So this is Leon, he's going to tell you about turning on the lights with Home Assistant and MQTT and the rest he'll explain it to you. Thank you very much for joining. My name is Lonon Avie and I'm a senior software engineer at a company called Consulco Group. The company provides open source software consultancy services for popular projects such as the Yocto project, automotive grade Linux, Linux kernel, Uboot. And actually for me, working with embedded devices is not just a full-time job, it's a hobby. And I'm here to speak with you about an open source project that I'm having that I'm doing as a hobby in my free time. It's using Home Assistant and MQTT and I would like to show you a quick demo with it. How many of you are familiar with Home Assistant? All right, perfect, almost everyone. So we're starting with the demo. It's very simple and after that I'll show you how it works. So here we have an RGB LED strip and I'm going to control it from Home Assistant. As soon as in real time I'm changing the colors and you see the result. All right. So now I would like to show you that this thing also works with Alexa. So this is a demo that I shoot at home. It's pretty much the same that I did here. But the additional thing is that I've integrated voice control using Alexa. So just one minute and in this minute you see how it works with Alexa. The thing is that set up in here Alexa takes a little bit longer. So I'm not bringing Alexa with me. That's the demo. And probably you're wondering how does it work? It's a very simple demo but it includes several open source projects as well as a bunch of hardware. Obviously a Raspberry Pi 3. I have designed an open source hardware out on board for Raspberry Pi 3 to control the RGB lights. I'm also working on another open source hardware on board for doing the same thing with a microcontroller. I have an RGB LED strip, 12 volt power supply for the RGB LED strip. Another power supply, standard power supply for Raspberry Pi. And Amazon Echo Dot for the thing that we saw with Alexa. This is the open source hardware board that I have designed. I have created it using Kickat. Kickat is a free and open source software tool. And in my opinion there is a huge value in making open source hardware only if it's done with free and open source software. That's why I created it with Kickat. Yesterday I had a talk which focused more on the hardware side of things. Today I'm just showing and doing a little bit deeper dive in the software. So this is an out on board that works with any model and version of Raspberry Pi with 40 pin header. It has an EE prom with the device strip fragment on it. And furthermore it has slots to put some sensors like per motion sensor or various I2C sensor modules for detecting collide, temperature, humidity, or even gestures. The schematics are available in GitHub. I'm also running a small crowdfunding campaign to CrowdSupply which is a great platform for open source hardware products. How does it work? So it's a very simple demo but behind it there are a lot of open source components. As I said it's a hobby project and all the components that you see here are open source including the hardware that I have designed. Raspberry Pi of course is unfortunately not open source hardware. So we have Home Assistant with a couple of components. I'm using the MQTD protocol and MQTD broker that you're probably familiar with, Mosquito. I have written a small C application that takes care of the incoming commands through the MQTD protocol and executing them by changing the covers of the RGB LED which is attached to the hardware. By the way all the slides are already available at Fosn.org. So let's have a look at the various components that we have. First with Home Assistant. I saw that a lot of you are already familiar with it. Actually I started using it recently. I needed something to control my hardware. I needed something that's open source and Home Assistant is quite popular. It's been there for like five years. There's a huge community and there are a lot of components. So if you want to control an existing Internet of Things on the market like Philips Huey, Keatrat Free and so on, there are components for this in Home Assistant. And furthermore there are components like MQTD, JSON light component which I'm using for my demonstration. The source code is in GitHub and as I said there is a huge community of both users and contributors to the project. There are numerous ways to install Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi. And since Raspberry Pi is a very popular board, Home Assistant is perfect to run on it. And by the way Home Assistant is written in Python 3. This is something that I forgot to mention. So there are two straightforward ways to get started with Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi. The first one is called HasIO which is an operating system based on raising IOS. And the second one is called Hasbian. And as you probably have the guess, it originates from Raspbian. And Raspbian is the official domain distribution of the Raspberry Pi foundation for Raspberry Pi which is based on Debian. So basically Hasbian is based on Raspbian and adds on