that others have called a little piece of Versailles in New York City. Joan's long-time apartment is located inside one of New York's last remaining gilded age mansions constructed for John R. Drexel, the heir of a powerful banking family from Philadelphia. Over the course of its history, the building would change hands. Then, in the 1930s, it became an exclusive apartment house with nine units. It was stayed like that until the 1980s. Then a year after her husband, Edgar Rosenberg's death in 1987, she sold their home in LA and returned to New York State, purchasing this penthouse. Joan immediately began decorating the home with decor that spoke to the French themes architecture. In fact, Joan was once quoted as describing her condo as, where Marie Antoinette would have lived if she had money. Joan fell in love with the home's neo-French classic style. And over the decades, she preserved the unit's ornate details, including the paneled library, formal dining room, and several wood-brained fireplaces. With four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and two large entertainment spaces capable of holding 125 people at once, you can imagine the parties Joan used to throw here back in the day. Gallas and events that were sometimes attended by dignitaries as famous as Princess Diana. As soon as you step foot off the unit's private elevator, you'll discover a two-story gallery, which joins a light-filled living room, each of which includes an original fireplace. Joan's Louis XIV-inspired entertaining rooms feature a former ballroom and music room, which boasts 23-foot ceilings alongside some gorgeous antique columns and an elegant parquets of Versailles floor.  Self-facing terraces flood the entire unit with sunlight during the day, and Joan's master suite overlooks Central Park, along with the rest of the New York City skyline. Then there are the bathrooms, which feature marble tubs and countertops, as well as golden accents accompanied by elegant curtains and light. Considering the level of opulence on display, did any wonder, Joan would spend the final 28 years of her life living here? According to a quote from her real estate agent, Dolly Lenz, Rivers was contemplating selling this unit and moving to the west coast to be closer to her daughter Melissa. Joan would never get the chance to do so as she died following complications from a botched surgery in 2014. After her death, the home was listed for $28 million and sold to Prince Mohammed bin Fad, who decided to instill some changes of his own. A few months after buying the place, contractors and designers were hired to freshen it up. Something that originally upset Joan's former neighbors, one of whom told the Daily Mail, he is ripping it to shreds. Everyone is surprised because the place had a certain French look. It was very specific and one would think the buyer would be into that. And now he doesn't want that. When the home was unveiled in 2022, I gotta be honest, it didn't look that different, more like a modern update suited for contemporary taste. If anything, this updated decor feels a bit ritzier. The colors all pop a bit more and everything has a slightly more elegant sense to it. But I mean, it could always be because these images were captured with a higher definition camera. Today, you can find this home still on the market and it's being offered for $34.5 million, about $4 million less than the original listing from last year. Perhaps if you keep holding out, the price tag will drop a bit more, but with a place this magnificent, I wouldn't expect it to last forever. But there's also another reason why maybe it hasn't sold yet. The entire time Joan lived here, she was under the belief that the place was haunted. As much as Joan Rivers loved her one of a kind home with its Central Park views, the apartment had one thing she didn't love. A ghost in the form of a woman who she believed to have been the unit's former tenant named Mrs. Spencer. Joan famously appeared on Celebrity Ghost Stories in 2009 to discuss the spirit that had been haunting her for years. Joan was under the impression that Mrs. Spencer hated her because of the renovations that Joan had undertaken soon after moving in. Mrs. Spencer originally began manifesting herself as a chill through the apartment. Joan could also never quite seem to get her electrical appliances to work either. Even her dog refused to settle as anxious all the time. Then Joan discovered that all the heads of the cherubs hanging on her chandelier have been bitten off. Considering the ceilings in that room are over 20 feet high, what else could have possibly done that than a ghost? Rippers wasn't the only one to experience this phantom either. According to Laura, whenever Joan would hire musicians to play on the upper balcony of her entertaining room, they would sometimes see Mrs. Spencer up there with them. Joan eventually decided to exercise her home. She engaged the services of a voodoo priestess from Louisiana who banished Mrs. Spencer. Soon after, Joan noticed an improvement in the energy of her home. Even her dog began to get comfy, but it didn't last. The disruptions began again, and Joan didn't know what to do. Hoping to keep the old lady appeased, she happened upon an old painting of Mrs. Spencer in the basement of her building and hung it up in the hallway of her home with a vase of flowers underneath it. When the voodoo priestess got back in touch, she told Joan that Mrs. Spencer had been pleased by this display of affection, and from that point forward, Joan and her ghost were able to peacefully coexist until reverse passing. Having spent so much of her later life living out of New York City, there's one last home we're gonna show you that Joan built specifically for herself back when she was still married in the 1980s. Located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this 12,000-square-foot home with seven bedrooms and eight baths includes the Hollywood amenities you'd never find in that part of the country, including an indoor swimming pool, a jacuzzi, and a 2,000-square-foot master suite, all of which is situated on a 10-acre plot of land. This home was originally constructed by Thomas Pileggi, a friend and real estate partner of Joan's, who teamed up with her and her husband to invest $19 million in townhouse developments, industrial park, and shopping centers all around the county. Joan's home was situated in the community known as Two Ponds, an 87-acre development that Thomas was hoping to turn into a little Beverly Hills. Initially, the plan was to offer single-family houses on 10-acre plots with an asking price of around $300,000 each, but by the early 80s, plans had changed to include 300 condominiums, a 30,000-square-foot movie studio, a golf course, a spa, and other luxuries. The Northampton Township Board of Supervisors rejected this new proposal, which Rivers didn't take well, telling the inquirer, I love Bucks County and its people. I have a strong desire to come east and work and live in the clean and beautiful place, and then to be spit in the face is cruel. Zoning laws only allowed houses to be constructed on one acre, which ruled out condos. What's more, commercial activity like a movie studio wasn't allowed in the area, so Joan changed tactics and came up with a new plan to secede from Northampton Township. In 1983, Rivers filed a petition in Common Pleas Court to establish the Borough of Two Ponds as its own locality, complete with its own government, police, and zoning law. While Rivers was excited at the prospect of creating her own community, opposition to the idea went out, leading her and her husband, reverting to their original idea of building single family houses in the area. Their house was still under construction in August 1987 when Joan's husband Edgar died in his hotel room at the Four Seasons in nearby Philadelphia. He was suffering from health issues and it's believed he overdosed on prescription drugs at the age of just 63. Following this sad turn of events, the house took several more months to complete and was later sold to the owner, who has now listed it again recently. So if you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be Joan Rivers, and you've got a little over $2 million to spend, then head on over to Bucks County and check out the mansion she personally designed, but never wound up living in. Alright folks, that'll bring this latest house tour to a close. Thank you so much for joining me and before you head out, consider answering the following question. If you could bring the glitz and glamour of living in Hollywood to anywhere else in rural America, where would it be? 