Welcome back. It's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa and it's time now to lift off the price, some of the headlines that are making the rounds and we will be looking at those headlines and we have a guest that will be joining us shortly to talk about those headlines. But first let me just give you some of the headlines starting with the headlines on the nature news. Nature news has a lot of things to say but chief among them is Nigeria's 20-25 open defecation free target, shaky. The riders there are 48 million citizens still practice open defecation, 3.9 million toilets needed annually according to UNICEF and state governments not committed to ODF campaign. Okay so and then the only other headline I would like to take from that newspaper is that Amoso wins Tokom Diamond League. She's doing us proud wherever she goes. Okay we'll move from nature news to business day. Business day leads with the story how Nigerian leaders failed to rein in governance costs. How Nigerian leaders failed to rein in governance costs or governance costs. Global raise for talent heightens Jakba wave. Okay that's what they're giving us the reason for the heightened Jakba wave where everybody's running away. We'll move to the Guardian now that's the third newspaper for today. The Guardian newspaper leads with the story Tinobu at the most cold war wassons as a Fabio Abbas appoints principal officers. We also have smaller headlines there. Tinobu Shetima open defense today you know BLP's petition imperative of separating AGF from justice minister and then we also have over 400 Kujie escapees yet to be captured one year after prison break. Scary and a Kano anti-graft panel probes Gandujie dollar clip and one billion Naira fraud. Okay we move from Guardian to the last paper for the day which is the punch newspaper. The punch newspaper leads with the story. APC protests selection national assembly members back at Fabio and Abbas. The writers there is selecting Bami Dele and Dume Umahi as national assembly leaders a rumor that's Adamu. Adamu the chairman of APC national chairman says that senators, reps, support senate president speaker say NWC is aware of the selection. Okay now results, results falsification, jump sanctions, more candidates. Okay we have that also on the punch and I think those are the headlines that we will take from the punch this morning. There are so many others in the course of our discussion if we can touch on them we will do that but we are being joined by Mr. Tunde Kolauli who is a legal practitioner here in Lagos state. Good morning and welcome to the program Mr. Kolauli. Good morning my brother thanks for having me. Yeah okay we'll be as brief as possible because there are a lot of things to cover. Let's start with nature news. Let's start with nature as it is. There is the talk about open defecation which has a target of 2025 and they say that it is shaky. 2025 open defecation free target is shaky and 48 million citizens still practice open defecation and 3.9 million toilets needed annually according to UNICEF. We'd just like to hear your comments on that open defecation. When I go to places like Oshiti and I see fishes in the motor park and by the roadside I feel embarrassed when I'm also committed from one point to the other and I see people on the bridges defecating to the Atlantic Ocean and feel thoroughly embarrassed and then you're also going to some of these neighborhoods especially the inner recesses of Lagos and most of the Uva towns, southwest towns that I'm very familiar with you still see people engaging in open defecation and you know what I have always said this and this is my humble opinion when people begin to defecate the way we do it it means that they are not different from the ordinary animals the dogs the goats and all that that just defecate wherever they find themselves so it means you are here at the very primitive level of the animal when we are unable to manage our waste and it's not just the defecation alone you go to most of these places even though the government has provided those bins and waste bags for people to put their waste our people will not use those things when the rain is falling they gather their waste and throw into the drainage gutters and water view at the end of the day that ends up clogging the drainage and leads to all sorts of problems in the communities and all that we need to tackle this open defecation and now so that we can have a more congenial environment and also improve on our because most of the diseases that we have around the tropical area in Nigeria in Africa in particular has to do with malaria has to do with some of these other diseases that come with water that come with open defecation that comes with an unhygienic environment so why is the local government why the state government in the different parts of the country are not paying attention to this but what's mean when we were young as individuals there were people we call Wole Wole sanitary inspectors who go around the places and make sure that people are compliant with all the rules and the regulations that have to do with hygiene we also have people from the local government who will go to fumigate all the open drainage and gutters and water to make sure whatever bacteria whatever other insects and water that can cause harm to people don't get to go in those places so it is an embarrassment and it is also something that we should confront as long as we have to be able to meet the United Nations a deadline for eradication of open defecation in Nigeria in Africa in the black water it's unfortunate that the United Nations will have to be the ones to tell us what to do and prevent ourselves from being sick and all that but do you think this is a product of failure in a product of a culture of failure in governance because you talked about the is it a lulule you call them the sanitary inspectors I grew up also knowing them but over time they have disappeared what do you think that can be done to get this message down to the people to change the psyche of the people regarding their personal hygiene what I wouldn't say it's a quote I think it's a page of a development even when you look at the Caucasian race and know that the the Chinese and then the Japanese are not at one time on the other they also have done open dedications in their respective societies and what have you put up society develop people will find better and more identity ways of disposing their waste and all that incidentally that is the odd way as a race the black people who are Nigerians in particular have not been able to cross and we are unable to cross simply because our politicians the headlights are not paying attention to those things and even look at the kind of most of the things that would pay attention to is all about politics and about how to make money we think we have not been considering some of these things are very important in our lives and all that the local government that is directly tied with those responsibilities by the Nigerian constitution another extent lots of people the local