top of it Home Assistant and some nice scripts to make things easier. And I'm personally for the demo that I've showed you and the demo that you should see here, I'm using Hasbian. The protocol on which the whole demo is relying is called Amputity. Are you using Amputity? Okay, a few people. So I'm a huge fan of Amputity because it's a lightweight machine-to-machine protocol that requires a broker. So the broker is distributing the messages to several different clients that are subscribed on topics. The protocol has some great advantages for embedded devices. It has a small footprint so you can deploy it on pretty much any device. There are a lot of open source Amputity implementations of brokers like Mosquito that's written in C, HiveMQ that I believe is written in Java, Moska that's written in Node.js, so you can pick an Amputity broker that's YouTube best in its open source. My choice, my preferred choice for Amputity broker is Mosquito. I really love it, it's very simple. It supports Amputity protocol version 3.1 and 3.11 including WebSocket support, which means that you can directly send from the JavaScript in your web browser. You can directly publish the messages from the JavaScript in your web browser to the Amputity broker. It's available for Linux on popular Linux distributions. There are packages, so if you want to install it, you can just, for example, Raspbian or Debian, you can just type up to get install Mosquito and it will be there. It's also available for Windows, FreeBSD and Mac. It's a project of the Eclipse Foundation and this is the website to learn more details. So in order to have all these things working together, I needed to create a small piece of software that integrates all the parts in this demonstration together. It's called AnavidD. Back in the past I had some legal issues with the names of my hobby projects, so from now on I'm just using my surname just to avoid any legal issues with that type of things. The D comes from Demon. It's open source, it's available at GitHub under GPO V3 license and it relies on a lot of popular open source libraries. Pako and Qtdc, the Pako project provides implementations and Qtdc clients. I'm going to share a little bit more details for it after that. PGPAL is a library for Raspberry Pi that allows me to control with PUS with modulation the colors of the RGB strip. And Warring Pi is a popular library that I'm personally using for reading data from I2C sensors and to publish messages with Qtdc data about it. So the installation of AnavidD, for the moment there are two ways to install it. The first one is just to build a source code.  After installing it, there's a configuration of file. You can skip that and if you skip it, it will work with default configurations which probably means that it won't work in your setup but you have to configure this any file. So let's have a look at the various projects that I'm using in order to write my software. The first one is the Eclipse Pakho project. The Eclipse Pakho project provides MQtdc client libraries written in the most popular languages. There is an implementation in C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust and C-Sharp. It's another project of the Eclipse Foundation just like the Mosquito Broker. So in order to use it, first I have to create an MQtdc connection. After that, I have to set a callbacks because basically the MQtdc communication is asynchronous. An event can occur at any time and the MQtdc broker should notify the client, my client, that this event has appeared and my client should take the necessary actions. If my client wants to publish an MQtdc message, this is the function that is coming from Pakho MQtdc implementation in order to publish the message. I'm doing this for sensors. If there is a change in the temperature, I'm publishing the message. The PGPL library is something really, really important for my project because it allows me to set the color of the RGB LED strip. It offers a socket and a pipe interface in the underlying C library. It's available again in GitHub and what I'm basically doing is that the RGB LED strip has the three main colors, red, green and blue. I have to set a value between 0 and 255 for each of these colors, which means that there are more than 60 million combinations. In order to do this, I need to use Pulse Width Modulation. Fortunately, Raspberry Pi has only one pin with a hardware Pulse Width Modulation and obviously for the three colors, I need three pins. What I'm doing is the software-defined Pulse Width Modulation, which is actually done by the PGPL library, so I'm just using it to set the appropriate color. I'm relying on SystemD. I know that maybe some people hate it. Don't hate me, I'm just using it. Oh, I have developed this SystemD service. Basically, just to say that SystemD is one of the unit systems in Linux. It's designed to replace System5. This is the service that I'm having that's running on the Raspberry Pi to make sure that as soon as I turn on the Raspberry Pi, my simple application that accepts the in-cuting messages is going to be running. It requires the PGPL service, which starts the GPIO demon, and after that, it's a very simple