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We're glad to know you're still there. It's time now to go to the press and see what the headlines are saying. We have Mr. Tunde Kolawole, a legal practitioner, joining us right now from Lagos State. Good morning and welcome to the program, Mr. Kolawole. Good morning. Good morning. Okay. Thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure having you on the show. We're beginning today with the Guardian newspaper and we're beginning with a very tiny headline because I want you as a legal mind to give me information about it. Excuse me. Now, the small headline here at the bottom of that page is Ogun Assembly Impeaches Oluomo for Alleged Fraud. That is the speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly. He has been impeached for Alleged Fraud. In other reports, we hear that he had high-handedness and sometimes when we hear high-handedness, it is because he's not open-handed and giving enough money to the people making them go around. In fact, in another report we saw that the speaker was not giving us money. That's what the title did and that's the reason why they impeached him. My question now is everywhere else impeachment means to accuse somebody of wrongdoing. I will believe that there should be a process until that person is found guilty of those accusations and then removed and then he can be replaced. But in this case, in Nigeria, once you hear impeachment, the next thing is that he has been replaced. What is the legal way to define impeachment and is it correct to just impeach somebody and then replace him by law? When we look at the constitution, the crime took conditions for the removal of many of these persons that the speaker becomes skeptical of are well-specified in those places. Now we also know that if we return to the democracy in 1999, so many impeachments have been carried out. Some of those impeachments were called and they were reviled. That means we are precedents and that that road or that path has become a bit such that there should be no ambiguity whatsoever as regards the condition that must be met before anyone is removed. Well, the first is that the person who has most of them committed to infractions that can be described as a gross misconduct, things like APM, investment of public funds, certificate for jury and other malfeasances, which the law does not condone. And then the person we are impeaching, he must have only formal notice of the infarction that he has committed and then he will be given opportunity of a certain day or two at about to reply to those allegations. And then if you are not satisfied with the allegations, we take you to the floor of the alleged allegations and they reply with respect to these of the speaker. We take you to the floor of the house and then depict it with the members of the assembly and they are not satisfied and they are able to make a two-term majority of the members of that assembly when they can go ahead to impeach the speaker. The emphasis here is that the will of law or the strictly followed in impeaching those of the speaker but only one that any of these bodies will want to impeach. But too many times the complaints that we get or the excuses that we get is all about lying. It is not about somebody breaking the law. It is not about any gross misconduct. Most times speakers, especially members of the assembly, are impeached because the members think he is not the best slave for them. They only share the national cake from the top of the arm of government of that state. What? The desire of any member of the party does their so-called impeachment. I am also aware that this speaker is the will of law with the conditions described by the cause of not being met. It can be challenging, it can be suffocating, it can be terrible. Remember what happened at this assembly in which minority emptied the majority? Look at what is happening in the other states now. Which minority took over the assembly? Appointing a new speaker as against the majority. Some of these things, when foreigners are by them, they begin to laugh at us and they begin to wonder what kind of people are we. Because there is no discussion of some of these things. The books are there, the constitution is there. The electoral act is there. Like I said, we have no precedent when we come together to do impeachment, yet to continue to do things without following the will of law. Yeah, because sometimes when you want to tell people about how they should behave as citizens, you tell them you should know your right. And by knowing your right, you know the law. But sometimes the law is so confusing to people who are not learned people like us. We are not learned gentlemen like you are. When you hear impeachment, for instance in the United States, a sitting president was impeached. That means he was accused. Elsewhere impeachment means accusation, a may accusation, even if someone murdered someone and you are accusing him. It means that there is a process you need to follow and find that person guilty or not guilty and then if he's guilty, you remove him. But here it is just from impeachment and impeachment is removal. You get accused and after that there's a replacement for you. So I don't know how the legislature, whether they have those powers to be the accusers and the judges themselves in these cases that we hear every day. The truth of the matter is that nobody is above the law. If the House of Assembly, which makes laws for the state, has to obey the respected or poor as only law, then they could be challenged in the court of competent jurisdiction. And then they could overturn this impeachment. But the reason why we continue to see this kind of abitement or procedure is that they know it takes time. Before you go to court, you don't see it in court. They also know going to court of challenge or to mitigate is a very expensive they can be done with. But not many people may have the resources to pursue. And time is never our friend when we are mitigating. So they take advantage of some of these challenges of securing one's rights, of setting things straight and getting things done properly. But that should not discourage anybody or the speaker that has been removed. It is stronger field that the rule of law has been abolished with respect to the matter. Okay, well, we have the story also on the Guardian newspaper, which is saying that Blinken meets Tinobu. Blinken-Tinobu holds bilateral talks on security, economic cooperation. And another newspaper said that Blinken or America pledges $45 million for security for Nigeria and all that. And some people get to ask the question, whoever funds you will want to know what is happening in that sector. So is it good enough for us to hand over our security into the hands of America? I hope you understand what I mean. So when you get them too close, that means you will have to give them some information because they are paying the piper. So they dictate the tune sometimes. What do you feel about this bilateral talks? Yes, we hear that the president was asking him to support Nigeria to join the G20 or something and so many other things. But what do you think about security and begging other countries to support us security-wise with money? When you look around the world today, security has become a very serious challenge to different countries, different people, different nations. With regards to that, if countries collaborate to share information, to share intelligence and to