Welcome to the Bull and Bear show episode number 19 and I'm here with two guests so far. How you gentlemen doing today? We got Nash Cowboy and King Earl. How you gentlemen doing? Pretty well dude. Hey excited to have you guys on the show. Thank you guys for joining me here on a Sunday, not a normal time, a little bit of a different time and a little bit of a different day. So I really appreciate you guys being here. This is our 19th episode of the Bull and Bear show and we're really, really excited. We are broadcasting live on all devices on all platforms. We may have some other guests join us as well. And if you guys are running a little bit late, feel free to join us. You guys I'm sure have the link and we've got a big show because we've got a lot of important discussions and topics. So let's get through our very first topic right here and right now. And it is government shutdown. So this is a huge topic. There's something that we talked about all week. I know that I have an opinion on it. I'd love to get your guys opinion on it. So we'll get started with you Nash Cowboy. What do you think about this news? You as government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnight. What do you think about this news? I was just trying to research that topic and the only thing I could find was that it was only for averted for 45 days. Is that right? That's correct. Okay. So basically I think it's just a little smoke and mirrors trying to get what each side wants. But all in all, you know, it's 45 days that goes by in the blink of an eye and they're gonna have to figure something out. I think it's just trying to buy both sides a little bit of time, you know what I'm saying? I don't think it accomplished anything. All in all, they need to defund Ukraine. And that's just all there is to it. As a nation, our nation, your nation, every nation cannot afford to keep funding Ukraine. Everybody's just trying to buy a little time with what they want out of the deal. In my opinion, everything should be separate anyway. Every single little thing that goes into a bill needs to be separated and voted on. I'm kind of tired of the way they do things and they class a bunch of things in together. And this side wants to put this in there. This side wants to put that in there. And things would go much smoother if everything was completely separate. Okay, and we're gonna talk about some of those things you talked about later in the show. So some great answers there. King Earl, what do you think about this government shutdown? I think it was a bunch of baloney because he started screaming at Trump whenever he used government shutdowns as a tool to get past what he wanted. And he said he'd never do it or threaten it. And then you always notice that he's hush-hush and he just lets the Senate take care of all of his stuff. And then the Congress as well. And the Justice Department is pretty much out of all decisions and everything. So he doesn't get his hands dirty and shine light politically bad for him. But I mean, we're looking at the fact that it's 45 days is gonna be a blink of an eye.  And everybody's gonna need money for the holidays. And you know, it's just leading us into another 45 day extension right before a potential recession for 2024 at the beginning of the year.   Yeah, you know, it's funny. We've talked about this in our group chat a lot. And I know some some people thought that there would be a shutdown. And I said from the beginning, there will be no shutdown. I was 100% correct. I said this is all for just selling newspapers, getting ratings, getting attention. It's a big show. But why would they allow the government to shut down when all they're doing is printing paper? We've seen this over and over and over again. They always go down to the last hour. They always make a big deal out of it. They always make a big spectacle out of it. And they never shut down. They never think they're going to shut down this time right before an election. That doesn't make any sense. So I never thought for a second that they were going to shut down. And I don't believe in 45 days they will shut down. But this is just another one of those spectacles that now we can talk about for the next 45 days. Because like I said, it sells newspapers, gives us something to talk about. I didn't have a chance to be a hero in the last hour like he was this time. And to be honest with you, it's getting a little bit old. We already know what they're going to do. We knew what they were going to do again. They did it again. And now the second they get the deal, they're like, oh yeah, by the way, but we could have another one in 45 days. Well, you already know because you don't have any money. And every 45 days or 30 days or 60 days, you need to print more money. And while this is happening, Zelensky's asking for another 24 billion. Biden never seems to have any problem coming up with that money, but he always seems to have problems coming up with money to keep the government alive and open. It doesn't add up to me. It doesn't make any sense. It's all just in my opinion, a big spectacle.  They believe these politicians. I'm pretty much fed up with these politicians. I'm pretty much disgusted and I'm tired of the games and the antics. And we're going to get into what's going on in some of the politicians and the games that happen, even here in Canada, that made worldwide news for the wrong reasons. And we'll get into that shortly. But yeah, government shut down never for a second did I think they were ever going to shut down.  Do you guys honestly ever think there will be a government shutdown? I don't know. I think there could be. I don't know. We're seeing things we've never seen before with our country. So there's no telling what the future brings, in my opinion. What do you think, Earl? You think there would ever honestly ever be a shutdown? I mean, we've already had one in the past. But I mean, all you're looking at is a stoppage of checks, stoppage of benefits come in, closure of federal parks, and then any federal building for court cases.  And sometimes we need that. And I think it would be, you know, great to have a year off. I mean, go ahead and give them a good little vacation and we'll see from there.  So then get back onto the screen you do. It's a crazy time right now. And it just seems like it just getting crazier and crazier and crazier. News is definitely flowing for many different reasons, more bad than good. So let's get into the next topic here. The next topic, the S&P 500 dip after U.S. inflation data was weaker than expected ending the third quarter in the week way. So U.S. inflation data, S&P 500 dips after ending the week third quarter. So very bad third quarter in the markets overall. What do you guys think this means for investors? Was that a blip in the radar? Are we going to continue to see week third quarters? Is the market going to stay weak? Do you think that things get better? Where do you think we go from here, Nash Cowboy? Well, I think it comes to the U.S. dollar throughout time. If you see the dollar strengthening, you see stocks and crypto tend to go down. Not always, but usually you take 2022, for instance. The S&P reported their worst year since 2008 and the dollar was at its peak. So when the dollar is strengthening, things tend to go down because it costs investors more to do such. So as long as our dollar is strengthening, and that happens because it interest rates and all kinds of factors, then the payouts on bonds, all that stuff factors in. So I have a feeling the stock market is going to continue to go down as the dollar strengthening, but I expect our dollar to weaken soon, so we'll see what happens. Okay, good answers. And King Earl, what do you think, where do we go from here after a tough quarter? Is that a global quarter or is that a just U.S. quarter? Just U.S. quarter. Well, on the U.S. quarter, we're going to have to tighten down trading. Choose our partners a little bit better. We're going to have to work on imports. We're going to have to work on fossil fuel situations. We're going to have to work on impending debt, looming recession, government shutdown being overutilized by government funding to Ukraine for a stalemate situation rather than winning or putting an end to a war. Well, we have several stocks that are continued to crash, especially as Europe continues to go down. Germany is serving a prime example of what we're going to be facing here and where we're going to be looking for the U.S. economy. We have new presidential elections coming up around the globe. We get to pay attention to, but potentially there might be some market pumps due to those. It's all something about France stormed the building of the Nvidia. So there are several things that was in the news this week and will continue to be in the news so we can see where they actually go from here and what funding actually moves. But we have to hit, I mean, we've been in an inflation. We've been in an inflation. Dum-dums have done nothing but raise interest rates. It's time for the recession to hit. It's time to pull off the bandaid, quit dealing with the soft landing, quit raising interest rates where you're just paying out $1 trillion monthly to pay debt for your APR or yearly. So, you know, quit putting us further in debt before we can get back on our feet. But I'm just waiting on the recession, bro. Just wait. I think the recession is already here. I mean, here in Canada, we're having major housing bubble.  And they're just pure evil because they want to continue to see prices go up that people can't afford, which makes no sense to me. But we are in a major housing bubble in Canada. The worst I've ever seen. I'm a real estate guy. I don't own any real estate in Canada. I can't even imagine buying anything in Vancouver. The average home is $2.4 million. That is not sustainable. The average home in Toronto is well over a million and a half. That's not sustainable. We are in a major housing bubble. The reality is if you were paying a mortgage a year ago for that same mortgage, you're paying double. That's a problem. The reality is a lot of people that are paying a mortgage haven't actually had to pay more because they're locked into rates. But a lot of those mortgage are coming due in the next one or two years. So once those locked in closed mortgages come due in the next one or two years, those people are either going to have to sell their homes. Or they're going to have to pay double or more on their mortgage. That's going to create a massive housing crisis. The reality is even if you sell your home, you're going to have to buy a home somewhere else and people can't afford to buy. So this is going to eventually come to a head. There's a lot of people concerned. I'm one of them. It's one of the reasons why I got my Portuguese passport and I'm looking elsewhere to buy real estate because it doesn't make sense to buy real estate in my backyard anymore here in Vancouver where like I said, the average home is $2.4 million. I'm talking about for like a 2,500 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom house with almost no backyard. