Electric Boogaloo Turbo! Electric Boogaloo is break dance too! Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the pro-crastinators podcast.  I'm the best guy ever, and we are joined by Tom Oliver. I am a sequel to myself. I've revived my old channel. It's back.  Go subscribe to it! Impressive. A hypocrite is here. This is part one of my sentence. This is part two of my sentence. The sequel. What do you think? A bit of use of a semicolon to break that up, or otherwise that would have been two sentences. I can't just say semicolon out loud. What am I, gay? Yeah, and we've also got Digi, Brony, MLP. Once again, our favorite. PCP to electric boom! There it is. We're talking about sequels today, everybody. Sequels is the topic of this episode of the PCP. We're really, really scraping the bottom of that barrel. God doesn't feel good. God doesn't feel good. That's where all the gold cakes on.  So the bottom of the barrel is totally thematically relevant to the topic of sequels anyway, because that's really what they do in sequels.  We're just gonna milk this, and we're gonna have Halloween March 18. I think we made that argument about remakes when we did our remakes episode. But I think sequels are a little different depending on what kind of sequel it is, because the way I see it, good sequels are all about taking the original and looking at it with a critical eye and saying, how do we do it even better? At least ideally. In a perfect world, that's what all sequels would be. Well, I was just gonna say, like a perfect example of that, the perfect sequel of all time, Shrek 2. It improved on all aspects of Shrek, and I like it. It's really good. I actually hear that opinion most of the time about Shrek 2. Shrek 2 is liked, I think. And so is Shrek 3, isn't it? Not so much. In fact, 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 are like their worst than Kingdom Hearts. Are there really 7? There's a lot. There's at least 5. There's at least 4. There's 3 and 4, I think. Okay, okay. Well, I don't know. This is a corporatized world we live in. It's very possibly could be 7 Shrek movies. Hey, well I was just playing a sequel this very morning, and actually, I'm not sure if it counts. So you guys can tell me. Does Mario mainline Mario games count as sequels? I'm playing Mario Odyssey right now. I think that counts. That definitely counts. I think that's an interesting question. Mario Galaxy 2 is very definitively a sequel because it's literally like the same thing but they built on it. That's exactly the kind of sequel I'm talking about where they took the first game and they said, okay, this is great. What can we do to tweak it to make it a little bit fresh and new but still be the same. It's like a sequel is one thing and then there's a next one in a series, which is great. I don't know if you've heard of that. I think all the Mario games, they're sequels to each other. I think the core ideas in Mario Odyssey is the platforming, the jumping and all that stuff. That's an idea that has been in Mario's DNA from the original Super Mario Brothers and all of these are just iterations and ways of tweaking the formula. Iteration is a good word but I don't know if I'd use sequel. Look at Dr. Mario's beloved entry in the Mario franchise. That's a spin-off. That's something totally different. That's the idea of sequel is like you would watch them or play them in a series. They are very closely linked and you would go if you wanted to do all of them. Mario Odyssey is built so that you could play it as your first Mario game. They want you to be able to do that. There's no need to play Super Mario 64 first whereas with the Galaxy games, I think they definitely intended like hey, you liked Galaxy 1, now you can do another one. It almost works as an expansion of sorts. It really is kind of like a level pack and then there's additional new powers. It reminds me a little bit of like Brood War from StarCraft. That's kind of what you get.  But other than that, there's not a heck of a lot. Okay, here's a question I have for you guys. What was Gibbs saying? I was going to say like this interesting you say StarCraft because that has like DLC but it's also a sequel to StarCraft 1. I'm talking about StarCraft 1. There's sequels and there's expansion. Sometimes there's DLC that basically are sequels. Sometimes there's DLC that continues to narrative. The line is blank. Well, here's the thing. I think we're forgetting something very important. We're all trying to define what a sequel is.  Urban Dictionary is what's going to be able to define this for us. I've got it open. So we don't have to sit here arguing about it. I've got it open. I've got it open here. All right. Well, let's settle it once and for all. Okay, here we go. A sequel, something of inferior quality, an utterance of absolute disgust. And here's the full thing. The word that owes its second meaning to the long list of low-budget waste of space sequels to box office smashes in which none of the original actors appear. The storyline is either non-existent or piss-weak. And the only way that the 12-year-old mentally challenged director can salvage this train wreck is through gratuitous use of full-frontal nudity that would horrify even the most seasoned SBS world movies connoisseur. That's a very interesting definition, because what they're saying is they're defining sequel as why it is a slang term to insult somebody. Is this Urban Dictionary? That's why I'm never ending, because the sequel's never equal, as Endless Jess has said in The Coolest Guy. There's an idea that referring to someone as a sequel is referring to them as inferior to the original. But the best sequels are typically better than the original. Here's a question I want to ask you guys regarding the Mario thing. Do you think of the Zelda games as sequels?  And there's only one Zelda game. There's only a couple of them that are like considered actual sequels in the canon. There's Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, and then there's Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, like two through seven. They're all the exact same game. You played them all, Tom? There's different window dressing on them. Have you played them, Tom? Did you play those Zelda games? I've played a bit of Ocarina of Time. I've played through all of Skyward Sword, objectively the worst Zelda game of all time. It's a trainwreck of Titanic proportions. I've played all of them. I've played all of them, except for Wind Waker, admittedly, though I did play Phantom Hourglass. I would count all those in the same camp as the Mario sequels. They are refining the formula. And just because they're different sorts of games, but they're the same sort of thing, where they're just progressing in some particular path. Let's say you compared Mario Sunshine to Mario Odyssey. In both games, Princess Peach is captured by Bowser. Mario's got to go savor. He does this by jumping on things occasionally using the power ship. Princess Zelda is captured by Ganondorf. He has to cut lots of things. That is not a thing that even happens in most Zelda games. How often has Zelda been kidnapped by Ganondorf in the Zelda franchise? I mean, you could more or less say that it happened in the new one. It's either she's captured or turned to stone or something that is bad by Ganon. Okay, Legend of Zelda, the Minish Cap. Zelda's not in it. Ganon's not in it. Zelda's in it. She's in it. She's at the very beginning. In fact, Zelda does turn to stone. That's the whole thing.  Oh, there he goes. Voddy Vidya, making a Voddy Vidya. Dark Souls 2, that's a sequel. That is a sequel. Oh, God. That's an unfortunate sequel. Well, let me back up for a second. Ocarina of Time vs. Majora's Mask, which is actually a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time, very thematically different. Different tone, different kind of atmosphere. And I think some of the Zelda games are enough different thematically that I don't know if I'd consider them a sequel. Although, in that case, it is actually a sequel and it is the most different. I guess my definition of sequel has always been more, at least in terms of games, has always been more about the underlying mechanics and the identity of the game. Because you play a Mario game, it always feels like a Mario game. You never would mistake it as something else. Even though there's lots of other new ideas and new mechanics being layered on top of it, the base idea of, they all kind of feel very similar. You play Super Mario 3D land for the DS and you play Mario Sunshine and the core mechanics, how Mario handles, how he moves, the base moveset that he has ever since Super Mario 64, that's all pretty much the same. And there's iterations and refinements and tweaks, but you go in expecting a certain feel when playing a 3D Mario game. Ever since Mario 64, that's really been there to some degree. And so I feel like that underlying pedigree is what defines a sequel. Would you put Super Mario 3D World in there then? Because that game plays very differently. Would you say it's also part of that same sequel lineage? Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U? Yeah. I haven't played a whole bunch of it, despite the fact that it's right behind me right now. But despite the fact that it's like, it's more, that's the one where it's more like, it's 3D but it's like an isometric kind of view, right? Yeah, yeah, for the most part. I think the mechanics there are still pretty much the same. Like it's still a platformer, like it moves very similar. It's interesting to me though, Tom, that you seem to be defining sequels based on more of like the, on the mechanics as opposed to like any, I don't know, like a narrative thing or anything. I mean obviously if it's something that says like Metroid Prime 2, which like I think you were just playing, like yeah okay, that's pretty clearly a sequel. Nate, you just reminded me of a term that'll help with this a lot. Yeah. My favorite term, spiritual sequel. Right, right. Because when you look at... Is that a spiritual successor or is that something different? There's both, both are used, but I always secure spiritual sequel. Like for instance, a game like Axiom Verge, that is clearly meant to be a spiritual connection to, well in this case I would say a sequel, but a spiritual successor to Metroid, to Super Metroid, like could it be that the Mario, because when I think sequel, I do think continuing the actual narrative, like it's supposed to be the same, at least the same characters, you know. Mario has the same characters for the most part, but there's really no narrative to continue. Yeah, you know, and like if you look at something like Mario Galaxy, like there's no plot connection, like seemingly at all to like any of the other games, most of the Nintendo's games don't do that. Their narrative is just like a very loose framing device to have the action. So I'm not sure describing the Mario games as sequels makes sense. I think like spiritual successor, even though they're all like mainline Mario games, might make more sense. As far as I know, spiritual successor doesn't even, when you say something's a spiritual successor, the term doesn't mean it's a sequel. It means it's taking the gameplay identity of another game that won't get a sequel and injecting it into a new IP. That's why Axiom Verge is a spiritual successor to Metroid. It's not a Metroid title, but it's trying to play like one and invoke that kind of same game feel. And what are you saying? I feel like the whole Mario, like the whole like sequel successor, so spiritual stuff, like it doesn't need a word like that, because like it doesn't apply to any of them, like aside from like Mario 1, Super Mario 1, Super Mario 2, like even that's kind of weird, but I think the whole thing with the sequels is like people generally think of it as being, if it's numbered, then it's a sequel, and if it's not, then it's just part of the same franchise, and the word sequel doesn't even come into it. Will Radcon Awakening be a direct sequel to Radcon 2? That's, I don't know, I don't know, or is it a spiritual successor? That'll depend on the narrative content of Radcon Awakening. Indeed.  Is it just gonna be Radcon Awakening? Davoo has been making that joke forever, that he insists that the next Radcon be called Radcon Awakening, canonically. With no 3 in it. With no 3 in it. Oh, that burns my heart. We need to do that, and then the next one just has to be Radcon? Exactly. Or like The Radcon. The Radcon. The Radcon was like, lowercase R. Yeah, lowercase R. Alternating upper and lowercase for each other. Oh, yes. Oh no. Oh, and that's the one where Gamze kills us all. Yeah. That's where Munchie disembowels all of us. When we inevitably release Radcon on DVD on each one, we have to make sure the titles are totally different on the side. Yeah. Radcon 4 has to be Refor-de-con. Refor-de-con. I do like that. I do like that. Hey, so I watched a sequel. I watched a whole series of sequels recently, which is interesting because it's kind of like the opposite of all this. So I watched Rambo. I downloaded all the Rambo movies recently and watched all of them. Because I heard they were cool and whatever. So I watched Rambo 1. Everyone probably knows this already.  He's kind of a vagrant now.  Now he's just a civilian and doesn't know what to do with himself. He's just in the world and he gets into some minor trouble with the law just by loitering a little bit. It wasn't serious.  And then he goes on kind of a murderous rampage as they try to track him down after he escapes from the thing.  So it's really a story about a guy being tortured by his past and having to overcome it. And then he turns himself in and obviously has deep, severe mental issues that he's going to need to work through.   But they completely abandon any of the actual point of the movie of it being about... It goes from a movie trying to send a message about mental health issues to be like, what if we have Sylvester Stallone killing some bitches? That would be cool. And it was great. It was a legitimately great action movie that I enjoyed quite a bit. But it barely resembles... In the tangible details, it totally resembles Rambo 1. But in terms of the actual point they were making, they completely abandoned it. And it's like... I don't know who was writing that. I'm really curious if the same people were involved with making Rambo 2 as Rambo 1. Still Stallone was. Yeah, and I know Stallone wrote Rambo 4 and was heavily involved in getting it done. But that might have just been the resurrecting of the thing, because this was like two decades after Rambo 3 was made and shit. So that's an example. That was a surprisingly good sequel though. I liked it. I thought it was really good. I liked the part where that Christian lady got raped. That was cool. She didn't actually get raped, unfortunately. Yeah, it was good. Here's a sequel, a pair of sequels that I feel just for the sake of completeness needs to be mentioned is Star Wars. Which has gone in a lot of interesting directions with sequels. Because you've got the original Star Wars, big, huge film. Everybody loves it. But it's kind of directed and edited like garbage. It's really... There was a lot of problems with the production, basically. And when you watch the movie knowing that, you can really see it. And then you get to the second movie and it's such a clear improvement. They took the ideas and put them in the hands of a director who could actually bring it to life, make it feel big and real and dramatic. And then you get to the third movie, which for some reason a lot of people don't like, but I think that movie capitalizes on the themes, the best out of all the movies, it brings it all home in a really good way. And so you got this package where it's like, yeah, there are some sequels that actually took what the previous one did, built on it, tried to improve. And then suddenly they make three more sequels that are actually prequels and don't capitalize on any of the strengths of the original.  But then you get 23 more sequels a few, a decade later, that are now just cherry picking any tangible or abstract concept from the old films and cobbling them together into a new film that is just made up of the body parts of the old ones. It's a descent into corporatization, which is funny because Star Wars has always been a very corporatized product, but it's gone to the nth degree now. The fascinating thing about that, that trajectory, is kind of like Star Wars is pretty beloved these days. It's quite popular and it was popular for a long time, but it's really had a resurgence. And it's interesting to watch the trajectory of everyone loved the original films. They're highly beloved to this day. And then the sequels came out. And at the time, it was lukewarm, and then some people were massively disappointed, and so the reputation tank, Luke Skywalker Warm, excellent. And it's funny because now things have kicked back up, as JJ Abrams has been able to make some pretty good work, at least for the first one, and we'll see what the others do as well. But what's interesting is the first one was like a guy, Lucas. Lucas is running the show, but he was tempered by the fact that he wasn't the god of the production of those. His creative input was subject to the quality control of lots of other people. And so it was sort of a one-man show, but then it was filtered through all these things, like sort of a committee that made it good. But then you've got the prequels, and the prequels totally lost that filtering process, and only kept what he said, like, we're doing this, make it happen, and nobody wanted to question it. Whether it was his fault or not doesn't matter. The point is it was just what he wrote on that paper, probably too hastily without thinking about it enough, and that's just what became the movies, and we all know what happened with that. But now, and now we've got a purely corporatized product happening now, probably with people who love it to some degree. It's gone too far in the other direction is what you're saying. Actually, I was going to say that it's funny that things have improved from just one man's mad vision by making it corporate. They've improved, but not... I think the original was the perfect balance of those two. Of course, of course. A lot of it was this one guy's interest and vision, but just he had a good editor, you know? And I mean editor, not like a literal film editor, but you know what I mean. And his fellow writers and stuff. In the metaphorical sense. And now we've got the editor writing the movie based on what he thought needed to be fixed without the actual inspiration. Exactly, exactly.  And you know, it's not... Nobody's making these movies because people are longing to know what happens with the Star Wars universe. I mean kind of... People kind of did because they made books and comics. Yeah, I read a lot of those. It's just, yeah, it's very much... You can't see it as anything other than a cash cow. It's hard for me to think of it as like the same series. Absolutely. For me, I can easily watch those first three films and think this is three films that were... Not that they were all intended to be made from the beginning because the first movie obviously was not supposed to have sequels considering it wraps everything up perfectly fine. But like, when you watch the other two, you go, okay, this is a natural extension of that first movie. And then you watch the new ones and to me, it just feels like this is nothing to do with it. And that's... It's a fan fiction, you know? See, like I really did love the original Star Wars movies and probably still would if I watched them again. It's just kind of been a while. But like, the originals have such a wonderful grittiness of like old film making to them.  When like, things were just...     And the story behind it as well is incredible. And I for one don't like the kind of the way things have gone where they've proceeded to make things so polished and clean and a lot of it I'm sure just has to do with the technology that's available, makes it easier to do. And that's kind of just a constant thing that as we march forward in technology that's more and more of a thing. And obviously that was done to the nth degree in the Star Wars prequels, but even now I see elements of that in the newer Star Wars stuff. And they just don't feel the same as like the originals that I did love.  The thing that's interesting about what you're saying is that those old classics, they were like big budget Hollywood productions, or at least I think of most of them. They were the best they could do at the time.   And newer movies is like, I don't know, it just feels like, I just imagine the color gray and then a computer screen. I just seize up, I don't like it. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Something that fascinates me, there's a lot of different reasons, just as there are a lot of different reasons for a movie to be made or any product to be made, there's a lot of different reasons a sequel could be made. And I think a lot of what makes it good or bad will depend on why it's happening. Totally. And there's some that people make, because it's like, yeah, I just have more ideas. I have another good idea with this world and character, so let's make a sequel and those are probably gonna be the better ones. And then there's the ones where it's like, the show just needs to have a sequel, because it has to have one. Back to the future, one, two and three are examples of that. They had to be done, because they left it deliberately open and they did not give you the answers. No, that's not what I mean. That's more of like, that's more they had more ideas. They left it open because they knew they could make another. Something like Assassin's Creed, where it's like, it's a new year, we have to make a new Assassin's Creed.  It is absolutely abysmal. And the only reason I think that Psycho Pass 2 exists is because they were making a Psycho Pass movie and they wanted to keep the hype up for it. So like, the Psycho Pass original TV show, like leading up to the film, first they re-ran the TV show as hour long episodes. Like they re-cut it, they put each two episodes into one and they added in some like little extra scenes. And they made it like a re-run of the show to get people hype. Then they made a sequel to keep that hype going and then the movie came out like right after the second season was over. So it was like all this build up to hype this movie. And all the people who made the original show were working on the movie. So in the meantime, oh we need a sequel but you guys are busy, so let's hire on some other folks who don't understand the story at all. Let's work on Dark Souls 2 while they make Bloodborne, yeah! Exactly, exactly. There has to be a sequel but they don't have the right people to do it. So it's just born out of their needs to be one. And that's where you're going to get the people who don't understand the fundamental artistic intent like Dark Souls 2 where their mentality was, Dark Souls is a hard game, let's make a hard game.  That's the difference between people who see these things as a piece of art and people who see it as a product to be sold. Because the people who like the art they're going to sit down and be like okay I understand why this exists and I know what the vision behind it is and then you have people in like corporate who are just like well we got to make our money for quarter four and we're going to release this then and blah blah blah. A smart creator knows that the corporate entity is a part of it and you can't just say oh I'm an artist and I have my vision and it must just be one thing.  You never like plan for it to exist it's just like as a backup because then you can have both. You can be an artistic genius boy and you can make money. You're very right. It's really a delicate balance. I recommend everybody if you're trying to be a screenwriter or do anything that will involve you in the corporate world of like creating listen to everything Max Landis ever says because he is extremely good at explaining that world and his place in it and he has the mindset that Hippo's describing here the dude's written over a hundred movies like he just constantly has more ideas for like if they won't take this one here's a slightly different version or like here's my ideas for if I have to make a sequel here's my ideas for this and that he's just got so many different contingencies for if it works because you can't be precious about your work if you want to sell it, especially in Hollywood.   Shade legitimately cried for two hours and it haunted him for years like in the way he describes it is that like up to that point he had not known what fear was. You taught of the meaning of fear oh my god like he legitimately like gained the sensation of existential dread from that because it gave him like a perpetual fear that at any time like the world could end or something like that like everything can be normal and then it can be horrible you know and like could he become like actually finding Waldo? I have no idea but I don't know if you even remembered that it was a where's Waldo thing. He remembered the screamer but he a few years later he became like really afraid of the apocalypse like any time we would like like people would talk about the end of the world or anything like he would get really freaked out that the world was going to end. Fascinating. Hey I've got a question from the Twitter here that I think is pretty interesting. Thomas not answered. Oh I'm sorry yes please.   Fuck! Oh yeah that's aliens yes that's a good thing to be afraid of okay here we go. Also Simpsons Treehouse of Horror really grossed me out and I hate gore because of that. Anyone specifically they do love gore on their Treehouse of Horror they really do. They really do. It's specifically like the sound design of the gore it's just really like I hate horror movies because of the Simpsons. Fascinating. Well okay here's a question from at Lord Saiba by the way this is on the Twitter hashtag use askpcp send the questions out. Okay so it's if you were sent back to high school current age would you be a Chad or a Virgin how will your experience go think realistically current age? Absolutely a Chad.   I don't know about that. You may be watching too many anime. Just the way I've learned about how like people how people think especially young girls like 14 year old girls are literally all trying to get laid when they enter high school.   Of course.   There are so many looking back on it like obvious girls who are interested in me and I never did anything about it because I just didn't understand that that's what was going on and now I do and I'm like ah you mother fucker you could have had it all. There are only two things that a man needs to get laid and this is true at any age one is just sometimes you can just use one of the two one is just like the confidence to just go up and you know just put your balls on the table and say here they are sweetheart pick them up so there's that as Bill Burwood put it and then the other thing is something to back it up let's say you're like if you've got you're like the marching band and looking good can mean a lot of different things that kind of ties into a bunch of this stuff like really disgusting fat slobs can get late, Harry Weinstein I was the kind of the way I looked in high school is one of those like change the outfit and you've got a good looking guy but instead it was a guy with an uncombed hair that goes down to his knees and like shit facial hair and like wearing three different outfits that don't like parts of three different outfits.  If I had cut my hair shaved my beard dressed in layers and spoke to a woman I would have gotten late in high school but I didn't do any of that because I didn't know better. It's complicated but social pressure is real. I don't want to just say that I would immediately be a Chad like there's unique pressures in high school and how to make this work. With your current mindset though? I have no doubt.  Anybody over the age 20 could easily get late in high school. It's just a matter of keeping your focus being willing to play the long game when necessary and be cool, be cool. I mean I'm sure that if I had my brain and I went back I could have like actually made friends which is like the first step True, you're right. I didn't really have like a group of friends that were my group. I just hung up with other people's groups of friends and just stood around them. And it was always because oh I'm worried that they won't like me so I won't do anything or you know prone to just doing things and taking risks. So I would be definitely able to make friends and be maybe the most popular guy because I was like even back then I was kind of good at guitar. If I had capitalized on that I could have been the guitar dude. We had some guitar dudes that were very well respected in my grade. Sam and Matt. Davoo points out also don't be in an exclusively religious social environment that usually helps you.  You know? You can maybe make that work. Jesus Christ looks like me. I know Davoo. It's a typo negative song.  You don't have to lose the weight anyway. It's your brain in your high school self's body. Let's put it that way.  Did you mean that you were fat in high school and you've lost weight since then?  Significantly fatter than I am right now.   I could forge it. I have a 28 year old brain at this point. I could figure something out of it. You put your piggy bank in an envelope and type... I'd be like, dad, buy Google! Buy Google! I know it's a weird word but trust me, do it! Mail to Steve Jobs. Oh please. Wait, wrong guy. Okay, whatever. All right, well, that's good bunch of questions I think everybody I think we're good to wrap this one up. Let's get that one so we might as well... It's true. Currently I am drunk and that's because the next episode we're going to do is a bonus episode. We're recording it immediately after this. I think it'll actually come out before this episode though. It will, that's right. If you want to hear the aftermath of me drinking throughout this entire PCP and then getting shitfaced right afterwards go become a patron for five dollars.  The next one's alcohol. The newest one is alcohol. We're going to be talking about alcohol and getting shitfaced. And there'll be eight of them by the time you hear this out. Eight episodes for five bucks. Yes, you can listen to all eight. 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And of course we've got a little bit of merch. If you go to our red bubble page or our print all over me page, there's links in the description.  They're dope. We need to run our ads in the middle of the episode. You're not wrong. I've been watching other big podcasts and they do that. They do it like right in the middle. We should do it like before the Q&A or something. That'd be a pretty logical time. It's usually like on the hour. It's usually a good place, too. Yeah, okay. Also, was there anything else? Twitter, we already talked to? Yeah, at TP Crasidators.    Just videos uploaded here.  