Nigeria's labor unions call for an indefinite strike action over cost of leaving and Nigeria is ranked sixth in the world for organized crime and this is Plus Politics. I am Mary Annacol. The Nigerian Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria have resolved to ground activities nationwide from October 3, 2023 following what the labor unions tagged as a failure of government to successfully implement policies to elevate the sufferings of Nigerians following a removal of subsidy on premium motor spirit. The NLC and the TUC are asking for wage awards implementation of palliatives, tax exemptions, allowances to public sector workers and a review of the minimum wage. The NLC had previously issued a 21-day ultimatum which ended last week with complaints that none of the demands put before the federal government had been addressed and so the unions have called for a strike which will begin on October 3 and joining us to discuss this is Dikbar Lyoko. He is the National Secretary of the New Nigeria People's Party. Also joining us is Francis Chillaka. He is a political analyst and a social commentator. Thank you so much gentlemen for joining us and good evening. Great. I'm going to start with you Mr Lyoko. You have been a journalist for a long time and you've obviously worked as someone in the public sector before you decided to go private. Many people have said that labor going on this strike may not necessarily force the hand of government.  So should Nigerians really be holding their breath for this strike? All right let me direct the question to you Francis while we try to get Mr Dikbar Lyoko back. Well well well yes it's just as long as I do but I'll tell you that it's a necessity in the sense that this government has not carried the labor along in everything it's doing and if you noticed if you have observed labor has been coming out to tell Nigerians the outcome of the process of the meetings they've been holding and you know the steps they are taking to be able to get government to do something because you know nothing seems to be working, nothing seems to be going in the right direction that it should go. So I think that yes I am in support of labor going on strike because I think in you know that's the only language that government across the world understands you know to be able to listen to the people and also take steps to add value to the lives of the people. The issue here is a trust deficit also we see that Nigerians have not necessarily trusted labor over the years many have blamed labor for being selfish labor leaders generally many have said they've become very political and not necessarily fighting for the people what are your thoughts? Well what has played out over time where you see when when labor leaders begin to get involved in politics it's expected that interest will be involved and it's expected that in the in the cost of that interest they end up betraying the people they should also are trying to be protected so over time we've seen labor leaders getting so much involved in politics even contesting for elections and you know each time people expect that labor should come out and be able to tell government you know tell truth to power we found that there has been compromises here and there that is why Nigerians are not really really moved Nigerians are not really really happy but you know I think that we seem to be having a labor that has they're not only parking but they seem to have what it takes to to buy it. Let me come back to you Mr. Layaku the same question that I asked Francis Chilaka for someone who's worked in the public sector now in the private sector and then of course for someone who's experiencing the downturn that economy is facing what effect will this strike action by labor you know what effects will it make in terms of bettering the lots of people because of course labor is fighting for the public sector but what happens to the general public? Mr. Layaku can you hear me? Mr. Layaku can you hear me? I think that you are muted you need to unmute yourself please please unmute yourself so we can hear you. Mr. Layaku can you hear me now? All right let's move away unfortunately we're having issues with Dipo Layaku's audio there Francis now that labor has given October 3rd and we're hearing that we all have to stock our houses with all that we need while this strike action happens because again all the affiliate unions are going to be joining this strike action even though many are also skeptical that they've not necessarily heard from these affiliate unions you know voicing their support for this particular strike but again with the cost of leaving and the crisis that we're facing how are many people going to survive because some people leave daily and many people might not have the bulk money to stock their homes with food I mean the average Nigerian right now is almost leaving from hand to mouth. Well you know there is when we say how will people survive we should actually be asking are people really surviving right now in Nigeria you know sadly the answer is no you and I you know right now we know that diesel is us it's gone up to a thousand plus gas is for insert you know petrol well we know the cost how many people are putting their cars on the world I think I would say this and that is why I blame the government because you you don't you don't say subsidy is gone knowing the fact that the lives of millions of Nigerians depend you know that subsidy now you say subsidy is gone and then you're talking about sharing palliatives as if when the concentration camp you're sharing with bag of rice amongst 12 10 people and all of that and then you know so these are these these are things that are already affecting Nigerians so Nigerians are not happy Nigerians are not they're not satisfied Nigerians are not saying government we want you to give us palliatives no Nigerians are saying create an opening environment for us to survive that is all the Nigerian people are asking for so if labor is going to go on strike to be able to you know not some sense into government then you know everybody should you know accept it and be ready for the outcome of it. Let's talk about the legality of this strike action we know that before the previous there was a strike action that labor was supposed to embark on but the federal government had also taken a court order that had directed that labor stay you know stay action will the will labor not be seen excuse me will labor not be seen as violating a court order by proceeding on this strike action. Well it is it is the fundamental right of labor and fundamental right of Nigerians to go on strike the government is going to cut and trying to stop strike is just you know laying carton miles with labor and in the real sense of it you know if you look at it how many court judgments has you know the former government and this government obeyed so it is not just for the people and for labor to obey a court order the government also must show good will in obeying court orders so as far as I'm concerned if there's going to be a court order and then it means that the judges to who's going to judge who's going to give the court or who's going to give that judgment is benefiting from you know what is going on in this country right now because I believe that any right thinking in Nigeria is going through a lot would support an action that will make government to think as if there's no box. Mr. Laik I think that we've gotten your audio back now we know that daily in the past few days if not months Nigerians have been subjected to the Hashikan realities where the inflation rate is nearing about 30 percent where a dollar sold above 1000 Naira where the per capita income has depreciated I mean the list is endless many families I hear are withdrawing the awards from schools because they're unable to pay their school fees and this government keeps giving us promises many have also said that oh well the the president is just he's just been a hundred and something days in office he cannot perform magic show your take with me on how bad things are and what how soon we can get out of this can you hear me now yes I can okay yes how are you good good good evening hello yes I can hear you go ahead sir okay to say that Nigeria's are passes through a very tough time is an understatement things are very very tough for Nigerians or the palliative measure that the government said they have introduced since about two months ago I don't think we are the way the suffering of people for example look at people going to the office is transportation I mean the part of transportation it has gone up for more than by about 200 percent people don't have their own cars so for the vehicle now people have to do a lot of questions so things are already tough on Nigerians that's why a lot of people still believe that so-called removal of subsidy as at that time was