service that starts the binary on failure. It restarts on every 10 seconds and it's launched at SystemStartup. Here's how to manage the SystemD service. How many of you are using SystemD? Okay, perfect. So you know how it works, right? By default, when installing the Debian package, it's going to be enabled, but if you want to disable or enable the SystemD service at boot, this is how to do it. You can start, stop it, have a look at the status if it's running, and have a look at the lock files. Fortunately, my demo is working, so I didn't need it to check the locks today, but sometimes I need to do it especially during development. Machine ID is another thing that's coming from SystemD. There is a SystemD service that initialized the Machine ID in this file, and I'm using it to identify the devices, because obviously this is a very simple demo with one light, but my plan is to have numerous lights like this in my apartment, and obviously I need to identify each one of the lamps, and I'm using the Machine ID to do it. At the moment, I'm using it in a very unprofessional way and not secure way because the documentation says that this thing should not be exposed on the network and I'm exposing it, but I'm going to fix that with a cryptographic function just for security purposes. So, how does it work in Home Assistant? After installing Home Assistant, there is an MQTD JSON light component, which I'm configuring in the configuration YAML file of Home Assistant. This is the main configuration file of Home Assistant where all components has to be listed, including the MQTD broker. So, this is the name of my device. You can put whatever you want. Furthermore, you can create groups in Home Assistant and control a group of devices. So, if you have like five lamps in your living room, you can control them all together. This is the MQTD topic. Obviously the Machine ID comes here in order to identify each of the devices. MQTD JSON light allows me to adjust the brightness or the specific color. Here are the messages. After sending MQTD message to the following topic, my client should read the brightness data. It's from zero to this value. So, this is the full brightness. Zero is turning off the lamp. And if the user wants to set a specific color, this is the JSON message that has to be sent over MQTD. It's very straightforward and very simple. The end result is something that you already saw. Home Assistant out of the box provides a user-friendly web UI that works on a smartphone, on a tablet or a personal computer. And you can control it. Furthermore, it's something that I've shown you as a video. Home Assistant has one really cool component which is emulating Hue Bridge. And it allows me to connect my solution and Home Assistant to Alexa. This is something that works out of the box with Home Assistant and Alexa. So, basically Alexa had a built-in feature to control Philips Hue lights, which allows us to control other devices that are already integrated in Home Assistant. Unfortunately, it's just a very simple control for turning on and off. But this is done by adding the following configuration in the configuration email of Home Assistant. So, the end result is simple commands Alexa turn on or turn off, depending on the name that you have configured for your device in Home Assistant configuration file. Obviously, putting a Raspberry Pi in each lamp is a little bit expensive. And I need one Raspberry Pi to run Home Assistant, but obviously that's enough. And I want to have more devices and I want to cut the cost. So, what I'm working on is another device. It's still working progress, open source hardware. The thing is in GitHub, so you can go there and use it. It's developed with KitKat. So, basically what I have in GitHub is the whole KitKat project that you can download, have a look at the schematics, modify it. I'm using KitKat on Ubuntu with the stable version for Ubuntu. So, this is using the Magical Chinese chip ESP8266, which has a microcontroller with a Wi-Fi and the magic comes from its price. It's like less than two years' doors. This is the model ESP12, 12 volts power supply. Again, the microcontroller, this is a button that is connected to GPIO0. So, if you want to put it in a flash mode, you have to press this button. Here is a UART pin and three I2C slots, so you can plug I2C sensor modules, like the ones that I'm having on Raspberry Pi. The software on this microcontroller is still under development. That's why I'm showing you only the Raspberry Pi. But it's doing the same thing in a different manner because I'm using the Arduino environment and these popular libraries. I have this ESP.GetChipID method, which provides me an identification of the device and I can do the same thing with the MQTD topics, like the machine ID that I was doing coming from SystemD. Again, I'm using PUSWIT modulation. What is the difference between the two boards? Obviously, the main difference is that the ESP board that I'm designing is a standalone product that doesn't require anything else, while the other thing is another board for a Raspberry Pi. The rest is pretty much the same. The Raspberry Pi FAT has a peer motion sensor, unlike the controller