Who knows how that saga will conclude. I just want to say Ben's argument did not impress me. I respect his opinion, but he literally just said everything I dismissed in the first 10 minutes of my video.  You hear that?  You're an embarrassment. All right, everybody, that's it. Thanks for listening and we'll be back next week or sooner. No, wait, bonus episode. Yeah, okay. Give us money. 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What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be showing you how to factory reset a Samsung galaxy phone So the first thing you're gonna want to do is just go under apps then go under settings Once you're under settings, you're going to you're gonna be up here You're gonna scroll down to general management From there you're gonna hit reset Now from here, you're going to hit factory data reset and And under this it's going to tell you that everything will be erased So if there's anything that you want to save that is on your phone pictures music Whatever now is the time to do it before you factory resets now There is gonna be personal information on here, so I'm going to make sure that I go and take it out But you're gonna go to the bottom once you're ready to factory reset and hit the blue button And then it's gonna be these little prompts to factory reset so you can hit the lead all and Then you're gonna sign into your Samsung account just to verify that it's you so of course I'm not gonna be showing you this or at least my account information and then you're gonna hit okay and There you have it now it is factory resetting it is shutting down Again the reason why I'm doing this is because I plan on selling this phone because it's my old phone I'm not using it and it's literally just collecting dust I'm assuming somebody can use this but this will work on any Samsung galaxy phone So this shouldn't take too much longer. It's just erasing everything. I don't even think I have too much on this I took it all off whenever I stopped using the phone So this time here can it take some time, so I'm just gonna leave this here I'm going to fast forward and we'll see you guys in a second whenever it's finished this step And now we just finished that step And it's finishing the factory reset right now And now it is starting back up and it should have me or at least ask me to Start it over again and set up as if it was brand new, but like I said, I'm going to be selling this So I just wanted to show you guys how to factory reset a Samsung galaxy phone This took less than 10 minutes I did cut out and this will be a shorter video than 10 minutes Just because I cut out some of the long moments when it's just loading there is sitting there waiting But it literally doesn't take too much time to factory reset a Samsung galaxy phone Hope this has helped. So hope you guys have enjoyed this video of me showing you how to factory reset a Samsung galaxy phone I'm gonna leave this here. Please take care. Peace


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday, so over at youtube.com slash 100 days, I'm in the midst of a health and fitness journey with my best friend Chris. Hold up, did I just say I'm on a journey? Hank, I'm becoming a self-help book. Speaking of which, I have long been an avowed enemy of the motivational quote, you know, like, tough times don't last, but tough people do, or nothing worth having comes easy, or what's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable, which is actually a quote from my book An Abundance of Catherine, so my bad. My first problem with motivational quotes is that, like, they aren't true, like, tough people don't last, like, all people, they die. And many things that are worth having come easily, like, bananas, for instance, are available at almost any supermarket for, like, 50 cents. Also, hopefully, the characters in An Abundance of Catherine spend that novel learning that an unremarkable life can be fulfilling and meaningful. Then there's that old Walt Disney line, if you can dream it, you can do it, which has appeared on more posters than Justin Bieber's face, despite being manifestly untrue, like, have you ever even had a dream? I once had a dream I was a tuatara. And if the mountain we must conquer exists within ourselves, then why did you climb all those actual physical mountains, Sir Edmund Hillary? You should have been at home meditating, conquering the mountain within yourself. Also, just for the record, neither Walt Disney nor Sir Edmund Hillary ever said those quotes that are so often attributed to them. The motivational quote plague is perhaps most notable at workout facilities, like the gym where Chris and I usually workout has this Steve Prefontaine quote about how giving less than your best is sacrificing your gift. And a boxing gym we visited had a handwritten sign reading, You don't have to get ready if you stay ready. I find these little aphorisms not just annoying, but kind of insulting, and yet. Not to brag or anything, but I ran nine miles yesterday, and around mile four I found myself thinking, You don't have to get ready if you stay ready. God help me, Hank, I've become a fan of motivational quotes. I'm on a frickin' journey. I kind of feel like my whole adult life has been a series of circumstances that forced me to reckon seriously with stuff I once easily dismissed. Like, I remember living in New York in 2007 and railing against the sheeple buying houses in the Midwest. And now I'm a homeowner in Indianapolis, and I quite like it. I used to think that bestselling books were by definition crap, and then I found myself quickly backtracking when I unexpectedly became the author of one. I've ridiculed parents for focusing on their kids instead of the world's kids only to become a parent and understand that impulse. And I've said that popular music was dead only to really like Beyonce's album Lemonade. But even now, I still haven't learned that when I want to roll my eyes, I should probably be alive to the possibility that the object of my disdain is more complex than I'm imagining. And so now, yes, I have become a person who revels in cliched, usually misattributed quotes in order to motivate me toward physical fitness. This is a surprise on several levels, not least because I have long dismissed physical fitness as a waste of energy when all that really matters about humans is their minds. But these past few weeks have already taught me that there is no hard line between the body and the brain that running can be good for my writing and writing good for my running. I kind of thought I'd have to abandon like my real work for a hundred days while I focused on my physical health, but instead I'm finding myself enjoying writing more than I have in years. And even though I'm spending more time working out weirdly, I find that I have more time for writing too. These days I'm at the keyboard pretty much every day because, you know, you don't have to get ready if you stay ready. Hank, I'll see you on Friday. And screen four things. I will be at VidCon Europe in Amsterdam in April with many other YouTubers. Hope to see you there. Check out 100 days. I also wanted to let you know that these 10th anniversary Vlogbrothers woodcuts are available for a couple more weeks at dftba.com. And lastly, Rosianna's self-care bunny wants you to know that you are enough.


Alrighty, today has been quite the adventure. It felt like the good old days.  So I have some tea to break for you guys today and some big news to break. As I'm just testing the new, the firmware update that DJI launched. It is obstacle avoidance now instead of the olden time. Like even just like a couple of months ago, my drone would only stop flying before hitting someone. Now it'll like, if I hit forward, it avoids it. So that was really cool.  So they are in there installing the bin system similar to Yukon Striker inside Wonder Mountains Guardian, which is further concrete information that Wonder Mountains Guardian is here to stay. Don't ask me why they're installing it so late in the season and so last minute, but they are installing it, getting it ready. So that's really cool. It is the exact same bin system to my understanding as Yukon Strikers. So it'll get rid of the locker system outside of a Guardian, Wonder Mountains Guardian. And yeah, so that was really cool. Outside of that, lots of haunt work going on at Canada's Wonderland. And furthermore, outside of that, construction trailers have been set up. So there are two very large construction trailers that have been put in a very specific plot of land. I'm gonna talk about this after I talk. So I have a rant after this on how difficult it is to predict Wonderlands 2025 coaster, but I think this is about as concrete as we need. So these two very large construction trailers facing back to back, staircase is built and everything are set up behind action theater. And a lot of electrical equipment is there as well. So this looks like the surveyed plot of land for the GCI family coaster with the very well themed area. For those of you that are interested in learning even further details and hearing my rant even further, we are doing a live podcast tonight at 8.30 PM on our YouTube channel here. So we'll have the whole crew ranting and raving about our thoughts on this and how difficult Wonderland is to predict. But again, take things lightly. We've seen the RMC carved into Wild Beast and construction markers on Wild Beast. We've seen survey markings all over the park. But I will say, and I've said this in previous podcasts, you can back me up here, the one survey picture that they sent out with the most details was the GCI family coaster. So it looks like they had that pretty planned out. So to me that suggests something. And on top of that, the survey markings in this area were there since 2019. So they've had a lot of time to plan this area. So we can't forget that. So we're gonna keep that in our head for the podcast tonight. I'm just here to quickly present the construction that is going on. So very concrete evidence that it looks like they're gonna move forward with the Zambezi Zinger in the Whitewater Canyon area. Anyways, thanks so much for watching today's video. We will start a lot more frequent construction updates now, especially now that we know location. And stay tuned for further information. There's a lot. Subscribe to Patreon by the way. Lots of information on there. Bye.


