Around 4,000 years ago, deities were created in Indian thought. These embodied the world of nature around us and provided us a deep connection to the forces which control our existence. By the beginning of the first millennium BC, great philosophic ideas which were to last forever were being crystallized in the Indian subcontinent. The material world around us was seen to be Maya or Mithya, an illusion. The high purpose of life was to lift the veils of this illusion to see beyond, to break the spell of the transitory world of sansara. In this age, numerous thinkers gave up the attractions of the material world to search for the truth. The best known renunciator of the period was Gautama Siddhartha, known as the fourth or the seventh Buddha or Enlightened One. Millions of his followers continue till today as one of the great religions of the world, Buddhism. Worshippers meditated on the Buddha and hoped one day to gain true knowledge. In the meantime, the culture of the deities who personified the forces around us continued. These kept us in a deep harmony with the natural order of which we are apart. The deities helped us to live in the world with a true sense of reverence and harmony. The first formalized deity seen in Buddhist Tupa railings in the second century BC is Gajalakshmi. This is Lakshmi with elephants who pour water upon her. She represents the bountiful abundance of nature upon which we all depend. The earliest representations of Indra and Surya are seen in the Buddhist caves of Bhaja in western India in the second century BC. Nagas, divine serpents were made. They embody the protective forces and harmony of the natural order. Along with the ideas of Buddhism and Hinduism, the culture of Indian deities travelled across the whole of Asia. Very interestingly, more than 80% of Japanese gods are originally Indian gods. This close relationship between the people of India and Japan has not been known to most people. Well-researched books on the subject are also not available. Most of Japanese don't know. For example, I live in Kichijoji outskirts of Tokyo. This Kichijoji literally means temple of Kisho Goddess. Kisho is originally Lakshmi. Thus, I came from Lakshmi town. This should be recognized by Japanese people. The bottom of Japanese culture, Indian culture is very strongly imprinted and developed in the Japanese way. Buddhism was born in India. That is why the Japanese people are always very keen to visit India. In Japan, they've always called India Tiniko and they've had much love for India. The ten in Tiniko means heaven, so from that we can see the high regard and respect which the Japanese people have had for India. During the Meiji period, Japanese people started travelling abroad and that is when they went to India. In India, they heard the beautiful chant, Buddham Sharanam Gacchami. This chant was brought back to Japan and the Japanese started using this in temples and Buddhist academic institutions. In Otani University, we are following this tradition since a very long time. The Todaiji Temple at Nara is one of the oldest and most revered temples of Japan. The 48 feet high Verochana here is the largest bronze statue in the world. Already in the 8th century, Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhi Sena has arrived in Japan. He inaugurated the eye-opening ceremony of the great Buddha of Todaiji Temple in 752. He was believed to be born in South India. At that time, the Japanese emperor insisted upon inviting the original Indian monk. So for this, the Japanese emperor dispatched a special mission to ask the high priest of the Indian monk to come to Japan. So he was nominated as high priest and to be Grand Master to conduct the ceremony of the great Buddha eye-opening. He was escorted by two disciples. One is a Vietnamese monk. Another is an Iranian monk. And this team brought with them so many Indian cultures. The Japanese were always very keen to see that they were in close touch with India. So when the Daibutsu at Nara was consecrated, they got the Indian dances from Champa where the Indian kings were ruling on the coastline of modern Vietnam. When the Daibutsu at Nara was to be consecrated, the emperor got eight dance forms from Champa and these eight dance forms were alive till the Meiji Restoration that is the late 19th century. But out of the eight, only three were selected for the imperial repertoire and they still are there. Bodhisenna was given the title of Baramun Sojo, Brahman Bishop. He was also honored as one of the four saints of the Todaiji temple. Bodhisenna and Buddha Stira then went to a temple nearby Daianji where they started the teaching of Sanskrit in Japan for the first time. Bodhisenna visited Japan in 736 AD. He stayed at the Daianji temple. Bodhisenna carried the Buddhist ideas directly from India and that was very important for the Japanese. Bodhisenna passed away in 760 AD when he was 57 years old here in Daianji temple. He is being worshiped by the young generation as giving success in examination, success in getting good service and so on. The Sanskrit language was introduced in Japan in two ways. The first was in the form of Sanskrit studies and the second was as a basis for the formation of the Japanese alphabet. Japanese monks had to study Sanskrit out of necessity in order to master Buddhism from the original Indian sutras and textbooks. As an instance, ancient texts of the Pragyaparamita Sutra written in Sanskrit are kept till today in the Horyuji temple. These are well known to be among the world's oldest existing Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves. When the Japanese studied Sanskrit in the 8th and 9th centuries, Sanskrit was synonymous with the Siddham script. This was used for writing Sanskrit since the 5th century in India. This is called Toba in Japanese and it symbolizes a tower. There are five letters in Sanskrit in front and behind there is a word dana in Sanskrit. Writing here the name of the person will be of significant benefit to that person. Japan and India were very closely connected. If you go to Japanese tomb, you may find Siddhan letters. No Japanese can read these letters written on the tomb timber. Very interestingly, the Siddhan letters who disappeared in India are still used in Japan for tombs to respect the souls. And again in Japan there is Koya San temples. In this Koya San temples, they have still Siddhan Sanskrit school. Many monks are learning this Sanskrit but Sanskrit is Siddhan letters. So perhaps Japan is a time capsule of Indian culture. Already India disappeared. There is a deep relationship between Kana, the Japanese alphabet and Sanskrit. The structure of sounds of Sanskrit and Japanese Kana are almost exactly the same. And this Japanese alphabet pronouns are E-U-A-O like Sanskrit exactly as the Sanskrit. Japanese letters pronunciation follows the Indian sequence. In Japan they also use the Indian letters for writing of sacred syllables or Bidaksharas which have the power of mantras. Every Buddhist monastery in Japan has a seal in which there is a Bidakshara, a sacred syllable, as a short name of the monastery. Japanese language is a different family, has nothing to do with India. But there are some words in Japanese which are derived from Sanskrit like O-Seva from Seva service. And there are about 100 Sanskrit words which are used in Japanese. Most of the Japanese they are using that but without knowing that that is originally from Sanskrit. Suppose like they call the Buddhist temples at Thera. Thera means it is from the Pali term. Thera means a Buddhist monk, a bhikkhu having 10 years experience. And like they call the employer or their boss in olden Japan as Danna, even now also they call Danna. Danna means that is also from the Sanskrit term Dana. So the person who is giving you something. So in that way he is the Danna, the master. In the words of his excellency Mr. Yasukuni Enoki. As I come from the Japanese Lakshmi town, it is no great surprise to me to find that Japanese life is full of so many Hindu deities. Japanese people are unaware of their origins. One of the most revered deities of Japan is Saraswati. There are scores of shrines built to her. In many ways the original concept of Saraswati and her association with the natural order and good fortune are very well preserved in Japan. She is often visualized as a sacred body of water. In Japan we find the continuance of so many early ideas of Indian philosophy. There are two kinds of Benten or Saraswati here in Japan. One is the eight armed Saraswati and the other is the two armed one like the real human form. The two armed form is just like the Hindu deity. She has a musical instrument in her hand which is called vina or beaver in Japanese. The annals of the Todaiji temple mentioned that the celebration of the worship of Lakshmi and Saraswati was held for the first time in this temple in 722 AD. Ever since it has been an annual celebration. In 1836 Saito Satchio wrote a guide book to the Edo area or modern Tokyo. Saraswati was mentioned as the most popular deity here at that time. In 1934 Lady Chibin Sonyo felt that she had become an incarnation of Saraswati. She started writing in Sanskrit though she had never studied the language. She founded the Benten Shu Saraswati sect. This sect holds water as divine as it is the abode of Saraswati. We are reminded that Saraswati is the personification of the great river which once flowed in India. Benten Shu also worships her to bestow eloquence and learning. The belief in the seven deities of fortune arose in Japan in the 16th century. In them Saraswati is the deity of wealth. These seven deities are found in every home. Among them are Daya Koku, Mahakala, Bishamon, Kubera, Benten, Saraswati, Kangi Ten, Shoten, Ganesha and Kichi Jyoten, Lakshmi. A group of Japanese scholars have been researching the subject of Saraswati. This is called Benten Mandala and it was made during the Edo period, that is around the 18th century. It has the Bijya Akshara of Saraswati. I would say to the people of India that the worship of Saraswati in Japan may be somewhat different from back home in India. But you will see that she is very popular here in Japan. I am looking forward to many people from India coming to worship Saraswati here in Japan. Worship of Lakshmi was done to ensure the peace of the land, wind and rain in good season, good harvests, joy of the people and the good of all sentient beings. In the year 768, the office of the Prime Minister decided that the worship of Sri or Lakshmi would be carried out in every temple in the country. Scrolls of Lakshmi were distributed for worship to all temples. Akichi Jyoten's statue in Horinji is from the Heian period. The other connection between India and this Horinji temple would be the Kanheri caves. Our 11-headed Avalokiteshwara in Horinji was made in the early 10th century. Its many faces look at everyone, regard everyone and save everyone through many ways. The great intellectual genius of Japan was Kokai Okobo Daishi of the 9th century. He learned the Sanskrit script from the Kashmiri Acharya Pragya. Kokobo