Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure, all Bookmap Limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk Disclosure, trading futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. As a reminder, the focus of my presentation and the focus of the Options-Doug chat channel in Discord is Options, Order Flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading and the first is planning and I use positional analysis and I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. And I look at real-time order flow and Bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow and Spot Gamma Hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And questions and comments are welcome and I'll be watching for questions and comments in the Options-Doug chat channel in Discord and the chat in YouTube as well. All right, let's get started. So today the things that I want to cover first, the news, economic data events and earnings this week, then we'll go through our positional analysis and finally we'll talk about some setups and there were some outstanding setups today. All right, so first of all, news items. So today the GDP report came out and also the preliminary PCE. So that's today and the numbers, it looks like the GDP came in less than forecast, a little bit lower than forecast and lower than the previous number. And then this PCE preliminary number looks like it was greater than forecast. So that's the data that came out this morning and the market really didn't have much reaction to that and we'll see that when we take a look at the charts in just a minute. And then also today there are two stocks, minor stocks on my watch list that report earnings, Moderna and Block. And then tomorrow there's another big data drop. That's the, I guess the final PCE, the PCE at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time and then consumer sentiment at 10 a.m. So that's the remaining earnings and news for the rest of the week. All right, let's take a look at our positional analysis now. Let's go back and let's start with the S&P 500 futures. So here is the movement around the data release at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. So not much movement initially. A little bit of a move down to the 400, this is the SPY 400 key gamma strike and then price, reverse lower at the SPX volatility trigger. And we'll talk a little bit more about that in just a moment. So let's start before we dig into this chart any further. Let's take a look at a big picture view. And this is the SPX 20 day chart. And this is just SPX, just price and spot gamma levels. And these levels are provided to spot gamma subscribers. These are the key gamma levels provided to spot gamma subscribers in a think script. And this is showing the key levels. I'll just point out some of the primary levels. Here's the 3,900 foot wall. Again, this is SPX, the 4,000 key gamma strike and the call wall way up here at 4,200 out of play. So those are the main levels, the upper lower and upper end bound of the, you know, I guess any potential range. So that is the 20 day chart. And now, you know, just a big picture, SPX was in an uptrend last week, consolidated between all around 4,100 to 4,150 and then has started to trend lower. All right, let's take a look now at a one minute chart. Again, this is the pretty much the same SPX chart, just looking at a one minute time frame. So this is just today. And here, here again is the reversal at the volatility trigger. And that is spot gamma's proprietary gamma flip level with positive gamma market makers position on the gamma curve is positive above and negative below. So now SPX is trading in a negative gamma range here. And that means that market makers, traders are long puts market makers are short puts, and they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure is price drops. So that's the that doesn't show all exactly all the levels today. Right, so that is the SPX one minute chart. Now let's go back to book map. Right, so here's book map. And these levels that I'm looking at, I have two columns of levels. And the first is the spot gamma cloud nodes, these are provided to spot gamma subscribers. These are updated automatically. And this is showing key SPX levels. There's the volatility trigger. And there's the 4,000 key gamma strike, again, SPX levels.  What spot gamma does is they calculate the difference between ES and SPX. And they're using right now a difference of 10 points. And the difference really is closer to about six points now. So these levels should be around four points lower. Okay, so those are the the levels in place shown with the spot gamma cloud nodes. So, you know, we just saw in the SPX chart that the SPX actually exceeded or went slightly above the volatility trigger. And then SPX has broken below the ES, SPX has broken below the 4,000 level and went down below this 3976 level. All right, there are a couple of comments, questions in discord. First of all, Persian line, please keep your comments on topic. And volume profile, any kind of point of control is really not on topic in this channel. Okay, and there's another question for ES. Well, what this is showing that way, you know, we just looked at the SPX chart in thinkorswim, and then this is the ES chart. And there is a difference between ES and an SPX. And I'm calculating a difference of around six points. Spot gamma is using a difference of 10 points. So this, you know, if it is six points, this level should be at around 4,006 for so SPX 4,000 should be somewhere down around this level. Okay, so JC is saying it's eight points. So it's somewhere between five and 10. So the numbers off a little bit not not significant. So anyway, that is, this is the S&P 500 futures. And there are a couple of things to note beyond the levels. First of all, the bearish order flow. Notice the shift here, especially around here as price moves up just above the volatility trigger, a lot of aggressive sellers come in, see all the pink dots there, aggressive sellers with their market sell orders, brief pause at this 40 20 resistance level. And then that then the price continues lower. Again, with aggressive sellers. So this is shown on the subchart here with the falling CVD line, that's the dark blue to pink line. And also this yellow line, those are sell stop orders. And those are also shown on the on chart indicator that small red dot 2038. Those are sell stop orders. In terms of contracts, helping to push price lower. Alright, so that's the S&P 500. It looks like it has found support somewhere around this 39 ES 39 75 level. So that would be somewhere between, let's say around 39 65 to 70. Alright, that's the S&P 500. Those are the levels that are in play. So again, the reversal at the volatility trigger, and then the move below the 4000 level, those in the 400 spy 400 key gamma strike. So I forgot to mention them. What I'm looking at here, these are my cloud notes. And I'm marking the key spy level. So that's the spy 4000 key gamma strike. And that level is pretty close to accurate. I calculated the ratio today. And that's also the lower edge of the expected move for ES for the week. And that's based on the options market. And then this is the ES 4000 round number level. And then I'm also noting the support and resistance levels that were noted in the spot gamma AM founders note. And I'm using their 10 point difference there. So that level should be a little bit lower. You know, maybe around here. And I will take a look at my spy chart in just a minute. And I have had those levels marked more accurately on the on my spy chart. Alright, so shifts and levels, let's talk about shifts and levels. And there were very few SPX, the key levels all remain the same volatility trigger put wall call wall key gamma strike. And then for spy, the only shift major major shift was the put wall that shifted down from 400 yesterday to 390 today. And then for QQQ, the put wall shifted up from 285 to 290. And then the call wall shifted down from that way out of range, 360 down to a more rational 310 level. Alright, so there's a question in in YouTube spot gamma are spot gamma levels provided for stocks. They have listed or just for the indices and is right now just for the indices. And that is one of the feature requests that I've sent to spot gamma to add spot gamma levels at least to their like their hero stocks, the stocks that are included with the the hero indicator. So hopefully they'll do that. But for right now, as far as I know, it's just just the indices. Alright, so we were talking about shifts and levels. And let's take a look at the gamma charts now. These are the absolute gamma levels. So this will show where those where these levels come from. So this chart is showing the absolute gamma levels. This is the zero line, this horizontal line with positive gamma or call gamma above the zero line shown by the black bars and a negative gamma or put gamma shown below with the teal bars. And you can clearly see that the 4000 level is the key gamma strike or the absolute gamma strike. And that's the strike with the largest absolute gamma. There's the put wall at 3900. And that's the strike with the largest net negative gamma. And that can be expected to act as support. And then the call wall is way up here at 4200. That's the strike with the largest absolute positive gamma. And that can be expected to act as resistance. And I think the key takeaway here is the range with the gamma concentration is 3900 to 4100 for SPX. Let's take a look at spy. I'm going to zoom in on this a bit. And for spy, 390 now is the put wall. 400 is the key gamma strike. And 420 is the call wall. And the thing to note here is the call gamma above the 400 level and put gamma below that level. And the range is pretty similar to SPX, 390 to 410 for the range of the significant amount of gamma. All right, that's SPX. Let's take a quick look at the NASDAQ now. Zoom in a bit here. So for QQQ, 290 is the put wall. 300 is the key gamma strike. And then 310 is the call wall. And the thing to note here is the significant amount of put gamma down below 300 level. And again, that's put gamma or negative gamma. So that would be, again, market makers position. Let's take a look at data now. And as usual, I'm going to focus on gamma notional. This is market makers position on the gamma curve. And this is SPX in the left column, spy in the middle column, and QQQ in the right column. So notice all these numbers are negative. And for all these, that means that market makers position on the curve is negative, negative gamma notional. And that means for all these indices that traders along puts, market makers are short puts, and they have to sell futures as price drops. And that works the other way around. As price increases and implied volatility drops, they can buy back their short hedges. So for SPX and spy, they're typically hedging with ES futures. And for QQQ, it could be the ETF itself or NQ NASDAQ futures. And most likely NQ futures is how they're hedging options trades and QQQ. All right. So the shifts in gamma notional for SPX, it was a slight shift to less negative. So yesterday, market makers gamma notional for SPX was minus 637. And today it's minus 606. So a slight shift less negative. And for spy, it was a slight shift to more negative from minus 2057 yesterday to minus 2116 today. And then the numbers for QQQ have been a little bit wonky this week. So yesterday gamma notional was minus 98. And today it has shifted all the way to minus 714. So anyway, again, negative gamma notional for all all indices. And now let's take a look at take a look at the Vantage charts, which are a graphical illustration of what I was just talking about. So this is the Vantage chart for SPX. And what this is showing is market makers delta notional or delta exposure on the vertical axis and price on the horizontal axis. And this is showing how market makers delta notional will change with changes in price. And also the green line shows the change in delta notional as implied volatility changes. And that is the Vanna effect, the change in delta with a change in implied volatility. And this is showing that market makers delta notional will increase as price drops. And again, they have to sell futures. They want to remain delta neutral. We can take a look at how this is shifted from day to day. So just a minor, minor shift from yesterday to today. Here's SPI and a minor shift from yesterday to today. And then there's QQQ. So all again, market makers position in all these indices is negative, negative gamma. And that does tend to increase volatility since market makers have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure. All right. So one other thing that I typically look at. I look at changes in the key gamma strike for all the stocks on my watch list. So the far right column, the previous key gamma strike is the key gamma strike from yesterday. And then this D column, the current key gamma strike is the key gamma strike for today. And I note the change from day to day. And I color code that. So red indicates that the key gamma strike dropped from the previous day. And then green, if there were any green numbers here, that would indicate that the key gamma strike increased from the previous day. Okay. So this, this spreadsheet, this is neutral. And, you know, it's hard to, yeah, that's right. It isn't Christmas colors. It's, you know, based on this and based on the lack of shifts in levels in the indices, yes, you know, other than, you know, I guess minor shifts up and down and QQQ and the shift down on the put wall for spy, SPX, there were no shifts in the levels. So based on that information, my thesis for the day was neutral. And I want to take a look at something else. So let's go back to the these gamma level SPX or S&P 500 various charts, gamma levels.  