So, let's try and recount what happened in the last episode. All right, that's not gonna happen. Once I see it, it'll all come to me. We'll do it previously on, right? We'll be fine. Yeah, once I see it, it'll jumpstart my memory. I'll remember all the things that happen in it and where our characters are and we'll be good. It's just, I just have to see the image and then I will be reminded because picking random events out of the ether that is the Batwoman plot timeline, just don't ask me to do it.  I know that. Black Mask is the villain. Yep. The island's flowers were burned. By Howish. Alice and Sophie are still kind of looking for a good old Kate. I think they might still be on the island. And Jacob's like taking the drug. That's right. Right. Wait, wasn't the last scene the last episode? Snake bite. That's it. Yeah, wasn't the last scene in the last episode we've seen like some mangled face? That's, yeah, that's probably Kate before she gets her new updated face. Yeah. Can anyone just pull that face off whenever they want? It could be awkward. Anyway, yeah, are you guys ready? I don't think I'm ready, but let's do it. Very well. Previously on Batwoman. That starts right up. Makeover this city needs comes from an ugly I've never seen before. Yes. Oh, I guess she was kidding. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah, she did the thing where she's the stunt driver with the car computer. Oh, fuck, that was terrible. Oh, yeah, Oceans died like twice. He's a live guest. Oceans 11 lives. It's a bad idea. Okay, she's going to figure out who you are. She noticed the random green light in the car and is like, this is something I need to take. Also, it records all those things. The black box records all the voices and stuff. Also, wait, Sophie knows who black... Blamp blamp blamp blamp blamp blamp what that is? Blamp blammin' That could have happened at any point. It's never been. Oh my God, that's the resident light house. Oh, look, okay. Oh, it's the Riddler woman. Riddler woman. Oh, yeah, that's right. No, the music here. There's a lot of candles in here. Yeah. Yes. Oh my goodness. It's him. I can't believe it. Wow. Remember he was the one previously on He was yeah, he was gonna clean up the town. He has a mask holder And he has a mask for her. It's time for white mask. Absolutely beautiful. No, it's not He's like you just saying that And that because I brought you to my mansion. Oh, he makes masks. That's what he likes Apparently sir. Wait, so he's gonna chandelier and then the wall lights and all the candles man. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing And yet the room is very dark No, you're not you're not really nice and blurry. Nice and blurry. How does it stay on you could take it off later? Yeah, you'll be fine.  Does she breathe? Can she breathe through the holes of the little holes our therapy has come to her.  Confidence Confidence Don't do that What is this music?  I don't know what is this music? Oh hypnotized damn. Oh, is that how oh, okay. I guess she's done I must warn you roman while psychologically and behaviorally. She is your daughter There was nothing I could do about her voice Her larynx was damaged by your man during the kidnapping and subsequent torture Her larynx was damaged. She sounds so I guess they're just trying to argue. That's why she doesn't sound like ruby rose. Yeah, yeah Also, yeah, oh, you can get up at any point. I think you were right Are there no holes in the mouth all the nose? Why am I wearing this mask? Now don't you remember sweetheart? You were in a terrible fire when you broke out of arkham Okay, yeah, but like of all the things to give me for a mask. All right. That's you just brainwashed her I guess you've given her a whole new personality through the brainwashing.  No I don't care about these dudes. Stop it I want them both to die. Go away ruby roses replacement. I don't know who that woman Yeah, I want to see your fight crime or do her best I want to see the crows. I want to see jacob in his addiction to sneak back. Oh, yeah, I'll see that. Yeah Oh, close it. All right. You know what? Something else Close it. Where is he? Oh Close door. Wow. Oh, that was easy.  Just close the door.  I don't have pants on. Go away Let me put my underwear on first. Close the embers off so he can see his winky No winky in the show The show dude.  I bet she's such a bad sport Oh Just looks this how did I not notice before it's so obvious the clown hair. It just So distracting We're talking Oh, that's detective man. He's on the case. He's a white man. I can't wait to see how he's on mind He might be evil. How many rape kids have to go to the back of the line so you can make a big splash to boost your career Oh, so he's doing it for his career. Let's see.  See white guy instantly evil The commander know about you sponsoring resources like this. He's the one who signed off on it actually He's doing his drugs again because it's blacked out. He's doing his drugs on the on because he can't even wait till he gets home Is he gonna be doing drugs right? He is. Yeah Right here. Oh, is this door gonna be locked?  Come in. Yeah Come on, Jacob. You at least treat drugs like a normal person I know how you feel about vigilantes, sir But instead of wasting our time with batwoman, shouldn't we be trying to figure out who black mask is? Well, we were and batwoman got in the way of that ruined the run to cover operation And cost us a chance to take down black mask. She's on our side commander You know, here we said yeah, that doesn't address what he said. Yeah That sounds like a very not on our side thing trust may remember the last batwoman She was also woman getting in our way vigilantism is against the law in my office With the police kind of you think a little fling with my daughter five years ago gives you permission to tell me how to do my job Yeah, I tell her I didn't mean to overstep get out of my office now Get out. I'm high as a kite Yes, sir. He really is.  He's the best character But they're gonna fucking drugify him and then everyone's gonna preach how wrong he was for everything he did All right, that right this is that sound I wonder what a lot of these props are from like what what other shows were they used in all of these computer panels and those We're blue things behind them. How many other cw shows and stuff and other sets of things have there's been on I can't believe they keep padding past the bat crossbow and they never show it used somebody turned on the bat signal Wait, that's how you detect that now.  What what was that attached to uh, this is a high a bit but You can just get a chat with bat woman by turning that on what do you want first off? Lose the toad. I'm doing the toad. The toad. What's your learn to speak? I lose to you know the crows are in the process of extracting your dna profile from blood splatter found at the snake bite facility Once they have that they're gonna upload it to the national dna.  I screwed up the other profile in a few hours A rest warrant won't be long after that. How is she gonna escape this? I guess she could live in the bat cave. What is her life outside of bat being bat woman? Anyway, that's true Doesn't she run the bar or something? No, mary runs the bar. She just works there. She's uh, she works there. She was about to aim the nothing I was yeah, yeah, told you When they're on south and I don't just say like hey look her at the building be over there. No you cause no stop Maybe there is a bolt of lightning that she hit it with okay. It makes sense. It's a cloud grappling gun The only point of acting is pretend to be someplace and somewhere you're not Sophie just dropped an abomb. We need to figure out how to preserve your identity Aren't you meant to be going to like medical school running your own social media? Well, to be fair guys a detective with this all would have uncovered this. Yeah, look black mask is using angelic to cook snake bite Right. He went through a lot of trouble for her.   Cheers.  I got nothing Okay, oh look Alice is doing horrible things again. She's so relatable. How did she get out? Wait, how did they escape?  She's got another outfit too. Why are you here? I thought they kidnapped a friend. So I've been popping by their known hideouts seeing us someone Oh, they didn't they didn't kidnap her then they left her when they kidnapped her as they all do I'm not even surprised at this point. Of course.  