did you ever run any blue cheese yeah yeah did you have a cut you liked or they passed around so when we were chatting about those those ronds parties and where a lot of us were gathering in those years there was a lot of cool things crossed of the blue family and while I didn't really like a lot of the straight blue stuff yeah a lot of the outcrosses were really good yeah and blue cheese there was blue widow blue cheese blue rhino blue rhino there was a bunch of different blue hybrids outcrosses that I actually preferred that the straight blue lines yeah and blue cheese was one of those ones yeah you know so I didn't grow it a bunch or anything like that but it was a it was a pretty sweet floral you know slightly skunk one-ish type plan yeah you know I mean there was there was a bunch of seeds passed around by friends too oh yeah


Built primarily by Black artisans, the African Meeting House, the nation's first, opened in 1806 in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. Known as the Black Faneuil Hall, the African Meeting House enabled people of all races to assemble in peace and advocate for freedom. As a church, school, meeting place, and a synagogue, it was the center of community activity for more than 160 years. In that time, this national historic landmark experienced nearly as many renovations as it did uses. By 2004, its owner, the Museum of African American History, decided to restore the African Meeting House to how it looked in 1855, its most significant point in history. The meticulous project reversed previous renovations, often decades old, to find and conserve the historic fabric. Countless research hours and plenty of creative solutions were necessary to ensure that modern systems were seamlessly integrated into the historic structure. The result? A beautiful sanctuary of elegant simplicity that once again serves as a place for public assembly and education.


Have you ever heard of a tele-summit or a virtual conference? Maybe you have attended one or maybe you've even been invited to speak on a tele-summit? Well, I have been around this kind of industry now for just about 10 years and I've been invited to speak and I've spoken on probably a dozen tele-summits over the years and I've declined a lot more and I'll tell you why I declined to speak on tele-summits most of the time because the tele-summit industry The way that most of it is done is very disingenuous, it's Not really Trying to serve the audience, but it's primarily trying to build the email list of the host If you've ever taken any training about building an email list Okay, almost certainly you will come across the strategy of well, just host a tele-summit a Tele-summit is basically if I were hosting one, I would be inviting 20 to 40 speakers To guests speak on my tele-summit, but I'm gonna require them all 20 to 40 of them To email their email list at least two times with so low promo emails It's what what what it's technically called a solo promo email is an email that is only about the tele-summit and I'm going to require the 20 to 40 speakers to each have at least 5,000 people on their email list before they're allowed to speak on the tele-summit So you can see from these requirements that the host is not Thinking oh gosh, I really care so much about the audience that I want to bring the best speakers And I really want to bless them no matter what and I want it to be a great win for the host or the for the speakers No, they're they're primarily thinking of themselves and their own email list it's out of fear of desperation out of greed out of desire for power that these tele-summit strategies are typically taught and implemented So I received and but that's not always the case there really are tell us in the speakers I want to give a shout-out to Kristen Morrison. She does the pet business conference She doesn't you know she and others have invited me to speak because they actually think that I have something of value to contribute And whether or not I have a 5,000 person email is and can send two solo promo emails or whatever They said no no your expertise is the audience. I think would really benefit from your expertise in particular That's why I'm inviting you You know and yes, if you promote it, then I'd be grateful, but it's not required You know and and you know Kristen Morrison for example, you know She she had me she I spoke there and she has continued to sell or or to redo the tele-summit as recordings and If ongoing years, which is great Because she believes in the product you see and she might even sell the tele-summit recordings I believe she does but most people don't do that most people just want the speakers They just want to use the speaker's audience to build their own list and so I received one those limitations just Today was it today well yesterday anyway, and I want to read it to you And I'm not going to reveal the person's name because and if the person's name doesn't even matter because You're going to get this kind of invitation when you start to get more visible. Okay, so watch out for this kind of thing so The email first of all was sent by not by the host herself who was sent by the host VA virtual assistant So immediately that that's a red flag for me if I care enough To create a conference or create a summit and I thoughtfully I'm inviting people I'm not going to have an assistant do it. I'm going to do it myself Right, that's the minimum amount of respect for the guest speaker Right to reach out to them yourself to say hey, I really I like your work Maybe even mentioned I like you know I really like that you recently wrote about this or you recently spoke about that and I I would be honored to have your presence in my virtual conference in my tele-summit You know, it should be that kind of feeling rather than just having a VA blast out and Templated invitation to a hundred two hundred five hundred Speakers who have a Facebook page of this many followers. It's ridiculous and it's disrespectful But it's what's happening in the tele-summit industry. Okay, so this is what the VA wrote to me the host intention for this event Focuses on empowering attendees with easy to apply and life changing. So first of all, you know, it's It's presumed to say that the focus is really to empower the attendees. So get that in mind That's the focus, right? Let me keep going With life changing easy to apply and life changing tools and strategies to reach their dreams of financial independence time freedom and Emotional fulfillment in their business and in their life. I'm like, wow, that's that's a tall order That's a lot of material to cover and I bet each speaker gets a really good amount of time to really go into Such life-changing advice, right? Okay, now the email continues She's hosting this online summit of experts who can provide valuable insight in the field of online business and She would be honored to include and feature you in the field of online business But I thought you just talked about time freedom emotional fulfillment and business and life Why suddenly focus on the online business. Okay, she'd be honored to include and feature you Include and feature you What's the difference between include you and feature you there's no difference It's just a disingenuous kind of let's put that in the word in because it sounds cool as an expert speaker on this panel versus a normal speaker is there is there a Is there an expert speaker and a normal speaker? I don't know. It doesn't matter so Okay, let's let's keep going with the email participation what consists of one 20 minute pre-recorded video interview via zoom Which will launch on such-and-such date this requires no travel on your end and can be performed Whenever you are available between now and August 5th Okay, I'm receiving this I've received a gesture. I received this on September 24th So the interview would have been done by August 5th so already The VA she her she the host or the VA didn't even care enough to check these emails to make sure that they changed the date I Just I just am so amazed this person is You know has so little care and what's ironic this this host when I go to her Facebook page The cover images you matter and It's about the core message is about you mattering I'm like well obviously I even as an as a potential referral source even as a peer of yours I don't even matter let alone your audience I mean I it's like it blows my mind how people can care so little Except building their list like how can you be so I just I'd literally maybe I'm so far from that world now I just I just literally do not understand anymore It's so much greed and so much lack of caring for people and for their audience anyway so first of all a 20 minute interview and You want me so you want me to change that the audience's life in 20 minutes Do you really care about your audience? Do you really care about me? Okay, so let me let me keep going in this email She can continues on we would like to feature a Foresail item of your choice at the end of your interview as a thank you for your participation And to really create a win-win and cross exposure and making a difference for our audience Sounds good, but listen you want me in 20 minutes to not only change