based on ESP. So, just a few conclusions and I'm wrapping this talk. Obviously, the integration of embedded devices with the MQTD JSON component is straightforward but it requires quite a lot of steps and I'm working to improve this and to make it possible for more people to set up this solution because it's super easy to use it but the setup is a little bit annoying even for me, although I'm the developer. Using a microcontroller like ESP8266 will cut the cost and will make it more affordable for more people. The last thing is more like a state of mind, in my opinion, combining open source hardware with free and open source software makes a great benefit for the whole community because anyone can study, modify the project and the knowledge can be really shared between all of us. Thank you very much. We still have a few minutes. If you have any questions, I'll be around. I'll be also around the AGO stand in this building so if you want, you can go there and talk to me as well. Thank you. The questions always repeat the questions in the video. Do we have any questions? We have a few more minutes for questions. Yes, sure. Just a few points. I'd like to play around with ESP8266 as well. There's a library you can get for ESP8266 that allows you to have an update page and you can dump it. It gives you a web form. You can upload a binary and it reflashes the device itself so you don't actually need to keep putting queries. Which is really nice. This is a suggestion. I have to repeat it for the live stream. This is a suggestion saying that there is already open source software for ESP8266 which allows firmware updates done from a web interface. Just to mention that basically the first time when I'm flushing it, I'm using the same procedure. The other thing is if you thought about the, I can't remember the exact game with the MQTT, rather than having a machine name, actually setting up location. So I've been looking into sensor networks, the same kind of thing. So I started doing some like home slash room slash functionality. It allows me to break down control a little bit easier. Okay, so the question I found familiar with the MQTT system that helps to identify devices, right? No, sorry, I'm not familiar with that. Any other questions? Maybe we have time for one question? Yeah. So do you have the ESP8266 that is using MQTT and it is connected to a broker? The broker is still running in the Raspberry Pi. Okay, so the question is, do I have the ESP8266 connected to a broker that's running on the Raspberry Pi? Absolutely, this is the idea. This setup, everything is working on the Raspberry Pi and the idea is to have this setup and to add ESP's modules around it. Hopefully if I'm ready with the things that I'm working on, maybe next year I can show them. Okay, thank you very much for joining.


That ideas have not left their source. That's what joining is We're getting happy lately. Yes. It's not interesting. Yes. Happy. Yes. Yeah, we've done we've done a lot of work We have faced a lot of our own demons Which we created? Yeah, it seems like it's like what you say that there's a remembering and a forgetting in it When you really come into the present that you really do forget the past I mean, it's not like that there was work necessary to reach This point and that's a common phrase. I hear a lot of times is I did the work I've done all the work and and everything that I've done has brought me to this point and the Holy Spirit says to me No, I brought you to this point the past the ego Never will bring you to the present the Holy Spirit uses the symbols of the past For help to help us release the past and and I always think that's important because That the Holy Spirit brings us to where we are and and even that the illusion of the journey starts to just fade and there's so much joy that that There's not this sense of like having a resume of how you got back to heaven, you know that that doesn't come with it That's comforting the Holy Spirit Bring you to where you are. Yes, it's like that given pool of love. It's there. Yes It just is and it's waiting at all times. There are no stages of having to do the work It's just been there all along Yes, it's like it someone asked me one time is is forgiveness a process or an instant and I said it's a process until it's an instant But I would like to say right now that it is an instant and and what that instant is I think is is what we're going to look very closely at because While it seems to be a process There still seems to be frustrations. There still seems to be vacillations There still seems to be the need for vigilance. Yeah, but vigilance implies the need That you need to be vigilant against something that doesn't exist It doesn't exist. Yeah, and that's where the joy the real joy comes in of heaven of just seeing that that I am This God created me and that perfect love is all that there is You know, the Course tells us that the opposite of love is fear But what is all-encompassing can have no opposite and that that's what heals That's what all the saints and the mystics have have come to is just this absolute certainty that that love is all that there is So forgiveness is not first seeing