The following is a presentation of T-F-N-N. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now Larry Pezzavento. Okay, looking good, Billy Ray feeling good, Lewis. We're going to start out with the German Dax as we go across the pond. As you can see, we're still heading down. We got a little bit lower ABCD heading down and we only have eight more days to get down to that December 7th Bradley date that we think we'll have the S&P maybe at 2708-2730 around that ballpark if it gets there. So that's what we're keeping a very close eye on. Next, what we'll do is we'll take a little trip across the hold on a second here, the English channel here and we'll go over to the UK, just give me one second. We'll just go right down the train and get there. Give me one second folks and I'll get this chart up. You don't have a chart up yet. Well by golly, I certainly posted one in there and I don't know why it's not showing but let's just do it again to make everybody happy. And here is the, this is the footsie. Now let me go back and I will do the DAX again. Oh, it's the problem with hotcom, yeah. Folks, if you can see the charts, please let us know because we're having a little bit of a problem with hotcom. I see them okay, but we'll see what's happening. Thank you very much, Terry, about the E-mini. I do that every day in a video to watch what's going on in that market. What I did yesterday was I sent out a video taking a 30 minute chart and then also a 15 minute chart while I break it down. So when I'm trading, I try to look for two good trades a day. That's really all I like to look for. Sometimes it's the S&P, sometimes it's bonds, whichever one, gold, whichever looks the best. And that's usually what I do. But the E-mini is very active and so you do get some really nice patterns, especially if you're looking at the 15 minute chart. We've posted some of those in here before so that gives you a pretty good idea that you have some good swings. I don't think it's the best thing to trade. I think the best thing to trade, of course, is the Euro followed by crude oil and then the gold. Those are three of the best and we'll see what's going on. Let's see, Mr. Z is asking me if Winsky sees a cycle low somewhere around to this morning. You know, I looked at Norm's work just briefly this morning. If you'll give me a second here, I will take a quick look at it. And he is looking, let me see. Yeah, he says it's in the buy alert zone and they have an astro cycle date between May 30th and May 31st. That's what he's looking at. As a matter of fact, if you'll hold on here just a second, I'll pull this up here so we can take a look at it and I'll just post it into the room here and then everybody can see the times that he's looking at and then we'll get it. Folks, I don't look at the timing that close. I can tell you that right now and the reasoning for that is I'm a pattern person and that's the one that gets me to the promised land. So here is, let me just get this up here a little bit larger so we can see it. But there is some, not only that, but stop and think a minute, folks. We have the weekend coming up and a lot of people don't like to hold stuff over the weekend. So that's pretty much what we're looking at. But I do believe that we are going to be down just looking at that big ABCD pattern in the S&P. That's the one that we think is running the show right now. And it could change any moment, of course, but if we take a look at this C-mini, you'll see that it measures right there to 2730. That's a perfect ABCD level. We're trading around 2790 somewhere in that ballpark right now. You'll notice that 78% level was pretty much spot on yesterday at that 6670. So that held relatively well, but I still believe that we're heading down. If you counted the number of days down from the high on May 1st, we came down 11 days. Let me see, one, two, three, four, five. 12 days, well, 12 days is going to take us, let me see, one, two, three, four, five, six. Yeah, it's going to take us out into next Wednesday and next Wednesday. If we take a look at the old calendar, the old calendar on next Wednesday will be the fifth within one day of Mr. 20 men's birthday. So that ought to be it for a birthday present for Mr. JT. So I don't know, that's what I'm looking at. That's what I see. The one that I like the best, folks, I love short nose bonds. I think those bonds, we got up above 153. O2 yesterday stopped, broke a full point. Now we're coming back. If we get those bonds at 153.24 sometime the next week or so, look at chops on that one because that looks like it could be pretty good. So we'll see. The gold, very interesting. Two things, Ruby, I wanted to comment you on the coffee. The coffee did exactly what you had hoped. We had those three higher bottoms. We've now moved 10 cents a pound up in coffee. That's 4,000 bucks with the triple bottom down there. So the coffee could be on its way. I don't know what it's doing today, but it's been acting relatively well. Regarding the gold, the two things that really troubled me in the gold market, folks. Gold doesn't look too bad. It really doesn't. What bothers me is the fact that the silver went below the 78% level and stayed there. In fact, we're still there. We're a little above it right now, but the other one is platinum. Platinum went right down to that 78% level and so far as held. It broke the 790 level by $1. And yeah, coffee is up 1.65% today. So that's a nice one. That was a really nice. We should show the folks that because that's the type of pattern that when you see it, it really gives you a really idea because if you look at this here, we'll get this up here so we can take a look at it. You have these higher bottoms in here. You'll see those three higher bottoms. Those were the, that's the 135 pattern that the Longstreet boys liked, Roy and Bill. Because when you had those and they come right at retracements and each of those retracements was 78% and now we're popping above that. We're breaking. In fact, we're having the best rally we've had this year. So that could be a really good thing. We're seeing the same thing in cotton. Cocoa's acting relatively well. Sugar's holding up relatively well. So all of those tells us that we're very, very close to something that should be pretty good. I've had a request to take a look at a very unusual cross-rate. It's not a, it's a big one, but nothing, I don't trade this with all. It's the New Zealand dollar. If we get up here and take a look at this, you'll see what I see in cattle is they're trying to make a bottom marshal, but there's so many other great things going on. Cattle just are not heavily on my watch list. I mean, I've been watching, you know, the grains and all that stuff. So I just, I can't do it all as they say in the trade. So, but the cattle do look like they're making some type of a bottom in here. And hogs also are trying to make some type of a retracement pattern here to see it. But let's take a look at this, a New Zealand dollar versus the US dollar here. You'll notice that we have a big garly forming, but the key here is if you look at those green dotted lines during August and October of last year, you'll see that three drive to a bottom pattern, ABCD fashion, bada bing, bada boom. What are you seeing on now between May and June? Three drive to a bottom pattern, ABCD. 