governments are dead all over the country the governors have killed them the local government does merely salary paying oil cost center all over the country and all that so we need to revise the local government strategy them with the responsibility that the autos will carry and also empower them to discharge those responsibilities things like a waste disposal things like a signage things like a street light things like market things like motor park and all that they are directly under the local government and all that but which local government as they wear with our resources to perform those functions today so it's not about culture it's about lack of paying attention to some of those things because to the average Nigerian enemies and politicians they are immaterial it's not a place to contaminate or make a bill of another one you are worth contact and what have you so they are not concerned since they are well off in themselves they have water closers and non-manus of a jacuzzi which is a disposal money they are with okay well let's move to the guardian newspaper there's a headline in the guardian newspaper tinobu adamo's cold war wassons as a pubio a bus a point principal officers cold war they called it i'm sure it's from the time of the primaries remember that the chairman of apc anointed the candidate and said that was the chosen candidate who eventually did not win and that was the then senate president amit lawan and now they are describing this as cold war between adamo and tinobu so there's obviously is a crack in the apc and um i don't know how you feel about what is going on in apc the people have chosen that it's going to be us and they why is she saying no we should have seen it coming it should be i mean it is expected if you are a good leader of what is happening the political terrain but let me take our minds back to to the second republic when we have the unity party of nigeria the nrc and some of those things are not those times it is the party that decides who occupy what's the offices especially the national assembly and they will get appointed as a as minister in fact immediately win elections the party leaders will consult with all the people who won the elections and sit down and then follow whatever guidelines whatever zoning formula that they are put in place to be able to get some of these the position of fields as soon as they set to that i know if one of the zone the party chairman to one zone they never soon the speaker or the senate president to that zone again and not but you see since we arrived at this uh is it all for the republic uh in 1999 that has never been the case with our politics you find out that the man who is governor want to dominate and ensure it is only his yes men who occupy all the other strategic positions within the party iraqi and let's talk talk if it is a national level the president will also want to dictate and enforce and impose wherever it's going to occupy some of these strategic positions whether at the national assembly whether as ministers whether as a party structure is a way by which they control the party structures and not at the machinery of the state and you will remember if you cast your mind back there has been a strong of me there has been a war as regards who occupy the the position of party chairman and some of the senate president speakers there are some of these other very vital positions that before we were told all we had in those days that and at times of show money was the candidate of what people are met in ubu as a party chairman and then somehow he got removed and some of these other parties and and uh who he said to be the chairman of a president i mean the candidate of president is occupying the post so if he is going to be able to capture the party structure and dominate the party and impose himself or insist to be the party leader and what i know what we are seeing in the apc now should be expected the president want to dominate or capture that area too by removing a damo and the fact that most of the principal officers of the national assembly as we have been told from the grave by or and picked by the president uh chances are that those people who have been picked and who have said to have now won the elections are not will not have the respect for the party chairman and also the national wc that is the working committee of the apc and also uh whatever structure that they are in there so it's a course that has always been there maybe it's now want to become a very hot war but the truth of the matter is that from my experience is 1999 whoever is president will want the party chairman on all the very strategic positions within the structure of the party and also want to dominate the national assembly a little bit at state level they also want to dominate the state assembly and then uh appoint all the commissioners and what that and the same thing is also happening at the local government level i hope they'll be able to manage it so that it doesn't uh become a blowout and begin to distract the new government and then begin to distract the president especially with his capacity to be able to deliver on the different of democracy there is very very serious problem in the land with regards to all the employment with regard to this removal of petroleum subsidies with regards to high inflation with regards to the dilapidated infrastructure with regards to low construction look at the legacy but next this week we have been on that for almost 20 years now and we are unable to finish a 100 kilometers of roads with i mean within the space of the 20 years when a country like china a country like japan and all that are now building roads under the ocean and they complete it well i don't know how this fight is going to to end they are for us we call it i'm going to end because if you look at the national assembly the number of people who now wear the signature heart of the president is quite much which means he has a lot of boys and girls in the national assembly if you see this the the cap that he wears with the eight uh inscribed on it a lot of them now wear it to show that they are uh tinibus boys i don't know how adamu wants to win this we in this case i don't know but let me let me move to another thing you are a lawyer and some people are advocating uh separating the uh the office of agf from justice minister what is your take when that is non-negotiable if we are going to have a stable justice sector a responsible justice sector a justice sector that is not uh susceptible to political influences and domination and what about the office of the agf and that of the justice more is separating you and i do know that is the president that will appoint the justice minister who also acts as the president of the federation the person who happens will automatically be dictating and calling the shots and dictating the truth and what i think and that is the challenge that we have done that president muhammad upwari in which the agf conducts the site i'm not going to prosecute this thing for corruption this party for corruption simply because