She's not even do it. She's not even done this with a team. She did this herself How does it happen? What is that? How did she do that? Why is it steaming? Is that a building pipe?  Yeah. Oh Thanks for reminding us Oh, wow. She killed another one. Why would that woman? Are you okay with that? Obviously that one.   That man wouldn't help us. That man would be very upset He wouldn't let that happen night wing.  She's already forgotten.  Oh threatening murder.  I'm sorry.   You can just access that Why are you letting her do this? How does it not have authorization? Is that a green screen card?  Oh, they absolutely and the camera.  He has a lot of weed.   Well bad news for you Don't worry. I'm gonna babysit this thing the whole way. How long until it's ready? This is my job and it's in the pursuit of justice Not much longer It just went from what 79 to 84 in that scene. So I love that. Yeah, it's a couple minutes. Yeah You got a couple minutes Well, maybe it's like a lot of stuff and it gets to 99 and it sits there for a while Yeah, so it actually catches up. What's that weird tree in the middle?    Sorry for the once crows are actually being like effective It's nuts to me that we're supposed to be on these guys team.  Finally the crows is really doing something in the pursuit of justice actual justice And I want them to succeed.  She doesn't do anything. The only reason she had that job was to look good to the cops Yeah, that's the only reason she had the job. She can still hide out in Wayne Manor. So Yeah, whatever. Oh, yeah, they left Alice. They took him. They didn't Why didn't you just kill her? An idiot's guide to making snake bite Take one. Oh, it's a scarecrow reference that mask, isn't it? It looks like it. Oh, it looks kind of like yeah, it does actually That's annoying to me. Yeah. Why is the battery almost empty on that camera? So they both know how to make snake bite. Why does he know how to make snake bite? I don't remember And they don't need him for it because she was doing it before right? That's what I thought You draw him out. I'll take him out. That's not a plan. That's an out That's a blueprint of an idea of a plan How are you doing what you asked? I told you to draw him out not draw him Yeah, it's a quicky and funny. It's batwoman. I should I get on my radio? Wow, how does that go around him? How does that pull him without knocking you down? Oh, no, there's already oh, so he didn't have to radio. Yeah, so this just didn't work then. Good job So the radio thing was pointless. It was an act. I don't know.  It's already up to 92. It should be done.  Wouldn't it be awkward if it sabotaged other investigations that were happening too? You are all on cameras. There are people everywhere. Yep The camera's watching you right now. I didn't know you were on batwoman's payroll as well. Oh my god Why are you saying this you're in crow's hq? This is the den of snakes itself for you. I have no clue why you're doing this I'm also did anyone catch what that device does According to the bat team if I use this device then the file is transmitted to the dna registry It won't match anything.  They'll never arrest anyone ever again You just have to plug them that little cutie into any computer in the building with tier one access There's only one person with that take up cane.  Yeah, he's working. Why do you think I'm here? I assume it was to bring her that good. Oh look at the guy with the gun in the background just Oh, yeah on the floor. No that one just ran posture until she hit him. He just ran past her and hit him with the bat Oh, what are you? What what are you doing? Okay, you're okay with this not woman. Yeah, that was totally okay with it.  What? No, that is actually the impression I got with the way that I drove a knife through his heart You have a thing to do. No, it doesn't matter. We gotta do a funny comedy I was starting something the funny comedy can't wait It seems to be a little more confusing Was it light? I don't know. I don't know I guess none of them NPC in the vision range is like the light is there But the game doesn't know that that's the vision range. So all of those guys were alerted, but no one else. Okay Yeah, that's them. Yeah, they didn't call anybody or do anything Oh, he let the door open. That's me close the door. Yeah So she's going to wait for like one minute until they're right She's going to use his access presumably his id to delete like information in an ongoing case Well, the cameras did this whole place has got cameras. Yeah, it's easy to figure out who's done what once this all happens Mary shows up gives her some sort of computer widget Mary then goes in and gets him out of the office. She immediately walks in closes the blinds And that lines up exactly when the data was erased or whatever He's like what? I would be terrified if that one were on the way. I'd be like, can I even be terrified about one? Oh, no, no chance.  What's just like in uh the midnight mess. Yeah I now know exactly what those are because the midnight mess There you go So you were plucked away like the little orphan Annie while she was left Why are you having this conversation with her because the people who watch the show who are brain damaged explicitly explaining motivations again because you got nothing else to do This is what I mean. It's like if I was if I was here, it's just like first of all, you like you're kind of going to jail like immediately Awesome. We're not we're not having a conversation. Like there is no conversation. It's silence Yeah, you can't so many people also very very evil.  She called herself an anti hero.  I wonder if they can handle those Uh, but she'd lure them away with the radio. Hey, there are incredible soundtrack there That was probably like a preset garage band How didn't you notice that I'm gonna save ocean from you. I am going to make sure he knows exactly what you are I think he already knows Of course, he knows he everyone knows she's been on the news Alice is a famous killer This show is so terrible No, you're in the way. No one dared to turn off the camera. You were in the way of the camera. Yeah Why And shouldn't you be explaining this out loud just do this in written format You need to know amounts you need to know like volumes of things and mixes How does she still have the element of surprise? She doesn't So the lab's about to upload batwoman's cna to the mainframe. Talk me through this as soon as the file's uploaded Click on that one profile. It'll shred that baby ty-tech ribbons Oh, at least it looks like it's only focused on batwoman's profile, but that that'll be on record. They'll know. They'll know It's gone Process company that took way longer than it should have. Yeah. Let's hope this was worth the wait Oh, what a cut.  I mean i'm fine with it. I'm just like, you know, someone was like Batwoman's file. They're uploading dna profiles from dozens of crow's investigations. Oh, you're now you can The file labels numbers for anonymity There are no names. I mean, there's no way to tell them apart to delete them all Well, what are they gonna do to get batwoman's would be to corrupt them all How serious are these cases? How serious are those cases? Oh my god. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter If we did this, we wouldn't just be protecting batwoman. We would be protecting rapists and murderers. Yeah, thanks You can't do it. You can't do it, luke. Yeah. Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, we can't do it The results will be back in a matter of minutes. Sorry if you should be like Oh, we're gonna do something else. There you go. At least they got it right. They got it right. Yeah Someone obstruct justice though Absolutely. Yeah, at least we're not really obstructing a lot of justice. It's just like last time we spoke I got the distinct oppression.  