fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. Oh, right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show. And this, what is it, Wednesday, October 4th. I hope everybody's having a great week. Sorry for the lack of shows the last few days. I was traveling, and even before that, I caught some kind of bug, some kind of cold flu. And what happens when you travel is whatever you have, it just gets worse, right? It just gets worse. So you don't sleep as well. I think the dry air in the airplane makes it worse. So I came back home sicker than when I left, which is no good. And I was wondering whether to do a show today, but I decided since I hadn't done one in a while, I would do it. So I'm a little, maybe a little bit more mellow today than usual as a consequence. And certainly, I assume you can tell from my voice that I don't have my full voice available for me today. It's a voice of somebody with a cold. All right, so I got a lot to talk about today and we'll cover this. I do want to mention that we'll have a news roundup tomorrow and then we'll also have heavy binge-wearing all beyond tomorrow at 8 p.m. for an interview show. So we'll have him tomorrow. And then Friday, we'll also do two shows. And then Saturday, no show, because I'm traveling again. Sunday, I'm hoping to do a show during the day from California. And then after that, God, I just don't know what the schedule's gonna be. We will have to play it by ear in terms of when I can do shows. But basically, I'm not back home until November 1. So my hope right now is that I get better before I fly to California on Saturday. I really hope I get better before I fly there. I don't wanna be sick in California and then I go to Europe and God, I need to get better. So working on that as well. So anyway, I'm not giving a talk in California. No, nobody invited me. It's the usual thing. I go where I'm invited. I give talks where anybody invites me. Anybody wants me to give a talk, organize an event, invite me. I'll happy to do that. Reminder, you can use the super chat to ask questions. Don't use the chat. Use the super chat to ask questions. I can follow the chat and I can't keep up with that. So Canada, I'm not going to Canada. Why would you ask about Canada? If you invite me to Canada and organize an event for me, I'll come and do a talk in Canada. I don't know what CRC is, but happy to come to Canada to give a talk. But again, need an invitation. And ideally, some funding. But even without funding, we can often arrange it as long as we get an invitation and we have a good audience. All right. Oh, CA is California and not Canada. All right, yeah, so no invitations from, no, but Maximus asked about Canada. God, thanks, Fred Harper. I appreciate it. Harper says, get well soon. So I'm not doing a show today at 8 p.m. I'm doing a show tomorrow is with Harry. So if you have deep questions, if you have philosophical questions, Harry is available tomorrow. And if you have other questions, I'm available on Friday at 8 p.m. And of course, you can always ask questions here. I'm always happy to answer questions in the news roundup, deep questions as well, if my mind can last that long. So we do have time. All right, let's jump in. As you probably all know, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House of Representatives is now the first, the first speaker of the House in American history to be kicked out of his job, to be fired by the House of Representatives. He is also the second, he has served the second shortest term of any House Speaker in history. The first one was shorter because the House Speaker died of, I think, tuberculosis or something just after he was elected Speaker. The vote came, it was triggered after Matt gets the representative, the MAGA representative. It was furious at McCarthy's deal with Democrats, whereby they extended government spending for another, I think it was six weeks under the existing spending, existing spending another six weeks in order to avert a shutdown when Matt Goetz and his people were not providing any way to prevent a shutdown, not providing any mechanism by which a shutdown could be averted, were not articulating clearly what indeed they wanted. Much of what they wanted was just never gonna be achieved, never gonna be agreed on.  So he instead of that triggered a vote on McCarthy. This is something that McCarthy had given Matt Goetz the power to do when he was elected and to get enough votes to get elected. McCarthy agreed that any member of the Republican caucus could demand a vote on his leadership and indeed that vote was done. Eight Republicans, eight Republicans voted against McCarthy, not a single Democrat voted against McCarthy. Four McCarthy, sorry, not a single Democrat voted for McCarthy, which you'd expect them not to vote for him. And now the Republican caucus is scrambling to find a replacement, to find somebody who can both as a Republican serve as the speaker of the House for the meaning of the term, which is I guess another year, another year and a bit. I don't know about you guys, but I certainly don't feel sorry for Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy deserved this. He was the definition over the last few years of a slick, unprincipled, do whatever it takes politician with no backbone, no spine, no principles, nothing. He was willing to sell anything and everything to achieve the speakership and deservingly it's now slipped through his hands. I don't particularly approve of the way it was done. I certainly don't approve of the people who voted against him, but I don't really care. I mean, this is the Republicans facing their demons.  I mean, one of the people who did not vote against Kevin McCarthy, or actually supported Kevin McCarthy, is Marjorie Taylor Greene, a nutcase who should not be anywhere near Congress. Why did she vote for McCarthy? Because McCarthy had basically embraced her, given her juicy positions, treated her as a normal human being. Just for that, he deserves to be ruled out as speak anybody who views Marjorie Taylor Greene as normal. It should be ruled out of having any kind of leadership position in the United States. But it really goes back quite a while and his devotion and dedication to Trump. I'll just remind you that, what is it, about 20 years ago? Can't remember when this exactly, 20 years ago, there was a book published called Young Guns, a new generation of conservative leaders, and they were gonna change, they were probably gonna party, and they were ambitious and optimistic and principled and excited, and the three were, the three young guns of the conservative leadership were Eric Cantor, who basically was voted out by a Tea Party candidate in early on, and today makes millions of dollars in his job as an investment banker on Wall Street. The only reason he has that job is because he has political connection, that the investment bank justifiable he can leverage. Paul Ryan, who landed up selling his soul in a variety of different ways and ultimately had a basically quit because even for Paul Ryan, the Republican Party had become too disgusting, despicable, low, and unprincipled and pragmatic, and he couldn't live really, taste credit with the Trump era and therefore resigned. And finally, the guy who actually did survive in politics, Kevin McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy survived in politics by being a complete weasel, by managing to fit whatever the trend happened to be. And so he was a huge supporter of Trump because he knew where the winds were heading. He was a part of the election deniers after the 2020 election, and while after January 6th, McCarthy initially said Trump was responsible for the riot, days later, he rushed down to Mar-a-Lago, kissed the ring, and rejected any Trump responsibility for anything. When Liz Cheney was appealed for any kind of respect for her fellow Republicans, but McCarthy basically purged her, kicked her out of leadership, and ultimately made sure she was defeated in the primary. He's repeatedly tried to sabotage attempts to investigate the January 6th, reversing his support for bipartisan commission and making it kind of a political thing, just Democrats and therefore discrediting the whole commission as a consequence. And then when he tried to run for speakership earlier in the year, he made concession after concession, he sold out things that he said he would never compromise on, he sold out left and right, and he courted, he courted Matt Gatz, and he got Matt Gatz, and Matt Gatz turned around, stabbed him in the back. McCarthy has also gone after and courted anybody on the right who would give him airtime, in particular, if you remember Tucker Carlson, McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson all the security footage with exclusive right to use it, which I think is a massive violation of separation between state and media, but anyway, he did that, he has broken promises both with Republicans and Democrats, he's backed out of agreements, he has sort of appeased the radicals on his, radicals is the wrong word, the nutcases on his right, and while he worked with Democrats to get the spending resolution, you know, after he backstabbed Democrats and everybody else many, many times, nobody was sympathetic to him. So, you know, he's gone and good riddance, I'm not sure the next guy's gonna be any better, but at least good riddance, maybe, I don't know that anybody will learn a lesson from this, but maybe some Republicans will learn a lesson from this, but yeah, I have no idea. I don't know what it means to be banned from sending super chats, that's bizarre, so I have no idea what that means, I didn't know that was possible, you've discovered something new that I didn't know exists and why you would be banned is beyond me, appeal to YouTube, see what they say. All right, so stay tuned, we'll be discussing whoever they appoint next for Speak of the House and whatever process they go through. Talking about our great institutions in Washington, DC, as you know, Senator Feinstein passed away last week and then it is the job of the governor of the state to appoint a replacement. The governor of the state of California has made his decision and Lafonza Butler is now to replace Feinstein in the Senate representing California, which is a little puzzling given that Lafonza Butler doesn't live in California, she actually lives in Maryland, has a Maryland address and is registered to vote in Maryland when this was pointed out to Governor Newsom, he said, don't worry, she used to live in California, not born in California, I can't remember where, but anyway, she's gonna re-register to vote in California, so no worries, everything's good, don't worry about it. So let's consider the credentials of Lafonza Butler to be Senator, because it's interesting, there are three candidates right now running to replace Senator Feinstein next year for the election, three candidates, I think all of them, members of the House of Representatives, all of them, I mean, these are