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So you got some technical things to tell you that yeah, maybe this is a good time to take a look at the long side of cattle. Personally, I think there's other things that look a little more interesting, but if you like cattle, and I certainly like my share of the beef. But anyway, it looks like it's making a little bit of a bottom in here for sure. Now if let's remember folks that when we're looking at the timing of these things, and this is a question that people ask me all the time. And in fact, when we talked about posting norms, astro times today, time is the most elusive thing out there folks. It's really difficult. I do believe that it is astrological, but I've only seen bits and pieces of it. I believe sometime before the old, Walter and I head off into the sunset, there will be a segment on Bloomberg and CNBC from place like Yale or probably MIT explaining how the astro harmonics work and why they fit in. And even then when they do that, it'll only be probabilistic, it won't be certainty. And that's the key to have to remember it's all about the risk control that we're dealing with. Okay, now let's take off the old gloves and let's do a, this is what we call the LP apology tour. Let me give you a little bit of a thing here yesterday. I wanted to show you a couple of things here that I looked at. If you remember when we were looking at the corn, I put the price up here of corn, I was looking at it 454 and change. Now the problem is I missed that point by two cents. It went up to that level and I don't know anybody from Kim in Oregon about gold. I'm sorry, Mr. C, I don't know who you're referring to in gold up in Florida, I mean up in Oregon. I really don't know. Sorry, I wish I did. But let me get back to this corn because this is something that I wanted to cover because I made a mistake and I wanna be able to show you what I did wrong. If you'll notice here, here's the corrected version. Let me just show you what I did. This is the continuation chart on Christmas corn, excuse me, on corn, the actual corn market going back to 2014, you can see it's right up there at that 61% retracement history. What I did was I posted that chart and I posted it as December corn. Well, it's not December corn, it's a cash market in corn over a period of years. And so that's why I wanted to bring it to you. It really made no difference in the trading setup, but the way that I looked at it was certainly not the right way to look at it. I should have looked at the continuation chart of corn and told you that's what it was. I put it in as December corn. I posted the December corn, but I discussed it as continuation, not a good thing to do. Where do we go from here in the corn? Here's what we're looking at. Yesterday had $1,000, $1,200 break in corn from 454. We went right down to 430, stopped dead in its tracks. We rallied up, right now we're trading almost at 442, that's a 61% retracement. If that turns out to be an ABCD, that means we're gonna come in to the 382 ABCD pattern at the gap at 420. I'm gonna buy corn at 420. And the reason why is it's an ABCD pattern in a weather market filling a gap. And as Gartley said on page 222 of his book, buy ABCD patterns in bull markets. And that's what we're watching here right now. We saw that same thing in crude oil when we broke below $57 a barrel. We're now trading at 59. There's another example of that same thing. So let's pay attention on it. We'll see what happens in what those beautiful things look like when they come into. The problem is they don't always work. And that's a $64 question. Folks, we're coming up to the anniversary of D-Day, June 6th, 1945, well, we got a battle going on right now in the foreign exchange markets. And it is in the US dollar. It is ready to head for the Battle of the Bulge. Let's get this thing up and take a look at this. This is the US dollar index. You'll notice that box, that red box up there where it says 0.618 on the weekly. Big time, big time number, folks. If we get above that, Katie, bar the door, we're gonna be looking at some really big moves and I'll point out a couple of them for you here in a minute, but it's got a real chance here. We're already above the 78% level and the euros, you know, dancing with the shadow of death right now as we speak. So whether that's gonna mean much or not, but take a look here, just switch over for a second and look at this euro here on a monthly basis. I just wanted to show you, you know, the huge swings that we have in this thing over the past 40 years. And you'll notice that we've had a huge cycle in there. You can see the 1985 there. That was not the euro, folks. That was the Deutsche Mark. This was a converted, of course. And the euro actually came in around 1998, 2000 is when it really started to rock and roll. And as you can see that three drive pattern, three higher bottoms, just like we saw in coffee, 135 pattern, really nice button. This is a monthly chart.  Now you can see where we are right now and we could easily go back to 88 on this if we break really badly. The key here, you notice we're trading here at 111.24 this morning. The key here is we get below 111.60. That means that US dollar is on its way and the euro is heading down, you know, so see what's going on. Tucker is saying, thank you for your admitting in here. Tucker, if I spent my time talking about the air that I do, we wouldn't have any more air time. They'd have to help me on four hours a day. I do try to remember them, but you know, but that one was really glaring and I wanted to thank someone down in Houston for bringing it to my attention. And when I looked at it, I said, oh, boy, there's another one of those three o'clock in the morning deals and we'll see. Anyway, you have to, you know, well, let's move on here to a couple of things. These currencies are really, really at a critical level. Every single one of them, the pound went down and touched that low again at 126.10. If we get below 126 folks, the pound is gonna not look very good. And that would tell us that we're most probably getting ready to break, but it's held now and it's held here for the whole week. We haven't really broken below it, which is a pretty good indication because we did have the ABCD down there, but it hasn't moved much like what happened with silver. We got all the silver is just laying here. It's not that we need silver about 15 bucks to announce to say, hey, I've got legs, but it's not, you know, it's not the case here. 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Oh, my corn is really close to where I think I might nibble at it. And that's at 444. That's a 61% retracement back. And I'm not gonna risk much on that one boys and girls. That'll be about a nickel risk. So we'll pay a close attention to that. We just made a 61% retracement in the gold up here at 1282, not doing too much there. The pound is still down around 126.15. Not going anywhere. So that's pretty much what I'm looking at. The crude oil, I think we're going to have a down move in crude today. Probably won't start for another hour but that's what it looks like to me. We had a little bit of a rally but we'll see if we can get to that level. Also, I'd like to be looking to sell the bonds up here. Maybe a ticker too higher but after a little bit early. So that's pretty much what I'm looking at. I want to switch over now to something that's been in the news that we've had some questions about. That is the car that you can't hear when you drive it. Always a little scary phenomenon, especially if you're from Southern Indiana. You'll notice here that we have a Tesla. The key here folks is something very, very important, okay? Look at the time between November and March and you'll see two red boxes in there. The first one marked is the 1.27. That's the expansion to the downside. The second one is the smaller swing at 1.618. Notice how it gapped and closed below those levels. That is extremely negative. The stock went from 212 all the way down to 185 and it's still going down. And if you'll look at the lowest of those red boxes, the third one, which is highlighted there from 1.6 weight around the November time period, that just has nothing to do with time. It shows you that the swing is there at 1.68. I think that's where we're gonna be looking at Tesla when we finally reach this bottom in the S&P that we're looking at for possibly June the 7th. June 7th, if it's correct, it's gonna be a really key level to look at because if we don't hold that, that's not gonna be a good sign for the stock market. We've seen all these divergences, whether they happen longer term or not. I don't know, but this is a pretty heavy technical chart, but that's what it looks like for watching Tesla. I'm not in the things about conspiracies of whether Elon Musk is for real. I have no idea about that. I've never ridden in a Tesla, Tesla I've set in one, but in fact, it was running and I was setting in it and it bothered me a little bit. I'd like to hear the rumble of it. Okay, Terry's asking a question, are soybeans going to make a move similar to corn and wheat? Terry, I don't know the answer to that. All I do know is that things are set up for it. If you remember a couple of months ago, we were talking with Simon Lee and Rich Anderson, the possibility of El Nino. Well, what we've had now is a, what's going on? It could easily do that, but in order for soybeans to make a similar move to corn and wheat, they're going to have to do some really serious work in here because of the fact that we have a lot of soybeans and with this trade thing with China, I don't know. Right now I don't see that happening, but we'll have to wait and see. There will be a big