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't. So this bubble will burst. Whether the real estate agents want to admit it or not, it's going to burst and it's going to burst in a really bad way. And the market is going to crash and it's going to crumble and people are going to suffer. So I know some people feel like the recession's coming. I feel like it's already here when the gas prices are going up nonstop and we've got record gas prices here in Canada as well. When the food prices are going up nonstop, when the real estate is going up nonstop to me, that's a recession. People are not making more. And on top of that, the price of the price that businesses have to pay for their workers has gone up. So most small businesses can't even afford to employ workers because minimum wage is like 20, 25 bucks an hour now here in Canada. So it's not adding up. Small businesses can't employ workers. People can't afford to pay for homes. People can't rent homes. They can't buy homes. People can't afford food. People can't afford gas. We're in a recession. I don't think so. I think that's more of inflation settings though. So that's the top of the hyperinflation economy. But that's not even the recession yet because what you have to look at is you have to wait on all these bankruptcies, right? You're looking at banks that have been doing nothing but taking out money and taking out money and taking out money and have no liquidity on hand. You have all these large investors with the greatest investment point for across the entire board with commercial real estate, right? You have 40% of San Francisco sitting with vacant commercial lots, right? And larger numbers than that across the entire US. So what you're looking at is everybody who's working from home is no longer working in these buildings. The banks are not going to get paid on that money. Investors will not be investing their money into commercial real estate because it's been going down. That hits the banks. Books, how much money they've lost. That's when the recession is going to hit. When this housing bubble actually finally pops, that's when the recession is finally going to hit. Because what we've been looking at is they've been jacking up the rates, jacking up the rates. Most people, when they buy houses, they look at the fact of what is their monthly payment. Now, what the total payment is, right? What can I afford on a monthly basis? And if most of it is interest, that's going to drive down the price range of all these houses, and that would be the end of the housing crisis with the raising prices. But the thing is, as they continue to raise interest rates, and I've said it several times, it's $1 trillion yearly right now, off $33 trillion in debt that they're paying. We're looking at the fact of 7% almost, well, 5.5 currently, 5.75 currently on the interest rates. There is more money to be made in investing into US stock bonds right now for large investors for your money not to lose its current value with a 7% inflation every year. By investing into US bonds, then there is investing into commercial real estate. And US bonds are guaranteed paychecks. That's when the recession is going to hit because they're going to pull all the money from it. They're not going to invest it into the US dollar, like whenever the market crash happened two weeks ago when the EU started to go down and everybody pulled their money directly out of stocks, crashed them and then they put it directly into the US dollar so the US dollar had a big booming surge. They're going to do something with that money and they're going to send it into marketing accounts and directly invest into security bonds because they're going to get a guaranteed paycheck of at least 7% from the US government and their money is not going to lose its value like it would in the current market. I mean, you're only looking at a 6% increase by investing into the S&P 500.  Yeah, I agree with you. I can see that happening. Now, I want to talk about something that's really, really, really disturbing. This is headline news across Canada, headline news across the world and I'm really, really disgusted by it. So I have to talk about it. So what happened here in Canada, which is kind of embarrassing, but I mean, Justin Trudeau is an embarrassing prime minister for many reasons.  Now, this was days before Yom Kippur, which is the largest Jewish holiday of the year. What do you guys think about this? This made headline news. This is quite embarrassing. This is embarrassing for Canadians. This is embarrassing for anybody that saw it or heard about it. This is very painful for Jewish people. Anyone that's been touched by the war, anyone that had been a victim of Nazi hate. What do you think about this Nash Cowboy? I find it unacceptable. I feel like Trudeau should have resigned or been relieved of his duties that moment. And it's disgusting that once again in Canada, we do nothing about it. What do you think about this Nash Cowboy when you hear about this? Well, let's face the facts. The Ukrainian Parliament over there is pretty much all like literal Nazis. I'm not saying Russian. I'm not saying Putin's a good guy, but he's constantly saying that he's trying to denazify Ukraine. And I can't say that he's not. So Zelensky and Trudeau give him a standing ovation. And it's no surprise to me. In my opinion, we are funding Nazis. When we send Ukraine money, we're funding Nazis. And both governments' pockets, I think that all kinds of things have been there. So it's disgusting. I could only imagine how disgusted the Jewish population is. And I'm disgusted for Canada. Man, it's a sad day when somebody does that. I agree 1,000 percent. King Earl, what's your opinion on this embarrassment once again by our tyrannical government and Justin Trudeau?  How does a man even shake Justin Trudeau's hand? Is it that simple? Can the Chinese do that just to whack off Justin Trudeau? Zelensky was with him, right? Oh, yeah. This is Zelensky's guy. And we're providing Zelensky to Canada and the United States and treating him like a hero. And Zelensky sets us up like this while asking for billions of dollars of aid.  Here you have a guy that's supposed to be a Jew, but his whole parliament's filled with Nazis. And that's one of his heroes.  I don't even know what to say to that. So what's your next trade deal with Venezuela? All I can say is there's so much anger in Canada right now about this. Everybody's talking about it. And yet, last week, after this hideous display of supporting Nazis who Canadians fought and lost lives in World War II fighting, they gave a standing ovation to this guy and Zelensky gave Zelensky a hero's welcome while Zelensky talks about the fact that he needs more billions of dollars and the fact that he needs more billions in funding. And Trudeau stood up there and said that we Canadians will fight until Ukraine wins this war. In addition to that, the House Speaker got terminated because they had to give somebody their walking papers for whatever reason. They never want to ever get rid of Trudeau. They never want to make him the fall guy for anything. And I just find it so disheartening that he's gutted our country, that he's embarrassed us again globally, that he hurt so many Jewish people and that the day that this happened and the week after this happened, all of last week, he never showed his face in Parliament. This coward Trudeau never showed his face in Parliament all of last week to explain what happened. Didn't even show up.  He's an embarrassment.  And it's not because I'm not a proud Canadian, but I'm ashamed of our Prime Minister. I'm ashamed of everything he stands for. I'm ashamed of everything he believes in and I'm ashamed of everything that he does. And this is just another example of the disgrace that he has and the stain that he has put on our country. It's unacceptable to make these kinds of errors. Anybody else would have already been terminated, but for whatever reason, this guy has the ability to walk on water and do whatever he chooses without any recourse. And after he makes a horrible decision that affected millions of people over the world, he doesn't even have the courtesy to show up to work. And nobody even bats an eye. Yeah, because instead he'd rather be behind the scenes passing more tyrannical policies as what I just sent to the group chat before this started. You know, it's crazy how much he's trying to censor and silent y'all and the media and he's turning it directly into the perfect grounds for communism to build and grow. I mean, he's pretty much turning Canada into communism by the end of what he does. I mean, those are the policies he's passing, plain and simple. And, you know, it's heartbreaking to see that the only progressivism that any country can pass is directly into the fascism and socialistic policies that they idolize and say that the other side is when they're the ones pushing directly for those policies to affect our country. Yeah, I'm really, it's a really touchy thing for me. I'm really, really bothered by it. I've already been fed up with Trudeau for a long time. There's a reason why I went and got my dual citizenship and got my second passport.  And it seems as almost as if there's nothing we can do at this point. He continues to embarrass us. He continues to put us in a corner. And yet he's allowed to not show up for work even though he's making millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars off of us. And yet we have to continue to work in his country and pay extreme taxes, pay more for food, more for gas, more for housing. He has no solution for any of it. And yet anytime he goes on vacation, he's spending thousands of taxpayers' dollars and then can't even explain where that money's going either. So it's just extremely disturbing right now as a Canadian. And I'm going to continue to say what's on my mind until he stops me. Let's just put it like that. Maybe one day I'll have to run for prime minister because somebody has to stand up against this tyrannical government and I'm getting sick of it.  And I'm sick of Canada, which is supposed to be this peaceful country starting to become essentially a country that wants to go to war thanks to Trudeau who's hammering his fist and saying that we will fight with Putin and we will fight and stand with Ukraine until Ukraine wins the war. Those are fighting words. We're supposed to be a peaceful country, but we are no longer a peaceful country because he is no longer acting peacefully. Now let's speak on this more because you guys are in America and there's some ridiculous things going on in America too. Let's talk about this $113 million in aid that's gone to you. Billion. Sorry, $113 billion that the United States has invested into the Ukraine. This guy right here, Biden, him and Ukraine, him and Zelensky getting very, very rich while they continue to send money. And now Zelensky wants another $24 billion from America. That's $137 billion that he wants America to send of which America has already sent $113 billion, 10 times more than anybody else. What's going on here guys? Something's not adding up here. I need to know from you guys like what is going on? Nash Cowboy, what's happening here? Zelensky is getting rich, Trudeau is getting rich, all the people in the United States are getting poor. What's going on? The question is where is it? Like they can't even answer where most of the money is. Like it's insane. I personally think they're all just laundering taxpayer dollars back and forth. That's what it comes down to for me is like, show me, show me where it's at. I don't even support the war to begin with. It's insane the amount of debt we've got into over this. And I don't even know a solution to it besides a revolution, to be honest. Trump said that he could end his war in 24 hours. I say, let's get rid of Biden. Let's put in Trump, let's end this war, and everybody goes back to normal. America no longer has to send $20 billion at a time to the Ukraine. Canada doesn't have to send all of our tanks, all of our weapons, all of our ammunition, and have our prime minister constantly starting fights in war with Putin. Let's end this. I honestly think Trump would end it. Maybe not 24 hours, but