The Linux kernel works on lots and lots of devices, billions around the world. Everything from routers, refrigerators, and mobile phones, all the way up to laptops, desktops, and data centers. And what facilitates this reuse is the kernel's enormous automated build and configuration system. If you've ever had the pleasure of configuring your kernel to build, you might have seen this menu-based system that allows you to explore all the different options you have for configuring your kernel. For instance, if you wanted to have USB file system support, you would need to go in and make sure that you have USB support turned on first. Of course, most people just use an existing configuration file or just have no need for building their own kernel. And while this reusability is a great boon for computing infrastructure in general, for maintainers, this configurability adds additional challenges. For instance, if a maintainer gets a patch from a developer and wants to make sure that that code is tested in particular or wants to make sure that that code is compatible with all the different ways that that kernel can be configured, well, it's not so easy to do that. There's lots and lots of configuration options, lots of possible configuration files. And developers will typically submit a .config file. But this possibility for mutual exclusion and indirect dependencies of configurations on each other makes maintenance a challenge. There's a couple ways currently of dealing with this extreme configurability. There's the all yes or all mod config that attempts to turn on every possible configuration option. But this can never actually turn on all the code, particularly across architectures, just because of mutual exclusion between options. Intel has its zero day testing infrastructure and this will just build lots and lots of predefined configuration files, but also just generate lots and lots of random configurations to hopefully try to find that one configuration that is broken in the kernel. And as you can imagine, this takes lots and lots of energy and lots and lots of time because there are just way too many possible configurations to test all of them. In fact, there's about 15,000 different configuration options and just an enormous number of ways to combine these. Now, a lot of these can be turned on at the same time, but not all because there's just mutual exclusion between these options. And trying to figure out how changes in code or how bugs are influenced by what configuration options turn them on requires a maintainer to try to just trace through all the possible dependencies that these configuration options have on each other. If we look at, say, mobile device manufacturers, they'll often just fork a kernel, tweak it, try to get it working on the one configuration file that they need and may not even bother mainlining their changes. And of course, there's lots and lots of reasons for this, but one issue is the trying to make sure that your changes work in the context of the entire kernel's configuration isn't always necessarily very easy. Now, years ago, the kernel developers created a new language and configuration specification system called Kconfig. And this was intended to help developers define and manage all of the possible configuration options that are available to the kernel, but also make sure that they can define all of the constraints around using these different options so that people using the kernel won't end up building a broken or invalid version of the kernel. And it turns out there's just a ton of code in the current Linux tree for describing these options. There's about 150,000 lines of this Kconfig language. And they define both a mix of dependency specifications and configuration option definitions and also text and prompts for that Linux configuration menu system. To see what makes working with this building configuration system so tricky, let's open the hood on the build system and take a look inside. So first, we've got this Kconfig configuration language, which contains all of the definitions of the configuration options that are available for selection as well as constraints among them. And when a user has a configuration file that they want to use to build their kernel, they first pass this in to the Kconfig system, which makes sure that the options they've selected are valid and will hopefully build a valid kernel. Then Kconfig will pass along these option selections to the build system, which will pick which source files to use. And then to the C preprocessor, which will slice out individual lines of that source code. And finally, they'll hit the compiler and link here to build the kernel binary. And our whole goal to helping maintainers work and trace through these steps of the build system is to use automated tooling that can help automate some of these challenges. For instance, figuring out which code depends on which configuration options, automatically generating configuration options that will test changes to the code. Or in the case that we'll see today, find some kinds of bugs that are in the build system itself that are specific to certain combinations of options. And our focus today is on the Kconfig part of this problem. How can we develop a tool that can automatically work with these dependencies and answer questions about its behavior? And since the configuration system is so massive, and there's just so many possible configurations, our goal is to try to do this statically just by analyzing the source code of Kconfig. And so as a kind of organizing challenge for getting this kind of analysis right, we also worked on a bug finder for a specific bug in Kconfig called an unmet dependency bug. It's not a show stopping bug. It just means that there's some inadvertently conflicting dependencies that we can actually find automatically using the tool. So let's first take a look at how this Kconfig language and system works. Here's an example of a configuration option defined in a recent version of the Linux kernel. And it first declares the name of the option, in this case touchscreen ADC. It declares it to be a particular type, in this case Tristate. And Tristate just means it's either turned on, turned off, or turned on to be included as a loadable kernel module at runtime. There's also a prompt, which contains a textual description for the user of, say, MenuKconfig or a command line based tool. There are dependencies. So it depends on says that in order for touchscreen ADC to be enabled, we also have to turn on these other options. They also have to be on in order for us to even be able to enable this option. And conversely, turning on touchscreen ADC can force other options to be on. So if touchscreen ADC is turned on, this IIO buffer CB is just automatically turned on. And this is useful for defining, say, configuration sets for a particular architecture or a particular chip. And all three of these aspects of the language actually work together to define the constraints on this option. Even the prompt itself defines some differences in behavior on how this configuration option is treated, because you can have invisible configuration options that the user is not allowed to select but get automatically selected by the select construct. This undement dependency bug actually comes from the K config manual itself. It says that this select construct should be used with care. Select will force a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies. What that means is that an incorrectly written specification can actually cause configuration dependencies to be circumvented, potentially leading to a broken kernel build. And this is the bug that we challenged our analysis techniques to try to find automatically in K config specifications. To see an example of one of these unmet dependency bugs, here's this touchscreen ADC configuration option with a couple of other options that it has interdependencies with. So first note that this configuration option called IIO buffer CB, it has a dependency on two other options, IIO and IIO buffer, which means that IIO buffer CB shouldn't be able to be enabled unless its dependencies are met. But at the same time, whenever touchscreen ADC gets enabled, the IIO buffer CB gets force enabled, regardless of whether its dependencies are met. And the thing is is that just looking at this is not enough to tell us whether there actually is a potential for an unmet dependency, because there could be some other dependencies on IIO and touchscreen IDC that ensure that that force enabling can never happen. So the general rule for determining about whether an unmet dependency exists is if it's possible to disable the direct dependencies of an option while also enabling this select construct, what are called reverse dependencies. If both of those can happen at the same time, then it's possible to configure the kernel with this broken specification. OK, so let's take a look at how we tackle this challenge of finding these unmet dependency bugs automatically. Our approach to solving this is to take this question of, are there unmet dependency bugs in this K-config source code into a classic Boolean satisfiability problem? Because if we can do that, then we can leverage these existing solvers that can tell us an answer to Boolean satisfiability problems. So our first step to doing this is to model the K-config language as symbolic Boolean logic. And the way we do this is we turn, for instance, the dependencies that Touchscreen ADC has on other options into its equivalent Boolean formula. In this case, Touchscreen ADC can only be enabled if its direct dependencies, IIO and input touchscreen are also turned on. So we model that in logic by saying that, well, if Touchscreen ADC is turned on, that implies that IIO and input touchscreen must have also been turned on. Similarly, we do the same for IIO buffer. If IIO buffer was enabled, that implies that IIO must also have been enabled. But when we get to an option that has one of these select reverse dependencies, it's slightly different. We have to model the fact that it can be enabled both when its direct dependencies are enabled, but also it can be enabled if its reverse dependencies are enabled. So we model this by saying that if IIO buffer CB was enabled, then that must have meant that either IIO buffer and IIO buffer were both enabled, its direct dependencies, or its reverse dependency, Touchscreen ADC, which has a select word. And both could also be true as well. Once we have all of these formulas modeled for the whole K config specification because these dependencies can cross over any possible files, we then take every combination of options that have a select reverse dependency relationship and turn them into a formula that describes that condition of the unmet dependency. So in this case, the formula is getting much larger, but the idea is that if the direct dependencies are turned off, IIO buffer CB and not its direct dependencies, but its reverse dependency, Touchscreen ADC, is turned on and all the direct dependencies it has, then if that formula is can ever be true, then we have what potentially is one of these unmet dependency bugs. So here's the architecture of our tooling. And it's actually a bunch of separate reusable components that we have. We first actually took the K config language parser from the Linux kernel and then used it to kind of simplify some of the syntax. We pass that into a tool called K clause, which converts all of the syntax into these logical formulas. And then the Kismet tool will take all combinations of options that have a reverse dependency relationship and construct this verification condition to check whether there is potentially an unmet dependency bug. And then finally, we'll use an off the shelf solver to answer that satisfiability question and say, is it possible in some configuration for this unmet dependency to happen? And then after that, we'll actually generate a .config file that we can use to test against the actual build system to see if we got it right, if the tool was correct in its alarm. Let's take a look at how we evaluated our tooling. So we took a somewhat recent version of the kernel. It's a little old at this point. Looked at all 28 architecture families because each actually has their own entry point to a K config specification, though most of the dependencies are actually shared between them. And then we ran our Kismet bug finder on each of the individual 28 architectures K config specifications. And anytime if we got duplicate alarms, we just do we do duplicate at those. So first, we evaluated the precision, how many true positives we got from this and how well that compared to any false positives. And so we found 151 true positive unmet dependency