your audience's life, but also sell something in 20 minutes You got to be effing kidding me in 20 minutes Maybe I'll give a tip or two that might be interesting But to then sell something as well So basically these are 20 minutes sales messages that the audience is going to be receiving and you want me to promote this to my Audience to say hey everybody join this great tell summit Because by the way, you're spending getting like 40 different 20 minute sales messages. I Would have to not care about my audience I would have to only care about well What if I get in my 20 minutes in the month either to effort I can share my message for 15 minutes With the audience to change their life and in five minutes I'm going to sell them and I might reach new audiences. I don't care about my own audience getting you know Lied to and deceived and joining this person's email list and probably going to get sold again and again by her and her partners. I I Used to do this So I shouldn't say I don't get it because I used to do stuff like this So I do get it. It was because I wasn't breathing. Okay Literally and metaphorically in my life, I wasn't breathing so I didn't Get into my heart and say how is this really affecting people? Or do I just care about my fear of not having enough of a livelihood and my greed of having more money and more power in my life? It's just it's amazing. It's amazing and and some of you are watching this and you're Flabbergasted because you don't get these kinds of imitations. You're like wow this behind-the-scenes stuff I mean this is this is what's happening in the online marketing world And this is what you are the people you're learning from most of the people You're learning from in the online marketing world are doing this kind of stuff behind the scenes and this kind of callousness in my opinion Not caring about their audience, right? So let me continue on with her with her email We ask that each speaker send two solo emails to their list 5,000 list minimum required and promote on social media to celebrate this incredible series of Sales messages. I mean, I'm just amazed. I'm just I just am amazed. I'm just I don't know what to say I've really But this exact template is being taught by tele-summit speakers all around the world Teaching their people. This is how you run a tele-summit. You send these template and messages to You know speakers whom you don't care about you don't care about their audience You don't even care about your audience, but it will build your audience will build the numbers You know and you could sell people and you'll you'll make some sales you'll make some money Who cares about the people and then that's really the key message here is Marketing that doesn't care It doesn't care about the audience It doesn't even care about your peers and let alone your peers audience Okay, this is what's going on and Anyway, I think that's the end of the email and maybe that's the end of this video as well I just I I just plead I plead on behalf of humanity That please care in your marketing Please do not look at your audience as somebody as just numbers to use to benefit your own bottom line because there's enough of that out in the world and We need you to care and of course the fact that you're watching this means that you you care more than those people and You will stand out because you care more than most people but show your audience that they care and be very Be have a strong stance of no when somebody approaches you with this kind of marketing whether you're a consumer of it You don't stand for it And when you approach do this kind of marketing for your people or for other people don't stand for it to say no I'm not going to I'm not gonna you know and you don't have to criticize the person I like I just didn't respond to this email. I just didn't respond Because it doesn't I'm not going to dignify the response, right?  Thank you so much And until the next video and Stacy. Thank you for joining as well I wish you genuine sense of fulfillment But when you are doing your marketing because you care and the audience gets that real sense that you care Be well


The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has adopted a new strategy for enforcement of road traffic laws to ensure safety of its road users in Lagos State. We'll look at this new strategy and analyze its effects on the people on the programme this morning. Also on the breakfast, darkness eminence as electricity workers consider a nationwide industrial action to press home their demands from government. We're also going through the biggest stories on the front pages of today's national dailies and analyzing those bigger stories. We're back with a breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's a beautiful Wednesday morning reaching your life from our students right here on Victoria Island Lagos. My name is Kofi Bartel. And I am Messi Ibupo. It's good to have you join us this beautiful morning. All right and of course interesting conversations lined up Messi. You know 24 hours is a long time when it comes to this country, especially the policy and current affairs. A lot can happen in 24 hours. A lot can happen. We have a very bumper package for listeners this morning, viewers this morning and of course you have to just grab maybe a cup of coffee or tea or something while you're getting set for a day, sit back, relax and enjoy the programme. We always usually start off with a top training segment and this one is quite bizarre. I haven't seen anything like this, Messi. For a while it's for a country that is not a pariah nation, for a country that doesn't have any international sanctions on it. You remember the days of Sani Abacha, where Nigeria was sort of a pariah nation and then some countries said no we can't come to our country because we are against democracy. I remember when Muammar Gaddafi was leader of Libya, you know he had a travel ban of some sorts. He couldn't travel to some countries and he couldn't even fly. They imposed a no-fly restriction on him so when Gaddafi had to move to places like Nigeria, the parts of Africa, he went by road. Gaddafi drove all the way from Libya to Abuja. Well this is bizarre because it concerns a country Nigeria which is a sovereign nation. Democracy has no international sanctions or travel restrictions whatsoever and so we were happy because it's affected the president. But this is the information, the Qatari government information popped up that they denied President Buhari a visa and told him to reapply. That was what we had. They denied President Buhari a visa permit to visit Qatar, which is the host of the forthcoming World Cup in 2022 and this is one headline I saw. Buhari's request to visit Doha rejected Qatar leader as president to reapply in 2023. Now that medium, I tacked the fake news medium. So I don't go to their page for anything. So we had to do a search and then we realized that what happened was that this is a diplomacy. When a foreign leader is visiting another country, he's not just going there because he just feels like visiting. There should be some sort of back and forth negotiation because it's a big deal. It's a big deal for a foreign leader to visit. It has to be protocol. Even the host must be willing and ready. And then they go through it. So what the Qatari government did was they requested for a change of dates for the planned visit of President Mohammed Buhari to the country in September. They requested a change of date. Now according to a note dated August 19 from the embassy, the embassy of Qatar and Abuja to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the dates of the post visits are not of visitation rather. The dates are not suitable. These are the words of that note. The note established that Nigeria had communicated in writing that President Buhari accepted he was invited. That's why I said you don't visit. You don't go to a president who just said he wants to go for a vacation. But if it's an official visit, there will be sort of an invitation or we're having something come. So the note written to the presidency of the president, the Nigerian government, communicating writing said that President Buhari had, quote, accepted to visit Qatar on 11th to 12th September 2022 on invitation of his hideous Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, a mayor of the state of Qatar. And this Sheikh is very pro-African. He's been, in fact, he is trying his best to end their Qatar to the world. So it would even be a shock to hear that they said, oh, go and reply next time. That's why sometimes you wonder why some of these news sites serially will share fake news. So this is what happened. They instructed the federal government to propose a new date. So please propose a new date for the visit, preferably during the first quarter of 2023. And I want to read some lines from that note so that we understand the context. The context is very important in every story. It says, quote, the embassy of the state of Qatar in Abuja presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Regions Department and with reference to the latter's note, it states the reference number dated 12th of August 2022, informing his Excellency Muhammad