pretty damn quick. I give him a week, he'd be done. What do you think about this, man? Like this, this is, I know you're not happy about this $113 billion. You're paying tax money. What do you think is going on here, man? Something's not right. I'm not worried about the $113 billion or the $137 billion or where it's at. I'm worried about where is it coming from? Where is this funding coming from? Is it coming from us raising the debt ceiling? Is that what keeps driving us in? They're borrowing more money? Or are they using it from some side government operation? So where is the money coming from, number one? I don't care where it's when. Where is it coming from? I mean, that's key number one. Which pocketbook is it coming from? It's all coming from taxpayers. We know that. But in what aspect? Are you borrowing it from the defense budget? Are you borrowing it from, let's say, Black Ops organization groups? Are you borrowing it from BlackRock who's trying to buy Ukraine and the rest of the global world? Along with Canada who's being funded by BlackRock for all y'all's inflation. Where's the money coming from? The United States has sent more money to the Ukraine than anybody else. Nobody's even close. Germany has sent 20 billion. United Kingdom, 7 billion. Norway, 7 billion. Sorry, 4 billion. Denmark, 4 billion. Poland, 3 billion. Netherlands, 3 billion. Sweden, 1.9 billion. France, 1.7 billion. The United States has sent more money than anybody else. I was listening to a breakdown of where the money's going. It's not even all going to the war. Some of the money is going to livestock. Some of the money is going to seeds. Some of the money is going to military. I mean, money's just going all over the place. It's going all over the place. It's paying people's pensions. Some of it's going into Zelensky's pocket. You have to assume it somehow is getting into Biden's pocket. You have to assume some of it's getting back into Trudeau's pocket. Because Trudeau, who only makes 400,000 a year as the Prime Minister, somehow was worth 10 million as the Prime Minister 8 years ago. Now he's worth over 400 million. How does that happen? Biden's getting rich. How does that happen? Zelensky's getting rich. How does that happen? I mean, there's all these questions. At the end of the day, we're the ones paying for it. We're the ones paying for it. All of this corruption is happening and we're the ones paying for it. So it's pretty gross. It's pretty disgusting. And Kevin McCarthy actually wants to know Kevin McCarthy vows to Grill Zelensky saying, I have questions for him amid GOP's open warfare on Biden's 1 billion aid package as Ukrainian president prepares to visit the capital. So what do you think Nash Cowboy is going to happen when McCarthy grills Zelensky on the 24 billion? You think Zelensky's going to be like, well, it's going to the war? Yeah. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of circle backing. And be like, well, you know there's war going on. They want to just like the speaker of the White House right now, she's always circling around. You ask her one question and she answers a completely different topic. I don't think things will ever be answered. We know what's happening. They're embezzling money, our tax dollars. They're laundering it through other countries and somehow, someway, it's got to be stopped. It's complete tyranny. Money, this war comes down to the dollars. Who can line the most pockets as suspects? 100% and right now Zelensky seems to be even though he's supposed to be losing because he's apparently at war but is he at war? He's being paraded in Canada. Paraded in America. Collecting money. The greatest philanthropist in the planet raising more money for his country than anyone else on the planet but he's not even there. He's not fighting in the front lines clearly. There was a picture come out that back when I was first started that said he was like helping in the war.  It was an airsoft rifle. It's crazy. We know that he's not fighting. His job is to raise money and he's doing a very good job of it and he brought a neo-nazi to Canada so that we could embarrass ourselves and give the neo-nazi a standing ovation and we fell for it while asking us for billions of dollars and we're falling for that too. And he's getting Biden to fall for the same thing and Biden's falling for it too. So what's in it for Biden and Trudeau? That's my question. There's got to be something for Biden and Trudeau, right? We the people aren't falling for it. Some of us are. Well, I'm not saying we are. None of us are. But I've had people argue with me how much of a great Prime Minister Trudeau is and how much a hero Zelensky is. I've had people argue this with me. So there are people falling for it. Believe me. There are people falling for it. The whole thing is crazy. But there are. King Earl, what do you think? What's going on here? I still think Black Rocks is buying all of Ukraine. Access to Russia's pipelines. It's all going to come to an end whenever the recession does finally hit. You know, winter is going to hit. All of the cutoff fuel from Russia is going to finally cake in. And oil is going to hit $150 a barrel. And we'll be looking at over $10 at the pump.  That sounds about right. Yeah. Now you actually touched on my next topic. You touched on oil. So I want to talk about oil. Because oil is what this is all about too. It's all about oil, right? Saudi Arabia and Russia have been cutting production. And the price of oil has jumped 28% in the last quarter. 28%. We're seeing it here in Canada. We are having record prices at the pumps. And yet our tyrannical investor keeps raising rates for Canadians for gas. Clearly he's out of touch. Clearly he's out of touch. He keeps raising the rates at the pump despite the fact that oil is at over $90 a barrel. So my question to you guys is oil 28% up in the last quarter. Does it continue going up and will it hit $100 a barrel in Q4? What do you think Nash Cowboy? Yeah. I say it's going to continue to go up and what is face-to-face there. Oil is only a tight commodity if they wanted to be a tight commodity. Oil is the second most abundant liquid on the planet next to water. They would like you to believe that it's just disappearing but it's constantly renewing its sources through everything. It's not near as scarce as they say it is. And it only cost what they wanted to cost. We have the power, especially here in America, to lower the prices by drilling and producing to produce more. We have tons and tons and tons of oil. So it's only tight if they wanted to be tight. That's the facts. I agree with you 100%. And, King Earl, what do you think about this? Are we going to see $100 oil? Oh, yeah. Winter is coming, baby. This ain't the house of the dragon. This is the United States. So, something's got to change.   They finally figured out that they went from one of the major economies in the world to one of the worst economies in the global market space because they tried to pass this Green New Deal bullshit that the Democrats keep trying to push here. They finally figured it out. Fuel is essential. We have to use oil. Right? Now, how long until the U.S. figures that out? We got to wait on Trump. I mean, that's what it is. We have to go through the recession. Wait on Trump. Wait until he gets in. It'd be a whole nother winter. And hopefully, we're not sitting on our asses and breadmines.  Okay, guys. So, we're running out of time here. I don't want to take too much more of your time. I know you guys are busy. I am as well. There's a lot going on. This is my last topic I want to talk about. Bitcoin. Bitcoin's price history. So, historically, Bitcoin always has a very, very, very hot October. And here we are today, October 1st, in the chart right now, but historically, after a down year, Bitcoin always jumps. And last year we had a down year where Bitcoin went down 64%. And so far, Bitcoin this year is up over 60%. So, my question to you guys is, where does Bitcoin go from here? Nash Cowboy, what do you think? All right. I personally expect Bitcoin to pop up like a man looking at a girl and you know, with a pair of shit-kickers. I believe it's going to pop up at least 16%. This is an accumulation year. The last accumulation year, October, it jumped about 16% of my mass, correct? Which would bring Bitcoin to somewhere around 30, 31,000, 32,000 by the end of the month. That's where I'm expecting it to be at. Could be wrong, you know, Bitcoin's all cryptocurrency is volatile. So, anything could happen. We got a lot going on in the world, so it could change some things. But historically, I think we're looking somewhere around a 16% raise for the month of October, which is in an accumulation year. They call it Rocktober. It's always been up. So, I think we're going to have a good month. Then I think it's going to drop a little. And then coming into, you know, I'll expect a fairly decent size drop coming in in a couple months. And then it'll be a steady up after that all the way through the Bitcoin having and all the way into the peak. It'll be a steady game. So far, you've been 100% correct with your prediction. King Earl, what do you think? I mean, you guys can see right now, Bitcoin is ripping today. We're almost at 28,000. Ethereum is ripping. All the top cryptos are ripping as soon as October hit. Crypto started to rip. King Earl, I already know what you're going to say, but what do you think happens with Bitcoin and the cryptos moving forward? $30,000 in October. $30,000, not financial advice. Please do your own independent research. You know, master ends are not indicative of future gains. You know, it's just one of those things that, you know, 90% of the market is green today. So we're looking we're looking pretty good for the start. There's a couple of things that might hit us, but I mean, those really are going to impact us this month. So we're looking good for making some money this month. I mean, that's what it's going to come down to. You're looking at, you know, a potential of 30% increase. I would say 22% rise in Bitcoin is where I want to put my money. You know, 22% rise in the market. There's been a couple of cryptos pumping this week already. But a lot of them is already up still, you know, 3 to 7% mainly due to the rise in Bitcoin. And then Bitcoin up 3.7% so far right now for the day, you know, and then for the week, you know, we're up pretty good too. So 5.5% already. And I think the trend is going to continue, especially the more that we continue to grill on Gary Gensler, if we can pass some subpoenas or get a bill passed to get rid of him, then we're looking at major, you know, astronomical numbers that might happen. So, you know, it's all going to come down to the proof in the pudding, the strength of the US dollar. The continued rise of oil is going to continue to strive up the stock market here. But, you know, if you wanted money into the market, you should already have it in there. Because things are about to get crazy and it's about to be a wild ride. And when you're not going to have any money due to recession, the only people that's going to have money is institutions and corporates and they're going to be putting their money in and hopefully you already got yours in. Yo, I got my Bitcoin, I got my Ethereum, my advice to everyone and this is not financial advice, own at least one Bitcoin, at least one Ethereum. It protects you in the new digital world that we're clearly moving into. The fourth industrial revolution. This is all happening. Do your research, do your due diligence and remember, everything we talk about is strictly for information and education purposes. Thank you for watching. Thank you for joining us on the 19th episode of The Bull and Bear Show. I just want to mention that Brent did make a comment. He believes that they will assassinate unfortunately, Mr. Trump, because they are afraid that he is going to get back into power. Do you guys think there's any chance of that? They wouldn't do it to Obama and they placed him right into the center where it can happen and it didn't happen. Nothing's happening to Trump. I hope so too, man. I really would like to see Trump back into power. If I would see him make America great again. I think a lot of people would like to see Trump back in power. Biden has been nothing short of, in my opinion, the worst president ever in the history of America. Trudeau has been nothing short of the worst prime minister in the history of Canada. We are on a major housing bubble. Thanks to Trudeau. We have the highest gas prices ever in Canadian history. Thanks to Trudeau. We've got running food prices. We've got people can't afford to pay for rent in Canada. People are living in their cars. People are living on the streets. People can't find places for their kids to sleep. This is thanks to Trudeau and his tyrannical government who just gave a standing ovation to a neo-Nazi. This is what's happening in our government right now and we're going to continue to talk about it here on the Bull and Bear Show. Gentlemen, thank you for joining me today, guys. Any final words before we say goodbye, guys? Buckle up, Buttercup. This next year is going to be a bumpy ride and you better prepare for it. Yeah. I'll bow you, Earl. Anything else before we say goodbye? You know, just watch the markets. If you're going to be investing in them, know when you're going to cash out.  