This is part of the IAEA's Brexit program, and our work on Brexit is central to our work as an institute, now and certainly into the future. And one part of that program is, I think, particularly important. It's that party leaders from across the island of Ireland come and give their perspective on Brexit. We've already had Column Eastwood of the SDLP, Mike Nesbitt of the Ulster Unionist Party, Michal Martin of Fianna Folle, today we have Jerry Adams, Sinn Féin, in the new year we will have Brendan Howland, we will also have Pascal Donohue, and we will, and you of course have the T-shock. So that is, if you like, a core part of our work. The other elements of our Brexit program will include a range of speakers from the UK and from other parts of the EU 27, bringing their own perspectives here to Ireland, but also enabling an Irish perspective to be shared with them. So that is really a key part of our role, how to shape public and political discussion both here in Ireland and elsewhere. Jerry Adams, I suppose probably doesn't need a lot of introduction, leader of Sinn Féin since 1983, he's been an MP in Parliament, in Britain, in an abstentionist role, and he's been a TD in Dull Air since 2011. We have also seen, obviously, over the last number of years, Sinn Féin repositioning himself to some extent on Europe. When he was here in 2002, he was talking about Sinn Féin's commitment to Europe, but I suppose stressing that it was a different type of Europe that you were advocating, and there's been a very interesting evolution since then. So today we are meeting at a time, a day after, a policy document has been produced by Sinn Féin called The Case for the North to Achieve Designations, Special Stages within the EU. And I know Jerry's remarks are going to touch upon that, and we look forward very much to hearing them. Thank you. Thank you. I want to begin of him out just by paying tribute to Tom, like the Tom and Jerry show. Tom's had a very long and distinguished career, and served served in a number of capacities in the Department of Agriculture, with the Mary Robinson Foundation, and with concern. And I first became, although I knew often, acquainted with him during the Constitutional Convention, which I think was a really good democratic participatory process, and he's also chairing the All-Ireland Civic Dialogue, and I think you're very fortunate to have him as your Director General. So it's good to be with you today, we're going to be dealing with an issue that has profound implications for this island and for all of the people of the island. It's widely accepted now that this is the biggest single challenge that we have faced as an island people in many, many years. However, we are where we are. Let's just deal with it in that hard reality, however we got here, and what matters is where we go to from here, and that's the sense of my remarks, and I've entitled these remarks an Irish solution to an English problem. So there's one basic fact which should not be ignored, and it is ignored by many media commentators and political actors in this part of the island, and also in Britain. And that is that on the 23rd of June, a majority of citizens in the North voted to remain in the European Union. Now all of my adult life I have been told that the majority in the North have to give their consent, and I very clearly have given their consent to remain within the European Union and refused to give it about leaving the European Union. And that's only the second time since partition that a whole range of people, nationalist unionists, Republicans voted together in common cause, and the first time of course was in 1998 when the people of the North and indeed here in the South endorsed the Good Friday Agreement. And not unlike that historic decision almost 20 years ago, the Democratic Unionist Party's world view was rejected. It's recognised that despite many faults that it's in our political and economic self-interest to be part of the European Union. And the European Union has been a partner for peace, has provided substantial political and financial aid over many years, has contributed to greater economic and social progress in the North and in the border region and across the island. And I also believe, and I campaigned in the campaign in the North, that people voted to remain because they recognise that it makes sense that Ireland in its entirety should remain part of the same trading block, as part of the same single market, with the freedom of movement of people and goods and services that that membership guarantees. And many unionists, especially in business, recognise that all island trade, commerce, cooperation and movement is vital to our collective economic capacity and progress. And the unionist political leaders position on these matters is very pragmatic. They embrace those issues which are to our mutual benefit, which is a very straightforward and logical position for them to have, but it's mailed away from what their positions traditionally would have been. So that's the context in which the many challenges posed by Brexit must be assessed and tackled in the coming period, because Brexit isn't just an issue for the North. It's as much an issue for someone down in Kerry as it is for somebody in Derry, for the farmer in Fermanagh or the farmer in Louth, for the business person in Dublin, facing communities along our coasts, the multinationals or the college student in Cork. It will adversely affect our entire island if we let it, and it's vital that we deal with its challenges on that basis. Now the more incidental or indirect consequences are, of course, already having a major impact. Yesterday we produced, as Tom has said, this paper, the case for the North to achieve designated special status within the European Union. I've brought copies with me and if we haven't enough, you can also get it on the Shimpion website, www.shimpion.ie. And what we seek to do here as part of our contribution to this debate is to address the many issues which we think need to be front and center, and it's our contribute, our considered contribution to a very necessary national debate, and we may, as that debate progresses, bring forward other thoughts. This week a report by the German Chambers of Commerce worldwide and the German Irish Chamber of Commerce painted a gloomy picture for this island in the event of Brexit. The report said that the EU member most connected with Britain, that as the EU member most connected with Britain, that we will suffer most from market volatility and unpredictability from the impact of Brexit. The report identifies specific key factors, including foreign direct investment, agri-food and tourism, as well as the likely damaging effect on our energy security. And this week also saw the publication of a central statistics office report, which details the depth of the economic and social links connecting the economy of this state, the north and Britain. And it warns that these connections could be under threat from Brexit. The report titled Brexit Ireland and the UK and Numbers also highlights the economic significance of a number of very labour intensive industries, such as meat and meat preparations and energy products which dominate exports and imports across the Irish Sea. You'd all be very aware that Britain buys 15.6 billion euros of Irish goods. That accounts for almost 14% of all Irish goods exported last year. Imports from Britain come to 18 billion or over a quarter of all goods this republic imported in 2015. And the CESO said that a further 18 billion or 18% of all services exports in 2014 went across the Irish Sea. This state bought in 11.4 billion in services or 10% of all such imports from Britain. And the importance of Britain to tourism here was also highlighted that it accounts for 14% of the 3 million visitors who come here annually. So all of this points up to the interconnectedness and the dangers. And of course we can't divorce the election of Donald Trump from our economic concerns. He has said that it's his intention to reduce corporation tax, so has Theresa May as part of our Brexit strategy. And if these decisions are followed through on, that's obviously going to have an impact here. And from my own sort of personal perspective, when you're out on the ground, particularly in my own constituency of Louton, I'm sure it's the same with other border counties, the challenges are very obvious. Newly's booming. Dundalk Centre's dead. Martin County, one of our TDs in Slego, later in South Dunnegov was telling me that the only remaining shop in Blackland is going to be closed. And the shopkeeper sent us because of Brexit. And the run up to Christmas is a crucial period for most, particularly small businesses or shops that helps them to sustain during the rest of the year. But this fluctuation of currency, which has seen large numbers of people traveling north to buy their Christmas food and drinks and presents, that could change. It's happened many times in the past. It's went back and forth. Sometimes it's better to shop in Dundalk. Sometimes it's better for the shopper. And you can't blame people for the way that they're going to go for what they get cheapest. So the uncertainty involved in all of this isn't good for sustainable business. It isn't good for anyone who's planning and hard to provide long term employment. And Brexit and the return of customs post will exacerbate this situation. I remember speaking to Paddy Malone of Finnegeal and of the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce not long after I was elected to the DAW. And he was explaining to me, and that was really, really refreshing for me to hear a Finnegeal member talking in this way. But he explained the awful impact that partition had in Dundalk. How it cut it off from its natural and Dirland how it devastated the border economy. I think it's improved since. But one thing that we can almost say with certainty that will come out of this Brexit will be the reimposition of an economic border. That's almost certain. Even if the two governments want to avoid it, the European Union will have its own position on this. So jobs are at risk, investments on their threat, our agricultural community faces all sorts of complications. And if you if you just imagine the plight of particularly small farmers, but larger farmers as well, who face the prospect of losing access to farm subsidies, but also face the prospect of trade tariffs outside of the single market. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. And beyond the enormous and unprecedented economic challenges, and the potential of very personal consequences for households. And this is something that I think all of us, even if we weren't involved or even if we weren't born on till afterwards, but the entire post Good Friday agreement, all island institutional and political architecture is under a very serious threat. And that may explain that all island cooperation, integration, the enhanced community, the cultural, the social relationships which have been so massively beneficial to all of the people involved, face all people. Basic human rights provisions are under threat. The Good Friday agreement, it's a historic compromise. It's not a settlement. It's an agreement to a journey. And the outcome of that journey might be United Ireland, or a continuation of the Union with Britain, or indeed some other constitutional arrangement. But whatever its outcome, that's a member and a matter for peaceful and democratic debate. And the integral part of the Good Friday agreement are the safeguards, the legislative measures that are intended to bed in equality of treatment and parody of esteem. It's central to it. I think equality is mentioned 35 times in the agreement. It was never mentioned in any previous agreements through all of the various agreements that were put together. And the agreement specifically states that the North South Ministerial Council must consider the European Union dimension in all relevant matters, including the implementation of EU policies and programs and proposals under consideration in the EU framework. It calls for arrangements to be made to ensure that the views of the council are taken into account and represented appropriately at relevant EU meetings. And the agreement also required that the British government incorporate into the law of the North, the European Convention on Human Rights. And this allows direct access to the courts, remedies for breaches of the convention, including powers of the courts to overrule