Abuwari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has accepted, informing that, rather his Excellency has accepted, to visit Qatar on 11th to 12th September 2022 on the invitation of his hideous and state his name. Now it goes on to say, the proposed dates for the visit are not suitable and kindly request the Nigerian side to propose other dates for the visit during the first quarter of 2023. The embassy of the state of Qatar veils itself out of this opportunity to renew the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria's assurance of its highest consideration of the state of mad. So they invited him, it seems, and then he accepted and said, okay, please change the date. So what the cable, which is a medium I trust, you know, what the cable said is they understand that the rejection of the plan visit is due to the country's preparation for the 2022 World Cup. So they don't want to have too much to do. They want to come after the World Cup so they can focus on his visit. Well, so like you rightly stated, bizarre would be the word, because if you look at the World Cup, the World Cup is billed to start in November and through, you know, December and asking that the President reapply in, you know... Didn't ask him to reapply, let's say, yeah. Okay, so that's actually the report. That is the point you're trying to make. Of course, the point you're trying to make. However, it was said that he should actually choose... The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should propose a new date. A new date. And for them, they've also said that, like you have rightly mentioned, that it will be too much, you know, on the plate to have to grapple with the World Cup and what have you, but that hasn't really... You know, when we said this conversation, you said that a lot of people were excited about, oh, the fact that he's the President, but that's not the thought. If you... We're excited at all. Qatar rejected his application to... No, no, no. It's not because I follow the... I follow the conversation. Some people think that this is embarrassing and totally not acceptable, you know, that the Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the President...  And this has actually not sat down very well. We love Nigerians. They're not really happy. I followed the conversation all through and some people are saying, no, this is totally unacceptable, because we're expected... I mean, there should be some diplomacy, diplomatic visa. The President shouldn't be under any kind of restriction, especially in a democratic, you know, process or system where there's been no restriction or ban. What's the reason? And if you look at it really, you ask yourself, when is the World Cup supposed to start? We're looking at November through December. Really, if the President is supposed to visit between September... I mean, what's the big deal, right? We have September, we have October. So why are we making, you know, a big fuse about this? I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. I'm still trying to understand it, because I, like you rightly stated, it feels very strange and, you know, the information are really not out there. But it's all right. That's what it is. But we have to move away for the want of time. We have more interesting conversations. Yes, indeed. You know, it's a mixed part as usual. You know, you never have one train of reactions in the country. But I think it's important, one point we're making is that they didn't ask the President to reapply. He didn't apply. So you can't reapply for what you didn't apply for. And they didn't reject his request to visit Doha, the Qatari capital. He didn't request to visit. He was invited. So you're asking that he should suggest another date? But yes. Is this a change in schedule? So perverse of fake news should not... I don't need perverse, you know, fake news to stop Nigerians should actually know those who are masters in the craft of... I use craft, but I don't use the one that comes before the craft, who are masters in the craft of spewing fake news in a bit to bring this... I mean, what is the purpose of... So he should choose another date. I mean... Yeah. So what is the purpose of a medium that is verified on Twitter as a news medium in Nigeria constantly and consistently pushing fake news? You know, that's why I said it by saying I don't regard this medium, who said why request to visit Doha rejected Qatari leader as a presentry apply.   No, no, but however... Another one is saying that, okay, I have to give you a five star rating for your fake news capabilities. You know, so what is it? No, but let's even stay with the content, like you always say, and content and context of this particular situation. However, you know, the government has actually asked that there be another date. The government choose another date, you know, for to honor the invitation, because it was not like, I mean, he actually applied to, he was invited. And over time, also remember that you have the monarch who's also visited Nigeria just in recent times, has been hosted right here in Nigeria. The president has hosted him, you know, over time. But the issue surrounding is the fact that, oh, he can't come at a certain time. What exactly is the reason? I mean, choosing another date, what exactly is going on in Doha that the president of the further Republic of Nigeria, the most populous, you know, Black nation cannot greatest nation. I mean, you're talking about number one, powerful nation when you talk about Africa and the continent. But that's what it is. But I understand... You asked an important question. And you say, in the international policy, this is normal. You know, it is not announced... Sorry, can I just point... Why do you say it's normal? Because the reason is that... Can I speak to what you said? This is normal, because it's not... He's not announced to Nigerians that that is visiting Dukata. It's no issue here.  They should actually reject those who spread fake news, like this news medium. Nigerians should reject them. I never use them. In all my editorial meetings, I always would reject stories from... Because they are consistently spreading fake news, consistent. I've flagged them. However, there's something called diplomatic back channels. All this is still on the level of back channels. This is just a note that filtered through to a news organization. And that news organization put it up. But these are back channels. Okay, so this is it. Merci.  I say, Merci, how far? I come home. So you say, okay, oh, you say, coffee, come. Come and eat at Pankoko. All right. And then maybe you invite me and Marianne, because we're both from Calabar. And then on a day through the day, so please, something came up and you have an emergency. You want to do that day. So can we change the dates to another day? It's okay. We say, let's come the following weekend. So fine. And then it's not coming. Say, ah, we called you. We want to visit you. You said, no, we can't come. We should call you later and see if you change your mind. That's, that's... No, no, no, no. But, but, but you understand, no, no, to be very honest, like you have rightly mentioned, I mean, I understand the dynamics of saying that, you know, news media might be fake, but that's not it. Well, even looking at the content, you know, the, the, the exes... It's normal. It's normal.  It's on the level of diplomatic back channels. No, we honest... Right now, I mean, if you say... You know how many, you know how many visits are canceled in, in, in, you know, in international... How many, how many visits have been canceled that it's not in front? Excuse me, do you have any presidents plan to visit places and then they say, oh, sorry, we changed their mind? But would you blame, I mean, it's not easy. It's not a matter of changing your mind. It's not a thing. So, um, Kofi, I understand what you're trying to say, but you also need to look at the reason that has been given or whatever it is, right? Or whether it's a suggestion or whether or not it's not true.  