The stock market has a lot that it can still pump down potentially here.  You know, it's not the end of the year speech yet. So, you know, I'll say that for another time, but you know, just know how to dump your assets as well as how to take them. I appreciate that, Earl. And Brent says look at the national debt chart. U.S. dollar compares to gold, silver, oil. There is no strength in the U.S. dollar. Yeah, there's no strength in the U.S. dollar.  Put it on to the chart with the liquidity of black rock and then look at the inflation numbers and the lack of GDP. We have to hit a recession to get this GDP up. We have to make everybody go bankrupt, all these crappy companies that provide nothing. Provide absolutely nothing to the global world. Provide nothing to humanity.   And I don't care how we do it, whether it's pumping for oil or what, but we have to figure out a way to break even the laws of physics to create more of something from nothing. And I mean, that's what we have to do to fight inflation. Brent says be prepared for October 4th national alert system. I don't even know what that is. Do you guys know what that is? Yeah, they're coming first. Nobody seems to know exactly what it's going to do, but for some reason October 4th they got every single phone in America is supposed to go off. I don't know about Canada with all they're saying is that it's going to be an alert system but it's going to be accompanied by sounds and vibrations whatever that means.  And so the sensors are already in there and so is the alerts for your phone and they're just going to pretty much continue to test them. And it's just going to be a test of the national system. I mean, we already have them for the amber alert systems and maybe they're actually going to start pushing out like tornado sirens and stuff like that where people actually have access to it on their phone rather than just onto a weather band radio. And potentially we could be looking at future bombing indicators for flyovers like we used to in World War Two but down the south we're not worried about it because we still have the bomb bunkers in place along the roadside from World War Two and from the Cold War so we have safe places to go. There's a lot of conspiracy wrapped around the alert system that it's something completely new and that the sounds and vibrations accompanied by it are going to trigger something either that was in the vaccine given or but it goes as far out there to where it's going to turn people into zombies when it goes off. I've heard a lot of different conspiracies using pinging phones. I don't know. While we speak guys, Bitcoin is really rich. So we're almost at 28,000. This is a great start to October. Exactly like you gentlemen predicted. Exactly like I predicted. Hopefully you guys own some Bitcoin. Hopefully you own some Ethereum and some of the top cryptos that we're in for. A wonderful ride here as we finish off 2023 but don't worry, we'll be here every week to talk to you about all the biggest breaking news on the Bull and Bear episode number 19. Next week we'll be episode number 20 and I'm here with King Earl and Nash Cowboy. Gentlemen, have yourselves a great day. Thank you for joining me once again. We'll see you guys next week. See you guys. We appreciate you guys. You're not winning. You're probably not watching. We're bringing the winners, news, breaking news, trending topics, the biggest news in stocks, the biggest news in sports, the biggest news in crypto and we bring it to you every week and we're out. Peace.


The death of televangelist Pastor TB Joshua has been described as a sad one for the travel and tourism industry. According to reports, the synagogue church of all nations is Nigeria's biggest tourist attraction and the most visited destination by religious tourists in West Africa with thousands of foreigners flocking to attend the church's weekly services. Industry players say his contribution to the sector was immense and he would be solely missed. A tourism journalist who recounted some phone moments with him said, a lot of investment came up as a result of the church which has reportedly impacted a lot of Nigerians. To rise in the travel and tourism industry is a very sad event, not just the passing of the world, the path to a prophet that's a human being, but for what he has contributed to the tourism industry in Nigeria and especially the location where we are today. The video here is a church and I can tell you, 20 years ago or 21 years ago when I passed into the church around September 12, 2000, this church was not there, so this was usually conducted on the prayer floor, church environment, with the holy page. And for several years, even at that time, a lot of foreigners came to me and that was not true. Through my intention, young children came, I pulled them up and for the 20 years of my relationship with the church, up on Abzedo, it's been an amazing journey and I hope that if others actually prompted me to go to Jordan and this way, to study, to actually look at what religion for them is all about and that is exactly what this man has brought to me. Sad enough, a lot of investment came up, as a result of the church's quotas, when developed, accommodation were viewed and restaurants opened, left their books local and standard. So, to us, it's a very sad day and people are passing away and of course all lovers of the tourism industry, I see your messages and we hope that as soon as I go to Jordan, it will create a road. It was played before in stimulating travel to Nigeria.


Yeah, welcome back to Think Tech. This is our four o'clock show. It's energy. Hawaii, the state of clean energy we call it. Been running this show for a long time. And today we have a special show. We're calling it the Hawaiian Electric Hour, even though it's a half hour. And Peter Rossek, the spokesman of Hawaiian Electric, is down here to tell us what's going on at Hawaiian Electric. And more than that, what's going on in electricity and energy in the state of Hawaii, because he knows. And we're going to get a good smattering of all the events that are in play right now. Hi, Peter. Thanks for coming down, Peter. Hey, it's a pleasure, Jay. It's nice to be here. Thank you. Well, we know that you're having these open house arrangements all over the state. And frankly, I think it's very important to engage and answer questions. And elbow to elbow with the people. I would say hand to hand, but we're not shaking anymore. We don't shake hands anymore. So it's just elbow to elbow. That's exactly right. How's it working? What are you going to do? It's great. You know, we actually have had one already as of the time of this taping, but there's still plenty of time for people to get involved. We had a very nice turnout in Kona last night.  And I think it was the other way around. We had a very nice showing there, but there's plenty of time for people to get involved. Tomorrow night, that would be Thursday, the 5th of March, if you catch this in time. Hero High School, 5 to 730. Then next week on the 10th of March, that's Tuesday, here on Oahu at the Hawaii Pacific University multi-purpose room down at Aloha Tower, their new campus. And then on Thursday, we'll get back on the neighbor islands, be over in Maui at the Kahului office that everybody knows of as Maui Electric Companies office, so on Kamehameha Avenue. So these are each from 5 to 730. The first hour or so is kind of an open house. We have a bunch of displays of boards that people can look at the various things that are going on right now. And that includes something near and dear to my heart, the electrification of transportation. It includes the community solar. It includes solar on the rooftop. And it includes renewable energy acquisition. It includes other an opportunity if you're interested to find out about having a job with Hawaiian Electric, which is a pretty damn good job, if I may say. And a couple of boards of panelists talking about this thing, this IGP. And if you can't make any of these, and I'll repeat the dates and so forth. But IGP, there's, it's also online. HawaiianElectric.com slash IGP. And IGP stands for Integrated Grid Planning. Integrated Grid Planning. What do I know? Because I've been around so long that I remember when we did Integrated Resource Planning. It's now called Integrated Grid Planning, and there's a reason for that. For 120 years from Thomas Alva Edison, basically the electric utility didn't change, grew, but it didn't really change. You had big central power plants. You sent the electricity out over the wires, over the transmission and the distribution wires, and it reached the customers. And until relatively recently, that was the way it was. But that's not the way it is any longer, as we all know. First of all, the utility is still important. It's still in the middle of all this. But we're not the only generator. We've got, you know, a number of renewable energy generators, wind farms, solar farms. We've got H-Power here on this island. We have Pune Geothermal Venture, which we hope to have back online by the end of this year. And these are all generators, plus 80,000 plus homes. All of them generating electricity from their roofs. So that's changed. And instead of power going one way from our little, our big power plants out to the people, to the customers, to the homes and businesses, customers themselves may be sending power back into the grid that goes to their neighbors and so forth. And finally, we're seeing storage. Storage that's attached to some of these renewable energy systems, like the wind farms and solar farms. And we're seeing storage in people's homes. So people can use electricity they generate in the middle of the day into the night. And they may not have to take any electricity from Hawaiian Electric at all. So that's a completely different kind of arrangement. So integrated grid planning tries to take all of this into account and tries to do generation planning, resource planning, needs planning, all kind of at the same time. So it's going to be an ongoing process.  