very very premature because now the government is in a dilemma are we going to continue paying subsidy because they said they are going to subject the price of well to factors what do you call it economic factors now for example you mentioned the case of dollars it's about one thousand Nigerians as at the time petrol was put at six thousand seventeen thousand nara per liter maybe dollar was about 750 so it's like the government got it wrong right from the very beginning I I sympathize with labour because except we want to deceive ourselves every strike action by labour is always accompanied by more hardship for the people this location business will be less located a lot of hardship but this is like a label is now from between the devil and the pussy do we go on this track or shouldn't we yes they have called this try for a comeback on I know that things will be more difficult for Nigeria but I think on the back of the government government should do more maybe there's enough for them to review this what they call the withdrawal of subsidy I think there's some of us believe that government needs to put attention in place if not this price of where we continue to go off as long as the value of nara continues to depreciate so the problem now is that the government have the money to continue paying subsidy I think what the government should do in the first chance to establish whether there's that amount that should be paid for subsidy some of us believe that there's a lot of corruption that have been embedded into this so-called subsidy first of all we need to determine the number of barriers that we are using in a day as a country not talking about the one we are supporting illegally then we need to if possible cut some of the costs that allow the cost of landing costs and stuff like that so that let us get the normal price off if well before we know what we are paying a subsidy because I am one of those who would have believed that this subsidy payment is brought with a lot of corruption so there's enough for us to establish number number of barriers we are using there's no need for us to look at costs from when the crude oil is being shipped out of the country until it now come back in form of a fine product there's no need for us to get the normal cost because this if we are able to get the normal cost we will discover that the cost of petroleum product as well if well will not be as high as we are having it today and then we'll be able to reduce the subsidy we think we are having that is the most important thing because the government can not be paying seven trillion naira for to make this subsidy it is not allowed it is not feasible but that is the correct subsidy we are paying that we should be paying then we cannot be talking about whether to withdraw it or not and that is the important thing but for strike action and the hardship is going to bring on the people that one is not a secret it is definitely going to play a big but are the people not subjected to hardship already there's still a lot of people working long distance because they don't have transport or they can't afford the cost of transportation a lot of people that have cars now have visitors at home because they can't afford the cost of fuel so the hardship is already there we are looking at do we continue with this hardship or we compound it or we look at the way that's why it is the full duty of the government in this wise to work on this in this project not labor not strike on anything the government should try to put itself in the shoes of nitrous and that's not it is not this idea of sending we will rise that some of them are spoiled because some of the states they should not derive their spoils of giving them one thousand two thousand this will not alleviate suffering this one can not even be paid attention government needs to put themselves in the shoes of that period that is important thank you okay let's talk about since we're on the subsidy issue Nigerians were made to believe that with the dangota refinery refinery coming on stream it would ameliorate the sufferings in terms of how much we pay for premium motor spirits also we've heard that the NNPC has been sending our crude out of the country as payment for loans taken and and dangota refinery is having to import crude from outside of the country and by next week they're going to take they're going to receive the very first tranche of that crude that they're importing into the country does this not make a mess of this whole subsidy situation again like I asked earlier on is there really an end in sight for Nigerians and we're going to have to wait another eight years to address this issue of subsidy or even because again Nigeria depends on this oil for its foreign foreign exchange and if the naira to a dollar is a thousand naira asset today where is the hope mr laia yes it was for you sir yes it is still very very unfortunate that uh all about 50 years after Nigeria as a country at the mountain either for that first that's the first time in the economy I let us give credit to the last administration that tried to diversify the economy using agriculture but unfortunately the activities of bandits kidnappers and stuff are not helping matters especially when farmers can could no more go to farm freely and because of the fear of kidnappers or bandits so that is one aspect that we need to talk about that is the idea of the idea of security now there should be other means of what we call diversify the economy so that we don't rely only on wealth that is why we're having issue with the issue of foreign exchange and that is where the going to the advanced form people are now calling off how do we tap into AI that's artificial intelligence which could love cash behavior to um get out there for a means of a category in a state and again let us use you at the let us take the example of the customs in case some people believe and I think I have everything to believe that too that if we're able to look in the area of tax collection that is blocking the loopholes that it is possible for Nigeria to generate even more from sorry from a good way that is another area that is intentional trade I thought there is a need for us to look into the issue of collection which I think is first opportunity we are talking about let us focus on foreign trade let us look at what customs is generating we can generate the customs in other area through which we can generate foreign exchange we also have a mass a day we have MPE day so the problem is how do we tackle corruption to make sure that what is expected to go to the government actually gets there instead of getting implanted in the pockets of individuals that will actually change in the system so it is without uh belibbering the point I think what is very very important is let us try to stop the issue of corruption because as long as we continue to depend solely on good for our foreign exchange the dollar or the value of the Naira will continue to depreciate against Naira especially when our utility over there let's say our energy system has not been revamped so that it will match we will have enough for productivity that's in that area because unfortunately for us most of the things we are consuming consuming are foreign goods that means our productivity is very low and where we have productivity you have the quality that is very very low unfortunately you have the cost even in some cases being higher than what comes in from outside so except we have a government that is very very serious to look into the eye of some people and say you know this thing can not continue what we call business on usual so these are the areas the government needs to take a look into how do we elevate our our our our tax collection because there are a lot of so many loopholes okay where we should have be accruing to the government ended up being accruing to the pockets of individuals to look at tax to look at the foreign trade which is very very key actually we were talking about foreign exchange and like i said earlier we look about the area of artificial intelligence how do we tap into the resources into the resources of services services and etc we will not depend solely on kudo and when the price drops like here and so far when the price goes up like here and so far because we are not the one determining the fate of the country that is one of the things that we need to look into critically okay because and again i want to just like an advice to the level movement the government may should think beyond just coming together as a level movement to agitate for better salary or let me say better working on your living standard they should also be looking at productivity what are they bringing to the table okay if the government is feeling in this area why can't they say okay why don't you do it this way how foreign alternatives they shouldn't just see themselves