the error of separation In yourself or in a brother and then trying to go through steps some people tell me there's three steps to forgiveness Some say there's two but forgiveness is a state of mind in which you see that there is no error There's no error. Yes, and that means that that you let go of whatever you think has occurred I mean we're back to the idea linear process still implies linear time and The course is teaching us that time is first of all simultaneous It's just a the miracles collapse time down and show us that it's all happening simultaneously Which is the step to opening to there is no time that that the eternal Present that the eternity of God and the kingdom of heaven is all that there is So as long as we're using concepts like linear time process, you know, that's journey That's like a script or that's the story and what we're really starting to realize is it's it's possible to drop the story entirely, yeah That needs to be that needs to be honored because that's the instant. Yes, that's the instant healing Yes, that's the holy instant. Yeah, that's very important. I mean the story It's like parables are very important in the sense that when the mind gets so conditioned into specifics That's all that can think in it can only think in linearity when it believes in concrete and specifics and persons and places and things and When we talk about healing it's a lot of times assume that people heal Or the bodies heal. Yeah, and I mean even or even the bodies live and bodies die But if we want to really get at this what we have to first start to see is is that the mind is the one thing that's in need of healing and The body is something that really can't be endowed with the attributes of the Holy Spirit or the ego Because it's just neutral, right, you know I use the example of like a pen or a pencil, you know of saying your pencil looks very well today It's good tone or you know, it looks very pale and sick You know, it would be ridiculous to talk about a pencil as as looking well or sick or it or ill And and it's just as ridiculous to talk about the body that way because it is just it is completely neutral And that's how the Holy Spirit sees it But we know from experience that the mind Can seem to be Upset or it can seem to be healed and whole and really what we're coming to see is that the wholeness is what is true and real and illness irritation Annoyance whether it's psychological or it seems to be physical is of you know, no matter It's just impossible. Yeah, and we make that up if we choose. Yeah, I mean that That's not being that's not being an IM. That's not being Recognizing the source. Yes, and when we say even when we say we make it up or we author the dream We want we need to come back on that too the ego made up the body the ego made up the world The ego made up the dream and so we pull back to the IM and Then and then there's no opposite. Yes, there's no opposite and love. We do play a lot Yeah, yes, that's it And the we part it's starting in the end to let go as you go into meditation and to let go of the wheeze Because that's a common thing and it really when we talk about we've done this or we've done that It's just describing the problem or another way of saying it is declaring that I'm an ego And so when we come into the IM presence, you know, and the joy is there We open the mind to the stillness the be still and know that I am God and that is just There's a vote for being still yes and finding time and going within and


Well, with day one of spring practice in the books, PSU football can now turn all their attention to next season and two new faces will help them get ready for 2018. Jamie Bish will lead the game green defense while Carson Pike takes over the reins offensively. Both coordinators inherit young units after the departure of several starters from both sides of the ball. The players are very excited to start learning the new systems. Overall, he just knows the game very well. Bringing in a new system, we learned very fast. He taught it very well. And we have all the faith in him that he's going to put us in the right position to make plays and make this offense successful. Coach Bish, we talked to him for a little bit. He's a great guy, very down to earth dude. We're excited to have him on board. He knows a lot about football. He brings a lot of energy and excitement to this program. So we're very excited to have him. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The presence of these witnesses say the words we need after me, the words that you say in Arabic, they mean that I openly bear witness. There is no God but Allah, and I openly bear witness, but Muhammad is the messenger and servant of Allah, having some peace and blessings.  So you can after me, again the words I openly bear witness, I bear witness, there is no God but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger and servant. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger and servant of Allah, having some peace and blessings. And take your time, don't overwhelm yourself, you're just into a marathon, not a sprint. It's a long path, and it's a beautiful path, so just get a nice pace and enjoy it.