the member of our political party are government people will get judgment against the government and then the government of the federation will refuse to pay because it sees as an embarrassment uh on the government in which he is uh is a minister and what have you and you also see that those who combine these two offices and others have over the years been abusing uh those offices in favour of their political parties and in favour of those who appointed them and that has not allowed for specific dispossession of justice and also for a critical justice system and also for a fair and holistic approach to justice and dissolution in the country i'll give you one example a lot of Nigeria have been clamoring that we should kind of um bundle our court system in Nigeria let's the local government have their own court let the state have their own courts much less court of appeal customary courts and also supreme court and then the federal government also have their own supreme court and also their own court of appeal and then the high court in the respective places and all that so things on the exclusive legislative list can be handled by courts that belong to the federal government and things on the non-exclusive legislative can be handled by the state courts and and what have you and then things that are common to the two of them can be handled by either of the parties and then sometimes who are now litigating to select in which court they want to be tried it is a fear that uh a court may be used against them or they might be part of the one court or that one party or that they have in place in one court and what have you for example in matters that have to do with life imprisonment matters that have to do with their services and all that or long imprisonment and what have you this began so the finance should be able to decide i want to be trying the federal court so i have to have a fair trial or i want to be tried in the uh the state court so that we could have a fair trial without this without having without separating the office of the mesons just a lot of us in Nigeria do not be able to do this on bonding of the court because a lot of our people would rather prefer to sit on the dead wall than write on month on the gallery of most of the attendee and meso justice see them they're sitting on these two offices another as the trapping of the office as a showoff as a something that would diminish their powers if the two offices are separated and it's for that reason that uh we require to prevail in food pressure on for example i'm asking you to do this uh dissolve this separation of the office of our president from that of the minister of justice so that our will of justice cannot smoothly fastly expeditiously and uh holistically without heading to a mission okay that just reminds me of what happened in 2015 or so when the ministers were being the least was being sent to the national assembly for uh scrutiny and the ministers were facing the panel the the national assembly panel and one of this uh ministers to be was i think festus kiamo and they were interviewing him as someone who is a lawyer by profession he talked about unbundling of this justice system and all that he was talking like a lawyer about lo and behold he was given something else and that's why we've always called on on this program on this station that next time they're doing they're sending lists to the national assembly they should send lists according to the likely portfolio the people will handle so that if i'm interviewing a lawyer for a prospective position as a minister of justice i should know the questions to ask him and see how his mind works not when i talk to a lawyer see how the lawyer's mind works i go and give him a minister for agriculture where some of them after handing over will now say they had no idea like the minister of education said he had no idea at all about how to administer in that office in that office or in that capacity they should send this list people who should be ministers for xyz should be people that uh have some knowledge in xyz so that when people are talking to them Nigerians will begin to know and see how they can help them as well and see where they can suggest the areas of growth and all that and see how their mind works from the get go and i don't know but this i think should be one of the things that should be done let the national assembly meet with these people according to the kind of portfolio they're likely to have whether you're going to be the minister or minister of state for whatever you're going to be let the national assembly also know that's that's what let me interject over there what you have said is a very desirable thing it's a very desirable thing it has its own advantage but i must also say that it has its own disadvantages which is when you look around the world it is not just in Nigeria in London people who have no experience in one area are made to kind of a man uh an area in which they have a new expertise you go to britain you go to america and norah people are sometimes acting with the responsibility of a portfolio that they've known it to for nothing at all there are some merits or advantages in that they can bring the experience they have in some other places and um infuse it or inject it or use it to tackle whatever problem they have they may have in the new office that they have been posted also remember that when kiba ula was made the minister of finance under the governor's position he was a lawyer he was he was practically as a lawyer he wasn't a finance person at all even though he had he had the battle of performance before he went to read a law and i also remember that when the kuiwa of uh this in guapo and norah wanted to revolutionize his country he brought people from different places he was took a business matukua and had the supreme court uh because he said most of the judges and lawyers in the country and people have no value for time for money and uh swedish you know and the money put in the supreme court was able to restore that later in the justice system they can't remove them uh the way to remove in that country the truth of the matter is that why you and government uh all i've been in ministry they are all menace of s parties in there within which you can um you can manage uh those uh ministers and norah but our experience our experience with the minister of education our experience with the minister of education uh was not really palatable enough because uh after his turn i said he had no idea the part where were the experts at that time he was a journalist well okay so i i get your point i get your point um another scary thing uh that i've seen is uh 400 kujie eskps yet to be captured one year after prison break these people went to prison there was a prison break they were at large and they have not been able to capture 400 of them and we've always known that these people a lot of times when they recapture them they are capturing them while committing another crime so what does that speak to you does it not scare you well it's a rather unfortunate