Daishi placed emphasis on the knowledge of Sanskrit. He said that the Japanese have had to rely upon translations to study Buddhism. However, the true words in the original language are exceedingly important. Every word has a profound meaning. The Japanese people use Sanskrit when they pray. Suppose in Sanskrit they say Om Saraswati Swaha. In Japanese it becomes Om Saraswati Ke Swaka. Esoteric Buddhist devotees chant their mantras in Sanskrit because they believe they should not translate these. In Japanese, the Sanskrit mantras will not be effective. When Kokai or Kokobo Daishi went to China, esoteric Buddhism was already established. He brought some scriptures when he came back to Japan and introduced this form of Buddhism. He was given the Toji Temple by the Emperor. In Japan they are preserving the old Indian tradition because they are following the ancient scriptures. They are also doing the puja and the mudras as well as the sadhana. There is nothing called Japanese or Japanese elements in these. It is the Indian Buddhist Tantric tradition. The Vajrayana Buddhist traditions of Japan trace their knowledge back to India, to Nagarjuna and other great Acharyas of the Nalanda University. Nagarjuna is known as Gujiu in Japan. Without his teaching, the Buddhism of the Great Vehicle would not have existed. This project, linking India and Japan, may be an important opportunity, especially for the younger generation. It will help them to discover each other's culture. The Lotus Sutra is a major spiritual creation with a profound impact on life in Japan. It was translated from the Sanskrit by Kumara Jiva, 1600 years ago. This is a temple that follows the Lotus Sutra. The Sutra is originally from India and goes back to the teachings of the Buddha himself. It started from India and came to Japan. The deity of Heizan is Daikukuten. Benzaiten and Bishamonten are also united in this figure. Normally in Japan, they worship them in separate figures, but here the three have been put in one figure. It is a kind of luxury that the three can be worshiped together and whatever you want can be fulfilled. A temple is dedicated to the deity Indra in the Shibamata area of Tokyo. It is a most important Indra shrine today. The Rig Veda in the 13th century BC talks about Indra. Indra is the deity who is called Daikukuten here in Japan. He is the main deity here in our temple, which opened in 1629. This temple has 200,000 visitors on the New Year alone. There would be about 2 million visitors every year. Varuna has been worshipped in many temples in Japan to prevent droughts, typhoons and floods which occur often in Japan. A shrine was dedicated to Varuna in the Fudodo Sanctuary in Tokyo in 1836. The temple also has a representation of Kamadeva. He is worshipped by many young couples. There are many temples dedicated to Yama in Japan. The deity that you see in front of us is Yama or Ema in Japanese. The Rig Veda speaks of Yama who is the first ancestor of human beings. The sound of the word Yama became Ema as the name traveled and came to Japan. It is the most ancient temple to Lord Ganesha which has been used for the last 1000 years.  Merchants go there to gain success in their business. The oldest which has been continuously worshipped for the last 1000 years. And I don't think anywhere in the world we have a temple to Lord Ganesha who has been there in constant worship for the last millennium. Of course, Ganesha comes from India. The prayers and the sutras are in Sanskrit. This is a part of esoteric Buddhism in Japan. For Shoten or Ganesha, the Sanskrit prayer is Om Kri Gyaku Un Swaga. The cultural interflow between India and Japan over the last 1400 years is overwhelming. In the 7th century, Prince Shotoku created the nation state of Japan after vanquishing his rivals. He took the term Teno for emperor from Sanskrit texts. It is very interesting to note that when Buddhism went to Japan, Shotoku Taishi, the prince regent at that time, he wrote commentaries on three Sanskrit works. And these three commentaries written by Prince Shotoku Taishi are the beginning of Japanese literature. And at the same time, he also wrote down a constitution for his country in 17 articles. Article 3 of the constitution clearly points out that the constitution is being based on the Tri Ratna, the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. This is the first Asian constitution ever written. The important point is that its consecration was done with a Sanskrit text which is called the Ushnish Vijaya Dharani. The Sanskrit manuscript used for the consecration of the constitution would have been obtained from the Hindu kingdom of Champa in Vietnam. When Emperor Shomu of Japan wanted to unite the country, he said, well, every monastery in Japan will have some Sanskrit text. So he had about 10,000 Sanskrit sutras printed, and that was a major printing project of Japan. We are in the backyard of Meguro Ryusenji, which is a temple in Meguro Ward in Tokyo. We have here the statue of Mahavayrochana, which was erected in 1683 AD. With the Mahavayrochana at the center as a sun, all the 28 constellations are made around him. There are also the four directional gods, the protectors. It is a mini cosmos that is represented here in Meguro. Mahavayrochana is a deity coming from India, and of course the system of 28 constellations that we see here is a system coming from India. The concept of the four directional deities also comes from India. These are represented here in Meguro. The worship of the constellations, Nakshatra, and of the Navagraha to ward off evil in life, are a shared culture between India and Japan. There is a Japanese ancient astrology that is very closely linked to the Indian system of Nakshatra or Lunar Mansions. It is about 27 or 28 Nakshatras that are linked to our character, depending on the year and date of the birth. There are nine stars used for this Hoshimatsuriyo Star Festival, which are the seven stars linked to the days of the week, plus Rago and Keito, which are quite obviously linked to the nine planets or the Navagrahas that we are using in Indian Vedic astrology or Jyotish. Havan or Homa continues in Japan, where it is called Goma. Goma in the Shingon and Tendai Buddhist sects of Japan has striking parallels with early Hindu rites of Agni worship. There are also deep similarities with the later Tantric tradition. The Havan is perhaps conducted in Japan, at least as often as in India. The Tantric Shingon School of Japan sings Sanskrit hymns. To this day, followers of the sect perform their worship in 1,200 temples throughout Japan. Many people visit this Fudo Mew temple. The Goma is used to burn away all the desires which dwell within us. This is in order to make the world a better place. Life is limited and this is a teaching which shows us how to live better by burning all the desires, for instance by not being greedy. Let me repeat that esoteric Buddhism is from India and the big philosophy of the universe is, of course, from India. Vajrayana Buddhist worship in Japan is similar to Tibetan Buddhist worship. However, the Japanese tradition has preserved some early Vajrayana rites. A study of Japanese Buddhism helps to fill some gaps in our understanding of the development of Buddhism. There are four types of Shingon mantras of Fudo Mew in Japan. These are the mantras used in Japan which are not in the Japanese language. They are taken from the Sanskrit language of India. In Sanskrit, Fudo is called achalanatha. He seems to have his origin in the Hindu deity Shiva. The Mew is called Vidya Raja in Sanskrit. Here, it can be safely stated that Fudo Mew has his origin in the Hindu deities of India. Aksutra compares the cosmic force of the mantra with the mighty roar of a rising flood. The mantras were transcribed into ideograms and to conserve their full power they were also written in Siddham. Indian letters to a Japanese are sacred and stand for divine beings. To this day, the Japanese write mantras in Siddham. This booklet contains prayers in Sanskrit that are commonly used in Shingonshu or esoteric Buddhism. It is written in Japanese but the mantras are in Sanskrit. It is used in many ceremonies in Buddhism. Priests learn the intonation and how to pronounce it by using this booklet which has Sanskrit and also has Japanese letters to convey the sounds of the Sanskrit words. The priests have to study these true words. Of course, Shingon has prayers in Japanese but it also has prayers in Sanskrit. By saying those sacred words in Sanskrit, there is more peace of mind. Every god has his own Bijakshara. People also worship that Bijakshara. Every temple gives much importance to those Bijaksharas because they are equal to God. So they also have a Bijakshara in Siddham to symbolize each deity. It has the qualities of that deity. Visitors bring an album, we call it Shinshin. The visitors go to various temples and collect these Siddham stamps in the albums. These albums are like holy books for the people. When they go to a temple, they get the stamp of the Bijakshara from the temple priest and with a very grateful heart, they take it to their home and keep it there. So this is a long, long association between India and Japan and this script is still believing as an object of the worship. There is a very long and deep history connecting India and Japan. This temple is a very old one in Japan. The founders of the school of Buddhism to which we belong were from India. So we feel very close to the Indian tradition. The founders are Vasubandhu and Asangha. We have two statues of them which are put in the hall called the Hokando. We belong to a Zen Buddhist monastery and we strive hard to sever the bond of birth, senility, disease and death. The bond which is the cause of all suffering. As the Buddha said, desire is the root cause of pain in the world and should be overcome. This forms the basis of our ascetic practices which come down to us from the Shakyamuni himself. Bodhidharma, he transmitted Zen. Zen leader has been transmitted to Japan also and it is one of the most important sects in Japan. Mist surrounds the legend of Bodhidharma. Tradition points out that he was a prince of Kanchipuram in South India. The Japanese form of his name is Bodhidharma. It is very close to the Tamil form which is Bodhidharma. Zen was introduced in the 6th century. It was a wordless tradition directly pointing to the human mind and the perception of one's true nature. Zen was taken to Japan in the 12th century by Isai. Its influence on Japanese art, attitudes and language has been profound. Zen Buddhism became very popular because it says that life is a fleeting phenomenon. And the samurai, when they went to war, they were never sure that they will come back. In this feeling they go to war and there is no fear of death. So fearlessness in war was a very important contribution of the Zen tradition. And when we sit down in a Zen monastery, we have to really do very hard penance. And hard work in Japan is perfection. So the Zen tradition gave them a perfection in work. It became a very important part of the modern