Yeah, integrated resource planning was the old term for this kind of conversation, but I like integrated grid planning more. I'll tell you why, because it suggests to me that there's a lot of different elements in the grid. Some of them are utility elements, some of them are individual homeowner elements, some of them are storage and battery elements, some of them are contractor elements, you know, in what do you call it, contracts that last for a while to generate electricity for the grid. So it has the implication to me and you can comment, if you will, of one great big family. It's a family of business organizations, government organizations, utility organizations, all on the grid, all hanging there together, cooperating to, you know, level the playing field to provide the energy both ways, all directions. You know, a grid these days means all directions and to, you know, sort of equalize the system so that everybody is involved in sharing. It's a sharing word. That's why I like it. That's right.  We don't all agree. And that's why we need to get together and talk it over. We have different ideas about what's the best thing for my community, the best thing for your community, the best thing for the big island.  And ideally, we'll talk it over sooner rather than later. You know, we've got how lately we had pushed back on the Kahuku wind farm and there's a pushback on a Maui solar farm and so forth. I'm not saying those wouldn't happen. I'm just saying it would have been much better if we had all talked it over before anything got in, you know, shovel went into the ground. We all understood where these ideas came from. And we all had a chance to say whether we like them or dislike them or whether we like them better than the alternative. And then whatever was chosen, you might not like, but you would have had the chance very early on to get involved. And this is the these IGP open houses are really the beginning of this opportunity. So if I go to one of these open houses, what's it like? Well, what kind of experience am I having? What's the agenda? That's great. What you're going to find is first of all, you're going to walk into the room and it will take your fingerprints. No, no, no. That's wrong. What you'll find, what you'll find just seriously, and I want to get too much trouble. My boss may actually watch this. What you'll find is a room full. It's a little like a science fair.  And you can walk around and either go to one or two or all. I think there are eight or nine of them there. It's going to be one on integrated grid planning itself, one on grid modernization, grid scale renewables. Those are the big guys. Rooftop renewables, that's you know what that is. Community based renewables, so a community solar. One on resilience, which is going to be increasingly important. One on the electrification of transportation, which is very important. And one on careers, if you are interested. So you'll have about an hour and there are poo-poos. I will, as I've said before, the most important part of this invitation is poo-poos.  So you're going to be able to nosh on a few poo-poos. You're going to be able to talk to people who actually know what they're talking about. Not executives, but work-a-day, you know, people, the engineers and the people that are in these programs. And you're going to be able to look at the posters. And I'm sure there's some handouts and stuff like that. Yeah, I love when the Department goes down to these events, like you know, community events, and they send millions of people, their staff, people to participate and work with the kids and do community things. Well, I'll sneak it over time. No, I'm still kidding. But then in about, so that starts about five o'clock. And then about six or so, there's going to be a panel discussion. And each panel discussion is going to be a little interested. And let me just, it's a little different. Let me just tell you, for example, on Oahu on Tuesday, March 10th, we'll have a woman named Cynthia Rezents who's with the Nanakuli neighborhood board. She's the chair. She's been involved because Nanakuli is really in the front lines of a lot of the utility infrastructure. She's been involved in the back and forth with the utility for a long time. She knows our pluses and she knows one or two of our, you know, negatives. Well, upon initiative, sending Murray Clay, a very thoughtful person, they put a lot of their own effort and omidiars money into helping us get to renewable energy and to get to food and, you know, trying to, you know, make this place a little more protected from the waves and torments of the outside world. Pono Shim, who is president of the Oahu Economic Development Board. Josh Stenborough, who is the chief resilience officer and executive director, office of climate change, sustainability and resilience, which if you can say that without looking at his notes, I give him a lot of credit. He's a very articulate guy. He's a very articulate guy and he's a passionate guy, a little younger guy and he's really, I mean, he's worried about his own future and his family's future and he's worried about Oahu and what's going to happen on this island and of course other islands as well. But they are really, they have been the leaders in trying to get Bill 25 through the city council, which is trying to rework the zoning codes and rework the building codes so that we can begin to make some of the changes we need to make over the next 25 or 30 years to, you know, to shore up against the changes in the weather and in the climate and so forth. Brian Miyamoto is executive director of the Farm Bureau and this is important because we're going to see increasingly disputes about the use of land. People are already getting a little nervous. I think they'll drive through Mililani, Central Oahu and they see these big solar farms covering up acres and acres.  It is a conflict. No question about it between how we're going to use our land, between housing and food and energy and just simply open space. How are we going to resolve those? Nobody's got a, you know, clear franchise. So having the Farm Bureau there is very important. And from Hawaiian Electric, Colton Ching, who's the senior vice president for planning and technology, and here's a guy who really has his finger on the pulse of the company in terms of what we're trying to do and what we're trying to plan. So that's a good guy, smart as a whip. And so that's going to be the panel that's going to speak for about an hour and a half on Tuesday, I'm sorry, the 25th of March. You know, hearing about this, Tuesday, the 10th of March. I got to keep getting out of trouble. 10th of March, he's going to be on the panel there. It's going to be an excellent panel. Let me just quickly run through the panel on Maui coming up on 12th of March, Thursday to 12th. Riannan Chandler-Riau, the executive director of the YYOLA waterkeepers of the Hawaiian Islands. Colton will be there as well. Rebecca Dehuff Matsushima, who's the director of renewable acquisitions for Hawaiian Electric. This is part of Hawaiian Electric that goes out and gets people to bid to build renewable energy projects like wind farms and solar farms, that sort of thing and then decides which ones we're going to accept. Dick Mayer, who's the coordinator for the Alliance for Maui Community Associations. And Michelle McLean, who's the director of the Department of Planning for the County of Maui. So again, you've got a very prestigious, it's not a one-sided kind of panel. It's not all friends of the utility. It's not all people who think we got to do everything the way the utility thought they wanted to do it. This is a group of people who care about the place they live and they have a different point of view and they're going to talk it over and people are going to be able to ask questions. Now, you know, aside from the diversity of things, it does point something else out. And it's something maybe we didn't focus on 20 years ago. And that is that the utility is really, it touches everything, electrical generation, grid distribution, all that. It touches everything in the state. And to bring these people together and have them in the same room is really meaningful to me, because, you know, so you talk about climate change. You guys were not thinking all that much about climate change 20 years ago, but you are now an agriculture and industry and how the homeowner operates. And all these things are now, you know, in the, what do we call it, the community of ideas. And I admire what you've done because I think this is the modern way of looking at things. And ideas will come out. Here's a thought for you. Ideas will come out of this kind of discussion now and when you do it in the future that are extremely valuable.  So my question is, how are you going to publish them? How are you going to take all the ideas that surface in these, you know, these board meetings, these, what do you call it, open house meetings? How are you going to put them out to people who did not attend? Great question. And something very much on our mind, because we obviously know that if 100 people show up at one of these open houses, they're all going to be harder, you know, they're all going to be people who are there because they're interested, but there are a lot of other people out there who care, who need to be interested. So first of all, if you can't go or even if you can go to any of these sessions, you can go to hawainoelectric.com slash IGP, integrated grid planning, IGP, and you can have a virtual open house. It'll be up on this on the system until the 20th or so of March. So you can see these things in action and we are, we take video of the sessions themselves, we'll be posting those and we are going to be certainly anybody that came and signs up or that signs up online is going to have an opportunity to participate some more. There are actually five working groups under the integrated grid planning system and those are resilience, which is incredibly important, storms, and all kinds of bad stuff is coming our way, whether we do all the right things or not. Distribution planning, which is about whether we're going to have more wires or we can find alternatives to having so many more wires and substations and so forth. Forecast assumptions, that's the third one, because all of this depends on what people believe we're going to need and what people believe we're going to see developing. So that might be a bunch of houses in part of Maui or it might be a new hotel in Hilo, or it might be a new hotel in the Kona side, whatever, but we've got to start getting a handle on how we're forecasting what we need because that's going to drive everything else. There's going to be a working group on competitive procurement and what that means simply is, Hawaiian Electric is not going to build most of this stuff ourselves. We're going to continue to be kind of the den mother of this group and part of the group, but we've got to get other companies, we've got to get companies to invest in Hawaii. That can be very challenging at times as you know because people get nervous about making big investments in Hawaii and how long is it going to take me to get my permits and how do I get the community to accept me and so forth. So competitive procurement and making sure that everybody who wants to have a chance to get these contracts can get them. That's great. For generation or for storage or for what we call grid services where you aggregate a bunch of our home owners who have rooftop solar and then you make money by being the intermediary between