bring militants every time that's all right i mean let it as a president of an nlc i'm not saying that maybe let me thank them but they shouldn't see the question of president of nlc or president of what you see as we go bring there to organize strike okay this total messed up we should try to minimize this idea of strike and stuff like that all right i don't even try to so probably why don't you do it this way okay let me go back to fancies let me go back to fancies um fancies still talking about mr president and fighting corruption this is a question that continuously is raised if with the body language of mr president and again many people were waiting honestly to see the people who would make mr president's list of members of the national executive council some would say that defeat that there are a few impressive appointments on that list but with the number of people and the caliber of people who make up mr president's cabinet what is the guarantee that mr president can plug loopholes and fight corruption earnestly well um you know when we talk about corruption in this country um it's something that sometimes i ask myself maybe we should stop using um the bible or using the Quran for people to swear when they want to become minister or whatever maybe we should start using our deities for people to swear with it i think that's as well we should start from the bible and the Quran has not helped us because the same people who swear with the bible and the Quran are the same people who have continued to embezzle and continue to sleep with corruption um you you you talked about nmpc and um you also talked about dangling refinery i don't understand is it not uh is it not sad is it not shameful but you know we're talking about uh a private sector refinery when we have four refineries all by all by the Nigerian people that they have failed to face and then nmpc as we know has become uh a private company so i do not understand why it is still in charge of the crude it's still the one that decides and it's still the one taking out goods to sell this is part of the corruption we're talking about you do not allow a private entity to become so powerful as it's and begins to run parallel as a as a public entity we need to know if nmpc is owned by individuals who are this individuals what is the state of the Nigerian state in in the current nmpc so this corruption we're talking about starts from there we also heard mr president when he was talking about um subsidy is gone he talked about the fact that some people have been benefiting from the subsidy who are these people are they so sacred are they so powerful are they highly placed and nobody can call them out we need to know who and who is benefited from this subsidy who and who has benefited in the past from this subsidy and they brought to book maybe that is where the government will suffice to corruption but if you're doing all this and you're not looking at the call problem the call issues has led to this state then you cannot find a solution you do not kill cancer by cutting it off you kill cancer by going to the woods to remove pain and this is what this government is not doing okay finally gentleman if i let you both go um with what we have on the ground because we there seems to be a lot that um as attributed to mr president's travels and his recent visit to india the un general assembly trade relations being boosted etc etc how soon do we see nigeria coming out of this rot many would attribute the situation that we're facing economically to the previous administration and all of the terrible policies that have been made but then the national union of local government employees norgay recently have blamed president tinuble and his policies um for hurting the avid nigerian and what are your thoughts on this in closing i'll start with you with you mr laiko and then of course francis will wrap it up in one minute so i'm saying that many people have blamed former president bahari for the situation of things how bad the economy is and that he was inherited by president tinuble although the norge is is blaming president tinuble um for the hash you know political rather economic policies that he has which is causing nigeria this problem and i'm saying do you see an end in sight well that they inherited the bad economic because he told us you know his speeches that you know in one of his statements that that he asked for the job not that we went to his house to go and beg him so i don't think that he inherited the bad economic should not be understood because interestingly and fortunately for him uh he inherited he inherited the government from the same apc and i think uh the government should have been pursuing the manifestos of the party so i think what he does means is that the people should realize that being the president of nigeria is not just a party it is a call to service it is a call to see those business and you know the elections were held on the 25th of february by 28th through march first these laws have been announced the winner has been declared so i think the president has enough time enough room to study this institution and then come up with a solution to some of the problems that are that he inherited from supposedly so i think it does a matter of uh gardening his minds that they always say and then getting the best hands to work with him because uh nadirans will not want to listen to us okay unfortunately if i may give you my my own opinion i think he seems to have paid from the very beginning because uh if nadirans were buying fuel around the may at 195 and they were growing mr like i think we lost that connection with you francis 17 uh nadirans are definitely going through a lot so what the president needs to do is to redouble his efforts if he needs to understand if he has been working 21 hours in the day he needs to start working but it's quite what's needed okay i think i can do it for him because nadirans do want to listen to us you measure the success of this program we have to go mr liago i gave you just one minute to to give me your quick analysis so i'm going to let francis just wrap up because we have to go now francis let's say you know when when when a child feels some exam you have an opportunity to redo their exam uh the president has from day one has failed he needs to go back to the drawing board he needs to understand that like he said unfortunately he has kept saying that he's going to continue from where the last administration stopped and you know i find it whether i'm very very uh unbelievable that neither mr president or his deputy has come up openly to say that you know the last administration did wrong they need to we need to admit those wrongs in order to move forward so mr president needs to go back to the drawing board a lot has gone wrong a lot of his policies are not working and he needs to understand that nigeria is not legal state okay all right uh digwao laio koo is the spokesperson for the new nigeria people's party and francis chilaca is a political analyst and a social commentator thank you so much gentlemen for being part of the conversation we appreciate it thank you all right all right well we'll take a quick break when we return let's talk about the fact that nigeria is on the sixth position uh in the world index for organized crime stay with us


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One of the things we noticed at Interpol is greater collecting information and intelligence. One of the things we noticed there was a lack of communication within our industry, within the chemical security industry and a lot of that was because the different partners wasn't joined up. So one of the things we wanted to do was to try to ensure that we have much better communication. So we decided to hold a congress which involved every organization, every partner within the industry. So we looked at your enforcement, we looked at academia, we looked at industry, we looked at international organizations to ensure that as much as possible we could get these people together and we could talk and try and identify where the current gaps are within the chemical security industry and how we can plan to mitigate and communicate better to mitigate the threat. This congress has been a massive success. One of the highlights has been the number of different people that's attended from different agencies. That was a real, real way to try and make sure we had the right people in the room talking about the right subjects. So we looked very carefully at the agenda and we wanted to make sure that it was the actual threat level, the identification of the threat, how we can better respond to it and what is the way forward. So the highlight is that at the end of this congress we have a concrete plan of the way forward to better assist the chemical security industry, to better assist and safeguard members of the public.