development, perfection in everything. When I visited India for the first time, I made sure to visit places like Nalanda University, Bodhigaya and also the garden path, trodden by the Shakyamuni himself. I felt happy to see the university where Tripitaka Masters used to come and study during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. Whatever Buddhism we practice now has its roots in India and without Indians there would be no Buddhism in Japan. Imperial Prince Shinryo, the 3rd crown prince of the then Emperor of Japan developed a great desire to visit India. Unfortunately, he was unable to reach his much desired destination of India. But in the history of Japan, he was the first Japanese who actually started his journey to reach India, the country of the Shakyamuni. The same Shinryo was the 3rd chief priest of this Zen-Rinji temple. In Japan, when I was there, I think in 1970, there was a yogurt called Sujata in allusion to Lord Buddha whom Sujata had given milk preparations and after offering he attained enlightenment. So many deities are common in India and Japan and people are worshipping them in both the countries. The hearts of the Indian people and the Japanese people have the same base. Otani University has a very long relationship with India. When the first Nobel laureate of Asia, Tegore, came to Otani University and when the first president Rajendra Prasadji came here, Otani University offered them honorary PhD degrees. Japan is the one country where Buddhism is flourishing in all its facets. Here, technology and transcendence are living together. The deep-rooted spirit of Buddha's teachings energize the Japanese people. Buddhist temples are numerous and vast numbers of people visit them every day. Besides the Buddha, so many ancient Indian deities and practices are preserved in these temples. And India feels quite at home in Japan.


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Welcome to Jalassa News. My name is Rob and today I want to do something a little bit different. We talk about the rules, the rules being that everything's a scam, take your profits along the way. And one of those is don't leave anything on exchanges. So to get everybody comfortable with it, I mean we've done a couple of videos on DanTeach's crypto, the 100% free website you can sign up for. But I wanted to show you just how easy it is. So today, and I think we should probably make this like some type of ritual. At least once a week, just go through taking crypto off exchanges to show people exactly how easy it is. And I'm going to show you how I do it with my ledger for my personal portfolio. We're going to go through Coinbase with what I use, why I use Coinbase. And then I'm going to show you a problem that I found personally for ledger and why it doesn't connect sometimes. And it has to do with Cardano and the deadless wallet. So we'll talk about that. Actually, I'll just jump right in and let's just do it. So here we go. Here's my account. This is Coinbase. And the reason why I use Coinbase is so far they've held up to the test of time. I think whether that be through the grand design or just because they weren't able to get a lot of different products because the SEC stepped in and said, you know, you're not going to do that. It doesn't matter.  They haven't collapsed. It looks like they're not commingling of funds and they're on the up and up and also they're a publicly traded company. So I'm feeling pretty comfortable right now trading with them, using them, but not leaving anything on the exchange itself. And that's one of those things. So for me, also people asked me about dollar cost averaging on this particular platform. Why don't you choose like a cheaper platform? And I'll just tell you like this FTX was super cheap too. That didn't work out too hot. And also with Coinbase and this is not a ring endorsement. I just got to use it because it's like one of the few games in town for American citizens is that you can send it for Coinbase one and it's 39 bucks a month and you all the fees are waived up to $10,000. So everything that I buy every day, which is Bitcoin and all the things that I buy every week, which are all coins, I don't get charged an arm and a leg because I'm at Coinbase one. So there you go. So let's do this. So right now I buy Polygon here and there, right? And I've got $196.87 worth of Polygon on to Coinbase. So whatever exchange you're using, it doesn't matter. There's some way to send and receive it. There's some way to send it out. I don't know how all these different exchanges work. Just find it on there. And then for Coinbase, of course, there's a big, huge, gigantic button that says send and receive right there. And of course, this is on the desktop on the app. It's a little bit different, but it's all the same things. Don't freak out. So send and receive and I want to send all and you can. So this little button right here, it'll just, it'll toggle between what it is. So 241 Matic is 200 bucks, which not too long ago that was like 600 bucks, but whatever. So of course, I'm going to send all this. It's going to say pay with Polygon to where do I want to send it? So that is where my ledger comes in. So stick with me. I have to stop the screen because I can't have two screens on this particular streaming service. So it's okay. But here's my ledger live. And what I'm going to do, and I've got multiple ledgers and I've got about three or four now. And one's a ledger S and the other ones are all ledger X's.  So I'm going to put my password 12345. There we go. And you can tell right here that you can't see my balance because there's a little toggle button here, this little eyeball. And I'm just going to keep that part private.  I can't let everybody into all my secrets and holdings and even though this is just one of the few. But yeah, so like, here's my asset allocation for this particular one, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Matic. You can see I got, I'm actually catching up. 65% is Bitcoin, Ethereum is 12%, Matic is 10%. It's getting pretty heavy. I need to rebalance at some point. It doesn't matter. So there's different ways that we can find the address because we want to receive this. Or we want to send this from Coinbase in some way. So you can either go through Matic and click on Matic. That's what we're going to send. And see it says buy or swap here. You got to click on Matic again. And that's going to say send and receive. Okay. You can go through all that or on the left-hand side, see where it says accounts, discover, send, receive. Just click on receive. And it's the same thing. There's like multiple ways to get to the finish line. So I got Matic here. Great. Continue. And now hopefully this works because it might not. I have to unlock it. Yeah. And it's going to say open the Ethereum app because Matic is built on Ethereum. And I'm using my ledger right here, right? It's connected to my computer right now. And again, I'll put a link in the description for you can find how to set up your ledger and all that stuff. See that right there? That address for Matic. That's what, that's all you need. So I'm going to see this little, it says copy. I'm going to copy this just like that. And you can verify it on your, on your ledger. I always take a look at the first couple and the last couple. So 0x71, 0x71, a7, a7. Okay. That's good. Great. So I've copied it. Now all I'm going to do, very simply, I'm going to stop this. I'm going to go back to Coinbase and I'm going to put that in. I'm going to paste that right there. 0x71, a7, optional message. You don't need this, but why not continue. And then I'm going to click on send now because I am paranoid, not paranoid. I've just had a lot of, we talk about security and we want things to work. So I put it in a Google authenticator. Makes sense, right? We always talk about that. So it's going to ask me for my six digit code, which is on my phone. I'm not going to show you that either, but hey, five. And since that expires in 30 seconds, that's it. Done. So that's all she wrote. And then of course now there's a new code. So it doesn't matter the codes that you got. So that's pretty much how to do it. I don't think that's much of a stretch. Let me stop the screen. Let me see if it already got there. Not yet. We'll see. We'll check it throughout. But that is essentially how you do things. If you're going to go with that again, that's it. But I do that.   So every couple of days or so, I transfer it off of Coinbase and put it on to my ledgers. And that's pretty much it. So that's as tough as it gets, folks. So if you don't think you can do that, I understand. But you can, trust me. It's not rocket science. So that's it. Also, if you're looking for, like, how to set up your ledger, how to do everything with ledger live, this is a website. Dantages Crypto. You just go there. You click on Model 2 Safety. Because it's not how much you make. It's not how much you keep, right? I mean, how many times have we heard these stories of people get things lost? So how to detect scammers. That's a big one. And what's a crypto wallet between a cold, a hot storage device? What's the public private key? How to set up your nanoledger? Nanoledger live app. You'll notice that the videos are short, like six minutes, seven minutes, four minutes, transferring. And that's it. So that's all she wrote. So we have that. Lastly, before we get into Q&A, as a reminder, sweat coin challenge still going on. There's a link in the description. Looks like this. Download the app. Apps free. Earn sweat coins. Those are also free. And if you win, top 30 people win stuff like this. A ledger, nano, token metrics, membership for life. Stonebook, 10 set premium membership.  I mean, everything that's there all right there. And then if you're just making sure that you're on the in the contest, if you scroll down, you can click here. It'll show you if you're on there. This is updated every three days. So don't feel like bad if it's not there right there, right then and there. But also, if you download the app and you're like, I don't think I'm on there. I don't see my name. Just go here. Again, you scroll down and click here and just put in your, your sweat coin app username right there. And that's, that's it. So look, that's it for today. Hopefully that's helped ease some of your fears is very simple. There's one more thing I would add that I didn't do because I've been doing this so much now is that always do a test transaction. Test transaction when you're transferring things around. A lot of people will just go in there and be like, well, here goes 150 Bitcoin off it goes right now for the average person. They lose 150 Bitcoin, probably a problem right. So make sure that you do a test transaction. Make sure you got everything right. Maybe a couple hundred bucks, maybe 50 bucks worth of Bitcoin instead of sending a couple billion first and then just go from there. So that is it for today. Like today's video. Give it a thumbs up. Consider subscribing. And now let's get into a little Q&A, which is the best part of the show. All right.