alarms that we confirmed by generating test configuration files automatically. And it turned out that we got this with 100% precision, which means our model was really, really accurate for the K config language. But precision doesn't mean it's not the whole story for accuracy. So we modeled Boolean and Tri-State options, but we did some tricks to make non-Boolean stuff faster. We didn't model it completely or soundly. And so that meant we were open to false negatives. And so we also evaluated that by seeing if we could find any negatives that Kismet missed. One hard part about this is we don't really know the ground truth. We were dealing with 150,000 lines of K config. We don't really know how many unmet dependencies were there. So we generated and tested around 11 million random configuration files using the RAND config tool and actually found that there were eight positives from that process not found by Kismet. And we don't know what the ground truth is, but we were heartened to see that Kismet found many, many more than this random process and missed eight compared to the random approach. So in terms of performance, each K config specification for each architecture took between 37 and 90 minutes or so to run and analyze between 10 and 12 or so 1,000 select constructs. And so doing all of these 28 architectures takes a little less than a day, but if you can parallelize this, then you can get this done in an hour and a half. And the kind of main takeaway here is that compared to random testing for an hour of doing this, even in parallel, 28 parallel threads, we found many more of these unmet dependency bugs. And so we get this recall and precision trade-off for this under-approximation that we had. And it's potentially a useful complement to run config for these kinds of bugs. We submitted some of these bugs as patches to the kernel maintainers. We haven't done all of them yet because we don't want to automatically submit stuff. We actually try to make bug reports and talk with the maintainers and make sure that this actually is a bug. All so far have been confirmed as real. Many have been mainlined. So now I'd like to turn it over to my PhD student, Najeeb, to walk you through actually using this tooling. So take it away, Najeeb. Now let's move on to the demonstration of Kismet. I will now use the Linux version that we used for our earlier experiments so that I can walk you through some bugs we actually patched. Kismet is a verification-based static analysis tool to find unmet dependency bugs. Given an architecture, it will analyze the select constructs in the K config specification and create detailed reports. It will also create test cases that exercise these bugs and it will do validation based on these test cases. To run, we can simply pass the name of the architecture to analyze. For a single architecture, it will take from 30 to 90 minutes to finish. And for all architectures, it will take about a day, but this procedure can easily be paralyzed. Since it will take long, let's continue with a simpler case and analyze a single construct. In addition to the architecture, we can specify which select constructs we would like to analyze. And for our case, let's pass one. When run, Kismet will check this construct in several phases for optimization. If this is a bug, it will generate a test case and validate the bug. And after the analysis finishes, we will have a TXT file containing the aggregated results. Here we can see the contents. And this file will include the performance measurements and the information on each pass done throughout the analysis. As you can see, we will have a few different passes and we will have the results for these passes. And we will also have a CSV file containing the analysis results for each select construct. In this file, since we tested a single select construct, we have a single line of results. And the results say that there is an unmet alarm, which means there is an unmet dependency bug for this select construct. Also, it will include the path to the test case, which we can use to replicate the bug. Let's now copy the test case. And let's copy this config file and try to run this using the build system. When we run the test case, Kbuild will warn about the unmet dependency. Here, you can see the unmet dependency bug warning. And when we compile, we will end up with a build error for this specific unmet dependency. To speed up, let's compile this in a parallelized manner. So we actually see some error messages, but we miss them because of the parallelization. Let's run once more without parallelization so that we can see the error message more clearly. As you can see, there is a compiler error. And when we further investigated this build error, we found out that the unmet dependency bug was the root cause. And this was also confirmed by the Linux maintainers. And our fixing patch is merged into the main line kernel. In our experiments for the specific Linux kernel version, which is 544, we found that about 30% of the unmet dependency bugs caused build errors. So far, we sent 38 reports or patches. And 19 of these reports or patches were confirmed by the Linux maintainers. And the remainders are pending for approval. Out of these, 15 patches were committed to the Linux kernel call base. Since this is a manual process requiring discussions with kernel maintainers, we are still investigating, reporting, and submitting patches for the alarms we found. Thank you, Najeeb. And that concludes our talk. I just want to give a shout out to all the students who worked on this, including Najeeb and Jeho and Julian, who helped get this stuff solid and evaluated. In conclusion, configurability of the kernel is a boon for reuse. But it's a challenge for maintenance. And the build-in configuration system that manages this configuration process is complicated. Our goal is to try to automate and analyzing these build system components so that we can provide useful automation and tooling for maintainers. We talked about k-claws today, which models k-config as symbolic logic. We talked about kismit, which uses that modeling in order to verify that there are unmet dependency bugs in the kernel k-config specification files. All of our tooling is free and open source. It's available via Git at this link on the slide. So be sure to check it out. There's some other tooling in there as well. And special thanks to the National Science Foundation for funding part of this research. And thank you very much for watching this talk. Have a good day.


Here at Stafford Police Station we were very lucky to have a very first-ever visit from a therapy dog. It was a chance for the officers to have a, I guess, a patch and a bit of a cuddle with Rosie. The officers beforehand might be a bit tired, a bit sluggish, but then having that nice break with our pets and cuddles from a beautiful golden retriever like Rosie again relaxes the mood, may even lower their blood pressure, who knows, but it definitely brings a lot of smiles to their faces. Oh, she's liking those pets.


Alright, thanks for staying with us now in Nigeria. A House of Assembly is the state-level legislature. All houses of assembly are unicameral with elected members who are designated as members of the House of Assembly, Assemblymen or MHA and who serve four-year terms. Principally, the State House of Assembly is to make laws for the peace, order and good governance of the state in respect of matters, not in the exclusive legislative list but in concurrent lists. It could also legislate on other matters with which it is empowered by the constitution to do so. So how much do you know about the House of Assembly and how it directly impacts you as a citizen, right? That's the conversation now, please. Let's hear what you have to say. Remember you can join us, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to us at 1-803-466-3. You can also tweet at us at Weissho after one with the hashtag Weissho. So I must confess that first of all, I am a very, very... How do I put it? I was not very interested in political issues until I was forced to... Have you known until I was fortunate to be part of a breakfast show where we had to review the papers every day and all of a sudden you are now really focused on issues around what is happening in governance and politics. And I think it has really transformed my life because again now I see a lot of things and I know where the problem is. You have a very critical and unique opportunity because again when voters go to the polls, all they are thinking of is governor and president and they forget that the people that make this people's job, whether good or bad, are the people that are the lawmakers. And in your instance is on the state level where you are running to the House of Assembly. So in case people do not know, let me reintroduce our guests. Honorable Ullumide O'uru is the Labour Party candidate for the Lagos State House of Assembly Surileric Constituency 1. He is a public figure and an actor. He believes in accessible leadership and youth inclusion and strives for betterment of the Surileric Constituency. He attended King's College and the University of Lagos and graduated from Babcock University. So let us officially welcome him again. Thank you so much for joining us. So I mean, as I said, it is a critical role that you are going into and I think one of the major routes that people had had was, where did this one just come from? Because all of a sudden it was like, OK, Labour Party 1 and Lagos and there is the wave of Peter Albee. Everybody is, all the youth are trying to support him and all of that and it is like you are trying to just ride on that wave. Maybe you should help us understand, first of all, why? Why you decided to run and what exactly is, if you say you have certain issues in Surileric that made you to come out? What would that problem be? That is why you are coming out. So the main reason why I decided to run is I recognise that we are in a very significant period in Nigerian history. This is the first time that the youth have had a mass awakening in terms of wanting to be politically aware and participate in the government process. Now, it is always something that I thought I would be doing but I just thought it would be more later on here. So my friends and I would joke around and say, maybe when we are 35, we will join a party, then around 40, we will be 42, we will contest and all of that. But the happenings in recent time have really just suggested that tomorrow is impromised. I have lost people really close to me. My best friend passed two years ago and the period before he passed, the week before he passed, this was towards the end of 2021 in November. We had just talked about our plans for 2022 and we had done a breakdown in January. I am going to do this up until December. He is a music producer so he had given me his rollout plan for the year and he passes the very next week. So I am like, if we want to make impact and we are planning for the next 10, 15 years, what is the guarantee that we are going to be here in the next 10 or 15 years? So we need to start now. That is one. Number two, I also recognise my influence as a young individual in Nigeria today and I understand that by just virtue of running for office, it will go a long way to inspire all of the young Nigerians to also aspire to be in these positions. So it is bigger than just me. This is really me trying to be the voice of young people, trying to encourage other young people that we cannot be passive anymore. The policies that are being put in place now are going to affect us directly. We no longer have the canopy or the covering of Mummy and Daddy helping out. I remember back in the day I would just go to my parents, I need XYZ. How they get the money, don't really care. I just need it by 4pm today and they don't give me by 4 problem. But now I am understanding as I am getting older that there is a lot that goes into getting money. Especially in Nigeria, it is not the easiest to make money. So whatever policies are in place now are affecting us. If the exchange rate goes up and Naira is $1 to $2,000 Naira, that is affecting my buying power. I want to buy something online. I am going to be spending way much more. So that is the reason why I really decided to change and to run because I feel actually I know that as young people we have innovative ideas. We have more modern ideas in terms of problem solving. And the reason why Nigeria has been going around in circles is we have been recycling the same leaders with the same ideas and the same ideologies. So why not balance their experience with our problem solving skills more in line with what is going on now in 2023. There is advances in technology. The tech space is