Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our fling squad 2019 Ultra series circuit. We are here in the Swiss rounds of the tournament This is phase one of the tournament and we are going into week five of our Swiss rounds today It is the last round of our Swiss rounds and after this we will have the final standings Which will determine what players group stages will be going forward into phase two of the tournament before we hit that Knockout stage of the fling squad Ultra series circuit I hope you've been enjoying the matches that we've been featuring so far in the circuit and are looking forward to viewing the match We're gonna feature today. So getting into it without further ado We are looking at the matchups for week five as you can see right on your screen in front of you now We've got Kazumi versus Salka and VGC Luigi versus Costa. You're Ryan versus Johnny Hacks Worms Eye versus Ryan Peebie Herbert We've got Pokemon VGC versus Cameron Chansey Mansi versus Will Krim versus Xenophist Ace and Nappy versus Assaulty Electabuzz or Shared versus Stu Nightlight versus Alex and Pinko VGC versus Marcus We've got some incredible games for you coming up this week But the match that we are gonna feature going into week five is gonna be Kazumi versus Salka And so without further ado guys, let's get into this first one today And if you do enjoy the sort of content, please remember to leave a like on the video To subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments down in the comment section below Let me know which player you're rooting for in this circuit more matches You've enjoyed so far and what you're hoping to see in the rest of the circuit as we get into the group stages After this week. So as I say we are featuring Kazumi versus Salka and VGC. So without further ado, let's get into it And I hope you enjoy this one today So as you can see we've got Salka on the bottom of your screen and Kazumi, Eric on the top of your screen We're going into this one Challenging Eric in his standard kind of Pokemon gear not going to that stylus just yet But we're gonna see Salka and lead off with the Lunala and the Tapulele here and Eric Kazumi leading off with the Incineroar and Suikun Suikun something not often that we see in this format We're gonna see the Tapulele activate its psychic terrain here gonna nullify the more important fake out that the Incineroar is holding here Intimidate gonna see cycled off but not really gonna affect these special attackers on Salka inside of the field here The Lunala in a bit of an awkward position because it doesn't want to take an attack from the Incineroar here But it does have a shadow shield intact still as we see the Lunala go first before anything else and fire off a Moongai's beam into that Incineroar here Just get some chip damage and we are gonna see a Z move now it is from Salka and it looks like it is the Phytinium Z it's gonna be from the Tapulele gonna fire off this Phytinium Z So Z focus blast and you've got to imagine it is gonna be into this Incineroar to remove it from the field as we see This all are pummeling straight away action-packed episode firing off into the Incineroar gonna be Hopefully enough to pick up the knockout here if it's in a soulfess It might struggle, but are we gonna see you all gonna see the knockout here on to Incineroar making quick work here What is this week is gonna do known for speed control is gonna set up a tailwind here But it just fires off a snarl breaking that shadow shield on the Lunala Chipping that down and the Tapulele and producing that special attack on both targets here So really helping Kazumi out going into this next turn as we see Tabakako now hit the field for Kazumi And it is gonna all go right this psychic terrain get rid of that and give Kazumi a little bit more momentum Then he had going into that previous turn here We are gonna see the Lunala for Salko and switch out now He wants to reposition that preserver for later on as the stack attack on out enters the field And he's gonna be able to threaten trick room set up as we do see the Tapulele just protect itself this turn We are gonna see a Z move now file out. It is hot pack this episode from each side We're gonna see the Tabakako now activate its on Z move fire at it back into Salko inside of the field. Let me see the gig of old havoc now launch from this Tabakako But which target is it into you gotta imagine it probably isn't that Lunala want to remove that from the field as we see It is fired into it is actually the Tapulele But behind the protect not gonna take as much damage So really nice play there from Salko and just preserve his Tapulele for a further turn as we see a tailwind now Set up from this Suikun put himself in a nice position going into the following turn But gotta be aware that there is potentially a trick room coming out from this stack attack of this next turn So we're really gonna switch out and Kyogre now switching into the field Which is a little bit risky in front of a type of cocoa that could potentially fire at a big big Electric type attack under this terrain and do some big work to Kyogre now It does primal revert hit the field and it will bring this primal you'll see to the field and Boost also this Suikun's ability to do damage to the stack attack that will not be enjoying any water type attacks here We are gonna see a volt switch now from the Tabakako into the Kyogre doing some big damage there Boosted by this electric terrain and Eric gonna be able to readjust these ball position getting this Rick Waza now onto the field and nullifying this primal you'll see with its airlock ability that we see Activated right now. We are gonna see a scald come out from the Suikun Is gonna be into the stack attack or and do some decent damage under the rain here But obviously not as powerful because the airlock that is active on this Rick Waza the burn being picked up there from that Skull which isn't ideal for south cramber the trick room now set up and the stack attack at any position to do some nice damage With rock slide jarra ball especially with this Rick Waza now is gonna a mega evolve on Kazumi side of the field and revert into this mega form and become very powerful Overwrite this primal you'll see with the Delta stream now and put itself into a decent position But with the stack attack of burned It's probably not going to take as much damage as it would have previously But does just opt to protect this turn and not take any damage doesn't want to be doubled into here this week Couldn't in a nice position. It's not really threatened by either target now Especially with the stack attack of burned but it's throwing out a rock slide gonna Just do some nice chip to that as we can here kind of pick up The flinch as we've seen ice beam into that protect on the Rick Waza there No flinch and a snarl coming out from this weekend Just gonna reduce the attack power of that Kyoga for these latter turns of this match So the Kyoga not in the best of positions now probably is an extreme speed range Stack attack of burnt does throw out another rock slide But reduce damage on that Rick Waza because the Delta stream not really doing too much to either target here Just chipping away as an ice beam now coming out from the Kyoga reduce from that snarl Though not gonna be hitting as hard Delta stream really protecting the Kyoga a little bit more there as it is super effective But does pick up the freeze wow so the Rick Waza frozen and this week Unflinched so Salchran getting all of the rolls in his favor going into this match further damage that stack attack I threw the burn, but you've got to think the tail wind pittering out now That Kazumi is in a terrible position this freeze on the Rick Waza's really locked this game up from as we see under The rock slide coming out from this stack attacker again Gonna be protected by this Delta stream, but doing enough chip again to that Rick Waza and the Suicune flinching again with an origin pulse Coming out now from the Kyoga just into both targets and picking up the knockout onto this Rick Waza the freeze There is so big and this we couldn't do in a lot of work But just the the rolls going against it here just not happening here for Kazumi Which is a bit unfortunate the trick room is in effect the Tapa Coco coming onto the field now It's really going to enjoy The trick room situation, but we do see that the Kyoga was actually faster out of trick route under trick room than this week And so this weekend actually slower than the Kyoga once his tail wind Hired to disappear the Kaba Coco now going to try and stall out this trick room here as we see another rock slide from this Stack attacker these flinches are not helping this week I told us so the stack attack I still doing a decent enough job chipping away with these rock slides every turn critical hit there This weekend flinches once again really unfortunate here for Kazumi not really catching a break here And another burn on the stack attacker with one more turn no the trick room has just ended So this Tapa Coco in a nice position now But with what south ground has and the back you've got to think he's going to be able to get the Tabalela or the Lunala in and do enough to deal with these threats in front of him This weekend not going to be flinched this turn going