Hi, and welcome to School of Hustle, the show where we chat with everyday entrepreneurs about everything that goes into starting a new venture from aha moments to future plans. We cover it all. And I tell ya! Podcast, so we'd like to take a moment to introduce ourselves. I am Sarah Funk, and you can find me on Instagram at sarahfunky. I'm a YouTuber. I run my own NYC tour company, and I'm a travel host and expert on travel leisure and forks. And I live and breathe the entrepreneurial lifestyle. And I'm Maxim Mardinow, online at Maxim McKay, and I'm a fantasy author, go daddy brand writer, and a relentless advocate for entrepreneurs everywhere. Yes, and if you enjoy this episode, and we really hope that you do, please subscribe, leave us a review, and tell of your friends to listen in. So, Maxim, tell me about this fantasy novel you wrote. I saw on your Instagram, your face makeup on it. Yeah, that's like a new thing I'm doing right now. So that's a little unrelated. So I wrote a book, it's a young adult fantasy novel called Kingdom of Exiles. And I'm finding that in these current times, I'm having a really hard time being creative and tapped into my work. So I decided like, let's do this quarantine activity where I do makeup like book covers. So I started this Instagram story where I'm doing different makeup, with different book covers, and it's been a lot of fun. I love that because I also, I can relate to what you're saying. It's very challenging to be creative during these times. And I mean, I've read that in times of struggle, creativity is supposed to be rampant. I have not experienced that yet. Me neither. I'm like, when is this happening? Because any moment now, I'm gonna have that breakthrough idea. Right? And it's like, there's nothing like a good deadline to like get you in the zone. And that you sure for me, but it's not at all applicable right now. Yeah, right? Just like, oh man. Channel about travel in New York. And it's like, how do you make videos about travel in New York when you can't travel? Yeah, so what are you even doing then? Well, you know, I think part of being an entrepreneur is you constantly have to adapt to what's going on in the world. So I'm doing a few different things. Obviously, I have a tour company in New York, by the way, and obviously that can't be running. So I've been doing a tour, which has been going well. But for content creation on my YouTube, I started a cooking series with my husband where we would like make New York recipes. Like we show people how to make New York pizza and like other things that are New York. So we're gonna see how that goes. I'm always thinking like, how can I make this into something more? So I'm like, if this really takes off, I could do a whole cookbook. But that's just my crazy entrepreneur mind where I'm always like, okay, this can happen and this, this, this, that. And today we are fortunate enough to have an amazing guest join us for this episode. We will be speaking with Jason Chang, the CEO and co-founder of Kinos. Now Kinos is a venture-back company that's pioneering colorized disinfection to protect healthcare workers, patients, and the general public from infections. And their main product called Highlight is a patented color additive for disinfectants designed to improve cleaning and eliminate human error. Jason, thanks for being here. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be on. So in your own words, tell us a little bit about your company. Yeah, so Kinos is based out of Brooklyn, New York. We protect healthcare workers, patients, and the general public from infections. Yeah, and what you're doing right now is amazing. Like we all appreciate what you're doing to help save the world, quite literally a crazy time we're all in, and your work has been featured in major publications even before this whole situation we're dealing with, like TechCrunch, Scientific American, and VR. Did you expect your company to become what it is today? So we have a really cool origin story. Back in 2014, when myself and my two co-founders were undergrads at Columbia, this was the height of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. So Columbia held this design challenge where they actually brought in nurses and doctors from the field. And one of the really cool things is that we got to hear problems directly from them. And one of the big ones was that ineffective disinfection and human error was literally killing them. And if only there was some way they could see what they were doing. And that's really how we came up with the concept of colorized disinfection. So the problem that we're trying to address here is the idea that about half of the critical surfaces in a healthcare setting are not properly disinfected. And some studies have even shown that up to 40 to 80% of infections could be prevented if we had better cleaning technique. So what we did to address this problem is we created a patented color additive called highlight, which is meant to be combined with existing disinfectants that people are already using. So highlight enhanced bleach, for example, is colorized. So you can actually see where it's being applied. You never miss a spot. And then the color will then fade from color to color less. And that will provide real-time feedback of when the surface is safe to touch. And yeah, when we first started, it was actually the night of my 21st birthday. I actually almost didn't go to the design challenge. But my co-founder, Katherine, she convinced me to go and the rest is kind of history. I think it's hilarious that this all happened on your 21st birthday, a time when most people are just going out partying that is just amazing that you're doing something positive for the world in that way. So if I'm understanding correctly, the highlighting agent is you put it in an existing cleaning product and it will work that way. So if someone purchases this, it could be a medical professional or someone that is just like me, that we want to clean and just make sure that everything is cleaned properly. Yes, so I can run you through how it actually works. So right now we have a protocol to highlight powder. And as the name suggests, it's a powder that you'll pour into a bleach solution. So one of the caveats of the technology is that it currently only works with bleach. We do have ongoing R&D for non-bleach disinfectants like alcohol and quaternary moaning compounds, hydrogen peroxide and so on. So bringing back to that moment, you had just kind of come up with this concept for Kenos. So what was the first thing you did to make this idea become reality? I mean, completely honestly, like our first prototypes were literally just that they were prototypes. We went to Morton Williams to the grocery store, he bought some food coloring and tried putting into bleach. That didn't work at all. So what did you do to overcome those type of challenges? Yeah, so one of the big hurdles that we came across was when we were talking to, when we're doing our original research and we're talking to first responders, we asked them, what is your standard protocol? What are you using to disinfect all these surfaces? And they said bleach. And so, when here in the US, when you go buy bleach, you're buying liquid Clorox bleach from Dwayne Reed or CVS. But when you actually go to the field, you realize that there are different kinds of bleach. So in the US of sodium hypochlorite, which is liquid, but in a lot of areas internationally, they actually use powdered bleach, which is either calcium hypochlorite or sodium trochocene. And these are actually very different chemistries. So, and we realized that our color-fading reaction that we've been developing only worked with sodium hypochlorite and not the other kinds of bleach. So we had to kind of go back to the drawing board and reformulate a bit so that it'd work with those other types of chemistries. So, I think that for any entrepreneur who's just developing a product for the first time, the most helpful thing to do is get out of your little tinkering bubble at your lab and actually go out and try it and get as much feedback as you can as soon as possible. Let's talk about the day that you launched your business. What were you feeling in that moment? And it could, it's not always just one moment. I feel like a business kind of launches over a period of time. Were you scared? Were you excited? Can you bring us to that moment?    