And this is the open interest and volume adjustments. Let's see if I can zoom in on this. So what this is showing is the volume traded in the black bars. And the small teal bars are the open interest change. So the open interest, these in the open interest change would be positions that are held overnight at least, you know, they could, they're longer term than zero DTE. So they could be one day or, you know, more. So notice the stark difference between the size of the black bars and the size of the teal bars. So that indicates that the vast amount of volume yesterday, and we're looking at put data for SPX, you know, the huge amount of volume yesterday was all in zero DTE trades. So that could be an explanation of why there were no shifts in levels, because this, these zero DTE trades, they're gone at the end of the day. And a lot of the information that spot gamma uses is based on open interest. And that's updated once daily sometime during the night. So this is, you know, a good explanation. And I'll look at this more. I posted an interesting SPX hero chart and discord this morning, showing the strong correlation between zero DTE trades in SPX and price action. And we'll take a closer look at that when we start to look at setups in just a moment. So that's put data for SPX. Again, remember the large difference in the zero DTE volume versus the change in zero in open interest. Here's spy. Same thing. Huge volume. And here at the 398 strike, really the 397 to the 400 strike. That's where the volume is. And, you know, the open interest change is puny compared to the zero DTE volume. And here for SPX, the volume. And again, we're looking at put data concentrated in the 3950 and the 4000 level. Okay, with that, let's take a take a look at some setups. And I'm going to look at the S&P 500 first. And this is the SPX. And these lines are showing the zero DTE trades today. The green line is showing calls. And the this light blue, purplish kind of line here down below is showing puts. So right now, traders are buying puts and they're buying calls as well. But puts seem to be partially driving price action. Zero DTE puts and SPX seem to be a large driver of price action in the S&P 500 today. Let's just zoom in, especially on the morning. And that becomes more clear. And this is what I was looking at this morning. This falling line whereas the the call line is pretty much flat. And looking at the notional value here, 308, 309 versus 53. And let's just let's take a look at the total line there. Let me zoom back. So from 9, 930 from the cash open, until almost noon, that was a clear driver of price action in the S&P 500. And again, remember, we let's take a look at the book map chart now for for ES. We were looking at the bearish order flow as well, all the pink dots in there, the market sell orders, stop orders, all driving price down to the support level and below. So all very clear indications, both in order flow here and book map, and in hedging flow, looking, you just have to look at the right thing and understand what traders are doing. And, you know, especially with the S&P 500, it takes a little bit of digging, looking at spy, looking at SPX and seeing what is really driving. And, you know, again, we showed the huge volume yesterday compared to the small open interest. And, you know, I think it's, you know, we just saw with the chart that that appears to be what is happening today as well. And there's another way to check that. We can take a look at, well, we'll just leave it at that. All right. So that is the S&P 500 setup, great short setup confirmed by hedging flow and by order flow in book map here, as well as the levels, spot gamma levels, especially the reversal at the volatility trigger. And let's just take a look at the spy chart. And this level, the volatility trigger is closer to correct. So these are my, these are my cloud notes for spy here. And I calculated this ratio today for spy and SPX. And that level is, is closer than what is showing on the ES chart. And you can see that S&P 500 spy moves up just above that level and then reverses lower. The order flow is easier to see in, in ES. And these are the levels that are in play. There's the 400 spy 400 key gamma strike and the SPX 4000 key gamma strike just below. And there's that 3976 support level. And there is what appears to be a shift in order flow here as price moves below that level, then starts to move above. Notice all the green dots, the aggressive buyers coming in. And we can probably see that with, with a shift, slight shift in CVD, slight shift higher in CVD. Okay, there's a question in, in discord that 1150 45 period and hero to take that as a potential shift in market direction. All right. So let's go back and take a look at hero now. So yeah, any time I see a shift in, in hedging flow, I will always look. So I see the shift in, in hedging flow, a divergence potentially, let's just zoom all the way out. So that does look like a potential divergence here with that shift in, in hero now shifting higher. So yeah, I look at, look at this first and then I go over to book map. And sometimes it takes quite a while to play out in ES by SPX. So we go back and we saw the, so we saw the shift slight shift in order flow here around that this 3976 support level. Let's go back to ES now. And you can see the same shift in order flow here. So it did not happen or are exactly around this 3976 support level, but it's clear to see the shift in order flow there, all these green dots coming in a break of this downtrend. And then the trend slowly reverses higher. And another thing to notice, and this is also pretty typical, this rising light blue line. These are iceberg orders. And this is what larger traders use to, to hedge their delta to hide their size. So large iceberg orders and they often will buy weakness and sell strength. And they're, again, larger traders, they don't have to worry about, you know, specific entries, they may not be using stop orders. They can withstand a lot more pain than, you know, probably most retail traders. So they, again, this is pretty typical with iceberg orders is larger traders buying weakness and selling strength. All right, so that is, that's the S&P 500. And yeah, thanks for pointing that out. JEC is the, again, we're looking at the shift in hedging flow and that can often precede a shift in the move. And then we see that the, again, the larger traders are buying with iceberg orders. And that typically, you know, sometime you would expect the market to turn around with all those larger traders buying. And it's pretty evident here in the order flow. And there's a question, presumed market makers unwind, there's zero D, zero DTE hedges later in the day as they expire. And yes, I would assume that, you know, they're, you know, they're trading in and out of those, in and out of those hedges based on the zero DTE options pretty quickly. All right, so the next setup that I want to take a look at is NVIDIA. And this was very interesting. I'm going to zoom in on, first of all, the morning here. And let's go take a look at, excuse me, let's go take a look at HERO. All right, I'm going to change this back to all trades, next expiration, update. And we'll go to NVIDIA. And remember NVIDIA reported earnings yesterday, and the market took that as positive. So this was pretty expected behavior this morning, that at some point, traders would come in and buy calls. And that's what's shown by this rising orange line right at the open here. And I posted this in Discord as well, this setup. And let's go take a look at book map now. So again, NVIDIA, the slight downtrend, note the shift in order flow with that trend break. So slightly bearish here, then a shift higher. Notice all the green dots coming in here at this consolidation that's confirmed by the CVD line. And we know that orange line showing that traders are buying NVIDIA calls is going straight up. So this made for a good long entry anywhere after this trend break. Now let's go take a look. I'm going to zoom out now. I'm going to go all the way to yesterday. So here's yesterday. This is starting at the open yesterday. And then here is the big move up right after the close with the earnings report. Price gaps up and then continues higher. So that's the two-day picture so far. And remember that NVIDIA gapped up substantially. Now let's take a look at the, take a look at another chart, spot gamma here. This is the equity hub. And I don't know why this keeps refreshing. I think this may be a new setting in Chrome. I need to check on that. All right, so here's my watch list. Here's NVIDIA. And this is the composite view. This is showing that market makers position. This is put dominated with this red color. This dark blue line outline is showing pretty heavy options activity. The thicker line and the darker it is showing more options activity. And the position, options position is, is moderate, not light, but not heavy. And the interesting thing to note here is that NVIDIA traded all the way up here to around 238 this morning. And this is showing, this is the SG momentum indicator showing the rate of change of gamma. And notice it is decreasing rapidly as price increases. And this is an indication that market makers requirement to hedge is decreasing. And we can also see that with the put call impact chart. So we see above, below the 250 level that again NVIDIA is put dominated, meaning that traders are long puts, market makers are short puts, and that rate of change of gamma, we'll look at the blue line here, starts to flatten pretty, you know, pretty substantially up around that, that 238 level. So we're looking at this right here. So again, that is showing that market makers hedging requirement is decreasing rapidly as that, you know, as price increases. All right. So the question, can I show, let me read through all the questions in YouTube. All right. So can I show hero for NVIDIA? We were just looking at that. So let's go back. There's put some calls. And let's change back to the, change back to the total signal here. And again, the, you know, there's the strong call buying in the morning. And then as hero drops, price drops even more. Again, remember that now traders are taking negative delta positions. And also market makers hedging requirement is decreasing rapidly as price increases. So seeing that, that gives you a good indication that any longs that you have, you know, you certainly want to consider exiting up here.  