to be out speeding this stack attacker and pick up Then knock out here, which does open the door up for the Tabalela and this Lunala to return to the field going to get this psychic terrain up Once again isn't snarled now we set that from earlier in the battle and the Lunala hitting the field once again Can this week? I think if you're Kazumi here you want to try and get a tail wind up if you can but it's going to be Difficult to do side shot coming out no protect from the taba Coco into that taba Coco and revealing that the Lunala is Actually scarfed here out speeding that taba Coco, which is really interesting information going into game to Side shot coming out from the tabalela now into this weekend Is it enough to pick up the knockout and the psychic terrain it is actually enough I thought maybe this weekend might hang on there But we see this game is going to be closed up and Salka and taking an early wing here They're an explosive match back and forward the whole time But the freeze the big thing in this match on that requires that really opening the door up for Salka Once you've got that trick room up just to easily utilize that Requires and take it down so we'll get straight into game to here I'm going to see Kazumi on the top of your screen once again as Salka and leads off with the tabalela and the Kyoga this time preserving that Lunala for later in the game after revealing the scoff in game one as we see The Zornius and Suicune come out here for Kazumi. So going this is first time We're going to see the psychic terrain activated from this tabalela the bat fear gets weird We're going to see the fairy aura activate on that Zornius So the tabalela actually at speeding the Zornius which is interesting that pressure activating on that Suicune Which then is followed by the primordial evolution of this Kyoga Bringing primal Kyoga to the field and activating the primordial sea Boosting those water type attacks with the rain here. So getting into turn one. We are going to see a Tabalela just go for a straight up side shock into this Zornius No protect here doing some decent damage taking it down just above 50% health the Kyoga actually out speeding everything here and doing some Huge damage picking up the knockout surprise knockout on this Zornius doing some decent damage to the Suicune I'm really catching Kazumi off guard as a snarl is fired out from this Suicune But a little too late here as the Kyoga is able to outspeed the Zornius Which is a big turn and catching like I say Kazumi off guard now the pherothone brought here by Kazumi to deal better with A lot of the things on Salkaran's team We are going to see the Tabalela now retreat here as Stack Attacker hits the field once again and Comes out for Salkaran as a Kyoga just protects doesn't want to take any power whip damage from this pherothone this next turn So you're going to see the pherothone just protect Doesn't want to take any big Z move damage Especially from that Tabalela which we know it does carry from game one here as the Stack Attacker does avoid Discalled as snarl as it comes out Suicune now gonna Change out as we see where quasi hit the field gonna get rid of this primordial C and Really put pherothone in a nicer position to get these power whips off against Kyoga that can only really threaten with these What type of attacks we do see an ice beam into the pherothone a critical hit there and doing some big damage as a Leech seed now fired up from the pherothone Maybe predicting that the Kyoga switches out because of the pressure here and a rock slide just fired out from the Stack Attacker does avoid the Requiser and do some decent damage to that pherothone after the critical hit ice beam there and another critical hit this pherothone It's not having the best of times, but it has got its leech seed It has got a little left over so it's gonna be able to pressure decently here And if we can get a leech seed onto the stack attack or maybe go for another leech seed onto the Kyoga this turn Expecting the switch out maybe just really gaining some of that help back a bit quicker every turn if it can do that so Requiser now activating its mega evolution gonna proc that mega ability and become a mega request activating the delta stream ability as well Overwriting the primordial seed once and for all we're gonna see the earth power fired off from this Requiser, but a shakerberry Obviously activated on that stack attack I mean it is able to take this earth power and live another turn as we see the life orb activated on this Requiser Strong winds gonna protect it from this ice beam But the ice beam still gonna do a lot of damage to this Requiser put in knockout range for this next turn and another freeze Can you believe this? Can you believe this that every time this requires has been hit with an ice beam? It has been frozen taken out of the game completely Paul Kazumi here Hopefully it can throw out this next turn as the pherothone clears out this Kyoga with a power with this turn mysterious winds are Protecting the Requiser from this rock slide so just allowing it to hang on So there is a little lifeline here if this requires a can't throw out this next turn But you've got to worry about possibly a lunala coming in now It is scarfed from that first time but tabulele just returned to the field has got access to that phytonium Z Z move Which we are gonna see the pherothone now retreat because of the threat from that and the sweet couldn't hit the field Once again for Kazumi come on requires a can you throw out that is the big question If you can throw out you can get rid of the stack attack and pull yourself back into this game Tabulele going to protect here the requires a frozen solid unfortunately will not unthought and the rocks like coming out from the stack Attacker doesn't miss is going to be enough to clean up the Requiser again Taking it out of commission quite easily because of that horrible RNG there and do a nice bit of chip damage to this sweet Coon now we're going to see the mysterious air Disappear the beast boost activate and give stack attack our defensive boost Which will be helpful against the pherothone not so much against this week And but you've got to think that the tabulele has just protected It is gonna have to attack this turn and you would think maybe not into the pherothone Just because we can expect and the protect there as we see a sideshark now into this week Expecting the protect from this pherothone just want to get rid of this week And but procking a berry here Which is going to restore some health back to this week And really keep Kazumi in this game for a little bit longer as we see a skull come out from this week And it's going to be into the stack attack and remove it from the field But this opens the door now for Salkern to bring in possibly that Lunala which will be able to do some big damage and pet alongside the tabulele with This phytonium Z move which is the one thing that really alleviates a lot of the issues that give this pairing trouble It we all going to see the pherothone go for the protect again get the double protect so if the Z move comes out this time It is going to be able to withstand it and stick around for another day We're just going to see moon guys being from the Lunala now fired out from Salkern side of the field It's going to be into the Suicune do some decent damage and put it in range for this next turn and the phytonium Z Now coming out from Salkern thinking that the protect had already gone Is going to be fired out and into the protect like I say the pherothone should be able to take this now behind the Protect so not really getting as much effectiveness out of this But a side shock at the next turn probably be enough to pick up the Suicune and then a moon guys beam after this damage here Will probably be enough to pick up the pherothone here Yes, pherothone taking a quite nicely getting that double protect off can Kazumi pull this out of the bag Can he pull this back? It's going to be very difficult for him to do so But we are going to see a snarl here So throwing himself back into the game giving himself as much of a chance as possible to tie this one up to Take it to a game three as the special attack does drop on the lunala and the tapu lele here The pherothone restoring a little bit of health here calm and protect again It can go for it But it's very risky as we see no protect moon guys beam coming out from this lunala It is going to be into this pherothone You've got to imagine trying to get rid of it and isn't it's not enough after the snarl But a moon blast now into that slot following up is that enough it is enough to take down the pherothone With the pherothone going down you've got to think it's nearly impossible For a psalchre to lose this one three Pokemon to one another snarl coming out from this week Again lowering the special attack on both the lunala and the tapu lele But if psalchre wants you can switch things around and you will be able to clean this one up But we are just going to see a forfeit and psalchre and take this week's win So he goes into week five with a win here And you can see the results on your screen in front of you right now So the results from week five you can see we've got Kazumi nil salchre and two that was a feature match here that we've just played Luigi