So consider this You could have said I dwelled on what you said and I realized that you had a lot of legitimate things to say Up-to-code storage, certified nurses and doctors I guess she got, oh, she's Well, why is it a compromise? That's exactly what he asked for, isn't it? That's exactly. Yeah, you okay? He's jones and Yeah, he needs his fix. I'm fine You know what it is. He's thinking about how he's already got a couple episodes left to record I fill out this thingy and I fax it to the gcpd using this for But how would you be allowed to run this clinic if you're not a graduate and you don't have a doctor? It's an oversight. You just said what I was thinking Oh, she's been lying this whole time even when he's in having withdrawals Compromise works both ways. Well, as far as I'm concerned, you're clear to open shop. I don't need to get going You do get that we're basically treating and harboring potential criminals here Why would he just give you what you wanted?  No, that thing is not plugged in. I'll I'll talk to you later. Wait. Oh, so the idea he just gave her what he wanted because he wants his drugs Yeah, that's lame. Hey guests. Yeah, that is pretty lame because there needs to be a whole conversation I guess he really I guess he really needs the drugs. I guess that's what they're going for. It's that addictive Yep She has a crambit. She has a cs go knife. Oh, no Two crambits. Oh my god. She has cs go nice. Kate versus Alice Where's batwoman? What is this? What are we doing? She doesn't know it's kate. Oh my gosh.  Also, you're evil.  You have no reason for Alice to be alive You know what she told her way about what it is like to be fair. Where else would she be if She's gonna be in that building. Yeah, but also you saw her way over there Pull up proof armor and stuff. How it's not cs go knife proof. It's a thousand degrees fringy. That's right. So now what are we doing? Yeah, there it is.  I wasn't about to ask How long is it taking? Why is it taking that low? It's a lot. What?   Like what is this? I found Deleted ryan's profile family.  Nobody would be laughing about this. Yeah, I mean, this is bad.   She just said I have to delete my digital footprint in on just openly Watching a how-to video isn't the real thing. There's a million variables potency the fear toxin mushroom oil Oh, no ocean's gonna die again. He's gonna die again Maybe and also he raises a really good point. Was a bad woman. Did you stop that from happening? Wait? You don't want to do that. Yeah, he's putting on a voice. You don't want to do that. Wow How did it come back off the gun? What was that? Wow, it's a laser a bat laser that cuts through wires. Can you walk? Go without me. There's no way I was gonna say he's a serious Kid or a first aid thing. Can you put a bandage over it? Where's he been shot exactly? Walk you through first aid over the radio. It looks like he's shot like is it tested? His gut. Yeah, that's oh, he's in trouble It's called acting fringy. He's not fine, but he makes you think he is Thank you for coming in after I was shot You know, if you didn't have those conversations, you would have gotten here sooner before he was shot Oh, this is new batwoman They're not leaving here Yes, they are Wait, I so is his daughter canonically like a killer murderer psycho? I guess so. What is this music? What are we doing? How slow they are with the swings as well. Why are you it's a knife stab with it. Don't do these weird slashy things Also, unless she stabs you in the face, you're fine. Oh that stalk sound Oh, that was what that sound is in seven days to die.  She just walked past it. I don't know what that was. What is it? What's the purpose of the spike wall? Sorry, what you're gonna do anything ryan?  Okay Hey, do you remember Alice defeated batwoman with a trumpet or trombone? I can't remember. So how is she having so much trouble? I was never trombone. She's brainwashed into believing that she's better at fighting than she really is Oh, that okay. She's just woke up No, I'm Thinking about good luck at that Oh Why is the other one letting this happen? I don't know. Maybe kate is interested in this I'm very confused at this dynamic Like you said Can't save everyone. What the fuck's going on I don't know. This is a weird one. This is bizarre. So what's gonna happen? How are they gonna resolve this? But but but but kate kate wanted batwoman not here Well, yeah, if she wanted to kill her then why did they let her go before when they captured ocean deleting event logs Let's go to find the drugs Now your fingerprints are all over the Yeah Fucking rem It's a box. It could be evidence. You have no idea what that represents really If you threw that in there, I swear to god There there is knowledge of what this is Oh, I mean like I know like the box in terms of uh, you Doesn't matter. Whatever. She she may as well found a note saying jakef is taking drugs by the way What if he says like oh, that's old evidence that we couldn't pull anything from they brought it to me and there's nothing in it It's amazing what a little pay and six figures worth of permits and doctor salaries will do, right? Six figures worth of permits and doctor salaries. How'd you pay for that? How'd you pay for that? Wayne's money probably how are you allowed to do this?  Okay. She's giving the money to the actor. How do you have time to do all this the beds the everything You got to go to You got to help that woman you work at that bar and you got this thing too I mean you you have to get all these beds built and set up and you have to have all this material delivered You have to do a lot of money Like just all of the paperwork that goes along with running a business. I found this in his office Napkin a napkin. Damn it. What are you saying? It's his you should talk to a mary Myself my dad is not you should ask him if he has been taking snake bite And then maybe he will tell you that he has been taking snake bite, but I really think you need to have it I don't see why you can't but okay Yeah, the the I mean, I think Occam's razor here is that it was just evidence that they didn't pull anything from So he threw it away. It got brought to his office. They couldn't more like Occam's razor. Yeah Occam's right nice. Oh, I thought you never want to see me again. All right. Don't What do you see in each other unless I'm unclear are they telling us that this bat woman is totally chill with killing Apparently so. Oh, yeah. Remember the first guy. What's from saying like the guy that got stabbed instead of it being an Incase this is literally just that's what you're supposed to believe at this point Okay, to feel like I mattered and to know that everything could be ripped away at any moment Including my life and all the people I care about Okay, I don't care about either of you. You're both bad people and I don't know what you see in each other Come into witness protection with me Is that something you just invite people to? Like it's vacation bro. I got a job Yeah, I'm stopping everything I'm like I live here How hard it is to move What if kids like us didn't have to grow up in the same city we did so we kill kids I don't what it what do you do? What if we kill the children So they don't have to grow up in the same city we did Okay, I don't care fine. I don't care either. They're both bad people and I don't care about interview In kate kate straggling alice that that's that's where I'm at. Yeah, that was cool You know, why are we not paying attention to that? What's going on there? What happened? This film won't allow alice to die. So I have to see how they resolve it Uh, here it is and there she is she captured it.  It'd be like star wars. Yeah Pretty swanky place you got here for a guy who slings dope in the streets. Does that make sense money? Does that make money? Yeah You think people sling dope just because they love it. Why is she getting fleas on my furniture? Good question. She was with batwoman during tonight's siege Siege I had to describe it Yes. Yes. Do it. Yes. Yes. I didn't even do anything.  I'll deal with her tomorrow No Okay, then Movie thing.  