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What was the last said news or Dan for short? My name is Rob. They just like the thumbnail and title suggests we're going to take a look at This rally that we just experienced for the last two days Does it have legs and can it continue in the december? We're also going to take a look at uh, or what I like to say that my philosophy has some change and everybody's a genius Then we'll talk about elections as far as midterms that are coming up here in the united states And how that could affect the market and lastly take a look at some positive news As I call it build a bear and that is the cash app So first things first this uh came across deaths was pretty interesting and it took a look at a santa claus rally What i'm taking a look at here Is there was a video and this is uh, dr. Yardini from Yardini research And he's talking to msnbc or cnbc about how this rally that we're having right now could extend Into to uh december and why but first the question I want to ask is who is dr. Yardini? Why should we listen to this gentleman? Well, here's his biography dr. Yardini is the president of Yardini research He was the chief investment strategist of oak associate's provisional equity group in deuce banks u.s Equities division in new york city also chief economist of cj. Lawrence prudence box securities at ef hudden taught at columbia university's graduate school business and also Was an economist with the federal reserve bank of new york and held positions at the federal reserve board of governors and the u.s Treasury department in washington dc so the things he's going to talk about here as to the relevance of why this could potentially be a Rally that extends in december does have some merits. Just take a listen Well, I think we're in a trading range from the june low 3666 we did recently drop below that but I think We're just kind of making about another bottom here right around that level and then in the summer we went from All the way up to 43 oh five in august 16th Obviously still well below The record high we had at the beginning of the year, but I think we're in that kind of range And I think that we're going to get another santa claus rally and santa claus rallies are particularly Predictable and strong As a result of midterm elections and it almost really doesn't matter Whether the which way the house and the senate go the midterm elections No matter what have a tendency to be very bullish in the santa claus rally just continues Right for the next three six twelve months I'll give you the data if you want it, but I don't know if you want me to throw data at you This late this late in the afternoon on the friday Well, I mean you're talking about a santa claus rally, but what if it's too icy and dicey because of the fed Right and rates are going to remain high the fed's going to remain hawkish And stocks aren't going to be able to rally nearly the amount that you suggest they might be able to Well scott, I listened in to your show earlier and I heard you mentioned something about the possibility That the market might already be discounting all that I think at this point the market knows they're going to do 75 basis points In early november and now only that the market's confused about whether it's going to be 75 or 50 basis points in december I thought it was going to be 275s one after the other but now the fed's throwing some Uncertainty about that. I think what the market's looking for is for a pause. I don't think they're looking for a pivot They're looking for a pause the fed's been awfully aggressive 300 basis points so far since march another 75 basis points in there early november And I think they will go ahead with another 75 basis points in december But I think the market knows all that and I think the market as we saw today got a lift from the idea that it might be Only 50 basis points and then there might be a pause for a while Now the economy is doing pretty well under the circumstances when all all things considered I think one of the reasons it's doing so well is because the strong dollar Looks like it should be weighing on the economy But the dollar is strong because money is absolutely pouring in to our capital market So over 1.6 trillion dollars 1.6 trillion dollars came into the Uh Into our markets from from overseas on balance over the 12 months And that's through august and the strong dollar is telling me money is still coming in And that's a big positive for our economy So there's a lot to unpack there with what dr. Dini said So the first thing we want to take a look at is how everything did as far as midterms And of course we talked with us numerous times in the channel But uh, yes here in the us as far as midterms We take a look at uh, who is going to win congress Who is going to take control of senate or the house of representatives? We can see that all the way back in the 60s Uh, as you see right here in the middle frame before the midterm the s&p 500 price Usually it's down negative 17 percent of 60s negative 14 74 negative 31 percent That was right before the great recession almost the depression And only one that was really good was uh, ronald reagan 20 percent or so and then uh, now we're here We are joe videnay of 20 percent But if we can just take a look at the averages and we see right here that the s&p 500 price uh after three months within three months After the midterm elections dr. Dini is right the midterm average Is you're looking at negative one percent on the average of before and then a positive seven percent Then in six months a positive 15 and then in up to a year a positive 16 percent So that's a positive and we can see that could potentially play a factor Also the thing we talked about a the u.s. Dollar index the dixie and the strength of the dollar And actually it's going down a little bit as we can see right here over the last day We were we topped out at I think around 114 or so 112 113.31. Yeah roughly and now here we are coming down but as he talks about uh trillions or 1.4 trillion Uh capital is flowing into and another thing that he didn't mention but I've heard someplace else is that One of the reasons that a potential rally is going on in traditional markets and in crypto right now is The treasury rate are the 10 year treasury yields And we can take a look at uh, what's happening with just the 10 year We can break it down by one month And three months and you can't really see it too much But the treasury notes treasury bills t bills notes You can see right here that uh, they've actually they've been going up for a while Which means that hey if you want a uh, a little bit of stability We put it over here and then we'll give you 4 percent. It's been very flat Not beforehand, but you can just see right here at the apex 4.25 for the three month now. It's not a 4.25. Also Take a look at the six month Same thing we had peaked out around 4.25 an hour down to 4.1 Which is to to me really not a big deal But to economists and people who really take a look at the treasury rates This could be something huge and even the even the one year very hard to see But we top that at 4.25 an hour 4.1 So what that means is that maybe there's a little bit more stability coming down the pipe just like with dr Yachter your guinea said when he talked about hey There's a lot of things that are going on But maybe the fed isn't not pivoting but slowing down and because of that That could potentially lead to what he called that Santa Claus rally now How does that take a look as far as what's going on in the traditional markets? Not too great honestly today, uh, the nasdaq or excuse me the uh, yeah nasdaq is down We went from 11,193 Oh, it