crop. You're right Terry, they're switching from corn to beans, so that's going to increase. It's the same thing coming out of Brazil. It's all that's happening together. So look at, Ruby's asking, do I see platinum going to 750 if it doesn't hold here? It can go to 750 real easy. If we get below that, we got to eight, excuse me, we got to 789, anything below 780 would certainly tell me that we could easily drop another $80. That means that gold and silver would be failing too. And remember the 382 on that gold contract on the long-term weekly was right up there at that 1395 level. And from there, we went 1395 down to the 1267 and then we bounced a little bit, but we're not bouncing much. This is pretty much a definition of a dead cat bouncing here, what it looks like to me. I don't know. What I do is I just look at these darn patterns and I hear all the news and all the people send me, I get one or two things on conspiracy theories every day and I don't believe any of them, whether J.P. Morgan is manipulating the silver market or George Soros is doing whatever he's doing with the British pound. All I do is look at the charts, folks. If the price goes up, there's more buying. If price goes down, there's more selling. I try to look at the patterns and the ratios. The ratios come before the patterns. Isaac Newton said, mathematics precedes geometries because God does not play games with the universe, is what he said. And he said, God does indeed geometricize. So that's all I'm doing is taking those different things because when we're looking at a price chart, it's nothing more than a box with the X and Y axis, price and time. Within that box are hypotenuses of triangles. So you connect those triangles, markets go from low to high to low and high to low to high. And if you connect those and they add up together to a pattern, i.e., a three drive, a one, three, five pattern, a butterfly, a guardly, any of those, that's what you're looking for. That's the edge that I perceive as a trader. I don't use the moving averages. I know that some folks are really good at that, but I strongly believe that these patterns give you a place to enter. And if you wait for the moving average to turn, you're gonna have to pay up for it, which could be the right thing to do. I'm not saying that that's wrong. It's just that I don't use them. And probably I should. Based on some of the errors that I make, I wouldn't be surprised. But the two things you've got to remember when you're doing pattern recognition, there are two major danger signs. And the danger word for Spanish is quitado. So the quitado name of danger is when you see a big gap or you see a wide range, boys and girls start getting your old thinking caps on because there's been a change in economic thought. So pay attention to that. It's gonna be very important when you see gaps in these wide ranges. Those are the things that you really want to pay close attention to. Let's take a quick look here at the soybeans since we were talking about them just a minute ago and Tucker asked the question, here's where we are in the beans. I'd like to see the beans come down to about the 850 level. If we get there, that would tell us that we filled the gap and we made a 38% retracement. 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The thing that's interesting, folks, if you look at that top part of that chart, that's the 30-year T-bond yields on the daily close. And of course, if you look at the bonds, as the bonds go up, this is what makes these things go higher. They've yielded, anyway, this is what we're watching here, the yield drops, and that's what we're looking at. So we're really close to that 15324 level that we're looking at. We hit 153.02 yesterday. I don't think that's enough. I think we're going to get up to that level, but this is what it is. It's just the sentiment index is lining up with what we're seeing in that Treasury bond. It's just one of those patterns that you have to be patient and wait for it. Of course, they don't always work like everything else, but when you look at this, this is one of the kind that you really like to see. As we look at this level here, we're trading, of course, we're trading quite above. This was where we were Friday. Now we're almost 152 and change right now, 152.11. So we hit 153.02. The number we're looking at is 153.24. That's not very far away. So I think we have to give it a little bit more time to see if it's going to get there. And I trade in and out of that quite a bit. So I was nibbling at it yesterday at that 153 level because it was a 1.27 expansion and it certainly worked out okay, but they don't always do that. That's a shorter term timeframe that I was dealing with. By the way, I want to make a correction again since we're correcting me as I go along, which is good, that we were told by Ruby that the word for danger is pelagro in Spanish and cuidado means be aware. And folks, I've been saying cuidado, I'll tell you, at least 40 years. And the reason why is when we went to the track, the Mater D at Hollywood Park, Ruben Alvarez, was from Tijuana, and he had like five kids and we became very close to him over the years because he ran the boxes there and all the service and he was the lead person when you had to get anything done. And Ruben, his favorite thing was cuidado is danger. Don't bet on that horse, but it means be aware. And I checked it by golly, he's right. Unfortunately, Ruben has already passed away to that big place up in the sky, but I certainly remember him very well. He had a daughter that graduated from UCLA and she ran out of gas on the freeway and she was putting gas into her car and the gas can exploded on her and she had terrible burns and we were very close to him and myself and four or five other people were able to help him out a little bit, but she turned around, later got a little bit of surgery and she turned out to be a really nice young woman and never had any side effects after, but boy, it was so scary when that happened. Okay, now let's move on to another one that we want. And by the way, the dollar is soaring right now that the Euro is under attack. The British pound is under attack. It looks like this might be the day that it breaks out to the downside. We've been down to that same level again in the Euro at 1115, the lowest one, 1110. The pound is still trading at 2615. So that's what we're watching. Now we're only six points or eight points away from that level looking at 2730 in the, what you call it, in the S&P 500. So let's keep a close eye on that as we look at these things today. That's, well, I'm jumping around. Al, that's what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get too much information out to you at the same time, but that's what we're watching. Anyway, the Euro is right near the lows of the days right now at 111.18, the low 111.15. Below 111, it's gonna have some problems. Now, corn is really picking up steam here, folks. We're only now only about eight cents away from the high we made the other day at the 854 level. Even beans are moving higher. So the weather is still a problem across the Midwest and it is really a problem. The real problem lies, folks, because these farmers that have hedged their crops at $4 and if they can't put a crop in, if the crop doesn't come in, they're on the heat for delivering that corn at $4. So if corn goes from four to five to six dollars and say it's a guy's got a thousand, say a thousand acres of corn and he loses a thousand bucks an acre, man, he's in big trouble. He could lose the farm. And that's what happened during the dust bowl years. Didn't do much hedging then, but that was the problem. They contracted that stuff and couldn't get it to work. So it's really important here that this corn crop starts to get in pretty closely. We're not having really bad problems yet because there's no supply problems across the thing. Now, the big problem is of course that tariff thing with China and God only knows what's gonna happen there and she's certainly not give us an indication of what's going to happen to it. So that's all I can tell you. That's all I know. All right, let's move on to, I covered the Tesla, I covered the wheat. Oh, I know what I wanted to do. I wanted to mention one more time, this Australian dollar Aussie because it is really lining up. I don't trade this index, but we've had questions. Yes, Cy is extremely busy with clients right now. Fortunately, his program kept them into the game big time, the way that they lined it up because they do