We tested with them. But there's so many other hurdles when running any business. And I believe that in the healthcare industry, I feel like there's a lot more things to consider when starting a business. You have government regulations, raising capital. Could you talk about that a little bit? I mean, I think one of the kind of difficult things about healthcare is that it's a industry where credentials kind of matter a lot and having experience in knowing how to navigate this huge bureaucratic system. And I don't think that we actually would have been able to make any headway if we hadn't gotten that government grant from USAID. Just because, you know, when you're a busy doctor at any bullet treatment unit, you know, you're not gonna take an email from like a 21 year old who has an idea, right? You know, really, you know, having an introduction in the U.S. government helps a lot. And that's how we got in touch with our first kind of NGO partners to do the field testing in West Africa. You know, I think one of the things that I regret a little bit from college is that I spent too much time studying. And, you know. Same, but every so small, so much. But I think there's so much you can learn by doing versus reading. I think reading is very important in educating yourself as much as you can. But just try it. If you read 100 books, but don't ever try anything, nothing will ever be accomplished. And I think kind of the big thing I learned when I actually, like, I think for a lot of people in college, right, you're stuck in this bubble mentality where it's like, I need to get good grades. I need to finish my homework. I need to be president of a club.  But when I actually went to Liberia and I was interacting with these healthcare workers and they were telling me, you know, like I feel so much safer and more confident in using this product. Thank you so much. And like that feeling of empowerment that we were able to provide to them, you know, I think that made me realize that even though I'm young, I don't have like an MBA or a medical degree, you know, I was able to impact this person's life. And that kind of pops the bubble for me. I completely agree with you. I think direct feedback from your customers, whoever they might be, is the most satisfying, fulfilling thing you could ever get to motivate you to do even more with your business. Yeah, one of the things I learned over the years is I think when you're starting a company for the first time, a lot of these awards and media coverage seem really, really important. But I think that there also is a balance. You know, when we first started, we were exclusively focused on like applying all these competitions and trying to get as much like recognition as possible. But, you know, what's really important is actually the impact that you're able to provide to the people you're trying to help and actually creating a sustainable business. What would you like to improve about your business this year or in the future? Yeah, so we have this product launch coming out for our second product. So as I described earlier, you know, our first product is highlight powder, which is meant to, you know, be dissolved in liquids and then sprayed on surfaces. Our second product is really meant to be used with wipes. Most hospitals here in the U.S. ready to use wipe canisters.  You know, that's what people are doing and you can't really dissolve a powder in that. There's not enough liquid inside the container. And so what we did is we built a physical hardware device that we call the highlight wipes lid. And the idea is that you put our lid device on top of your bucket of wipes and as the wipe goes through our lid, it will get colorized with a liquid version of our chemistry. That's so brilliant. So how do you actually convince those hospitals to start using that product over something that they were already familiar with? Yeah, so that's kind of one of the kind of nice parts of how our product is that it's an additive. It's meant to be combined with what they're already doing. The challenge for us then isn't so much integrating it into their protocol. It's more on the kind of financial and budgetary side because we are an additive cost. You know, a lot of other products, they replace costs, right? We have a faster, cheaper way to do it. We'll replace what you're currently doing, but we are essentially a new budget line item for them. So we have the onus of proving to them that the additional money that they're gonna be spending is gonna be worth it. And we have a number of different value propositions that help justify that cost. I really wanna know what tips or advice you have for people regardless of what they're doing for coming up with a good value prop or even a pitch if that's more applicable to the situation. Yeah, I think that's one of the things that is probably so fundamental to a new product is you're not creating a product to find the solution, but you've already found the solution your product addresses that. And I think that it all starts with, really getting to know the people you're trying to help. So before we started developing the highlight wipes lid, we spent three months shadowing different environmental services workers at multiple hospitals. There's a lot of like little things in our device that most people wouldn't care about that an environmental services worker would care a lot about. For example, a lot of people complain right now that the way that the current lids work on the wipes and you pull a wipe out in the bottom of what kind of falls back through. And if they'll reopen the lid, thread the wipe through again and that's super annoying. So we actually have like our lid is automated. So you press a button and the wipe gets fed through with rollers and so it never falls back in.  Yeah, I think the main lesson that people should take from what you've shared with us is listen to your customers, look at what their pain points are and create a product that addresses those direct pain points. Yeah, I mean, I feel like nobody likes being, no one likes to feel like they're being sold too. And I think there's a big nuance between I want you to buy it versus I want to help you. And I think that the more you can, I mean, it goes even beyond just the direct problems that you're doing, like for example, because we've been in an infection prevention space for so long, sometimes people will come to us and ask us just general questions about disinfectants or part of their process. And we're always more than happy to help them with it because the more helpful you can be, everything is really based on trust and relationships. So tell us a little bit about how COVID-19 has affected kin-outs. Traditionally, we've always been focused on first response and medicine and health, but now we've sold and delivered product to sports stadiums and we're talking to public transits and we're talking to like, we've gotten so many inbound from people who need to clean their office buildings or their Airbnb property. And it's like just like even like one for cleaning cars. And it's just like a lot of different things that we hadn't previously thought we would be applicable to. Are you having trouble fulfilling all the orders? It sounds like there's a lot more orders than normal. I don't think many companies in the world were fully prepared for the scope and kind of scale of the current crisis. But we're, everyone's just trying their best. And also with like the hand sanitizer shortage, for example, our plant has the capability to produce that. So we actually just recently produced a batch of hand sanitizers, which we were able to provide at cost to a local community center. Have you been educating your community through Kinos on how to sanitize or disinfect, I guess would be a better word, properly at all? Yeah, I mean, we definitely watch a lot of friends reach out and that's why we kind of wrote that blog post on our website. And if you go to our website, www.kinos.us, we have a little banner at the top just so we can use directly that blog post. And really the goal there is just to, again, we're not, we don't really talk about our product at all. We're not trying to sell you anything, just literally just trying to find information on the right process and procedure to disinfect things correctly and just trying to help out. I just want to reiterate that everything you're doing is incredibly amazing. And it's important that we continue to support each other, even virtually during these challenging times. And the information you're putting out there is super helpful for everyone. So thank you so much. You were so informative. Is there anything else we should know before we end this interview? Yeah, I just want to say that we're starting to engage a little bit more with some of the local, state and federal government agencies to see how we can kind of expand that impact. So if there's anyone in the audience that's watching, that might be connected to some of those organizations we're always trying our best to have a broader reach with what we're doing. So feel free to reach out to us. That's also incredible. Thank you so much. And it is so important that we all support each other during these challenging times. So we all appreciate what you're doing tremendously.  We've learned so much from your entrepreneurial journey and what you're doing today. So thank you so much for talking with us. Thanks for having me. This was fun. Thank you listeners for spending some time with us to learn more about Kinos. Visit kinos.us and follow them on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at Kinos Inc. Now that is all for this episode of School of Hustle. Keep up with us on all of our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you stream and download podcasts. And if you like what you heard, please leave a review, share with your friends and subscribe to our podcast. See you next time.