Okay. I thought, I thought that was really interesting. It was a great long. I think it was about the only long this morning, but a good setup pretty clear with the order flow confirming hedging flow confirming and then having good price targets above. I'm going to zoom in again, clear this, zoom in, you know, see all the, all the liquidity above these are price targets, price seeks these levels. And then price consolidates as again, market makers, traders started taking negative delta positions, probably taking profits. And then market makers hedging requirements starts to decrease. All right, let's take a look at some other setups. So those were the, I think the most interesting primary setups today. And here are some others that I saw. And there's Apple. And there's a question once somebody in discord wants to look at ES again, we'll take a look at the end. I want to go through some other setups. There's the video. Once I zoom out a little bit, get rid of that large volume in the morning, you can see there's a very strong correlation between hedging flow and price action. We'll take a look at Apple. Look at all this, these large block trades here are kind of obscuring. So we'll just skip that and we'll move on. Take a look at Amazon. So there's Amazon, very strong correlation between price action and hedging flow. We'll take a look at book map. So there's Amazon, the reversal or the move lower, a consolidation at the 96 hedge wall, then a move lower down to this 94 and 95 liquidity. And then note the shift in order flow. All the green dots, aggressive buyers with their market buy orders coming in as Amazon touched the lower edge of the expected move. And now it looks like it's heading back to the 96 hedge wall. Let's go back and take a look at Hero. And again, strong correlation between hedging flow and price action, confirmation with order flow. Google, pretty strong confirmation between hedging flow and price action. Let's take a look at Metta and a stronger correlation here. And Metta usually definitely has more range, daily range than Google. Let's go take a look at book map. There's Metta. So move lower in the in the morning, a couple of buy sweeps here. And those could be stop runs. Price reverses lower, heads down to the 170 hedge wall down here. And eventually reverses higher. And again, very strongly confirmed by Hero here. Traders are in the morning, they were selling calls, primarily driving price action. And then in the afternoon, they've started buying calls and selling puts, calls shown by the orange line put shown by the blue line. Take a look at Microsoft. All right. Again, bearish, bearish hedging flow. Take a look at book map and nice reversal lower trend break. Bearish water flow all day, still continues bearish. Negative CVD, all the pink dots. Even now, as price is moving higher, first target was the 250 hedge wall. And price didn't quite make it to all the liquidity there at the 250 Kegama strike. So good short set up here in Microsoft this morning, QQQ. Let's go take a look at Hero for QQQ. So this is interesting, this reversal in all these stocks indices. So this morning, it looks like puts were driving price action. Traders buying puts, market makers are selling puts, and they have to sell QQQ, sell NQ futures to hedge their delta exposure. And then around noon, that hedging flow shifts to positive delta shift down again. So it was a little bit more clear to read in the morning. Let's take a look at Tesla. All right. There's a question in YouTube and ES in your opinion, do the best setups present in the morning as traders position for the day? And do you see setups in the afternoon much? Well, first of all, I primarily day trade in the morning. So that is the time that I have set aside for day trading. And then as the morning progresses, I have to prepare for this webinar. And then I'm doing this webinar this afternoon. And then, then after that, there's not much day left. And I'll manage my longer term inventory options inventory around the end of the day. So that's how I approach my day. So anyway, I do find that the best setups are using hero in the morning. And that's what I'm used to trading. And that's, you know, one reason I like to trade in the morning is the, there's a stronger correlation between hedging flow and price action and order flow.  So let's let's take a look at ES now. And then we'll wrap it up with with ES. So nice short setup this morning. Notice this sharp drop in in hero here. Let's just see what traders were doing. And they were selling calls and buying puts. All right, let's go take a look at at book map. All right, so here's the the short setup this morning. I'm going to zoom in on this. And again, remember that traders were aggressively selling calls and buying puts. And I'm looking at this break of this wedge, then a retest of the VWAP and point of control there. That's the at the opening print. And then the move lower. And in contrast to yesterday, where the order flow was a little bit confusing, there's no question today that this is bearish. You know, you can just see all the pink dots in here. So order flow confirming hedging flow confirming in hero, short setup, first target at the 200 key gamma strike, price chops around that level for a while, and then moves down another three points to the 197 level. So that's the setup in Tesla this morning. All right, let's go let's question a request to go back and look at ES again. And then we'll wrap it up. So here's ES again. And you can just clearly see the shift in order flow here. All the pink dots, aggressive sell over sell orders, and bearish order flow, bearish CVD, sell stop orders. And then all the green dots come in all the aggressive buyers, just below that support level, and prices moving higher. And let's go back and take a look at Hero SPX, you can clearly see here the the shift in hedging flow. And this is the total. So this is not only zero DTE, but this is also all expirations shift in hedging flow. And then price follows what looks like almost an hour and a half later. And again, sometimes it takes a while for the turn around in the S&P 500. But it's definitely something to look for. And again, I talked about the steps, you see this divergence in Hero, then you look at the book map chart for confirmation in order flow. And hopefully a level that you can lean against some kind of support level. And the reversal today was a little bit lower than that support level. But it was very clear to see in book map the shift in order flow. Okay, that is all that I have for today. Remember tomorrow the PCE data comes out at 8 30am Eastern Time and the consumer sentiment at 10am. And then we'll talk about that during my session, we'll see how the market reacts. And I want to thank you for your questions and comments. Thanks for watching. And I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.


Explaining slicing up Pennsylvania with slices of pizza, take a look at Jerry's pizza truck that's Jerry with a G for gerrymandering. The guy behind it is a fair government activist traveling to state capitals across the country to explain the negative effects of gerrymandering. That's when congressional districts are drawn to give a certain political party power instead of fairly representing the people who live there. The pizza he gives out is cut not into regular slices, but into odd shapes just like gerrymandered districts. If you get a messed up slice and if the guy behind the counter gets to pick what your slice looks like, regardless of what you wanted, that doesn't exactly feel right and it has real political implications. So it's a good way to get the message out and let people know. Both congressional and state legislative districts are being drawn right now at our state capital.


I want, first of all, as you can see, I have no paper in my hand. I want to speak from their heart. First of all, if you allow me, I would like to thank all the other candidates. I read all their profiles, their visions, and I promise you, as I implement the programs under the Development Bureau, I will take into account your ideas and will be in touch. So I am most grateful for your efforts. I am also most grateful for the permission that you received from your administrations to give space so that we conclude this matter in a timely manner. You know what I stand for.  My vision is very simple. I stand for meaningful connectivity, meaningful skills development, and bridging the skills gap, because this is what faces most of the developing countries, but also to accelerate digital transformation. I spend many years and I'm thankful to ITU and the entire membership for giving me an opportunity to serve. I have been to every region, I have been able to interact with the ordinary people and understanding exactly what their needs on the ground are. The least developed countries continue to lag behind the rest of the world. Africa is the largest number, 28 now countries. Asia Pacific follows. It also has a number of countries that are lagging behind and there are still least developed countries despite the fact that Maldives, Tuvalu, they graduated in Samoa, they graduated from the LDC category. I know the problems of the small island developing states because I have been involved in a lot of activities in those regions. Sea rise, climate change and other challenges, earthquakes, tsunami, et cetera. But I also understand the issue of the landlocked developing countries. That they do not have access to the sea and they cannot have access to submarine cables and they depend on coastal countries. So their relationship with coastal countries is very important. When they have access, the cost is prohibitive and the bandwidth in terms of connectivity is very small and low and then therefore they remain, they are connected but not connected fully. And that's what we should be doing for. I'm very fortunate that over the past three years I've been in charge of a department responsible for all the projects in the development sector but also strategic relationships with the private sector in the industry. And I know the private sector has the capacity to go out there and make sure that they develop and invest in infrastructure which is resilient, robust and also efficient and dependable. And that is what we want. We want to give space to the private sector because they are the development engine. We are best players because we are able to help countries to create an enabling environment in terms of policy, legal framework and regulated framework. And I promise you that once I take office we are going to cement the relationship between member states, the regulators and the private sector. For the good of every nation state, small or big. One of the key issues that I care about is the issue of gender. And you will see. We will not be doing a lot of talking, we will be doing a lot of doing. I believe that the girls and women are an idle engine that just needs us to put our foot on the accelerator so that we move in the right direction. And we cannot develop when we don't have that category because women are powerful in the sense that they are our mothers, our sisters. Not to mention that they are mothers of our children. So we have to take care of that. But the youth are the future. And definitely we are going to accelerate. Like I said in my manifesto, we wanted to take the ability to new heights. Those that came before me have done a lot of good work. And they built the foundation. And I'm there ready to build the house. And we are going to do it. We can't do it alone. We will do it with the membership. Private sector, member states. And I commit here that we will be listening to the member states. We are not going to set our own agenda. Secondly, I know that we are federal structure. We are the elected officials. We have our own lands. I'm not going to be trespassing into other lands because there is so much that we can do for developing countries and also developed countries. Triangular arrangements, partnerships with the regional organizations, with the development banks, with the member states. And this money that comes to us is money from the taxpayers. And we must remain transparent, accountable and efficient. And I commit here I'm going to save with honesty and seriousness results based management. You will read a little about we did a workshop in Tonga. But you will read about the impact that we made in Tonga. And with this view was I thank you so much for giving you the trust. Those that voted for me, I thank you. Those that didn't vote for me, I thank you. We are all one. And I know together we are going to achieve greater things. Thank you very much.