help each other with regards to equipment, I don't think we should bother ourselves too much about it. But just like he said, the truth of the matter is that the American government that we are asking them to help us or who are proposing to help us also has their own security challenges. Look at the rate at which people in America will just take gun, walk to shopping malls and begin to mausoleum, shoot people and begin to kill people. Almost on a daily basis. That happens a lot. And then here in Nigeria too, we have seen how banditry in the rural areas especially and also in the urban area have grown on a daily basis. This is to tell us that most times in different places all this is security challenges, our own goal. And if we are going to be finding solutions to them, we have better approach it from the perspective of our own environment, rather than seeking outside us to help us secure our environment and then to protect us from our attacks. This is not to say that a country like America that has satellites in space with which they monitor what is happening around the world will not be useful to us and located to us in happiness and giving us advance warning that troubles might be visiting us. Or be that as it may, we will be responsible for solving our own problems. Those of us America will be the one to address his own own grown insecurity and challenges. But like I said, the truth of the matter is that we should not close our doors to international cooperation between Nigeria and America and this is not a country for that matter that wants to give us a happiness. You will remember that there was a time the Chinese people decided to insure physical disability in Abuja and then I think they provided about $400 million and Nigeria has been provided about $70 million. And the CCTV was installed and then it was turned from some time. But because there was a span, a life span, and with the Chinese people running it for us, after they have fulfilled their own obligation and running for the time they supposed to run, they handed it over to the Nigerian people. But lo and behold, the Abuja Municipal Authority or armed people here couldn't run it. Most of those CCTV cameras have been vandalized and they are no more functioning. What this tells us is that some of these sophisticated gadgets, no matter how beautiful and useful they may be, if they are not prepared and we don't have the equipment, the manpower and also the mindset to be able to manage and run them so as to get full benefit from them. We may just as well waste our time. So let's talk about calling the president to seek help and get help from wherever he may get it as to the challenges of insecurity all over the country. Before the entire mission is engulfed, the scenario around us today is fighting. It's never been like this before. All hands therefore require to be on deck for us to be on top of all the security challenges. Whether it be rural or upon or in combination of both. Okay. Let's move to Daily Trust newspaper and see a small headline there. Despite receiving 1.88 trillion Naira in two years, nine oil producing states dead skyrocket. I don't know what your take on this will be. They're oil producing states and they receive a humongous amount of money every month from the federal government yet their debt profile is rising by the day. That's the state of the different states are they? Yes. You're talking about the states? States oil producing states on the Daily Trust newspaper, small headline. Despite receiving 1.88 trillion Naira in two years, nine oil producing states dead skyrocket. Yes. The truth of the matter is that the kind of money that we talk about, if it is food only managed, all those oil producing states by now would have been like Dubai and some of these Arab countries are useful and cheap to them and put their play. The point of using their oil works to create the next investment hope that we'll be able to generate revenue for the running of their different countries. Because they do know that sooner than later oil will either become obsolete or they will not be found again in commercial country. And if you have not diversified your economy, then you will be in shock. With regards to us, what we've been doing is leading an essential slide and then embarking on grandiose projects, signature projects that we're not likely or that do not have too much value to our country, to our state. There are also projects that are not self-sustaining that will not be able to generate revenue, not just to repay the costs of consulting those signature projects, but also to be able to that kind of generate revenue required by the society or the country or the state to run itself. Not long ago, remember what happened? When Govnawike declared that they were giving certain money as well as producing state and that if they won't give it to the state, that they've been using it to consult supply overs, that they've been using to do roads in their own state. Whereas all the other states, who got similar money, didn't disclose to their people and never used it to develop their state. In fact, as has been reported in some media, most of those money ended up being used to finance a political campaign of the different politicians in some of these states. My take is that most of these states, with what they care for the federal government, opt not to be borrowing money from anywhere to run their state or build their projects. And that in fact, most of these oil producing states take into account the landmarks, the sizes of those states and their population. Cops to have been transformed by now into the kind of Dubai who are noises of work in Nigeria. But we are now seeing this, the money is simply not being couldn't be unmanaged. That's why the fact that we do know that this oil will not consist of repair forever. And I think we need to repair. New technology will have overtaken it. Just like it has overtaken coal. Such that oil will become a thing that nobody will want to do anything with. But it will become a more obsolete energy that is no longer useful for anybody or for any profile. So the society must have a benchmark which we to measure and insist that these different governments and these different states work for the economy. So that the society will not fall flat when the oilworks are disappeared. All right. Let's move to the punch newspaper. Federal government to sell five power plants for one billion dollars is the headline here at the top left corner of the punch newspaper. Honestly speaking, I really don't understand why the federal government continues in a very aggressive manner to private types. Most of these are power plants. These power plants are plants and with the taxpayer's money has been used to build or to consult. And after we have consulted them, using billions of dollars, we sell them very cheaply to the people in the private sector who have proven over the years not to be able to manage these power plants very, very prudently. Look at the state of power supply. It's been more than 10 years that we have told these power plants that the PSCN has been privatized. But that the migrant people getting value for their money, the answer is no. Also look at most of the government institutions that have been privatized.  