assembly legislation on grounds of inconsistency, and not also as now at risk because the British government has stated its desire to end its relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights. It also said that it intends to scrub the Human Rights Act. Now, the Human Rights Act 1990, it gives legal effect to the European Convention. And these moves by the British government would be a direct unilateral contravention of the Good Friday Agreement and its human rights provisions. The Irish government as co-garrantor of the agreement must make it crystal clear that it will not accept any attempt by the British government to walk away from its commitments and needs to raise these issues with our partners in the European Union. I have to say, given the failure of our government to hold the British government to account on aspects of the Good Friday Agreement and given its own failure to fulfill obligations on to the Good Friday Agreement, many people in the north are just a fably concerned about the future of the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent agreements. So our focus must be to ensure that the Good Friday Agreement and its entirety and in every aspect must remain intact. I want to deal if I can just with what our changing attitudes within unionism. I'm not suggesting that the unionists of a common united Ireland, there's patently that isn't the case. But the DUP opposed the Good Friday Agreement. Nigh at pragmatically works the Good Friday Agreement. They now endorse Brexit, a position which people rightly rejected. And I think it's safe to say that there are many within unionism who are assessing their own sense of all of this. And that isn't to say that they don't see themselves as British or that they have given up their affection or their support for the link with Britain. But I do think that many have been challenged upon to their economic futures, the severing of ties with the EU and the potential implications for the island of Ireland. No unionist politician, for example, has been arguing for a hardening of the border. Not one. On the contrary. And when you contrast us with the traditional unionist position, which for years advocated a frontier type status, we now see Geoffrey Donaldson on the front page of the Irish Times putting the case for a special deal for the island of Ireland. We see the First Minister, Arlene Foster, arguing against a hard border. And in our view, Sinn Féin's view, our collective objective in the coming months and years has to be about securing the position of the island of Ireland within the European Union in line with the democratically expressed wishes of the people in the north. Now that means very openly, very meaningfully exploring avenues in which Ireland and its entirety can remain in the EU. It's not about a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit. It's about an alternative to Brexit. And that's not beyond our collective wisdom. We've also argued that a referendum on Irish unity should not be ruled out. And I know there are some who will say we want Irish unity, but look, it's too early. We don't want it now. But that's another issue. There are also unique arrangements in place in the EU. For example, Denmark is an EU member, yet Greenland is outside the Union. Greenland still receives European funding. 25 overseas countries and territories have a special relationship with the EU, without being members in their own right, and they benefit from access to the single market and other entitlements. Other forms of integration include the Eurozone and Schengen, where most member states participate, while others do not. And there are non-member states using the Euro and participating in their own arrangements. There's the customs union. There's the free trade agreement with Turkey. There's a single market European economic area with, I can't pronounce its name, Lechensdagen, Norway, Iceland, and Northern Cyprus in the event of a separate reunification will be fully integrated into the EU as per the Cyprus Accord. The separate states in the European Parliament are already allocated on the basis of the population of the island of Cyprus, not merely the de facto state. And it's an arrangement that we have to consider. Some of these variations, and the EU has, as I've just indicated, been very flexible about how it arranges its affairs. We also have this conundrum. Those of us who hold Irish passports and who are in the north, under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, that means everybody born on the island of Ireland. We also have citizenship of the European Union as well. So how do we deal with the conundrum that the north has dragged out against its will of the European Union? But yet we remain, those of us who have Irish passports, how are we given our rights as European citizens as we are entitled to? So there are a plethora of possibilities, of rearrangements, of ideas, of brainstorming that we can do. And I've said this to the T-Shock many times. We shouldn't be waiting to see what the British are going to do, or be mass marazed. I sit in the dial chamber and I hear the other leaders speculating about what's happening within the British government. We should be looking at what we need to do. What we need to do. My long experience of dealing with the British, one thing they're very, very good at, they're very good at looking at what they perceive to be their national interest. We're not so good at that. We're too boxed in, we're too blinkered by the parameters of this state. And this is a real opportunity to think all island without any necessary change to the constitutional position at this time. So it's about setting out alternatives, constitutional, political, other ways that promote our national interest. And we would argue that that should be about securing designated special status for the North. To a certain extent in the joint letter agreed with Martin McGinnis, Arlene Foster is looking for special status across a range of issues. Now, of course, she's looking for this special status outside of the European Union. And that is the current position also of our government. We're arguing for something different. It's for that special status within the European Union. Can the Irish state put this position? Yes. It has the right to do so under Article 48 of the Treaty of the European Union. I think it's obliged to do so to bring forward whatever propositions are deemed as a result of engagement and trying to get a consensus on the island. Now, there are also, obviously, within some of the European states, a view that they need to punish the British, or at least not make this easy for them in case that starts the breakup of the European Union. And I would argue very, very strongly that Tom described her, Shindhvii's position has evolved. And we did that very democratically within our party and discussed these matters out and brought it to our Irish and and so on. But there is a disillusionment with hundreds of millions of citizens with the European project. It's right across the entire Union. And what we would argue for is that needs to be taken on board because a third strand in this assessment of what's going to happen come Brexit has to be about a new European Union, a social Union. It means proposing and initiating reforms that would get us there. The EU has become very, very removed from citizens. It's no longer seen by many as a vehicle for cooperation. It's become associated with division, with elites, with power, with control. It's a two tier European Union. You know, the insistence that the EU, by the EU that the people of this state had the shoulder, the burden of private banking debt and the way two governments acquiesced to that, the appalling attitude towards the people of Greece, the failure to deal with compulsion with the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean. You know, we just take it for granted now that, you know, 324 people were drowned about four Mondays ago.  The response to the emergencies that are arising out of the conflicts, indeed, the involvement of some European states in the conflict in Syria and Libya have all undermined public confidence in the EU. And that's going to be difficult to rectify, but in my view, it's not impossible. A social European Union can't be built. And instead of placing economic interests at the core, we should be placing citizens at the core, cherishing the citizens. And we need to move away from a model that's overly bureaucratic, distant from the needs of citizens and lacking any empathy. We also need to be mindful that there are 28 states and one has decided to leave. So our place is in Europe. But the EU needs to change. And we would argue that we need to have more control over how economic policy is decided by member states that decided here, not in Brussels, not in London, decided unaccountable to people in the North and South because you can always sack your politicians. If they're making decisions that are not in your interest, you can sack them. You can't do that with the elites within the European establishment. And we also think that a European convention should be established with a clear mandate to identify powers which could be returned to member states. We think there should be a reduction in the power of the Commission to propose legislation unless requested to do so by the Council or the Parliament. We think the secrecy surrounding the European Council should be lifted. And we're very, very opposed to the creation of any European army or any initiative aimed at increasing the militarization of the EU. And we're very much about defending Irish neutrality. So we'll continue to work in our modest way with others across Europe to enhance the positives in the European Union to combat the negatives and to hold the institutions to account. We really want to make them more focused on delivering prosperity and safeguarding the rights of citizens. So it's also going back to my opening remarks. It's about trying to figure out how we develop a new Ireland from this. Because one of the outcomes of the Brexit vote and this is demonstrated by the vote is that citizens were able to step outside the barriers erected by partition. For that one day sectarian politics was made redundant. We have a particular model for a new Ireland, a Republican form of government but that's up to the people to decide and we're happy to put our views on the table and to argue them out and to take on board the opinions of others. So we need to appreciate that things are changing but also that we're now more multicultural than at any time in our history. There are people here from all parts of the world who enrich us as an island people. We need of course to acknowledge the genuine concerns of unionists as well as other sections of society. We need to be very, very open to listening to unionism, to engaging with them, to arguing, to debating with them and we need to find out from them what they mean by their sense of Britishness. And the proposition we're putting doesn't infringe upon that. We're not looking, I want to see Ireland reunited yesterday. We're not looking for that out of this current situation. We're looking for defensive reasons to protect our sounds across the island but also for more offensive reasons to try and build beyond the divisions of the past. First minister Sturgeon from Scotland in her address to the shanad here last week, she said, we are living in unprecedented times and those unprecedented times require imagination, open minds and fresh thinking. So in my view, the T-shock should follow Nicolaus Sturgeon's example. And rather than being mesmerized by what the British London government, the English government in fact, might be going to do, he needs to develop an all island vision. I welcome the establishment of the all island, the all island civic dialogue. When we first proposed the need for a national forum, it was dismissed. And, you know, it's now a matter of record to the T-shock's introduction of that idea to the DUP leader was clumsy, it was less than sure-footed. But I do think the initiative, and it's going to move north, I do think it does provide the potential to democratize an all island approach which takes on board the democratic will of the people in the north without changing the current constitutional position. And I think we need to think all island and act on that in part of it. As Ms Sturgeon said, these are unprecedented times. They require imagination, open minds and fresh thinking. Shin my marriage, go to Morgoth.