Democrats, all of them Democrats are Representative Adam Schiff, Representative Katie Porter and Representative Barbara Lee. I mean, you know where my sympathies lie, they lie with anybody who's not named Katie Porter, but putting that aside, all of these three are House reps, they're experienced politicians, they have long track records within the Democratic Party, they have constituencies, and so what is it that drove Newsom to vote for, to choose Lafonza Butler? I think there are a number of things, one, one. I don't think he wanted to pick favorites between Schiff, Porter, and Lee. I don't think he wanted to be viewed as a position where he's picking who he thinks should win the election, so I think it was safer politically for Newsom not to pick one of those three and to kind of pick somebody external. So that's one, kind of reasonable kind of makes sense. Second, Newsom has political ambitions, he has ambitions to run for president whether he ultimately steps into this 2024 race to replace Biden or whether waits until 2028 is not clear, but one constituency that Newsom really, really wants to appeal to are unions. And if you look at Lafonza Butler's career, she has no experience in politics, but she has been a union rep involved in unions her entire career. She is the former head of the SEIU California, which is one of the, which is a very influential union umbrella group that boasts 700,000 members in healthcare and public service jobs. So she has an extraordinary connection with the kind of unions that I think a candidate Newsom running for president would want to have. So this is still a large extent Newsom boasting his union credentials. And then of course, there's another advantage to choosing Lafonza Butler. Lafonza Butler fits a lot of the intersectionality requirements. She is black, she is a woman. I think she's still, I think they still count women as women when it comes to because I think Newsom promised to have a black woman that he would nominate a black woman for the Senate. So he's fulfilled the promise, but I wonder in an era of gender fluidity, if, whoa, I don't know if you guys are getting the nationwide national test of the alert system. My watch and my phone just went nuts.  And finally, she's a lesbian. So she's married, she lives in Maryland, not in California with her wife, I guess. And so it covers everything. He's got everything. He's got LBGTQ, he's got minorities, he's got female, he's got unions, and he's not pissing off any of the candidates who are running for Senate. It's not clear whether Lafonza Butler will announce that she too is running next year for the Senate. Right now, she will only be kind of completing Feinstein's term, which ends in January of next year, January of 2025, end with an election really in November of 2024. So as you said, we will see whether she runs or not. And of course that'll put the unions in a bind because many of them are already committed to shift Porter or Lee, and now many of them will probably shift the alliance to Butler. Makes the California Senate race interesting. And it really gives an insight into how political candidates are chosen. This has nothing to do with the good of California. This has nothing to do with representing California. As I said, she's not even living in California. And this has nothing to do with qualifications. This has everything to do with the governor and showing up his political ambitions rather than anything else, anything else. Anything else? Yeah, I mean, the one good things I'll say about Lafonza Butler, I don't know that much about her, but the one good thing I'll say about her is she is very, very much committed and actually was very involved in abortion rights for women. So it's a solid vote for abortion rights for women. And that of course is a positive. We need as many of those in the Senate as possible. All right, again, I remind people, use the chat to ask questions and super chat to ask questions. Sorry, not the chat. Super chat to ask questions. And also to support the show, value for value, you've got 91 people watching right now. So it doesn't take many of you and it doesn't take much from each of you to get us to I think the very reasonable and very modest target of $250. So please use the super chat feature and you can do stickers. And we've got a few stickers already from Jonathan Honing. Thank you, Jonathan. Ryan Schenck, Antonio, let's just go with Antonio. And Fred Harper, so thank you guys. But a few more stickers would be a go a long way to getting us to what we need to be in terms of our goals. All right, what else do we have? Yeah, just quickly, interest rates. We've talked about interest rates quite a bit over the last few weeks. The interest situation is getting more interesting and more, I think concerning for many people looking at the economy, the probability of real economic problems is only increasing as the 10-year bond is reaching for greater and greater heights, 4.75 a couple of days ago and still hovering around 4.7. As I've told you when interest rates go up, the value of assets goes down. So, stock market has gone down during this period of interest rates going up. And at the same time, at the same time, I'd expect everything all self-constant and other investments have gone down, commercial real estate, even your home, almost every asset, particularly assets that basically have cash flows in the future, the value goes down as interest rates go up and that's what we're seeing across the board. This is also bad news for anybody refinancing their debt, whether you have to refinance a home or sell a home and buy a new one and now you face mortgage rates well above seven or whether you're a business that has to refinance your loans, a commercial real estate company, an office building company that needs to refinance the mortgage on those. For all, everybody, interest rates are significantly higher which means the cash laid out for interest is gonna be significantly higher, which means of course that it's much more difficult to be profitable. It also means that the government, as the government issues debt, it's gonna have to be higher and higher and higher interest rates and that of course makes deficits even bigger and makes it much more difficult for governments to be responsible. Not that any of them are responsible anyway but it makes it much more difficult for them to be responsible. So all of this increases the probability of recession. It doesn't look like it's going away while interest rates are down a little bit over the last couple of days. They're not down significantly and the energy and the expectation is that interest rates are gonna stay high for the foreseeable future and again, none of that bodes well for the US economy. And the global economy really because if you look at the interest rate rises in pretty much every country with exception maybe of Japan, every major industrial country any major developed country, all interest rates are super high whether it's the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, the 10-year bonds, 10-year yields, interest rates on the 10-year are up significantly from where they were just a year and a half ago. So global economy, look out, we're entering into difficult times. Of course, remember, we're talking about 4.75% on the 10-year bond. The 10-year bond has been higher in the early 2000s. It was higher in the 1990s. 7, 8% was not unusual. You know, it's all of the problems we face today. All of the economic challenges we face today including the inflation and everything else are fundamentally consequences of the insane zero very, very low interest rate policies that the Federal Reserve and really globally central banks engaged in during the 2000s post financial crisis. So in the 2000s, and I said it at the time, it was inevitable that would cause real financial difficulties. It was inevitable that that would cause real economic problems. And it has. We're experiencing now. The cycles of these things can take a long time. It doesn't necessarily happen all at once. But bad policy, bad results always. And here we have a great example of them. All right, some good news. If you remember, we've talked a lot about over the years about the California drought. Well, the drought, even the most pessimistic, the most climate-changing client now cannot deny that the drought in California is over. Maybe it'll start up again, but at least as of now, it's over. There was so much rain and snowfall during just this last year that state reservoirs where they were really, really low and really, really dry and really, really in trouble, state reservoirs of water are basically at 128% of the historic average. And last year was one of the wettest years in state history. And of course, now the problem is, because this was a problem. There's never good news. The problem is, how's the state going to manage water? Can you imagine if water was private and it wasn't a matter that prices would be the way you manage water? So it's going to be interesting to see how California deals with all of this. And of course, what the weather will be this coming year is also going to have an impact on how people's attitude towards this. But we will see. Lots of water restrictions hopefully will be lifted and people go back to living normally with water. And maybe the state can start doing things to secure water long term drought or no drought. For example, by building more desalination plants, there's one in San Diego County. By recycling water better, there's a huge recycling plant in Orange County that does a good job. And by building reservoirs and capturing more of the rainfall and the snowfall for consumption. So we will see. But officially, the Iran book show declares the drought in California over. And now, given our mixed economy, now the frantic rush to capture water rights is on. To capture water, not rights, the rights are not there. To capture water is on. So every little pressure group, almond farmers, one of the most water-intensive crops, there is rice farmers, other farmers, cities, everybody is jumping in to try to capture as much water as they can. All right, I still didn't list in the thing, but somebody sent me just before the show started. A story out of Canada, a favorite politician, I think in the world, Justin Trudeau, Trudeau's administration, it just seems to top itself constantly in its authoritarian proposals and it's an authoritarian nature. Anyway, the Canada Radio and Television and Telecommunication Commission has released a statement that happened on Friday saying it would advance a plan to ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian notices, Canadian and indigenous content. Aren't the indigenous people Canadians? I mean, this is really horrific to think that Canada does not consider its indigenous people as actual Canadians. That's not nice. That's really bad. Anyway, to quote the statement, we are developing a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances to do that, we need broad engagement and robust public record. In other words, they want to regulate social media. They want to regulate every podcast that every social media company that earns more than $10 million or more in annual revenues. Luckily for me, I don't earn anywhere near $10 million worth of revenues, not even at one-tenth of that. But I am hopeful that you guys are going to help me get to $10 million because I would love to be regulated by the state of Canada, by the country of Canada in my broadcasting. So if any of you in a position to help me achieve the $10 million of annual revenues so I can qualify for being regulated by Canada, I'd really, really appreciate it. Let me know. I'm sure we can facilitate it quite easily on an ongoing basis. Anyway, registration, all these companies and podcasts, so individual podcasts included, are going to have to register by November 28th this year. And once they register, I'm sure they will be monitored by the Canadian Broadcasting Commission and their content will be either given a thumbs up or a thumbs down. They will be screened by governments.  