Like, I don't know if that's I don't believe you If it knocks you that hard then you're in a lot of trouble. Yeah, you're in a lot of trouble Like how can you generate that kind of force from the back of a pit? I don't this sure sucks, man. That's not even like It's not even a spot anymore. It's just like really lame. I kind of had fun watching some of that. That was fine I had fun watching that. I tune out during the like discussions between like Alice and batwoman and stuff I tune out for those it lets my brain sort of reset So that when you have the office stuff and jake cane and sometimes when batwoman is actually fighting in the fight scenes Which there's not a lot of um, I can sort of enjoy it. You know, it's a good breather I guess it just um, it feels like there was something that season one had just from like the k k thing It was pure really amusing. Well, yeah, I think it was it was all batwoman. That's the thing We didn't have as many tangents true. That's because this Alice stuff is like, oh my god I'm just like, I don't care. I really don't that she's outside of welcome Go back to batwoman being terrible at being batwoman so that we criticize her and laugh at her That's fun enough in and of itself. There's enough Yeah I'm like, I I feel like we could have had an interesting thing with a scenario where Alice will die without batwoman's help After she's having killed her mum like what will she do?  Yeah, she did She saved the batwoman and even if batwoman wants to really really kill her There's that aspect of you did save my life just a moment ago Just take it to jail See that's the payoff we want where she does save it I was like, thank you and then a cuff goes around her hand and we're like, there you go Exactly, I feel like it's funny. Yeah, you you just mentioned that's like well if if she actually believes that Alice is dead That should be like a massive thing for her that she has a conversation about but because the show knows that she's not dead Ryan assumes not either or like treats it like I don't even know what she's bad writing Well, I don't know what she thinks about anything. You're right.  He's only in it for like five minutes an episode. Yeah a piece. That's all it is It's a shame too because I know he won't be around for much longer. No. Yeah, if we haven't mentioned on these episodes I assume he's refusing to come back That that as well Because what an embarrassment this show is but uh, uh, yeah, I don't know if we mentioned it on these recordings Yeah, but yeah, jake of cane is confirmed to not return for season three Now we don't know how the events of this season play out So we'll see about that. But uh, yeah, apparently we guess should we set up a like, um I'm not really a guess how his exit for the show is gonna be I'm not as invested in guessing anymore because I just I'm so out of the loop on the components now You know, I mean like anything could fucking happen at this point Not that that was ever not the case But at least I felt like I was following a through line this episode practically just established right at the end It's like batwoman's like I'm gonna make gartham better for everyone But she didn't do that throughout this whole episode really And instead like totally operates for her own interests as she always has If you guys remember it wasn't so long ago that she was like I need um I need to do a mission The crows can help and they were like, yeah, the crows can help and then they fucked it up And then she was like, I should never have trusted any of you guys the crows is not helpful I'm controlling everything now. It was like what? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's like you still this whole this whole weird meeting in the bat cave You stole the power the money the resources and now you're like now it's mine to use as I will It's like you need to go to jail, but I mean she really does She's like the worst kind of vigilante where it's entirely like narcissistic Yeah, well, yeah, even though they they try to establish that they are a team now with this whole meeting they had That was just the one episode thing. It's like they do a lot of time. It's a one episode thing and then it's done It's over like yeah bad team and then I'm doing what I want to do and you guys cover up for me. Okay. Cool. Thanks Yeah, great. He's so predictable season two episode 12 everyone.  Yes, this show is great He seems so pessimistic about it. He's brought us so much joy and frustration Oh boy, goodbye everybody What if kids like us didn't have to grow up in the same city we did You don't have to worry about bullets killing you. Would you bring me?


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You guys are getting some beautiful weather up there. And are you playing any tennis yet in February? I snuck in a game of tennis. I could have played it outdoors, or I played it indoors, but it is really nice out there. That's good to hear. Nice. Yeah, you were talking about the market. So I want you to just say that you're absolutely correct. This is a really unusual market in the sense that the leadership has actually continued to hold very well. And usually when you get these big spikes, especially after earnings, you get some kind of sell-off. But what I'm looking at here is you see this chart on the left. So let me just show you. This is the Dow chart. And on the left is the daily. In the middle is the weekly. And on the right is the monthly. If we go from the right, which is the monthly reading of legs, see in the Chapman methodology, we try to identify the lowest low bar and count every successively higher peak, alphabetize them, uppercase on the way up, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. It's at that fourth highest peak, D, that other things can happen. So that says monthly chart, only in leg C, you can't get a peak D for a few months. So that's very positive. The weekly chart's only in leg B. With all the, look, there's nine period moving average way over the 14. Look at the 200 period moving average at 32,500. Yeah, we are at 38,944. That does say we kind of overbought, but that's just a visual thing right now. The MACD is still very strong. Stochastic fabulous at 95.53. This is the weekly, but there's a little sign here that says the on-balance volume is overboard. That's the one indicator I use as overboard or oversold. And it says, gotta be a little careful. That's on the weekly chart, but it's only in leg B. That says you can't get a peak D for at least another four or five weeks. Okay, so that's the weekly.  This is this little channel. It's a repellent or a propellant line. So this pink line says, every time the price has gotten to that level, it hasn't been able to break out above the green line.  So we've taken a little insurance policy here. We do have long positions from way back, back in March of 2020. And then again, in October of 2022, we've kept those. Now what's really important about this is that you can see that the nine periods, this little green line here is still positive. And as a result, that says for it to turn pink, in other words, if it go from green to pink, it would have to cross under that black period moving average, which is the 14. And it's got this inside track propellant zone right here. So a lot has to happen. So my thinking here is we don't have, at this point, we've got yields in the upper range, but they haven't broken out. That's usually one of the triggers to say, it helps the markets getting nervous, but we aren't quite there yet. Number two is crude oil is getting real. I'm watching crude oil very closely. It seems to me that in screening, I'm getting a number of very low priced oil and gas service companies that seem to be doing very well. So I'm watching this really closely. And the other thing is from out of the blue, you never know where bad news comes. And we just haven't had, and that's one of the reasons why I felt that if we do have a pullback, and I think we're very close to having a pullback, it'll be more in the four to 8% range. And that's what I'm thinking right now, but we actually haven't got it yet. I do have a technique that says, there's a chamois of two bar reversal in the Dow from the 39,282 to slightly lower high the next day. And today's got a red candle, but this is like an eye blink, it's like nothing. So I'm looking at it and I'm saying some of the technicals in the daily are not as good as the weekly. They start to deteriorate and it's only this 914 that's still strong. So I'm watching this very closely because from the mix I'm looking at, I think that we can see that there's the possibility that we're bumping into some kind of resistance. So yes, the exact same up channel. This is what I call the inside track repellent zone. Once again, how many times this line, this pink line has been hit and it can't close above. If it does close above the green line, that would be up in the 51, 40s or 50s and that'll be very positive. So that's what I'm watching, but so far it's been repelled there. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying in, for instance, we still have Microsoft from 338. We've also had a trading position that we took off and they took nice profits. In fact, we took profits 60 cents from the all-time high, 420.82 was the all-time high. We took a trading position. We took a little bit off at that 420, 420.20 level. So it's still holding pretty well, but it's a sign here that says the upside's getting a little, it's a struggle at this particular point in some of the stocks. And then I've been talking about these round numbers. All I can say is that it's a work in progress, but look at this, this is SMCI. This is super micro, super micro, it made an all-time high at 1077.87. I've had to make them gray because it's covering, I must have at least 10 or 12 round numbers either at the high, the open or the close. And it's going to tell me something very soon, but it's so unusual for, yeah, you've got a stock at 850 people paying a round number 945.00, here's 995. Today, the high has been 869.00. So normally when I'm looking at one or two of these things occurring, like AORM hit the exact round number at 164 the other day, it hasn't broken above it. It usually says to me, just be careful on the downside because someone paid exactly, when you prepare to type in the decimals, they just went right there, 164, I went in, I went out. So you can imagine the person who's bought in at 164 seeing it go down to 115 in a few days. So I'm just looking at this and saying, the market is telling me that there's a little bit of hysteria in some of the action. And normally there has to be some kind of a pause of breather when that happens, as that particular sector takes a breather and other sectors start to come up. So we're in very interesting positions. We've got what I call under the radar stocks that might not be influenced if the market does pull back. I do expect Microsoft to pull back some more. I'd like to, we'd like subscribers to get in for another at least trading opportunity, even though we walked much lower down just in terms of trading. But we're in a very diverse portfolio. And I like the fact that the financials XLF has done very well so far. And that just says to me, there's some good infrastructure in this market, but you must be sick, some kind of a pullback. And folks, if you wanna check that out on a daily basis, check out Basel Chapman's Outstanding Newsletter. You can do it right under the newsletter tab for the opening call on TFNN. Basel, I appreciate it so much. You got Amazon in that Dow now, I was gonna say as well. Which is pretty cool. I love it, yeah, great. Thanks so much, Basel. We'll be watching tomorrow, man. Have a great night. We'll be right back, folks with Tim Orts. To predict the future, right?


A cluster of clade and monkeypox virus infections linked to sexual contact in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been reported. With five reverse transcription PCR-confirmed infections and genome sequencing suggesting they belong to the same transmission chain, indicating thatpox transmission through sexual contact extends beyond clade IV. This article was authored by Emil M. Kibungu, Emmanuel H. Vakanyaki, Eddie Kingandalu Samaki, and others.


similar to what we saw with nested conditional statements, we're able to take loops and put them into additional loops, sort of what we saw with our Monte Carlo simulations. The entire idea is again once we think about a conditional statement that may have a true or false sort of separation, well there's nothing stopping us from putting in another conditional statement. Similarly, we're able to do the same thing with loops. Let's imagine I had some kind of condition where I wanted to sort of, and I'll sort of draw this out just very roughly, where I have a loop, but I happen to want to have some loop inside of that loop. So just like we can imagine I could have some condition running, and let me just kind of draw it out like this, I can have some iteration happening where this sort of comes in, and let's say it draws itself, but this makes its own little loop before moving back. And again, so that's just a nested loop. I have my main program running and then when I step into my loop, oh well I'm just going to go through this entire process over and over again before coming back, and then guess what? I might happen to do it again, and again, and again, and it's just one giant loop. And I know I've drawn a hideous circle, so let's kind of think about this for a moment and then we'll see a pretty visualization. But the entire idea is we have something known as an outer loop, sort of keeping control, and then the inner loop, which is operating sort of in again, just sort of running through our process. So visually, let's imagine that we had two variables, an x and a y, and our first loop is effectively just saying, well what's going on with that x? If x is zero, or if x is less than three, I want you to loop through this just giant loop. So run and do this entire process, and then repeat it. So you see that we're incrementing x, so repeat this, roughly speaking, repeat this entire loop three times. But then we also have this inner loop, where we control y, and y is just, or the conditional here is simply asking, well is y less than four? We're starting with zero, so y is in fact less than four. So that first iteration, you can imagine, as I step down, and let me actually change colors here, so I'm not making the hideous mess I did before, as I step down, right, as I step down, I am now brought to sort of a conditional statement crossroad. Do I move on with my code, or do I run this inner loop? And so the question is, well, let's check y. y is currently zero. Zero is less than four, so step into this second loop, this inner loop, and go through its process. So y just became one. All right, well, we continue with this loop, is one less than four, yes. So we run through that inner loop a second time, y becomes two, two is still less than four, we run through it again, we run through it again, and as you can imagine, now what we would do is we exit out of our while loop, x gets incremented to one, so x is no longer zero, it's become one. We're not done, we don't just reset, then we move on again because we're following things, in this case, sequentially, y gets reset. So in our design, x is going to run three times, y runs four times each time, so in this case you can see it'll go back. A great way to think about this would be if we were to just fully expand this out, and just to see that in our case, you can see y goes from zero to four, because again we hit four, we make y equal four, we see that y is not less than four, so then we move on, we change x to one, and we reset y, and that's when we get into our second iteration, because we jumped back up here, we see that x is still less than three, y is back to zero, and it does its process again, and then we once again, where are you, there we are, we increment x, x becomes two, we reset y, and we repeat the process, and we would do it, you know, we would see the print out again, it's short, it's cut off because space, but we would see x would eventually hit three, and then our loop would jump down, so a great question, and you'll see on your homeworks and whatnot, is let's look at something like this statement, taking the nested loop structure, but then asking a simple question, how many times does a print statement or something happen, so in our case, how many times does print hello occur, how many times is hello being executed, well it is not, and this is a very common mistake, it is not 24, no, modify the, so you get the the scary looking red, no, that is incorrect, because remember our inner loop has to run every single time before it's done, so in theory you could imagine, since this is going to run four times, that's hello, hello, hello, hello, then what happens, well that loop is done, we go down, x is incremented by one, so x is now one, y gets reset, and we come back and we repeat that entire process, so this occurs in our case, not 24, 20 times, hello is printed four times, 20 times, so if we're answering sort of this question, 20 times four, it would equal 80 printouts.