Inside this box, rest a $4,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! collection. What's up guys? We're back with another epic Yu-Gi-Oh! collection opening, and I believe, based on what I was told when I was sent this collection, this is about a $4,000 plus Yu-Gi-Oh! collection. So I'm pretty excited. We haven't bought a collection worth that much in a little bit, so I'm pretty excited to see what's inside. I think there's a lot of Ultimate Rare, which everybody loves, and there's also a giveaway. So we have what seems to be a nooch. Let's see what is inside. Ruxen, you're the goat. Thank you very much. Shout out to my guy, Brad Piel. Enjoy the collection. Colton, so Brad, shout out to you. Colton, shout out to you. I paper cut myself yesterday, by the way. You can see that there. Okay, very short note. Short and sweet, right to the point. Let's go. Giveaway. What is it? Giveaway contains an Ultimate Rare phenomenon, the king of poisonous snakes. That's first edition, by the way, from Tactical Evolution. An Ultimate Rare Flint, first edition from Rise of Destiny. And an Ultimate Rare, first edition triggered summon from Force of the Breaker. So we are starting it off with three Ultimate Rares as the giveaway. That's pretty nice. Colton, thanks a lot for that. If you guys want to win that giveaway, just like the video, be subscribed to our notifications. Let me know down below. What do you like in this collection? And shout out to Colton for the awesome giveaway. Okay, this is a not massive collection. There are four deck boxes. So it's not like tiny or anything, but it's kind of in the middle in terms of quantity. These are all marked as Ulti, it seems. So I don't know if they're all Ultis. Maybe they are. He told me this a while back and then he took a while to ship it. So I don't remember. Like it's been like probably a month or two since we first started talking. So let's see. Oh, that didn't work. All right, fine. We'll bring out the knife. I know you guys love to see the knife in the video. So there we go. There's the knife. It's cut that tape open. That took two seconds. Very nice. All right, we're starting off nice here. Pulling the rug is a pretty good one. That's first edition.  I don't want to hold so many at once because they're all Ultis, I think, based on what I'm seeing on, you know, says all Ulti. So we'll see first edition pulling the rug. So I'm going to try as we go to pull out a few more cards kind of shown because sometimes I'll go through these and I'll never actually pull any cards out. And I know a lot of you guys like, man, I really want to see the card closer. So if we get some big ones, we will. These are pretty big, to be honest. Pulling the rug, that's two of them. Not quite a play set, but that could be good for Edison's sides. Might put that in my Edison deck, you know, to upgrade the rarity. Transmigration prophecy also from Strike of Nio. So we got one, two of those. Metal Reflect Slime, first edition. Some Fan of Darkness for a while. These are pretty expensive. And then they got the reprint in Legendary Duelist 7. So the Wing Dragon or all one, two of those. It's two of everything, very interesting. Hero Metal, we have one, two. Another trick. Wait, no, he gave one these away. Okay, that's right. Okay, he gave a triggered summon away. He has two more. So maybe he collected two and then the extras were why he did the giveaway. Okay, Cyber Summon Blaster, all two as well. Interesting. D-Chain, these are all traps. So these are very organized, which is pretty cool. Jurassic Drop-Off, nothing that like we need to like really look closely at. The best so far is definitely the Pulling the Rug. Great name, Mirror Force. That's a pretty nice card from Force of the Breaker. And then Cloak and Dagger. So that's a, I mean, all traps so far. We still have another half of this deck box though. Alright, what else do we have? We have a Birthright, one and two, always two. Interesting, not a play set, not one, but two of everything. Fire Darts, let's see if that ever changes. Cross Counter, so far it's not. Magical Explosion, it seems like there are going to be all traps in here. Magical Explosion, the Option Hunter. These are all Ultimate Rare, first edition. This is a pretty cool collection so far. Chain Burst, I wonder what the condition will be. Seems like they're all double sleeves, so good chance they could be like light played near mint. With some of this stuff like Soul of the Duelist, Greeds. You know, Soul of the Duelist, Ultimate Rare, as I should say, not just Greed. They're usually lightly played to just out of the pack. Same thing with Rise of Destiny, Ultimate Rare. Firewall, just this arrow was pretty tough. Not Firewall Dragon, just Firewall. We have Tragedy from Rise of Destiny. Null of Void from Soul of the Duelist. We've pulled this a couple times, or at least once out of a hobby box, maybe twice. Trojan Blast, we have Goblin' Out of the Frying Pan, pretty cool. Damage Condenser, so trap. Ulties usually don't tend to be that expensive because most of them are not good cards. Pulling the rug is the exception. So that's probably like the lower end of what we're going to see. And even so, it's all first edition Ulties, so pretty good. Okay, next we have a Brown Deck Box. I'm not going in any specific order because there isn't an order like listed or anything, at least that I can see. So yeah, I'm just going to keep going. Okay, that one might be like a finale type one, but we're going to go for it anyway. As you can see, there's a Cyber Dragon. Cyber Twin Dragon, I should say, Ultimate Rare right at the front. So first edition. Are there going to be two of these? That'd be nice. Three? Nope. UFO Road Fighter. So we're in Cyber Deck Revolution. Are there bigger, like the big one, like Cyber Indragon or Cyber Dragon? Who knows? People here are Lightning Golem. Still two of everything so far. Okay, just a few Fusion cards. So we did get Cyber Twin. That's a pretty nice one. Grand Mark also pretty nice. You can see there's some foil shift going on here too. Speaking of, you know what? Let's go back and check out some of those Cyber Twins. Let's see what kind of condition we're looking at while we're doing this. What kind of condition are we looking at? I'm guessing that for the most part they'll be similar, but they could be different. Who knows? Let's see. Man, that looks good on the front for the most part. The back, wow. These are very solid. Okay, there's a corner that's pretty bad right there. So the corner is messed up. The back has light scratching. Yeah, definitely not a good corner. That's really like still pretty good overall. Like not super scuffed up, anything like that. Very nice Cyber Twin. And if you guys see something that you are interested in buying, some of this will be on my website. I don't know exactly yet what will be on my website, what won't, because I don't even know what's in here right now. But with the PSA stuff, I usually put most of it on there. With the raw cards, it can be different. This one also has some corner issues. So we're looking at not perfect condition here. Like up here, you can kind of see Dean Corners. Services are pretty good overall for these though, which is pretty nice to see. Overall, fairly nice condition on the Cyber Twin Dragon. So, you know, something like that is probably what we're seeing. Let's just, okay. Wait, where was my other? Wait, only one Grand Marq? Did I miss one? One Grand Marq, two Harpy Queen. Wow, two Harpy Queen's are pretty nice. Sacred Phoenix, we got to check these out. Sacred Phoenix of Nephites. Oh yeah, you can already see this one. This is such a hard card to find in good condition. The edge wear is pretty bad.  It's Ultimate Rare first though, and it looks like the Ulti has shifted a little bit down. It's covering up the first edition in the set coat a little bit. Back, yeah, has some scuffing going on. So yeah, this is definitely not perfect, but coming out of the pack, these are really hard to get nice. That's pretty good. Let's check out the second one. Coming up next, one of my favorite, Ryza Ultimate Rare. I'm gonna have to check out one of those as well. Okay, yeah, this one definitely has some edge wear. Check this out at the top. Not incredible, not incredible in terms of condition there. Little beat up, and by beat up, I mean like not really beat up, but not in great condition. All right, Ryza, there are two of these. Let's see what Ryza, you gonna be in great condition? Let's see, come on. So far, we've had mostly like mod-ish play, slightly better on some. Yeah, that one qualifies a little bit bent or a little bit stuff going on. I feel like there's might be a bend there if I look closer. Yeah, there's definitely a bend on that corner.  So yeah, that qualifies as mod play for me, which is still not terrible for an old Ulti, especially something like that. We have a Ryza Cyberdark. We're gonna, okay, one of these each. Creator, oh wow. Two of those, is that a Euro? I think they're different in Ryza Destiny. Maybe that's not Euro. I can't remember how that works. Let's check it out, but this one looks great. That's all I can say. Whichever one it is. Check out that texture on that card. It like shines behind it perfectly. It's so cool, like you can see the image so well. It's just like shining. That looks amazing. The back definitely has some Ryza Destiny scuffing, but pretty good for Ryza Destiny to be honest. It does have a ding right there at the top. So yeah, we're probably looking around mod play for most of these. But still, I mean, really cool stuff. Elemental Hero, Bubble Man. That's pretty nice as well. Three of those, okay. Lila, ooh, okay. Lila probably is more expensive now. So if I bought this a few days ago, I probably would have made more money on it, but that's how it goes. So it looks like that'll be good for him because Lila's probably getting more expensive. Same with Celestia. All these light swarms are gonna be going up because of the new support. Horus, ooh.   