Which one of them in the country today can you point out that is doing very well? The answer is no. Whereas we are talking about privatization and talking about commercialization and talking about pursuing the market economy, which is capitalism, we see what the Chinese people have been doing. People who rule the command or the central economy, the socialist economy. Look at the giant strides that they are making the area of agriculture, in the sciences, in the vehicle industry, in agriculture and water here. The Chinese are taking over today the electric market, the electric car market company. Today the Chinese are dominating the arms industry. Today AI and most of the Chinese scientific tools and scientific finding and invention are coming from China. This tells us that capitalism is not necessarily superior to socialism. It all depends on how this is our money. But in fact socialism will centralize the economy. It guarantees a life more abundant and the kind of even distribution of wealth when compared to capitalism. So selling these power plants, how it will benefit the Nigerian people? I really don't know. If they are commercializing and privatizing all the commandeers of the economy, why didn't they also hand over the government? Why don't they commercialize government? So that certain persons will gain the cause of problems with running government. And then they will be independent to the Nigerian people. Honestly speaking, these privatization programs, we are neither here nor there. It's not a solution to the challenges that we are facing in the power sector. Okay. Through security matters, back to security matters, Kanu or kidnapping epidemic, Kanu, nine orders, mall, debt sentence and life jail. The riders are Kanu, Benway and a number of others committed to debt sentence for convicts. That's according to officials. And IG orders intelligence gathering on a doctor's kidnappers landlord's risk 20 year jail. So what's your take? Debt sentence, landlord's risk 20 year jail. The state of kidnapping the country to save the lives is a very, very frightening. In the past, all we used to see is that the kidnappers will go and stand by the roads and then they will lay people and kidnap them. But what we are seeing of reason is that they are going to people's homes, they are going to people's offices and then they go there and kidnap them and then take them into custody and then begin to ask for ransom. That is to say that the kidnappers on a daily basis have become more and more very audacious. And I'm sorry that if these things are not living the cost, the consequences will be very serious. And when you see people being kidnapped by this way and it is all over the media, it's funny that you don't want to come into Nigeria to invest because they think that their lives and property will not be secured. But with that as it may, I want to say that sentence and life imprisonment has never been moved to be educations to, I mean, as a punishment or as a deterrent to some of these icons that have been committed in this place. Remember in the past that we have death sentence for things like mother, we have death sentence for Amrubli and some of these others in the sky. But in what way have these stopped the people engaging in those criminalities? In what way have these stopped them from engaging in those criminalities? It hasn't started to know deterrence and war at all. More importantly, when you look at what is happening around the world today and the campaigns of the United Nations or some of these other human rights invasions all over the world, the campaign is so abandoned or is to stop the death sentence because they think that they have done research and find out that it has never served a very deterrent to the commission or some of these aggregated kinds and not too long ago, and I think a country like Uganda and I also think a country like South Africa have transitioned the death sentence from their started books. And when you also look at own kidnapping, you want to ask yourself what is responsible for the kidnapping? Why don't we find solutions? The root cause, the things that are making people to engage in kidnapping. Why don't we find solutions to it? It will appear to me that unemployment is one of it. It will appear to me that the high cost of living is one of it. It will also appear to me that the sensations lies, that the politicians are living, that some musicians are living, that some of these businessmen are living are the things that kind of encouraging or misleading the young people in the country to engage in kidnapping, armed robbery, pipeline vitalization, and no manners of egregious crimes. So if we are going to be having an illicit solution to that problem, I think we should be addressing the root cause. If this unemployment cuts down inflation, gives food security to the people, and then also cuts down the social life, that the politicians, that some sportsmen, that some musicians, that some businessmen are living. On a daily basis, you open the social media, and certain policies are advertising. The road choice, the job once, are no manners of expensive vehicles, private jets that they have bought. And they know how it is, they put it on the social media. They mention that they are built in Lekih, that they are built in Ajah, and that they are built in Ikui. So when people live this kind of social living, or social life, and majority of people are wallowing up their property, the consequences could be the kidnapping, the armed robbery, the drug trafficking that has not become rampant in our country. That sometimes, life imprisonment will probably not be the solution. It will not be education, just as it has never served as deterrent in the past. Well, but I don't know what other solutions we are going to have, apart from the ones that mentioned about maybe providing some things that are lacking. But we saw two things that gave us a semblance of hope in regard to fighting this kidnapping and all that. So when we were talking about the NIN, and they said that everybody should link their number to the NIN, it was a see-ok. Everybody was afraid that now you are known by the government and because of that, let me pipe down on these activities. Kidnapping was not as bad as it is now. Then there was another time that Nigerians actually suffered, but we saw that kidnapping went down. That was when we had the cash crunch where we were talking about cashless economy. Kidnappings were almost at zero level at that point. So these are things that we could have explored. Unfortunately we are the ones, the Nigerians themselves, that cried that this cash crunch is so much because anyway some things were not addressed like the infrastructure to aid e-banking, like the charges that were too much from the banks and other service providers and all that. But we cried that this thing should stop and it stopped. Kidnappings returned, ransom collecting now is getting bolder and we also have found the person who was in charge of this NIN in the person of a pandemic also now being in the fray trying to gather money to pay ransom. We saw a case a few days ago or a few weeks ago when he was saying well a friend has decided to pay 50 million in ransom or so which means he was part of the people trying to gather money to pay ransom for kidnappers and all that. So where do we go from here? Things that showed us that if things are done in that regard maybe the kidnappings will go down. We just jettisoned them and we're not looking at them. Cash crunch would it gave us a problem in Nigeria no doubt but if we saw that it brought something good couldn't have we explored that opportunity and seen how we could address the problems that came from the cashless economy and address them and make sure that we gain more in the area of security. So what do we do? The truth of the matter is that why technology has advantages and all that? It also has advantages. The part is in the sense that those who employ all new technology for Nepalese activities also study these technologies and begin to find ways that means to kind of approach or overcome whatever obstacles those technologies might be pushing to whatever crimes that they may want to come in. Remember that in the past the kidnappers will use their own force to call the teams to call the family of the victims of people they have kidnapped to bring ransom to certain places or drop ransom in certain places but when they discover that their phone can be tracked and know that they stopped doing that and then they began to use the phones of their victims to reach the families of the victims as to where the ransom is going to be brought and when they also find that they are also posing a problem for them they've been using some other means like the social media Instagram and all of you and all these other social media to communicate and what of