You know what's funny? When I started my YouTube career, or at least when I started making Nintendo Switch stuff, one of the things I really got popular for was making fun of Nintendo Switch games, or at least leaning into the goofing gaff that when we got a port on Switch, it was awful, but it really wasn't the case as a whole. And it's only once in a while we truly get a botched one. We just took a look at Alan Wake in that video I mentioned Ark, and how that was the worst Nintendo Switch port we'd ever seen. I made a video on it back in the day laughing at it. I think I was actually sick that day, but I was acting so much more sick and pretending that this terrible version of Ark was giving me pneumonia. But I have to give props to the developers of Ark, because not only did they go away and spend four years completely rebuilding Ark in Unreal Engine 4, they hit me up and asked me if I wanted to make a video for them. You people at Ark want to hire the guy that laughed all over your first version of the game to look at the new one? I mean, you gotta be pretty confident in it at that point, right? So I'm gonna take a look at it. It has been completely overhauled and the Ultimate Survivor Edition has the base game and all major expansion packs. Oh, and if you bought this before like I did, the new base game is a free upgrade with save data carrying over.  I really do want to compare my first review and all the gripes I had with the game to how this game looks now. And I ain't gonna be going easy just because I'm getting paid, believe me. I gotta be honest, the character creation hasn't changed much. All you can really do is just make body parts bigger or smaller. So we're just gonna rock the default. Okay, this is definitely better. I'm sorry, I'm a little speechless. This honestly is light years better than what I played several years ago. One of the first things I noticed in like 2018 was when you loaded into a game, you could literally watch everything slowly load into the game. Even the character models looking like Polygon N64 versions of what they're supposed to be. But no, this is super smooth. Actually, it's really quick too. I just booted up and here I am in the game. And the level of detail in this compared to the previous version, okay, I'm pretty impressed. Weirdly, an issue I had in the first game was when you looked at the water, there was a weird reflection on either side. And I thought that was a switch glitch, but it's happening again here in this revamped version. So I quickly just went to my PC and bought the game again, because I wanted to do my research properly. And sure enough, it's in that version too. So this is just something that happens within arc being harsh on that with the switch port initially was probably unfair. And people really like this game. The last time I was mean to it, a lot of people said, you just don't understand how to play the game and fair. Yeah, that was actually a fair critique. Obviously the game not running and looking good was also a fair critique. Otherwise, the developers wouldn't have completely scrapped it and re-hauled it. Now that I've been playing arc more and I actually like it, I do cringe a little. One of the things I said was it's too dark at night.  You can't see anything. It's a survival game and it's night.  That's fairly realistic. 2018 woodhawker. I'm actually understanding this game a lot more this time around.  I really didn't get this game the first time I played. And I'll tell you why I hadn't even played Minecraft when I played arc for the first time. I fell in love with Minecraft maybe a year or two after that. And from there, I ended up getting really into the genre with No Man's Sky being one of my favorite games. I probably shouldn't start listing other games that aren't arc in a video where I'm getting paid to talk about arc, but my point is now I kind of really like survival games and I'm getting this a lot more now. All right. Well, they still have that random farting sound. Oh, wait. Oh, that's actually me sh**ing on the ground. Oh! I made so much fun of that sound effect the first time I played the game.  I feel like you can do better. What was that sound effect? Oh, oh. Okay, so I'm getting a little carried away now. I'm going to work building my shelter and just basically trying to survive. Last time, one of the big things I complained about, well, there was a lot. There was frame rates and then there was trees. When I would like walk closer or further away from trees in the game, they would phase in and out of existence.  If you took a couple steps back, they would reappear. All of those problems are fixed and the frames are super smooth. This is extremely playable. There's nothing funny to say here. It's just a stable, fun way to play the game. I am still going to make the video funny and fun so don't go anywhere. Oh, and the game looked worse in handheld mode than it did on the TV. I thought squishing it down on the handheld screen would make it look better, but nope. However, I played it handheld a little bit before making this video. Sorry, I'm lying a little bit to you guys. You did a good job. I'm so impressed by this. Not just so much the fact that they did it. I could have gone back in time and told you this was possible, just that they took the time to do it. I really admire that. They didn't have to. They could have just left it the way it was, but they wanted to fix it. So when you boot up the game, you'll instantly see there's new cinematic story content to further expand the narrative of the game. And there's also a new dinosaur discovery experience. I haven't played this, but it's for kids. It lets them explore the island without the violence or the complex mechanics. You can use a single joy con with simplified controls. When you unlock dinos, you can learn real facts about them as you complete missions. Oh my God. That's really cute, actually. I didn't know that. I'm reading that now. I have been playing as this survivor now for a while. I actually am doing pretty well. I haven't even died yet. I remember the first time I tried playing this game, I would die as I spawned. To either a dinosaur in the air or there was one time I clipped into a cabin when I spawned in and I was stuck and I literally had to restart the game. This time, because the game plays so well, I just loaded it up and started collecting, crafting, building, and now I have a little home, a hut.  And it reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger in that movie Jingle All the Way, where he punches a deer in the face. But apparently I was supposed to do that and then feed it a bunch of berries to tame it and now it's my friend and I crafted a saddle and now I'm riding it around like a horse. I have a dinosaur horse. I also found this weird structure and I have no idea what it's about. Apparently, there's a lot of things to do in this game and even boss battles, but I'm literally, I am fine on my island. I'm very scared and alone. I'm getting very carried away. Like, I honestly am. There's a lot more to this game that I was supposed to play like the scorched earth DLC, which is much harder because every time I spawn in, the sun is beating down and I'm instantly burning alive and it took me about seven deaths to realize I'm supposed to rush to water. I tried everything like building a shelter really quickly. I was hoping that that would help cover me from the sun. No, you just find water. And now that I know that and I've had some time to cool off, I've started another playthrough now on this DLC, building another cabin and now I'm getting sucked in and starting this whole process all over again. I just got to stop because I haven't even played online yet. This is all the single player mode. There's an online mode, which means I would need people to play online with. That'll do. Oh, you're so beefy. Hey, I modeled after real life. Am I right? But I have a guy. I have a guy. I have a guy. He has a guy. I have a guy. I have a guy. I need to figure out how to invert the controls. Oh, you play inverted. I do. I am one of those people. I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't know he was like this before I invited him to be in the video. Hello. I'm inverting my controls right now. How do I wave to you? Okay, don't. Hey, don't punch me. I'm still learning right now because I've only ever played this on PC, but I'm very happy that I can play it on Switch now because I can bring art with me on the go. Do you want my poop? You can take my poop if you want it. I'll take it as a present.  I can see nothing right now. I know. God, is this arc survival evolved or more like dark survival evolved, right guys? I could come look for you with my torch. I'm here. Do you see my light? Do you see my guiding light? I see your light. Oh my god, there's a one. King? King? Where are you? King? King! You looked so fine. You are so... I can't. King, I just pooped for you. I just pooped for you if you want it. King, thank god I'm hungry. Don't creep towards it like that. I don't like the way you snuck towards the poop. I was hungry. Oh, by the way, we can make a tribe. Oh, I love to make a tribe. Yes, tribe of ham. Welcome to the tribe. Is this you here? Who is this? That's not me. That's me, Goody!  Can you come up with... It looks so good. As someone who has played 700 hours of this game, what do you make of the switchport? And I think it's pretty good. I'm going to shoot this bird out of the sky. Take the shot. Let the arrow be your guiding light. I miss. You'll get the next one. Is that a pterodon? You'll get the next one. He's landing. King, I punched it. Oh my god, you did. Oh god, King! King it!  King, it ate me.  Oh, I should probably find you and help you, right? I'm dead. Yeah. Level 85? It was a dimorphodon. That's what it was. I'm going to leave. I'm going to put the door over here where I'm standing right now. I love that. I'm going to go hunting. Happy hunting, King. Thank you. I see a giant turtle. I would turn around now and like run. No, no, no. Next shot. Next shot. There's two. So yeah, so they're loyal to each other. So if you try to hurt one... Oh, no, I feel bad. Now I'm going to have to kill them both so the one doesn't have to live with it. That's more hide for us, though, isn't it? It's pretty bloody, so it's dead. Now that one, I don't know what level that one is. That one's red.  I found him. Oh my god! Dude, I was about to pass out. I love you, YouTube. Comment, like, and subscribe. My god, dude. I can't see where I am. The stars are beautiful, though. The stars are so pretty. Is that Ursa Major? You're inside? My god, look at you. Every time I see you, you creep me out so much. I'm dragging him somewhere. It doesn't look right from here. We're going for a little swim. Oh, by the way, don't eat them. What is that? Who is that? What is that? What is that? They're a chicken. Oh, my god. What is happening? Ham, can you get back here? I don't like the way this chicken is looking at us. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm over-encumbered, and I would love to put this crate down. I would do anything to put this crate down. I also can't get into this house because I'm over-encumbered, and Ham won't come and bite me to the tribe. I wouldn't be back in, like, 20 seconds. Oh my god. One, two, three, 17, 18, 19, 20. Get him. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. Get him. Don't shoot me. Move away from me. You just defecated on me. I saw that. Buddy, you're fine. You're good. Are you sure he's good? You're good. I don't think he's good, man. I feel like we did a lot of good here. We've made a nice house. I am the Hunter Provider who found us a lot of meat. You are Bob the Builder, and I think we all did pretty good. What am I? Okay, you know what? Man, I just feel like that was not necessary. Done. Hey. Oh my god. Very good. Very good. Very good. Very good. The door's out there. Yep. See you later, boys. Just keep going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just open that door and just, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See you, buddy. I kicked them out of my house because one of them kept farting, and I didn't know which one, but it did sound exactly like this sound. So apparently the game's more accurate than I thought. Even though while making this video, I've played three separate times in three different ways, and each time I got to the point where I'd made shelter and I had food and clothes and then stopped to play another playthrough, I've really enjoyed all of them. There is actually something of that too. Like I feel like every fresh Minecraft save is more exciting than when you're 50 hours into the game. There's something about the starting a new character and like building it all up from scratch and the exploration of a new place. It's so crazy to me that they took the worst Nintendo Switch game. There is an argument to be made that maybe it is still WWE 2K18 or Alan Wake as I think it is now, but I do think that arc was pretty bad, but they took that and now it's one of the best. It takes the experience of a game grander than something that maybe should technically work on the console, and now it just does do that. It works. Someone is calling me and we're gonna find out who it is right now at the end of this random video. Hello? Screwed is that you? Even if you're like me and you'd never played this game before, this is a great way to play it for the first time now. And if you're like him, who played it for like 700 hours, even he said as he sat here playing it handheld with us, this is a really solid way to play the game. Thank you arc for sponsoring the video, but also thank you for fixing the game. And if you want to get the game, there'll be a link down below. It will directly support the channel, but also remember, if you bought this game at any point before, dive back into it, update it for free and play it now. It's they fixed it. I really do have to start. I'm gonna start a new play. No, I'm gonna do the first one. I'm gonna get back into my first playthrough because I just built the raft and I'm trying to get tree sap. I didn't talk about this. I built a fishing rod and a chair to fish, but then it's like, I unlocked the tree sapping thing, but then it's like to make it, you need like this material. I don't know what that material is. I just want to fish. I'm gonna go fish. I'm gonna go fish. I'm gonna calm down. I'm gonna go fish.