Was good charge but Ross back out again with another video. So I figured when I dropped my Omos versus Seth Rollins video pretty much implying that not even applying pretty much said yeah This definitely looks like Vince booked this. I knew I was gonna get some comments Some people talking about oh here. We go with the when things are bad narrative Vince booked it all of a sudden I knew I was gonna get those comments I knew there was gonna be those people that just want to live in this delusional world and not think that Vince has some type of creative control and creative input the guy has said it himself on television He may not be in the weeds, but he'll be up You know dealing with others things up above as bullshit Vince has been back and You can tell by just how certain things have been booked you can tell how Certain things have been shown on television. You could have you could have easily seen that on the Monday Night Raw after WrestleMania one of the worst Raw's at the WrestleMania ever you can easily tell and Then the argument becomes oh So I guess triple H was doing everything perfect when he was in charge No, there are definitely some things that triple H did not Capitalize on there's things that could have been done a lot better But at the same time it's Leagues better than what we have been getting for decades with Vince McMahon And I am one of the people that can say I grew up watching wrestling in the early 90s Part of the attitude era part of the ruthless aggression era even part of the PG era And there have been some great things that Vince McMahon has came up with and there's also been equally some God awful Horrible trash garbage that Vince McMahon has put on our television screen and as the years have gone by It's been mostly garbage You guys if you guys know me. There was one point. I stopped watching wrestling For about good maybe three or four years I stopped watching wrestling because I just didn't care. I wasn't interested. I I was done I was over it and then I came back after the infamous CM Punk promo and then from there the rest of history So the point I'm trying to prove here and the point I'm trying to make is at the end of the day Anytime people fans say oh, this is of something that doesn't make sense is non-sensical Oh, that sounds like Vince McMahon a lot of times, especially as of late. It definitely has been Vince McMahon isms and that's the truth We've been dealing with it for years and it's kind of sometimes easier to spot it Yes, Triple H had some questionable booking decisions as well You would think Vince McMahon was in charge, but I do think sometimes Triple H Just you know I'm saying maybe try to appease people maybe try to make everybody happy But ultimately it didn't make sense like bringing back the women's tag titles. That was a mistake That was not good. That was not entertaining. I mean it started off as something potentially But that was a mistake in hindsight. They should have let those titles He should have let those titles stay where they were dead So but here's the thing. I'm not here to talk about that. I really wanted to let y'all know and and show y'all How delusional Individuals can be when it comes to any time you criticize Vince McMahon or say oh, this definitely sounds like Vince McMahon how people just sit up there and Put on their superhero cape and be like the motherfucker hasn't done anything wrong granted the people do the same thing for Triple H But at the same time I can understand why people do the same thing with Triple H More than Vince because at least Triple H track record has been a lot better from what we've seen in NXT and on the main roster Then what it is in? WWE or what it's been with Vince McMahon as head of creative for so so so long so Posted my video. Let me go to Twitter real quick for you guys on them So if you haven't already go ahead and follow me on Twitter Ross's clutch So I posted this I said this match. This match makes absolute no sense. They haven't even interacted with each other And with each other for this to be a thing I posted my thumbnail for my recent video and the link to the video to check it out Of course some people, you know weren't in the grants But this individual right here Jay Tidsdale You are gonna be the start of this video because we had a back and forth And there was no getting through to this person and he's not the only person that I see in the comments section and on Twitter With this same mindset. So I wanted to put this out here because I I want y'all to see How delusional people can be when it comes to not realizing Vince still has a lot more power Then then y'all want to you know admit and Vince has been the problem with what we've seen on WWE television for so long Some of y'all fans are ridiculous. I like it triple H booked it. I hate it Vince is back A lot of y'all fans need to touch grass Just off that alone, I mean triple H has been doing some great stuff. I Mean I can I'm a testament to the fact that dub Wasn't even watching the program like that as much But once triple H had taken over he started watching him or because he started enjoying it more That's what I'm trying to get y'all to understand I've seen a lot of people say yo I've gotten back into wrestling because of what's been going on the fact that all these shows have been selling out in advance When triple H had been you know booking the shows it's it it writes itself It's simple people thought the product to be fresh It wasn't perfect and everything that triple H booked was not perfect, but it was it made sensing you cared more Half the time when during the Vince McMahon era of Monday night wrong You would only get maybe 20 minutes of in ring wrestling on a three hour show, but that's neither here nor there I don't want to make this video too long. So my response most events booking hasn't been good for years. This isn't anything new You don't get it y'all act like triple H books everything perfect everything perfectly every booker Books something good or bad even the great Paul Heyman had some bad booking one one week is y'all one week It's a show y'all like y'all give triple H Y'all give triple H if the show Bad y'all say oh, it's Vince. Hello.   It's been reported. He booked the show. He was changing the show midway through. What are we talking about? What are we talking about bro? So my response triple H definitely has some duds to but for the most part it's made sense But you can't tell me this doesn't wreak of Vince booking if you've been watching WWE for a while You definitely know the frustration.  He's one of those fans that even if it's bad He'll say it's bad and keep on watching But we're saying something is bad and we're voicing our opinion But it's wrong for us to say it because why are we not giving the same heat for triple H? Why we assume triple H didn't do it when we know this is how Vince operates, but that's neither here No damn I'll say it's bad and keep on moving I don't care who books it if Vince booked something good And it was and it was told y'all wouldn't believe it the bloodline story that you love Started by him now. This is when I really started getting in because I was like he clearly doesn't know here's the thing that wasn't Here's the here's the thing that wasn't even his decision You know that right Roman and Paul came up with the idea for him to go here That was the only way Roman would agree to come back for every good idea Vince had it's been thousands that are shit And for those who don't know if you didn't watch the evil Docu-series for I think it was season one. I watched it a while back When Roman was out or what not and he was contemplating a coming back during the pandemic era He made it very clear. He said it in the doc. He made it very clear Vince I'm not coming back unless I'm a heel and he got with Paul Heyman and they went with it Vince was okay with it, but he knew that was his top guy. That's his top guy He's like I'm not coming back unless we change something. That was a that was Roman's idea I'm pretty sure Vince would have loved for him to come back as a baby face But the people knew and he knew that wasn't the right way to go Roman has been a company guy He's done everything that Vince McMahon has asked him to do So I think he earned the right to input his own booking decisions a lot of the great stuff that you've seen in WWE in the history was Him letting the wrestler give their input after they've done their dues and they've done everything for Vince If they were on that level where they could talk to Vince and be like, hey, I think we should do this Let me give it a try sometimes Vince would say okay, and that's great I wish he would do that with a lot more talent. I'm not Disregarding that he at least allowed him to do that But don't sit up there and make make it seem like Vince came up with that No, he did not come up with that Roman has said it himself.   You can tell they let them Just do their thing. They got that All right, so my response to that was here is the thing that wasn't even his decision You know that right Roman and Paul came up with the idea for him to go heal That was the only way Roman could would agree to come back for every good Of the I think I've already read that very good idea Vince had it's been a thousand more that shit See, that's what I'm talking about. Oh now Vince can't get this credit but if Triple H was booking it y'all would have gave it to him so is Vince the blame for damage control and Not looking great as a faction to mind you already said Triple H hasn't been the best at booking either He gets criticism too. You know Roman set that himself on the evil documentary, right?  So I'm agreeing with him, but he's still moving the goalposts. I Watch the thing a wrestler can come up with an idea But the book is still has to gas to book it right give the credit to Vince booking it damage control and Bailey was Bailey Was Bailey's idea if Triple H would have Booked them great. I'm sure you would others would have gave giving him credit, right?  You want to know why Roman didn't get over? It was partially Daniel Bryan. Yes. Yes.   It didn't come off believable It didn't he came off corny the only time he worked Initially was when he was in the shield Because he didn't talk much. He was he seemed cool But then they started pushing them like they did John Cena and at that point The rest was history.  