Not to even, you know, tilt towards that other aspect. But we're saying that if you, if you look at it, I mean, what, what could he be? What exactly could he be? With all of the excuses that we put out? Not the one is tilting to that dimension, but one is also querying the consent. Now come on. This is the president of a country, black populist nation, very powerful. That's what we're saying. What is, what is difficult to understand that the Qataris have said that we need to want to focus on the workup, which is just a couple of weeks after the couple of weeks, really. The president is the president. We're looking at the president. No, not so. Is it hard to understand that it's not a matter of fact that we're having to understand that story? Is it hard to understand that they just want to focus on? So they don't seem well. We understand that they want to focus on it. If the president was billed to visit Doher between the 11th of September and the 12th of September, and if the excuse why another date should be picked for this visit or honor the invitation that was given should be, you know, sometime in 2023 so that we can actually focus. And everyone is saying the concern is, oh, if you look at it, the president is going to stay 11 and 12. I mean, he's already specific. How many days? What exactly is the president going to be doing when he gets the Qatar? Is it that he's going to be everywhere? Is he going to stop, you know, the administration and processes? I understand diplomacy and diplomatic, you know, strategy and all of the activities that have to go on. But, you know, that's the question. The event is billed to start in November. And in December, that's when the walk-up will start. So what exactly, how many persons in one is Buhari who will destroy? Let's move away, Kofi. You know, we don't have time. We need to move on to other issues. Another one on the phone, is that the Nigerian forces, they've been accused according to the indigenous people of Biafra. That's iPops saying that Nigerian security forces are using e-bowmen as spokespersons for their propaganda. And that's because you have, if you look at security, for instance, now they said that the Nigerian army, that's the Nigerian police and the Department of State Services, are using relations officer, that's a PR because these persons are from this region, are using them as tools to ridical Nigerians of e-bow extraction. Really, you know, I'm still wrapping my mind about. I mean, my mind around all of these issues. Really, but that's the thought. And if we constantly talk about the issue of marginalization, this is me now bringing this to the fore, constantly. So you have several regions who are saying that we're not being tagged along. We're not carried out. We're not carried along in, you know, several activities. For instance, the e-bows have not produced a president and what have you, but you still have, you know, the e-bows as PR in holding very critical positions, spokespersons for different security, you know, architecture. I'm just wondering, is it that, can we really have enough? What is it really enough? Can anything even be enough? It should also just be a problem. So you are spokespersons, you're from, let's even say that you're from one of the... It's a long one. Okay, so that's your choice. Well, so you're from Michelangua. And then all of a sudden they're saying that, you know, because you are the PR for the pleas of all the Nigerian Army or the DSS and one of you, then you are now the tool for propaganda. I'm just saying, can humans be satisfied? Can we ever get to a point where we say, hey, this is what it is? So I'm just taking it back and I'm wondering what exactly, you know, the issue here is, because we're saying people are not marginalized. And then you have sub-persons occupying this position. And then we're saying, oh, they're being used as a tool, kind of tool again. So the information is that the three agencies stated by Ima Pafu, of course, that's not his name. You know, so the three agencies stated by Ima Pafu, the spokesman of the independent people of Biafra Group, I think that's the student name. He mentioned the public relations outside of Spokesman person for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Oyema Wachiku, former police spokesman Frank Mba, and DSS mouthpiece Dr. Afu Naya as the instances. You know, but interesting to me is the fact that Frank Mba is no longer the spokesman of the police. So why is he being mentioned?   Did they put a gun to their head, you know, to force them to accept the positions? No. Did they force them? No. Did they have a choice to say, I want to leave this organization? Yes. You know, and I think that it's high time the group, you know, through Spokesman, really looks at the very important and salient issues that need to be addressed. And, you know, things like this make a mockery of the whole idea of agitating for self-actualization, which is a very important concept and idea. You know, you look at the salient issues of self-actualization, the salient issues of marginalization, and the issues surrounding marginalization of peoples from the Southeast in Nigeria. They're very important critical components of this, this marginalization that need to be highlighted from time to time, you know, and it begins to water down the importance of such a critical issue of self-actualization, which is guaranteed by most of the international, all the international conventions that Nigeria has signed up to guarantee at least some aspects of it would support, you know, the conventions that have to do with human rights, you know, rights of people would support in a way, you know, self-actualization. For crying out loud, Nigeria itself as a nation is built on self-actualization, the independence of the country in 1960. So, it's a right which they are allowed to agitate for. However, this particular matter, you know, it's not as important as the main, the meat, you know, who is being a spokesperson for, you know, let's see the organization get to the, and stick to the main issues, which they've been doing in the past, which they've been doing in the past. You know, for this one, I think it's another, you know, the people who want to, who want to work, you know, and they are doing a job, don't, don't, don't spoil the opportunities to be opponent positions, because, okay, well, we don't want to remove them, you know, they've been able to rise through the ranks through distinguished career and from combating into a bad job, you understand, Iyema Wajiku is doing his job, it's, you know, okay, good job, you know, and the fine gentleman, so why spoil their chance of, of survival, you know, yeah, we have to move to the next story. So, yeah, merci. All right, so we have the next one here, a trailer falling on, on the Legacy Butter Express way, worsening traffic, and that, that is not news, because it happens from time, I think the last one happened about maybe a week or so ago, where a trailer fell, it's normal, it happens there, you know, it just, it's almost like the, the plan to, well, let me just leave the analysis for you, I'll comment later, but the trailer fell on the Legacy Butter Express way, and that worsened the recent traffic situation on the road, it was about Tuesday morning, it tumbled on the Kara Bridge, this Kara Bridge is also a flag, people have flagged that area. Now, we hear a team of the FRS, that's Nigeria's Federal Road Safety Corps, was already at the scene yesterday to solve this situation, and at the time the report was filed, the traffic on the road from Berger, the Berger point for those who know Lagos, it was a point of concern, and it's been an issue over the past few weeks, with the construction going on on the road, and the Federal Controller works in Lagos State, Madame, I've forgotten the name now, already, particular U-turn to be blocked, that was the issue, and it cost, she said it was going to help, yes, she said it was going to help the smooth flow of traffic, but, two Fridays ago it was hell.  But it's a real offer, because I mean, that's a commitment, government saying, we understand we have seen the challenges of what's going on, and so we're going to try. We also have reports of peasants who have lost their lives on that particular road, because of the whole traffic that's going on, and all the situations stampeding, what a view people being in traffic. I even saw that some people earned a job, there's any leaving where people have to take people on their backs, like camels and horses. It's interesting, you know, in Pahaka, they were pushing people on wheelbarrows. No, it's not wheelbarrows, no, you have to. Yes, so we came built a new flower by the place called Mokoro, and it was completely refused to, to, he hadn't, sorry, commissioned it, so for some weeks or months, it was there, and so people were not allowed cars and not allowed to use it, so you have to drop your one edge, and you have to trek, people were tired, they were pushing them in wheelbarrows. No, no, this one, people have to take them, take them, you know, take them on the back, like back them and cross from one point to the other, and some persons were making and leaving, earning and leaving, like horses and camels, because this is what horses and camels actually do, but we see that right in our space. Let the government, if the government has actually made a commitment to ensuring that road users do not suffer, then let them keep to, you know, the commitment. It's a lot, I mean, sometimes ask myself, if you see some of these heavy duty vehicles plying our ways, some of them are transporting different products, sensitive products, and I ask myself, don't we have other means of transporting this product? For instance, let's even say you find, you know, the heavy duty vehicles carrying petrol, carrying whatever, plying the roads, because the road, first of all, it's not even motorable for, you know, vehicles that are not heavy duty to ply, and then you now have heavy duty. What happens to having pipelines where, you know, all of these products can actually pass through without necessarily going through our roads? It's a lot. You know, you wonder what would cause a vehicle just to tumble like that. You already know. We have up the press, after press up next, of course, lawyer, Tunde Kolaola is standing by to give us expert analysis, we'll be right back after this break.