why do i say it's unfortunate the difficulties in capturing them has to do with lack of a proper uh documentation in some countries of the world once you have been convicted like that your fingerprints will be taken the color of your eyes the color of your of your ear are no manners of uh documentation right from the time of your arrest and to the time of conviction and then we also get to prison a lot of documentation who also be done in there so if you are unable to capture these people first and foremost it has to do with the documentation again it uh the challenge india is that of uh of a security in most of the prisons all over the country a lot of diversity here and there lack of equipment you can imagine in some of these places where the jailbreak was said to have taken place there was no even CCTV camera to monitor what is happening inside the prison and outside the prison environment so we need to plug in all those areas uh let me remind you that Nigeria is not the only place that prison jail breaks take place if you read some of these stories from some other countries of the world you will remember the identity that prisoners deployed when they want to engage in jailbreak i mean jailbreak i have written some places in which the outside is full the prisoners are allowed to use to eat their food they use it to dig the wall to break the to to cut a hole in the wall over a period of time on the floor of the prison and to those floors the the the escape or even go to the rooms of uh or to the cell of another inmates and go in there to to to kill them uh that is one degree secondly the horrendous sovereign that prisoners uh have got in our prisons in terms of keeping in terms of uh closing in terms of we are in a panel in terms of people sleeping at me in terms of medications and all that will make another jail a prisoner so the test place to escape from some of those places if you go on a daily basis thousands of there are a budgeted for killing of the prisoners where you get in there the means that they get is only off to 100 or 200 per place and then you begin to ask yourself there's all this prison i mean this morning going to also look at the congestion in our prison the interior ministers have just left the place and know that address alarm not before you in left the office that the prisoners are too congested and that we need to build them up with them and that the federal government should not be feeding most of the prisoners in the prison because they are prisoners there are people who have been sent to the prison by the state uh uh government and also the local government and other and i thought that the same government should start building their own prison in conjunction with the local government so that we could have a more uh congenial or more conducive environment within the prison so there's not a problem in there and they were not addressing those problems when nobody was there so when he came back from prison he said he had seen the condition of the prison and i was going to look into all those challenges but all the SDRs are dispensing power he never addressed any of the problems that were up in the prison and not at all the prison is supposed to be a correctional center it is not meant to be a place to destroy or kill or maim any of the people that have been sent in there but our prison is not only for military it's a kind of a butch hour and a patrol for the slum most of the people that are sent in there i tell you um prisons conditions are not good if if you go there for ministration of any kind to to do fellowship or exactly you will find out they are nothing to write home about i know that somebody who goes to prison is supposed to pay for a crime but the unfortunate thing is that more than 50 percent of these people in prison may even just be a waiting trial and that means it's tied to the justice system and all that what just walk us through the process what makes it so difficult for these are waiting trial inmates to get the judgment that they deserve to either go to prison or be freed just tell us what the process is like that makes us so cumbersome there are very simple very simple there's a complaint to the police by citizens sometimes the police are by the roadside and they do a stop and charge and find that people have committed a crime and let people take it to the charge room from the charge room the police do their investigations and leave the field the fact is persons have the question to answer but there is a need to prosecute such persons another they go and arrest them either in the magistrate court or in the high courts or in the federal high court or state high court all over the country and all that and then they are put to trial and then either complicate those details and all that the process of trial i mean the problem starts right from the police station and all that most times some of the cases that they go to the police station what really should have been resolved at the level of the police station without taking the person to court i give you an example i have seen the situation in which a lady was taken to court for allegedly stealing a three thousand naira and said and the person who accused this person of stealing a three thousand naira, he took this lady home, slept with her, instead of paying the presbytery that the lady said she wanted he didn't pay the fees and all that and so when the lady was leaving the morning took the man's handset and went away with this and because they made the security man was able to track the lady and then fished out the lady and then took the lady to the magistrate court where the lady was prosecuted to get the lady out of the prison and get out of the charge and naira took about almost two years and naira so if you ask me this is the kind of thing that should have been resolved at the level of the police station so you find most of these cases go to court for trial in the magistrate court and naira court that doesn't really shouldn't be there that one that is one of the reasons that is responsible for the conviction in the prison until their trials are over until the court dispenses their charge and all that the people will remain in prison. Again too the compassion bill procedure in our different court is also responsible for the awaited trial challenging that we have in there in some countries of the world bill procedures are even used as a weapon of the means of making money by the government they have the the defendant to post a bond of some sort of amount of money and that is you escape or if you don't return to prison or trial and all that you will pay this is also a month for coming sometimes if you don't want to go to prison you want to be enjoy your freedom before your trial is concluded you are going to pay this amount of money and all that we don't have that procedure in there the third area is that most times the requirement for bail in Nigeria is very cumbersome and they say we bring lander's property it's very luxury they say somebody is a collector or a high civil servant in some of these places and