you and they also use most informants to communicate to get some of these ransom to collect that it was reported that some informants for kidnappers were arrested in a boot camp not too long ago you'll find out the NIN and the BZN and then the cashless thing has been used and it's telling the tide of kidnapping the country the kidnappers are also finding ways and means to relay and show that those things don't work that they get what they want now we found that we have all these cutting edge technologies all over the place so that is the truth and our children are geniuses they have ways and means by which they kind of approach the efficacy of these technologies and what are they and then when the minister will not be the chief fundraiser for kidnappers what that tells us is that people no longer have confidence in the ability of the security agency to be able to provide them security and also to be able to rein in the kidnapper that we have in the different parts of the country and that way you also look at the brutal manner in which two of the children of the lawyer whose families were kidnapped and brutally killed not many people would have the patience to begin to wait for the for the security people to be able to rescue people that have been kidnapped because where those things take their time they take a lot of planning and they also carry a lot of risk in the sense that when security people go to rescue people that have been kidnapped both the kidnapped and the kidnapper could at the end of the day become casual things and so when families begin to fear for this thing they would prefer to solve their problems quietly and then like the other media who want to say leave the rest in the hands of court so who repeat our security people especially the police and I think the idea of police are something that is very useful and noble this week some specialized arms for units that have been set up within the Nigerian police I think FIS or what is it or what is it called them now for this kidnapping squarely not just in the federal capital but also all over the country and war has been I also had the senator in charge of making a force to resuscitate the CDC cameras and the Chinese people donated to us and it saw all over Abuja which have been vandalized which are no longer working the senator for Abuja is working and they are trying to see how the CDC operations can be resumed so don't let us we cannot be too hard on our security men too a country a country like America that has all the gadgets but in the case where the police in the case where the police will now be talking about landlords who are housing kidnappers I see they carry these kidnapped victims to the houses where they are staying landlords will be charged to court and they will take about 20 years jail and then if you are housing also a Yahoo boy according to them you will also face jail time in a time when remote work is the order of the day some people making millions of Naira just working from the comfort of their rooms how would you know who is a Yahoo boy and who is not a Yahoo boy do your investigations arrest these people if the landlord is culpable go ahead and arrest him don't say just because I give a house to someone who doesn't go to work so I don't know let's not be hearing that army is coming but let's move to another newspaper the point is that you don't punish a man for an offence or a factory has not committed and then you cannot be asking your tenant I wonder who and who they are bringing I will just be going into my tenant's room every day and finding out whether he is a Yahoo boy or not yes only on nature news we have this story we are trying to wrap up on time now on nature news we have this story which has been trending anyway as far as I'm concerned take away that is a plastic band in Lagos Bruce controversy stakeholders hail so I don't know who the stakeholders are LPX goober candidate fumes and we speak as association caution we have even heard that one eatery is asking people that if you want to take out whatever you want to buy you have to bring your plate from home to do this so I don't know how this is going to affect us but controversy is following the ban on styrofoam especially from our public space what is your opinion about this ban honestly the needs of plastic containers is becoming very very serious issue not just in Lagos but all over Nigeria and not just in Nigeria when you look at what is happening different parts of the world it's becoming a very very serious challenge the oceans are said to be getting polluted and the fishes are getting killed in their millions because of this means of plastic at the end of the year and there the cost of cleaning up the plastic liters in the environment is also very very on mongo as the government alone cannot assure that the solutions some countries are adopting for this challenge is that they are asking some of the people who use this plastic container to begin to use the gradable paper container so that when those ones are used when you dispose them of the kind of decay degenerate and then go back to the soil without polluting the environment in some countries of the world too there are so many and each are asking people to bring their own place from home if they would like to decide in some other places too organizations that use some of this plastic container are asked to provide a program of recovering those plastic utensils after they are being used that is to say if you are running a restaurant and suddenly people with plastics you must design a program in which you will be able to get back those plastic containers and dispose them identically and properly so that it doesn't constitute a nonsense to the environment so we have places that have been have even been placed on some of these plastic containers so I would want to say that what the governor of Lakers has done is a welcome development if it is something that should have happened there is no time to go and if they haven't done it the consequence of an environment is going to be very very great but I would prefer that we have a more effective approach to it like it has been done in some other countries of the world that people make use of this plastic thing to be encouraged to use degradable materials like a paper to serve people people like the those who manufacture beverages that we drink and know that should also be encouraged to have a program of recycling this plastic container so that those who sell drinks in plastic should make it composite for them to retrieve back or to get back those plastic containers from the dealers and those who drink some of these beverages of course in our defense home too which is encouraged to have 2-3 baskets in which we will separate the plastic containers the metallic containers and then the degradable containers such that when the waste disorder people come they know where to find the metal containers and take it to the appropriate place they know where to find the degradable containers okay well this is how much we can take from this morning we've been talking to Tunde Kolaule on the headlines on our national newspapers unfortunately we have to leave abruptly well we'll take a short break and when we return we'll be looking at our hot topics stay 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Unpregnant. This is perhaps one of the most horrifying movie trailers I've ever seen. Okay, this is absolutely disgusting. And let me explain why. So the premise of the film, at least the trailer is that this, you know, teenage girl gets pregnant. She's under 18. And so, you know, she wants to get an abortion.  And, but her parents are, you know, according to the movie, maybe Catholic or something like that. They're really against abortion. So she finds this center, wherever across state lines, and enlists one of her lesbian friends to help her have this, you know, road trip to get this abortion.   And there's the mission and all that. And I've seen many movies like that.  Because you think about it like, you know, movies have stories that they're telling, they're telling stories, and they're preaching something to you.  