had 11,000 if we take a look at the five day Still down one month up a little bit six months And of course one year still down But there was a little bit of a Splite rally also smp 500 again the same thing one day five day looking pretty good one month Okay, six month not so great and then one year The big question though is well, how does that work for for a crypto and digital assets? Well, our market is doing pretty good and last uh, 24 hours We're at 3.7 up at 3.6.2 But you can see a little bit of a decline the last hour or you are in the red For some parts, but we're still above the one trillion market cap So when he talks about these rallies, of course, we're going to go up and down We could see a little bit of rally here and there, but this is again a bear market rally Do not confuse this with all we're going to go to the moon Very soon. It's just not how it works But there's a thing that we could take a look at as to why we are doing so well And one of those is liquidations and shorts and this is just an example I would like to leave this here Hopefully this can burn into your brain But you know when everybody talk about everybody goes in a certain direction And then everybody starts to follow up It only takes a little bit of effort to really go in the reverse opposite way and make a ton of money So right now the people that are going long, there's a short squeeze going on And right now we've the shorts They've lost over Oh about 1.3 1.4 billion dollars in the last 24 hours So if you're in a short position, it probably would have made sense So a couple of days ago, you might have said, well, this is where the things are going But in reality, that's not what it is And then also the thing that I always take a look at is Does this this ride that we have going on, does it have any legs? What is the volume going on? There's a great website called nomics.com The link in the description And you can separate or you can filter everything as far as the volume percentage and the volume numbers Finance is by far the biggest So was there a lot of volume? Well, in the last 24 hours, we can see that was 11 billion While we take a look at a week Pretty high One month, about an average One year, mostly about an average So it wasn't a low type of situation It actually had a little bit of merit to what happened So we take a look also at besides finance The volume here is, let me separate this OK X 22 billion dollars in the last 24 hours So let's take a look at a day One week, all right What was that, 19 billion dollars? One month, all right One year And we can see that pretty much an average of one of the peaks Not a low volume pump So there is something to be said about that And then also let's take a look at FTX One day, we're looking at almost three billion dollars One week 15 billion as far as on October 24th Ah, and then one month, one year We can see it's a little bit low But not too bad So does this leg have a little bit of pump? Sure Or does the pump have a little bit of leg space And could it run? It could But again, nobody really knows the future Nobody really knows what's going on And also I was going to leave this up here For people in the comments section I had a question yesterday Because we had talked about regulations A couple of days ago And one of the things that we talked about Was Sam Bacon-Free About what his position is And how he was handling things And I just had a question for everybody I know there's a lot of comments going around about SPF But I asked a question on Twitter What's the specific problem with SPF? And what is he doing in the crypto space that is egregious? Some say he's a savior While a good amount of people are saying he's a devil Don't give me opinion, give me facts Comment below And this was from Divine Art Where he talks about, hey, you gotta take a look at this guy And most everything that I got was not facts It was just a bunch of hyperbole Maybe and opinions So if you have a specific reason why SPF is the devil incarnate for crypto Please leave it in the comment section below And that'll lead me to my last points here with the remove on My philosophy hasn't changed Look, we have these rallies They're called bear market rallies I know how people will look at these and go This is it This is going to take off, it's going to the moon Slow down These bear market rallies They could be extended But usually this isn't the catalyst Take a look at the macro events Has there been anything that happens globally with the reserve, the global banks? Has there been anything that's happened specifically with the war in Ukraine? Has there been anything that's happened with the Fed definitely pivoting? Not really So when I take a look at all these things I'm like, what are the factors that really could lead to a big rally? I'm not so sure But I will tell you this My philosophy hasn't changed I still dollar cost average And I still am going to take profits along the way Matter of fact, I just took profits today I was buying Bitcoin around the $18,400 range I was buying Ethereum around the $1,300 range And I ladder in and I ladder out I know some people will say, well, that's not a good strategy Because I'm just going to wait for the moon Do what you want to This is not financial advice This is the things that I am doing I can't tell you what to do I'm not your dad So let me know what you think about that in the comment section That will also lead me to one more point Which is about the balance As far as your portfolio So I'd like to thank Masterworks For again, sponsoring the video When I talk about balance When something goes down Or the other part to go up And vice versa You don't want to put everything into whatever Basket that you have It's best just to balance things out Because over time, it seems to work out So for me, this is my wheelhouse Cash, stable coins Dejens, land, property Amazon business, staking IRA But Masterworks itself This is buying fractionalized shares of fine art So I've got two myself Banks and a Basquiat And over a year now That's October 26 now I'm up 40% for the Basquiat painting Remember, these are fractionalized shares So this is what they've done As far as their performance Over and over again Looks like it's been pretty good And this is the performance year to date As far as Masterworks for Russell NASDAQ, S&P 500 And I can tell you right now It's kicking the pants off of crypto itself It's also not correlated to real estate goal Or S&P 500 It's uncorrelated asset And a couple of the reasons are this Rich people are crazy They like their art And this is a prime example A Banksy was on sale for $1.8 million Banksy shredded it Now it's worth $25.4 million Don't ask why These are just the things that Masterworks takes a look at and says This is an appreciating asset And then also don't worry This is actually registered with the SEC Because it is a security And you can take a look at all the paintings And all the things that are offered Which are listed on the SEC's website Links in the description So if that's something you'd be interested in Just take a look as a description down below And there was a link And you can check that out And skip the wait line And that will take care of that So now real quick As we were talking about midterm elections Only transition to this little piece I thought it was interesting Because I always thought I was in the minority Of wanting regulations Well, apparently I'm not So this is a story from Fortune Where the four and five U.S. voters Say politicians' crypto position Could affect how they vote As the November 8th U.S. midterm elections Grow closer Crypto council for innovation Leads the poll of likely voters Hiding the impact of crypto