partial hedges and as the market starts to go up, they lay on higher hedges and then if it goes higher, they get into the futures markets and they protect themselves so that they're not gonna get hurt. In other words, once corn went above $4 and their heads did $4, now they're at risk because they're contracted at $4. So all they do is they buy the corn futures, the December futures, and then they go up, they're not losing any money. They're still making their crop or whether the crop comes in or not, they make it on the board. They don't make it in the ground. So that's what happens when you got someone professionally managing your crop and a lot of people do that. A lot of people don't, but that's neither here nor there. Okay, let's just ask about platinum. One more time I'm gonna try to answer this question. I have no idea where it's going, boy. Mr. Z is talking about a Texas hedge and that means when you're long the futures and long the cash. I can remember the first time I heard that was in 1969. They'd been trading cattle futures for a few years and there was a dude there named Lad Hitch out of Guiman, Oklahoma. He was Jim Tweneman's customer and he hedged, excuse me, he supplied all of McDonald's beef for the West Coast. That was Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona. All of that beef came from Guiman, Oklahoma and he was in the office one day with his cowboy boots and 10 gallon Stetson and they said, are you in the market? And he said, yeah, he says, I got a Texas hedge and nobody knew what it was. And they said, what is it? He says, well, I'm long the futures and I'm long the cash and it was going straight up and he made a lot of money. Unfortunately, in 1971 or 72, he was in the airport in Las Vegas. One of the nicest guys, boy talk about a guy that really knew how to live. Well, he died of a heart attack and massive coronary aneurysm that took him away in a matter of seconds just like Frank Tauscher. He didn't even get a finish of sentence. That's how pretty much it's looking. So we'll take a look. Thanks for the news on Ruby on Palladium. I'll post that after the break here,<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life. It's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share. If you're looking to become the best of the best when it comes to managing your money, let me teach you to do what most wealth managers tell you can't be done, which is how to time the markets. 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For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com. Okay folks, I posted the chart of Palladium. I wouldn't trade that if they let me trade free. Sometimes they've been offering that think it'd be 20 points, 1,000 bucks, so I wouldn't touch it. But let's take a look and let's hear the sound of one hand clapping for Ruby. Ruby with Starbucks and the coffee. Take a look at coffee boys and girls. We've gone, we're actually 14 cents handled since we made the 1.27, 14 handles higher and we're moving today, we're up four cents. As you can see, we're really blasting off after those three drives down. That's not three drives. That's a 1.35 pattern. Three drives is when you make lower bottoms. These are higher bottoms, that makes it an uptrend. So very good, Ruby. I hope you're involved with that. And the easy area to look at, we've cleared all that old resistance and we're already above the 61% retracement of January. This has got legs and look at the power. If you look back in last September when we had power like that, coffee went from 94 to 124, rallied 30 cents a pound, 30 cents here takes you up to the 114 level. So this could really have one heck of a move. So we'll see, sometimes the patterns work, sometimes they don't. So we'll hear that sound of one hand clapping for Ruby. Okay, let's take a look at one other thing. Oh, just I wanna mention one other time to talk to you about is to watch this US dollar folks. This is the key, watch the euro above, below 110, 60 is good big trouble. I mean, it's really breaking down below 110, 60. And we can see prices anywhere from 108, 104, all the way down to 88 as we showed on the long-term monthly chart on that. That means the dollar's going to strengthen, means our products are gonna cost even more. And when you stop and think what's happening with our corn and soybean today, just a couple of weeks ago, this thing was in the sewer, nobody wanted it. And now the whole world wants it. That's the way it goes. Some days it's chocolate cake, some days it's vanilla cake. You gotta pay your money and take your choice. So live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may God bless.


let me thank you again for your constant invitations to come here practically every year for just as you said for almost eight years now when when you first invited me I was a much younger man as you can imagine because I'm told there are so many young politicians I've spoken here today so it's time for an older politician to speak and I want to thank you again for your very for for your confidence in me and also your confidence in this platform to continuously expose some of the best minds that we have in our nation as all the best ideas that we have constantly every year I want to also commend all of the previous speakers and to say that this is in my view one of the most important platforms that we have in our country to express our views to exchange ideas distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen nation building in its classical sense really just refers to the formal and informal processes by which political leadership attempt to build a national identity a national ethos a national spirit especially in ethnically and religiously diverse societies but it is my own thesis that while government's role is in casting the vision and creating the environment for nationhood the real building of nations is done and best seen through the accomplishments of many outside of political leadership men and women in business agriculture in education in entertainment and the arts who by just doing their business diligently or serving faithfully or making sacrifices contribute to building the economies and social systems that ultimately build the nation so this afternoon I'm going to be sharing with you stories of some young people many of whom I have had the privilege of meeting who by just doing their own work faithfully have contributed to the building of our economy and the building of our nation they have increased our national pride and our confidence they have created opportunities for others as well as inspired others to be the best that they can be my point is that we can contribute in profoundly transformative ways to changing our society by just doing our own bit with excellence let me begin with the exceptional role of young Nigerians in innovation and technology on the 17th of April I did a tour of technology businesses and hubs in Lagos my first stop was paystack here is a safe payment system which offers seamless money transactions between businesses and their customers it was established in 2016 in the midst of the recession by two young Nigerian alumni of the Babcock University Shola Akilade and Ezra Olubi within the first three months of 2018 they have processed over three billion Naira and they generate about 40 billion Naira annually for Nigerian businesses the company is today powering over 9 000 businesses that did not exist two years ago and they have created over 25 000 jobs paystack has almost 50 employees all of the employees are under 35 years of age I was also at andella andella is a multinational company specializing in training software developers co-founded by the Nigerian born and cannibal Jeremy Johnson and christian assas the company estimates that in the next 10 years there will be 1.3 million software development jobs and only 40 000 computer science graduates to fill them so the company's vision is to change the culture of Nigeria and the African continent by developing talent and potential in Nigeria today the company has over a thousand employees worldwide to enable that to happen the role of government is to mainstream technology startups to be able to benefit from the incentives of industry or we'll talk a bit more about that Kola Uine's veneer business hub was also another point where I visited this is one of the earliest business hubs in Nigeria here he has provided an efficient environment for many startups most of which use each other's skills and technology cooperatively but the pioneer of