The Deputy Speaker of the Tenth House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has assured Nigerians that the Tenth House of Representatives will ensure openness, transparency and accountability in its conduct of legislative businesses. Kalu said this during a one-day national dialogue on mainstreaming open parliament into the Tenth Assembly agenda, organized by other paper and the parliamentary monitoring organization in Abuja on his part. The executive director, other paper and chief convener, Epear, says the legislature, as the most important component of government charged with making laws for good governance and ensuring order in the society, must carry the citizenry and the civil society. With respect to this specific dialogue that you have come to join us on, we want to be able to infuse or set on the agenda of the National Assembly as it prepares and runs upon its legislative agenda. How it intends as an institution are its members as the single senators and honorable members intend to engage with citizens, not just their constituents, intend to engage that they not only infuse the interest, promote and project the interest of citizens in the legislative agenda with, I'm sure that they're already doing. How do we extend that engagement beyond just infusing the interests of citizens and constituents in the legislative agenda of the Senate and of the House of Representatives? How do we evaluate and monitor the implementation of the agenda so that such that it incorporates the principles of open calligraphy? In his response, and while declaring the event, open calligraphy represented the speaker, assured Nigerians that the Tenth Legislative Assembly will be open, transparent and accountable to the people stating that these three components are the cornerstone of any thriving democracy. This assembly is resonance in its postures of leveraging technology to streamline communication, facilitate access to information and enable meaningful engagement between citizens and the elected officials. Furthermore, by the Specter government, governance is not a mere pause word for us. No. This is the cornerstone of our legislative agenda. We intend to establish mechanisms that enable citizens to actively participate in the legislative process, ensuring definitely that their voicings are hard and their consigns are at risk. Then the legislative process provides for the conduct of public hearing, like Ed said in his opening remarks. For every public hearing, Nigerians of diverse backgrounds and fields are invited and they appear and attend these hearings, either as stakeholders to submit and make oral representation or as participants to witness or partake in the process that must be undertaken before a bill becomes a act of parliament. The activity is usually announced in the national dailies and sometimes in the electronic media for wider coverage. It is usually covered by both the print and the electronic media and in these days of the internets, the information is disseminated with the speed of light.


Okay, so we're a change of program, so Ica Fernandes, who's works on urban planning. Just being at Cambridge as a evening scholar, we'll be talking to us about the Mount Dutter Peace Award. I think that's right now. More or less. Among other things. I missed already other changes. Yeah, so good morning everybody. My name is Ica Fernandes. Before I start this talk, I want to set a few caveats before I begin. I'm not reading an academic today. I'm not an academic. I'm also not a Cordillera specialist. I'm a, as my signatories, I'm a Tagalog, Ilonga working in Mindanao, and I'm very significant, but I don't belong to that culture. So I'm a special planner by training and a conflict specialist by practice. And I, although I started engaging in the Cordillera in 2011, after the signing of the the school agreement between the government of the Philippines and the CPLA, the Cordillera People's Liberation Army, most of my work has been in Mindanao, working on land conflicts, urban violence, and post-contact reconstruction, particularly the implementation of socio-economic peace agreements. So it's mostly MNLF, Moro National Liberation Front, MILF, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and then partially on CASER, which is the Comprehensive Agreement on Social Economic Reforms with the Communist Party of the Philippines. So in the last few years have there have been exchanges north and south between the Cordillera and ARMM, mostly on the autonomy issue. And I was asked in by both parties, both by the Philippine government and the non-state actors themselves, the CPLA and the MILF, to come in as an outsider looking in to help people think things through. So that's, I just wanted to make that positionality clear before I start talking. So I'm very aware of that outsider's perspective, and that's partially why I'm here in front of you, to gather feedback and ideas amongst my betters. Many of the conversations held back home in the Philippines are under Chatham House rules, and I find it unacceptable that the parties still feel uncomfortable dealing with academia, to talk about this in a very public manner. So I'm using the SOAS platform to go around it a bit. All I've had one-on-ones with other academics, and I feel it's a shame that June Pryl Brett couldn't be here because she and Finian have written extensively on the Bodong, and I'm really happy that Sir Tommy is here because the book that you are launching this evening already illustrates really well the Ili, the community that we're talking about in the next 20 minutes, without me having to show my crappy camphor and photographs here. So if you want to see how these places look like by the book outside. Okay, and while I completely agree with the parting shot from Villa yesterday from Lloyd, that the master's tools cannot bring down the master's house, nevertheless it's all we've got as a starting point, and the rules of the game are rigged, so that's where we have to begin. Okay, so my talk, I'm sorry, I talk really fast, I only have 20 minutes, so I'll go very broadly across this, and then I look forward to speaking to you in the tearoom if possible. So my talk is roughly on Spaces of Resistance, question mark, exploring the socioeconomic dimension of the amount of data seeped through the Koydelya-Ras-Winodnyan communities. Okay, so all the constructionist political practice my interest is in developing how these political agreements manifest in material conditions in space and place. And we all know as we'll be discussed later that issues of land, property, and socioeconomic development are fundamental to the struggle in the Koydelya-Ras both in the last 100 years and long before. But there's a clear mismatch between the negotiating rhetoric in the peace agreements and both the police asks from the non-state actors in the region and what this time should be delivered by government, so at least two-three levels of disconnect and mismatches. And the renewed push for autonomy right now under the State Administration and including the current draft for federal government highlights the need to discuss these issues in a more rigorous fashion, and that's partially why I hope this can be brought to this group of academics who have been thinking about the region in more serious and the one space and I have. And right now my entry point is the ongoing review of the CDAC-KVAT agreement and the drafting of a development strategy for the region which begs the question how this one approach these communities. Okay, so my project has three parts. The first aspect is going through the elements of the 2011 closure MOA. I'm not sure if people are aware of these peace agreements. Some of them, some people here I assume know about it, but others might feel a bit of refreshing. The second part is the more technical spatial aspect of it since I work as a land use planner. I work across the region down to urban scale. We won't have time for all of that but I'll show you a few maps and then try to talk through perhaps the political, cultural implications of those choices. And then third, try to discuss the possible implications between these kinds of technical choices being made and what happens in the months and years to come. Okay, all right, so just a bit of a refresher on this. You will recall that in 1970s the struggle in the Cordillera was centered with the Communist Party of the Philippines. I believe the entry point of the CDP and PNDF was through Ifugao in 1970s, but towards the end of the 80s there was a split within the Cordillera amongst factions for both tactical and ideological reasons. So by 1986, I believe the Cordillera People's Liberation Army decided to, starting from the faction in Abra, decided to leave the Communist Party of the Philippines and highlighted Cordillera autonomy as a clear ask, which they thought was not being addressed by the NPA rhetoric of addressing basically against localization and other