and voting decisions I can tell you this would sway me in opinion If someone was anti-crypto I couldn't vote for them Some 84% of those polled Say politicians' position on crypto Would be a factor in determining their vote But I have to preface this The vast majority said it would be minor That's okay Some people say it's minor Some people say it would be a big deal So Cory Gardner Former U.S. Senator from Colorado Said voters want this to be taken seriously They want the potential to be recognized And I got to tell you With the razor-thin edge That Democrats hold in Senate And of course in the House of Representatives Where I think that's going to be flipped as well These types of talking points The things that people are concerned with Become at the forefront So every little thing counts The poll reveals that crypto is a motivating factor Whether they hold any crypto or not Especially given the negative headlines of hacks And this is where it says How likely voters feel about crypto rigs This was amazing to me Because on this channel I've always said this is an unpopular opinion But apparently it is not There it is It's a This is a popular opinion How likely voters feel about crypto regulations 52% said we need more regulations Only 7% needs fewer And 20% have had enough 20% don't know already So over half So I'm on the majority Let me know what you think about that In the comment section But it's amazing to me That I think people are starting to get it That for institutions to come in We're going to need regulations Because their whole Preface is this It's not about making money It's about wealth preservation And there is no good sense for them To come in here And then have the SEC come about And go oh guess what Everything's security Or they're going to defy And go oh guess what Everything just got hacked And then away it goes That's not a recipe for success So let me just go get that In the comments And let's finish up with Some positive news Cash app So cash app I've used sparingly I didn't really think it was a big deal But I can see why this Is going to make a difference So the cash app users can now send And receive bitcoin via lightning Lightning if you don't know Second layer solution Sits on top of bitcoin And it makes transaction costs cheap How cheap? Less than a penny And for me as a small business owner That is huge Because I pale 2.99% plus 30 cents And we'll take a look at the fees And how much it compares to lighting So here's what's happening Previously Cash app users could only send bitcoin Via the lightning network Now they can use a solution To receive and send Which sounds pretty good A lot with the lightning There is typically little to no fees involved It's used to send smaller amounts of bitcoin This is from the cash app website But there is a $999 limit Every seven days with the lightning integration This is only available to US customers Except those in New York state Surprise Says the app's website And there's 44 million monthly users Let me say that again I didn't know that 44 million monthly users That's huge So the question I have was this Well, if they're using bitcoin To send and receive and you know that Just to send What's the cost of bitcoin right now To send it off Because I don't really know So there's a great website YCharts.com Link in the description You can find this This measures the average fees And US dollars And you can see that It's a dollar 34 To send bitcoin Which I gotta tell you Isn't the greatest But that's an average Just so you know That is an average But we can go back five years or so We can see there was some huge Transaction fees Remember in April 2021 $62 That's pretty ridiculously high Yeah, and that's the truth So in my opinion Bitcoin wasn't ready To be used as a currency Sorry, just wasn't Lightning comes along and changes all that Now the real question is then Is lightning network only Is less than a penny Makes sense Well, how much does cash app charge Just for sending things around So cash app fee Sending money Via credit card is 3% Instant transfer Is between half a percentage of 1.75 Which could be expensive I mean spending $100 or $1,000 Investing zero from cash Buying or selling crypto Two to 3% And then ETM withdrawals Two to 250 So if you're using cash app Just to send and receive And using lightning network now For less than a penny That's huge Well, we'll make it Extremely huge And more importantly Because if it branches off Outside the US Gets in New York Also the UK And third-world countries Now that would be a game changer Anyhow So that's it for today So look You know, a little bit long A lot of things going on As you can tell we are Out of El Paso Sitting here in Houston We'll be back in Puerto Rico soon We'll do a meet up But that is it for today So we'll appreciate your step And stopping by Hang with me If you like today's video Give it a thumbs up I'll consider subscribing A lot of things we talk about A lot of things that are sensitive That's it for today So thanks so much I appreciate it And I'll see you on the next one


Today we were filming a commercial for the Steadman Clinic and Steadman Philippan Research Institute. We filmed the commercial. Yeah I mean look at all the gear that was pretty fun shooting this and the only hard part was having to look at Troy's face so closely for so long. It was easier because Troy was there and you're talking to Troy so it felt more natural than being on camera might have felt. This is my first commercial shoot. My first time never. This is the first time and it was pretty interesting. It was oh nerve-wracking. Boy this was different professional shoot with hair and makeup that was pretty wild. It's my first time to make up. I'm still nervous. It was super fun first time I've ever kind of gone in and show business type stuff cool scene all the different camber appointment I would 100% do it again. My favorite part was hair and makeup because what girl doesn't like that. This is my first acting gig ever as you can tell. They brought it let's just put it that way you know they had all the cameras they had everything I mean it's the Hollywood shoot over here. Don't be nervous. It's so crazy I had no idea everything that went into making a commercial and that the slightest little sound or movement or flyaway hair makes the difference. It was cool I mean kind of makes you appreciate the you know the actors and actresses of inflections and different ways to say things and pauses and all that kind of stuff. We have all types of people we have physicians you know the researchers the athletic trainers you know so we get a little bit of everything here and I don't think you get that really anywhere else so you know to have that here at the Stubborn Clinic I think that the script really showed that. I hope that we can reach out into the community a little bit more and really expose the research that we're doing and how it ties into our care. All of our patients are very active as well they're skiers hikers rock climbers those are all the things that we love doing ourselves it's a lot of fun being able to connect with the patients. I was an athlete growing up I ski I mountain bike I hike I'm also a past patient I've had two ACLs myself so I I get it I totally get it. We understand when they can't do what they love because when we can do what we love not fun and I feel it's an honor for me to stand here to work at this Institute getting this message to the people it's awesome it's great. Yeah the words I was speaking were I mean it was easy to speak them because it's true to life everything we just kind of did in that commercial is really reflects why we're here. How do we get this makeup off? I don't know.