Nigerian hubs is clearly the co-creation hub or cc hub founded in 2010 by two young social entrepreneurs but soon tjani and family longer it provides a platform for innovative technology to solve social problems nearly 15 Nigerian tech driven businesses were incubated in the cc hub some of them include the now famous budget recyclers jenny games lifebank gomiway vacant boards track list auto box started grid systems and marmalade so many others all these businesses were started all of these businesses were started by young men and women under 35 years old one of the startups that came out of veneer hub is called flutter wave flutter wave was founded in may 2016 by a boy again and a team of engineers and former bankers this is a payment technology company that has since processed over two billion dollars not naira now worth of transactions on his payment platform but but of use who tie of use whose paga i'm sure many of us have heard of paga is in a class by itself it is the leading mobile money transfer service in Nigeria paga has 11 000 agents across Nigeria and six million users the company has a staff strength of 200 and by fastly by facilitating the payment for goods and services in this way paga has enabled several other businesses and several other transactions to take place in health care many young people are solving huge problems with ease i don't know how many of us have heard of life bank temi giwa who who founded life bank and all our record is flying doctors these are two startups using technology and innovation to fill critical gaps in our health care industry so life bank works on blood shortage problems in hospitals and they save lives by speeding up blood donations and delivery to hospitals in Lagos their life bank app connects and ensures delivery of blood within 55 minutes all our record is flying doctors is the first air operated emergency medical service in west africa her company provides air ambulances from a pool of 20 aircrafts and highly trained medical personnel for emergency evacuations but the building of a self-reliant nation must mean that the nation should at least be able to feed itself the response of many young nigerians to the to the call of government to grow what we eat and to eat what we grow and also to diversify our economy is responsible for the phenomenal growth we have experienced in the past three years in the agricultural sector in nigeria the transformation in productivity and increase in investment that nigerian talent and entrepreneurship have brought to agriculture is just remarkable farm crowding and that's the name of a business is a digital agricultural portal that crowd sources funding for farms across nigeria also founded in 2016 by onyeka akuma and three other young nigerians it operates like a mutual fund pulling together money from multiple investors to establish farms and hire smallholder farmers to cultivate them and then paying the investors dividends from the harvest from these farms in december 2017 it's succeeded in raising a million dollars in capital funding and from november 2016 to date it has over 3 000 rural farmers all of these farmers have been able to of course to keep a job to expand their operations to increase their revenue as a result of the intervention of farm crowding farmers like sunday ohimai who is a kasaba farmer in edo state ester who is a maize farmer from dorua babuje just outside joce she recently improved her small acreage to a hectare uka ages thrive at greek in abuja uses the same business model as farm crowding also with great success four years before farm crowding in 2012 yemisee in raloe founded sultry a kasaba processing company in the rural town of aduawai the starch it produces from the process kasaba is now used by several leading nigerian manufacturing companies including nestle unilever and nigerian breweries as they increasingly replace imported starch with locally sourced varieties sultry was one of the companies that found growth opportunities in the midst of the recession as companies cut down on imports and explored locally available substitution companies like sultry rose in 2015 its revenues grew threefold and in 2016 it began building a second production line that is a success story of sultry but then there's also abdu fatah sardik mutala 25 years old from batagara local government in katsina state he founded bio green agro in 2016 it builds greenhouses and hydrophonic systems what's a hydrophonic system is a method of growing plants in the growth chambers without soil bio green is producing now animal fodder in a climate control facility year-round using his technology using this technology bio green agro supplies farms and ranches now with fodder feed across the country let's call her mashah baban gona it supports small holder farms in northern nigeria with financing with agricultural input with training and marketing mashah is leveraging his experience in both the public and private sectors to deliver solutions that are changing the lives of thousands of struggling farmers like umamagaji for example umamagaji is a 35 year farmer who owns 1.5 hectares of land and as of this year he has leased another 2.5 hectares he plans to increase and thanks to babagana he says his yields are two to three times what they were last year he has now refurbished his house bought a motorcycle and rolled his children in school and is hoping that he can perform the pilgrimage to saudi arabia within the next two years angela delaga is a founder of fresh direct she has perfected an innovative approach to farming in disused containers without soil and with very little water what she's doing could very well be the beginning of a farming revolution in nigeria also while i was visiting the workstation which is a hub in victoria island i had the pleasure of drinking sholala doja's fresh juice the name of the fresh juices pick me up it's made up by his startup which is called simply green simply green is a farm to bottle raw organic cold press juice company using organic and technologically harvested practices meaning that they do not use chemicals or pesticides in growing their fruits and vegetables this is a kind of innovation that young people have brought to agriculture but in beauty and high fashion there's very little doubt that young nigerians have captured and in some instances dominated local and international imagination so the groundbreaking works and i'm sure some of us know deo lassego and lisa folawio has spawned a whole new generation of of nigerian designers who are confidently using nigerian and african print to make bold and unmistakable statements in high fashion so today deo lassego has transformed the traditional uroba uroa and buba by using laser cut ashok to create the now famous kumole show many of us know kumole the toast of rides across the country lisa folawio on her part has taken beaded african print to new levels of creativity and both of them have inspired a new generation of designers like andrea yama and 30 31-year-old am a a maca osakwe makio is the name of her brand and she started at the age of 23 she's now celebrated in vogue magazine and last year in the new york as west african's most daring designer her use of adire in many Many collections is an intentional ploy to boldly redefine elements of our culture. Of course there are others, orange culture, Mayatafo are also making waves in men's clothing. In the beauty industry, Tara Fela Dorotoe, of course you know Fela, founder of the House of Tara and Banker Meshida, BM Pro, stand out as pioneers who have influenced a whole generation of beauty experts and beauty products. They've opened a new vista in bridal makeup, Tara's training of hundreds of beauty experts and her franchising of the House of Tara has created a new indigenously Nigerian beauty industry. This has created thousands of jobs for beauty experts and retailers. So now we see more ladies with their contours and highlights popping. Elaine Edouzian Shobanjo, I'm sure some of us know Shomaya and Joyce Jacob have also introduced Hollywood glamour to the whole bridal makeup industry in Nigeria. By the way, what celebration today can beat the Nigerian wedding? From the makeup dresses to the decor, catering, the cakes, party planning and photography. A whole new industry has developed around weddings by creative young people making an otherwise memorable event even more memorable and linking ethnicities across the country in fashion and ceremony. Today everyone Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, where, they