norah and it may take time before you get somebody who has a sea of property in certain particular locations to come and process your pay or somebody is a director in the ministry to come and process we are bravely supposed to be as liberal as possible because anybody standing trial if he remains a mere suspect and there is a presumption of innocent for those persons so we don't require to begin to put obstacles on their way to be able to process their bail and then begin to come from their respective home to face their trial or do their defense lastly our costs are congested the costs are not enough i will just give the legal state as an example we are told that the population of legal is about 25 million people and when you have the population of 29 million people i'm not to show that we have up to 1000 costs in legal state both the customer record the magical and the high court so if 35 million people are to access the the court processes are norah you will realize going to be bailed out in those places as of today people who come from the court will be to do their case at home but at the time cases that are put in victoria island and in leki we are going to expect to do those cases are norah that is the cost that is the combatant very very strange of the world so we need to have more costs upon more judges more masses more cost presidents all over the places and that's all i have to do with the unbundling of the cost processes that we are talking about okay this legal for example is going to create more high cost it has to go to the agency in abuja to take permission all right to be able to create a high cost even when there is a demand for it and most of you they put in an application to create a more high cost somebody in diga wants a balance because ah which one must create more high cost because lebanese is going to be coming from the federal government to sustain the high cost they see that they cannot opportunity to attract a lebanese rather than based on the needs the exigences of what is happening in the respective state of the federation and other okay of course not enough money is also been put into the judiciary so if a person is also very deplorable judges have to sit on about 30 30 cases in a day and then they process life will be taken away there will be no power all right to light the court and provide a fee the simple material okay like paper okay i see i see how i see what the problem is now but i do hope that something will be done because i've had that experience going to minister in a prison and the state of things that i saw was terrible how the feed how they're taken care of it was terrible and that story is replicated everywhere that we are talking about prisons or correctional centers in nigeria we do hope that something will be done so that people who are innocent stay innocent some people who are guilty then stay inside as the prisoners i'd like to thank you mr kola woley for coming on the show this morning and for your thoughts on the headlines thanks for having me yeah we've been talking with mr we should love you too we've been talking with mr tunde kola woley a legal practitioner here in lego street the state is still a breakfast on plus tv africa and it's a midweek frenzy and we'll take this short break when we return we'll be looking at our first hot topic stay with us


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Before we get on to whatever we're doing today, I have to tell No wait, I do have to tell you something about what we're doing today But you can go first. You can go first.  He was scratching the underneath of the bed I woke up at like 4 a.m. He was doing it and he was still doing it throughout the whole night. Yeah, see what annoying He's trying to wake this up. It's about 7 a.m. I'm like, okay I've had enough of this dude So I see him under the bed is pause are sticking out and I like I kept it like this and I go stop it I didn't do it mean you didn't smack him. No, I didn't do it meanly I just want this to his palm like stop it and you know so then two minutes later I'm about to fall asleep.  I could just see snap I wish we could get that out of film Mariah sleeping and then you just see snap like this But anyways, is that everything you wanted to say all right now What I wanted to say before I noticed that Mariah had a big-ass heavy bag of clothes Speaking of clothes.  I'm listening. Sorry. Today's all for you Okay, I want you to get all ready.   I was really dressed up like a dress.  I have a surprise for you actually no I have a surprise for you, but get fully fully Yes, but you can do it after I surprise you okay, okay, okay?  I'm surprised.   All right, babe. Come on.   All right Guys, I'm not even I just heard Mariah. Did I not just turn off the camera?  That's what it is Mariah, what do you think came to our door? Problem of buying Stop buying clothes. I'm not looking. I'm not looking Mariah. I am gonna cut the credit card off You're she if we go broke it's because of her You so deserve the surprise today you so deserve it then No, it's a good it's right. You deserve it. Okay. No, we're talking. I only want to see makeup getting put on What's good mom is called welcome back to our channel.  She's gonna be freaking out.  Let's get going Yeah, I'm going home. I'm just gonna act like I'm filming for the video Alright guys, it's a little update from Mariah's makeup. Hold on. Hold on. There we go. Look at this girl Oh my wait actually you look so good.  Is that where you're wearing to you look so good. Look at your hair.  I need all the kisses I can get right now Okay, damn you look so good.  You're even putting on lipstick I was gonna ask you if you want to do Instagram photos, so that's how perfect My eyeliner you did everything you never put on lipstick because I do but this this is different barely This is more vibrant. Oh my god. Oh, you said it go all out.  This is like glammed up now. You just got your shoes on. Yeah, I know some nice shoes I know I am make sure everything's top-notch. All right. I got a prize.  Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's get it Let's get outside get going so we can uh get on with the day Oh my god, I feel so bad guys. It's raining out. It is literally raining out right now Look at this on so I don't know if you could tell but it is currently drizzling outside So on top of me throwing her in the pool. She's also gonna be getting rained on I feel so bad She looks so beautiful too. I don't I do not want to do this, but I have to oh my god I have to go through I have to I'm not gonna think of anything else I have to go through with it for you guys because I already hyped it up so much I can't back down this girl pranks me all the time She just screamed in the middle of the night and woke my ass up if you did not see that video make sure to go watch it After this, but this is the payback for that. Okay. No, I'm hyped again. Let's go. Let's get it I don't care if it's freaking thundering out.  