And it's disgusting, despicable, and it'll be interesting to see what happens because Twitter, Facebook, all these companies have to register. Canada is already in a big fight with Facebook over news released on Facebook. Now that fight might even be broadened. So this is a story to watch. Elon Musk has already declared this an attack on free speech, and it is. It actually is, and this is what I agree with Elon. But we will see how this develops. We will see how the story works out. And then finally, on a positive note, although I'm sure some of you listening with this will be pissed off that I chose this to highlight, but I will, I am and I will.  That one. All right. Kathleen Carrico and Drew Weisman received the Nobel Prize for Medicine, which is super exciting and super deserving. I particularly know Kathleen Carrico's story, but both of them are responsible for basically the pioneering work that led to the development of mRNA vaccines, famous, of course, for the COVID vaccines that have saved millions of lives around the world. And Carrico has this amazing story of being denied funding, being denied funding by the government, having almost losing a job. Weisman was one guy who believed in her and allowed her to do the research in his lab. Together, they solved the problem of how to get the body not to attack the mRNA that was being injected into the body and allow it to enter the cell and to do what it needed to do inside the cell. They did that by switching out, by switching out one part of the RNA that they were, the messenger RNA, so they could get it in. They will share the prize, so they'll each get half a million dollars. Carrico is an immigrant from Hungary and really struggled early in her career, and she didn't give up. She kept fighting. She knew mRNAs, revolutionary technology. She fought, she struggled to get this done. Again, Weisman is the guy who supported her and who helped her and who made it possible. So this is amazing. This is great. But it's not just COVID, and maybe COVID will be one of the lesser significant achievements, because the reality is that mRNA vaccines are going to be a crucial way in which we deal with disease but also conditions in the future. mRNA is already showing amazing results with cancer. It's showing amazing results with other diseases and the development of vaccines for other diseases. This has opened up a whole world, and the success of the COVID vaccine has opened up an entire world, an entire world to medicine and is gonna be responsible, I think, for improving and extending our lives and for saving many, many, many more millions of people's lives. So it's, yeah, it's fantastic. So good for Kuriko. Good for Weisman. If you remember those of you who've been with me since the days of COVID, I highlighted Kuriko's role in the mRNA process very early on. I've talked about her often. She's a real hero as compared to all these anti-vax doctors who claim that they invented whatever vaccines or whatever. She's the real deal, she's the real thing. She worked with BioNTech, the German company, that ultimately developed a vaccine, the COVID vaccine with Pfizer or for Pfizer, not with really, for Pfizer. She's a real, if you wanna look up, hero scientist. I think Kathleen Kuriko is a hero scientist. Just as an aside, the United States, I think, got 75% of all the Nobel Prizes so far in the sciences announced in the sciences. They got 75% of those. Two thirds of the scientists, the American scientists who got Nobel Prizes, two thirds of them, I think it's two thirds of them, are immigrants. Immigrants. And it's just stunning to me how this country has turned against immigrants given how much all of us benefited and benefit from these immigrants and their contributions to science, technology, entrepreneurship, and I have to add to gardening, right? All right. Let's see, that is all I have for the news today. Let's go to your super chat questions. We'll start with Sylvanos who came in with $100, and we're just $12 short by the way of our goal, so Sylvanos has got us there really quickly. Sylvanos says, hope you get well soon, Iran. Thank you. I hope so too. Not happy to see the speakership thrown into chaos despite McCarthy being a slime ball. Yeah, will the Dems regret this? I don't see the next speaker being more sympathetic to Democrats. No, I don't think he will be, but I think the next speaker will be, it will be clearer the way he stands. He'll be potentially a more, make America great again, a Republican type. The government, probably more inclined to shut down the government in November when negotiations break down. I mean, I'm not encouraged to see a political house out of order, but this is inevitable. This is the state of the world. This is the state of the Republican Party. And all this does is it make it a little realer. It makes it the chaos, the anarchy, the insanity that is just gonna become more real. You know who the lead candidate the Republicans are putting out there to take over the speakership of the House? Because the speakership of the House does not have to be, the speaker does not have to be a member of Congress. So the number one candidate that they are proposing, that Republicans are proposing right now, I doubt this will go through, but the number one candidate that they're proposing right now is Donald Trump. Now imagine Donald Trump, the speaker of the House, talk about chaos, talk about nihilism, talk about the complete destruction of the American system of government.  Let's just get it over with. Why drag this out? Why make this slow? Why make it agonizing? Let's just make Donald Trump, speaker of the House and get it all over with. And so everybody in the United States and the world will see what this is like. And the scary thing is Republicans would love what it's like. And in that sense, it strikes me there, just as many nihilists among the Republicans as there are on the Democrats, because it would be insane.  Ken says, yeah, let's do it so he can subpoena some crooks. Yeah, he can subpoena himself as crook number one at the top of the agenda, but that's okay. Crook number one is already being prosecuted all over the country. And, you know, if they really dig deep enough, you know, these prosecutions is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Trump's corruption. All right, yeah, I mean, you hate to see this, on the other hand, it's inevitable. What other possibilities are there out there given the state of Republicans and given the state of Democrats, given the state of politics in this country? It's a disaster in both political parties. I gave the example of what, of Newsom's replacement for Dan Feinstein. I mean, Dan Feinstein is gonna be missed because she was, today, relative to the Democratic Party which moving, she was a relatively moderate, right? Rimo says, thoughts and idea of retiring early from a very productive career because you want to spend more time with your family, like, for example, legendary investor, Peter Lynch. I find it difficult to understand.  Couldn't he have kind of semi-retired? Or, I mean, I just don't understand how you give up a productive career, the central focus, the central purpose of your life for family.  What happens then, you're just gonna travel. I, you wrote a couple of books, but beyond that, Peter Lynch just kind of disappeared. I don't know how satisfying a life can be. And I would suspect that it's not very satisfying. That it seems like a great idea at the time.   So, yeah. Alexis, hey, Alexis. Did you watch First They Killed My Father, a movie about the brutality of the red Camus? I'm considering asking you for a review. I have not, well, wait a minute, I did see that. It's when they literally show the evacuation of the city. And it's, yes, of course I saw that movie. Yeah, how would I not go see a movie about the brutality of the Camus, Camerouge? Yeah, happy to review it. It's a good movie and it's an important movie in the sense that we don't have many examples of depiction of communist brutality. And in this case, egalitarian brutality, this was all done in the name of egalitarianism, the same ideology driving the modern left today. So, yeah, it would be a great review to bring out the similarities with the modern left, what's going on today. All right, thanks, Alexis. Let's see, Michael says, why aren't many Americans moving to Germany and Portugal? I don't know that many Americans are moving to Germany and Portugal. I haven't seen the stats on this. Certainly Germany, Germany have not heard that many Americans are moving to, but I do know a lot of Americans are moving to Portugal to a large extent because Portugal is offering Americans relatively easy way to get citizenship by, I think, buying property for half a million dollars. You basically qualify for citizenship and then having a very low tax rate and by gaining Portuguese citizenship, you gain European Union citizenship, which makes travel to and within the European Union work within the European Union much, much, much easier. So, I think it's a high tax rate, high regulations. Portugal is also an incredibly pleasant place to live. It's got really nice weather, friendly people. Lisbon is a beautiful city. So there's a lot going for it if you don't want to move to Florida, if you don't want to move to the South and you live in New York or California, Portugal's not a bad place. It has weather very similar to California weather. Michael, what are your thoughts on Gideon Levy? I don't know who Gideon Levy is, I have no thoughts about him. I can look it up if you really want me to, I will. Michael says, do you trust our legal system today or does it have no problem putting innocent people in prison and letting the guilt and guilty out? I think I trust the criminal legal system more than I trust the civil legal system. I think the criminal legal system is for the most part still pretty objective. The standards that qualify for guilt, the way evidence is