things. Okay, so by 1986, they entered, well, there was the CPAT, the preliminary decision to start the ceasefire from a very, very short period of time between the actual creation of the entity, of the Danse entity, and the beginnings of a peace negotiation between the Philippine government and this group. So it started off like from 150 combatants from the CPLA, breaking off from the NPA, and into something that was striving towards a more pan-Cordillera identity. So we're looking at two particular organizations, the Cordillera People's Liberation Army, which is the Army being trying to defend autonomy and identity using armed means, and you have the CBA, the Cordillera Bodong Administration, which had its roots in the tribal organizations in the region. There were at least two, I believe, the UCC, the United Communities with Cordillera, and the Kalinga-Bond-Docti-Spakholis Association, the KBPPHA, which started in around 1979, long before the CPLA formally split from the NPA. The trigger, I think, will be discussed later if you'll recall the Cedophil logging issue in NABRA, and people, and of course, Chico-Dama as well, where people were trying to consolidate the tribes for the protection and defense of their homelands, which they felt was being threatened by outsider economic interests. So during that CPAT, which was not just a peace agreement, but a very significant act, the CBCPLA and the MNS, La Montanosa National Solidarity Group, presented a paper called Towards the Solution of the Cordillera Problem, a Safe End of Position, and that paper presented 26 demands, which was promised to be tabled for negotiation between the Philippine government and the CBCPLA. So it outlined the roots of the Cordillera problem as defined by these groups, and touched on a number of demands in political, social, economic, cultural, military, and even foreign relations. So they said that these demands, if addressed, would end the armed struggle and usher in peace in the Cordillera, as the first demand had to do with Cordillera autonomy. Second, one of the few demands also had to do with the creation of a federal system of government in the Philippines. A number of twists and turns which happened, but this led to the creation of the car through EO 220. Okay, so fast forward. So we all know that the two plebiscites failed in the Cordillera for various reasons. There was a massive factionization between these groups. They were never disarmed, and some members of the group turned to illegal activities, which significantly diminished their positioning in the region, and the agreements promised by government were never substantially completed as usual. So this led to a second agreement signed in 2011, which they were calling the, towards the CPLA's final disposition of arms and forces. It's transformation into a potent socioeconomic unarmed force. It had potent, so it will unpack these elements later and what it means, because it has really beautiful language. And then, but of course, the outcomes are significantly different. And part of the agreements included the final disposition of arms and forces of the people who thought themselves as CPLA, economic reintegration, and then the programming of a number of community development projects, mostly roads and water systems in the area. And of course, documentation of the struggle in the Cordillera. Okay. So just quickly, for those who have never seen this, and then when I go around asking Cordillera, and see if they've seen the 26 demands, they usually haven't. But as far as we're concerned for this particular talk, this is the language. So being able to recognize the primary ownership of the peoples of the land's resources and other patrimonies, recognizing traditional systems of ownership over the Torrin's title system, respecting the economy of the Cordillera autonomous social state, and allow its consolidation, pay reparations of funds and development assistance to the Cordillera nation, and then respecting the right of the Cordillera nation to conserve its forest stands and mineral resources, its lands from harvesting and usage, and to maintain the national ecosystem in the CASS against the act of outsiders who present a different life philosophy, moral values, and attitudes towards their environment. So just before IPRA, very fascinating ways of formulation. But as we all know, reality is very different, and it sprinters upon sprinters. So after Father Balweg died, there was a bit of a mess as well in 2003. There was an attempt at unification, which between the Balweg group and then the Morina group. I'm sure there's familiar names, perhaps, to some people here. Not really, no? For the old ones, maybe, no? I'm sure you have a lot of cheese myths about these people. But this led to GMA's Gora Mocabal Arroyo signing of the 2001 AO, which allowed for the integration of around 264 combatants into the AFP, the armed forces, and then around 500 combatants into the CAFGU, the armed auxiliaries, and then seed capital. But of course, this was incomplete, and they also had a number of projects called the Kalayansabalangay programs, run by the AFP's Nadescom in the past. Most erodes, school buildings, water systems, but then even Nadescom was dissolved in 2010 because of corruption issues. So most, I try to track down many of these projects. Many of them exist on paper, but were never implemented. In 2010, again, another split. Any familiar names? Morina Kumiding and Suggyao from the armed wing, and then in the CBA side, you have Ngaui, and then Mammar Sibahata. And in 2011, one particular side signed the MOA with government, only for the same parties to split amongst themselves in around 2013. And then again, with now in 2018, there's new dynamics. The groups who split have come together and split. There's another new group called the Balawastham, a father and son group. And so it's interesting, because one does wonder if entering peace agreements with groups like this is just a form of negative incentive that brings out the worst in freedom fighters that, and some people were saying, in Tagalog, in Tagalog, in Tagalog, we can't do anything. These groups after the late 80s no longer had any sway over the region. And by just entertaining their demands, we're opening a kind of worms. So it's a current quandary, but the reality is these agreements have been signed by the Philippine government, and they, as other friends and people are working in the various provinces, say, we can't do anything. These are outstanding commitments, and the least we can do is to implement them and implement them as best we can with as less damage as possible. Anyway, so another discussion for another day. So a really quick discussion of the elements done so far since 2011. I'm not sure if you're interested in this, but then you, combatants profiled were profiled, firearms were inventoried and turned in and sold. There were issues ranging from corruption to, from both ends, no, both from the locals, local governments and the actors themselves, even a rumor of sex for integration, the theme about, where female combatants were coerced into sexual arrangements in order to be entered into the master list. But that was never addressed. Interestingly, a lot of members were made as forest guards, Bantagubat, addressing working with the DNR to work on the national viewing program. So they were very proud of this. When I asked the combatants, they said that at least because we are fighters, the illegal loggers cannot scare us away. That's something that at least we have dignity because at this point, these are a large group of people whose only ways of survival is through the gun. A number of people's organizations were formed and trained, but only one of them is operational. Okay. Other issues being there was a documentation attempt to write the history of the Cordillera through the lens of this group. It has been drafted by Mr. Bahatan, but it's still in legal limbo because they wish, well, government and UNDP funded it wants to have it open source, but certain members of the group wish to have royalties from the book. So it's interesting. I understand that life is hard and people don't have to make money, but then you do have these tensions between political moors and reality. And as we discussed, people have agency and choice. But I'm wondering how to read this. So again, language. So you have this, and then we do have these commitments to transform this group of people ranging from maybe a thousand and their families into a potent economic and armed force within the next two years. But the two years started in 2011. It's 2018. Not happening. They're trying to legalize shifting from the armed group to something like a cooperative system. But that's not worked so far yet. And then again, there is a five year partnership strategy. It's trying to be drafted right now, which would be spelling out not a plan, but a document that would try to pin down projects and activities that