So we're gonna take some photos probably by this chair We actually did take some photos over here, but they're kind of dark. Oh, no, that one looks good You can't really tell in the camera look it they're cute, but so good I know But we're gonna be taking more photos alright, it's kind of dark right now more photos out here and just Where why don't we take them by the pool? I feel like you should take them like right on the edge like right here But like yes, yeah, I know like with that in the background, but we have to move get to move the whatever quala Not quala sloth the sloth the sloth in the pool But yes, I think closer to the edge is the best because I wanted to look like you're like in the water You know what I mean in the water Yeah, I want to look like you're like really like close to the water like in the water It'll be it'll make a good photo So now you guys can see a little behind the scenes of what we do on the day-to-day Basis usually I don't like taking photos at this time of day right now It's overcast so said why not just take pictures now, you know get out of the way. Yeah, okay ready? All right, can you kneel down actually kneel I mean how like I'm setting up first, okay? Dang babe do some poses do some poses Some more ooh, and that'd be funny if I just like Stop that'd be so bad. That'd be so bad. She would get so mad. Don't think about it.  So why would I mention make a vote? I don't know. That was a good-ass reaction Ready Ready, can we take Can we take more you're good. Why would I ever do that in my right mind? Dang? I see you. I feel like your hair being wet would look a lot. Yeah, that would look a lot better Babe I'm so sorry babe. I'm so sorry wait. I gotta talk for you come on.  Oh my I cannot believe you just fell in Yeah, these are new shoes These are my nice new shoes. I don't want to get them wet babe Babe, oh my god. I cannot believe I just got on that camera. I Got you a towel. I got you a towel. Oh my god. All right. Hold on. Hold on She's so pissed. I'm just gonna keep blaming it on her that she fell it babe. I cannot believe we just got Right, I the neighbors are looking stop.   I'm so sorry Wait, wait, wait, can I just say one word right? Can I just say one word? What hey, were you surprised? Because that was the surprise That was the surprise What do you mean don't get that way?  Tell me. That's not your lip color.  I just what It's for a video. It's for a prank. I made you get all buttered up Slathered up That's the whole point. No, it's not the whole point right now. Oh my wait I'm actually going away from the edge because I was thinking that in the back my head get away I'm not getting the pool. Yes, you are I like this shirt. This is my nice shirt. I want to wear this today I'm sorry.  Are you actually sad? Yeah, are you actually like what?  I want I need to get you ready. I got all ready for you You just I'm sorry.  Are you actually babe? I'm sorry I didn't I just wanted a good reaction, right? I know you did but But it's funny. I'll laugh later. You'll laugh later guys. I promise Oh my god Feelings get hurt. We realize how funny it actually is, but I'm mad because I got all ready for you Yeah, never trusting you again. You see. Oh, I was surprised. Wait. Do I know it's funny? This is the second time I've told Mariah to get ready and then I Dis her with something Because my hair will literally turn green. Okay, they go go. Bye leave.    That's fake. Yeah, that's that's a fake She's this is why Mariah's not an actor if you're what no don't push me in. I have the camera I have Marvel Squad you want Marvel Squad to go by by then. I'm in shock right now I think I'm more in shock than I am like let me just tell you Mariah is not a mean person on camera when we get Off camera. She's gonna be me out. So it's getting it after this I'm gonna turn the camera back on you better save him.   Wait, and she took a shower today already. She took a shower after the gym, so you're gonna have to shower again That's your hair is turning green We will see you in the next video. Thank you so much for watching, but until then Stop snacking me


Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another episode in my WW 30 minute meals. This one is not only just a 30 minute meal It is a one pot 30 minute meal So it is a double bonus and of course it was absolutely filling Delicious and amazing in smart points So if you want to see what I have in store for you on this episode of 30 minute meals WW friendly just stay tuned For tonight's 30 minute dinner We're gonna be making last-minute chicken dinner because this is done in less than 30 minutes you guys So let me show you what is in tonight's dinner and before I do I want to point out This is a complete meal veggie starch everything in one So you're going to need some milk or milk alternative of your choice I'm gonna be using this almond breeze creamy almond cashew milk Some potatoes any kind that you would prefer I'm just gonna do these yellow or these gold potatoes from Trader Joe's Reduce fat or fat-free cream of chicken soup I'm gonna be using these dried red onions instead of cutting up a fresh onion Only because it'll make it smaller pieces, which is kind of what I'm after For spices you're going to need a garlic powder parsley basil and Marjoram however you pronounce that Parmesan cheese and lastly of course some chicken breast So let's get started on tonight's 30 minute meal thing So the first thing we're gonna do for tonight's dinner is I've measured out one pound It's a little over one pound of the yellow potatoes We're gonna slice those up thinly and then I'm also going to just dice up my breast of chicken So let's get chopping so we can get cooking So the first thing we need to do for tonight's dinner is we need to cook our potatoes So I went ahead and sprayed my pan here with some non-stick cooking spray I'm also going to give my potatoes just another quick spray And I'm just using this canola oil spray from Costco And we're gonna allow these to cook completely down until they're crispy It'll take probably five to ten minutes for these to cook down completely Once your potatoes start to brown We're gonna go ahead and add in some of our just dried red onion now It took the potatoes about six minutes to brown up now They are not cooked all the way through but they are going to continue cooking with the onion And then we're also going to add in our diced up chicken as well So they'll continue to cook with the chicken and the onions And we're just gonna let our chicken cook until it is cooked through Once your chicken has cooked through we're gonna add in the rest of our spices So I have garlic powder, basil, marjoram, and what was the other one? Oh my gosh, you guys the other spice that I showed you in the beginning. I'm losing it in my mind So I had a way I added all my spices and then I'm also going to add my can of cream of chicken And I've been really liking the healthy request cream of chicken So I like it. I think it has better flavor. It's creamier. It's thicker same points as the fat free I'm also going to be adding in my half of a cup of almond milk And then the last thing is my big bowl or two cups plus of frozen