them and the utility. So we only deal with you, you deal with your however many rooftop solar people and you provide what we need so that we can keep the grid stable. Everybody can play. Everybody and we're trying to make it as open as possible and we want this is why the competitive procurement working group exists so that everybody can see that the fix is not in. There is no you know there's no decisions that's been made before it's gone through this process and finally what's called a solution evaluation and optimization committee. I don't even want to go there but you know somebody has to at the end of the day decide okay here's how we're going to do it how do we make those decisions you know it's not something that's going to go before the legislature. It's not even something that PUC can handle. How do we as a community kind of decide well look you know there's this new housing development out on the west side and one way to do it would be to build a substation and put in some wires and so forth. Another way to do it might be to have some solar farm and a lot fewer wires and not you know let the let it be a kind of a self-contained situation attached to the grid. Which are we going to use and somebody's got to look at the price which is less expensive which has which is more reliable because no matter what kind of generation what kind of wires and so forth you want the lights to go on when you flip the switch you want the air conditioning to be available when you want it and you want the refrigerator to keep your beer cold. Unquestioned so somebody's got to figure out how we get all these moving parts to move in synchronization to move and make the decisions and say okay here's how we're going to proceed on this particular problem and it's going to be different on Maui it's going to be different on Hawaii Island I think it'll be different from the Kona side to the Hilo side. Different communities are you know have different levels of of of tolerance for things. Maui has got to several wind farms and some of them are highly invisible they seem to be able to live with that may not be their favorite choice but they can live with that here on Oahu you know we're a little more crowded with a little less remote areas we you know we get pushed back and homes are nearby everything so every island is going to be different and that's why it's really important if you make one of your the sessions on your own island do that if not you go to hawainelectric.com slash IGP and look at the information same information basically and then you email back to us and say look here's my opinion or here's I want to be involved in this particular working group I want to be actively involved or I just want to get the I want to get the reports or I just want to know when you guys put out something that I want to know that you put it out and that I can read it and then if I want to get involved I'll get involved yeah and I want to do that now rather than the day the bulldozers arrive you know because that's pretty late for everybody that's raising all boats and it's also getting people aware of things that affect them and their future where they might have been oblivious before we can't tolerate oblivion actually no you're absolutely right I mean I always point to buying a light bulb you know 20 years ago you went to the store to buy a light bulb you knew if you wanted a 40 or a 60 or a 75 end of story right you may be able to choose a cheaper one or it may be one from GE or maybe occasionally buy a yellow one or a red one if you were in a certain kind of business I don't know you but you didn't have a lot of choices right today you have to have a you know at least in AA preferably a BA in engineering because you know you've got a whole range this is a 60 watt is a 515 watt bulb but it's actually the same as a 60 this is a dimmable one this is not a dimmable one either you know this is an LED this is a CFL you know where the where the old-fashioned Thomas Edison light bulbs no we don't do those anymore you you know it's not simple to live in the modern world no it's not like you you know or you can make a call or something you know or go into Lowe's or Home Depot and they're going to tell you you have to know about these things they can't tell you what you want what you want you got to tell them what you need you got to tell them I say well here's my situation I want it for this arrangement one and everything you know I I'll hand it to this to the you know to the cell phone providers they have made it you know they make it confusing but they hide that behind making it simple it's very confusing if you really want to which plan should I get but you know when you walk into the store this guy we got the best plan for you all right that's that's the end of the discussion but we can't do that with electricity because it it's combines all these elements what's happening in your home what's happening in your neighborhood which is the whole life the whole island and your whole life and how you live it I'm not home the whole day what do I need I'm I am home all day or grandmother granny's home all day alone with the with the four dogs who don't like hot weather what's you know what what do I need to do and everybody everybody's different and everybody has a different sense of that and the only way your own interest can be protected is if you want to come and you know participate you don't have to make a career out of it but you do have to pay enough attention so you can say wait a minute I don't want another big wire coming through the middle of this neighborhood is there some way we can do what's called a non-wires alternative at the same time yeah it's the same time we all have to cooperate in allowing this to happen sure nimby doesn't work I mean if everybody is doing nimby we wouldn't have any progress at all no we wouldn't and let's face it when we say backyard this whole island is our backyard you know whether you live in cahooka or you don't whether you you know whether you live in central oahu near the solar farms or you don't this is all you know we're just two close together we're two in one little group it's really a progressive idea but let me ask you about changes that I've heard about you know for example uh scott shoe is now the CEO of the company right uh young local guy well educated uh you know really well placed in the community yeah uh he is a community person for sure and he's a Hawaiian electric person for sure this is a great selection we didn't have to go far away to find him he was right here um and so I'd like to know about the transition I I met Alan Oshima in a store today I shook a shook his hand you know which is not easy these days yeah and he looked great and very relaxed I saw him today myself really so you know how is there a change here is this is this going to represent a new kind of administration or is it a continuation scott's hair is gone completely white not yet not yet he's still got his hair it's still black uh you know scott is going around right now he's going island to island and uh here on oahu he's going plant to plant and so forth he's been in the company 26 years uh pretty you know essentially his whole working life after uh after college at stanford and and uh uh you know some other short term jobs he's been at the company his whole life and he's gone through a number of departments but he's going back to those departments to reintroduce himself he's going to places that he may have visited you know the yard uh in on the the windward side or so forth he's going to places uh that he has been to but has never you know hasn't been there as president and he's he's doing it a very low key way he's just sitting talking story with people uh that's the first step we have a lot of initiatives underway right now that to try to to get management in the bargaining unit more aligned on how we work together so it's a perfect time for a new guy who knows the company and has worked hand in hand with these with these folks to go out there and and uh you know shake hands again and we've got a it's called a code of excellence process where uh management pays more attention to the to the union guys ideas and the union guys uh are able to have much more input to management and we're all you know we always have been pretty much a family but there's always been tension as you would expect so uh scott's going around right now his biggest effort is to get out to as many people in the company as possible and uh you know after that's done and and he's reintroduced himself as he puts it to uh people in the company then i think he's going to he's always been heavily involved in the community but then i think you're going to see him out more and more uh on the panels and the events and so forth that uh everybody will have a chance there isn't a nicer guy or more approachable guy i can't you know he can't promise you that he'll do everything he asks but he he listens he's a great listener he's been a great boss of my the department i work in uh so i'm i'm very optimistic as you said he's local uh command made of schools he went to stanford to get his his engineering degree came back he's his wife's very active in the community as well as kids are growing up here alan oshima was great he was a utility lawyer uh who really was not very well known in the company when he came to work for the company and uh he now knows a lot of more people there but it was a different experience scott as you said is a born and raised as he said he's growing up at hawaii electorate well it all sounds very resilient you know and it has to be as you mentioned uh you know there's the possibility of extreme weather coming down a pike with part of climate change uh and there's corona virus we haven't talked about it but that certainly affects the whole economy uh and probably would have an effect on everything in the economy including the utility and uh in electricity and so forth uh so you know it's a great beginning for us to talk about this and i hope we can do a hawaii electric hour again soon it's like piling an hour into a half an hour peter but that's okay we can do it we can do it we'll just do it more often i think that's the the solution because it is going to be a very active time for us thank you peter peter ross expo spokesman for hawaii electric aloha peter aloha to you jay thank you


In the pre-modern period, ceramics represented the cutting edge of material science. Asian cultures were world leaders in this technology, and you can see evidence of their innovations throughout our galleries. For instance, these unglazed Korean pots look simple, don't they? But they were actually quite advanced for their time. Around 1400 BCE, China engineered new kilns to create this kind of extremely hard waterproof stoneware, a technology that Europe didn't develop until 3,000 years later.  Around 1000 CE, Korean ceramicists figured out the perfect glaze formula and firing method that resulted in this green color called seledon. People loved seledon because it looked a lot like jade. Around that same time, the Chinese were developing a new type of very white clay called porcelain, the technique for which remained a well kept secret for hundreds of years. Decorated in colorful glaze and enamel paint, like this large dish, porcelain became an international sensation with avid buyers around the world, including in the Americas, where porcelain was simply known as China. These lumps and drips on these Japanese ceramics represent another interesting development. While the rest of the world craved bright, smooth porcelains in Japan, pieces like these were treasured for their beautiful imperfections.