presented. I mean, you do get things like the OJ case where the guilty are let out and you do have fundamental problems with the fact that many of the Jewish just can't think. They don't have the epistemological ability to think. But fundamentally, the system is in place. I think have the protections to prevent the innocent from being prosecuted or being found guilty, put it that way and the guilty being let out. I have a lot less faith with the civil partially because I think their philosophically system is completely corrupt. A whole liability system is completely corrupt. I think that the also the regulatory laws, anything to do with business anytime the government is suing you, I don't trust any of that, any of that because it's subjective, it's arbitrary and it's just yeah, I don't have any trust in that. So it's a mixed bag and some judges are better than others. I think generally kind of the federal courts and the Supreme Court are better than many of the other courts. But yeah, I mean, but it's also become so politicized even our court system. Michael says, is karma a legitimate concept? Karma, no. In a secular way, bad karma is bad for your psychological state. Yeah, but then why would you do that? Yeah, but then why do you even use the term? I don't like using terms like karma that have a clearly deterministic and mystical association. So some words used by religion are worth preserving. I don't think karma is worth preserving. Michael, is it worth being nice and generous with people today if they just see it as a sign of weakness to be taken advantage of? Well, if they're that kind of person, why be nice to them? Right, if they're the kind of person that views it as a sign of weakness to be taken advantage of, then screw them, why are you nice to them? They don't deserve being nice to them. So no, it wouldn't be nice to people like that. Is there no external advice that can replace your judgment? Even if your judgment is wrong and external advice is right? No, I mean, advice is always good, right? But at the end of the day, it's your judgment. So external advice cannot replace your judgment, but your judgment should take into account external advice. So no, I mean, it's better to be wrong and to have based it on your own judgment than to be right and based it on somebody else's judgment. Again, not talking about advice, we're talking about basing something on somebody else's judgment. Michael says, how do you course correct after moral breach? Well, it depends what the moral breach is, but you've got to make amends. You've got to acknowledge the breach. If people have been harmed, you have to make recompense, but the main thing is acknowledging and dedicating yourself to making sure you don't do it again and making sure that you recompense whoever suffered as a consequence of the moral breach. Steven, thanks for another interesting news roundup. Get well soon. Thank you, Steven, really appreciate it. WCZ, thanks to the Wool series. I appreciate it. And I need to do more of those shows, I know. Doodle Bunny says, you're getting way too old to travel. Thanks a lot, Doodle Bunny. I really, really appreciate that. Fendt Hopper says, in an objective's world, would you be sick? Just kidding, ha ha. I appreciate you working through illness. Would I be sick? Less so in an objective's world, probably. It'd probably be healthier for a variety of reasons and in an objective's world, we'd already have a cure for the common cold, which is probably what I have. In an objective's world, there would be cures for literally everything. What would kill us? Maybe we wouldn't die.  Who knows? Alex says, do you want to read my immorality, immortality framework? No idea what that even means. What is an immortality framework? I don't know what that means. Walin says, happy travels, keep it up. Thank you. Walin, at least Walin doesn't think I'm too old to travel. Alex, I can't send links to the super chat. You can send me links by email if you want and maybe I'll have a chance to look at it. My email generally is youron at youronbrookshow.com so you guys can communicate. All right, let me remind everybody if there's still somebody out there in the UK or in Europe who would like to come to, or in the US who would like to come to my public speaking seminar in London in basically two weeks on the 18th of October, please let me know now, ASAP, today, tomorrow, youron at youronbrookshow.com. I need to get a final list of attendees to that so please let me know as soon as you can, as soon as you can. Yeah, we're good, thank you. Wow, we've got 113 people watching now, that's good. Maybe it's the, the people overcoming, because they had withdrawal, a lot of people are coming now. All right, I will see you all tomorrow for a show like today, a new show. And then tomorrow night at 8 p.m. is Harry Binswanger. Please prepare your philosophical, epistemological, metaphysical, deep, troubling, difficult questions for, oh, Alexis is in New York, the week I'm there to do the seminar. Ah, that would have been, it would have been perfect to have you there. Anyway, so come tomorrow at 8 p.m. for Harry Binswanger, there'll be a lot of fun. Friday will do two shows as well. So if you have any more questions, please bring them for the show on Friday. All right, everybody, I don't know if Michael asked his deep questions yet. I don't know if those count as deep or not. I will talk to you all tomorrow. I hope I get better. I hope you guys are doing well. I'll see you then. Bye, everybody.


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. A little bit late market outlook video today, but I just wanna get in and talk about what we could be seeing throughout this final promo week of Festival of Football and Summer Stars in FIFA 21. Talk about the 81 plus player picks, the expensive Yusebio SBC that we saw yesterday, and the Lucas Paqueta. But fodder is cheap, that is good, and some of these Summer Stars cards have been moving on the market. I've traded with a few of them, and they actually got low a little bit last night. Of course, we weren't able to shout that before it happened, but with some squad battle rewards and just what happened with the game last night, a lot of these Summer Stars cards got cheap, and as I'm recording this into the day on Monday, they're actually starting to rise back up a little bit as they're getting a little bit rare. So I wanna talk about that. And of course, some of the PTG cards, because we had some huge drop offs on, of course, some of those England cards and some of those Brazil cards as well. I wanna talk about those prices and just look at the market a little bit in this video today. Also, I know we have FIFA 22 information firing hot off the press. So if you guys want me to do a specific video looking at all the FIFA 22 information that we have seen released from EA Sports or quote unquote leaked otherwise, let me know down in the comments, and we can definitely sort that up because a lot of that information that is coming out and there's a lot that I'm already thinking about and a lot that we already know that it's gonna be impacted for the market in FIFA 22 based off of what we learned. But let's continue talking about the game at hand and that is FIFA 21. Of course, we really wanted the 81 plus player picks for upgrade packs. I was talking about that on the Sunday video and that is what EA Sports delivered. They delivered the 81 plus upgrade packs and it's not just three choices, it's four. So of course, I'm wondering if rares are actually up on the market a little bit. They also released an 81 to 87 rare player pick as well.  Yeah, I look at these rares, man. The rares are like 1,000, 1,100 coins. I 100% expected that, 100% willing to pay that as well because at 99 Neymar in packs, people are gonna be grinding those upgrades. So GGs to EA Sports for dropping that 81 plus. Now yesterday as well, we had a Lucas Paqueta which kind of is a little bit expensive but with the way fodder is and the fact that this guy has some really interesting links. A lot of people weren't happy with this yesterday but this is a pretty nice card, right? The links make it a pretty nice SBC. It's an 85 and 87 rated squads, I believe. Comes in at about 270,000 coins. Five star skills, three star weak foot. It's hot, actually it's four star, four star. So it's interesting, they upgraded the skill move but they took a star away from his weak foot. So that's a bit interesting on that Lucas Paqueta. Not too many people were happy about that. Of course, the player pick upgrade SBCs were very nice and we gotta talk about this Eusebio SBC man because this card has dropped off insane amounts in the last few days but there's 17 squads to this Eusebio and it's still with fodder prices being low right now, this card, this SBC doesn't look that bad. Actually 2.3 mil is what this is coming in at on foot bin but still 17 squad just has the potential for it to be way, way, way too much when this fodder does end up going back up. Now Eusebio's card was three mil yesterday, right? I did not buy one. I know I said in the video that if he got to three mil I would look to buy one but the supply was just too much, right? Here in the morning he went down to two seven. Now the SBC was released, he went down to 2.5 and has since rebounded back up to around 2.8 mil but the SBC doesn't look like too terrible value right now but I'm telling you throughout this week as we get more SBCs I expect these fodder prices to go back up. As you can see fodder went down a lot yesterday even more with the supply from preview packs and I guess less than desirable SBCs for some people. You see 84 is down to the 7K range, 85 is at 10 to 11, 86 is at 19. This might be the lowest that they get right because the supply is done. This stuff is probably gonna be going up throughout the week, right? The Ramos SBC is such a good barometer for me on how low fodder is. Take a look at this SBC man, 700K. This guy was a million coins drop down and as fodder got cheaper last week he just kind of continues to drop down a price. Well that was actually after this drop is from yesterday only, excuse me, this is from yesterday only the last couple of days basically since Friday as fodder has dropped down. I thought that was like the daily one. This is the graph I wanted to show you, right? Started off at 1.2 mil, dropped down to 800K, went back up to a mil when fodder was expensive last week and is again dropping off into the 700K range to do this Ramos. Right now I'm really gonna craft SBCs today on Monday or craft 81 pluses because I wanna get this Ramos done. That is an SBC that I wanna do and if I have to go and buy it, SBC players for it, they're a lot cheaper right now off the market. So I do expect to see a lot of that fodder rising up throughout this week. I expect to see the 82 times 10 or 83 times 10, 84 plus player picks, all sorts of those types of SBCs. I would 100% expect to see this week. Now I would also expect to see a summer stars guaranteed. Now I don't know if they're gonna make it like a guaranteed team one and team two because I believe that might have been what they did with the first and second team of PTG. I don't quite remember to be completely honest with you if they did a guaranteed team two, but I would expect some sort of summer stars guaranteed that would cover these cards that are in packs. Now again, these guys got kind of low last night with squad battles and with a lot of cards got just low right last night on the market Sunday night into Monday morning. You can see Raheem the dream sterling who started off around squad battle rewards kind of fluctuating around, got all the way down to 1.1 mil on about both consoles. It's not really risen back up yet, too much on Xbox, but it's up about 60K on the PlayStation. Another card that did that with a decent rise is Farron Torres, he was down to 120,000 coins. Cavani was like 140 something, how much was Gomez? 