This is the breakfast in Plosivia, Africa. President Mohammed Buhari has forwarded the names of seven ministerial nominees to the Nigerian Senate for screening and confirmation. In a letter read on the floor of the Senate by its president, Ahmed Lawan, the start-up plenary, the nominees include Henry Ike Chuku, Abia State, Omanaw Mana of Aqaibam State, Yakouma Joseph, Eboni State, and Umar Yakou, Kanu among others. The nominees are to replace ministers in President Buhari's cabinet who had resigned to contest for the presidential primaries of the all-progressive Congress as well as other offices. We take a track down when we return would have Nika Gule who joins us, the public affairs analyst to share his thoughts on this issue. Stay with us. I have the honor to forward the underlisted ministerial nominees for confirmation by the Senate. One, Henry Ike Chuku, Eko, Abia State. Two, Omanaw Ocon, Omanaw Aqaibam State. Three, Ekouman Kama Joseph, Omanaw Eboni State. Four, Goodluck Nana Opiea, Emo State. Five, Umar Ibrahim Eliakoub, Kanu State. Six, Ade Mola Ade Wole Ade Goree, Ondo State. And seven, Odum Udi River State. Copies of the curriculum we take are attached herewith. It is my hope that this exercise will receive the usual expeditious consideration of the distinguished members of the Senate of the federal public of Nigeria. I have the honor to forward it. No, you had it from Aqbaat Lawan, the Senate President. Nika Gule joins the conversation this morning, a public affairs analyst. Nika Gule, thank you so much for being part of the breakfast. Thank you very much, Masi. I'm happy to be here. That's all right. Let's share your thoughts. Generally, what do you make of this scenario? You have members of the President's cabinet and we understand that he took the President almost six months to come up with his ministers because he needed to be sure that he had to get the right peasants. And then you also have these Ministers who also will be nothing and an ambition of becoming the President. They have to become a flag bearer of the party. Now, it is what it is, as it should be stated. But what do you make of the entire scenario? These peasants have actually resigned. And now you have new peasants or, I mean, proposed peasants who've been hoping that the Senate would actually give a nod to them and then they become Ministers. Yes. So the President, in nominating these Ministers and forwarding their names to the Senate for confirmation, is exercising his constitutional responsibility of ensuring that the business of government in Nigeria is running. But you did make mention of the fact that it takes President Buhari an unusually long time to come up with ministerial lists. If we go back to 2015, when the President was newly elected as Nigeria's President, I mean, you expect that when someone is seeking office, President Buhari sought office in 2003, 2007, 2011, and finally made it in 2015. When you seek office for so long a time, one will expect that you already have your agenda in your head. You already have an idea of those who can help you prosecute that agenda. And then the President was elected, I think, was he not in February of 2015 or March of 2015, and I think he was elected in March of 2015, was actually elected on my birthday, the 28th of March. From March to April to May when he took office, you expect that, okay, if Nigerians are giving me a job in March and I'm going to resume on the 29th of May, I have to use that March, I have to use that April and that May to get my team together so that on the day I will take my auto office on the 29th of May, I would already have known those who are going to help me in this governance process. And I will make known their names to the National Assembly so that they can begin the process of vetting and clearing them. But the two President Buhari, six good months, like you have said, from May 29th, before he was able to nominate ministers in November of that 2015. So how is that possible for someone who is ready to take office? You know, it shows clearly, for me, these were the 30 signs right at the beginning of Buhari's first term that Buhari may not be ready to lead us. Because at the end of the day, when we waited for those six months, we were actually expecting that the President is actually going all over the world, scouting and evaluating Nigerians from all walks of life and experiences so that he will give us a cabinet that is actually nowhere that is different from what we have always been seeing. And President Buhari took these six months from May 29th to announce a cabinet in November of people that we already know. They're in Giges, they are Maches, the usual politicians that were already on the scene that we know them. So when we have taken him so long to give us these same actors that we are already aware of, you know, so this for me was a very bad start for President Buhari. And in fact, it was when I started to think that President Buhari may not be ready to lead Nigeria, he may not be ready. And then what happened the year after is that President Buhari is the only president in Nigeria that does not do cabinet reshuffle. He doesn't do cabinet reshuffle, he doesn't sack ministers. You can do whatever you want to do. So long as he has given you office, you can be assured that you can do your work till the end of the tenure. President Buhari is not going to torture you. Look at all the issues that we have had in Nigeria. And President Buhari hasn't called any minister, reprimanded any minister. The only ministers that lead President Buhari's cabinet are those who live on their own volition. Maybe like Amina Muhammad, who went to the UN to take a job, you know, the former minister of finance, who just resigned, you know, to maintain her own name, what's her name now, forgotten her name, you know, that left because of the NYAC scandal and all of that. And then the ones that just left recently to go and pursue their political ambitions. These are the only type of people that lead President Buhari's office. He never reshuffles cabinet, never sacks anybody. So for me, President Buhari has been doing a very bad job of managing the team that will help him to deliver good governance. And no wonder we cannot say that our lives are better today than they were seven years ago when Buhari became a president. All right. Let's also stay with the fact that we're talking about continuity. We're taught in elementary government that one of the characteristics of government is continuity. And so you have less than one year to go. It's not up to what happens when you have some ministers. For instance, a lot of persons have projected the likes of Rotimi Amici as a minister of transport and that he's been able to achieve in that, you know, time frame that he has. I mean, we're just looking at the time frame now. What happens with continuity with the replacement of these ministers? Yes.  And for continuity of governance, when these ministers left office to pursue their political ambitions, the apartment secretary started to act as ministers. And now the president has nominated substantive ministers to replace them. So that continuity is there. But the issue we're always been talking about is the quickness with which the president is acting in terms of nominating these ministers. And then you talk about specifically someone like Rotimi Amici, and you talk about the fact that he's noted to have delivered good governance. People are Rotimi Amici. I will give him like 20% performance. I mean, what has he delivered? When you talk about the Abuja Kano rail line, you talk about the Ibadon Lagos rail line, is that the only thing that someone will use seven years to deliver? I mean, Nigeria by now, we should have, in Abuja way, I'm speaking to you now from. I should be able to, from this Abuja, take a train and travel to any of the 36 capitals of Nigeria. And if Rotimi Amici, within seven years, was able to deliver me traveling to at least four, five state capitals, six, preferably 10, I can be saying seven years is not a small, it's not a small time. A man who is 70 years old, seven years is 10% of his entire lifespan. And you waste it, and we're talking about Abuja Kaduna Lagos Ibadon, which are rail projects that were already there. They were already in progress when he took office as minister. And the reason why Rotimi Amici failed in his office as minister of transportation is that it is this holding onto everything like a baby by government. We are now living in the 21st century where economies are no longer run by government business. Economies are run by the private sector. There are individuals, the Jeff Bezos, the big gates, you know, of this world, what's this man's name in Twitter, Tesla man, you know, these people have more money than the federal government of Nigeria. The federal government of Nigeria's annual budget is $30 billion. And Microsoft is a company that is delivering $300 billion of revenue every year, 10% more than what Nigeria is doing. So at the end of the day, people that are Rotimi Amici should have gone beyond the usual government quoting, holding onto this thing and release the race sector now into the private sector. Imagine if you release the race sector into the private sector in a very transparent and honest process. We would have got enough capital because people's capital is floating around the world. And you would have made a landfall in Nigeria. And today we'll be talking about you can travel from Calabar to Medugri, from Lagos to Sokoto, from Enugu to Kano to Medugri on trains. And that could have been possible to happen in seven years. So this guy just come, they deliver mediocre performance, and then they will be punching their chest and saying, I have delivered this and that. You use seven years to do nothing, as far as I'm concerned, if we specifically talk about Rotimi Amici. And that has been the case with the other ministers as well. Imagine the President Buhari took office in 2019, and electricity was at 3 gigawatts. 3 gigawatts, that is 3000 megawatts in 2015. In 2022, seven years later, Nigeria's electricity still remains 3000 megawatts, with more frequent collapse of the national grid. And so somebody tells me that the Minister of Power and the President, who is his boss, are performing. How can they be performing when we can use that seven years and shut down the gas that we're flaring and channel that gas into turbines. And Nigeria would have increased power output now from that 3000 to perhaps 10, 15, 20,000 megawatts. It's doable. Turbines are there of the shape for you to buy them. So this is the problem. And people don't realize that this economy will never do well if you don't give it blood. And the blood of every economy is electricity. So my rating of the ministers and their boss, the President, is no more than 20 percent, I say, unfortunately. So let's also, I mean, take a look at the candidates that's been nominated for screening and looking at their portfolio and their capacity to perform. I mean, do you see them, any of them? Do you think that they have what it takes to lead Nigeria or shift us a bit? We don't have so much time. But do you see them with that capacity, you know, to move the country to another level, maybe for a second? Yes. Yes, they have the capacity. I've taken a look at all seven candidates. They have either had positions of commissioners or they have been at the National Assembly or they have been appointed to one board or the other. So in terms of administrative capacity, that should give them the experience that they need. But the point is that capacity aside, their own boss, the President, needs to give them the correct leadership that will enable them to deliver. I mean, if you look at the Minister of State for Petroleum, in 2015, they took office with four refineries dead. In 2022, seven years later, four refineries died. And Nigeria continued to suffer from scarcity, sleeping on the queue, looking for petrol, something that we are one of the world's largest producers. This is very shameful. So the President needed to call the Minister of State for Petroleum and say, my friend, within one year, I don't want to hear fuel importation in Nigeria again.  