even call it, their wedding ceremonies are becoming increasingly similar, not just by uniformity that results in the loss of culture or tradition, but by creativity that brings a standard while accentuating tradition and culture. The whole nature of the moderation yet preservation of the traditional engagement ceremony is such a testament to the depth of thought and creativity of those young Nigerians who are internationalizing our wedding ceremonies. The Nigerian wedding has become so popular that the film Wedding Party was a major international commercial success. But it is perhaps in the literal arts, especially the written and the spoken word, that we see the difficult issues of nation building most poignantly confronted by young people. A new generation of literally touch-bearers have emerged. Talents like Chimamanda Adiche, Helen Habila, Teju Kou, Chika Onigwe, Chigo Ziebi Obiyoma, Chibundu Onuzo, Abubaka Ibrahim, Ehosa Emaswin, Ayobami Adebayo, Elnathan John, and many more. And points, you also have points like Titilakwa Shonuga, D.K. Chukumereji, picking up the baton from the Shoyankas and the Acebes. Their works expose the complications and solutions to the issues associated with the mentality of persons in the post-colonial state. How a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society can and how a multi-ethnic and a multi-religious society can thrive and survive. And how the major questions that emerge from all of these records and histories can be used to build a nation. The reflection and introspection from their talents, boldness, their precision, their undiluted expressions and call to action, invoking all of us exactly what nation building and greatness is made of. They're not timid, and they represent a growing class of sophistication and confidence that confront lingering post-civil war and even post-colonial exam pains. The highlight. They highlight the hypocrisy of ethno-religious barriers often set by the elite for selfish advantage. And they expose the underlying selfishness and failure of statemanship that exploits false lines for political and personal benefit. They highlight the cancer of systemic corruption, how it has eaten into the fabric of our society and cost us lives, years and retrogression. These writers and poets explore, explain and humanize the difficult issues around social justice, the humiliation and delegitimization that poverty brings and the failures of the rule of law. In Chimamanda Aditya's Half of a Yellow Sun, one of the main characters is a university professor and he tells his house boy the following, and I quote, he said, there are two answers to the things they will teach you about and the real answer and the answer that you must give to pass. So there are two answers, the real answer and the answer that you must give to pass. So you must read books and learn both answers. I'll give you two books the professor said. Excellent books. They will teach you that a white man called Mongo Park discovered River Niger. That is rubbish. People fished in the Niger long before Mongo Park's grandfather was born. But in your exam, write that it was Mongo Park. End of quote. This reminds me of one of the proverbs that Chinua Chebe popularized. He said, until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. An affirmation of the truth that nation building is also about storytelling and the importance of telling our own stories and writing our own histories. Anietta Isong, her book is called Radio Sunrise, is a scathing indictment of bribery in the journalism profession. The watchdogs of our democracy are sometimes mere captives of corrupt politicians and that news and its analysis may often just be paid for. There's no doubt at all from what Anietta Isong says in her book and also from experience that grand corruption remains the most enduring threat to our economy. Just to give an example, three billion US dollars was stolen in what was called the so-called strategic allowance contract sometime in 2013. Three Nigerians were responsible. Today, three billion dollars is one trillion Naira. Our budget, the entire budget, and budgets are estimates, not actual cash, is seven trillion. So if three people made a way with one trillion and the entire national budget is seven trillion, you cannot wonder how come it is that the economy will struggle when all in our country was selling for a hundred to a hundred and fourteen dollars a barrel. The government then spent 99 billion on transport and agriculture got 15 billion and transport got 15 billion and culture got 14 billion. All the ministries together, all those ministries mentioned got 139 billion. Today, with all prices between 60 and 70, powerworks and housing can get 415 billion. Transport gets 80, agriculture gets 65, and the total is 560 billion. How come we can do more with less income? How come we're able to invest in infrastructure? How come we can do the Lagos standard gauge railway, the Mambila hydro, the second Niger bridge with 60% less income that we earned a few years ago. The truth is, just as Isong said, if you control corruption, you can do more with far less. D.K. Chupu Meryje, I'm sure some of us know him, reminds us in his powerful poem The Revolution, that the poem is titled The Revolution has no tribe. The Revolution has no tribe. He reminds us that our that our destinies as Nigerians, no matter our tribe or religion, are inextricably tied together. What affects one affects all. Suffering neither knows tribe nor town. He says and I quote him, do you not know that poverty is not any German? He will not spare the rest of us and afflict only the Isha. He will stop, he will step over the river and come across the border. So when the drums sound, let everybody answer. Do you not know that corruption is not from Nakedi? He will not hear that Ife had no dealings with Mudakeke. He will wake up all of our children at night with hunger. So when the drums sound, let everyone answer.  That they are indigens of no state, that they come from no place and if this boat capsizes, everyone of us will go under. So when the drums sound, let everybody answer. Do not say I am an Iroko when the forest is burning. Do not say I'm an obituary when the forest is burning. Our differences will not prevent us from perishing together. So when the drums sound, let everybody answer. Nations that end of quote. Nations are built by the contributions of many or many of us forget the public servants, those who work for governments despite sometimes poor remuneration. A few examples of these public servants, Damilolo Gumbi was 28 years old when as the first female general manager of the Lagos State Electricity Board, she supervised the building of the five independent power plants in Lagos State and was responsible for providing solar power to over 200 schools and primary health centers in Lagos State. Today, she is the first female managing director of the Federal Rural Electrification Agency, responsible for providing uninterrupted power to 13 federal universities and seven teaching hospitals. This is a new project called Energizing Education, which is pioneering from the Ministry of Powerworks and Housing. She started the project to provide power to Nigeria's largest markets already. The first phase of that project has been completed in the Sabungari market in Karnu and the construction phase of the Arariya market in Abah, the construction phase of the of the power center in Arariya market, has also started. Afalabi Mukwede handles the N-Power program, a major feature of the federal government's social investment policy. The program engages 200,000 graduates across all local government. Its applications come through a portal developed by Softcom, a company of young Nigerian engineers. The process of engagement goes through that platform and millions have applied through that platform. Tochi Inwachuku is a special assistant to the president on power privatization, responsible for transmission, doing innumerable transmission projects across the country. E-mail Kone is a senior special assistant to the president, advising on railways, roads, airports, and other infrastructure projects. Mariam Masha is a medical doctor, senior special assistant to the president on IDPs, and with Bisi, who is Ogumbadejo, both have been working with IDPs in Maiduguri since August 2015. Recently, they have been managing a newly built learning center and a home for 1,500 offers in Maiduguri. Muhammad Braima works on the Northeast Humanitarian Technology Hub, where