270K for Gomez, it's pretty cheap. I wondered if he actually got lower than that last night. He was down to 266, so not a crazy drop or rise, honestly on a lot of these cards, how about Neymar? Neymar being 4.3 mil just goes to show, and again, we talked about it on the video yesterday, is just that the crazy amount of supply, you see it right, we look back at Saturday, Neymar was 6 mil, we had those ultimate packs that were previewable in the store, eight of them I think, and that destroyed, that destroyed the market on Saturday and that's why these prices are pretty low. To be completely honest with you, these prices might be rising up the next day or two, some of these cards could rise up a little bit. Now I know we have player picks, I know we have a lot of coins being drained off this game through those player picks and through SBCs, but I still think that there's a possibility that with, depending on 82 plus times five, 50,000 coins for that pack, well let's preview it, but without lightning rounds and without as many player packs in the store, I mean of course if you have packs like this, there's gonna be a little bit of supply coming onto the market for these cards. Wow, that is, that pack sucks, 50K for that pack, no thanks, anyways. I see now EA putting in those pack code cards, that cards, the packs that we had added to the code like the 81 times seven, the 82 times five, I'm seeing those added in now from like last week. So one other thing that we could see added to the code just today on Monday and expect to see today on Monday is an icon, repeatable SBC, whether it be a player pick icon SBC or some sort of some icon casino SBC if you will, that's been coming on Mondays and that's one thing that actually I expect to see today. Now actually last week on Monday, we had a code drop by foot watch in the morning for a new icon SBC, I believe it was an icon SBC and some of those packs, right? So watch out for that again this morning. This is a bit of the trading that I did. I bought some cards on Saturday and they rebounded into Sunday morning. I bought this cane for 230, I bought these stirlings for under 1.2, didn't really make much on those, make like honestly like 25K between both of them. Ferrantoris is around 130,000 coins, 135K for the buy price on these. So some nice small fluctuations that I was able to trade with with that insane supply that we had on Saturday with those ultimate packs being previewed. Now again, just a reminder that Friday, these preview packs are gonna be going away. The whole, this whole thing of previewing packs is gonna be done on Friday according to EA's website. So it'll go back to quote unquote normal where you don't actually preview the pack. But again, really seems like that is gonna be something that we're gonna see going forward into FIFA 22. So player SBCs this week, what other type of content could we expect? Again, I really expect an icon repeatable SBC today. Hopefully it's like a moments player pick, like maybe a 92 plus attacker or midfielder. I think that'd be a sweet SBC. Again, all of these packs that we have available through swaps, 92 plus moments pack, 92 plus. Well, hopefully no more prime icons. It's gotta be moments only from here on out. 92 plus moments midfielder, 92 plus attacker, 93 plus icon moments player pick. That would be an insane SBC for them to drop. So all of those types of packs that we have added to the code, they could 100% drop. Now for player SBCs, player SBCs last week after I think it was like Monday or Tuesday, really slowed down. So we've had Dolberg, we've had Paqueta, and there was one more I believe that we had. Oh, we had the showdown SBC. So, you know, I would expect maybe one or two more player SBCs this week, whether they are summer stars players, whether they are flashbacks. I really think a lot of people are hoping for a summer stars Pedri, right? I think, especially after Pedri being named young player of the tournament, we're really hoping for an SBC for him. That'd be dope. Maybe they give Don Roma an SBC because of his award that he received, I'm not sure. But hopefully one or two more player SBCs this week. And then of course, hopefully a lot of those, you know, 85 plus, 87 times three, we've had those like two weeks in a row now. That'd be nice to see again. I think people like that SBC. It's not terrible value. More like 84 plus player picks and stuff like that. Now I mentioned the Euros and I mentioned the games that happened on the weekend. Of course, yesterday with England losing to Italy, what an insane game, by the way, going to penalties for the final of the Euros. I mean, just thinking about that, that is as more of a neutral fan, in all honesty, that was just insane football to why I'm saying, like it's just, it's wild that the final of the Euros went down to penalties, right? Just from a football perspective, that was crazy. Now also taking a look at some of these cards on the market, this Foden literally halved in price. This man was down to like 650K, right? This morning, 650K, now rising back up, getting super duper, duper, you know, bought back up as people are like, man, this is still a 98 rated Foden card, you know, and buying that card back up after the panic selling, which is 100% expected. But still, what a drop and what a rise. This card literally went from 1.2 mil all the way down to 650,000 coins. Now, Chilwell's still 180K as well. There was still a potential five star, five star upgrade out there for the England lads, but of course the cards from Italy did not get, will not get any upgrades from the game yesterday. So this went from like almost 300,000 coins down to 160 at its lowest, and it's now rising back up, kind of inching towards 200K for that Chilwell card. Acunia on the other hand, some of your winners on the other hand actually went up. Acunia is 1.2 million coins. He's gonna get that five star, five star upgrade. Now I hope EA upgrade these before Friday because that would be just really boring if they didn't. Acunia is actually up 100K from last night. But I hope they upgrade these showdown cards because all the games are over, EA sports just upgrade them. And same thing with Georgino. Georgino should get upgraded before, if they're gonna upgrade the Path of Glory cards on Friday, this Georgino should get upgraded before them. Usually with showdown cards, it doesn't take them too much long after the game is over. Like usually like 48 hours or less has been the timeframe for these showdown items like Georgino to get his plus two. So that as we see, if you did that, you're feeling pretty good there. And then the only upgrades that are again gonna come out of those final games played in the past couple of days are gonna be for Acunia and Paradex going five star, five star. Now also we should have a Davenson Sanchez that'll be getting a plus two because they got their third win of the tournament in the third place game for the Copa America. So the Davenson Sanchez in all honesty should be getting a plus two. Now I don't know if EA's gonna forget about that or not regard it because it was the third place game. But I hope they do regard it and I hope they do give this man an upgrade because technically he did get three wins. So it should be getting a plus two going to a 95 and that is nice. I got one in the club for the Spurs team. So we're happy about that one right there. So that's kind of the situation with Path to Glory cards. Again, just the amount of drop off in the market recently in the past couple of days with all of these summer stars. I mean, if you take a look at summer stars team too and if you just look at how affordable all these cards are, we have 96, 97, 98 rated cards under 300,000 points, right? I know it's July, I know it's the end of the game. We're starting to talk about the new game. There's a lot of hype with that. But I mean, it's just crazy to see and it's just nuts to see, especially every year with FIFA, how the game kind of moves into the summer. And this year, I mean, we're seeing the cheapest prices with all the supply, all of the packs we've had this year. This is, these are the cheapest prices that we have seen like ever for end game cards, even with these high ratings. I mean, it's Neymar, whose team of the season item just a month ago was 9 million coins. His team of the season item is now, shoot, the 99 rated left wing item is 4.3 million. This one's 3.7 million coins.  You guys know those have been dropping like nuts. We were taking a look at those on the weekend. You know, this Kentana, you know, who's now under a million coins. I mean, that's insane for how high he was. Zidane's 2-8, how much is he now? Still around 2-8, 2-7 maybe. Yeah, still around there. Moment's Maradona was like 2.2. He's just really, really rare at the moment. It's just crazy to see how some of these card prices have dropped off just with the end of the game. People may be leaving the game and probably a little bit less coins on the market as well from all these SBCs that have come out. And just a lot of coin drain. And again, people leaving the game influences that as well in my opinion. But that's gonna be the video for today, boys. That's the market outlook for this week. Hopefully today, on Monday, we see some good. A player SBC and an icon moments SBC would be fantastic. I'm gonna be spamming the rest of my, not the entire rest of my coins, but probably a million coins this week is gonna be going into player pickpacks, trying to snag that Neymar. Some of you guys have already tweeted me pictures of yourselves already packing cards from this team. So I'm gonna be doing that, crafting SBCs, and it's gonna be fun, right? This is the time. We've traded hard all year. We're gonna use our coins and have fun with those to the best of our ability. So thank you for watching this video. Again, leave a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Comment down below if you have any questions or if you wanna see a FIFA 22 release news video. And of course, subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Ford Accounting. I will catch you guys later. Peace.