Like seriously? It does have everything to do with him being a face because no one wanted to buy into him outside of adding in It's the extra fact that everyone wanted Roman everyone wanted Daniel Bryan to be the guy Again wanting him to try to you know reclaim the championships. He's never lost At WrestleMania 31 everybody wanted that it didn't work and once again even after the whole Daniel Bryan situation They still kept shoving him down our throats and it didn't work. It didn't work ever The only time it ever work is when he was legitimately diagnosed with leukemia That's when people actually care because this is a real situation But then after he came back and it still wasn't he started losing it people started Doing him again. It didn't work. They literally sat up there and Fed Roman all these top other guys that people wanted to see like Samoa Joe Hell Braun Strowman got over because people hated Roman that much and Daniel Bryan had nothing to do with that What about the mother years? Like can we stop with the delusional Take that Vince McMahon Hasn't done any wrong my guy has been out of touch with wrestling for years And I only say this as someone that's a big fan of wrestling He hasn't had that genius idea like that in quite some time and I'm sure he had some stuff That was pretty fantastic. I'm sure he has But at the same time, come on, bro It's it's few farm between I'm actually missing a tweet because there was another tweet I didn't even know he kept for he kept for he keeps responding. I mean I stopped after a while to record this video When was the last time you actually gave Vince any credit 2005 when word got out The senior was gonna be a market as a face face turn on him because they were with him with the rap ish All of a sudden old five fans change a lot of these fans are slow Worst thing to do is to always listen to fans. Look at AEW that that makes Mind y'all. He's been a wrestling fan since the mid eighties. I don't I don't know Okay, well, I can't find the one tweet, but basically there was a tweet talking about the build-up between Rhea and Charlotte and Oscar and Bianca and where was the outrage for the the build-up for that the no build for that And I was like, what is he talking about? He literally said there was no build for Rhea and Charlotte and Oscar and Bianca when they actually Had build Rhea and Charlotte had history with each other Oscar and Bianca were like a team for a little bit for a while whenever going against damage control What do what are we talking about?  I couldn't find it, but it is what it is All I'm saying is bro at the end of the day I Made this video to put this out there to let y'all know man You can agree to disagree, but there's really nothing to disagree upon Vince has final say so on a lot of situations. He just does It doesn't matter what triple H title is he can be Content creator on you know chief content creator.  There's no conspiracy. It's the thing Vince Vince can do that He can't they can't kick him out Unless he does something egregious he can do that and For anyone that wants to call out some stuff that you know don't make any sense and you know that's something that Vince would do What's wrong with that? I don't know man I'm not always in agreeance with wrestling fans and their opinions on what should be done and how it should be done But I think a lot of us can agree that having Vince me man in any control on Creative side of things is not it's not it's not good.    I wasn't entertaining. It was boring These past couple Rawls and Smackdowns have been kind of mid outside of some good matches here and there and Triple H I'm sure has a lot of control over that so he gets to blame for that people been saying the shows Himself weekly have not been that good. They've just been okay, but the pay-per-views have been Fantastic You give him praise and you also give him some criticism but Vince He's been doing this for decades and a lot of the stuff that he has come up with It's just not that good. So comment down below. Let me know man. Am I tripping? Do you guys think? Vince McMahon still has some power back there and creative on what we see on television Or do you guys think that I'm tripping a lot of us a lot of people that agree with me are tripping and no This is all Triple H. This is all his doing. We don't know what we're talking about We just want to blame everything on Vince and yada yada yada Let me know if you which side of the coin you are because I'm beyond the switcher man Some of y'all I may not agree with y'all, but some of y'all The y'all letting a delusion warp your brain to the point where you really think Vince can never in has never done wrong He has it's Vince. We're talking about but I appreciate all love of sport road to 150k And I'm still young speedy you to the resident chapter the world. Appreciate y'all kicking me see y'all next one. Peace


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You lost 50% half of your money in January compared to December. And not just you, everybody on YouTube did. Why is that? To answer, I will show you what we normally show only to investors, a page from our investor deck, which is right here. As you can see, there is a huge drop every January, and there's two Januaries, one here, one here, in the Freedom Family. And this is YouTube-wide, not just the Freedom Network. What happens is, you are in the advertising business. Your revenue comes from people buying ads on videos on YouTube. In Christmas, everyone spends their ad budget, so in January there is no more money for ads, or there's half the money. And it builds up again to the next December. So you will get that 50% back, this is just the normal cycle of being in the video ad business, making videos on YouTube. There was a question from a 242,000 subscriber channel, The Extreme Undead, that asked this very question yesterday. He was saying he made the same number of views in December, so why did his earnings drop in January so much? And as I answered in the comments, it is because of the January effect. Because all YouTube ad budgets are spent during Christmas, advertisers have no money left in January, and the good news is ad budgets slowly grow, and there are spikes at the end of each quarter, March, June, and so on. And you may have noticed that in our graph here, you see this spike? That is end of March. Hey, we're just at the end of March, that means your revenues are spiking right now. You can check your YouTube analytics to see that. This is at the end of June, and then here is another spike at the end of September, and then at the end of December, and then another January. So I hope this helps you understand, and I have another comment to share from yesterday's video by Aaron Say What, a 40,000 subscriber channel who said, it's nice to see people back up freedom, and I will too. Freedom has always paid me everything I earned, even when I was transferred to MGN, and my earnings disappeared. That's a normal thing, is when you transfer from one CMS to another, your YouTube analytics estimated earnings are reset. That's just what YouTube does, but your actual earnings don't get reset. You don't lose any money, it's just the display gets reset. And as Aaron Say What said, they never tried to pull anything suspicious, despite me not being able to see what I earned on YouTube, but I do write it down to be sure. But they proved themselves to be trustworthy and paid exactly what I made. That is freedom. Got that in this episode? We are a family, and we help each other grow together. We also pay each other everything that we earn. So as you can see from Aaron Say What, his comment, we do take payments very seriously. And you're going to get payments tomorrow, I think, for your January earnings. Click that I to see the video talking about your new payment coming. Next comment, ATM Spice said, George, how can I get my money if I am under 18? So this is an excellent question. PayPal has a requirement that you must be 18 to own and operate a PayPal account. So if you're under 18, how do you get your money? Well, the easiest answer is ask your parents. They're over 18, I'm assuming, and they can open up a PayPal account and you can set their PayPal email address in your shiny freedom dashboard so that they will receive your money and then they can pay you. Or if you have a friend who's over 18 that you trust, as we're talking about money here, then you can always ask your friend to use his PayPal account. So that's the best way. You shouldn't wait until you turn 18, which might take three years.  Next comment, My Reminiscence said, he was wondering why the Extreme Undead, the person we just talked about at the beginning of this episode, has such a low RPM. And my answer to him is the one word answer country. What RPM, which is revenue per thousand views, how much money you make from people watching your videos, because you're in your advertising business, everyone who makes videos on YouTube is in that business, it depends on who's watching your videos and how much advertisers are willing to pay for that audience. So if your viewership is from Thailand, you're going to make very little dollars per thousand views because the Thai market is not worth much to advertisers. But if your viewership is from the US or the UK or Canada or Australia or Germany or Japan or any of the high RPM countries, you will make a lot more money per thousand views. So it doesn't matter where you are located, it doesn't matter where your YouTube channel country is set to, it matters who watches your videos, what country your viewership is from that determines your dollars per thousand views, how much money you make per thousand views. I hope that helps you understand.  I love that movie Jerry Maguire and thank you for that warm comment. Have you seen Jerry Maguire? What did you think of it? Tell me in the comments below. You really understand us as a real family hands down for you from Monterrey, Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Peace out. Well thank you for your warm words, you certainly brought a smile and I will mention your warm comment on the next episode of The George Show. Check, done. So thank you Gran Toro. Let's have a look at your channel. You have exactly 100 subscribers. How many can you get after getting a little feature on The George Show? Let's take a look. Well for the first thing I notice you don't have a channel trailer. Trailer, you haven't picked a video to be your default video which people will watch when they first come to your channel. So please set your default trailer video. Let's go to your videos and have a look at one. Well I'm going to click on this one for no particular reason whatsoever. It's a completely random click. Tom Clancy's The Division. Baja Arvadura Isigu. Okay, I am not too sure what that video has to do with gameplay but it certainly got my click. Let's look at a real gameplay video that your channel is about, shall we? Okay, so my feedback to you would be add some more emotion to your commentary. Make it more exciting. You are playing football or soccer if you're in the US and the commentator must get excited otherwise the viewer will not be so excited to listen to your commentary. So I hope that helps and let's go to the next comment. Gamer Dudes, he said, hey George if you read this I guess I was wrong. I'm starting to see the better side of freedom. I have been for a week now since my original message. I used to rant a lot in the freedom comments about how people should leave. Why would you do that? Although now I see more reason to join, to be honest. Well, Gamer Dudes, thank you for that change of heart. I would love to hear everybody's opinion. What do you think of freedom? Have you changed your mind about whether we are a good network to be part of? Tell me in the comments below and tell me what changed your mind so we can do more of that. What changed Gamer Dudes' mind were our forums where he met people through the chat that helped him find collaborators and he even spent a few hours today redesigning his channel logo and banner because he's remotivated to make videos. So check out our community forums at www.community.tm and introduce yourself and make new friends and use the chat. If you go to community.tm you will see this where you should click here and introduce yourself so you can grow your audience and meet new people. Crazy K Gaming said, I love position music and use their music in all my montages for CS Go. Let's take a look at one of your videos. Shall we Crazy K? Just you Ben, you're the last one left to lie bro. Keep it up. Ben, watch your back. Watch your back, don't act like me. So that was a pretty impressive freedom intro. I'm curious, where did you get that graphic because it's not in our branding kit and did you render it yourself? Please tell us in the comments below. So he said he loves using position music. Where does he get position music from? Everyone in freedom has full access to the entire freedom collection on positionmusic.com and I'll hide myself so you can see. This is the website. Simply click this little shiny freedom button when you come to positionmusic.com to sign in with your freedom account. Once you're signed in you can access all of the music and you can find exactly what you're looking for by clicking this button here, advanced search, which will show you this page. So you can see that you can search by keywords, by the mood, by instruments, and genre. A lot of different ways to find exactly the music you want from positionmusic.com. There's almost 20,000 tracks here of high quality music that is used in movies, video games, and TV shows. 