Lou and I thought we would chitchat a bit about You know what? For a while, so if Ed Stringer would like to step out of the room for a few minutes. He's welcome to do that There you go. You're a good sport Ed. We appreciate that. So we'll chitchat. We have not planned this out So it could be like the I always give this example the Beatles movie magical mystery tour They're big flop because the plan was they would ride around England and just record whatever happened And then it turned out nothing did happen. So it was a flop. So I so there but I sometimes I sometimes I feel like a Conversation with Lou Rockwell. That's not gonna happen. I just mean I didn't we didn't plan this out in advance We thought we'd talk a little bit about what's going on in terms of politics and then maybe entertain some questions And and go from there and then Lou will have Some time to be speaking from the podium as well. So Lou and I had a conversation Not too long ago just last week I guess on my podcast at Tom Woods calm and Lou and I have been doing post debate analysis Episodes after the various debates we did them after the GOP primary debates. And so we did one after this first national presidential debate between the two parties and For some reason I get a lot of people saying I'm not interested in politics and this and that but for some reason These people are not really telling me the truth because the most downloaded episodes of my whole show are the post-debate Analysis episodes done done with Lou. So we talked a little bit about Some of the issues that were raised in that debate and some of the missed opportunities because personally I just I just want that fake robotic smile taken off her face on live television. I'm sorry, you know, I just want One thing we one thing we missed when we were doing the analysis was her point about she wants profit sharing That was mentioned earlier today and David Gordon our universal genius with the Mises Institute Immediately made the point. Well, would that also include loss sharing? Because one of the reasons you want to be an employee rather than an owner is that you don't have to worry as Immediately about profits because one way or another you're gonna get your paycheck now Obviously in the long term if there are sustained losses Over and over again quarter after quarter you're gonna lose your job But in the short run you can weather that because you'll still get your paycheck if you had to share that constantly That would give you an uncertainty that a lot of people don't want to bear So if there are companies that can attract employees who are very prone to risk or who are Have an appetite for risk Maybe they would want to have their income pegged to the fortunes of the company But not everybody wants that they want to know I want to be able to make sure I can make my mortgage payment every month Come what may with the fortunes of the company? So that would be one particular point but Lou in the aftermath of that debate I think the You know the media consensus was that she showed she was much smarter and more prepared There's been a more popular level consensus though that he basically just He still wins to some degree because he stood there as a tough guy And he didn't he didn't completely fail and he had a very low threshold that he had to meet for success given how low the Expectations were how do you look at this now that we've had a week to look over all the commentary from all these different people? well Tom, I think it's true that that I Would say even even the more honest poll show that people think He won on points. Although I must say my my view was that he lost on points So I think You know, I think all the I think the fact that he discussed just a remondo had a good article about this That's the pro-peace points he made That he was not for a nuclear first strike, which of course is considered a horrible thing that a President would ever say they're not gonna do that why the president has to be prepared to destroy the earth on Any at any moment that he thinks it's necessary. I Was wondering we talk about dictatorship What about the fact that one guy can choose on his own say so to destroy the entire earth? I mean is that illegitimate power? So the fact that Trump said that I hope he means it But I think the whole foreign policy thing is very very important Murray Rothbard always argued that that As he put it in a private letter in the 50s. He comes to the conclusion the whole libertarian thing Was really about war versus peace So we have I think there's even indication that some of the deep state is pro-trump not For reasons except the war and peace question. I think more and more people think as they look at Hillary She's actually capable of starting a nuclear war with Russia But she actually whether that would be your intention or she just keep pushing pushing pushing pushing and then and then something Unexpected happens or whether she would actually launch a first strike, but I think many of us feel she's capable of that And there are even aspects of the deep state. They don't actually want the world destroyed. They like their lives they like running everything and The concerned about that so Trump overall made I think failed to make many many points. He should have made a Lot of the stuff. He said was wrong a lot of it was grandiose and Maybe even slightly crazy Although there's never been except Ron Paul and politics crazy But I think the more in peace question Think that buddy and what they had to say about that helped and again the fact that she looked I mean she For example, where'd all her wrinkles go just to just ask that I Have wrinkles too, so I'm not criticizing her but All her wrinkles jowls Pouches and so but just were gone. Was that all makeup was it Botox was it Some Hollywood magic. I don't know and you notice this is never addressed But I thought she looked she really looked like an older version of Cruella Deville I mean she was a very repellent repellent figure and it's it's one thing that The anti-clinton forces have going for them Nobody likes her Even the most ardent Democrats they don't like her. She's a very unlikable person. She's a I would argue a scary person but she definitely is eminently hateable and I think that Came through in that whole that whole debate people just got sick and tired We know from some of the focus groups afterwards They didn't like her looks and they thought that Trump despite the crazy hair and and all the rest Was a much more likeable figure? We hope that people are right to put their trust in him Who knows as butler Schaefer always says no matter who wins the election or whatever party wins the state always wins so Maybe things are or such that Trump who did criticize the Fed by the way talked about there being a bubble Talked about what they were doing to interest rates just to raise those questions only Ron Paul has ever raised those questions to my knowledge ever In American politics at that level anyway So I don't know. I also think it's good news today The natural Farage is coming over to to help prep him for the next debate And it was Nigel Farage is one of the great debaters and orators of our time I think this can't this can't but be a problem for Hillary, but we'll see I Do I do think just from on from a a Personal personal level I find this campaign very fun It's it's just usually I find became politics just very much unfun but I think the fact that It's just hilarious So at least we're getting a little entertainment for our tax dollars We don't get much for our tax though once in a while as in the Clarence Thomas hearings If once in a while you get something that is funny and you get a little something so We'll see what happens Because Trump is wrong on so much As I pointed out the time before I think Hillary is wrong on everything. I mean, she's like a hundred percent wrong and I feel dangerous from a war and peace question and She really is a neocon She's joined at the hip with the neocons who are the craziest people on war and peace questions you know sort of the Think of the American establishment Just use a one-word description sort of the Rockefeller types within the American establishment What they liked was the original Cold War. It was just ideal nobody They didn't have to worry about Washington or New York being nuked and Yet they could get everybody stirred up Everybody supporting the state everybody supporting the policies that would further enrich and empower them But there seem to be people I think back to Herman Kahn The famous neocon of the 1960s who wrote a book called thinking the unthinkable But why the US should be prepared and actually should engage in regular nuclear wars This would be just great for the whole world and for the American Empire. There are people who have these kinds of views They're all around Hillary Clinton Some very bad people are on Trump too, but by and large the people who Might endanger life on earth are around Hillary so We'll see what's gonna happen in these next two debates. I do I do tend to think the Trump is gonna win and because you It's always trouble when you get what you ask for right? I mean it's so well we'll see But it's just tremendous fun A quick thing about Hillary and her Personality because her the people around her saying if only the country could see the woman We see the the thoughtful me right have you read this the warm wonderful person We all know and of course these are not the stories you hear from her bodyguards and stuff, you know, but To me the