One Costa two we've got your iron two Johnny hacks nil worms I to Ryan PB Herbert one We've got Pokemon II camera nil chancey man see nil will to Crim to Zenith his days nil nappy nil salty like the buzz to shed one Two to stew so stupele now a big win there for top of the table marks there against shade Nightlight zero Alex two and then pink or two and Marcus one so as you can see there the results from week five And now because this is the last week of a Swiss standings We can move into the final standings of a Swiss You can see shade coming out on top here tying up with stew here for first place shade Just edging it just slightly here for the 4-1 record stew in second your iron in third Will in fourth Luigi in fifth Costa sixth chancey man see seven worms I in eighth Johnny hacks in ninth Salker and 10th Alex 11th crim Kazumi salty like the buzz and Ryan PB Herbert Zenith his days Pokemon II VGC Cameron Marcus pink or VGC nappy and nightlight in order So as we see they are the final standings and this will determine what groups each player will move into for the next Stages of this tournament and as you can see we've got groups from a to e So group a is consisting of shade Costa Alex and Xenophist a so you've got group b with stew Chancey man see crim and pokemon VGC group c made up of your own worms Like Kazumi and Cameron and group D with will Johnny hacks salty electric buzz Marcus and nappy and finally group E Heading up with Luigi Salkran VGC. We've got Ryan PB Herbert Pinko VGC and night lights so going into the following weeks coverage of this tournament You can expect to see games from all of these group stages and we'll be featuring matches from the group stages As we move forward until we get to the knockout stages where we will be featuring each in every match from these tournaments so we wrap up This swiss side of this tournament we move from phase one and starting next week we'll be going into phase two So i'm very excited Hopefully you guys have enjoyed today's episode a bit of a short one and really explosive game today Featuring two of our players from the circuit Salkran and Kazumi really unfortunate for Kazumi But at this stage none of the players are out all of the players are still got everything to play for We move into the group stages and the top two players from each group will move forward into the knockout stages of this tournament So all to play for this is just to identify the seeding for these group stages and what group you go into going forward So group stages everyone plays everyone in their group and then we move on to the knockout rounds after that So things heating up very nicely as we go into this mid section of the ultra series circuit I hope you guys at home are enjoying it And we'll be back very soon with more action from the group stages from phase two of the ultra series circuit So until then guys take care of yourselves. Thanks for tuning in and i'll see you all for the next one So until then take care and bye. Bye


When you are ready to date that is the question that is asked so many times when am I ready to date? You know the answers will be very simple, but you're not gonna like them, but it's okay The truth will set you free, but sometimes that truth will make you miserable at first We are going to look at the story of Adam and Eve and look at few things that will apply right now to us especially those people who are single Number one You are ready to date when you don't need to ouch So you are ready to date when you don't need to You have to be so lost in God that the other person has to look for God to find you The Bible says that Adam he did not Come to God and say God. I'm lonely. Send me a wife It was God who came to Adam and said Adam you're alone Let me help you find the wife Adam didn't even realize he was lonely or alone Excuse me that he was alone because he wasn't lonely the presence of God fixed that loneliness The God had God had to tell him that he needed a wife God wants you to have a relationship with him to that degree where you don't need to date Where you don't have to date to be happy to be whole to be complete Be successful to be significant or to know your value as long as it's an emotional need my friend We don't need romance then we need rehab Relationship with God will make you whole all other relationships will reveal your holes Only relationship with God will satisfy you.  All other relationships will compliment what you already have. What am I saying? If you are lonely now when you get married you become more lonely If you are watching porn right now when you get married, you're gonna watch still porn Marriage doesn't do any miracles Marriage will only magnify what you already have if you are depressed marriage won't fix that God sent Jesus to fix our problems not marriage God wants you to have a relationship with him the same way that fish has a relationship with water and Trees have a relationship with the soil. Let me read to you the following verses And God said let the earth bring forth grass, and I'm not gonna finish the verse So God speaks to the earth and says bring forth glad grass and the Bible says and the earth brought forth grass If we read a little bit later in Genesis 1 verse 20 it says and God said let the waters Abound with abundance of living creatures and let the birds fly above the earth across the face of the Fermanin of heavens So God spoke to the earth and says earth produce grass earth produced grass if you notice that Grass trees cannot live without the earth. They don't go into the ground on the weekends They live there. They have their being there and Why because they came from the ground God spoke to the sea and said produce living creatures So fish Don't go to the water On the weekends one hour a week fish live and have their being in the water. It's their life in the water Why because they came from the water according to Genesis 1 verse 20 God spoke to the ground. God spoke to the water, but I want you to notice in verse 26 Then God said let us make men In our image and in our likeness So God spoke to the earth to produce plants God spoke to the water to produce fish and then God spoke to himself and said let us make men in our image God is a try on God.   I don't mean unmarried I don't mean that you don't have a boyfriend single meaning that you are whole Single meaning that you are complete Single meaning that you're not desperate As long as there is desperate a father wound or some kind of a ache. I Need to get married. I need to have a boyfriend because everybody has it why because I'm not complete Because I am lonely because I am depressed my friend. That is the big red flag You don't need romance. You need a spiritual deliverance. You need a prayer life You need a hobby you you need other things, but not marriage You first need God Adam first had God Before he had a wife God didn't make Adam and Eve at the same time Because he wanted Adam to experience a time of singleness a model for us What to do as we are single is the first thing is you are ready to date when you don't need to Number two you are ready to date when you have found your mission The Lord God took men and put him in the garden to work and to keep it Genesis chapter 2 and verse 15 so this means that after Adam had a Relationship with God Adam had a job No money no honey God wants you to have Job work work is not bad work is not cursed. And so what does this mission look like? It's having building a courier and Developing your calling now a lot of people have this question very confused and I deal with it more intensely in my single ready to mingle book But You're calling and career a little bit different. Let's look at the difference Career is decided calling is discovered Career is something natural calling is something supernatural Careers can change calling does not Career is for money calling is for eternity for ministry Paul says in Colossians chapter 3 verse 23 he says this and whatever you do do it Hardly as unto the Lord not as unto man What this means is when it comes to your career young person don't sweat over it Don't overthink it Whatever you do as long as it's not illegal as long as it's not against the Bible and as long as it makes you money So if it's in line with your passion if it's in line with your personality if it's in line with your gifts If it's in line with something that people are hiring for you go for it You know why because you don't need To have prophetic word and three seven dreams and seven green lights on your way to work to know that you really Need to become a teacher just go become a teacher and while you are a teacher Live out your calling when souls make disciples heal the sick priest the gospel cast out demons So please single people young people After you develop your relationship with God, it's not a time to get a girlfriend or a boyfriend It's time to get a career to get a job to get a ministry to get a life group To get something going for your life so that you are fulfilled as a person and you can contribute to a relationship Work is not a curse work came before the curse God worked Jesus work the Holy Spirit works and you are more like God when you work work is a good thing Work helps us to overcome temptation because idle mind is the devil's workshop When you work you are more likely to overcome temptation Samson, you know, he fell into sin because Samson was laying on the lap of the Lila But Joseph the Bible says went into the house when he was tempted and Joseph came to work He had no time for sin because he was busy with work work is a good thing and God wants you to develop a career And to discover your calling now something about your calling Before you find out your specific calling in the kingdom of God Do the general one love God run from sin Win souls and make disciples Heal the sick cast out demons do the general one and then your specific calling will become more clear Fast and pray for your calling But trust God with your career work hard on your career do it with your whole heart come early Leave late stay longer do what the best you can with your job why because No money no, honey God created like this before there was Eve. There was a job Number three you are ready to date when you are ready for marriage Now that's very simple.  