cauliflower, broccoli, and carrot mixture And we're just gonna let this cook down until everything is cooked through This is looking so good. So it has been just over 20 minutes Everything is just about done I'm just keeping the lid on for another couple minutes just to make sure our vegetables are steamed through and the last thing We have to do is add in our parmesan. So the last step is one half of a cup of parmesan cheese And we're just going to mix this in I'll plate this up and give you the smart point So here is my completed dinner for tonight. You guys look at all of this that entire pot Only makes four servings. So it is one fourth of that pot chicken potatoes vegetables creaminess with that cream of chicken Yum, so look at how good this looks with that parmesan So this entire plate or one fourth of the recipe is only five smart points That's it And you don't need anything else because you have your potatoes you have your chicken and you have your veggies So five smart points for tonight's dinner and it was on my plate in 27 minutes Thank you so much for joining me on this episode of WW 30 minute meals this chicken dinner was so Incredibly delicious and so low points. You can't beat something that is from your countertop to your plate in 30 minutes or less I love this series. 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There is perhaps no concept in baseball that people get more confused and upset about than the infield fly rule. I made a video about it seven years ago and people still comment almost every week on it, mostly because of one incorrect thing that I said in it, but still they're watching. It's actually not that difficult of a rule to understand. One of the reasons why it confuses so many people though is that it doesn't happen all that often. So when it does happen, it's often confusing and a bit controversial. If you can remember the rule though, applying it is fairly straightforward, except, you know, when it isn't. One other thing of note that was pointed out to me in the comments of that last video is that the infield fly rule does not apply to many younger levels of play, but everything herein applies to both Major League Baseball and the NCAA college rules. So the rule exists to protect the runners by preventing the defense from being able to pull a fast one on them so they can turn a double or triple play. This apparently kept happening enough that in 1895 someone sat down and wrote the rule, although a few things have been at it since. The rule basically says that if you know what, I don't usually do this, but since I got something wrong last time and people seem to get so upset by this rule, I'm just going to read it right from the rule book. Rule two, infield fly, is a fair ball, not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt, which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort when first and second or first second and third bases are occupied before two are out. The pitcher, catcher, and any outfielder who stations himself in the infield shall be considered infielders for the purpose of this rule. Okay, so let's say we've got runners on first and second and one out. The ball's popped up right in front of home plate. What happens now? So back to the rule. When it seems apparent that the batted ball will be an infield fly, the umpire shall immediately declare infield fly for the benefit of the runners. If the ball is near the baselines, the umpire shall declare infield fly if fair. So as soon as the umpire says infield fly, the batter is out. Even if the ball falls right down and lands on the ground, he's still out. The batter being out, this removes the force plays at second and third base. So quote, the ball is alive and runners may advance at the risk of the ball being caught or retouch and advance after the ball is touched. The same is on any fly ball. If a hit becomes a foul ball, it is treated the same as any foul. End quote. This is one aspect that seems to throw a lot of people off about this rule. And it might be the one thing that you really need to pay attention to in this video. I'll put it this way. Even if the infield fly rule applies and the ump calls out infield fly, if an infielder or anyone for that matter catches the fly ball, as will happen 95% of the time, it is as if the rule was never invoked in the first place. Right. So if the ball is caught, it's just a normal pop up.  Now, if the runners want to try to tag up after the ball has been caught, they can. They'll probably get thrown out because an infielder is now presumably holding the ball in or close to the infield. But they can tag up just like on any other fly ball. So the infield fly rule really only matters in those rare instances where the ball is not caught. In this situation, as the rule says, the ball is alive and the runners can advance at their own risk. So if the ump calls infield fly, the runners can all run to the next base. And in the event that the ball is not caught, they are free to do so. Although keep in mind that they still can be tagged out at any point. It's just that there's no force play. They do not have to tag up. Obviously, you can't tag up if the ball isn't caught. On the flip side, though, if they take the risk and run to the next base and the ball is caught, they'll probably get doubled off at their original base.  So back to the rule. If a declared infield fly is allowed to fall untouched to the ground and bounces foul before passing first or third base, it is a foul ball. If a declared infield fly falls untouched to the ground outside the baseline and bounces fair before passing first or third base, it is an infield fly. Right. So nothing different from normal rules here.  It's just a foul ball. Of course, if a ball is popped up in foul territory before it reaches the base and the first baseman runs over and catches it, the batter is out because he caught it. Because again, if the ball is caught fair or foul, the infield fly rolling essentially doesn't matter. Now we get into the weeds of the rule that often causes some controversy. Quote, on the infield fly roll, the umpire is to rule whether the ball could ordinarily have been handled by an infielder, not by some arbitrary limitation such as the grass or the baselines. The umpire must also rule that a ball is an infield fly, even if handled by an outfielder. If in the umpire's judgment, the ball could have been as easily handled by an infielder. So this rule has, in some sense, anticipated shifting in various defensive alignments. Basically, every field, even all astroturf fields, will have some kind of line drawn to show the end of the infield and the beginning of the outfield. But as this part of the rule states with regards to infield flies, that line is irrelevant. So ignore it. Where the infielders are standing is what matters. So let's take an extreme shift example. Say all of the infielders are on the right side of the infield because, I don't know, scientists have fused the DNA of Ted Williams and Barry Bonds. And this creation is up to that. If a ball is popped up here and it is going to land right where the third baseman usually stands, this is by definition a fly ball in the infield. But it would not be a situation where we would invoke the infield fly roll because no fielder can catch it with ordinary effort. Because they're all over on the other side. So the next part, quote, the infield fly is in no sense considered an appeal play. The umpire's judgment must govern and the decision should be made immediately. So basically, if the ball is popped up, and for whatever reason, the umpire does not call infield fly. Don't go whine into him if you end up dropping the ball and things go poorly for you. The rule is not in effect until the umpire says it is. Usually arguments arise when a pop-up is in that gray area of what is and isn't ordinary effort. It's up to the ump, deal with it. Now, like I said, the vast majority of the time, the defense catches the pop-up anyway. And I don't think this is an accident.  