doing amazing. We are more connected. There is social media. So our angle to politics cannot be the same as their angle. So we can definitely collaborate and make things better. As regards Suruliri, I grew up in Suruliri. I've spent all of my life so far in Suruliri and I know that I have turned out how I have turned out because of the things I've been exposed to in terms of people I've met, people I've worked with, schools that I've gone to and things like that. So I look around Suruliri and I see that there's so much potential because there's people that are even with the situation in Suruliri trying to make things for themselves. You talk to the average person in Suruliri and I think that Suruliri is very optimistic, very hopeful, but there's not that much of recent in terms of any aid or any active help for people in Suruliri. You look at the schools in Suruliri, you look at the students on their way to school and they don't really look excited to be going to school. They don't even look like they're going to school, even just their general approach to attending school and their general demeanor and conduct, how their uniforms are worn. That just shows that there's a lot that we need to do even mentally to really just change the mindsets of young people in Suruliri and because I'm young, a lot of what I'm trying to do is to try and nip the problem in the bud early because a lot of the things that we have wrong in Suruliri I believe are mental in terms of our outlook to life. You see some of the people on the road, I don't like to refer to them as dogs or Arab boys, I think they have victims of circumstance because that could easily have been me. I didn't pick my family, I didn't pick the circumstances I was born in and you talk to them and a lot of them are not very happy about what they have to do. Sometimes they even do these things reluctantly but they feel like they need to do it to survive because the system in place right now is built on them getting handouts to to live. So I'm looking at Suruliri from a more holistic point and seen if we work on building human capital development, if we work on making the amenities in Suruliri work, even things down to streetlights, if Suruliri is lit that could go along with even reducing the crime rates. You have better academic setups in school, better trainings, creating mentorship programs where young people can see people that have come from Suruliri and have gone on to make amazing things so we know it is possible regardless of the situation around you. These are some of the reasons why I'm running for office because there's so many times when you go to National Stadium there's people on their own time, on their own money, working out every day, training but they never really get scouted or that never really goes anywhere. So imagine all the jobs we could create, all the opportunities we could create with having a better structure to help people nurture their natural talents and also create a situation where things that are positive are made appealing. So even people that had no idea that they wanted to go into coding for example, you present it in a way that's interesting and eye-catching and young people want to hop on that as opposed to just say okay we're building schools and we're buying laptops and all these other things that that we're seeing but even with all these things that have happened if you really look at it you don't really see the impact. So we need to just have a change in government, also just access to leadership. You don't really have forums where you know state leader or local government chairman is actively trying to engage with the people. Government isn't attractive especially to young people. A lot of us just think it's very boring and whatever they want to do is what they will do and it's not for me and that's what really really needs to change especially if we're talking about where Nigeria is going in the future. We have to start now. Too little. You know okay I mean you said quite a whole lot and they all sound really pretty. I mean but I also think that you're speaking about this. What I hear you say is a lot of it's more geared towards empowerment. However the the position that you're going for is more about policies. Of course of course. You understand. So it's not the empowerment is I mean every day people come even private sector. People are always doing things. That's that's the truth. But is this sustainable? I would feel that where we should get to is where there are laws. You know there are policies that make these things binding. It's not so much as. So whether you are there. Exactly or not. It becomes the standard. It becomes the law. It becomes the law. So it's not about handouts. You're not waiting for some private public partnership or it is a standard. So you know that okay if you come into this constituency this is how it goes. And then of course again there is government in continuum. So another person who comes because it is it is it is not sentimental. It is not it is not what there's a word. It's not sensational. It becomes easy you know to be sustainable and everybody would now agree to say oh no no no you can't do anything outside of this is the standard. Anything else you do. So I'm hoping that's today you know being here you're able to say that okay when you get into that position as a policymaker I mean this is what drives you concerning education concerning else concerning MSNEs you know concerning general If I had actually pointed and noted that I was going to ask that you know if you had prepared you know policies that you I mean what's it called you have policies that you you intend to propose in the house you know that would help with all the things that Diola has listed into their constituency. I mean if you don't mind to share those with us. Okay of course. So I fully do understand at the end it is a legislative position but just because again I'm not sure how long some of these policies will take in terms of implementation because again it also depends on you know the numbers in the house majority minority and all of that so in the more immediate there are things that you know we can do as constituency projects to at least kick starts the change that we want and because I am fully youth centered as well I feel like there's some things that we need to start doing immediately especially if we're trying to catch them young but also in terms of policies I'm very particular about education I am I'd be direct recipients of a good education and I even spend time just going around you know on this campaign train just really trying to understand what the people actually want and need as opposed to preferring solutions that I think are the way forward for example when we're talking about small businesses I went to a couple market places and I had certain conversations with some of the market women and they really did speak on as you when you mentioned the double taxation that they are paying a lot of you know taxes and levies and they don't really see where these monies are going and even to the point where some tribes feel like they are even being you know extorted basically just because you know their counterparts from other parts of the country don't really have to pay you know setting amounts and things like that so there definitely will be a focus on you know education on small businesses we also need to make the amenities work I remember there was a time where the street lights were up and running you know I would be driving home and I would be happy against Suleyman now um you you get it Suleyman is dark Sorry what part of Suley do you mean? I don't know if I can say that right now Okay let me just take a very short break I like to open our phone lines right I like to open our phone lines and I will come to you and then you have to stay with us All right thanks for staying with us now if you're just tuned in we are discussing the race to the house of assembly and we have with us only video and please let's hear what you have stay remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or WhatsApp to the red one is your 34663 you can also tweet at us at weisha after one of the hashtag we show now our phone line is now open is already ringing number to call is please do it so that I guest you I beg you<PHONE_NUMBER> that's the number to call be very civil with your contribution and let's um have a great conversation please turn off the volume of your whatever you're watching us the device so we don't have a feedback nj quickly um well I have several questions please make it short I'm going to just make it short and maybe while you're answering you just um you know summarize um one thing I want to know why you moved why why you got into politics you were an actor you are an actor um so what what um what encourages you to go into politics as sides because um on a daily we all have different things that we do and we see the country we leave the the situations but not all of us even members of the okay so hold that question our first caller from Bombay open now you're live hello good evening hi good evening good evening yes go ahead you're live my greetings to all of you in the studio hi good evening especially to the obedient in the house good evening thank you so much I'm lucky to be the first winner the first person to call you this evening my question is to the guest please the slogan of leg ball party is take back your country and the new Nigeria and I've carefully listened to you about what and some certain things you want to do for your consistent story but I want to ask you please because if you do not know where things go wrong you will not know where to correct it have you sit down and get some loopholes areas where legal state is getting it wrong especially in the education system of legal states now coming down to your constituency my question is the legal state government have any social intervention on students of legal states and how are you going to fully involve your constituency in that program number two I'm going to ask you please before you go there do you have any plan or do you have already bills in your mind that can address drainage system or failures in legal state as it is today these are my questions thank you and I know you thank you so much right bills you know do you have you identified the problem and when do you think legal state is getting it wrong uh at the end of the day that is the reason why there is the house of assembly and that is why we're all representing different constituencies the entire point is for people who know these constituencies and have experienced with these constituencies to come together table what the issues are and figure out the best way to solve these issues I also know that different areas will require some different type of techniques in some situations depending on what it is that we're trying to achieve so it is very important that as as house members we all work together for those who are opportune and you know mandated by the people to represent them at that level with that being said something on waste management that is one of the issues that you know is faced in Lagos generally which you can relate to drains being blocked and you know people sand filling certain areas where should be the natural path for water to flow through so what we need to do is find a way to have and this is one of the things that GRV has has on his on his agenda as well is have wetland protection so there's certain areas where you know you cannot be constructing to interfere with you know the flow of water another thing we need to do is incorporate the private sector into waste disposal because there's certain areas good evening but I want to ask you one question well see the type of quantity the executives are bringing out what policies that we put this democracy are now being determined the masses are in pain now what will you do as a legislator because in here if I am talking in on assistant station I tell them that what is happening now is a spirit of anti-crime and one story where leaders allow the spirit of anti-crime to enter them they bring in policies that affect the market they themselves are feeling as a legislator what would you call the excessive when the green policy that will affect market look at what is happening in the vaccine sector I tell people this is actually what I call anti-crime that has entered some leaders that make them to bring up policies that affect the market and they are not feeling it the price of the market what will you do so everybody's asking for you and me it is nice to have freshness like I said on the ballot but again I don't want us to see like we've seen that because we want to support our own with our young people who are