So let me ask you a question Are you ready for marriage? No, I'm not. I need to finish school. No, I'm not. I need to get a job Well, you then have the answer for if you are ready to date if you are dating and You are not ready for marriage. I like what Jefferson Bethke said dating with no intent to marry is like going to the grocery store with No money you either leave unhappy or you take something that is in yours so The Bible says and the Lord God caused deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the Flesh in its place Genesis 2 verse 21 So while Adam was looking, you know, and he couldn't find anybody then God put Adam to sleep and while Adam was sleeping God was working and so maybe that is kind of the season that you are in you're not ready for marriage So God wants to put you to a sexual sleep and God wants to work on you while you are waiting Song of Solomon chapter 2 verse 7 it says do not stir or awaken love until it pleases I will not dress the teenagers if you're a teenager and it's not your time to get married right now Which I don't think you should be getting married when you're a teenager, but that's just my personal preference You should finish your school.  When are you ready to get married? When you don't need to When you're doing something about your job and your mission and when you are ready for marriage


Hey guys, Jeremy here, a different kind of video here today. If you haven't seen some of my previous videos, I've been talking about Victor Lucas and the Electronic Playground, sponsoring and supporting them. Anyways, Vic just sent on a message just a few days ago talking about the Rocket and Raygun Awards and he's letting sponsors do videos talking about certain best categories games for 2017 and they might be featured in the Rocket and Raygun section when he does it later this year. So I'm going to do a few categories myself, whether you guys agree with them or not. It's just up to you guys. This is my opinion. Admittedly, I did not play a lot of games in 2017, but this is what I thought were the best in the categories that I'm talking about. I'm only talking about a few, so let's start it off. My favorite RPG of 2017 was Shadow of War. The sequel to the critically acclaimed Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War exceeded my expectations and gave me a bloody good time. The game took the nemesis system in a direction I never thought possible and expanded on the whole aspect of encountering orcs, not only to what they use, but what their strengths were, what their weaknesses were, what they wore, what they did, their aspects, whether they sung or not. There were so many different interactions in the game, I lost count of all the different varieties of orcs that you could encounter. And then there's the loot that came with them that was so intriguing, so cool to mix and match what kind of armor and weapons you could use that admittedly there was a lot of hard decisions of whether I should dominate an orc or kill him.  It's addictive, it's got great timing, it has so many nail-biting moments. The sieges alone are so fun. I never really thought I would take advantage of the whole online fortress aspect of the game, but in the end I've probably put as many hours into that aspect of the game as I had with the regular game itself. Just watching so many orcs all on the screen at once and watching your fellow orc captains fight and die alongside you creates amazingly emotionally gripping and heart-wrenching moments that just make you almost want to restart the game because you didn't want to lose them, but the risk versus reward is so intriguing.   In the end, Shadow of War is a great hack and slash RPG game. It has fantastic combat. The gameplay difficulty is on point, always challenging you but never really beating you unless you feel like taking the other difficulties. The siege assault mode in the game is super fun. It's super awesome to see so many orcs fighting each other at once. And also the whole micro transaction issue, I never found an issue with it. I never once thought of buying a box during the entirety of playing the game. And I never bought one with physical money afterwards. I've never put any more money into this game than buying it in the season's past. So that is why my choice for the best RPG of 2017 is Shadow of War. Now moving on to my favorite racer of 2017. My choice for the best racer of 2017 is Dirt 4. Dirt 4 returns the Columna Cray Dirt Rally series to the former Granger that it once had. The game is some of the best driving I've ever seen in a racing game. And this is coming from a guy who absolutely adored Forza Horizon 3. Admittedly, however, this game is no more near as forgiving as other racing series like the Forza Horizon series. And those games you can drive through a tree and pretty much have no repercussions. This game, however, you make the slightest error. And the whole thing goes wrong. But by doing so, it also makes the experience so much more engaging, so much more intense and so much more rewarding when you finish your race. I love Dirt 4 for all aspects of the game from its visual standards to its audio complexities, to its absolutely balls to the wall driving. The game also has great visuals and great audio making the car experience even more lifelike and really putting you in the seat of each car and making each experience challenging as well as visually authentic. The game also features a random map stage generator. So every staged race is different from the last and you'll never go through the same one again. The game is always challenging you. It's always putting you right at the edge of your seat, but it feels so rewarding when you finish a race. Either way, Dirt 4 is a must pick up for fans of racing games as well as rally cross games. And that's why I feel that Dirt 4 should be the best racer of 2017. Finally, I want to talk about the biggest failure of the worst loss of 2017 in gaming. And that is the loss of visceral game studios, primarily known for making the Dead Space series. Those guys were connoisseurs of making single play experiences. Even though three is definitely cast in shadow for EA poking their whole hands in it and just kind of mucking with it. I still really enjoyed Dead Space 3. But what also adds to the loss is that they were responsible for games I never knew that they made as EA read with studios.  Lord's of the Rings, the Third Age, our Lord's of the Rings, the Return of the King. These games were so freaking fun to play. I put hundreds of hours into these games as a kid. And the fact that EA has put this studio in particular into the ground is really disturbing and troubling for me. This was a company that I actually really enjoyed. I enjoyed their products. I bought a lot of Dead Space merch. And when I noticed that Dead Space merch had disappeared from EA a few years ago, I had a very disturbing thought that they might go. And in the end, that's what's happened. And I was really looking forward to the uncharted-esque like Star Wars game that they were making. And I salute everyone who worked for Visceral. And I wish the best of luck to those guys as I think that they got the shaft in the worst way possible. And I feel for them. And that's why I feel that the loss of Visceral Game Studios is the worst failure of 2017. Anyways, guys, that ends my video for the Rocket and Ray Gun submissions. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Admittedly, I know this is a little strange for me, but I really thought it was a cool idea that Victor Lucas is letting sponsors try and do this and submit to it. And I'm really excited to see what other people say. I didn't have a Nintendo Switch, so I know I'm missing out on a lot of games and a lot of different experiences for this year. But in the end, I'm very interested to see what other people say about what their favorites were. 2017 was definitely an interesting year for gaming. Not just in terms of what games came out, but the news that came with the game. So if anything, the news about certain games was bigger than the games themselves. In the end, guys, thank you for watching this video. Vic, thank you for doing this. This is such a cool idea. And I look forward to seeing what you choose for the Rocket and Ray Gun Awards. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. See you guys next time.


Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Dedicated to Financial Literacy. Russell Moore coming to you again. Just want to welcome you. Good, good morning. I hope you're having a great week so far. I know it's just Tuesday, but today what I want to do is I want to do an update. I think in 2019 I did a segment on terminology, stock terminology, and I'm going to do one for 2022. And I'm going to probably do a segment today, and I'm going to probably do another segment on stock terminology, and just going over different terms. And again, this is for the beginner, the beginning investor, where you might feel like you're hearing all these words, you're hearing all this jargon, you're hearing all this language, and you don't know what people are talking about. You're new to the market. And so this list is not exhaustive. I just want to make that very clear. The list is not exhaustive. There are thousands of words. I want to give you a resource, though. Investopedia, and I think I've mentioned this before, investopedia.com is a good resource to just look up different terms and words and what things mean. But I chose 20, and I'm going to go over them pretty quickly. I would say, like I always say, if you do not learn, you will not earn. Don't I always say that gang? All right, be sure to hit the subscribe button as well, and give me a thumbs up. All right, let's keep it going. Let's keep it going. And regardless of whether I get a thumbs up or not, I'm going to continue to give you content because I care about you. And what do I care about you? I care about what happens to you financially. I want you to be dedicated to financial literacy. 2022, things are going to change for you. Let's say that again. In 2022, things are going to change for you for the better. All right? All right, here we go. We're going to start again. This is stock market terminology. And oh, I think that terminology where terminology is spelled wrong. Well, okay. All right. It's been years since I won the spelling bee. All right. Number one, you're going to hear the term capital appreciation. Capital appreciation. Basically, all that saying is your stock has appreciated. It's ascended. And I want to say this about making money in the stock market. There's several ways to make money in the stock market. Most people think that it's only if your stock ascends. Now, for the basic brand new investor, yeah, that's true. But there are other ways to make money in the stock market. I'm not doing a video on options, but there is a thing called options or derivatives. And in the options market, you can actually make money and increase your portfolio when the market goes down, when it's depreciating. You can also make money when it goes sideways, when it's called consolidating. You'll hear that term. As a matter of fact, let's throw that term in there. Consolidation. When the market is just, it's not going up or down. It's basically leveled in balance and it's going across. Okay. No one's winning the bears or the bulls. And we'll talk about bears and bulls as well. So consolidation basically means the market is not going, it's not uptrending. It's not downtrending. It's basically going straight across. Consolidation. All right. So capital ascension means it's going up.  Number two, dividend. And I've explained this before, but I'm going to say this. I'm going to add that in here. Dividend. Think of the word divide, divvy, to divvy up, to divvy up your proceeds. So that's basically what dividend means. It's when the owners of the company, and you are a stockholder, you are an owner once you own the stock, receive a portion of the profits. That's what it means. A company, and not all companies, let me say this again, not all companies distribute a dividend. For example, Amazon does not. Apple does, Microsoft does. So if you own those stocks, you'll receive a dividend. If you hold it a certain amount of time, you have to own the stock at a certain time. And we'll talk about X dates and all that kind of stuff, where there's a particular date. You have to own that stock in order to participate in the distribution of the dividend. So a company will get its profits and they'll say, hey, we're making good money, we're growing, we're expanding, we're doing well. Let's give some of the profits to our shareholders. And there are two types of shareholders. There's a preferred stockholder and there's a common stockholder. You and I are common stockholders. The everyday investor, retail investor, preferred are like your CEOs, the executive teams, people on the executive team and the leadership team of the company. Okay, they get a set dividend and that dividend is given to them, regardless of whether we get ours or not. Okay, so if the company goes under, the preferred shareholders will get there, they'll get theirs first and we may get ours. All right, so that's dividend. It's divvied up, profits divided to the shareholder ticker symbol. I wanted to throw that in there because some people were, what is a ticker symbol? Now historically, there was a ticker machine that actually ran tape and that's how they would read the stocks on the ticker symbol machine. Ticker symbol is basically abbreviation. And a practical way of thinking about it is that if you are online trying to looking up a stock, can you imagine typing up the entire title of that stock, the name of that company? So this makes it much easier. For example, Microsoft MSFT, that's the ticker symbol. It's an abbreviation that identifies the company on the stock market. That's where the ticker symbol is. Okay, for example, Ford is F. All right, Alibaba, Baba, B-A-B-A. All right, Amazon, M-A, I mean AMZN. It's Amazon. That's the ticker symbol. All right, Google, which is really Alphabet. It's the company name. Google, G-O-O-G. Okay, everybody got it? All right, good. Let's go on. Earnings reports. I want to bring this up. You're going to hear that as a new investor. Earnings season, earning reports. Every quarter, a company reports its earnings. And it's a good time to assess that company. And if you go to a company's website, under investors relations, most of the time it's going to be under investors relations, or you can Google investors relations, okay? You can read the transcripts or you can listen to the conference call. Every quarter, a company, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Boeing, okay? Pfizer, all of them have conference calls where the CEO, the CFO, and the COO is on the call. Also on the call a lot of time are analysts. These analysts come from investment banking firms. And they'll be there sometimes to do a Q&A, and they'll ask questions about different things that's going on with the company, any updates. And so it's very, very, it's very, very informative. And you can find out a lot about the company that'll help you in the future investment of that company, all right? So earnings reporting, for earning seasons is every quarter. And they discuss how well the company did financially if there was any hiccups or any problems, any issues, like supply chain, chip shortage, stuff, the things that problems that it may have hindered them from doing their best from our earnings standpoint, okay? It's an earnings call. All right. NASDAQ. I'm going to talk about right now the three indexes, exchanges. So you might say, okay, what is the NASDAQ? Let me test somebody that might be watching this channel, and you've been on the stock market for a while. What's the definition of NASDAQ? NASDAQ is the actual abbreviation. But what does it stand for? Okay, I'll help you out a little bit. All right, let me help you out. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. And again, the NASDAQ, all it is, it consists of 100 companies, and it's a sample. It's an average. Now, the NASDAQ is primarily a tech index. So a lot of tech stocks, Tesla, although Tesla has been, I believe it's on the S&P 500 now, but a Dell, Intuit, Microsoft, Google, tech stocks, mainly. There's also Biotech, I believe, Biotech on the NASDAQ, okay? So it's 100 stocks, 100 companies, all right? But it's an average of the entire market. It's a sample. It says these 100 companies, what they're doing and how they're doing basically is a sample and an average of all of the companies that are in these sectors, all right? So it's a sample. It's an average. Okay, the Dell, same thing. It's an average. It's a sample. 30 companies, different sectors, different areas, different industries. But it's 30 companies, the Dell Jones industrial average, okay? So if you hear the term, the Dell, the Dell, 30 companies, it's a mixture. It's not all tech. It's not all hospitality. It's not all pharmaceutical. It's a combination of different companies. And so the Dell gives you more of a broad base of the market, an average of what the whole entire market is doing, okay? And then S&P 500, everybody's heard of the S&P 500. And it's 500 companies, large companies. And again, it's an average. Okay, so keep that in mind. These indexes are not the entire market. The market consists of thousands of companies. There's small cap. There's the Russell 2000, which is not, I don't have that up here. My name is Russell, the Russell 2000, small cap, medium cap. There's a lot of different indexes and markets, okay? All right, let's go on. Stockholder. What is a stockholder? It's basically you own stock in the company. You are the owner. All right, next. Stock split. What is a stock split? A company sometimes, well, what will happen? They're growing and they're doing well, and their stock price begins to rise. Say it's at $50. And they begin to feel like, you know what, we're keeping some investors out because the price is so high. So they may say, we're going to do a two to one stock split. Well, what happens? Now they cut the price to $25. Instead of it being 50, they cut it to 25. But they may cut it to 25. That enables more people to get in and invest. Does that make sense? Now here's the thing. The stock price may decline, but the amount, the amount of equity and how much you own does not change. Keep that in mind. So the stock price will decline, but the amount that you own and price and amount of money and equity does not change, okay? So your shares will double. You'll have more shares, but it'll still equal to the same amount, all right? So that's a stock split. But I wanted to give you the purpose of a stock split. There are other purposes too, but one of the main ones is that they want to put more outstanding shares out there, but they also want to get, they want to open it up to a broader base of investors. And so they're saying, you know what, people may not buy it at this price, but what we'll do is do a split and that'll enable more investors to come in and buy more shares, all right? Got you. Okay, you got it? Stock price or share price, you'll hear that. What's the stock price? What's the share price? That's basically how much that stock is selling for per share.  