No, no big horse, okay. Volcanic Shell, pretty cool. Elemental Hero, Captain Gold. Great Shogun, she in. We have the Sky Scourge in Rise. I remember these getting big for a little bit. Some of them actually are still expensive. Norlaris, the Invasil. Invasil, I think was the big one for a while. Lucius level six out of Cyber Dark Impact. Volcanic Slicer, just some random stuff. That's pretty cool. Ancient Gear Golem, Ultimate, Ultimate. Yeah, a little redundant there. Look at these spiral serpent. Okay, so that was a really good box right there. All right, we still got two more boxes. So this is a pretty nice collection so far. I mean, we're looking at some really, really solid stuff. Oh man, we got more fusions. Power of the Duel is coming up. Let's see, split it in half. Let's go Super Vehiclei Jumbo Drill. We got two of those. Herald of the Pure Light from Enemy of Justice. Is there gonna be a Shining Phoenix Enforcer? The Cursed Guard, we have Herald of the Greenlight. Very cool. Chathonian Emperor Dragon. Kings Knight, all right. Ultimate Rare, just the Kings Knight. No Jackson, no Queens Knight. Interesting. Warrior of Atlantis. Arcane Force 21, the world out of Light of Destruction. Master Monk out of the Lost Millennium. Princess Coran. Proto Cyber Dragon, we have Princess Picaru. And Chiron the Mage. Should be one more coming up if we are staying consistent with mostly having two. Nope, nothing there. Okay, Rare Values. We're looking at Crystal Beast Cards. Monster Reincarnation. I love Monster Reincarnation. Rise of Destiny has some nice looking Ultis for sure. Ancient Rules for your Blue Eyes Dex. Awesome, Ultimate Rare. More Flints, we gave one away. And the Yard he has too, so that makes sense. Twister. Serial Spell, a little bit of Serial Action. Who's hungry? We have Ancient Gear Castle. Where's the Ancient Gear Golems? So a lot of nice Ultis, but mostly none of like the big ones, which is interesting. So like no Ancient Gear Golem, no Cyber Andriac. Stuff like that. Cyclone Blade. So I'm wondering, okay, I'm going to be valuing this after what it's actually going to total out to. We have Degenerate Circuit. Lucky Iron Axe. No, not the Iron Axe. I don't feel lucky at all. Reckless Rebirth. Okay, so a lot of Spell Cards there. One more box. That one was, you know, lower-end Ultis, but they all, I mean, everything's first-ed. So, I mean, some of the Crystal Beast stuff, some of the Horus stuff is going to do pretty well. Our final box, I have high hopes for this one. So far, it's been a lot of old school. I mean, it's all old school oldies so far. Oh no. No, not you. Don't give us one of these. Not the UFO Roid. Please, no. B.E.S. Tetran. So Elemental Energy. Two of those. Silent Swordsman Level 3. Two of those. All three of those. Ooh. That's a pretty cool playset. Those are really nice. Sage of Silence Ultimate Rare. That's a, that's a cool one, because it has like the circle pattern going on. Looks pretty nice out of Strike of Neos, I believe. Yep. Lurk Queen Level 5 from Cyberdark Impact. So, some more CDIPs. The Sasuke Samurai Numero Quatro. Couple of those that you can see a little edge wear on some of these. Millennium Scorpion. Very cool. That one looks good. A Mystic, speaking of looking good, Level 6. Looks amazing. Check that out. I've always really liked this one. It's so hard to get near Mint though, because you know, Rise of Destiny. Very difficult. A Inishi Shian's Chancellor out of Glass. Glass Alties, honestly, I don't like them that much.  And a lot of the good cards are not in Altie. Like, this is one of the cooler ones, but a lot of them are not that great. We have Lightning Punisher. I once graded to PSA 10 in this card, Ultimate Rare. Divide Dragonek Thelion. I pulled this guy every single time out of Shadow of Phenomenon. You can almost, it almost looks like an Ultra here. Very interesting. One half left. Really, the biggest cards would probably be Cyber, Twin, Creator, and Sacred Phoenix so far. Nothing too insane in terms of high value, which it was set at 4,000. I don't know if it actually is. That was just what I was told. Dark Nephthys. So far, I would guess under that, unless we have something big coming up. Still going to be pretty expensive though, this many first edition Alties. Depends on the conditioning though, stuff like that. Dark Knight, Parshath, Majestic, Magor, you have pulled plenty of these. They feel like hobby Alties. A lot of them, but not like the Ultra Alties. You know, those are like the really big ones. Phantom Dragon. This is, I feel like this is a decent amount, like 40, 50 bucks. Could be wrong about that. Destroyer Source. Always a really classic cool looking one. Dinosaur, Ulti. Not very usable now, because they have a better field spell, so you don't really want to use this one. That searches the crappier one. Cloudy and Sheep Cloud. Pretty awesome as well. Two of those. Memory Crusher, Ulti. We got Cloudy and Eye of the Typhoon. A Doom Shaman. Very nice. Super Ancient Dino Beast. Another couple of Ulties. It's always in twos. Just like the Sith. Very interesting. Chainsaw Insect. We got a couple of those. And then it ends with an A-Team Trap Disposal Unit. Interesting. Honestly, I thought there was going to be more like bigger Ulties, but it's still a really cool collection. Like, see all these Ulties at the same time. These were big heads though. Like, these are all really nice. Like Two Riza, Two Sacred Phoenix. I don't know the other Riza is still in there. Two Cyber Twin and the Creator. And honestly, the Creator is one of the best looking Ulties you can get. So, I mean, an incredible collection. For some reason, I thought there was going to be like, like a Cyber Dragon here or something, but I guess that would be like a quarter of the value if it was 4K. Wouldn't really make sense. So, I don't know. Really cool stuff. I'm sure you guys like seeing it because these are ones that you don't see as much.  We don't get to see like the everyday Ultimate Rare. The A-Team Trap Disposal. You don't get to see that. The Chainsaw Insect. I mean, there's some good stuff to absorb here and enjoy, you know what I mean? And getting a collection of all Ultimate Rears. Literally 100% Ultimate Rears. I don't think I've ever done that. So, I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, make sure to subscribe to the channel. I'm probably going to put a lot of these on TCG Player versus my website, but some might be on my website. So, you can go check them out at rocksand34.com.


So much of what the CIA used to do covertly, it now does overtly. In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he'd start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was so submitted to his will by that point that I'd gaslight myself into reframing those sentiments in a sympathetic light.  And then he talked about it to some friends, trusting that I'd run perception management on it for him. The better he got at psychologically twisting me up in knots, and the more submitted I became, the more open he'd be about it. He seemed to enjoy doing this, taking a kind of exhibitionistic delight and showing off his accomplishments and crushing me as a person, both to others and to me. Like it was his art, and he wanted to have an audience to appreciate it. I was reminded of this while watching a recent Fox News appearance by Glenn Greenwald, where he made an observation we've discussed here previously about the way the CIA used to have to infiltrate the media, but now just openly has U.S. intelligence veterans and mainstream media punditry positions managing public perception. If you go and Google, and I hope your viewers do, Operation Mockingbird, what you will find is that during the Cold War, these agencies used to plot how to clandestinely manipulate the news media to disseminate propaganda to the American population, Greenwald said. They used to try to do it secretly. They don't even try to do it secretly anymore. They don't need Operation Mockingbird. They literally put John Brennan, who works for NBC, and James Clapper, who works for CNN, and tons of FBI agents right on the paywall of these news organizations. They now shape the news openly to manipulate and deceive the American population. In 1977, Carl Bernstein published an article titled The CIA and the Media, reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America's most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird. It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media is meant to report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers. Nowadays, the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and the public is too brainwashed and gaslit to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo, which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits. The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor, and Wapo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on U.S. intelligence agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograt, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangapa, Phil Mudd, James Cagliano, Jeremy Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known CIA assets like NBC's Ken Delanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson.  And that's just the media. We also see this flaunting behavior exhibited in the U.S. government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, a propaganda operation geared at sabotaging foreign governments not aligned with the U.S., which, according to its own founding officials, was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The late author and commentator William Bloom makes this clear. Quote, In 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, non-governmental efforts. Notice the non-governmental. Part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO, non-governmental organization, because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official U.S. government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a G.O. We should not have to do this kind of work covertly, said Carl Gershman in 1986, while he was president of the endowment. It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 60s, and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created. And Alan Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991, a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA. In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED, end quote. We see NED's fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the Western Power Alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang to the imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat. Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled The CIA Democrats in the 2020 Elections, World Socialist website documented the many veterans of the U.S. intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and 2020. Quote, In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats, nearly half the seats where Democrats were targeting Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously Republican held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale, end quote. So they're just getting more and more brazen, the more confident they feel about how propaganda addled and submissive the population has become. They're laying more and more of their cards out on the table. Soon the CIA will just be selling narcotics door-to-door like Girl Scout cookies. Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of our relationship because those were the later years. I did eventually expand my own consciousness of my own inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had that he was using as hooks to manipulate me. Maybe as humanity's consciousness continues to expand, the same will happen for the people in their abusive relationship with the CIA.