most revealing anecdote I've heard on this goes back to the 1990s when her friend Lonnie Guinear was up for confirmation by the to the Supreme Court and Guinear was getting savaged by the right wing like they were just she was not going anywhere and she was flailing and It was it was a terrible situation for her and There was a now. So, you know, Hillary by that point had figured out. Well, this woman's a loser for me So Hillary has already mentally moved on so she's in a situation where the two of them literally cross paths Now here's Lonnie when you're absolutely wrecked and crushed by this whole scenario that the Clintons put her in by nominating her and Hillary just said hi and walked away Not hey. Oh my gosh. I am so sorry what you're going through. It's it was more of Look, you're done your toast and you're not gonna help me any so I'm already moving on I think that is a glimpse into who she but not just her That's a glimpse into who Bill is a glimpse into who all these people are that that's why I feel like a lot of times when I walk around Washington, DC and I walk past some of these people. I just get the chills On the other hand people who go in politics people who rise in politics tend all to be Exhibit narcissistic personality disorder many of them are psychopaths That's good argument against the state, right but Again, I find this all to be fun one of the thing I'll enjoy is the fact that everybody hateable hates Trump So that doesn't that's not an endorsement of him doesn't mean we know anything that's gonna happen, but it is fun I enjoy I enjoy seeing everybody on all the networks just vibrating with hatred and So that's it's happy to have it's a happy thing to see them unhappy So questions Not a question just a comment. I I run a dog business and part of our dog business is selling Trump and Hillary Chew Toys They've been a fabulous success Trump is ahead three to one There have been countries in the world by the way we're doing that would put you in jail So at least we still we can still have our dogs chew them up fun Hi My name is Geary. I'm from Brookline and I have a question about whether we need a pure candidate To be successful as a movement. We idolized Ron Paul. I think everyone here loves Ron Paul But he's just one man and he's getting very old There is a libertarian party Gary Johnson now When we hear about the philosophies of rock bar in anarcho capitalism The American people are never gonna go for something called anarchy So is there some permissible level of I don't want to say watering down But is there some other mechanism other than anarchy? Maybe it's we promote local government something that sounds less threatening as a means to The political and we're looking for Or does it have to be pure? I think there's no question. That's that's true I mean Mario's used to point out if somebody's running on a platform of cutting the sales tax by one cent Gotta be for him. I mean, that's that's not the answer, but at anything that's incremental step forward sometimes I'm afraid with Gary Johnson. Maybe it's not actually an incremental step Getting better William Weld But yeah, there was one we're on Ron Paul, thank God for Ron Paul and the example he said his whole life But they're gonna be you know, so if I mean it's enough for me If the world's not going to be destroyed as a result of the election if that's you know but this is all it's all it's all a role of the dice all these people and The state is a role of the dice and we know So as Tom points out, there's many happy things to look forward to And then we have the the killers the oppressors the the thieves You know, these are all these are all rotten people I will say and I've asked people who know far more than I do Whether they can think of any other any example of world history where a businessman became a dictator Everybody tells me no, so I think it's having been a businessman Something very good about that So we'll see but I think he probably is going to be the I think he probably is going to be The nominee and then Those of us who didn't like Hillary will be blamed for every bad thing he does and there'll be plenty of bad things he does But can it incrementally get better Even from a source who would have thought that this might happen with this guy So sure absolutely, we don't on the other hand I think there's every reason in the world for a Ron Paul who influenced millions of young people all over the world not just here He has up and did other kinds of work Wasn't so much the votes he got although in his congressional district He did very well. He won a lot of elections even against incumbents, which is almost unheard of in American politics so there's a you know 1,000 flowers bloom 100 schools of thought content, right? I mean let Although when Mao said that of course he wanted to see who had bad views and he killed them all so that's not that's not our view, but absolutely there's many ways to do things and none of us know even in an infinitesimal way to do it and You could never could have predicted or talking about things you couldn't have predicted who could have predicted a Ron Paul This guy would go from medicine to politics and change hearts and minds of millions of people towards liberty it's just As to those who will say they want to go into politics themselves to copy around Paul There's only been ever one Ron Paul Doesn't mean there couldn't be a second, but we so far there's just one But what a great what a great example and inspiration. He is Just tremendous I'll say just a quick thing if I were running as a libertarian You're right. If I were to say we should have competing defense agencies I don't think that's going anywhere, but I don't have to what I would do. I mean One smart thing Trump has done as compared to Hillary is you at least know what his issues are He's got three or four big issues that matter to him. I don't know what Hillary's issues are I mean think about it, right? I don't really know what her issues are She has an opinion on everything, but what is her focus? She doesn't seem to have one As a libertarian candidate, which by the way would not happen So please don't ask but as a libertarian candidate I would focus on four maybe I'd pick four things and I would hammer home on those four things That won't be discussed if I don't discuss them and one of them would be you know what here's what I pledge I'm gonna go four years without bombing anybody. There'll be no kids without limbs because of me You know so no No child, you know no child Yeah, right exactly right exact no child is gonna die unnecessarily because of me and Who else is gonna take that pledge? So I would do that and then yeah, and then I would hone in on the Fed because it turns out Contrary to what I thought would happen Ron Paul did very well by mentioning the Fed I actually thought he should shut up about the Fed up to see see why I shouldn't be anywhere near this I have no idea what I'm talking about But I would I would emphasize the heck out of that and I would make these simple points And you can make that point that I made here simple that they're trying to induce you to borrow and borrow and borrow to Stimulate the economy now that you can't borrow anymore. What other trick do they have the whole thing was a scam from the start What do we need these people for they have no idea what they're doing, you know You can you can pitch that in a populist way So I would find a few things and really hit them hard Things that the others won't be asking and then you get people to say why won't the others talk about this I might just mention one quite quick thing about Ron Paul when he was campaigning in 2008 He went to the University of Michigan Everybody's surprised they got more than 4,000 kids in the quad to listen to when he's giving his normal speech and he hears Here's these sounds from the audience and then he realizes they're all chanting end the Fed End the Fed which is where he got the title of his book And he said kids started lighting dollar bills on fire and holding them up Sort of a take that Bernanke a moment so People care about the Fed especially now especially as they come as tom points out as they're coming to realize what a horrific Institution this is how how damaging how many lives it shortened how many people it's put into poverty How how it's funded the wars never could have had world wars without central banking so There's opening on those kinds of issues too, but I like tom's anti-bombing pledge I'm voting for you tom. Thanks. Thanks. Lou Gentlemen, could you give me a thoughts on uh, elizabeth warren's rising popularity and her chastise on the wells faggo CEO a week or two ago I didn't i'm sorry to say i didn't follow it. I have so much traveling coming up I haven't followed any current events the past few weeks. I'm just running myself ragged Well, uh, you know elizabeth the phony indian um, and somehow that's never brought up right if If some right winger had Pretended to be part Cherokee and gotten into harvard because of it and gotten a job at harvard law school because of her phony Indian background. I think we'd hear about it all the time so, uh, but she You know any president of any CEO of wells faggo any big bank is bound to be a bad guy. I mean that's these are these are not Market institutions for the most part So I thought it was good.  