If you err on the side of caution and just catch the ball, whether or not the ump makes the call doesn't matter. The batter is a guaranteed out if you catch the ball, and you still may find a confused runner to pick off. But if you let that pop-up drop only to realize the umpire is screwed up and forgot to make the call and the ball takes a weird bounce and now everyone's safe, then nobody's happy. So anyway, here's where things get fun. Quote, when an infield fly rule is called, runners may advance at their own risk. If, on an infield fly rule, the infielder intentionally drops a fair ball, the ball remains in play despite the provisions of rule 5.09A12, the infield fly rule takes precedence. End quote. Oh boy here. Rule 5.09, section A, part 12, this is a rule that I'm going to bet a lot of people have never heard of. I guess we can call it the intentional drop rule. The infield fly rule's little brother, as if you weren't confused enough, now there's two of them. So what's it say? 509A12 says, a batter is out when an infielder intentionally drops a fair fly ball or line drive with first, first and second, first and third, or first, second and third base occupied before two are out. The ball is dead and the runner or runners shall return to their original bases. Second part of the rule. In this situation, the batter is not out if the infielder permits the ball to drop untouched to the ground, except when the infiel fly rule applies. So the second part of this is key because it emphasizes the original premise of an intentionally dropped fair fly ball or line drive. Thus it only applies when the ball was dropped on purpose. It does not apply if the infielder simply allows the ball to drop without touching it. So we have two items of note here. First, if a fielder allows a fair fly ball to drop untouched to the ground and there's only a runner on first, because the infield fly rule doesn't apply, then the batter is not out and he can run and thus the force play remains at second. If, on the other hand, a fielder allows a fair fly ball to drop untouched to the ground and there's runners on first and second with no outs, then the infield fly rule does apply and the batter would be out as per the infield fly rule. Second, going back to the passage in the infield fly rule, normally if a fielder intentionally drops a fly ball, the batter is out and the ball is dead as per 509A12. In an infield fly rule situation, however, if a fielder intentionally drops a fly ball, the batter is still out, this time because of the infield fly rule, but the ball is also still in play. So the only real difference here is that the ball stays in play on an infield fly rule situation. I mean really, it's basic stuff. I only had to re-throw nine times to get it straight. So quick recap, the key to the intentional drop rule. The batter is out, but it only applies if the fielder intentionally drops a fair fly ball or line drive. It does not apply if he lets it drop untouched in front of him. Okay, so back to the infield fly rule for our final paragraph. Quote, if interference is called during an infield fly, the ball remains alive until it is determined whether the ball is fair or foul. If fair, both the runner who interfered with the fielder and the batter are out. End quote. So in terms of interference, basically as a runner, you have to let a fielder make the play. So this is just saying, if the ball is popped up, even though the batter is going to be out whether the ball is caught or not, that doesn't give the runner free reign to just knock over an infielder. If he's trying to catch the ball, you have to let him make that play. And finally, if there's interference and the ball is foul, quote, if foul, even if caught, the runner is out and the batter returns to bat. End quote. So why is this a thing? Say the bases are loaded and there's a pop-up and foul territory between home and third base, and the third baseman tries to run over and catch it, but the runner on third blocks his path. The runner has now committed interference, so he's out. That's simple enough. Now, why does the batter get to return to bat, even if the fielder who was interfered with subsequently catches it anyway? Well, the penalty for interference is that the runner is out and the ball is dead. So in this situation, even though the ball is still in the air whilst the interference is being committed, it is immediately considered dead. Okay, so that's the rule. But one of the first questions people always have when they learn the infield fly rule is, why doesn't it also apply when there's only a runner on first base? After all, couldn't you let a ball drop and turn a quick double play that way too, right? And keep in mind, it would have to fall untouched or the intentional drop rule would apply. But yes, the defense could let the ball drop, but it seems to me, and I don't know why the rule originally left that out. But it seems to me that the expectation for a pop-up in the infield is that someone is likely going to get out. That's just kind of expected. And if it wasn't, then we wouldn't have the infield fly rule in the first place. So if I'm the offense with a runner on first base, and I pop up in the infield, I'm going to tell my runner on first base to stick close to first base. But I'm also going to tell my batter to get as close to first as he can too. This way, if the ball is caught, the runner just stays on first. And if the ball is dropped, then they'll probably throw it to second to get the force out there, and in which case the batter will just go to first base. Either way, it's only one out, no double plays, which is what the infield fly rule is trying to prevent. And that about wraps it up. I've just read the entire rule from start to finish to recap. Less than two outs. Runners on first and second are bases loaded. It does not apply to foul balls. It does depend where the fielders are standing, not where it lands. It doesn't happen unless the umpire calls it. It takes precedent over the intentional drop fly ball rule, and runners can still be called for interference. You are now an expert. Go forth and dissipate the confusion.