And that's part of the reason that Christian movies are often seen as not very good, because they're very preachy. But even in the trailer here, you can tell, you can see what it's preaching to you. It's saying, look, this is actual, like freedom. This is good that she's going. This is funny. This is, this is, this is great, actually. And it's giving people a really faulty understanding of what abortion is. It's not a happy like thing that you're going to do. And it doesn't really matter at all. No, it's murder. And that blows my mind that you could sit through a movie like this, watching them do all this crazy stuff.  That's crazy. They run into this, you know, this other guy who helps them get to their destination. The climax of the film is getting the abortion. Are you kidding me?  So this girl is in like a situation, obviously not ideal by any stretch of the imagination, right? But she's pregnant boyfriend proposes.  And it's sad. Like, it's sad that that this is what our culture glorifies because to God, like, if we're actually going to look at what the word of God says, and if we haven't totally lost our minds, we find out that all life is valuable. All life is worth protecting. It doesn't matter size, location, level of dependency. It doesn't matter. But the problem is, is actually, the world has brought in its own standard of saying, no, it's only life of this, it's only life of this.   And even people discuss after birth, if there's some sort of like regret, then moments after birth, they can make a decision. Like, this is, we got to get back to the word of God, honestly, that, and it has to be reflected in our media, right? I'm all about preaching the gospel, but I'm also about creating content and movies and films that actually reflect goodness and good storytelling, not evil, right? Even a story about a girl who won an abortion. I mean, that could be an interesting story, but the way at least the trailer completely glorifies her decision and turns it into a big joke. Oh my goodness, like, turns it into a joke. Abortion is the biggest joke, really, really. And I mean, this doesn't surprise me. There was that whole movement back, back a while ago that it was all about, shout your abortion, like, shout your abortion, like, be proud of that. Because look, when we've done wrong things, we either feel shame, we either live in shame and guilt, or we, we just quench that, and we actually turn that into an aspect of our identity. Like, you see it all the time, people that, that are just doing evil things, and in order not feel guilt and shame, they take that on as their identity as if that's a good thing, but it's not. This trailer is preaching a message, and its message is that abortion is funny, that abortion can be made light of, that it's no big deal, that, you know, oh, you get pregnant, oh man, you know, hey, there's an abortion clinic across state lines, let's have a big, funny buddy comedy movie about it, because that would be great, and that would, you know, dismantle some of the preconceptions about, you know, abortion, and maybe, you know, lighten people's conscience a little bit, because look, hey, these people are laughing, these people are having a good time on their way to the abortion clinic, so the fact that, oh, you're broken up inside on your way to the abortion clinic as your abusive boyfriend is bringing you there, oh, you're just kind of weird, you should be happy about it, you should be joyful about it, because it is just a clump of cells, that's it, that's all it is, so just be happy about it, invite your friend along the way, get pedicures, schedule something afterwards so you don't have to think about it, because it's no big deal, but it is a big deal, because it's a baby, it's a gift from God, you know, we're starting to see, and we, and for the, ever since the fall, man, we've been seeing God's blessings as curses, like it's true, like God gives us great things, like children, and we're like, I don't want that, like what, like what, and don't get me wrong, like I know people in this situation, it is difficult, and it's hard, and I'm not trying to minimize that, but understand what I'm talking about, I'm talking about just letting the baby live, like right, like isn't that where we began, isn't that where we, like where human decency comes in, isn't that where common grace comes in, at least at one point, we all kind of believe that murder was wrong, but look, when we're not holding to God's standard, I guess that's not true anymore, I guess that's not true anymore, preach the gospel, fight for the unborn, create movies and TV that reflects God's law and God's truth, good stories, entertaining stories, comedies, but not comedies about sin, not comedies about glorifying baby murder, that's a big yikes, am I surprised by this, no, I'm not that surprised, I'm not that surprised about it, look, people can make movies all the time about indoctrinating people to think abortion is okay, that's fine, they can continue to make their indoctrinating movies, what are we gonna do, we're gonna follow Christ, we're gonna create our own movies that actually reflect Christ in a glorifying way, that tell better stories than whatever crap HBO Max is serving up, let's do it, see you later guys.


This does become a regular session at AAAS. OK, I'm going to talk for a few minutes about a pre-print that we have on the archive now titled Setting with Spatial Temporal Surveys. And as one of the speakers earlier alluded to, I think there's a great opportunity for some of the modern data sets that Strong is producing for all kinds of other reasons to do some really interesting setting work. And so I just sort of read this talk quickly with sort of four big takeaway points. The first is that I think Optimal Surveys, a couple mentioned here that are highly featured at this meeting. We have an open house tonight about tests. I think there's one tonight or tomorrow about LST as well. These surveys, I think, are primed to do new kinds of setting work that hasn't been heavily studied before. And so my soapbox point, if you only take one point away from this talk, is that we need more literature on possible types of signals or ideas of things that we can search from. Another way of phrasing that is that there's a huge opportunity here. If you are interested, if you're a student, you have a data set like every scope, if you've got sort of a wild idea, these data sets are the perfect sort of playground or sandbox to test some of these ideas out, to create algorithms that are portable to use on multiple kinds of data sets or are extensible to new data sets, or even go back through archival data. So I think there's a huge opportunity here to develop new ideas and to search over huge areas of the sky. LST is going to search over effectively half the sky, tests searching over 80% of the sky. The potential to look for new things over wide areas is already there. Point number two is that not only couldn't these surveys do set in search over wide areas of the sky for long periods of time, they might actually even be good at it if we can figure out how to do it. So as with almost all areas of astrophysics, supernovae, stellar variability, transiting exoplanets, things that are very popular these days, surveys can dominate if we frame our science for questions correctly. If we're just collecting things, if we're just going around collecting butterflies, then surveys maybe seem like kind of a waste of time. But if we frame our astrophysical questions, testing planet formation theories, testing the lifetimes of stellar activity, things like that, if we can frame our questions to make use of the surveys in the right way, then surveys end up dominating, become often the most efficient way to do science, which of course we've seen a huge growth of surveys. And so I think that's the challenge for setting. We need to start forming setting questions that can make use of the sort of cadence and the modeling that comes out of these