That's how much that company is, their price for per share that they're selling that stock for, okay? All right. Stock market, you'll hear the term stock market or the market. Have you checked the market today? The market basically, okay, if you go to the store and you buy milk, eggs and butter, right? Crackers and soup and fruit and veggies, okay? You buy all that stuff at the store. Where do they call it? A market.  The same thing with the stock market. It's a place where investors buy and sell securities, equities, and stocks, derivatives, options, whatever, forex. There's so many things. Crypto. So it's a place where buying and selling is taking place. Say you want to buy a stock, there's somebody on the other end that's selling the stock, all right? It's a marketplace, all right? The market. Full service brokerage firm and discount brokerage firm. There are two types of brokerage firms. There's a full service brokerage firm, and I'll give you an example. Chase Bank, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, company big huge institutional banks. And the reason why they're called a full service brokerage firm is because they also have the capabilities of doing IPOs. And what's an IPO? It's an initial public offering. It's when a company says, and here's another word for you, when a company says, you know what, we've been private, we want to expand, our products are doing well, we're growing, we want to go public and make our company, we want to make it available to public investors so that you and I, which is called a retail investor, can get involved and have a piece and own a piece of the company. But they do it a lot of times. IPOs is to raise money, raise capital, okay? Well, these banks are the ones that create the listing. They evaluate the company and tell the company, this is what you're worth. This is what we think you should have your share price as. This is what you should open up your IPO as, okay? They have a division that does analyzing when you're a full service brokerage firm. They have a retail division. They have several divisions. The discount brokerage firm is your Webull, Robinhood, Fidelity, Ameritrade, TD Ameritrade. Those are discount brokerage firms. They don't do IPOs. They basically are firm, they furnish, they are strictly for us, the retail investor, the everyday investor, okay? So that's the difference. The big banks, the institutional, they handle the huge hedge fund firms and they're the hedge fund firms and they're the ones that reach out to the companies and they're the ones that create the IPO listings. The discount brokerage firms, they handle the retailers only, okay? So Robinhood does not do IPOs, all right? Okay. I want to make that clear. You'll hear the term stocks. We've already went through that. A stock is a piece of the company. It's a piece. It's you have stock in the company.   And so you own stocks. You own stock in that company, which enables you, even at times, to even make certain suggestions. You can't, you probably won't be able to make any decisions, but you will be able to make suggestions as an owner. You'll vote on certain things and everything. So equities. Same thing. If you hear stocks and you hear somebody say equities, they're talking about stocks, okay, for the most part. Securities is another word that you're here. All right? EPS, earnings per share. Basically, it's what a company has earned and it's usually the last quarter or the end of the year. The EPS is vital. How they come to that is they take the earnings and they divide it by the outstanding shares that's left and they'll get what's called earnings per share. The reason why I put that on there is because you're going to hear that quite a bit. You'll hear PE ratio. What's the PE ratio? Many times they say you wanted between $1 to $5 a low PE ratio. It means that there's room for that company to grow and it's usually kind of undervalued. That's not always the case, but we're not going to get into that today. We're not going to talk about PE ratio. I just wanted to put EPS there because you're going to hear that quite a bit. If a company has a good EPS, usually historically, it's going to be a good company. Now, that could change in a year. It can change in months, so you always have to keep an eye on it. But just so you hear that term, you're going to hear that term. You're going to hear also profit margin, margins, how well a company is doing from a profit standpoint. You hear the term bull. Bull market, bear market. Bull market means the market is going up. It's green. That's another term you're here. The market was green today. Think of it this way. Green ascension, meaning money. We made money. Red down. A red day means down. A green day means up. The market was up. You were making money. You were in the green. Now, that could change with options because you could have a green day and options and be buying puts where the market is going down and you're expecting the market to go down and make money. That's green for you. But this is for beginners. We're not talking about options. We're just talking about everyday market of stock ascension. Green means up. You're making money. Red means down. The bear market means down. Bull means up. Bear means down. A sell-off. That's another term you're here. You'll hear the word correction and sell-off. When stocks sell off, that means people are selling the stock. And usually when that happens, the stock, that company, the share price begins to descend. So when you hear sell-off, there's a big sell-off happening or there's a correction happening to the market. That means the market has been trending up and it reverses and goes down. Everybody got it. Bull means up. Bear means down. All right. To the moon. You'll hear that term sometimes. Meet Kevin on his channel. He's always saying, to the moon has even a t-shirt. I even have one of his t-shirts. To the moon means, and I want to say that Elon Musk may have coined it. I don't know who coined it, but to the moon means it's going up. It's ascending. It's ascending. The stock is ascending. It's to the moon. All right. Volume. Please, if you don't learn anything else from this, these terminologies, volume is very important. And really it's the amount of a stock is traded at any given time. That's the volume. It's the amount. So if you go in Robinhood or any platform, you should be able to see the volume. So if a stock is going up, usually that volume, you will see the volume increase. It's a very good indicator on the direction of a stock. It's not the only thing you want to look at, but it's very important. So volume, it's the amount a stock is traded at any given time. S-E-C. The S-E-C is basically the police. They're the regulators. A government agency called the S-E-C Security Exchange Commissions.  Begin to look at things that date different criteria. Find out about them. Don't shun away from the S-E-C. They're not evil. They're here to protect us, protect the consumer. There's a lot of things that could happen if it wasn't for the S-E-C. Hello, Robinhood. So I'm just saying, get to know and get to go on the website and get to know the S-E-C. Now, there's a particular thing that I wanted to bring up about the S-E-C, and that is the PDT rule. It's called the pattern day trade rule. So you got, I believe, three day trades per week. If you exceed three and go to four, I believe that max is four in a five-day period. Your account can be shut down different depending on the platform you're on. It's my phone, and I won't edit it. You guys know me. I'm not going to edit that. So pattern day trade rule. In other words, you want to stay within this certain amount of day trades per week. Okay, if your account exceeds $25,000, $25,000 or above, you can day trade unlimitedly. But if your account is under $25,000, then you've got to abide by the pattern day trade rule, PDT. So all right, so be careful of that. So I want to make sure I tell you that. Anyway, I know this was long again. But hopefully, I'm going to do another, a part two of terms and different lingo that you might hear around when you start investing. And this will help you understand some of these things before you start investing. Okay? All right, I want you to have a wonderful day. God bless you. I wish I pray for the best for you and keep me covered in prayer. Physically, I've been battling, but I'm doing much better. And I just want to thank everybody for watching the channel and have a wonderful, wonderful day.