That is what leadership is about. And President Buwari is not providing leadership to his Ministers. Nika Gule, I mean, when you say that, the President should say to his Minister, we don't want to hear about fuel importation. You know, we have refineries that are not functional. I mean, do you think that the Minister can actually act independent of the President in that capacity, in that regard? We're talking about the refineries now. Because majorly, with all of the back and forth that we're faced with, fuel scarcity, price hike, what have you subsidy or no subsidy, it's hinge on the fact that we don't have the capacity to refine products. We have the capacity to refine our products. So if you have the capacity to refine, why are you not refining? Do you call that capacity? Exactly. So your question is apt. Why are we not refining? Just by the fact that we have four refineries that can refine 400,000 barrels per day. The answer is leadership. If the President on assuming office told the Minister of State for Petroleum that within one year, I want all our refineries to work and give support to that Minister by approving his budget, approving all his proposals, and getting the right people to come and repair these refineries, or better still, selling off these refineries or leasing them out to global operators who have brought in their money, their expertise and their technology and sorted these refineries, Nigerians will not be slipping on the queue today. So Petro is very shameful that a country that is one of the world's largest producers of crude oil, the citizens cannot even see Petro. The citizens are buying diesel at 850 Naira. When Puhari took off his diesel was 200 Naira a litre. Now it's 850. And this thing continues and the President is sitting there looking as if nothing is happening wrong in this economy. And that is why I put it back on his table. If you don't just tell the Ministers, you should give them the support to do it. And if they are not doing it, just back all the support, you should sack them. We should learn to wake up in the morning and say the President has sacked a Minister because he has failed to perform. There are other Ministers who sit up. But the President who is acting as if he is absent, he doesn't even know in the nation. Nigerians are suffering insecurity, Nigerians are suffering electricity, suffering Petro, suffering price increases, suffering healthcare, education students at home, and the President doesn't just seem to respond to these issues. So with that leadership, how can the Ministers do it? But I understand where you're coming from. But the question is, will the Ministers provide the leadership? Or is the President that would provide the leadership? Because, I mean, you're talking about the President here, right? And he has Ministers. What can these Ministers really do? We understand that they have duty to perform. But if you have the President who is the President, who doesn't really align with the thoughts of these Ministers, what then can become a thing? Can these Ministers act independent of the President and provide leadership that we desire? So the country that we have now, we have a country, 36 states, including the FCT 37, and we have different ministries. Are you saying that these Ministers are responsible for where these different sectors are? Or is it a function of the head? The Ministers were not elected by Nigerians. It is the President who was given the mandate to lead us. The President brings in the Ministers to help him perform his duty as the President of Nigeria. And so whatever the Ministers are doing, they are doing it in the name of the President. And if the President does not like what the Ministers are doing, it becomes on the President to take action against the Ministers. So if Nigeria is not working well, we cannot place the burden on the two steps of the Ministers. We have to place the burden on the table of the President because that's where the book stops. A President that is open alive to his responsibilities to see the problems in the country. He has to be aware that students, university students are at home. Unless he occupies his day, he should begin his day by inviting the Minister of Education and saying, why are students here at home? I want students to go back. Tell me what it requires to send students back home. And the Minister will simply tell him that ASU is looking for 200 billion Naira to go back to the classroom. And the President should look for the money and give to the Ministers to give to ASU because this is the same President who is approving 4 trillion Naira, 4 trillion. Look, there are 200 billion. There are five of them in a trillion. And this President has approved 4 trillion. Now they are talking about 6 trillion to go and pay petrol subsidies. Something he should have solved if he got the four refineries working. If he got the four refineries working, the 4 trillion that he's now wasting on petrol subsidies would not be used to give ASU money, healthcare money, rose money, you know, education, all sorts of things the President could have done. So you can see we have a President who doesn't even know what the problems are and how he can go about solving them. Because if he solved the refinery issue, he would have automatically solved the petrol subsidy issue that is now chopping 4 trillion of money when ASU are on strike for only 200 billion. So the bookstops are the President's table. That's simple. Well, quickly as we call sit down now, do you see the Senate actually giving a nod screening in terms of screening now because they have to go through that process?  So do you see the Senate giving a nod to this persons who've been nominated? I don't see the reason why the Senate will not give the nod. Because first and foremost, this Senate has never said no to President Buwari. And we know because the two leaders of the National, the two chambers of the National Assembly, the President wanted to install them in 2015. Before the PDP did a pilot school and you solved them. So in 2019, they succeeded in putting these same two people as leaders of the National Assembly. These people have acted in the last three years since they took office as senior special assistants to the President. You know, the President has carried out impeachable offenses. The President has ignored them. The President has done anything he wanted to do. And these two people have not got the National Assembly to bite, to carry out his constitutional office of checkmating the executive arm of government. So I see no risk at all of they not approving these people, except probably it touches on their own personal thing. If it touches on them personally, like we saw in the Electoral Bill, which they passed and discovered later to their charge during that, they removed themselves and started three delegates out of the Electoral Bill. This same National Assembly went back to the chamber within one day, one day. They passed the amended Electoral Law, I mean Bill, and sent it to the President. And the President just ignored them. He routinely just ignored them. That is how they were not part of the delegates that were voting. So when it touches on them personally, they do it quickly. But if it doesn't touch on them, you know, they are not bothered. They are not bothered. Nigerians are in forest. As we speak, messy, as we speak now, you were talking about the rains before we started the program. Those rains are falling on Nigeria, who are in forest in the territory of Nigeria. And nobody is going for them. And we have a National Assembly that cannot ask the President, why are you commanding in chief? And Nigerians are in forest under the rainfall in their own country. And nobody is going for them. Then what are you commanding for? Are you commanding for what? Are you commanding for cockroaches or what? If you are commanding for Nigerians, you should go to the aid of those Nigerians. We have the lives of Israel. They kidnapped Israelis and took them to Uganda in September. Israel left Tel Aviv thousands of miles and went to September and went and released their citizens. We have Nigerian citizens in forest. Here in Kaduna, everywhere, Zamfara. And we have a chief of defense staff. As we speak, that chief of defense staff is sitting in his office with ranks on his shoulders. And Nigerians are in the rain, in this forest, pregnant women, deliver the new baby in that forest. He's still there. But I know we are digressing a bit. The President has given an order. He's very, very clear with that directive that he's given.  That's the instruction from the President. So I don't know any reason why these dispassants have no reason. We're talking about this security personnel not having any reason to act swiftly and ensure that the order of the President is respected. Apparently, waiting for the President to give that order an instruction. Yeah, but let's see. We are still speaking about the same thing because Nigeria has a ministeral defense. So if we're talking about ministers, we are not speaking specifically about the Ministry of Defense or who just a minister, just a minister of state. We're also talking about the service chiefs. We have a chief of defense staff and four service chiefs. We have an inspector general police. We have digital DSS. We have all the security across and Nigerians are in the forest. Why is that the case? If the President has given an order, then the President as a former general knows that if you give an order, if a lieutenant, a lieutenant in the Army, that is the one with two stars on his shoulder, gives an order to a second lieutenant, the one with one star on his shoulder, and that second lieutenant does not carry that order, that lieutenant will punish that second lieutenant. It is the military. So how can you be commander-in-chief and you summon your service chiefs and give them order?  How is that possible? Well, Nika Gule, we need to take a break right now. When we return, we'll continue with the conversation, but on a different, you know, subject entirely. Thank you so much for being part of the show this morning.