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So if you have videos of any of these categories that you think would be worthy of being placed in these playlists on Freedom Central send us links to all of that down there in the comments below. And the last comment today is from Ai Joao. I'm sure I mispronounced that but let's just call you Ai. He said he would love to see the George Show in other languages. He's from Portugal himself so he was volunteering to make the George Show in Portuguese and he thinks it will be easy to find other candidates for Russian, Spanish, and other languages. So what do you guys think? Should we create the George Show in other languages? Should we have George in Spanish, George in Portuguese, George in Russian, and so on and so on to say what I say in that local language and should it be on another channel or should it be on this channel? Love to hear all your feedback down there in the comments below. And who am I? 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back to Think Tech, I'm Jay Fidel. This is Coronavirus What's Next on a Given Thursday. Today, we're going to talk about Trump and how he lied about the danger of COVID with Stephanie Dalton, Winston Welch, and, of course, Tim Apichella. So this is a week of revelations, really, Tim. And everyone has seen the Bob Woodward book came out with tapes to back it up, where Trump said that he knew that this was a deadly disease, even while he was telling the public it was nothing much. It's just a sniffle of flu, what have you. And what does this mean? Because not everybody takes it the same way. Well, Jay, I think it means that he lied. In your intro, you said he lied. And his lies, in my opinion, and I think the opinions of many other Americans, is those lies cost lives. I'd like to just read a real quick quote from Christina, and I'll put her last name, Urgoiza. And she said, my dad trusted this president. He listened to the president and followed his advice. So my dad did not panic. Instead, he died. Donald Trump said, I didn't want to panic the public. So therefore, I didn't come out to reveal what I actually knew. And that wasn't the reason. You and I did a show back in early March, 2020. And we both knew that he was more concerned about the Dow dropping. And the Dow, of course, is what he ties his success to the economy. And if the Dow drops, the economy drops, therefore his chances for reelection go in the toilet. And his concern wasn't for the American people. His concern was for his own reelection. He knew how deadly this thing was, and he lied. So that's the bottom line. He called it a hoax, you remember? He called it a Democratic hoax. And we said back in March, we don't think so. We think this is real. And I wish Republicans would stop believing Donald Trump on this point. Well, here's a case where this daughter has said her father died as a result of following Donald Trump and not taking it as seriously as he ought to have. Joe Biden is correct. He said he failed his job. He failed to do his job on purpose. This is a dereliction of duty. And it is. It's a dereliction of duty.  It's probably one of the most shameful things I've seen happen in decades. I mean, I've never seen anything like this from any president. Yeah. What would the dead say? They would not have good thoughts about this. So Winston, you know, he came right out and said that, oh no, he wanted to protect everyone. He didn't want anybody to panic. And he felt that that was his job, not to panic everyone. First question, and this is a two-part question. Do you believe that? All things considered. And the second question is, does his base believe that? Oh, no, I don't. We know that when Donald Trump is speaking, that there is hidden motives and lies often associated with whatever he's saying. And so we can't trust the basic information coming out of him. What I do appreciate is that he, when presented with this information, hi, Bob Woodward on tape, that he said, actually, yeah, I did say that. That was my voice. It wasn't a fake voice. And then Trencock did a story that he was trying to keep people from panicking. But what we needed and what we still need is simple honesty. People can deal with the truth, but when they're lied to, they have no idea. Then with the next thing that comes out of his mouth, is this a lie? Or is this a lie on the lie? And then folks covering it up when his spokesman, Kayleigh, she says, oh, no, he wasn't trying to hide this from the American public. He was exactly trying to hide it from the American public. He said he was trying to hide it. OK, if he was trying to prevent that, did he need to go on and then say it was a Chinese plot or a democratic hoax or that it would magically disappear? Did he need to add all of that? Or could he have said, we're taking a cautious approach here and we're going to listen to the CDC and the FDA? Didn't happen. His base, if he says whatever he says, they're going to believe. So and there's an interesting thing that I was watching that I recommend people watch is the social dilemma on Netflix now. And it explains why we don't get the same news. So in fact, while we are talking here and we have news sources that may include the nation, the Washington Post, Atlantic, New York Times, just standard journalism, they are being fed a completely different algorithm based on what they have clicked on in the past, who their friends are, what things they've typed into their browser. It's very interesting. So in fact, we are not dealing. And they are not dealing with the same set of facts that we are. They are given very slanted information. And they would say the same about us. I think the most important thing is to say get a wide range of news sources, incredible news agencies so that you can make informed decisions for yourself about COVID and all of their matters. So as far as his base, if they don't do any hunting or searching on this, but there were so many other things this week about what he said about the veterans that just if you don't have a bad taste in your mouth right now and think that some of this is true, you really got to start doing some soul searching, I would think. I'll tell you a short story. In late January, I became concerned about coronavirus. And I went to a party. And this was mostly a party of liberal Democrat people, not Trumpers, although I'm sure there were some undisclosed Trumpers there. And my party theme that night was to tell him that we had a problem. Houston, we have a big problem. It's coming soon. It's going to come down the way. And some of these guys were very influential guys and they all blew it off. One guy was an executive with one of the airlines. He blew it off. Why? Because he wanted to believe Trump. And I think we forget that back in January, February, we all wanted to believe this was not coming to the United States of America because we were exceptional. We could deal with it. It was not a problem for us. And I find that even though not everybody believed Trump, even though he had told what at the time 15,000 plus lies a lot of people wanted to believe him and we wanted to believe him. Do you remember that Winston? Did you have an experience like mine? No, I knew immediately that this was going to be a major global epidemic. You cannot have 60 million people in China on complete lockdown. When those images came out, I realized, yeah, this thing is gone worldwide now. We just are waiting until it pops up everywhere. We had a chance to do some really good containment at that time. America certainly had the ability to leave the world in contact tracing containment. Whatever we needed to do, we have road maps for this. We have planning that the administration was handed. I knew that it was going to be something right away. I had talked with friends.  I'm talking about the people you were dealing with. I think that there's so much else that was coming down the pike with regards to what's going on in our nation that it didn't take. It's a crowded marketplace of disasters. So for COVID to come in here and then all of the lies and confusion around it so that you have people and then having him saying, we need to liberate Michigan or liberate whatever states and cities that were democratic led. These, no matter if he was trying to keep the people from panicking, he made the situation much, much worse and now has shock credibility in large part of it. The ACDC and then politicized this thing so badly. Well, that's one of the big arguments. You didn't want people to panic and yet you have been divisive on every issue. You have created divisiveness and panic in so many other ways. It's hard to believe you now when you tell us that you didn't want anybody. So Stephanie, I have a very juicy, luscious question for you. I've saved it for you. I hope you're ready. Okay, it's my revelation question. Thomas Friedman said the base still likes Trump right now today, that in many ways they have not been affected by the Woodward revelation. One, Trump doesn't back down. He's Trump and they think that's good. Two, that Trump understands them. And whatever he says, whatever he lies or doesn't lie, he understands them. And the Democrats do not understand them. And three or four, whatever. And this goes back to my story about the 19th century and how the Midwest really hated the New York railway guys, the Vanderbilt crowd and Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller, the robber barons. The base resents people that attack Trump because they feel those people are more educated than they are, more privileged than they are and they look down on Trump's base. But they think that Trump does not look down, Trump understands. Therefore, no matter what Trump says, no matter what we find in Woodward's book, Trump is still their man. Thomas Friedman yesterday. So what's your reaction to that? I think that that's, I see that, I see that and I see that Trump is not of their ilk but they identify with him anyway because he's not got the Eastern establishment intellectual thing that they have to battle. So everybody else has that, Obama and George Bush tries to, but he's not got that edge of intellectualism. And I think that there it is, this is what the whole male thing was about, is anybody that was intellectual or learned, this was not of the people. And so I'm trying to piece together the Patrick Quilt here of these other experiences to understand why he presents one way but he actually is their guy. And so, I mean, it's also like gangs in New York City and Marshall Dillon and Gunsmoke, the bad guys come into town and they've got a leader and anything he says goes and he's going to get that damn in there and use all the, and everybody's going to go with that and that their identity is with them. And even though Marshall Dillon offers all this goodness and light and rational, doesn't matter these bad guys. So frankly, I do play over some of those Western shows I watched as he can because there's some, I can understand it better remembering that mob of black-headed guys rolling into town. I think we, on the keywords where we submit the keywords to YouTube, we should include Marshall Dillon here so people can always find the show. Okay, Tom, Tim, I have a very interesting also a revolutionary question for you. So we now have, as you mentioned, confirmation that Trump lied, that he really said those things, that he said different things to the public over a period of time. It wasn't just one day, it wasn't just one reference. It was for weeks and weeks and months and all that. Okay, so the question, this is like a cross-examination in a trial in court. So the question sequence would be something like, so we know now that you lied, how do we know that you're not lying now? You want us to believe you're telling the truth, but we know you lie. And so my question to you is when does the lying stop? How do we know, now that we know he lies, I mean, he has admitted he lies for his own reasons, how do we know when he is lying, when he's not lying? How do we know that he isn't lying about everything that he is saying about COVID and everything else in the very same way right now? I don't think the press has gone there, but you could make that argument that you would make in court logically to say, well, if he lied on the one occasion, why don't we take into account the fact that he's always lying? Can't you make that conclusion?  