All right while we're on the subject of mesh listener Steve asks a question he says uh it looks like it's time to replace my neck gear or be and Move on to something else and I thought I would seek out your thoughts ASAP on what I should use as a mesh For my home. He says, uh, you know, I've got a couple of Mac minis a couple of iPads a couple Apple TVs And I a couple of iPhones a disk station some other smart Wi-Fi enabled devices He's got about 50 devices all told and he just wants to make sure he's got good coverage you know my My feelings on this have not changed much in the last few years Back to when I was obsessing over it monthly and you looking into mesh stuff. I'm still looking into mesh stuff pretty regular We just don't talk about it because the the landscape has has solidified my favorite to mesh platforms are plume and Eero and the reason for that is that they in their own ways and differently from one another Do smart things with meshing and what I mean by that is When you're connecting when your iPhone connects to a network and there are three access points With the same SSID, right? So you've got you know, my network is your SSID and your iPhone sees three access points with My network there because you have a mesh network and there's there's three points your iPhone is the Final your iPhone makes the decision as to which one of those three it would connect to now it looks at signal strength and Generally, we'll just decide based on that because it doesn't have a whole lot of information from the network A smart but but the problem is a mesh network knows a whole lot more than your iPhone does a mesh network can know Okay, well, yeah, I've got three access points But one of them is super overloaded and this other one that's not terribly far away from from his iPhone Would be much better to connect to and so a smart mesh is able to do some things to either provide hints to the iPhone to encourage it to choose the right network or Some of them even go so far as to do MAC address blocking and say, okay I want that iPhone on access point two instead of access point three so I'm gonna block it from access point three and force it to choose a new path and then it will choose to and so all of these things are what I call making a mesh smarter and Plume I think plume still does it the best out of all of them And Eero is not too far behind They are both cloud managed which is part of what makes this Intelligence happen. They have databases of Device types so they know, okay This is the right way to provide hints to an iPhone for you know, the right kind of roaming This is the right way to provide hints to a Samsung phone for roaming and those things have been different over the years I don't know if they're still different but every device has has its own little nuances and so the cloud management of plume and Eero really does Contribute to what makes them my preference and that's that intelligence of the mesh You will pay more for plume and Eero although plume. I see that you I think you can't even get their super pods right now Somebody pointed out to me so it's possible. They've got something new coming and I don't say that to be coy I don't know anything But you know when usually when things go off the market There's there's a reason for that and I think we'll probably see something Some evolution from them at least that's that's my hope for the reasoning there But the the Eero stuff and you know, I would get the Wi-Fi 6 stuff or you can get the latest and greatest with the in the AX and all that But but that would be my my recommendation if the pricing or availability there is not suitable for you The TP link deco line is absolutely my favorite You know, it's my third choice and it's my favorite, you know, not super expensive choice I don't want to call it the budget choice because that might That's that is the right word to use but it might send the wrong message. It like it's a fantastic Router it has some of the smarts not all of them But it does a great job and TP links really committed to it. So at least they seem to be So that those would be my three options the the plume super pods and the Eero both sort of holding a tie for for first place and then the and then the TP link deco for you know for second place if you will


Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. Now, let's put that power to the test. It's time for... K-Check! Hello everyone, I am O.J. Sarkinia. At ako naman, Sikayan Arceo. And this is K-Check, the newest and smartest game show on Philippine television. We searched all over the country for people na hindi nagsasawang dagdagan ang kanilang kaalaman. For nine straight weeks, titingan natin kung gaano katindi ang brainpower nila. And in the final week of competition, malalaman natin kung sino ang kauna-una ang tatanghaling, K-Check Champion. Apat na contestants ang dadaan sa ating karunungan check sa araw na ito. Ang una natin contestant ay si Asher Ayeras. He is a first-year college student na mahilig sa Korean dramas and movies. He also enjoys searching for random and obscure but fun facts. Ang ikalawa natin contestant ay si Ryan James Santos. He is a college freshman taking BS Electronics Engineering at Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He likes to spend time viewing old photographs, reading history books and watching Korean variety shows. Ang susurod natin contestant ay si Luis Daniel Enriquez. He is a graduate of the STEM strand of Malabon National High School. He likes to play cognitive and strategic games like chess and osu. He dislikes being pressured but he is used to it. And finally, Vince Palanta. He is a former high school basketball player who was too short to go pro so now he's trying out modeling. Our four contestants will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. Our first expert is Professor Anriel Teatko, the chairperson of the Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts, UP Diliman. Then Marianne Roque, a professor at the Institute of Mathematics, UP Diliman and Professor Neil Santillian, the chairperson of the Department of History of UP Diliman. And now, contestants, papasok na tayo sa K-Check Paramihan where each correct answer is worth 10 points. This is your chance to bank as many points as you can and take the all-important early lead. Let's begin. Asher, what team did Michael Jordan lead to six NBA titles? Oh, uh, Los Angeles Lakers? Malik. Tago po. Ryan, which female singer recorded the 2022 number one hit, Break My Soul? Mariah Carey. Malik. Beyoncé. Louise, Saba is a state of what Southeast Asian country? Malaysia. K-Check. Vince, which 37-year-old NBA player has won NBA titles with Cleveland, Miami, and the L.A. Lakers? Lebron. Lebron Jeans. K-Check. Okay. Asher, how is the Southeast Asian country borman known today? Amyanmar. K-Check. Ryan, what neighbor of the Philippines is the world's largest archipelago? Indonesia. K-Check. Louise. Kobe Bryant won five NBA titles with what team? Los Angeles Lakers. K-Check. Vince. Osaka is the largest city outside the capital region of what country? Japan. K-Check. Asher, which female singer recorded the 2022 number one hit, About Damn Time? Uh... Wait. Lizo. Ryan. Stephen Curry won the NBA championship four times with what team? Golden State Warriors. K-Check. Louise. Which male singer recorded the 2022 number one hit as it was? Haristiles. K-Check. Vince. Which female singer recorded the 2021 number one hit easy on me? Ariana Grande. Malik. Adele. And that's it for our first round. The K-Check Paramiyan round. That was a fun round, OJ. Let's see, how did they do? Well, that was absolutely fun, but I think I'm interested to know what our panel of experts think of their performances so far. Oh, yeah. I think I'd like to start with Professor Neil, our history professor, because as I heard from you earlier, Asher and Ryan are fond of history and fun facts. Okay. So, ramdam ko yung intensity ng apat na contestance. In fact, ito na yung one of the best preliminary rounds na sa K-Check. So, galing. Kailangan yung masustain yung momentum hanggang sa paggalingan round. Then dun naman kay Asher na mahilig sa fan facts at kay Ryan na mahilig sa old photos. Makailangan mag-level up na mga tanong natin sa pag-aaral at pagbabasa ay kumbakit at hindi lang simple, kailan, saan, o kaya sino. So, tulad ko history buff, trivia master at mag-simula tayo sa mga ganitong quiz show. So, keep up the good work. On, narinig nyo yun ang napakahalagang payo ni Professor Neil. Yes, po. And actually po, I agree nga rin po sa sinabi po ni Professor, since bilang isang kabataan po, I think malakarin po yung napat yung papel na ginagampanan namin para mapigilan po yung patuloy napag-alis ng say-say o pagmamaliit sa say-say na say-sayyan. So, I think po as a youth, I will also use my influence or my clout para mas mapalawak pa po yung discurso natin sa say-sayyan. No, dag-dag ko lang sa sinabi niya. Bila ang pag-asa ng bayan tayo mga kabataan, dapat mas palalimim pa natin yung kaalaman natin sa say-sayyan dahil sabi nga kung hindi mo kilala yung mahal mo, paano mo mamahaling siyang tunay. Dito naman yung bayan. Kung hindi mo mahal o hindi mo kilala ang bayan, hindi mo mahal yan na tunay. Yung po. Wow, gali naman ang ating set of contestants for this round. Nakakatawa at mukhang malalevel up lalo ang competition. Sa ngayon, nan dito ang kanilang scores. We have Asher with 10 points, Ryan with 20 points, Louise with 30 points, and Vince with 20 points. Kayo, ilan tanong anasagot nyo? At ready na ba kayong lahat para sa ating pabilisan round? Next here on... Kcheck, ating karunungan check. Sa kasalukuyan, ito ang ating scores. Asher has 10 points, Ryan has 20 points, Louise has 30 points, and Vince has 20 points. Ano kaya sa tingin is Sir Unreal ang nangyari ngayon sa ating competition? O.J., sa tingin ko, mga contestants natin ngayon ay fantabolos sila. Ang amazing ng kanilang pagsagot. I think it's still anybody's game. May tanong lang ako kay Vince, kasi narinit ko kanina na ikaw ay dating varsity player. O.J. Ano sa tingin mo ang pagahandang ginagawa mo nung sa varsity na magagamit mo ngayon dito bilang isang contestant ng Kcheck? O.J. Well, magagamit ko po yung discipline na na kuwako all these years sa paglalaro at saka sa pag-training. Tapos, kasi may ADHD po ako, so na jumalikot po ako talaga naturally. So yunagawa ko yung pag-control, pag-discipline sa sarili ko para hindi magwala ngayon. Thank you, Vince. Naku-isangayan sa kakailanganin mong strategy dito sa susunod na round. Kasi ito ang pabilisan round, so importante ang control sa pag-strategize. Buzz in first for the right to answer the question. Correct answers are worth 20 points. Pero para sa round na ito may minus 10 points ang maling sagot. So contestants, kailangan yung mag-strategize. Let's begin. Contestants, question number one. With its governing body having 209 member countries, what is the most popular sport? Asher? Basketball. Malin. Ryan? Sucker. Sucker? Is correct. Question number two.  