All right. You are still watching Waze. The 2023 election was one of the closest election, presidential elections in Nigeria's history. Bola Ameytinambo was declared winner with 37% of the votes. And his two main challenges, Atikwa Bipokar and Pita will be alleged irregularities and filed legal challenges for the results. Now, however, the court rejected all of Pita, Ubi, and Atikwa Kare's claim, including allegations of fraud, charges. The electoral authorities broke the law that Tinumbu was ineligible to run. The charges are said that the electoral people broke the law. And during the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission introduced the biometrics technology and the IRF, a central database for uploading results in real time to ensure transparency. However, the elections were riddled with anomalies, with the INEC even acknowledging glitches, but dismissing claims that the votes were not free and fair. So now some critics claim that the technical problem and delays had allowed opportunities for votes manipulation and seeing the realities of the post tribunal elections, I mean, the judgment, rather, that happened yesterday. Today, we are asking, how can ideas manage their expectations? Now, please, let's hear what you have to remember. You can join the conversation. Send us an SMS over at episode 1, 8034663. You can also tweet at us at WeishoAfrica1 with the hashtag Weisho. Oh, shoot. What I'm supposed to be tweeting is X. Our tweet has entered my DNA. I need to go and, you know, but hey, this is where we are. I'd like to say that I wasn't expecting anything different to happen from what eventually happened at the tribunal. I just wish they had just announced it a long time ago so that a lot of people would move on. Because so many people were like, you know, stuck decisions that needed to be made and all of that. Everyone was just stuck waiting and all of that. So I don't know. But let me come to you, ladies, right? When the judgment happened yesterday, what came to your mind and what you were expecting and, you know, if it wasn't, how did you manage it? Truth? I wasn't even really interested. Of course, there was a whole lot of noise. Everybody was looking forward to it. It started, I mean, we're seeing a lot of memes around, you know, with pictures of the people who were at the tribunal, you know, sleeping and all that. There was all that. I was busy yesterday. But I mean, eventually when it came out, I wasn't really expecting anything different, really. I was just like, like you said, I wish it had come, you know, well before yesterday and people we've just moved past it. Because again, it's almost like reopening fresh wounds. You know, people now are going back to February. It's like a reenactment of what happened in February. A lot of emotions are on the rise again. And the semblance of peace that we somehow had over the last, maybe a couple of long weeks is shaky right now. Because, I mean, since yesterday, there's also been a lot of outcry, so to say, across social media platforms and all that. So really, I wasn't really expecting anything overly different. And it just, I wasn't expecting anything. I was not expecting anything different. Honestly. I wasn't expecting anything. Right. I think if we want to be quite honest, we all find ourselves with the same kind of emotions. So there's a whole lot of mixed feelings. And like you said, we're not surprised. But I was one of those people who I was praying that I would be disappointed, yeah? I was praying I would be disappointed. And I wasn't to the best of my surprise. And it says a lot. And there's a lot to be said. But I think Nigerians are getting to the point where they're out of words. I think where I am now is numb. That's the word. So I don't know how to feel. It's not like, I don't understand. Wait, it's not like I did not expect it. But like I said, I was hoping I would be disappointed in one way or the other. So in your mind, if the court had come out to say that, yes, the claims from Attiku and Obie were true, and they have to probably maybe do a rerun on all of that, would that have been a better judgment? Because I don't know if I was hoping for a rerun. I was just hoping that the justice system So what makes you think? Because again, this is just because you say the expectations that we are having is that whatever it is that we have chosen to say these are maybe in our mind, that's the right thing, you understand? That what makes us feel like this is not justice? Because I wouldn't say to you that because the presidential was the name, the Tribunal Committee, or what do they call them? They would tell you that this was a thorough job that they had screened. In fact, that's what we said a lot of times, a lot of people were sleeping and snoring. They said they- Line by line. Line by line. Team needs are- You know? And they would tell you that they did a very thorough job and of course the Tribunal, so like literally. Okay, so- They have to bring this picture in. Sorry to be- I'm just trying to explain to you that- I absolutely get it. What do you think? So are you trying to say now that maybe if they said, okay, yes, there was a force, or there were some anomalies and they agree and all of that? Would that have been like, okay, yes. This is the judgment. Jonas, this is justice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What determines justice? It's facts. Yeah, absolutely. Devoid of emotions, really. Yeah. Really. One of the things that, one of the lines that I heard was because of course the petition, they replied each petition, you know, line by line and all that. And one of the things that they had said was in one of the petitions that Mr. Ubi had said that he won by majority in a lot of states and all that. So the question was, if you won by majority in the states, why do you want to rerun a election? I mean, that was the answer the Tribunal gave to that. I heard that line and I was just like, Okay, I mean, that makes sense. No, he can ask for a rerun because he's confident that he will win again. If he says he won, do you understand, if he asks for a rerun, the people that came up for him, they will come back to him. Because if he did that, because if it has been proven that he, that it was actually, there was actually some manipulation of some sort, if they were able to prove it, then in the case of they can't just, they can't just give it to you. Okay.  It depends on how the process is supposed to be. They can't just give it to you. So you could actually, one of the options could be a rerun for you to take the elections again and see if that truly would be the outcome eventually. So in my mind, right, in this election, this is based on my layman perspective. I don't think Artiku was present in this election, right? The real competition was between Bola Metinu and Peter Obi. But the challenge is, how he emerged second is what baffles me. You know why I say this? Because again, you take sampling, when you're collecting data, when they want to collect data for instance, from a pool of people, they don't just come and say, everybody must respond to that survey. So what they can do is that out of 10 people, say let's say five people responded, or let's say even six people responded. And the majority of that response, so they just use that as like a, what's it called an estimation and that's how they take on some of these data collation. Help correct me if I'm wrong, because none of that data space. That's what they do, a pool of data. And if you look at the clusters, right, where, you know, the ones we counted physically in the elections, right? So the competition on those ballot boxes, papers rather, was more between APC and Labour Party. You know, so how a PDP emerged second, this is me thinking that I still want to understand it. That's one. Number two, the structure of Nigeria is structured in a way that, or the system in Nigeria is structured in a way that, we're not allowed to ask questions. So when you say that go to court, you don't go to court. Nobody's going to ask literally, because, okay, now you write an exam, for instance. What stops me from applying to jam? I want to see my script. You gave me maybe 10 in English. You gave me two in Math and all of that. Please, can I recall my script and let us vet it? If they say here without a whatever, come out with clean hands, what's that proverb that they say? You don't fear anything.  You don't fear anything. So, but you see Nigeria is structured in a way that go to any parastata. If you begin to ask questions, you want to check what is happening, right? It is almost like it's a taboo for you to ask it. It's almost because we don't know that there's something wrong. There's always something to find. So because we are always there, now when somebody challenges something, they say, what do you think? Who do you think that you'll be? You know, and all of that. I've seen a lot of insults. I've seen a lot of things on social media. I just deliberately stayed away from this. But the reason we are having this conversation, I need Nigerians to manage their expectation. What anybody is seeing, be it good, be it bad, is a symptom of something. We have a fundamental accountability trust deficit, right? In Nigeria, it is a fundamental. And it cuts across all places.  Private public sector everywhere. We have that accountability issue. So what we are seeing is just a symptom of a larger problem. So when you were saying that you were expecting, so UK, if the court has said, oh, no, Volad Metinobu was not it. No, you know, for me, it wasn't that. I wasn't expecting the judicial system for the case to be taken differently. I did not even during the course of this thing until this judgment, I didn't even know the judgment was happening yesterday until I got to the office and everybody was interested in it. But mine is even how the judicial system goes about it in terms of, I did not even see how the petitions were tackled before they came to.  So they- No, the people that have been going to court, they've been monitoring. Yeah, they've been monitoring. That's the thing. So we are just made to react. We're talking about expectations, but that's what I'm saying. I wasn't expecting anything different because what will happen will happen. But there's still a reaction that has to happen in terms of you would just think, have certain expectations of either the judicial system in terms of how things, the process was being conducted and how even the public was being informed on what was going on. This thing has just been happening. And yes, we've been seeing this back and forth just in a lot of script writing without any summary as to, okay, is it, and that's why there have been a lot of speculations because nobody even knew the direction to which it was going. Do you get? So at the end of the day, now it has happened and everybody's just like, okay, for the people who expected it to happen like this, they'll take it like that. For the people who were expecting, okay, based on maybe what you've watched in movies on how a GJ cell- No, no, I'm telling you the honest truth. You don't understand. You're talking about expectations. We're talking about people who have never been in a, a court of law, but they know that this is the case. There is a case. You're watching Sweeter. It's just me.   