It's still the breakfast on PlusCV Africa right now. We're taking our second hot topic, which will be the final thing we do this morning. Like we read of the press from the headlines on our national dailies, and we saw the clip yesterday when the screening was done. Balarabia Bas collapsed during screening for ministerial position. We know that it happened yesterday. We often talk about the importance of physical and mental capacity of candidates to do the jobs they campaign for. Now, we're going to be talking with Nick Agoule to look at this question of someone collapsing just at a screening. Nick Agoule, good morning and welcome to the show. Yes, good morning and good morning to our viewers. Unfortunately, I don't know if the volume of my computer is. I can't hear you very clearly. I'm a bit loud enough. Maybe I should be a bit louder. Can you hear me better now? This is better now. Yes. Okay. So now yesterday there was screening for the ministerial nominees and one of them, Abbas from Kaduna, who replaced Nasir El-Rufai, slumped. No, let me not use the word slumped. He fainted in the course of the screening. They said it's exhaustion so far that's what we heard. And let me just ask you for your comments on what happened. He fainted and was revived at the clinic. We haven't heard so much details about it, how he's feeling right now and whatever happened there. But we know that he fainted. What are your comments? The first comment is that I want to wish the candidate for ministerial appointment well. I don't know what his medical situation is now, but I hope that he's okay and he's now fully fit because the Senate has already approved the nominations and so I hope that he's now fully fit to take off his office as an honorable minister of the federal government of Nigeria. So that is my first comment that I wish him well. But then it also comes to mind the challenges in healthcare generally that we have in Nigeria. A lot of us in Nigeria who are going about without knowing the status of our health and it's important that government should provide the healthcare facilities around the country so that people can assess healthcare as where the government has complete database of each and every citizen or resident and like Amir, I live in the UK, you will see that the National Health Service, the NHS, will send me letters to say that you are due for this, you are due for this test, you are due for this, ensuring that preventive healthcare is better than curative healthcare. So in Nigeria we don't have public healthcare, neither do we have hospital healthcare and these are things that play out. So I'm not the honorable minister's doctor so I cannot say precisely what happened, could it be that he succumbed to the pressure of facing the Senate or are there underlying medical issues that he has, but either way it comes down to Nigeria having not only a total and comprehensive healthcare facilities available to the resident, but this is something that governments all over the world don't let go into the private sector. So even if you go to economists like the US, the UK, where the economists are being run by the private sector, you still see that government is taking care of education and healthcare. Those are the two sectors that most governments in the world don't let go into the private sector and we want the Nigerian government to do this. Okay, but if you watch the ministerial screening, maybe you have general comments on that. The things that struck me too, I've already mentioned them when we're talking of the press. First of all, like political office holders, we always say that physical and mental capacity of the candidates for the jobs they campaign is very important and we were asking ourselves, should this not be the same for even appointees that are in government?  He cannot do his job. You make someone a minister who is going to be fainting all the time because he has a medical condition. He cannot be on his feet. He cannot even attend the Federal Executive Council meeting which will require him to come and give reports. He will be sending proxies and all that. Shouldn't this be a requirement as well? And then we had a young woman of 37 who was nominated as well to be a minister and in trying to defend her, the Senate president said that she should not be grilled that much because she is the face of the renewed hope because the president wants youths to be part of the government so she should not be asked a lot of questions and it got me worried. Like, if she will fail, can there be no youth in Nigeria that can answer the questions if that is a criteria of becoming a minister? And then the person who fainted that was still given the nod, what if, like you said, he has an underlying medical condition that will not enable him to make the right decisions or do his job well? How far should we take our screening for job positions, political job positions, public offices in Nigeria? How far should we go? Should we be taking a bow or should we be doing extra things to make sure we get the best brains? I think you are actually very correct and aligned with your views and in that indirect answer to your question, my view and personal opinion is that the ministerial screening or whatever screening that goes on to the Senate or to the National Assembly is a joke, it's a session in comedy and we see this in play house before the international community and we want them to take us serious because look, first and foremost, you receive a list of ministerial candidates without knowing which portfolios they are going to be assigned to. So you will see the Senate say, assuming you are appointed as minister for this, you know, assuming based on your theory you are appointed as minister for this, what are you going to do for the country? And in terms of that, the people don't get appointed into the ministerial positions to which they have provided answers to the Senate. So for me, that is a joke, it's a complete joke. You know, it's just like a session in comedy being watched not only by Nigeria but by the international community. So if it has to take a change in the constitution to force the hands of a president that they must forward the list of ministerial candidates to the Senate to get with the portfolios that they are going to take, those who make the case that, oh, the president can transfer the ministers and all of that. How about things like the central bank governor? The president doesn't just send a list of, like recently, the Senate screened the central bank governor and I think four or five deputy governors. Why didn't the president just send a list of five or six to the Senate to be screened? Later on, he will now appoint who will be the central bank governor who will be deputy governor. No, he sends the list attaching the portfolios to the Senate. The same thing with EFCC, the same thing with ICPC, all those appointments that require the National Assembly assent. They assent together with the portfolio. It's not as if the president sends a list of five candidates to the Senate and then they don't even know who is the one that is going to be the EFCC chairman. And afterwards they say, okay, we're appointing no. He sends to the portfolio and this has to also be the case for the ministerial appointments. They must go with the portfolio so that the Senate will hold them to account to the promises that they make during the screening because if they must say if the minister of the ministerial designate for power, for instance, says that I am going to increase power supply in Nigeria from these misery and beggarly 3,000 megawatts. What UAE is supplying to 1 million people? We are supplying it to 200 million people. If that candidate says I'm going to increase that power supply from 3,000 to 10,000 within one year, then that same Senate will summon him after one year and say you promised that power is going to get to 10,000 megawatts. Where is the power? And if there is no power, we ask for your second from the cabinet. That is the kind of thing we should be looking at. I'm not sending an amorphous list of people. Look at the minister of Solid Minerals now. Everybody thought he was going to be minister for information. And at the Senate they were asking him questions about minister for information. Only for him to be sent to Solid Minerals. Is that not a total waste of time for the Senate? So that is a great job. And then to the other point that you raised which is whether medical examination should be part of the screening exercise. I agree with that totally. You know, in Nigeria we have been unlucky. Let me say unlucky because for some reason we have had presidents in India first who have spent a huge amount of time on healthcare. So we know President Yeraduwa was struck with illness. President Buhari was struck with illness. And President Thinibu now, he left New York and for a week we didn't know where he was. And some people say he was in France which we know is the destination for him. So we actually need medical examination. Like in the US, the presidents do yearly medical examination of fitness and the result is published so that Americans will know the health status of their presidents.  Don't come and captain this ship that we all are onboard in Nigeria as a leader. And then the other matter that you raised which is concerning the young appointees that were asked to take a bow and go is still part of the committee session that the Senate engages in in the name of screening. If somebody is 20 years old and they have been decimated as a ministeria apodhi you must treat them. You must ask them what they are bringing on the table. You cannot just say they should go because they are young. What lessons are we teaching to the upcoming generation?  Because no matter your age you have to show course that you are capable of handling this office that you have been given. And if you cannot handle the office then of course the office should go to somebody who is more competent than you are. So in summation the Senate engages in committee and it is high time they change this thing because it's not only us in Nigeria who are watching this thing. The whole world is watching it and I don't think the origin of us will be high. Okay just a final one. Now we have 48 ministers in a country of 36 states even if the constitution says that every state must have a minister but we have 48. 48 is 12 ministers more than the number of states that we have. Even if you include the federal capital territory it's still more than 10 of the territories that we have. So I'd like your comment. Are we going anywhere? Or are we going backwards? Because one of the cardinal points we were hoping to see was a cut down in governance. A cut down in the way monies go. These offices are duplicated and we have minister, minister for state. We have these and that. 48 now that we will be paying humongous salaries for doing the things that may not be even important for us. Do you think we are progressing or going backwards? We are going backwards.  