Grandmaster Aryan Chopra had a fantastic run here at the Gibraltar Masters, a solid tournament with no losses he finished on 7 out of 10. Aryan joins us in our studio. Aryan congratulations on a fantastic performance here at Gibraltar. Thank you very much. Tell me about the experience. It has been great. The great thing was that I didn't lose any game and played some very nice games so it was a nice feeling. You also played against some very very strong players and a very solid performance throughout. Yes. Which game do you think you are most proud of in the last tournament? Perhaps my 9th game against Donchenko Alexander which I won with White. So that was I think my best game. We actually have that up with us. We are going to jump to that in a moment. When you were coming to play in Gibraltar Masters what were your expectations and how has it gone according to your expectations? I was expecting to play some good games. I wanted to just play my best and see what happens. I had prepared well I think so I just wanted to play some good games. 7 out of 10 is a fantastic score. What was that something that you were coming into the last game you were playing against Ivan today? Solid game as well? Yeah it was. He kind of surprised me on the opening but I chose to go in some slightly worse end game and it wasn't all that bad. So I made the draw. And how do you feel about this opportunity to play against these top players? It's a great experience indeed. So that was a very good experience. A very good experience and you really stood your own out. This game from round 9 over here against Alexander Donchenko was quite a fantastic win for you. Tell us what happened? Yeah so I had played this rare line here after G6. This position is pretty common nowadays. A popular line with H5 and the Night Orph. But this long castle is not the main move. Bp2 is considered the main move. But this has been played but after Nb6, Kb1, Nb5, Bg5, Bp7 here now there have been some games by top players but this c4 still hasn't been played much. Was this part of your preparation? This was all part of my preparation. Nb6 is a good move which he played. Nf5 he found castle so that was good. I think the only good move here. And h4, d5 and g4 here. It looks like the position has quite exploded quite a bit already. So how are you evaluating?  Till here I was in preparation but then he played this e4 interesting move. I knew it wasn't bad but I didn't know how to counter it so I had to think myself. And here I was still on 1 hour 40 minutes and here I took nearly 50 minutes to evaluate the position and calculate many possible variations. So finally I came up with this quiet move Bp2 which the engine finds not the very best but I think it's practically quite good because now it's difficult for him to continue. But it still looks like black should not be that much worse. Where do things go so wrong for him? Yeah I think okay this e4 was I think not the best move and here probably this position I think is already difficult for him. It's already difficult. But probably the engine will say something. But it's a different story when you're playing on the board. And where do you think was his final mistake in the game? I think rook fd8 after that it's hopeless. After d6 it's lost. So he just loses a piece here. So rook fd8 was actually a very big blunder by Alexander. But the position itself is quite difficult. Yeah I think he has to take with the knight on d5 but there is some calculation and it's not so easy. Right well a very nice win from you yesterday and a good result today which puts you in the 11th place.  Big prize money what are the plans to celebrate? Okay I don't have much time to celebrate because I'm playing in aero float so I'll be preparing for that and analyzing my games and so on. Well this has been a perfect preparation for that as well and we wish you all the best for aero float. Thank you for your time. Thank you.


It's one year after the Lecky Toe Plaza shooting in Lagos, and the protesters are back on the streets for a memorial who will be discussing all that happened on this day a year ago. We will also have the lead council to the protesters here in Lagos, where we'll talk about the judicial panel. And as always, Off The Press comes up today also to share with you major stories making headlines across the country. This very interesting Wednesday morning. Here on the breakfast. With that, we'll say good morning and thanks for joining us on this very, very beautiful Wednesday morning here, 20th of October, 2021. This is the breakfast on Plostivia Africa. I am Kosauki Ogmara. And I am Messier Bofor. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Our conversations this morning are going to be mostly centered around one particular event, and of course the build-up to what happened on this day in 2020. The Lecky Toe Gate shooting. And we'll be talking about that with the lead council to the end, SARS protesters at Lagos panel of enquiry. You'll be joining us sometime around 8am this morning. But before that, of course, we have Off The Press, where we get to share with you major stories making headlines across Nigeria today. So it seems like it's going to be a rainy morning in Lagos. It felt like it was a little drizzle on my way to work this morning. I actually witnessed the rain in my zone, apparently last night. Oh yeah, yes it did. Yeah, because it rained yesterday and so it might also just rain sometime later. Still, I mean, I think I said it yesterday. It's still a little shocking to see it raining that heavy in the month of October. That's because, let's just say that we're very close to, you know, it's a coastal city.  Aside from the rain, there's, of course, a lot of other conversations mostly centered around the end SARS protests. And that's our top trend in this morning. In the last 20 days, there have been online conversations about a memorial and, of course, a remembrance of those people who lost their lives all through last year. And those who lost their lives particularly during the protest last year. It started, of course, in Delta State where yet another person had been a victim of police brutality. Eventually spread, you know, numerous conversations online, mostly on Twitter that led to maybe the biggest protest Nigeria has seen in a very, very long time. That eventually ended somehow some way on the streets on the 20th of October in 2020. The conversations have centered mostly around the gains and, of course, the failure of government to actually do something and to show some level of accountability as to what happened in the month of October. All through the month of October last year. They're not just on the 20th. And I think our conversations are going to be centered throughout the month of October last year and eventually on the night of the 20th of October 2020. And we spoke a little bit about this yesterday. What level of accountability has the government shown? How different is police behavior in the last one year? In what ways have the police been able to have some level of reforms? In what ways have the police officers, who are being able to be made accountable for their actions? And it doesn't seem like a lot has changed. That really is what has led to more of these conversations this year. I drove past the Toge this morning and, you know, I've been driving past Toge every day. And there's an increased level of police presence there again this morning, mostly to prevent people from gathering or to prevent any type of protest. I also saw a message saying that the latest state police is saying that they would only allow online protests. And of course, protests from home, which I really don't even understand. What it means to protest online? I mean, yes, you can have conversations online. You can necessarily protest online. There's other ways that you can have some level of protest. But I think it's also important to know that the police itself cannot give orders whether there should be a protest or not. They're not the ones. It should be the government. And of course, there's still a court ruling that says that you don't need to even seek permission from government before a protest is held. So the events for today, I'm sure they're going to be very interesting. I want to see how they play out. We're going to have a correspondent on ground at the Toge to also give us live feed and give us some reports as to what exactly played out over there. It's more of an irony, if you ask me. The fact that we have increased presence of security forces around, one would rather think that the fact that you have this persons on ground should be to protect because that's the way it is. Now, let's not forget that during the protests, one of the narrative that was being pushed was that, yes, it became, it was hijacked. But why should a protest be hijacked?  You're expected to have protection. You're expected to have that this protest should not go wrong and that's where the police comes in. So it's really funny and it is really an irony to say and to know and to see that you have presence of security forces just to ensure that the protest doesn't really happen. In a democratic dispensation, it costs a lot of concern. I mean, it really, really costs a lot of concern. Now, protest is a tool. It's a universal tool, if you like to say, that has been used over the years in different countries, you know, to get government to act, to respond to the demands of the citizens. And so it wouldn't be different. This is not the first time. I would even rather say that, I mean, we're actually embracing this, you know, it's rather late than never, right? Because we have a lot of people who have gone ahead of us and we have seen that some of these countries have actually gotten, you know, several results. But why are we different? What's going on with us? I think it's mostly the Nigerian government's attitude towards opposition or attitude towards, you know, anyone who disagrees with them. And it's not just for protesting. Even people, you know, on separate different political parties, people who have counterarguments concerning the Nigerian government, anything, anything whatsoever that the Nigerian government feels like they choose to do. They have a particular attitude towards anybody who has completely discerning arguments about it. And that's what eventually has translated into some of all of this. And it's also showing really the attitude of the Nigerian police itself towards the respect to the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizen. They have completely, completely forgotten, you know, what their responsibility should be and the roles that they should have in society.   You can really tell that they really almost don't have any idea what their responsibilities should be and how, you know, they should always be able to respect the rights of the Nigerian that they are paid to protect. And that's what eventually plays out here. So you begin to ask the question of how many times you have training and retraining. And I'm sure that, you know, one of the major reasons, because if you also look at the Internet and the discussion that's been going on for the past, you know, 20 days up until this moment, you'll find that that one of the discusses the fact that people are asking that, you know, the police, there should be a reform in the system. And the reform, apart from the fact that they're asking, yes, crab a particular, which is, you know, that of the SAS. But necessarily they're saying, if you look at the condition of the Nigerian police, I mean, if you look at the world, just look at, just look at, you know, a typical police officer, it doesn't really look good.  I have been to the barracks, you know, where these people reside. And it's really nothing to really write them about. It's not something to be proud of. And so these are some of the concerns that Nigerians actually, you know, took to the streets on, you know, on behalf of the police. And so I'm wondering why they do not understand the narrative. And all of this is actually going on. And it also brings us back to the question of when people begin to come. And because the elections are here again, 2023 is very close, as much as we say, oh, 2023 is very far off, but it's very close. I'm asking what conversations are we having? What are we talking about? What leaders are we looking up to? Because it's high time we begin to understand that we need to elect leaders who would represent our interests, not leaders who would feel that, you know, when they get into the office, you know, everything that they say would begin to take them for what they say. So this is the time we begin to have all of this conversation. It is really, really sad and it saddens me. Today is usually, every time I look at the news and I look at all of those clips, I get very emotional, really, really emotional. And so I saw CNN report, you know, that was what I think was two days ago, where a woman was saying, you know, that her son died in her arms. You know, she had gone to the, I'm not sure if you saw that. She had gone there the next morning to talk it next morning and she had seen, you know, that a child had been shot in the chest. Eventually died in her arm and she had also seen other, you know, people who had been killed, you know, that morning, I think it was five or six a.m. the next morning when she went there.  