So, we do a movie.  So you're like, what? No, it happened. I think it happened. It happened. No, I know. It happened. It happened. The people were going to court almost all the years. It was all in the news. No, so, so. To my next sense. Go ahead, Yola. Let me hear you. There's nothing to go ahead. No, but it's awesome. But I think a lot of people were expecting, well, if I go by social media vibe yesterday, a lot of people were expecting something different. No, they were expecting this. No. Really? Yeah. Some people were expecting something different. That's, you know, for some reason. I remember that I used. I used. So why I would say they were expecting something different. You were expecting something different because there were, you know, different parties, all the parties, whether label parties, APC, everybody had witnesses, yeah? So all of them were thrown out. That's the thing. So everybody, that's what I'm saying. We don't even understand. So let me get some of the processes. Let me say where my grouse is with this judicial system that's whatever I think that they did. You cannot see. You understand that some of those evidence. You can't throw away some. We can't throw away all. It is impossible for everything to be just thrown out. Like how do you do those things? So that's what I'm saying. Is that what you think? They had this, like, you know, you know what I'm saying this. Let's move far away from Nigeria to Oboebo, U.S. Where is Donald Trump today? Oh, we are going too far. No, where is he today?  It's a past precedent. You know, there are so many. Yeah. And not only that, because of what had happened at the Capitol building, the Senate building, they had video evidences. So you cannot say that people were not hurt. You cannot say that some of the, you understand that it was, you cannot say that there were no violence. At least social media has made life so easy. And social media had a couple of things. There are too many things. And that's why I have an issue, because for me, if some things stood, do you understand? If some things, some evidence stood, I'll say, okay, this evidence, but they said, you know, they give, what's the word? After the... The explanation of what? Like, you go to the entire process. You go to the whole court sessions and, you know, where you're either for or against, you're speaking about whatever the petition is. So you're talking to the defendants, you're talking to the witnesses and you're taking statements and all that. There's a process to that. When you collate all that information, there's some investigation that is done too, to ascertain the credibility of some of these things. So you know that some of these things, I'm sure that there were videos that were put up there, whether for PDP or for LP or for APC. Those things, you cannot tell me that all those evidences were just thrown out and the people were not, for one reason or the other, the people were not viable enough for you to use their evidence as in court for the case. So due to that, by the time you throw, I have 100, maybe 20 witnesses and you throw out like 15. And then you make the remaining five in consequential. Of course, at the end of the day, we're going to come up with the kind of verdict with God which is based on the fact that there were not enough evidences. Mr. Pitalbi, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party says that he rejected the presidential election petition court judgment that was delivered, that was delivered. And he has said that he's going to the Supreme Court. We'll take a break now. You want to say something when we come back and you say it? Why you come back from that break? Please. I want to hear what you are saying and I want to know how you are managing your expectations because trust me, I think it's important everybody manages their expectations in this country. Stay with us for a break. Okay. If you just tuned in, it's our ladies night out and we're discussing the post-tribunal judgment, right? And we're asking, how can Nigerians manage their expectations? Please let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversations and there's an SMS. All WhatsApp is right. 1-803-84663. You can also call the phone line it's now open. The number to call is<PHONE_NUMBER>9. That's the number to call. Remember to turn off the volume of whatever device it is you're watching us from. Oh yeah, I think we have a caller. All right, you're live. Okay. I think they're trying to connect. Okay. Joanna, you wanted to say something? No, you're waiting for the caller. No, not waiting for the caller. Say what you want to say. Okay, so I think what I want to say is actually based on what Angie said about, you know, going through the investigation of all the evidences and all. But again, I am mindful of the fact that law is very tricky. Court systems are very tricky. Let me take, oh, you're old adults. Youngest, old man, you're live. Oh, I love the mask use point.  Thank you. Thank you. No way. As a beer rider, let me come, did you hear what I'm doing? Ah, God. That's it. Nigel, I'm cruise. You know what, the story about all this thing is that we are gradually laying a foundation, you understand, for the future, whether positive or negative. Because everything that happens today, yesterday and tomorrow, we still be referenced to one day.  If you're not alive to be accountable to what you've done, people that lived after you with your name will account for it. And nothing, nobody forget, especially the internet.  In my village today, I will hear some of my elders saying things, referencing to a family of what happened even before Nigeria, the colonized Nigeria, in the so-called family. Now, that is how deep some things that we do today will hunt us in the future. And not after them doing anything they need to do. Just make sure that you are smart about what you do and think about the future. But for me, I am calm, I am good, I did not expect anything because the body language was so loud. So it's only somebody that is, that is whoever he is, that knows the body language. As a matter of fact, I was not expecting much yesterday and it came the way I predicted. So I thank God for life and I defeated those with the wrong the future because their name will need to account for it.  So basically, everybody should just trade with caution and keep your sanity intact. If you follow Nigeria like you go crazy, but the other man too, I know him because we have put on some of his issues in Anambra. Hey, they don't buy market. It will be, he never gives up. Let's just see how it goes. Thank you very much. He's actually a very, very, what's the word? Resolute person. Very consistent. So they two, two don't buy market, you know. Yeah, Jella, you were saying that the evidence is that. Well, I mean, now it's, again, you can have all these evidences, but when the side that presented the evidences, were they able to do justice to presenting it well? To defend? No, no, no. You know, say not the small people did that, see. See, I have seen cases where you would think that are please for the love of the Almighty. This thing is evidence now. And then they come up with one loophole and then you ask yourself. That's what I'm saying. They will always be a loophole. That's why you need to understand that this thing, hey, let me take Loma for a bit, have your seat. Loma your life. Yeah, thank you, sir. Good evening. See, I want to let go through one thing. Just like the young people of Madras say, the judiciary has told us this, that was one of the people very soon.  You that committed a threat was free. They have set example for us. I'm telling you. So now let me just tell us one particular thing in this country, what we don't know. And because of politics, people will start our constitution upside down. I'm telling you, very soon, our government will start fighting. Because we don't have an, we don't have police. We don't have a police, all the astronauts with this politician. How? Which once you make noise, before you know it, they will use it on you. Tell me, how can people come out and vote? And to this day, who's not somebody who, perhaps, who was thought to face the position of animal state? Now again, have done the same thing, without standing their ground, calling a Swedish state. Why can't we put on a list from Kenya? Why can't we put on a list from Malawi? You see, they are judiciary. And they can say that they cannot destroy their constitution, despite unfortunately. I am using this opportunity to turn Nigeria. The way we will manage it, not only with the way I do, what I do is that, I remember our judiciary, does not stand on their ground. I told people around me, don't expect anything. Don't expect so much judiciary way of doing things.  So I'm using this opportunity to turn Nigeria, manage your life where, hopefully, we're one day, all of them who stand before the seat of throne of message. And answer what they have done. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you. You said today with the limbo that I'm gonna talk. I don't even have anything to say. When we say that karma or anything, they don't think of it like that. They don't, honestly. But it does. See, so let me explain. I don't know how to explain this thing, right? For us to expect anything different in this country, I feel like, it means you're not being 100% realistic with yourself. Gigi, you know what I'm saying? This conversation around the decision and all of that was made the results were announced. Genocide. So I don't know how we expect anything different.  That's why if you do not have a system, right, that checksmate, do you get what I'm saying? It will be difficult. So as far as I'm concerned, let us just accept what has happened. Everybody face your work. Because me, I'm not interested in anything. That's why I did not monitor it. But I think we have a caller. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Susan. Hello. Is that your name is? Hello. Suleiman? Yes. Okay, go ahead, please. Okay, number one. Both the three parties, Glenpoe party, PDB and the OPA. They are the world's petitions. World's petitions. They are the world's petitions. Oh, sorry. I can't hear you. Can you call back? Because the line is breaking. We can't hear you. Sorry. It's not clear. Yeah, it's not clear. It's very muffled. But I think I heard the part. I think it's the worst that all the parties are the world's presidential candidate. Yeah, I think something like that. It's literally his opinion. It's a personal opinion. It's a personal opinion. You know, honestly, so part of managing expectations, what I actually want also to let Nigerians know, I've said this several times, we do not need a messiah in this country. Messiah, whatever, cannot solve all the problems that we have. We have to understand that our problem is collective and no one human being, mark my word, not one single human being can solve Nigeria's problem. Nigerians have to say that they are ready because if you see zero corruption, would you be able to accept it? Exactly.  