I think you, I think almost everybody would believe that he has a compulsive need to lie. He lies whether he, if he doesn't even need to lie, he lies. And so I think for the last three and a half, almost four years, we've seen this compulsion of his and I think it's a given. If you really look at his argument of I didn't wanna panic the population, therefore I really didn't wanna reveal the nature of it, just look at the obvious. The obvious is, if you really didn't wanna panic people but you knew it was so serious, why didn't you quietly start producing PPEs for all the hospitals? Why didn't you start doing contact tracing and testing? Because these things would actually get at reducing the spread of this virus if you knew it was so serious. These are just a couple of examples of why, why didn't you encourage mask wearing if you knew it was this deadly airborne, deadly virus? So I'm not buying his, I didn't wanna panic the population argument, not for a subject. Well, the thing about lying on COVID, on the hoax, it's just a sniffle kind of thing is that people died, as you mentioned. And maybe people don't realize that we have also huge losses when he lies, for example, about the Ukraine issue, when he lies about the influence of Putin over his moves, including removing troops from Germany and Syria, when he lies about what the Chinese are doing or not doing, when he gets into these tariff fights with them. I mean, these are lies that do not result in immediate deaths the way the COVID lie has resulted, but they result in the decline of the United States. They result in a new world order in which all our lives will be changed. And when he lies about those things, there's also a very high price to pay. And so, I mean, I think we can extend the whole notion of lying with dastardly results to pretty much everything he's doing. But you know, Jay, it's not just, oh, I'm sorry, it's not just the lying, it's a strategy to defer or deflect responsibility. It's the what about this or what about that guy? He's doing it right now with this interview. He's saying, why didn't Woodward come out initially with it? If it was so serious, why didn't Woodward come out with it? So there's a classic, what about him? Don't look at me and my lies, but what about him? So this is gonna continue for the next 50-some-odd days. And I just don't think there's any end to it. I think his followers know there's no end to it, but we're gonna vote for him anyway. Those questions that Tim asked about all those questions you laid up there about why didn't he do this? Why didn't he do that? The masks, the PPE, those are such good questions. They are. Why didn't he do that? Well, maybe at the fringe of this, maybe he's losing some credibility. And I wanna talk about the big pharma decisions with Winston.  I'm not sure what that is anyway. He probably calls him and yells at him. That's his warp speed program. So they have a number of them agreed and spoke in writing that they were not gonna rush things no matter what the politics are. That was a direct reference to Trump who is using politics for his own political purposes to talk about warp speed programs. And Fauci agreed with that. But I think the most interesting one is AstraZeneca, which is a European company involved in trials. And they pause, that's a euphemism. They stopped their trial because one of the people in the trial got really sick. So it's not going well. And either the ones who signed that letter, I don't know if that includes AstraZeneca and certainly AstraZeneca are saying, we're gonna do this on our own, don't push us around. And so this opens the question of whether we're going to have a vaccine by October, just a few days. Remarkably, a few days before election day is true or another great big, ugly, ridiculous, fatal lie. And then of course, not addressing the question of even if there is a vaccine, whether it can be manufactured and deployed in any kind of expeditious format because it takes months or years to do that. You have to have two shots and you have to do the world, which is seven plus billion people. That's not gonna happen at the end of November or October. So anyway, what's your reaction to that Winston? Is he losing credibility here? Well, you know, as it says, we need 8,000 Boeing 747s to distribute a vaccine. And that's an entire ranging between two and eight degrees Celsius to ship this vaccine everywhere. Look, you know, these companies know Donald Trump is a blimp, but they're not. They're 100 year old companies. They're major pharma. They have a lot of money to gain or to lose if people stop taking their vaccines. You've already got a very strong anti-vaxxer movement in this country, combined with, you know, now combined with COVID denial or whatever. How many people are actually gonna get these vaccines?  And even if it isn't fake, I'm still not gonna get it because it's being rushed or it's being made in China or whatever. So these companies had invested interests. That's true. And it goes back to the hoax thing that Tim and I were talking about. When he was saying it's a hoax, it's a sniffle, it's a flu, that has a momentum. And it lives with certain people. They are stuck on that from months ago. They still believe it's a hoax. Therefore, anti-vaxxers. And they're anti-vaxxers because of whatever reasons, this is desperately anti-science administration. But these folks working in these things, if nothing else, it's the almighty dollar that's motivating them. I think there's good people working in these companies that are interested in public health. But they banded together. It was nine companies banding together. This wasn't just one of them sticking out its neck so it could be chopped off. They realized they needed to speak in unison as an industry to say, we are not coming forward until these vaccines are safe and proven. Now, whether they included Russian or Chinese vaccine manufacturers in there, I don't know, but I'm just guessing no. I'm guessing these ones, they want it to be able to be sold in Switzerland, Sweden and Germany, just as much as the United States. And if they don't have credibility, it's not gonna happen. I have a question I was talking about before the show began, and that is espionage. There was a piece I think in the New York Times about global espionage is going on, partly because Trump is isolationist. And maybe largely because Trump is isolationist. So whether the article talked about whether Russians are doing espionage in the American universities that are doing research on COVID in the companies that are trying to develop vaccines and that the Chinese are likewise doing that. And also that the US through its intelligence network is trying to do that. They're all hacking and looking and sending people around to find out the state of research. So instead of what the World Health Organization would like to do, and encourage everybody to collaborate as science should always do, what we have is a kind of chaos in the research now, according to this article. What's your reaction to that, Stephanie? Yeah, I understand that I've read there are 369,000 Chinese national studying in the US. And the Trump admin has yanked 1,000 of those graduate students out of the universities where they're stealing, or learning about military secrets. So yeah, I think he's doing that. And also I wanted to just thank Winston for bringing up the 8,000 cargo jets because that was called the mission of the century to get this vaccine now. It will be the mission of the century they're starting to talk about that way because it's such a huge task. So I mean, I think, we're looking at something it's gonna go on for another year. I think your question about the vaccine, the question about the vaccine is a good one because it represents the terrible issue we have and it also is another example of his lying. And one of the reasons, one of the motivations for his lying is that he's trying to garner the credit. So what he's doing is getting the benefit of the effects of getting the vaccine in without it ever happening. So, you know, you wanna talk about a hoax. Who knows that it will ever even happen anywhere near. He's looking for the credit. This reminds me of the incident back a couple of months ago where he tried to buy the intellectual property of a German pharma company for a billion dollars and take away all their researchers. And Angela Merkel stepped in and the researchers said no and his initiative fell flat. But clearly he wanted to do that so he could claim and maybe make some money from, claiming that it was an American solution. And it does give the base, it does give the base energy. Let me go to the college issue. You know, the numbers are coming up in the colleges. And Trump is pushing the colleges to open as he is to have the economy open. But a lot of colleges have hundreds and hundreds of people, the students who are sick and some of them are sending them home. And education, higher education as well as lower education is in chaos now. There are hotspots around these colleges and Ames, Iowa, I'm thinking. You know, where the schools weren't careful, the students weren't careful. Everybody's confused, there's chaos raining. They don't wear masks, they don't practice social distancing. And they get sick, it's a, we have a big problem in this country. It's those early remarks that still have an effect. Trump doesn't wear a mask. It's not clear that he's really recommending masks or some social distancing and they're pushing to have the colleges open and press them, what do you expect? We're gonna have a lot of students sick. So, you know, here we are in a place we have been before, I think, where the economy is still in the toilet, where now the schools are being pushed and they're in the toilet. Where is this gonna go, Tim? Well, according to Donald Trump, the economy's not in the toilet because the Dow is at its all-time high again and the NASDAQ and the S&P is at its all-time high. Again, he's convinced Americans and his followers, his voters, that the economy is the stock market. Those numbers have come back since the 19-5 on the Dow, they're back to 28-5. So he'll argue things have never been better. The bottom line is the students are being used as cannon fodder. And it's not about his concern for the students or their level of education. It's concerned to get the parents back into the workplace. And the only way that's gonna happen is by getting the kids in school so that his precious economy in the next 55 days is still gonna appear that it's vibrant. And therefore, I'll garnish a vote based on that. Yeah, okay. Well, Winston, here's the hard one. We only have a little time left. I said, what's gonna happen this week? I mean, he's taken some real hits here, even among his base, I'm sure, on these books, on Woodward's book, and on the revelation that, what was the other one, serious revelation. Yeah, open the newspaper, it's so many, it's hard to keep. Yeah, it's true. But I mean, so he's taken some hits. His credibility is at least for some people in jeopardy and maybe people are reacting.  