And, you know, just express some level of it. Of course, I can't in any way express, you know, to its full extent, but the level of pain that people have dealt with in the last one year. The thing you were talking about, you know, about, you know, how the protesters really and some of the things that they protested for was to have a better police force, to have a better living conditions for the police, have better remunerations for the police and some of all of that. It might seem decent, but, you know, like Sherwin Cote said, sometime last year, he's not, you know, a party to, and I think I'm also part of that group that I'm not, you know, a party to those who are campaigning for a better life for the police. They are human beings. They are adults. They are grown-ups. If they want a better life, they should be able to campaign for a better life for themselves. It is not the people that they have been killing, that they have been, you know, manhandling, that they have been abusing for years.  So I'm not part of those people who's campaigning for police. Yes, police reforms. Yes, absolutely police reforms.  Yes, there should be reforms. They should invest more in technology. They should invest more in better ways of carrying out criminal justice acts.  That's their personal problem. And as adults, they should be able to campaign for themselves and say, we demand better living conditions. We demand better pay. It's not the same people that you have been abusing, that you still look at the toge this money. But however, however, that's also a reality because some of the videos making the rounds at this point in time. It's also countering what the narrative that has been put out, because I mean, during that period, you would also want to agree with me that there's a narrative that's been put out saying, oh, the protest is destructive. There's so much of destruction. It's been used, you know, to actually do a lot of crime, commit a lot of crime and criminality. But I have seen the videos where, you know, this young protesters are open about sharing more of a humanitarian angle. You see them giving water, snacks and all of that to the police officers and telling them, oh, this is what it is. That narrative was put out for a reason. And I'm sure you know the reason.  That's the reason behind that narrative. Everyone who's been honest with themselves knows that the protest was largely, you know, 80% or 100% peaceful last day until the very end. Very organized. Very organized. You know, and you saw videos, you saw pictures of people cleaning up right after the protest. I even have a friend who was, I mean, I could see her. You just see some of these girls leaving their high horses and coming down to the streets to pick the debts. And after that, I was really, really impressed and it was really, really emotional. And that really tells you the mentality of the people who came out to demand that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, you know, be ended.  That's really the mentality of those people. Every other person who was a part of the destruction, you know, that we saw eventually after the night of October 20, basically, yeah, you can see those clips on your screen. Every other person who came out and of course was a part of that destruction was not in any way, you know, a part of the Ansar's protest, had no business with the Ansar's protest. I feel like they were planted. I feel like it was a deliberate attempt. You had another camp or you had another group of persons. You want to say those were against the protest because it wouldn't really be the same group of persons who went out asking. There's that narrative.  Two things that I'll point out, you know, as a failure of government. The first one is the fact that there's that many jobless people that have nothing to do but destroy because they don't have any. And so that's what they went out to do to destroy. There's that many jobless people. There's that many violent people. There's a failure of government itself that there's that Legos is filled because it wasn't all in Legos. It wasn't all in Legos. It wasn't all in Legos across, you know, you know, the country, different states. You need to see that. Oh, well, if you're talking about the, yeah, breaking into prisons and some of all of that, yes, absolutely. But it's the same same thing. Still a failure of government that has led to that many jobless people being readily available to destroy what they didn't build. That's one. And then second, when you declare a curfew, it's not the responsibility of the entire protestors to protect Legos and protect the infrastructure across the state. It is the responsibility of the same police, the same police that are paid with taxpayers money. They are the ones who are meant to ensure that there is peace and there's quiet and there's safety and security during a curfew.  It's not the fault of the protesters. And you can't blame the protesters for that. It's still the failure of the Nigerian state and the Nigerian government to protect its, you know, lives and property, you know, that within its territory.  So yes, if the protest was hijacked, where the men of the Nigerian police force is another question you need to ask. And how come we don't have, because for every time you have a protest or people go out to protest, nothing, nothing ought to go wrong.  You ought to have, you know, some level of protection to ensure that the people who are protesting and these peasants or hoodlums as there would be characterised don't coming to hijack the entire process.  Once again, it's a really sad discussion, you know, and I'll be honest, it's an emotional discussion to be honest. There are certain discussions that I honestly wish that I didn't have to partake in. But these are important discussions and they must be spoken about for justice, for fairness, for, you know, the idea of moving forward and for a better society somehow, some way. We'll take a short break. When we come back, Off the Press begins where we get to share with you major stories making headlines across Nigeria this morning. And of course we have an analyst joining us this morning. Stay with us.


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What's good George Boy Rocks back again with another video, so let me check out the problem with money in the bank by super kick studios now I remember when money in the bank was introduced at WrestleMania and How it was like one of the few matches on the WrestleMania card outside of other story lines Finally culminating at the show It was one of the few matches that a lot of people Clued in myself was looking forward to because it was kind of a Telltale sign that whoever won that match is going to potentially be one of the new top stars in the company It kind of was that that Molding match to let fans know. Hey, this is who wwe is behind and over the years It hasn't obviously been like that. They made it. It's on pay-per-view At first I wasn't in a grudge for it being it's on pay-per-view But over time I've gotten used to it and I'm okay with it being its own pay-per-view Innocence and then the women had their own money in the bank ladder match Added as well and then just over time. I feel like it People that have one recently Haven't really been spotlighted correctly. Well, I mean obviously the most recent one was Austin theory But he he won his at the probably the most and Proper time to win it since he won his during you know, the Roman reigns era that's still currently going on and at that time We didn't have the world heavyweight championship. So Roman pretty much had the belt hostage, you know, I'm saying so This is one of those other things where Recently it hasn't been as Important like the people that's one hasn't really benefited from it like they used to back in the day So we're gonna check this out man. See what he has to say. Uh, this is By super kick studios been subscribed to them for a while link to the original video will be down below Let's see what he has to say about money in the bank and how it's been utilized As of recently money in the bank contract a brand new creative element used to help those on the cusp of taking that next step Into the upper echelon of WWE superstars get a world championship match whenever and wherever The only thing you needed was the presence of a referee and early on the concept was a hit It was helping people to send to new heights giving stars an opportunity to be top guys and carry world championship gold the past few years However, WWE has strayed away from everything that made a success and it's been a complete mess Yeah execution and track record has been astronomically poor And this is coming from someone who's a huge fan of the concept and honestly just wants to see it return to its Old glory creative elements stop being special when you stop making them special and the money in the bank contract holders have really felt like Afterthoughts the past little bit not suggesting that everyone has but we haven't seen the concept do what it's designed to do And that's elevate most of this coming down to the core of most on-screen wrestling problems And that's booking and of course the selection of the winners Let's talk about last year's winner Austin theory first what happened with this cash in was effectively WWE devaluing what should be a golden ticket to super stardom and the world championship Saying to their fans that we had no end goal in mind with this He cashed in what should be a world title match on a mid-card championship in an open challenge. No less I believe recently they've come out and said that the The winner can cash in obviously he did you know, it was done last year but they can cash in on a The Intercontinental Championship or the United States Championship, which I think is I Get it you can but it's stupid only because The original concept is for you know cash in on the world champion On the top champion They only did I believe this is become a new rule correctly if I'm wrong I did see someone post this or I don't know how accurate it is But if that's the case the adding that stipulation, it's just a way for them to write themselves out If they can't find a reasonable time to cash it in I don't know man. I just think the money in the bank winners should be only going With the top titles it shouldn't be going for the mid-card titles. That's just my opinion to repeat Austin theory chose to cash in his almost guaranteed world championship victory on a secondary title During an open challenge that no one answered after his opponent had been beaten into a pulp and he lost There was no real justification as to why we didn't have someone come out and even attempt to preserve the concept The rules were just changed on the fly and another cash in was wasted Yeah in retrospect the filled cash in stings more now that we have the world heavyweight championship But okay, I guess it does make some sense. There was virtually no way he was beating Roman I'll give them this one, but let's keep going, but that's the problem They did that to themselves They did that to themselves a baby booked Roman to have both titles. They didn't split the titles They didn't do nothing. So of course Austin theory was screwed. There was no way he was winning At least if they were to he would have tried to cash in and failed And then you could have went with that storyline where Austin says screw it and goes roll on everybody I would have went with that But they booked themselves into that corner the year previous was one of the very few bright spots in the contract past six or seven Years and that was biggie someone who is a logical winner a guy who needed something to bring him to that