A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. That people added 28 extra spoonfuls of sugar to their daily diet in the form of jelly beans or soda pop. Then they measured how many calories they ate over the rest of the day to see if their bodies would compensate for all that extra sugar. This is how many calories the jelly beans group was eating before the study started. But when eating handfuls of jelly beans, their bodies registered all those extra calories, so they ended up eating less of everything else throughout the day. So even adding the jelly bean calories, they were eating pretty much the same number of calories before and after adding jelly beans to their diet. But in the soda group, this is how much they started eating, and despite all the added calories from the cans of soda they were drinking every day, they kept eating about the same amount. So with the soda calories added in, no wonder they gained weight after a month of drinking soda. Their bodies didn't seem to recognize the extra calories when they were in liquid form, so they didn't compensate for them by reducing their appetite so they'd eat less the rest of the day. This lack of regulation may be used to advantage, the researchers suggest, if you want to get fat. But what if you don't? If we drink a smoothie for breakfast instead of a solid meal, will our body think we skipped breakfast and make a so ravenous at lunch we eat more than we normally would and end up gaining weight? OK, well first, is this solid versus liquid calorie effect real? Soda and jelly beans don't just differ by physical form, they have different ingredients. That's a problem with a lot of these kinds of studies. They use dissimilar foods, like this study, comparing liquid to solid breakfast. They either got fruit juices and skim milk for breakfast, or oatmeal with blueberries and apples in it. And lo and behold, study subjects were less hungry after the oatmeal. Duh! That may not be a solid versus liquid effect, those are completely different foods. To test for a solid versus liquid effect, you'd have to use the exact same food in just two different forms. Even this study was flawed. It purported to show that eating apples before a meal was so good at filling you up. You eat fewer calories overall, but that pureed apples weren't as effective. But they didn't just blend the apples, they baked them for 45 minutes first, which may change how the body handles it. So seeing all these studies was just not convinced there was a solid versus liquid effect, and then this study was published. A solid fruit salad, raw apples, apricots, and bananas, with three cups of water to drink, or take two cups of that water, add it to the fruit, make a fruit smoothie, and then just drink that third cup of water. Ah, so the identical meal. One in solid form, one in smoothie form. What happened? People felt significantly less full after the smoothie. Same amount of foods, same amount of fiber, but in smoothie form it just didn't fill people up as much as eating fruit on natural. Originally we thought it was the lack of chewing. The act of chewing itself may be a satiety signal, and I've even enough signal. And indeed, comparing 35 chews per mouthful to 10 chews per mouthful, if you ask people to eat pasta until they're comfortably full, those forced to chew 35 times per bite ended up eating about a third of a cup less pasta. So there we have it. We have the proof of solid versus liquid effect. We have the mechanism here, and as so often happens in science, just when we have everything neatly wrapped up in a bow, a paradox arises. In this case, the great soup paradox. Soup, pureed blended soup, essentially a hot green smoothie of blended vegetables, is more satiating than the same veggies in solid form. The same meal in liquid form was more filling than in solid form. So it can't be the chewing. In fact, there doesn't appear to be a solid versus liquid effect at all, since cold smoothies appear to be less filling, but hot smoothies appear to be more filling. So filling that when people have soup as a first course, they eat so much less of the main course that even when you add in the calories of the soup, they eat fewer calories overall. So how can we explain this paradox? Any pureed fruit is less filling than solid, but pureed vegetables are more filling? I guess you could try making apple soup or something, but who's going to do that? Purdue University. To prepare apple soup, they mixed about a couple of apple juice with two cups of apple sauce, liquefied in a blender, and heated it up. If you have people eat three actual apples instead, they start out pretty hungry, but within 15 minutes of apple eating, they were hardly hungry at all. Drinking three cups of apple juice didn't cut hunger much at all, but what about the soup, which was pretty much just hot apple juice with apple sauce mixed in? It cut hunger almost as much as the whole apples, even more than an hour later, and even beat out whole apples for decreasing overall calorie intake for the day. What's so special about soup? What does eating soup have in common with prolonged chewing that differentiates them from smoothie drinking? Time. I took about twice as long to chew that many times, and think how long it takes to eat a bowl of soup compared to just drinking a smoothie. Eating slower reduces calorie intake. Or maybe we just imagine the soup to be filling, and it's like a placebo effect. Feelings like hunger and fullness are subjective. People tend to report hunger more in accordance with how many calories they think something has rather than the actual calorie content. If you study people with no short-term memory, like in that movie Memento, where they don't remember what happened more than a minute ago, they can overdose on food, because they forgot they just ate, which shows what poor judges we are of our own hunger. And it's not just subjective effects in this famous study mind over milkshakes. If you offer people two milkshakes, one described as indulgent, decadence you deserve, the other sensible, guilt-free satisfaction, people have different hormonal responses to them, even though they were being fooled and giving the exact same milkshake. And finally, maybe it was just that the soup was hot, and warmer foods may be more satiating. So how do we figure out if the solution to the soup mystery was time, thought, or temperature? If only this study had a third group. They had a solid eating group and a liquid drinking group. If only they had a liquid eating group, too. And they did. They also offered the fruit smoothie in a bowl cold to be eaten with a spoon, very unsoup-like. So if it was thought or temperature, the fullness rating would be down by the liquid drinking, the smoothie. But if it was just a slowed eating rate that made soup as filling as solid food, then the number would be up closer to the solid eating group, and it was exactly as high. Meaning, the only real reason smoothies aren't as filling is because we gulp them down. But if we sip them slowly over time, they can be just as filling as if we ate the fruits and veggies solid. Wow, this study thought of everything. You don't know the half of it. They also wanted to see if it would work with high fat smoothies, so what, almond butter or walnuts? No, the LF drink was a liquefied fat smoothie of steamed pork belly. I guess sometimes smoothies can suppress your appetite.