I will be 58 in March. So I have grown up in the Nigeria of post-colonial days. So I was born in 1966 meaning six years after independence I was born and the Nigerian experienced in those days and the Nigerians that are experienced now in my adult age are two different Nigerians and I can say authoritatively as a Nigerian who has lived in this country experienced this country even as I speak to you now I am in Makodi in Buenos Aires that's why I'm speaking to you now. So I can authoritatively tell anybody that the Nigeria I grew up in was a big carrier. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Yes, the Nigeria I grew up in I grew up in a place called Boko in Buenos Aires. In Boko in the 70s we had pipe ball water running it was the pipe ball water was not running into our homes but it was running to public taps that were spread across the town of Boko and we would go and open the taps and fetch water that would be slowly very fresh with chlorine or what was that they were using to clean the water.  We had education that was effective and comprehensive. I was giving free books free writing materials we had healthcare that was comprehensive and effective when I attended the general hospital in Boko from the cutting of my card my registration of my card to me seeing a doctor to consult for me to the doctor ordering my tests to the doctor reviewing my tests and giving me medication when I went on admission at the hospital I did not pay a dime not one dime did my parents pay and when I was on admission every morning the nurses would come and change my bedsheets into freshly laundered bedsheets that would be smelling so nice there were no security issues you know as an 11 year old I mean 12 year old I left Boko to go to one place a road to go and start secondary education there was no fence in any building there was no fence the only building that had fence in Boko was the prisons in Boko you know that was in Nigeria I grew up in the Nigeria today is a far-thirsty Nigeria a far more painful Nigeria a Nigeria where even the government hospitals now you cannot go and assess healthcare there except you have to pay so if you don't have to pay then the government hospitals that now became consulting clinics as Abacha said in his school speech they are no longer even doing the consultation they gave for any party there are government hospitals that you work in now you have to bring 30,000 50,000 100,000 if you are talking about surgery they are calling one million for you like we recently put money together for a cancer patient to go to better medical center in Gaffi and pay 1.7 million for surgery how many Nigerians can afford 1.7 million to go to a government hospital a government hospital that is being funded by the budget of Nigeria that is the Nigeria we have today so this Nigeria we have today is a far-regressive Nigeria and the worst case scenario here is that we don't even see a hope of any change in where we are going we continue to march into the bush every day and Presidentinibu is marching us into the bush as far as ministerial appointments are concerned because he doesn't need 48 ministers he doesn't need them we are dealing with a government that is using almost all its revenue to service deaths so where is the money to not look after 47 convoys or 48 48 sets of aids 48 offices to manage 48 ester codes that will be paid and all of that he didn't need it in fact 36 ministers is even too much the United States where the Presidentinibu came back from from the UN General Assembly they have a thing like 15 departments if they are too much they are 18 if they are 20 departments and the United States is an economy that is multiple times Nigeria's economy their population is far more Nigeria is only about 10% of the size of the US in terms of land mass and they have only like 15 or 18 departments the same thing happens in the UK so if Presidentinibu is asking us to tighten our best and go through these austere times of few price increase of forest crisis and everything why is he not leading by example why is the President not leading by example but cutting his own expenditure and saying I don't really need 36 ministers they see the position for 6 my hands claiming a point at this is 148 there is absolutely no need for that and I expect the President I expect the President to be sending an executive bill to the National Assembly to cut down on ministerial slots to something like 15 or 18 at the most not him going above point okay well that is where we have to wrap it up Nika Gule thank you for your time this morning okay we were talking with Nika Gule Public Affairs Analyst he was talking to us from Maccordy Ben West state and this is where we draw the curtain on today's episode of The Breakfast my name is Nyam Gul Agadje saying thank you to you on behalf of my entire team


We're talking what made that song a viral sensation and the secret sauce to help it blow up. This song was uploaded as audio originally but then it was taken down and put back up so they could change the guitar riff for copyright reasons to my knowledge. But when I originally heard of it the video was already out. I got a text from one of my home girls and I was like Doja Cat, what does she know about Doja Cat? She don't know nothing about Doja Cat. And then when I clicked on the link of course I saw the video. Now it's five main things that really helped that video go viral. Number one is just the outlandish absurdity of that song's concept in the first place.  Two is once you click on the video and start to watch you immediately see these visuals and it's just playing on like the anime type theme. It has a whole vibe to it.  Number three, the visuals are kind of enticing. It was kind of sensual in a way that I really hadn't seen Doja Cat be more sensual in her videos before. It was weird how they were kind of playing up that sensual vibe along with the cow costume just had me all confused on the inside like what's going on. I didn't know I had a thing for twerking cows. Number four, that thing was catchy. Once you get caught up by the title, the title brings you into the visuals. Then you start to notice that she's all scantily dressed and whatnot. And next thing you know, you're at the first chorus and that thing is pretty catchy.  It's not try hard. You might listen to it again and start to realize yo, she's kind of saying some things every once in a while. She goes off for a line or two. And that was the X Factor and all of this because it was a good song and it's on way. I know a lot of people think you could just make any kind of wow concept of a video and go viral but that is not true. We all know it even though we like to lazily just say that's all they did to go viral. What helped this video go viral from a content standpoint is the fact that it was remarkable.  Whether it's comedy, skits, music, whatever you see on the internet but there's also a lot of good stuff that doesn't go viral and a lot of trash that never sees the light of day past one or two viewers. Being remarkable is something worth sharing. Content and social media is built on the idea and concept of sharing, being able to spread quickly. If the girl who sent me the video watched it but never decided to share with me because she didn't think it was worth talking about, I never would have saw it. And that same thing happened over and over again but it didn't have to if the content wasn't remarkable. If you guys want more detail on that concept, you can watch my video on what makes remarkable content or examples of it in the description below. But let's get into the secret sauce that Doja Cat had to help this video blow up. The secret is of the secret sauce is the fact that she had a fan base already. Doja Cat was already relatively established. So what that meant is she had let's say 250,000 subscribers on our YouTube page. I'm making that number up but she did have hundreds of thousands of subscribers when she drops her music. You already have a group of people who are waiting to hear what you put out. That's different than having a potentially piece of viral content that you then have to go take and find people to listen to it. You have to find platforms to get it placed on. That's a grind and it can be done, have done it before and I know people who do it all the time. You have something that's worth sharing and you already have an audience that already sees you as worth listening to in the first place. It gets you there so much quicker. So those of you who are already further along and building a fan base, even if it's not a hundred thousand, but you might have about 30,000 fans or you might have 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. At a point where you can start thinking about little things that will help you get outside of your initial reach of your audience because as Doja Cat said in that video clip, that's what she had thought about before even though she didn't do this intentionally in this case, she did recognize it as something that could be done. But this is when it gets really good. The fact that she already had great music out there allowed her to gain a lot of new fans once Bitch on Macau blew up because it brought in so many new eyes to her. And these people said, let me check this person out. A lot of people said they thought she was a YouTuber. As a matter of fact, I'll read some comments off. Lick My Fashion said, it's crazy that it took that moose song for me to notice her. I'm so disappointed in myself. She's absolutely amazing. I downloaded all her stuff on my phone. She's about to be on repeat for a while. Jamboree said, I just recently discovered her and I'm kinda obsessed now. No shame. Under the video for Doja Cat so high, Zachary Todd said, OMG, I was obsessed with this song in high school when I was in a bad place and I never was able to find this song again and I just did again because of Moog. And it's so nostalgic to me, OMG. So these are old fans that were able to rediscover her because of her new song Going Viral. Joshua Jones said, did Moog bring anybody else here? There's 6.2 thousand likes on it. And this is under another one of her videos. Under another one of her songs, somebody said, hold up, she makes good music, WTF. Because a lot of people expected her to just be a YouTuber who did a whole bunch of random songs. It's viral spammy type stuff. But when you go and you say, yo, this chick is super dope. She looks incredibly different every time you see her in different videos, but she's super dope. She brought in a new audience. Now, if she didn't have this music established, that Moog song would have blew up with viral, she would have been stuck in that image and would have had to follow it up or just probably would have failed to the wayside, didn't get any new fans out of the situation. But now she has two great things. She has a lot of new fans that now understand how dope she is, but also she has a viral song that's probably gonna be one of the greatest inspirations for Halloween this year. You can't tell me somebody's not gonna have a cow costume on this Halloween saying, bitch, I'm a cow in a sign or just written on them. But that's neither here nor there. I would love to know what you guys think about this song, this video, the whole situation. I know you guys have been asking me to do this video for a while, finally got around to it. 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