top tier and he ended Up becoming WWE champion his subsequent reign was not handled Well, and he was made to look like a weak WWE champion oftentimes taking a backseat to whatever his challengers were doing But what the contract did was give him that initial reign put his name with elite company so that they can build from there With stronger booking the right tweaks a more serious approach and of course health permitting Biggie can still be a big player for the WWE by virtue of his win It at least did something to say that this guy belongs here There's been so many times where the following reign after the cash-in just isn't strong But once you put them up in the conversation with former WWE champions You got to do things to sustain their credibility and justify the win before him Otis won the Money in the Bank contract And this was a disaster WWE had no idea what to do with him You could tell that they didn't have plans for him to win a world title or be a main guy and through his reign as Mr. Money in the Bank He was never a threat always goofy the contract was a lunchbox at one point Yeah, and you knew this guy's in a tag team There's no way he actually does it what made matters worse was when he lost the contract It was because of his tag partner Otis who turned on him the turn was never explained They didn't have a proper rivalry and they ended up drafted to raw and smackdown with it never going anywhere Otis went back to being a tag wrestler if they planned for him to do something Why'd he just it was pointless? That was missing it was thrown on to him for the sake of I don't even think I watched that money in a big I don't think I believe that was the money in bank. They was on top of WWE headquarters. Correct me if I'm wrong. I Saw clips, you know Well boy Reagan tossed off the top of the building But no, I don't even think I watched money in the bank that year Stock value eventually the Miz won the contract from Otis and he failed his cash in got it back via storyline Shenanigans cashed in won the world title for a grand total of eight days and what did that eight days really do for the Miz? transitional champion and WWE just wasted another go-around for the concept the others in that match AJ Styles Alistair Black Daniel Bryan and Baron Corbin getting to Corbin He failed his cash in and I feel like this is where the whole unraveling for money in the bank really started back in 2017 Corbin fell flat on his face and personally I'm not sure how I would have felt if he would have succeeded just two months after holding the money in the bank Was it the right time for him? I don't know after him It was Braun Strowman who won and this was actually logical in terms of the winner a guy who had been around for two years They let him develop be part of big storylines Showcase him and now he just needed something to take that next step He cashed in ahead of time got his match with Roman Reigns at Hell in a Cell That match ended in a no contest when Brock Lesnar showed up and tore the Cell door off Sticking with Lesnar 2019's men's match saw him win I love Brock Lesnar as much as the next guy But he didn't need it at the time There was probably a much easier and less convoluted way to get to Rollins and Lesnar at Summerslam We'll also giving the opportunity to maybe a McIntyre or a Ballard But the men's is nothing compared to the rushed out product We've been getting on the women's side of the six winners five of them have held it for a day or less It's barely got a history behind it in terms of actual holders in terms of the actual Sustained miss money in the bank runs the woman's match was introduced in 2017 and up until this point We've had one woman that being Carmella who's had a sustained run with the briefcase And even the way in which they crowned the first miss money in the bank was more Convoluted than it needed to be with them making amends on the very next match Down Alexa Bliss Liv Morgan and Bailey all cashed in their contracts within hours of their win at that same event Nikki ASH just 24 hours later. Well, Oscar was awarded the raw women's title again 24 hours after she won though. That's no fault of her own. Yeah, is it now mr. Rollins I want to talk quickly Rollins is his party. He couldn't pull out I said earlier how this can help someone stay at that top tier of superstars her title ring lasted 32 days She didn't do anything inspiring during her time as raw women's champion And she hasn't even sniffed the top end of the women's division since in the woman's case It really feels like they want that contract to be done with as soon as possible Yeah, they opt for creating cash in the night of rather than playing the long game Yeah, this concept shouldn't be given a pass. It can be better It should be better, but they're just going through the motions with it every single year It works it works if it doesn't well, there's always next year with the winners You're not just devaluing the concept. You're losing development time You're losing months of having someone assume that role and what could have been an easy decision by just selecting someone who's hot Instead turns into a muddled mess because of shock value and the selection they go with You don't just create a new star because they win money in the bank My examples are always Rollins and edge that when this concept is given care and time can be a game-changer And really help the trajectory of someone's career of the 28 cash-ins men's and women's only Austin theory Baron Corbin and Damian Sandow have actually lost the match even though Sina failed his cash-in He still won the match via DQ Strowman's was a no contest so the success rate is high and that's not suggesting that every cash-in needs to be Successful one or that every winner needs to tease cashing in multiple times before they do But just keep them as a threat and use the time while they're holding it to your advantage I read online that some people want to see the concept retired. I really disagree with that No, I don't think you really can with how big money the bank has gotten plus What's the point of putting it away for a little bit and then making a big deal of it when it returns? I think the revival of it should come in the way that the holders are booked a good cash-in creates drama Tensions suspense and when done right leaves you with a moment that a superstars career was either catapulted or revived Now let's talk about this year, but who should be mr. And miss money in the bank. I think it's LA night's time He's got everything to get a classic money. Let's get it going. Let's let's simple simple I saw we didn't blot stream Monday night raw last night, but I did see LA night coming out there to address everyone that's gonna be in money in the bank. I believe Logan Paul You know, he didn't have to qualify Like everyone else he's Logan Paul So he gets to be granted into money in the bank and I saw just LA night's promo Just talking about the different wrestlers and how it was it it worked when he soon as he got out there He had a huge pop crowd loved him crowd chanting his name If they don't give him the belt They have wasted our time. They've wasted his time. There's no reason why he shouldn't win He's that over and I have him hold the belt to the right time Hell, I would have him cash in on you know, I'm saying You can have him cash in on the Seth Rollins or maybe wait till Cody Rhodes went in you can have him cash in on Cody Well, it don't matter. There's plenty of options here. He's over push him They don't push him that money in a bank that They've wasted everybody's time if he don't win they've wasted everybody's time, bro If they give it to Logan Paul, I'm a very be very disappointed because Logan he's a he's one. He's a special attraction do this fantastic in the ring So I will give him all the credit, but he doesn't need the money in the bank I think that should be reserved for people that are there weekly Because that no, no, it's LA night's time the bank holder He's gonna be a guy who if given the opportunity will have the ideal run with it. He'll be funny He'll cut great promos. He'll be sleazy. He'll be entertaining and these are the times Yes, the pinpoint moments where you can just see he needs the money in the bank Let him continue to build for a few months and use that device to bridge him over into that next level They should pull the trigger on him so far the men's money in the bank ladder match has no former world champions And that's really cool. That's good opportunity in front of you on the women's side EOS guy is a solid option though I think what they're doing with Zoe Stark so early is pretty good a money in the bank wouldn't could position her really well Especially since she's a heel she'll have that exposure working with Trish and down the line If you want to do something where Trish ends up winning a woman's title only for the student to cash in on the teacher I think that would be that Of course if she continues to work with Trish for a sustained period of time that would also give her the right amount of Screen time for audiences to get familiar with her so it wouldn't feel as rushed either at the end of the day This concept has been so strangely booked and I just want to see it return to its old glory It's been such a mess the past few years and it's by WWE's own fault Elevation is key and that's what this concept is at the core of things Money in the bank is a plot device and a way to get someone to that next level Without having to do all the extra bits in the middle at one time This concept was so instrumental in bridging the gap between a mid Carter and a main event level player or helping someone That's lost the limelight return to that glory the amount of moments and legendary money in the bank runs We've had have been great and it's so pivotal in kick starting a big storyline or tying up one That's been going on for a while and lately it hasn't been doing any of that But what do you guys think what needs to happen in order for money in the bank to gain some prestige again? And not just be there like I said pick strong winners Position them to look good while they hold it keep them as a constant threat to the champion and not just some chump Who has it as a prop? Hope you guys have been enjoying the op. I agree with what he was saying it's pretty much nailed it all they need to really do is Pick the pick the winner and have them create the story Create that enhance their character with the run You don't need them to cash in the night of especially on the women's side. They've been doing that sort of frequently They just cash in as soon as they get it. You don't even have that time. So people are initially hype Okay, this person won or it was a shocking moment But then when they win it then that's it and then that's when the fall starts That's when people stop can because you haven't built it up enough for people to even really truly invest in you in you Or people to buy in into this person being the new champion So have them hold the belt create storylines and and potential teases and opportunities Built with that person how that person Built up with that briefcase, you know I'm saying that's that was really the tool then winning the briefcase is cool But now is to showcase to everybody This is gonna be the the next person up potentially, you know, cuz you know You don't have to always have them successfully cash in which is why I think Austin theory trying to cash in on Roman and failing would have made sense Because Roman just had too many weapons at his disposal and you can do that that makes sense He wasn't gonna lose it anytime soon So I think Honestly, it's just building up these storylines with these wrestlers that went in instead of just easily having them cash it in Right as soon as they get it, you know build up those storylines and honestly money in the bank is right around the corner So that's why I wanted to check out this video and I'm just be honest with you if it's not LA night. It's a waste Sorry, and it shouldn't be Logan either. I like Logan Paul and what he's done in WWE But it should be LA night. That's it in my personal opinion. So comment down below Let me know what are but what other better ways they can I guess Utilize money in the bank make it seem a little bit more special than it has been in the past couple years Let me know down below but I appreciate all of the support you guys are on channel wrote 250k And I'm still the n speedy you to the rest of the world. Appreciate you're kicking me. See you next one