We try to cut corners. So all the things that we're complaining about, corruption and all of that thing, if we see a place that has zero tolerance, like zero tolerance or corruption, would we be able to survive? So until we are ready for that, it's not gonna happen. So all these underwears, that's what I say, manage your expectations. Stop all this drama around, saying that, hey, this is the person, this is the candidate that will save Nigeria from the inaugural happen. Nigeria, the problem of Nigeria is bigger than one human being. Right? So we agree 100% that we need the right people in power, but at the same time, we also need to start to think strategically of how to solve the problem.  Nobody should see you coming in this country, because once this politician see you coming, they will shut it down. They must not know your strategy. You must be able to dine and whine with the devil and the devil will not know what you are up to. Right? And suppose just this conversation around, no, look at President Buhari, I fell for it flat. I enter, I campaign. In fact, there's nothing I did not do. Campaign and everything, because guess what, I was fooled. And that's why this particular election, I was not fooled by no promises. You know, I was fooled by the idea that he was anti-corruption.  This was the person we needed to save Nigeria. Where did that land us? Look at all the drama happening around the MFLA and all the other people, all the monies that, like I had 470 billion. I say 4, not million, 470 billion, yay! Do you know what I'm saying? So this is supposed to be a government that was zero corruption, the promise. And yet, under his own leadership, we've experienced the worst kind of corruption ever. So that's why I'm saying that Nigeria's problem is bigger than one human being. So when somebody comes and says that this is, the challenge is this, you know what will happen? I absolutely agree. And then I said, let us just understand that the problem starts with you and I saying to ourselves, if I'm caught, the other day I was caught by road safety. They stopped me, they asked me for my driver's license. I gave them, they asked me for everything. The next thing the man asked me for was fire extinguisher. I said I don't have it because I knew I'd emptied the trunk of the car. There was no fire, maybe I'd moved it to the other car. So I didn't have it with me. He said, there's no fire extinguisher. I said, okay, yes, no problem. What's the situation? What do we do? And he asked to write me a ticket. I said, no problem. He was literally shocked because I didn't even argue with him. You know, I have to write you a ticket. He said it like five times. I said, no problem. I heard you said, just bring the ticket.  He was unfounded. Because I didn't even, I didn't come down from my car. I didn't go down and say, oh God, please now this. I was, I said, what's the worst case scenario? Even if they say I should go and bring one billion. I will look for the money and pay. It's not fire extinguisher.  So when they gave me the ticket, the lady came back again and said, she wants to write the ticket. I said, yes ma'am, I'm waiting for the ticket. Like literally, they were shocked. This one just got back. Not beyond that one. They just got back.  It's not a problem.  They know that I brought my ticket. I'm already. They know that they can't cut corners.  So when they wrote the thing, they didn't even write the amount. I didn't even know how much it was. So I didn't call someone that, I know that is the road safety person. You know, they called and said, oh, that it was maybe three, five or something. It is three, five. No problem. You know, how do I pay? They said, no, I have to go to do. I said, okay. You know what I said? Don't worry that they can pay and everything and process the receipt and people. And they brought it. And now when I said before, please, I don't want to, I said, please help me get fire extinguisher and the sea caution. Because there was no science, there was no sea caution. So when I went to go and collect it, then I'm not asking for another tip. I went there, I presented it. Oh, have you, what was your offense, ma'am? I said, my offense was that I didn't have fire extinguisher. Okay, have you put it now? I said, yes, everything is in the coyotes. They said, no, no problem. They gave me back my driver's license. The point I'm trying to make with this story is that Nigeria's must be ready.  If you are caught violating laws, you paid the consequences. Once we start to like read ourselves of that drama of edge or edge or edge, you understand? If you are caught, just go and pay. Don't do too much drama. Even the law enforcement agencies, by then says they will change because they will not be catching you anymore. They will be no me because everybody has come for me. But that mindset has to come from us. We need to change our mindset to say we are ready.  If we see zero corruption, even we two, we are ready. I think that in my opinion, I think that zero corruption is going too far because there's a lot of corruption. So it's going from a lot of corruption to zero. It's a heart attack. But what I get you're trying to say is that it's time for us to hold ourselves accountable first. So start watching what you do. Start holding yourself accountable. When you do have those experiences, like I've had that experience before.  I'm going back to the island. So I'll drop the money with you. I'll come back tomorrow the next time I'm on the mainland and I'll come and get my ticket. The guy was surprised. And I called him like three, two days later and I was like, I'm here to collect. They were looking at me like, I'm like, yeah, I need my ticket. I paid to you guys. So for some reason, if I ever need to present this, I want to have the original and I want to be sure that you paid. I didn't give them. They asked me for the money. I gave them and I came back. I told them I was going to come back. So when I came back, when I called and I said I was on my way.  So the major thing is for us to become, start becoming accountable. When you do things, be careful.   I had to be conscious about that to an extent. And that is where the accountability starts from. I haven't been in my car, in all my car. So you want clean air. Stop polluting the air. Service your car. Drive, if your car is too old, do away with it and change it to another one.  Do something else.  Help the environment if you're interested in the environment. Help. Be the change you want to see. You understand, be the change you want to see. Start holding yourself accountable. I know that we're not. I'm not 100%. But the fact that the moment we start even that process, the next person sees it. Someone else is learning. Someone else decides, oh, this is how she knows. I mean, I have bad character. I'm not perfect. No. But I'm saying that if we... In the interest of nature and people. Thank you for the collective good of people, right? Let's stop all this drama. Because Nigeria's was so quick to say, oh, this is the devil.  It's not one person that corrupts Nigeria. No, no. It is everybody. We forget that three. In fact, the truth is, leaders are a product of their followers. If you have bad followers, you have bad leaders. Wait, did we have this? We are not aliens. They are from us. So exactly. So we have a part to play. A lot, in fact. A lot. Every day we do, we have to wake up to say, okay, you know what? I need to do better. I need to be... Absolutely. In fact. And you know, like literally, right? Let's even start with this one that I've described. All the road management agencies, LASMA, Road Safety, all of them.  As long as you did not deliberately go out of your way to break the law. That's when you... Because that's when you ride. So for instance, me going to go and take a one-way, I'll have to ride my way out of that one.   Please, by all means, pay that fine. And move on.  Because you see, until we start to say to these guys that we are ready to accept the consequences of our actions, right? Then we're sending a very strong message. Let us just plan, say, the next four years in Nigeria that every single Nigerian begins to say that, you know what? For anything that I do, any offense or whatever, if I need to do this, I would do it right. I would be upright. I would not trash things out of the car. I would make sure that I become a responsible citizen. Just the weights. Things will change. But the time you get to the next cycle of elections, the atmosphere would have changed. So literally, if we want to see change, it is that. And that's why, when I saw this judgment in the tribunal, all the drama that is happening on social media, I said, please, let us all just manage our expectations. Because if it is for the system that we have in Nigeria, nothing good can come out of this system as it is. Some things must deliberately with intentionality be changed or tweaked before we can see any change. So if those things have not been put in place, you cannot see anything else. You cannot expect anything. They say insanity is the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So let us pass in our final comments. We need to change you want to see. Absolutely. Well, I don't think there's anything to say other than that. And I feel like we should just move on. Move on from this. Learn the lessons to be learned. It is for the different parties. Next time you have a petition, ensure that you have the right case. Because sometimes you lose cases. Also, this is going to the different parties. Sometimes you lose cases based on the fact that you're just taking lightly. Because to our next stance, if the court is saying, I don't think so, NJ, I beg to disagree. I'm not saying that that is the case. No, you know, I beg to disagree. I want to just like nip that thing. You know why I say that? People that went to this tribe, you know, they're no small lawyers.  They're senior advocates of Nigeria, of Nigeria. They are sons. Have you seen the thorough work that even smaller than me, do you understand? Do you see the thorough work that they put? We have a faulty judiciary system.  And this is my opinion. I don't know about any other person. Because I dread anything that takes me to police station, to hospital, to court in Nigeria. You see these three places? I dread it. Anything that will take me there, I just run away from it.  The odds are against anybody that decides that they want to stand upright and all of that.  Because at the end of the day, these lawyers are very funny. They'll tell you that the interpretation of the law is left for the whatever.  They don't mean the same man said, say now who, now who do grab grab pass, because that's how it's like a jungle system. Who, who, who, whoever makes the loudest noise? Yeah, it makes the loudest noise, whoever can read the most, whoever has more power, whoever has more influence, it now becomes a thing. And that is, we are supposed to get to the point where we are over that. Absolutely. We need to get to that point where we are over that. Over it. That does not help. Yeah. The collective. Just go above all of these things, rise above it and just go and become a lot more strategic. Whatever it is you want to do. On that note, we are shouting in my ear, pull the rope, I'm not going to pull this. How do you know pull this? 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