surveys. Jason Wright and colleagues wrote a really nice paper now two years ago about exploring needles in the n-dimensional haystack. I'm gonna forget here on the stage, I think it was 11 dimensions, Jason? Nine dimensions, that's still sufficient numbers of dimensions that I can't plot it on this screen. But I can draw a nice little needle graphic here. The idea is that we have some large dimensional parameter space that we're looking for, right? We have so few ideas about what we're trying to find in any study search. We're looking in huge dimensions of sensitivity and area, integration time, cadence, polarization, things that are very specific of course to the radio. And I think that there is a very analogous argument we made about the dimensionality we're looking in the optical. Now we don't, in the optical surveys, like LST and TESS, we're not worried about polarization and modulation, but bandwidth is something the band pass we're looking through, the cadence, the distance of which we're sensitive to. So many analogous kinds of properties can be made. And so in this pre-print that we did, or that I did with some friends and I published last year, we explored trying to move this very radio-focused n-dimensional haystack into the optical and showing that making some very simple assumptions about similar kinds of transmitters and sort of brightness that we might be able to detect, optical surveys, so here is the sort of typical volume that Jason and colleagues put into his paper about radio, the optical surveys, if we make some simple assumptions about the kinds of signals you might detect, perform in this, the log haystack volume, perform one to two orders of magnitude better than the radio surveys. This is because these surveys are looking like in every scope here. Every scope actually beats LST slightly, which I love considering how big LST is and how small every scope is. These surveys really dominate in this volume, this parameterization, because they're surveying massive amounts of sky immediately over many years. So of course that's not optical, but optimal for many kinds of signals, but it is optimal for some signals that we might conceive of. To extend the analogy that they used in their paper where we might be looking at, I think optimistically they said it was like a hot tub as compared to the ocean or something in terms of the volume ratio that the study surveys were sensitive to, we might optimistically say that we're surveying a couple of swing pools as compared to the volume of the ocean. That's not a huge volume, granted, but if we're trying to suss out the life in the oceans with a swimming pool, it seems a lot more available than looking in a hot tub. It's like a much better volume to search over. Number three is that we do have, I'll call them trivial examples because they're things that we probably talked about a lot even today, but there are some trivial examples that we can point to for certain signals that we might look for. So I just want to spend a couple of minutes going through what I think are some easy examples, but these are hopefully, hopefully you will laugh at them and say, these are too easy, I have a much better idea as to incentivize you to go and run with this and create new literature. Now I want to, of course, highlight this awesome summary figure. It came out of the NASA Tech Research Workshop from about a year and a half ago. What do they talk about? What are the sort of best kinds of, what are the best kinds of signals? And the best kinds of signals are ones that a civilization would inevitably create. I don't think that the optical study literature that I'll point to today necessarily fills this inevitability criteria very well. It's a sort of convoluted or, yeah, there's sort of like complex signals that we might ask why a civilization would broadcast them, but we can search for them nonetheless. So of course, as I just mentioned, things like biology and the star, fascinating objects, astrophysically and, or setting up opportunities, big dips, long-term decays, strange modulations from the ground. These things, well, until we had better explanations, these things were somewhat unexplained and are eminently searchable from large datasets like the Kepler test datasets. One project that I'm very excited about and have seen recently some more literature on is the Vasco project, the vanishing and appearing sources over a century of observations. So here's my cartoon version of this. This is looking at sources over decades or even a century timescale, stars that would disappear or would very slowly fade with no other explanation. I think this is a very promising technique and they've got one interesting object referring back to a plate archive and hopefully with things like LSSD coming online can set new upper limits on whether or not this star, their candidates are actually disappeared or if they just had a state change, thank you. There's of course opportunities to look for things like Dyson Spheres, which are good. There was a very interesting object that's actually tweeted out a bunch a couple weeks ago, a rebroadcast or a light echo from Supernova 1987A, which I think is, again, astrophysically totally fascinating by the dust structure around 1978. But these also could be potentially a steady signal. You could imagine intelligent civilizations seeing a galactic scale event like a Supernova and rebroadcasting it as a way of saying like, oh, we saw this, we're here. This would be an interesting beacon structure. We don't think this is one of those that seem to be pretty close to what I'd be able to see here. So I don't think this is a candidate here, but something like this is something that we get right down as an algorithm, sticking to a computer and look for. There's an opportunity here. I think the laser-cooking technology idea that David Kuping and Alex peachy published a couple of years ago is a great example of something that, again, we could look for missing transits in a series of very regular transits with mission-like capital error tests. If a transits were missing one day, this would be an interesting potential source of a steady trigger that we might look at. And we might consider even more convoluted and complex measurements where we might look for spatial clusters of things, things that multiple stars that are doing things in a coordinated manner that should not know about each other. So if many transiting planets, for example, they're transiting at the same time or they've had the exact same radius and things like that. So I worked through a couple of little examples like this in the pre-print here. I won't spend any time on this, but it's the kind of thing that you can postulate and very quickly run some very simple machine learning algorithms on. You can find candidates and then you can realize that those are not significant to throw them out, but it took two seconds to run. So we can run unlimited numbers of these kinds of tests through our data. Okay, and finally, future directions. There's a ton of these surveys coming online and as they are building the infrastructure to look for supernova, to look for transiting exoplanets, we have the infrastructure to piggyback and do setting, I'll say for free, but I just mean we don't have to actually go to the telescope. We still need to pay people to do this. So it is free in the hardware sense, not in the people sense. In the future, we might imagine looking for all kinds of new types of light algorithms. We can imagine other algorithms that might be good for finding new kinds of signals. Things like I've been speculating and scratching my head about things that are repeating but not periodic. There's a ton of effort going on right now in missions like ZTF and every scope in LST and test look for periodic signals because they're very easy to look for repeating periodic signals. But what about things that repeat with a non-periodic sequence like some sort of Fibonacci sequence or a numerical sequence? We can use the same sort of approach as we used to look for periodic repetition and we can look for Fibonacci repetition. For example, this is a cartoon example that it didn't work. It's works but it's slow. There's algorithm opportunities here. Okay, and here at 10 minutes, I will just put up again these four bullet points that I think optical surveys, infrared surveys and all the other wavelengths that are going online are a prime opportunity to develop new-setting literature. They might even be good at it if you can learn how to deal with. There are some trivial examples in place and I would encourage and I would welcome, so every scope people who are in the back want to talk, I would welcome opportunities to talk about new kinds of signals in my book.