groundbreaking innovation is applied to tackle humanitarian challenges. And all of these individuals, all of them, young people working in government, young people doing creative things in governments. I've mentioned only those who are working in the federal government and there are hundreds of others working in state governments, but often forgotten, very often forgotten, are the excellent teachers in primary and secondary schools. Take the wonderful ingenuity and dedication of a mayor for Chigozie. She is a secondary school teacher in the FCT in Abuja. She's earned several awards for extraordinary efforts in raising our next generation. This microbiology and chemistry graduate of the University of Nigeria and Sukha was named the best science teacher and recognized specially for exceptional performance in preparing students in the federal capital territory in quiz and project exhibitions. She's also recently received another award for contributing to the 774 Young Nigerian Scientists Presidential Award competitions. As a chemistry teacher, the success rate of a mayor for students in the past five years of Wayak and Neko ranged from 87 percent to 92 percent. There's also Doreen Omorige. She's a school teacher, primary school teacher and also now works in the secondary school for Medo State. She also works out of the federal capital territory. She's a graduate of chemistry education and she deserves this mention because of the consistent way that she goes beyond the call of duty in discharging her responsibilities. Even as a youth copper serving in a primary school, she organized a workshop for teachers on the use of primary science case. She was soon able to take her school towards winning the award for the first best state school in Nigeria in science. Ms. Omorige herself was the best science teacher in her school for three consecutive years. Quite remarkably, she's been able to use her knowledge in producing soap, sanitizer and disinfectants, many of which were used even during the Ebola crisis a few years ago. It's just amazing the incredible work that these individuals do. These are the true nation builders, the teachers, the farmers, the entrepreneurs, the public servants who work in this country. They pay their taxes, they bear the hardships, but they remain focused. They are determined. Most of them, just as Abiyoni Ginodyu said, are survivors but they are determined and they are committed. They are the ones who recognize that even where change is slow, it will come. They are prepared to do their own part day by day, their own dreams of greatness, their hard work at the building blocks of our nation. And how about the young men and women of the police and armed forces who lay their lives on the line daily to protect us? The story of late Colonel Muhammadu Abu Ali has been told often as commander of the 272 task force battalion. His battalion was responsible for the capture for the recapture of Bama, Baga, Mongunu, and later Konduga. He was decorated for bravery and excellence. He was decorated for bravery and excellence. He had become a terror to Boko Haramin surgeons, but he and four others were killed in an ambush. He was just 36 years old, survived by a wife and three children. The story of the late Sergeant Chukudi Boko went viral when he confronted armed robbers in a daylight robbery at the Zenith Bank in Oweri, Amos State. He killed one of the robbers. He killed one of the robbers, but the robbery was failed, but he and another officer, Sergeant Sunday Agbo, died of the gunshot injuries that they sustained during the attack. Both of them left wives and children. It is to these men and women who fight to defend our nation from terrorism and crime that we owe the preservation of our nationhood. Some of them do not die, they just lose their limbs, they lose their sight, they lose their hearing. The widows and widowers and children of these brave men and women bear the pain and anguish of loss by themselves for many years. And then there is the entertainment industry whose main advantage lies in how it transcends tribe, town, and location to bring joy to the screens of millions of Nigerians. Think how much bliss the music videos of Clarence Peters and the best-selling comedies of Ayo Maku, AY, Basket Mouth, Aporo Ro, Chioma Emerua, Chi Gao, Fouls the Bad Guy, Funke Akinele, Jennifer, and the talented singer and comedian Kenny Black have brought to audiences at home and abroad. All of these people, they proudly fly our flag and they make us proud. Of course, one of our favorites, especially at the villa is the one that you just saw, Senator MC Togo A. He's excellency the president.  The newest generation emerging as we speak on Instagram and WhatsApp, like La Cici Elena, something just happened right now. See this fellow? Something just happened right now. And Willem Zucimba, you know I don't like what I hate. Stand-up comedy in Nigeria owes much to the pioneering efforts and the mentorship of Ali Baba. He literally created a whole industry. AY Ayo Maku is not just successful. He has continuously given a new generation of comedians a platform with his AY live shows. As Dr. Martin Luther King said, an individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. End of quote. Few will deny the incredible dividends that Hollywood has brought to Nigeria. Jason Njoko and his wife and his wife, Mary Remy, owners of Iroko and Rock TV, pioneered live streaming of Nollywood movies. Taking Nollywood to the world. They've also provided opportunities for hundreds of production personnel and agents. For a lot of these, it is to Mo Abudu, founder of Ebony Live TV, which already airs in 49 countries and a prolific creator of high quality afrocentric entertainment content that the pride of place must be given. Mo has continuously sought to change the negative perceptions of Africa and Nigeria by telling African-Nigerian stories from a purely African perspective. Her project, which most of us know, the wedding party, became the highest grossing Nigerian movie of all time. Wherever you go in the world today, whether you're in an airplane or in a department store, anywhere in the world, you can hear Nigerian music. The credit for taking Nigerian music to the world must go to stars like Tiwa Savage, David O, Olamide, Whiskey, Wajie and so many others. Their creativity and talent has benefited our nation's image and put the spring in the steps of so many young and aspiring entertainers. The credit for the discovery, grooming and production of many world-class Nigerian acts and records and building true Nigerian brands is the likes of Don Jazzy. Don Jazzy's Mavin Records and Banki WU of EME. As government, our business is to create the environment for entrepreneurs to do business, to work on access to cheap credit and on providing the infrastructure, especially power and greater broadband penetration. But the task of nation building is never done. The builders confront new problems every day. Today we are confronted with the remnants of Boko Haram, with farmer-herdsmen clashes, with the potential of ethno-religious conflict. We have to feed ourselves. We have to provide millions of new jobs as every day more people are added to the population. The joy, the job of the builder is not to complain or to escape, but to confront and to resolve. But what we can do together to ensure that we don't spend the rest of our days looking forward to the past, frozen by inaction, we resolve to do the same things that we must not do the same things over and over again while hoping for better results. I believe the solution is in building that Nigerian bridge. The bridge will not be one that is built of steel or bricks or mortar. It is one that will be built of the strongest materials of all, our will to excel as Nigerians, our commitment to build a new society, men and women of a new Nigerian tribe. This is a bridge that connects us across tribes, across ethnicities, across dialects, a bridge that connects us across religion, politics, and across even generations. Every one of us can travel on this bridge, the strong and steady bridge, a bridge that rises from innovation and traditions that span the troubled waters of our past, a bridge that will withstand the powerful forces of fear, division and exclusion, a bridge that can take the traffic of all our best ideas, our creativity, our human and material resources daily to the destination of our dreams. This bridge will be built with the wisdom of the elderly and the strength of the youth. All of us deserve some accolades. God bless you. Thank you very much.