would be economic in nature. It could be funded by government and donors, but still have the spirit of the Cordelia Rens as far as development is concerned. And that's the tension again. Okay. So challenges, right? For one, big words, but they're only focused on the non-state actors, not the place, not the communities. There's unclear intersections with the regular development planning process done by NEDA and the ADIS DPP formulation process under EEPRA. So even we know EEPRA is flawed, but it has tried to do certain things. It's not clear yet. And then you do have these new political scenarios on the horizon, a new bid for autonomy, a push for a federal shift, and a pending proposal for localized peace talks in the Philippines. So and the autonomy right now only being yet in the whole Cordelia is able to sustain itself technically. Everywhere else in the Cordelia Rens is not able to be physically autonomous, as defined strictly speaking. Okay. And which brings us to the term the NAN communities, which is now being popularized or attempted to be popularized by CPLA members. Has anyone heard of this term by any chance? No. So they're trying to popularize the term in the context of Tabodong, no, areas of practice of the Tabodong or the Pechen system. We're trying to shift it now from the old nuance, which is the bilateral peace talks between tribes into something that is shortened for Pan Cordelia Rens, Indigenous Covenant System that affiliates the Philippine nation state, similar to the Sultanates perhaps in the South, where you have the ator as the space for consensus building for the IBI. And now they're trying to translate it from the old concept of Bodong to a modern Bodong, where you have original values such as collective decision making, leadership, and democracy that might be acceptable for formulating a new Cordelia Autonomous Region. So it's now being negotiated as a basis for targeting for further socioeconomic programming under the peace process, but I feel that this still needs to be interrogated not only from a political sense, but also technical and economic sense. And this is a rough map of a short list that was given still under negotiation, but then it includes Corba Rangays under the Moa. But so for discussion, because while they are geographically isolated and deprived, they do hold a political purpose where they're trying, it could be used as a carrot to persuade people to galvanize around this idea. And so of course, have the ongoing issues between the NPA and the CPLA in these areas, where they're still picking off each other when they can. So I won't go into this, but in this rough map, comparing land cover and resources available, the current economic clustering where you have two major conurbations in terms of economic activity in the Cordelia, and the spread of proposed elies for programming and targeting. And again, my current issue is that how are we able to now negotiate between aspirations and the language and technical issues where you do have a Philippine government who's now reopening, has reopened the Chico Dam irrigation project this time under the Chinese. And it's not your World Bank projects which now have safeguards. These are not even soft loans, very high 12% loans to be dealt with by future generations. So given my discipline, and these are areas where you'll have to be able to start thinking about these areas not only in terms of patchy-patchy projects, but when you start investing in these areas, they should serve both a political and a practical purpose. And again, I won't have time to go through this, but I want to post questions not only to people like me who work as technocrats, which is like a bad word in the Cordillera, but also for people who work about identity and other issues. How can you manifest aspirations for EV-driven development in space and place that goes beyond political experience, beyond factions, across scales? Because the EV, as I understand it, is standalone, whereas your normal economic activity will require agglomeration and you right now have issues reading value over excessive urbanization, you're over your carrying capacity. So how do you expand a notion of development, bridging the languages of both worlds? And how do you ensure it is participatory and acceptable to everyone in the region? Hard questions, but I hope this is the start of a conversation that we can have. Okay, so I'll end with this, one of my favorite quotes from Father Baalbeg, I think they found this in his quarters before he was killed. So it's long past, the way now is peaceful means, but how will the people know if we don't go there? Thank you for your time. So a hundred years ago, Dean Wooster, the Secretary of Interior, sought legislative control over the Cordillera and Mindanao. His purpose was to prevent the just forming Philippine Assembly from getting control of those areas so that a sense of nationhood could not be developed. So now a hundred years later, are we looking at the rewosterization of the Philippines so that these people are thinking, well, we're not really part of a country, we're our own little area. There's no sense of capo a Filipino and there'll be no sense of common problems. Okay, it's fascinating you're asking this now because I do have fights with my friends who talk about nationalism. So the communists in my friendship group say about there are two governments they say in the Philippines. I beg to differ, there are more than two governments, there are a lot of governments in the Philippines and I think this debate cannot be addressed until we're able to expand the notion of nationhood to something more plural and real. We're an archipelago for crying out loud, we cannot be unitary. So but I do agree because they are pitting the Cordillera and the people in Mindanao against a particular narrative. Right now the BBL and ERMM is being decided, debated on. It's been butchered. The same is happening in the Cordillera with the CAR, RDC debates are on the next federalism. So yes, it's the same story, same sad story happening again. Yes. I guess my question for you is how my mapping of what I saw here in London articulates with your stuff because where is the space for the diaspora in that? These are people who largely are not on a federal impact. They've not moved out of the Philippines, they've been not out of the Cordillera. They're still in that thing there. They see their future as a return to place, as a life that will be lived out in the Philippines and they spend all their time working around home in various ways. Where do they find, you know, are their family networks going to be significant enough to represent them? Or do you need to open up a diaspora space? Because I can, I mean, when I see the landscapes on the Cordillera, they are remittance landscapes. These are remittance led development. If you're looking at the micro projects, the extensions of houses, the paving of private roads, all sorts of improvements that make people's lives viable in that way. You know, if they've got broadband, if they've got smartphones, those phones are coming in boxes from abroad. You know, this is a landscape that's being sustained in many ways by its diaspora. They don't really have a representation of those interests, which might be different. So, I mean, to complexify it, how do you work that in? I completely agree with what you said and it's, well, I guess there's members of the diaspora here, so they can talk about this more. But from my observation as an economic actor, at least a planner, and the projects I've seen that have lived on that don't fall apart within a year or two are the ones self-funded by communities. They care of their projects more significantly. They know what they want. And that's why ideally you'd have a more participatory process of planning and programming, particularly funneling in diaspora money, not only relying on government or external funds. Let's worry about the money than I am about people who are abroad having a say over what kind of community they're building to return to. So, I'm actually interested in diaspora political representation, because it can be problematic for people in diaspora to accept that their families are fully and completely representing their future interests, because very often the families are like, just keep the money coming, go worry, we'll take care of it, and the individual interest is there. That's quite true. They're treated as cash cow. I know people who've joined the NPA when they return to the Philippines for that very reason. It's like, oh, I don't like what my family's done. I'm going to take up arms. I think it's a great response, but also, you know, you're really angry. But if you spend five years doing domestic work in Singapore, yeah, there's no improvement, right. Yeah, the diaspora has sent me in another direction. Maybe I'll just rest my question. Think about it again during the break. All right, great. Okay, so that's, thank you.