I mean the u.s senator is an evil doer, right? I mean so at least the president of wells fargo was doing some good things in his life um, but this was you know It's very easy to grill people when you're a senator and you can people can't really answer your back And uh, you can't actually say, you know, I you're living off stolen funds, madam Right, you're not because they'll say his lawyers will say, ah, you know, you can't make those kinds of comments um, but I don't think she's as popular as she once was I think that, uh I think she's a very significant figure in massachusetts, unfortunately, but um I must say I don't think she has a political future. I think she's very unlikable to it Now she's not unlikable on the hillary level She's really an unpleasant Pleasant person like to run your life run your family run your home run your community run your business All into the ground and of course bring on war despite her alleged pro-peace You know, she's actually of course a warmonger exactly like bernie sanders by the way for some reason people thought was pro-peace always a warmonger always With the one of you he was he opposed the iraq war, but he voted for all the funding and of course tries to get military contracts for Vermont and all the normal criminal activities of these people But I don't I don't I hope I'm right. I don't think we I don't think we have anything to fear except people in massachusetts From elizabeth warren And I'm from massachusetts, so I care about that Lou, I've always wanted to know where in massachusetts. Are you from I'm from the town of belmont, which is a Oh belmont, okay suburb of boston right right next to cambridge extremely left-wing um Like everything else in eastern massachusetts So they heard you were coming today and are they having lou rockwell day later over in belmont planning it? Yeah Back in the day, I used to be the editor of the belmont citizen newspaper. Hey, and um one of the things I've been hearing today and everywhere is that There's a tremendous amount of despair Out there and in inside me And I heard recently of a website called vote anyway dot net And what it is is it's it's selling a voter assistance device Which is essentially a clothespin Especially adapted so that does not hurt when you put it on your nose and go into the polling place And one of them says voting for hillary and the other one says voting for trump So vote anyway dot net if you're feeling great despair and you are uncomfortable about making either of those choices I'll just um a slight dissent on that. I think it's much more fun not to vote First of all, you're not going into that government environment of the voting The voting booth area and having to park and go through a hassle But your vote doesn't matter And it's in a sacrament of the state and all those kinds of but just in a fundamental sense Unless the election is decided by one vote Let's say in the Our electoral votes in massacres, it's allocated by congressional district But whatever is the whatever is the uh The area that you're voting Is it going to be dissent, you know, nothing's decided by one vote But once in a great while some little mayoral election is decided by one vote Your vote doesn't count your vote doesn't matter. So, uh, I'm not thinking it's if you want to vote That's you know, that's fine, but I must say I get much more fun out of Putting a closed pin on the whole system and just having nothing to do with it in that practical sense Um, I just wanted to say um, but at least in my lifetime the past 20 years or so Uh, massachusetts had had a history of republican governors And I think that's because a lot of the towns outside the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, boston and some of the amherst towns out west A lot of the um towns are awfully conservative So despite what the national media thinks of massachusetts The reality Isn't quite that we just get outweighed by the academics and the cities But my question is trump supports a tariff and uh It's my understanding that the um original originally the the after the revolution The um main tax was a tariff um So at my opinion the best tax if any would be a flat tax So I was wondering if there could be some type of hybrid With a small tariff match with a flat tax to fund the government And what your thoughts on that might be Well, I mean if you're interested I mean presumably you could The I mean the difference would be that trumps proposed tariffs are not Not really intended to be revenue tariffs. They're meant to discourage certain kinds of activity So it would be It would be a pure bonus if it actually brought in money The point is that since nobody would ever pay that Tariff because it's it makes the foreign good so expensive you buy domestically So therefore you don't pay the tariff. So he is he's not saying let let me think of what what's the Preferred tax form that the founding fathers would have been happiest with they basically They didn't all agree but the early thing was to have a a tariff for revenue That was not so high that no one would ever pay it And then eventually that developed into a protective tariff But the two kinds of tariff are very different because they lead to different consequences one collects money for the government One discourages people from buying foreign goods Um So overwhelmingly that it basically brings in little to no money for the government So if you if you asked ron paul, what would you favor? As a tax i'm fairly certain that his his argument was a very low tariff I think that was about it That's better from a civil liberties standpoint, too If you don't have the irs breathing down your neck But this tongue points out A protective terrace doesn't bring in money. It's again Whereas a revenue tariff has to be low enough to generate income And that was the that in selling federal and selling federal land to people to homestead Was also a big source of government revenue in those days. There's no direct taxation so Trump You know tariffs tariffs are a problem. I don't want to shock anybody the u.s. Is not a free trade nation It's not actually free trade is where I can sell something to some guy in germany and the none of the government's business I can buy something from some guy in russia None of the government's business. That's nobody advocates that except ron paul So it's all control or non-tariff barriers many many and a dumping regulation the many us is is a protectionist Government and every politician is a protectionist of some sort the exception again of ron paul so And I once spent an entire day This is a terrible thing to confess and the government printing office in washington looking at the nafta treaty Which is you know a gigantic series of books In those days you can only see it in the government printing office and it was on a chain With a hole through it you could you could look through it And there was nothing in there about free trade. Every single thing was here's a special deal for caterpillar Here's a special deal for westinghouse, you know, etc um So unfortunately The bad guys have been very successful in labeling all this free trade Now we get blamed because some of the bad effects of these trade deals are the trans pacific trans pacific business Which would extend IP regulations all over the world in a new and horrible way and just these these agreements are not free trade They're anti free trade agreements So Trump would trump's taxes be worse I don't know you his tax plan is pretty good. Is it all a fraud? But his his at least a tax plan that he's issued Would be a huge improvement in terms of cutting corporate taxes and and income tax rates so I think people are not happy with the present system Could go always get worse Maybe we'll get better Maybe we're lost to be alive. That would be a nice bonus But the government's not bombing us in effect Uh, hello, my name is uh, Liam. I'm a high school senior, uh from boston My question is about the inheritance tax that helerie wants to enforce Which as you may know, she wants to raise it to a 45 55 65 tax bracket Set up I would just like to know your thoughts on how that's going to affect the economy in total and also how To what extent it is unjust to those who have been productive over their lives and saved up Thank you Well, I I always thought it was a bizarre kind of tax because the money has already been taxed these earnings You already paid all the taxes on them. So why would I pay again?  