I'm actually finding found. I might go home. I'm actually finding found. I might go home. I actually found fine. I might go yes. Can't bring a prostitute to church with you whether she's conscious or not. I think we can all agree on that. That's a matter.  Mr Brown. He's on camera.  Am I actually on camera? Yeah baby. We have three camera angles now. Look you can cut between all three and you can see everything now. We have a brand new set.  We made a promotional video with cracker milk boys and that's out. Man we pretty much yeah we've really put this in really much of an upgrade.  It's from op shops.  From an op shop. Can you show them your chair? This is...   It's a little plastic blue chair. It's a little plastic blue chair for the brown every 10 episodes or so. If he's pulling his weight around here babies we will give him a chair upgrade. It's upgrades. It's so good. It's like a little... I don't want to go into it. I thought I was going to get a couch. So let us quickly go through the episode this week. What we're going to be doing and we're obviously not going to do the question segment this first episode because we don't have any questions.  It's 2022.   We've got a lot of things to talk about that happened over the holidays. Then we talk about our sponsors. Then we talk about Matt's little black book which I found.  Then we've got Michael's bible. He's finally finished his bible and he's letting me read it to the public.  That's all he was doing when he was writing his bible. I looked at the stars a few nights. And we're going to start a segment called Comment of the Week where we choose the best comment. Can be a question. Can just be a normal comment. It's called the cow. Then we're going to have the bachelor brown segment which we'll explain. Questions obviously. A new segment German or gibberish. That's cute. I'm looking forward to that. Then we give relationship advice.  We are back. We have backs and browns back. Look at him.   He's on the blue.  It's looking right at me. It makes me nervous.  Thousands of people watching right now baby. And guess what everyone? Hundreds of thousands.   Black sore. It really hurts. Weeping virus fluid. Infected.  But yeah, that's me. It is so hot. I don't know how you guys sit here and do this. Should we do the sponsors before we talk about what happened because you got to get it done early or they get cranky.   They got ball shavers. They got ball wipes. They got balls. You can put on a shirt.   They also have started giving away these little packs and they've got like scissors, your nail clippers. Oh yeah, that actually was quite handy. I actually took mine and used it. I haven't used it yet. I've just been looking at it. That's a good start baby.  Alright, for fuck's sakes.  And it helps us. Fully actual 20.   Ask any member. They are fucked. You can have a look for yourself 21 day free trial. The link is in the description for yourself how fucked it is. You will not see content like that anywhere. Michael, while you're listening to this the video I just posted yesterday he went to hospital. It was honestly the worst night I've had in probably about 10 years. It was exceptionally stressful. We filmed a video.  This is not porn. We don't make porn settle down brown town. It's just a video that we didn't went wrong. Do you know exactly what happened to you? The second doctor I went to said I've basically sunburnt the inside of my colon. You got to watch it.  That's all you need to know. I was in excruciating pain. I think we've included that in the video. It's documented as I was going from hospital to hospital.   They just said no. Not to mention that. The ambulance takes like a couple of hours to get to you now. It's a fucking, yeah. It's a beautiful video. It'll be out right now. Is it really? Guaranteed. It started off very simple. It started off very innocent.   Exactly, baby. Have you seen the footage? No. You're not subscribed to anything, are you?   That's very hypocrite.    And why not leave a comment? You may as well leave a comment. You might get the cow of the week. The comment of the week. But it has to be a pretty good comment for that. I'll tell you that right now. If you don't know what to comment, just comment the word comment and please subscribe. The cow of the week. That's a really good comment of the week. It abbreviated cow. Look, we've even got a new thing here that and we're going to learn how to record sound on it and then we can play the sounds and shit, man. So if the cow of the week segment, we can play like a mooing sound. Yes. Yes. Exactly that. That's it. Record the best fart. Yeah.  Dude, imagine if we could record on top of the recording and just have one long string of fart. Oh, I mean, like, yeah. And then we add it all together and then it's a half hour fart by the end of the season. And then we play that for the finale, babies. Yeah, I guess. That sounds pretty good. That would be music to my singes, man. I can't smell anything. My nose has been duffed. Oh, man, I'm sweating.  Are we going to get aircon one day?  Not upgrading it. We always talk about the basement of Michael's house. All right. It's a basement in Michael's house.  We had all of us had all of us had all of us had cut the word out of it completely, because that's a bad word. All right. Instead of the C word from now on, we're going to say ahhh So we all got what? Okay, we got it from a party. We got it to a party we went to. And I made out with a lot of dudes. Well, that could be why you got it. Julian probably got my tongue down new. I made out with some other random.  But I don't know if it was a guy. Brown missed it. Anyway, what else do we need to talk about that happened over the holidays? The boys trip.  Our boys trip. Our boys trip aren't as wild as they used to be.   He was on the roof.   Dude, we did get loose. We have one loose night and then, you know, we might smoke some weed on the other days or take some mushrooms.  Can you explain the camera thing, because that was one of the most hilarious things? Yeah, we had a on the Airbnb we stayed at they said that there's a camera at the entrance and then we get there. There's a camera at the entrance. There's a camera at the front. There's a camera inside. We don't know if the cameras are working or not.  And I pulled my pants down and started doing helicopter like that at the camera. Because I thought the owner, if he sees me doing that say something if he's watching us. He's not meant to be watching us. He probably wouldn't say anything. Yeah, you're right. It was a camera that now for nothing. But like it made us laugh. It was a camera in the living room face like the sitting area of the living room. So Marty just got completely naked and started getting his dick out.   What, the owner? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he might don't. Yeah, boy, seriously. Hey, hey, calm it down with the owner. Okay.  Which went horribly wrong. So this is where we stayed. Actually, it went sort of right. It worked out. So where we still have gone wrong. Where we stayed, there's all these creeks and it had been raining for the previous like four days. So we thought, oh, well, it's James's idea. Let's be honest. He said, let's go get some inflatables and we'll float down the river like we did when we're like 21 in Brisbane at Amar much more calm river. Yeah, we do that and some of the locals like, oh, it's been raining boys, be careful of flood waters. Be careful of the flood water. And there's stonefish and stonefish. Are they really venomous? Were you making that up? No, no. You saw the sign. I pointed at the sign. Are they venomous?   So that's real. Oh, yeah.  And anyway, we jump in our inflatables. We start our journey. The river is quite fast. It's not what we're used to. And brown was not happy from the beginning. It's a very scenic little thing.  So we had to navigate our way through little small bits and he's just banging in everything.   Didn't half of it get deflated? Yeah, half his boat was deflated. I was halfway through. So I wasn't 10K we did. It was a four and a half hour journey. And I did half of that with a half deflated boat. Like water was taken in. What would you have done? Imagine if we at the end when we all got so far ahead if yours had the inner ring and had also deflated.  Well, I played that out my head. I was like Wait! Wait! At the end I got stuck and I was like I had to like sort of bounce like lifted over like rocks and trees and stuff and to get across and in the end I was like I was thinking in my head I'm going to have to try and walk out of here somehow. I'm pretty sure I could have got to the side but when in the water I think you pointed out it was so fast. It's fast on top but if you were in the water it is powerful as fuck. It's like anyway it leads us to the next part of the story. The floodwater was so high it was level with this bridge.   An electric fence.  It was a death trap like it was perfect for the scene of a film for something to go wrong.  His boat has gone up halfway onto the bridge. He's actually tried and touched the electric fence and it's got him.  I watched him so I made eye contact with him and like I saw him just starting his legs were getting more and his head starting to go lower and lower so he's getting dragged under the bridge and then he took one last gasp of like air looked at me and this went down and I couldn't believe it.  If he got pinned under there dead within seconds like man he wasn't getting out of that you can't swim against that current baby.  Imagine if we never saw him again. Under. If people want to see the bridge we're talking about that's in one of the videos it's in the website we actually filmed the boys trip like it was probably 20 minute compilation of all the stories on the website.