What is he gonna do this week? What can we expect? I think we can expect a lot more of the same, followed by an extra helping. But remember, he is God's imperfect vessel, so it doesn't matter what he does, his personal characteristic, his lies, his whatever, because he's carrying out the mission of God and is the anointed one. And I just hope that some of his people see, maybe it's time to unanoint him and put him back down and say, this is a flawed person giving us really bad information, dividing us and producing chaos. And we need to step up as human beings, as Americans. The Lincoln Project is doing that. The Lincoln Project has a variety of ads out there that demonstrate that he is and what he says he is. For example, that he was not pro-life before, he was pro-choice before. All of a sudden, he's changed. It doesn't matter. We have to, at the end of the day, Jay, this is, well, Donald Trump is constant in all of our lives and discussions and dominates everything. It's up to us. We have to take control of our own situation as best as we can locally, personally. We're seeing it here in Hawaii. We're seeing it in Honolulu. The states, the cities, countries all around the world are having different ways of coming up with dealing with this. And the best ideas will float to the top. The same for these vaccine manufacturers. We have to remain optimistic and cheerful because there are a lot of other good players here that are going to go around and do the best they can. Okay, Stephanie, I'm not surprised that Winston is optimistic. That doesn't surprise me. But what about you? Are you optimistic? And are you optimistic while we know that the post office is failing? We're waiting on mail now that we know it's sent two weeks to go plus and we haven't gotten the mail. And I think it's just lining up for more extraordinary delays around the ballots. Are you optimistic? What do you think that Trump is gonna do in the next week to distract us from the realities of COVID and voting? He'll do something because Bill Maher's already unleashed the next North, like the South Carolina guy. He say, no mail, no cards, no flowers, no beauty products, no Amazon, do not mail it. And all the corporations that are sending out all this junk junk that they gotta stop sending that for two weeks and just let the post office dwindle down to nothing but having to deal with these ballots. So I think Trump's not liking that because I believe we can do something like that. And that's why at first, like when you were alarmed in January, I wasn't because it's America. We could deal with this, you know, we just beat Ebola. We had two Ebola problems. So you were optimistic in January. Are you optimistic now? We don't have a problem. She's optimistic now. Okay, Tim, how about you? Are you optimistic or are you planning a trip to a remote location in the world to wait this out? Well, hi, Modus Operandi. I was planning for the worst and hope for the best. The bottom line is, no, I mean, Donald Trump is gonna create something out of nothing. Again, a shiny silver object and it's gonna be a big one because he's the Bismarck and he's taken a direct hit on his interview with Woodward. And so he's gonna create a big, grand shiny object and watch it, it's coming. It'll be here in about a week, week and a half. Okay, before we go, I remember the other, you know, place that he took a hit and that was with the military comments. I was gonna say, yeah, the military comments. And where's that? So, I'll only quickly ask all three of you. Tim, the military comments, is as he lost the military, yes or no? He's losing them fast. Yeah. And Winston, what do you think? I agree that this is one thing that actually is making a little bit of a ditch. Yeah, good. Stephanie? I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful like what Tim and Winston say. Yeah. Let's all be hopeful. And they're not making a big food ad out of it. They're just. What I like about Corona is that we don't get distracted. Corona, watch. We look for the distractions, but we don't buy them. We're on it. Thank you so much, Stephanie. Thank you, Winston. Thank you, Tim. See you next time. Bye-bye.


Welcome folks, this is Tom O'Brien of TFNN.  You focus on growth so everyone's having a great day, safe day, let's make it a great night folks. Surrender and let go of the past. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you're allowing yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream. That is right here, right now. Yesterday's gone, tomorrow's not here. What are you doing right now folks? Cause that's the name of the game. Mockin' eyes, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries up 162. NASDAQ up 100, S&P's up 29, gold contract up 64.60 straight and it's 17.70 an ounce. We have Silver up 45 cents, $23.72 an ounce. Late sweet crude, up 44 cents, $82.88 a barrel, notes and bonds. A 10-year note, down 7 ticks, 1.3017, the 30-year offer full point, plus 11 ticks at 1.5807 in Kingdala. Kingdala's down 205 ticks trading out here at 93.748. Euro is 1.16, Yen is at 1.14.30 on the British pounds at 1.37 to 1 US dollar. iPhone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call folks. Want to know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at them. What do you have? We took out the swing yesterday. You took out the swing, life volume, no two ways about that man. You're coming into the downdraft, the first downdraft that was created out here in September 10th. Now the top of that is 451.49. We've hit 450.56, we're coming into that with volume that's contracted in a monster way. We've done 32 million shares. I figure we'll do 40 million where you're coming into 89. That being said, you have held price. If you hold price, bottom line, it's gonna try to get to the top of this bar, which is the 451.49, which is about a point higher than it's gone so far. Today, we've hit 450.56, you're 20 cents below that right now. Your NDX100, NDX100 just got over the swing point that the S&P bottom line has taken out yesterday. That's coming into the swing. This would have to come down a dollar to have a failure. It's 374.04, that's the number. It's not gonna have the volume, that's for sure, we're doing 21 million shares. You're going into 44 million and that's not even talking about the downdraft. The downdraft out here has 60 million. We'll see what it can hold coming into the close. When we take a look at the NQ futures, what you're going to see is that we just got a small sell, first one, in fact, because if you take a look at the market in general, when we opened yesterday, this has been a one-way trip on the way up. At the beginning of the market out here today, you got a little downdraft, that being said, someone came in and bought a huge amount of futures, man. You know, that thing popped in a big way. Then you've gone up and what we just did do is that you got a little downdraft and it has volume on that downdraft of that 362. Right now you're 387. Gold, gold contract here continues to want higher price. We take a look at the gold contract. Geeze. December gold out here, trading at 1770, you get 166,000 contracts, not bad contract volume. Bottom line is gonna need some juice to get up and over here, okay? What we did is this, is that you had the ying as well as the yang last week. The ying going top side, we had 299,000 contracts, big day. When you pull back on Friday, we pull back with 200,000. So 200,000, going against the strength of the 299. Yesterday you rejected lower price with 150, now you're building cause. Pretty cool actually, the way this is setting up. We go to the GDX, what you have inside the gold market right now folks is this, if you're in the gold market, it's pretty cool how this is setting up. And what I mean specifically is this, if you understand the ABC structures, we have a potential ABC structure in many of these equities and man it's set up nice, okay? So what's really cool about an ABC structure on the way up or the way down, as it takes out the B point, you're either gonna have the volume or you don't. When you have the volume, your probability goes much higher that you're gonna get the price projection. And you can see in the GDX right now, the moves are pretty cool. I mean, the B point inside the GDX is 32.93. And you need 25 million shares traded. Well, we're laying right underneath that right now. If you wanna take a couple, look at a couple others, they're there and they're there in Spain's. You got Angelo Ashanti, same type of setup. And this is a big one. I mean, if that took, if this takes out the B point, there's 2.9 million, 19.24, it's a big A to B. Goldfields is also a big A to B. Let me go see if Newmont, I don't think Newmont's done anything. Newmont's a lag it right now. Well, it wouldn't be a large ABC structure up, but it would be an ABC up. That's set up the same way, so pretty cool. Now, let's go take a look at the dollar because the dollar just about missed, okay? Where I suspected it was actually gonna go far. And what it was is this, okay? So we have a swing point out here that's back September of 2020. It's 94.742, I think we hit 94.500. 94.561. Then what happened is that we came off of that and you came off that with conviction. So conviction in the marketplace, okay? My definition of conviction, folks, is that you're going up or down with wide price spread and volume. We do not have volume inside the currency markets because the currency markets trade in a million different places. Well, not a million, but hundreds of different places. What we did do is that we came off the high and you had conviction on the way down. 93.729 gets you inside the lower range. Now we got in there today and rejected it. We'll see how this baby shakes out, but it looks to me that the way gold is trading that the dollar does want higher price. And now let's go over to the bond market because what we have inside the bond market, bond market has been going into the lower end of its consolidation. We have out here today, the 10 year is testing the lows of yesterday and you have a monster contraction. So my take is that what you're going to see is you're going to see a rejection of lower price again in the note and bond market. They want higher price as this market pulls back. That's the way it looks that it's set up. Stay right there, folks. We're going to be coming right back when I'm at Mr. Basil Chapman. Dow industry is up right now up 167. You get the NASDAQ 104, S&P's up 30 will come right back.