What are you talking about? But yeah, I mean, there are all kinds of horror shows about Small businesses having to liquidate completely in order to pay these taxes. It's it's devastating to normal people basically Um, but but lou, what are your thoughts? Well, I was gonna say this is one of the items in the communist manifesto Uh, Carl Marx like his disciple hillary hate the idea People being able to pass anything on to their heirs or to charities like the mesis institute. We're very very blessed to have people Leave money in their wills to us So but the Marxist hate it even James Buchanan the sort of free market economist Wanted a hundred percent inheritance taxes pappy cannon has proposed a hundred percent inheritance taxes this is Not a good thing in the present oligarchs By the way, I like hide high taxes of this sort because it prevents other people from Developing their own family fortunes state loves it because they don't like powerful private families that they don't that are not part of the state So from a from a social benefits standpoint There should be zero inheritance taxes This is of course Lincoln had it was the founder of the inheritance tax in America like so many other evil things And this has always been a big deal of the left Um, I actually think hillary made a mistake In advocating that I think that's I think that was a stupid political mistake It's one thing to whisper it to our friends to make that an open I think uh, I think americans are not as envious As they sometimes would like us to be and people Don't think there's a bad thing about somebody saving up and passing Uh, something onto their children their grandchildren their church Um, we all we all like that. So, um, I think in hope that she made a very bad mistake in telling what she really wants She'd like a hundred percent. I'm sure But of course, they're greedy too. So they want money Uh, they want your money, but um, they don't want private wealth accumulation of any sort while you're living or after your death Lou, it's just about time for you to say a few words But before we do that I'd like to say a little something about the mesas institute If I could especially here Because I was at this institution when I discovered the mesas institute back in 1993. I was a junior And that's when I saw the magazine ad for the mesas university program I mailed away for the information and I got it and I can tell you something. I mean I I told you before I don't look back with regrets on my college years. I had a wonderful time and I did a lot of great fun things and I learned a lot but The mesas institute has it all over this place and I can tell you as somebody who was here for four years that I never felt so intellectually liberated as I did when I was at the mesas institute's program and that's what Basically made me into the guy I am now and started doing the things that I that I do now It gave me a whole new way of looking at the world that I was instantly convinced of And it gave me a desire to Carry on in this tradition It gave me the tools I needed so that when the financial crisis hit I could release basically the first book out on the financial crisis was written by an austrian That was my book meltdown and that was a new york times bestseller for 10 weeks Now how was I able to write that book in one month? Because I knew the stuff because I had been a student of the mesas institute for so many years That is an effective institution And believe me I do a lot of public speaking. I run into a lot of ineffective institutions I run into a lot of institutions that blow a lot of donor money on nothing You are paying for the chauffeur of the president of the think tank half the time That is not the case lou drives himself That is not the case and jeff dice. He drives himself to and from the mesas institute So I I want to urge people if you're if you like what you hear you like what you see at mesas.org Let's remember what we always say which is that in a free society We won't need to force people to build up Educational and charitable institutions. They will do it voluntarily because they see the value in it Well, let's put our money where our mouths are about that and I urge you today today before you leave To see christie at the table and join the mesas institute and help us out because it is and I I don't earn a salary from the institute Uh, I I just like to promote it because of all the great things that did for me and all the good things It's doing in the world. There are a lot of think tanks you can go to that'll give you a lot of mealymouth stuff You won't get anything mealymouth in the mesas institute And that's why the sharpest young minds are going through the mesas institute's programs help them continue that by becoming a member of the institute today Okay, that was my


Snestrunk Hey, welcome back to snestrunk plays secret of mana and we are in the mushroom kingdom of Matsego Mantango Let's get the sword back King truffle truffle oil is so good on certain things Matango, that's what it is. I don't know if anybody out there has had truffle fries Like french fries cooked in truffle oil, I guess they're so good so good They're not as heavy as as french fries usually are But goddamn, they're awesome Especially when you're drunk and it's like two in the morning. Oh, just the best.  Wait a second.  Let's take a look and see what they have here 10,000 gold goddamn. That's why you want to take the long way a lot of times Hang on my controller There we go wolfs band we're gonna need three of those Anyway, it's allergies. It's beginning to be allergy season for me when I report as I'm recording this it's the end of July and Hot damn.  But when I started this channel, I started it in September of like 2013 I think almost two years now and when I When I Started this channel, I was really bad allergies So it's it's always funny to hear my voice over at that time period at the very beginning because I'm always like this, you know, it sounds super scratchy and Just sound like this sound like shit for the most part It's a thing if you're not familiar with seasonal allergies Even the stuff you take that helps like Allegra or even if you're prescribed like I've been many times prescribed Why it starts with a G. It's like way fin or something like that.  I Just realized we've all we're all wearing the same thing now all three of my characters are wearing the same thing So it looks like we're like wearing a uniform like a Team Rocket It's about all I know about Pokemon. This Team Rocket is funny. The Team Rocket makes me laugh anytime I come across the animated show And I see them All right, let's talk to King Truffle Prize Hey, here's what's his name? It's all about it. It's not anything bad, I hope Well, since we got the cash, we might as well Create the glove here to Wolverine Claws, I guess great Zena's boomerang thing to a regular boomerang What else we got? That's probably it He didn't even thank us afterward.  What's over here? You know what I'm gonna rest up at the end because I always forget to do that and I always end up Taking a fairy walnut when I clearly don't have to I don't even think I've done this on this. Let's play yet but anyway Fist pump when you wake up, you know what we did do this at once at one point at least once because I remember the fist pump Um The uh, this is probably in fact this this will be the last Secret amount of let's play I'm gonna be winding down these let's plays.    That's why he was blocking that door Because last night I took uh This stuff I was prescribed. I can't even remember the name of it It's really heavy duty stuff to the point where I have to open up the capsule and dump out A little bit of the medication because if I take an entire pill stocked with that stuff It's just too much and I sleep for like 12 hours and I don't want to do that So yeah, and even then like it's just it's so heavy It's like taking like five drama mean if you've ever taken drama before Motion sickness Which is very very probably the most over the cap the most Come on Probably the most pleasant over-the-counter like High you can get It's the most ghetto thing I could possibly say kind of talk about right now But the drama mean is very pleasant at least it is for me and it helps me sleep every once in a while if I'm really Stressed out if there's a shitload of anxiety or whatever drama means seems to help That's uh There we go. Let's use some of this magic Gotta level this up anyone Well, you don't have to it would just be nice to usually it's the corresponding magic you get Is going to be necessary to use On the the next dungeon's box at least that's how it works You know, you would think it would work and kind of like a zelda logical fashion You get the item in the dungeon and then the dungeon item is used to Kill the box You know, I'd be really cool to do it. Let's play a links awaken Probably in fact, that is my favorite zelda game. It is really fun And it's really it's a goofy story And the structure of it is better than any other zelda game I think we have the whip equipped so we don't have to screw around with switching weapons Make the leap Here it's sonic the hedgehog over here You know, you see an enemy in a game like this that uh, a blue hedgehog Is that is that supposed to be a hedgehog? Is it a bull? No, it makes you think like, ooh, is that some kind of subtle thing about uh fighting sonic the hedgehog or But then it's like, oh that's just good Nintendo probably couldn't be They probably should have as they were really Doing well for a while Late 80s early 90s, but Nintendo's kind of always been in their own universe like this to this day They don't give one iota of a shit about what playstation But sony rather and what microsoft does and it was the same way back in the day too.  That's a pit and this leads nowhere great At least not yet. I think that leads somewhere eventually.   I mean nintendo was pretty much printing money back in the late 80s and Early 90s and all that.  So you'd think it would be air blasts And you would be wrong Kind of dumb, but it's actually freeze that gets me but we leveled up to level two. Which is pretty cool I was wrong. It's actually earth slide There we go And that filled in that hole that we came across the hole that I thought it was a door Duh earth slide fills the thing and there's all right Where am I going since we were up? I don't think I want to go this way get over. Oh my god big flaw in this game People getting stuck God dammit Well, it doesn't matter. All you gotta do is switch characters if one guy gets confused All right, I'm gonna wrap this up. So stay tuned for it'll be the last nest drunk. Let's play. It'll be a different game. I hope to Go at it from start to finish. Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your day