supporting mediocrity or supporting people that are not prepared for the job right you have and there's a historical candidate that's you know first of all he was in your industry that is not the everybody's not particularly happy because I think they feel like he wasn't prepared for that job he didn't know the job it's different from going on camera like camera action no these are real life issues these are like you you're bringing up laws that would protect us you know especially your constituency in Surileri right so I mean we would like to hear because I mean before you if you say you're running you're going to the house of assembly you should have said okay I have proposed like 15 bills these are those 15 bills I can just tell you maybe two or three say okay these are the ones that I know that are pressing in Surileri constituency those are the kind of level of preparedness that we are looking forward to having of course right you know so I mean when you hear the callers asking asking asking it's almost like they're repeating the same question what exactly are your you know your policies that you have pinned down to say these are the policies I intend to propose when or if elected in the house for me one of the things as well I is is also the execution of of policies that are already in place which is why for me it is the transparency and the style of government that we need to first address if you are more on ground in your constituency and your constituents have access to you then there's more conversation there's more dialogue and you at that point are more in touch with what they need so that also does help in formulating policies gearing up into the house also there have been certain policies that should have brought about some sorts of change but the problem is how these policies are then executed and the fact that nobody is being held accountable in terms of delivery so you say for example okay we're going to pass this bill and this bill it took us say six months to pass but expected period of execution is eight months and after a year and a half you know whatever projects that were supposed to be put in place or whatever partnerships were supposed to be built or roads supposed to be constructed and contracts are supposed to be giving out either have been given out and haven't been supervised or monitored or we just don't hear about these things anymore so it's not necessarily about formulating a whole new set of laws there are existing there are existing there are existing policies that have not been properly implemented the ones that have not been properly there are some that have not been implemented after all they're the ones that have been implemented right or yes they've been on the incremented so I get you I mean it's a valid point so I mean it would be it's nice to hear the sincerity yeah because again sometimes people feel like oh if I come I bring seven four you have to take me seriously but what you said is actually deep because truly we do have some very nice policies on paper where are the signs that these policies have been translated into reality yeah engine you wanted to go oh yeah um well I was initially just asking about your background just going a bit back um and asking why you decided to transition into you know politics and what I guess one of my questions was was your immediate plan for you know the constituency one so the transition again came from realizing the opportunity that has presented itself if we're being honest before and now regardless of the number of registered parties Nigeria has been practicing a two-party system and none of the parties have really appealed to me personally because we are in the situation where we are in where we have tried out both parties with their manifestos and with their ideologies and we still spiral to this point so I personally did not believe in what any of these two parties stand for but then with Peter be switching to the labor party he's somebody who just from a natural standpoint is very relatable and there is a sincerity in in his tone when he speaks he he doesn't try to present any grand ideas or sell this is my opinion anyway sell any major dreams of oh yeah elect me and you know in two years time everything is going to be sorted there'll be flying cars and and whatnot basically what he said that appealed to me the most is there's a problem we cannot fix this problem overnight but we need to get on the path towards the problem being fixed and that is what appealed to me the most and that really is the entire reason why I did join the labor party and upon joining the labor party there was an environment conducive enough to encourage participation to run so I'm okay this is a good opportunity let's let's see how this goes and the fact that the party even trusted somebody like me with my background to even be given the ticket to represent the party at this level is is an amazing honor that I feel very blessed to have and also very optimistic that the youth can do something towards national development because you look back at Nigerian history and the people that were making decisions that have affected the entire country were close to my age late 20s elite to mid 30s again again you know we're human and you know it's okay to make mistakes as long as you don't make the same mistakes multiple times and you do own up when you make these mistakes there have been a lot of mistakes in the nigeria political scene that people have not owned up to or apologized for and attempted to learn and move on I think that is the problem so it's just changing the what it means to be a politician really uh demystifying all the bravado around the office and all that just yeah I was boy so do you think that you you have done your part in being visible enough to the people in your constituency that um you know they they would they recognize you and will be willing to vote for you to a certain extent uh also because I did announce candidacy a little late because of you know some some back-end things that just needed to be sorted out yeah it was yeah there was yeah there was some cases with you know candidacy and we're in court for a while um and just because of what I had going on I honestly wanted to be sure that everybody was on the same page before announcing and then having to go back and forth and explain what was going on so that process took a lot longer than I was hoping for um but that being said uh I do believe that I have done enough to put myself out there in terms of what I'm made up of and where my head is at and you know the the plans that I have the hopes and dreams that I have so if the people buy into that idea um and they think that I am fit to be their representatives at the House of Assembly I'd be more than honored to do my best to make sure nobody's let down I will not know the last of this one if I don't ask and this was from one of our audience when she heard I mean sorry one of our co-uncles when she heard that you were the guest this is this is going to ask him let me ask you so she's I mean she looked at she looked through your social media because we're in the age of impressions and she looked through your social media and she felt like for somebody that is running for this kind of delicate position where you're going to be reviewing policies the issues around you people your social media handle doesn't tell that okay this is what this person stands for yes so for instance you go on mr macaroni's page you see that he stands for this you go on falses yeah so that it would be easier of course if mr macaroni or false came out to say they want time for this yeah who is a lumide of course what is he passionate about of course who has he like what kind of impact of course has he left you know what kind of some prince has he left in the you know his local community yeah the kind of impact that he's done that is giving him you know the credibility to say okay yes he can actually handle the pressure because that's it is hot of course you know there's a lot of things that will happen in that a lot I mean I mean if you were speaking to Jennifer now what would you say to her right because again it's social media of course we have to see you and see you of course of course of course so the thing is my my approach to social media has been very passive up until this period I never really paid attention to my social media I didn't really care for I just used to use it to promote my work but what I've been more concerned about is personal growth and personal development in terms of engaging with people in real time so for people that know me personally or in spaces where I've been opportunity to meet more experienced people I'm always asking questions always trying to learn most times I sit in the room and I don't say much I'm just taking things in I'm absorbing things really trying to understand how systems are made up how does this work even when I'm on set I'm asking why is this lights here what lens is that why is this working just so I really understand how that is set up another thing is I believe that we all have different roles to play in terms of in terms of development now we already have people like you know files and macaroni who are my good friends who we do discuss um you know things relating to politics on in times when we do see and they already have the social media fronts covered I mean if files are macaroni are talking about politics on their lives people are engaging people are commenting and we have other people even on Twitter as well who are already driving conversations on social media so we have that on lock so we need to do this simultaneously so we have people on social media we have people who are setting up NGOs you know people who are really trying to help people set up small businesses we have people who are trying to make an impact through different avenues so we need to all be doing these things at the same time we all can't be on social media we all can't be in politics so as long as the goal is understood we can work in unison if I make it into the house I'm still going to have conversations with files and macaroni if something is going sideways they can reach me and be like bro when you are going in this is what you say this is what you say they can hold me accountable and that's what we do as young people we are a lot more honest with each other and we check each other a lot if any of your boys are going live you call yeah so we do that so as long as we're all in agreement to what the end goal is and we have as many people in different areas really trying to implement that goal I think that really is what we need okay so we just want to plead that we put in small small things yes yes yes so this is um good evening my dear beautiful sisters of what are you saying hashtag ways rest in the Lagos house of assembly not too much talk I believe wholeheartedly that Labour Party is determined to do well and will do well I pray that my dear brother Olumi de Owaru will be voted for and also win because I can really see his zeal and determination to deliver I pray this time there is no regain I'm so glad and excited to see this handsome gentleman in the studio I happen to be his fan I like the role he plays in the johnson's tarry johnson I want to ask him that how can he cope with politics and acting my name is Daniel quickly um good evening my beautiful sisters of ways it's great to see your guest dressed as a leg ocean his dedication in his johnson's role gives me the light that he would deliver in the capacity of his so quickly how do you want to manage will something suffer for it um the priority right now is political office that that is the immediate thing I'm going to immerse myself in so as as we go on if I am elected into office you know we'll figure it out but right now okay so this is um me having my eyes on you as a surulere constituent yes you do not get to move out of surulere yes I will personally check that you are still in surulere I love it that's the whole point I need to be on the floor because if I can't do it in lecture I will put it on social media we'll win thank you so much thank you so much thank you ladies and sure you follow us across all our social media handles that waste your Africa you can interact with us for the drop a comment or more importantly follow all our engagements and social media like share invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation I've you missed our very important quote here it is again we cannot be mere consumers of good governance we must be participants we must be co-creators you have to be part of the process okay there are great people stepping up to the plate so join I will see you guys tomorrow at 8 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