Vince? Southern. I will read the question again.  What is the hottest planet? Ryan? Venus. Venus? K-check. Question three. What form of energy is released when atomic nuclei are Asher? Nuclear energy. Nuclear energy. K-check. Question four. What do you call the Australian mammal that has a head of a duck and lays it? Asher? Platypus. Platypus. K-check. Question five. Which 2010 Disney film is based on the Grim Brothers version of Rapunzel? Asher? Tangled. Tangled? K-check. Question six. Which Filipina won the gold medal at 1982? Ryan. Idealing Diaz. I will repeat the question. Which Filipina won the gold medal at 1982 and 1986 Asian Games to be dubbed as Asia's fastest? Luis. Lydia de Vega. Lydia de Vega. K-check. Question seven. What Asian language has the greatest number of native speakers? Ryan. Mandarin. What Asian language has the greatest number of native speakers in the world? Chinese, Mandarin, K-check. We just passed the halfway mark at question seven. Question eight. Which famous trumpet player also made a name as a singer with Hello Dolly and what a wonderful word? Asher. Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong. K-check. Question nine. What two large islands are separated by the San Juanico Strait? Ryan. Samar and Leyte. K-check. Last three questions, contestants. Question ten. What is the name of the United States Secretary of State who arrived asher? Anthony Blinken. Anthony Blinken arrived in the Philippines last August five. K-check. Last two. Gogogo. Question eleven. Which great silent movie comedian? Asher. Charlie Chaplin. Was known as The Tramp. Charlie Chaplin. K-check. Now, question twelve. Last question of the round. Here we go. In what northern province can you find sand dunes? Ryan. Ilocos Norte. Sand dunes from the towns of Curimau to Pasukin, Ilocos Norte. K-check. And that's it for our second round, the Pabilisan Challenge. That was really an intense round. I've never seen such great round in the past episodes. But I am interested in one contestant, Luis, who stated in his profile that he hates pressure but is used to it. I wonder what kinds of pressure he had to face in this round. Luis, na pressure ka ba? Super po. As a former STEM student, mami sa yung itatambak nagawain lalo na sa Science and Math kasing a STEM. And napag-isip-isip ko na impis na lalabanan mo yung pressure na ibebegay sa'yo.  Wow. That's a loaded answer. But I wonder what our professor from the Sciences thinks of your answer, Luis. Professor Marion? Pressure dibang kailangan niya. Kasi mukha siya hindi na pa pressure talaga. Give in na and go with the flow. Just like when you're in love, di ba? So, ang tanong ko, may love life ka ba? Ah, yes po, madam. Wow. Congratulations. Winner ka. Winner na winner si Luis, Professor Marion at ang masasabi ko lang dyan ay, sana all. Ngayon naman, tingnan natin. Ang scores ng ating contestants, Asher has 120 points in total. Ryan has 110 points. Luis has 50 points. And Vince, habul ka, you only have 10 points. Pwede, pwede pang humatao dito sa susunod na round. Hindi natin malalaman pa kung pa anong mag-end ang labanang ito. Yeah, until we get to our ultimate pagaligan round. And that is up next, here on... K-check. Welcome back. Let's revisit the scores. We have Asher in the lead with 120 points, followed closely by Ryan with 110 points. Luis has 50 points. Vince has 10 points. We will find out who will win this show today in our K-check ultimate pagaligan. In this round, correct answers are worth 30 points and wrong answers get a 15-point deduction. At para, lalong mapresure ang ating mga contestants. In this round, sa ating mga professors, sa ating panel of experts magagaling ang inyong mga tanong. At the end of this round, malalaman natin kung sino ang tatang haling K-check daily winner. Contestants? Let's begin. Professor Anriel, your question please. Okay, see ya. Makinikayong mabute, usapang pagkain. What is this Filipino dish declared as a tangible heritage of the city of Angeles through the city ordinance number 405? Hindi na ko ha. Ito ay mula sa pisininang baboy. Hinaluan ito ng atay, sibuya sa kalaman si sa pampanga ang ibig sabihin ito ay maasim at ito ang sisig. Thank you, Professor Anriel. Duma ako naman tayo sa sciences, Professor Marion. Daling pampanga, duma ako naman tayo sa Mount Pinatubo, okay? Rich volcanic rock is said to be the only rock that floats on water. Ah, sure. Pumise. Okay, volcanic rocks are formed by the cooling of molten magma on the surface of the earth. So maraming klasa, basalt, riyolite, pero ang tamang sagot ay pumise. Okay, check. Thank you, Professor Marion. Let's now go to our social science expert. Professor Aniel. To which language family does most of the Philippine languages belong? Karamihan ng mga katutubong wika sa Pilipinas ay bahagi ng language family na ito. Kamag-anak natin sa wika ang maraming kultura sa island Southeast Asia. Tamang sagot ay astronition or malayo-polynition. Let's now go to arts and humanities. Professor Anriel, your question please. Okay. Name the law signed by President Gloria Makapagal Arroyo in 2008, paving the way for the University of the Philippines to be the sole National University. Ito rin ang tinatawang nilang the act of strengthening the University of the Philippines as the National University o ang RA-9500. It's your turn, Professor Marion. Your question please. Okay, para sa isang problemang physical problem in physics that you can solve mentally, actually. How much velocity must a mass of 1 kilogram have so that it will have the same momentum as a mass of 2 kilogram traveling at a speed of 5 meters per second? Ryan. 2.5 kilometers per second. Malipo. So, just use M1 v1 equals M2 v2. So, this is just going to be 10 meters per second. Professor Niel, may we have your question this time? What event that happened in 1986 led to the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship? Ryan. It's a revolution. It's a revolution. Ang kaganapang Ito ang nagbigaydaan sa pagtatapos ng dalawang dekada ng rehimeng Marcos. Nagsama-sama ang ibang sektor sa kaganapang Ito o pang maibalik ang demokrasya sa bansa. Ang tamang sagot ay edsa one, people power, people power one, edsa revolution, K-check. Professor Adriel, it's once again your turn. Your question please. Sige, maglakwa't siya tayo. Four churches, collectively known as the Baroque churches in the Philippines have been inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1993. Give one of the four churches. Vince Kiyapo Church. Malay. Malapit ito sa Kiyapo yung isa sa apat. Sanagustin Church sa Mahinila, Pawai Church sa Ilocos Norte, Santa Maria Church sa Ilocos Norte din. Ilocos Sur, sorry. Ang Miagau Church sa Ilo-Ilo. Professor Marian? Ito, simpleing tanong, pero matimapik sa. How do you call a triangle with two equal sides? Asher? Isosilist triangle. I think di ko na kalam explain K-check. Thank you, Professor Marian. Professor Neal, your question please. What was the legal document that made the Philippines as Asia's first democracy in 1899? Ryan. 1898 Constitution. Magyarin paulit nung sagot. 1898 Constitution. 1898 Constitution, malay. Vince, Treaty of Paris. Malay. Pinangarap at itinaguyod na mga dumalos sa Congreso na Malolos ng 1898. Ang isang bansang may pamahalaan na naminindigan sa demokrasya at pagpapahalaga sa Karapatangpantao. Ang tamang sagot ay Malolos Constitution. Bagamat, nalagdaan ito nung taong 1898, pero hindi siya tinatawag na 1898 Constitution. Pero mas popular siya sa tawag na Malolos Constitution. So yun yung rason ng tawag sa Asia's first democracy ay Malolos Republic nung inero 1899. Maraming salamat, Professor Neal. Professor Anriel, your final question please. Ocultura ang popular at paliksahan ng mga maraming Republika. In 1994, the Philippines hosted the Miss Universe pageant the second time around. At the end of the competition, Sushmita Sen of India won the Miss Universe title. Who represented the Philippines? Pins, Lea Salonga. Malay. Nakilala ito naong interview portion tinanong kasi siya, ilang isla meron ng Pilipinas, ang sagot niya ay High Tide ba o Low Tide at siya si Charlene Gonzalez. Professor Marian, your final question please. My final question siya. Konting nosebleed. Nucleic acids like DNA and RNA are made up of nucleotides that contain a specific nitrogenous base. There are five different nitrogenous bases found in nucleic acids but which base nitrogenous base is found only in the DNA? The correct answer. So found in DNA but not in the RNA, the correct answer is timing. Professor Neil, your question that will conclude this round. So last question, who was the first NPA player to average a triple double for a season? Big O ang popular na tawag sa kanya nangyari ang triple double bragging rights ni Big O no 1962 iconic, legendary, si Big O tell sa iba tibang razon. 12-time NPA All-Star, 3-time NPA MVP at NPA Rookie of the Year no 1961 ang nagdala sa Milwaukee Box NPA Championship no 1971. Ang tamang sagot, I see you Oscar Robertson. Thank you Professor Andrew, Professor Marian and Professor Neil and that is it for K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. And that is it for K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. Ang galing ng round na yun, ang ating contestants talagang na sustain ang energy levels at siglas apag buzz. Kayan talagang nagpakitang gilas ang ating mga contestants. I am impressed. Super, winners silang lahat pero siin ba talagang winners? Well, based sa ating scores, congratulations to Asher, our K-check daily winner with a final score of 180 points. We'll see Asher again on Friday when he competes with our other daily winners for a spot in our semifinals. Thanks also to Ryan, Luis and Vince for joining us today and of course always thank you to our panel of experts Prof Andrew, Prof Marian and Prof Neil. This is Gayan Arseo. And I am OJ Sertinia. Join us again tomorrow for another K-check!