So, Catherine, you presided over some drunk watching, I think, of the State of the Union Address at the reason DCHQ. What was your overall policy vibe of the thing? And then please, if you will, lead us into drilling down into specific policies that Biden talked about or unveiled at a State of the Union Address. Yeah. I just want to, first of all, clarify, I led drinking, watching of the State of the Union, but not drunk watching of the State of the Union, because we are professionals here in the DC office, especially Billy Binion. And the overall vibe, policy-wise, was absolute, perfect, pure forgetability. Like, if it wasn't my job to remember some policy proposal that occurred in that State of the Union, I would remember nothing. It was sort of the casual laundry list. It was a bunch of stuff we've heard before. And this is what most of the unions are like now, but this one was particularly unremarkable. Not only because no one was watching for policy, everyone was just watching to see if Grandpa could keep it together past bedtime, but also because there is no policy. Policy is over. We don't do policy anymore in this country, really. So, that was not a surprise, I guess, though still Obama. So to be clear, you can't name a single one. I can, and I will, but again, only because I literally get paid to do this. So the policy that jumped out at me was when he said, truly in his best infomercial voice, when you refinance your home, you can save $1,000 or more. First of all, what? The State of the Union, I don't love it that numbers having to do with the government now mostly start with T's and B's, like it's all trillions and billions.  Ideally, those numbers would be smaller. But $1,000 is too small of a number to talk about in the State of the Union. That is infomercial stuff. I do not own a house. God willing, I will never own a house. So I did have to go figure out what exactly was going on here. And I did, which is that title insurance is a complicated thing. But it turns out that this actually kind of might be goodish in that it's like a wee smidge of deregulation. So basically lenders have to buy insurance against the possibility that the house that you are borrowing money from them to buy might be like, oops, owned by someone else or like have a tax lien on it or something. When you are refinancing a home that has already gotten title insurance on it through the previous lender, you don't have to buy that again anymore by law, at least some of the time. That's it. This couldn't be less interesting or important. I'm so sorry I even talked to you about it, but I'm even sorry that he talked to us about it. I think that should be done at the UN level. Right. I mean, right? Like let's have the one world government decide this because it's just as, it makes just as much sense as Joe Biden having a single thought about this. The banks themselves should obviously choose whether or not they need insurance on properties that they're lending against. That's an easy answer. Yeah. I now regret that this was the assignment that I created.  Nick, what was your overall like policy vibe check? Was it basically similar to Catherine's about old President Corn Pop? And then on your specific one, is it going to have something to do with Snickers? No, but I mean, obviously he needed to eat the Snickers before, during and after to change into Betty White. I liked the vibe of it and I'm thinking, I now think of Joe Biden as Joey Pepp. He is like Neil Cassidy or you know, Dean Moriarty and on the road or you could see him driving the Mary Prankster bus now like hopped up on speed because he came out all shoddy and shouty and animated. I like that. I like that Biden and I like the fact that he immediately attacked Trump. You know, he went into Ukraine, he went into Trump, etc. I thought that was pretty good. Like Catherine, the speech was, you know, God awful and it's substance for the most part. But the other thing he did and like, he was smart because he did this all in about the first three minutes. He also brought up abortion, although in a cowardly act did not use the word abortion.  Wade as the law of the land again, which I took to mean that he is going to, you know, push for national legislation that would in, you know, in create the framework that was at work under Roe on a national level. And I think what you said in this, you know, what was interesting about this set of the union, I think compared to others, it was very political and was very aimed at the 2024 election. And he said, you know what, Republicans did this, Trump alone did this. It was his judges who did this. And every time this stuff came up on the ballot, they lost, you know, and if they can take away this right, what are the rights are going to do? I think that's like actually, you know, it's actually good politicking. So I found that all somewhat interesting. But then, you know, as the speech went on, you kind of, and this happens if you take a lot of amphetamines, you know, it just kind of becomes an endless war and buzz.  Now he's got to, he's got to continue to make this character appear on a regular basis. I think he's got to do the push up competition with Robert F. Kennedy. And he's got to be chopping some wood or something like that in the, maybe he can wash the Corvette in front of the White House, Matt, and take his shirt off and kind of only if he's wearing Daisy Dukes. That's yeah, of course, those are the rules and work boots. Of course, like, but what else would you wear when you're washing the car in front of the White House? Joey Pepp is back. There's so many images that I want to scrub from my memory already in the short period of time in this pie. And Heaton is barely spoken. So that's I'm minding my manners. I appreciate that. Now stop minding your manners and start telling us your overall impression of the State of the Union and one specific policy that you thought was noteworthy of comment. OK, Andrew. So kick off. I hate State of the Union addresses. I know that this is a common opinion, a quick fun fact, since we're basically emulating the monarch's address over in the United Kingdom, we ought to just go full throttle on that, in my opinion. Like they have wonderful pageantry. The king takes a hostage every year that sits at Buckingham Palace. It is a literal hostage in case Parliament takes control of the king. And so we should do that. We should be a hostage of the White House. They have to take Marjorie Taylor Green and put her in the green room or something. And they have a representative of the king go to the House of Commons where a door is ceremonially slammed in the guy's face. And then they go to the House of Lords. But and this is the crucial bit that I wish they would do with the American president, they make the king sit in a vestibule for a few minutes and just stare at the death warrant of Charles the First.  I think that that would be very beneficial. I agree with everybody's assessment about the the just lack of substance. And I thought the State of the Union address was kind of like a bag of potato chips where 80 percent of it's just air. And then the bottom 20 percent of it is just empty calories. Of the remaining parts that were there, the the stuff that I thought was noteworthy that I could actually stay awake for and pay attention to. Whenever Biden got into economics, he he got down into his real essence, which is if there's a grease fire, throw more grease at it. If student loans cost too much, we should be paying for more student loans, never really getting into what why is that these things that the federal government is already funding tend to be increasing in money. Well, give him more money. Although he did have a couple of things that I liked, little bits. He talked about having good jobs in high school that don't require college degrees kind of alluded to in a apprentice program. I like that. He appears to have turned positions on marijuana very briefly. OK, maybe that'll turn into something at some point. He does seem to have directed, I think, the FDA to review scheduling for marijuana. So maybe there's some positive things on that end. And one or two other things. But but broadly speaking, I thought it was kind of a just nice of Congress to let the old man give a campaign speech and not a whole lot of meat in it. That was a clip from the Reason Roundtable podcast to watch more clips. Go here to watch the whole show. 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