West Ham United 2, Everton 0, another defeat for Frank Lampard's men and that could be the end of Frank Lampard as Everton managed it, that is certainly what's going around, he is the 1-2-8 favourite now to be sacked, I think it's Everton's 11th defeat in 14 games and that only normally ends one way. Let's get into it, first thing I'm going to talk about is Frank Lampard, really wanted it to work out for Lampard, really did, come in, brought some good coaches with him, really was enthusiastic, I thought he did well last season in terms of being able to pull the club together, get the crowd onside and we were all in it together almost. We got through the season and stayed up and the summer was the time to make those changes and then the summers come and gone and the area we needed to strengthen him was the goals, we needed goals in the team but Jarlison went out and we needed goals put in it and he is part of the recruitment team and therefore he should have been setting out what he needed which is goals, he's not stupid. He was a goalscorer midfield player, he knows how important scoring goals is, we didn't get anyone of note and we started the season on the back foot because we didn't have the threat. Obviously we went into those three games before the well cut and we were in an okay position actually, we were just beating Palace, we got a drawer full of them and we were in a decent position and then we had Leicester at home which was a game I felt we could win him and we were pouring it like really pouring and we lost the other two games. And then he had six weeks to really make some changes to the patterns of play or what he wanted to do and he's just not being able to do it and I do feel sorry for him because I think he really wants to do well here at Everton but the record is making it very, very difficult for him. Has he been let down by the board? Absolutely because he's not had the finances he should have had. You can be creative in many different ways, we've spoken to many different people with regard to FFP regulations restrictions rather and they've told us quite a few ways clubs can get round, Everton could have generated more money for the manager. And we haven't done that so we haven't given him the help that he needed but his record is poor as Everton manager and he does have to do more, if he stays he's got to do more and some have come up with a way to get us wins because otherwise eventually he will be sacked and we will be relegated. I know a lot of people think it's already done it ineditable now and all that. It is looking very, very difficult now but hopefully if he does stay his manager he can show him out. Dan Giumaru who will come in will obviously help him but he needs another two or three maybe in this window and I don't know how you get that on Everton's budget. We can only have one more loan and therefore one would have to be a permanent deal so he's going to need more. Second thing I want to talk about is the board who turned up today. There must have been as much of a security risk at West Ham or something I don't know but they were there. They seemed to all leave Bill Kennight on his own about ten minutes ago which I think is not very good either.  They really have by now. Not being run as well as they could be. Therefore the finances aren't available for the director of football and the manager to improve the team. What's happened in the last couple of weeks has been nothing short of a disgrace. Well the last week hasn't it really been ten days. There's been nothing short of a disgrace. I don't know where they go from here as a board. I really don't. I don't see how they're going to be able to turn up for the Arsenal game because of that risk that they said was there against Southampton. Southampton I imagine will be quite evident against Arsenal evident in a worse position. A couple of lone signings I don't think are going to turn people's decisions. I really don't think it's going to turn people round now to go oh you know what they're not bad. You know we've just seen a couple of things after a game far out of Mishiri saying that he's isn't on whether Frank Lampard stays isn't his. I don't know who he's trying to kid. I honestly don't know who's trying to kid because it's quite clearly his decision. Bill Kenneight avoided the question as well. I mean what Bill Kenneight said was probably correct is that as if he's going to tell some reporter, he put a cat a mic in his face, walking out the ground whether he's going to sack Frank Lampard, whether Frank Lampard's going to be sacked on her. He said the right thing as if I'm going to tell you that you know we're not going to say anything like that here or whatever he said. But the board have got to take a look at themselves and I think they know deep down really now there's no way back for them. I think they know they've done as a board. And we'll have to see what comes of that. And finally Dan Diwme, shall we go with, shall we try and finish on a positive? Everton have managed to complete Dan Diwme on loan from Villa Rail for the rest of the season. It was looked a little bit hairy yesterday. He hadn't had the medical despite stories going round that he had. And a couple of other clubs were sniffing round them but Everton Fairplay have managed to convince them to come to Everton. And Fairplay to him to have the Cahoners to come and get involved in this dog fight which is what Everton are in right now. They're going to need them to score goals. They're going to need them to hit the ground run. They need more than just him to be fair. Kevin Thalwell still got his way cut out. He needs Everton need at least two more. And so the creative best is going to be required over the next 10, 11 days, 12 days, 11 days to get it sorted, to get Everton extra bodies in. But Dan Diwme, like I said, he's done well for Villa Rail. 22 goals and 51 games. So records of goals which is good. He can go by players which is good. And now it'll be the way to use him. How to be using the best way so that he can do his thing. And Everton can get more creativity. Will he create chances for Dom? Hopefully. Hopefully we can get Dom on the call that Louren's scored and at least give ourselves a threat in games. And if we do that and we start swinging, throwing effort to goal and getting on the end of things, we might give ourselves a fighting chance. It's going to be difficult. It's going to be incredibly difficult.  And the odd draw, that looks highly unlikely at this moment in time. It's been done. But they're going to have to start winning and start winning very quickly. And the problem Everton of God is obviously the next two games are Arsenal at home and Liverpool away, which on paper will yield no points for Everton. And then they'll be down to 16 matches and it really will be basically got to win every other game. It'll be a huge, huge job, a huge task. But hopefully, Arnaud Dandu me can give us a chance at least by coming in. We need them to be Nikita Jelavitch. We need them to be Kevin Campbell all those years ago coming and score us some goals. And I don't believe that he's going to be able to just do it all on his own. But we need someone like that to have a big, big impact to give us a hope of staying up. So let's hope it's him. There you go. Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't until the rest of the weekend. See you later.