My name is Demi Mathias. I'm from Tuangui First Nation or Bear Island. I'm part of the Loon Clan. I'm here at Trent University doing my master's in Canadian and Indigenous studies. I'm studying the Birch Bark canoe and its contribution to cultural resurgence specifically within my community. I also sit on the Trent University Native Association which is why I'm here today to talk about it. The Trent University Native Association or what we call TUNA is a program that is run by Indigenous students for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students just creating like a safe cultural space, community-based kind of organization and program for students to be involved and get to know other Indigenous students and non-Indigenous students at Trent University. It acts like a home away from home and you get to make new friends through this organization and lifelong friends because we all come from somewhere and the TUNA being kind of that home base or that place to kind of be yourself and express your Indigenous culture. We host a lot of events. We also act as like a connection but also communication line between different programs at the university kind of in collaboration with the First People's House of Learning but yeah so we host a lot of events. Some of the events we hosted last year were we had a like a panel speaking on Two-Spirited. We had like a Halloween night. We just have events where students can come out and just kind of relax, enjoy the company of everyone and just you know sit down eat maybe have some good conversation and dialogue between people but yeah so it's really just safe spaces for people to come out and just kind of relax and kind of like de-stress from whatever is going on in their lives or whatever is going on in their schoolwork or whatever it might be. It's a good way just to make new friends and talk about experiences and just kind of have that community within Trent University that you may not find otherwise. So I think it's it really helps create those relationships and the community if you're you know missing home or missing family or something. I guess the success rate would all depend on the amount of students that come out to the events we host as well and the success of how well the events go. I know in that Two-Spirited event we had there in I believe it was late November. It was a great turnout. A lot of people enjoyed it. We had good reviews of like people saying oh this was great like like good job and so I guess it's just how we reach out to people and how they like reach back basically and if they come out to events or like every student group has trouble getting people out but those that do come out if they enjoy it and if if they continue coming to events I feel that that could measure the success of how well we are doing. Right now we're in the process of planning a 50th anniversary of Tuna and also our powwow which will be held in March. So to measure the success of that I guess it'll be how organized and easily the planning goes but also how many people show up and how how much are interested and and yeah just the amount and population we get out to those which I'm hoping it will be lots. We're just in the early planning stages still but we're looking to advertise and get it out there and then hopefully run a successful gala and powwow. There's always challenges yes. Some challenges like I said in past events it's always the matter of trying to advertise enough to get people out that's one thing that that we're really struggling with just because we advertise it and we get it out there but we still aren't getting enough people or those that a larger population of what we'd hoped we'd get so hopefully with like the powwow and gala because there will be so much going on like performances with the gala and dinner with the gala and then the powwow inviting in the drum groups of neighboring communities hopefully with that we'll get more of an attendance and that people will just really enjoy that day but yeah there's always challenges with reaching out to people just because I don't still know what it is why I think that a lot of organizations struggle with that because they just like they advertise and they put it on their social media platforms or they'll send an email out or word of mouth but it's still a matter of getting people out after doing all that so that's one challenge. The planning because this is my first year sitting on the association I like I contributed to my community's powwow what I've never actually planned events or planned a powwow so it's all new to me so it's also a learning experience which challenges obviously arise with that you know with the people you're working with or the venues you're trying to secure or anything right there's always challenges in that so it's a good learning experience you learn from the challenges that you're faced with so I'm hopeful that the events coming up this year will be great and that and they will be successful and hopefully we sail through the challenges in terms of feedback I guess it would just be more of like people commenting on our social media posts saying like oh this event was great or like oh we should host this event because it's been done in the past and and it was it was good feedback and a lot of people enjoyed it so I guess it's we don't really have like a survey or anything or or any kind of concrete feedback thing for lack of a better word but but in terms of like the social media platform and the commenting on post and such that really create provides feedback for us who are on the association which is which is helpful because then you know if if this event wasn't as popular well we probably won't host that again but people were mentioning doing something different and oh like maybe they'll be more people that want to be involved in this event so it's just a matter of getting feedback and posts and comments on on the post that we have on our social media platforms that I think would be the best way that we have gotten feedback and continue to get feedback so to me um it's it's really I think focusing on building those relationships between the academy and indigenous people collaborating between the two but also respecting one another and in a way that I think comes through the relationships that have been built I did my undergrad at a different university and it's it's amazing to see what different institutions are doing and how inclusive or not inclusive they are of indigenous presence within the academy I think that indigenous education needs to start at like a community base or within like the institution at like a smaller level I guess so like with tuna you know you have your associations and then you have the fph on then you have the indigenous studies program or faculty and like it's kind of like moving out right so it's the inclusivity but also the relationships between like each level within the institution and then it's also um I think at least bringing in like knowledge holders and bringing in that land-based or indigenous knowledge because that is very important to building those relationships as well I always talk about relationships because I think that that's like at the basis of everything and and building those relationships and moving forward is very important especially if indigenous education is going to continue and going to thrive within this western society I also think that with with these relationships we build on like like a curriculum almost of like of including the ways of knowing and being of indigenous people but also of you know land-based initiatives and like I said indigenous knowledge also with my research of the Birchbark canoe I think it would be this is like I don't know this is a plan I'm thinking about but implementing a curriculum or a course that is based on the land but like done through the canoe so it's using this like cultural aspect but also teaching and and kind of going back to what we knew um like and using the land and through the land right because the canoe can teach you so much it can teach you all about the math and science and and language it has so much knowledge so I think that building those relationships having those respectful relationships and then um and then moving forward from that is is um is really important within an indigenous education um and is something that I think would be very important to continue building what indigenous education means and is to people and everyone I guess this summer when I was building the Birchbark canoe um we had like a language component where we had community members come in from Wannapete First Nation which is very close to us and they were sharing about language and language revitalization through the canoe so that could be another avenue of indigenous education of um you know building that relationship with the canoe and building a canoe or just sharing language revitalization through the canoe and and how important that is um to learning our language and learning um learning the connections you make through the language it's because there are a lot um there there has been so much that has gone on in our communities um let bringing back the language would would help revitalize our connection to the land connection to elders and it just it just I think it would help um it would help you know continue um like just like oh there's just so much within it that I think it would help continue that connection and help help youth today learn more about their culture because it's you know there's so much that has been impacted and we are a generation that needs to um continue to learn and and have those traditions and um those oral traditions shared and that could be done through the language because or else it will be lost right because there are a lot of um community members and elders at least in my community there are probably only two fluent speakers left and so of my dialect of Ojibwe so it's it's it's a matter of you know reaching out building those relationships and and wanting and that want that want to learn and to share so that the next generation after me or the generation after that can continue the culture and continue the traditions so that's kind of what I think about it but I think it is important that language revitalization and like even cultural resurgence and um and everything it is all linked together and it it's all one especially in terms of um indigenous education in the next 10 years well um it is my hope that um so within my community we have a school that goes from um jk to grade 8 and then once they finish that they have to leave the community and either go to nulisk or to north bay to um do their post-secondary or no secondary story um and so it is my hope that within the 10 within 10 years or within the future that that uh because we have a native studies or language program at our school um it is my hope that that continues and then at the community base and then you know branches out further to um high school age or the post-second or the secondary and then post-secondary as well here at Trent there are um you know language is spoken and there are also um there are also programs and classes offered like there's an ishnabe moment or there's mohawk or you know continuing having those um traditions and culture within the um institution as well to then further that education and continue building those relationships i can't stress enough how important relationships are and the importance of building and respecting those relationships once they once they are built um because that is so important respecting the views and the and the culture and and those of of different groups and um through that the relationships within um within the education system um i think that that is really important um with over over the next 10 years building and continuing to build those relationships i also think that like maybe having more on-the-land initiatives or or like uh on-the-land based learning would be beneficial as well um i always go back to the canoe but i think that um there's so much within the birch bark canoe there's so much you can learn and there's so much to tell that i think that implementing more um learning experiences or lived experiences through cultural traditions cultural objects um like and cultural resurgence within that also would be very helpful and would be amazing to see within the next um 10 years just because um of how important it is to remember where you come from but also um continue to pass that on to generations of um indigenous people throughout canada i would like to see better relationships achieved um um and just oh i don't know that's such a hard question just because of because of where we are now um and in 10 years so in 10 years i'll be 34 so i don't know know like what what that will be then but in in my perspective having at least like what i would like to see implemented is a curriculum that is like land-based learning or like a land-based education system that completely um like starts at the community level and like helps um like those youth and children in communities learn from the land and and be out on the land rather than you know sitting at a desk or sitting um listening to someone lecture you it's you know it's about um going out on the land and going out on the traditional hunting territories and then maybe going for um a canoe uh a paddle or or building a canoe or it's becoming um you know one with your culture knowing where your roots are from and then building that relationship with that with the land and um i think that would be really cool to see um that land-based more land-based education and for me through the canoe and using the canoe as a tool to teach um to teach students and to to teach everyone really to to teach that that the canoe has so much to tell and and while you're building it you're building that relationship with the land and with community members and with the ancestors so um again yeah just building that relationship and moving forward from that and seeing seeing the land as more than just a resource or more than just an object seeing it as a living being and building that relationship with the land