David Navaras scored a beautiful win against Natalia Buxa. He joins us in our studio and breaks it down for us. David, an interesting and instructive win with the white pieces today.  Yes, I think it was not an easy game because Natalia played the opening quite well and the position was equal but at this position I don't like the move A6 that much because I think black should take some measures against d5 which is threatening. So your idea has to go d5 and you feel until now Natalia had played reasonably? Yes, I think the position is equal but I don't know what to do with black now because after knight f6 there's d5 anyway and now either e5, knight d4 as in the game or perhaps bishop e5 when queen a8 is too risky for many reasons starting with rook c7 and also including some knight d4, knight f5. David, this idea of d5 is quite a thematic and a nice idea but you just give up a pawn. Can you explain to our viewers the rational behind giving up this pawn? Okay, I have a nice pawn center but it can also become weak and to make it a method I have to do something and I cannot do anything on the queen side. I would like to attack black's king but to do that I need to sacrifice a pawn. And open your bishop on b2? Yes, open my bishop and now I played e5 because if white takes there's queen d6 for example when the bishop on h3 is misplaced. And of course this is not your idea to play d5 to go into this position? Yes, I played e5, certainly e6 and maybe it's probably it's not bad for black yet but it's very hard to defend such a position. After knight f8 I can also play e6 when f6 is hard for black and after f6 white is probably winning by force playing knight e5. Let me help you. Thank you. Knight f7. I didn't just get stocks and and queen takes e6, threatening a smothered mate among other things. And okay, knight c5 looks logical but maybe rook e8 was not the best move but I don't know to recommend here because it's really hard. I really like this move knight d4 because maybe black actually wants to give this pawn backward d4 to activate the bishop on b7 and you just kill this bishop with this pawn sacrifice and then knight d4. Yes, maybe but I'm also preparing e6 as well as knight f5 so it's a typical multipurpose move. Yes. And now rook e8 is probably not optimal but it's hard to suggest anything else e6. Now if black takes like this I can take his bishop when there are seven deadly chess pins as Grandmaster Raozen would have probably formulated it. I'm certain queen f7 knight f5. Seven deadly chess pins. Yes. I love it. So it's after the books seven deadly chess pins. Is that one of your favorite books because a lot of players talk very highly of this book. I read it and liked it. I mean back then I was already a strong GM so it has not influenced me that fundamentally maybe also because I read it several times, not several times, several years after it had appeared but it's quite a good move, quite a good book. Sorry I'm thinking about moves already and now what has a decisive attack. Yes. Bishop f5 after g6 I'm ready to take. So if something like this you just... Yes and I have knight f5 in the end. Yes. And that's just one deadly pin but it's more than enough. Yes. And h6, queen g6. In fact there are some nice lines in the end and now I even considered playing for... Playing for crowds like this but luckily I avoided this temptation because it doesn't really work. Because here... Maybe even queen d6, queen f8 is not that bad but I disliked bishop c6 because if black just takes there will be numerous threats including queen f8 but the problem is that if black plays bishop c6 I don't know what to do now. Black can block the e file if needed in some lines. I mean if I give two checks it's not that terrible. You mean with knight e4 in the end? Yes. Probably or even can take d6 in some lines. Yes. Yes but I mean... There's no need to play like that. Yes. Exactly. This is good. Thank you. And now I expected knight e5 after which what can I play prosaic move f4 and then knight f5 was made as in the game. Because of queen h8 so something like this just runs into. Yes. Or there is a nicer solution knight f5 immediately and now an accurate move rook c1. Yes. This is really nice because it reminds me of the concept of the kill zone. So you just trap the king and there's no defending against mate. Yes. And if knight e4 there is a check and yes then there will be mate on h8 if black moves her bishop or her knight. That's a very pretty finish. Yes and today's even there's an even prettier line with a rook e5 and now knight e4 and now there is mate in 3 actually. So here you just... Yes. And queen e8 in the end. Yes. Exactly. That is that's absolutely stunning and in the game also rook e4 just knight f5 finishes the game because there's no defense against queen h8. Yes. Actually Natalia has been having quite a good tournament so far. Did you see her games before? Yes. I saw she bet Noel Studer in the previous round in Sveshnikov variation and okay there are six rounds left so she might improve her result after this loss. I mean one loss doesn't matter that much in a long tournament. Yes and but you are now on three out of four feeling good after today's game. Yes. All right well we wish you all the best. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for time David. Thank you for your attention. See you later. Thank you. See you David.


So I used to do this music business podcast for a lot of years. We were one of the first music business tech discussion podcasts, and definitely the only one in the punk indie sphere when we started in 2014. I did this with my co-host, Zack Sarillo, who's managed bands like Brand New, Knucklepuck, and now works with artists like Cave Town, Chloe Moriondo, and Kevin Devine.  We decided to do a reunion episode of our podcast where we talked like we used to talk. While I think the whole podcast really hit on a lot of things, and you should definitely go to the description and follow the link and listen to it all, we had a particularly interesting talk that I'm going to play after this that artists should hear part of the conversation of. I thought this was particularly important for the musicians who pay attention to my channel to hear as it talks about how you build YouTube and how you should see building a fanbase. So what you're about to hear is a portion of our conversation on how to use YouTube right and build the fanbase slowly. If you enjoyed what we talked about, you can listen to the full podcast by following the links in the description. But speaking of YouTube, I think one of the cool things you and I should talk about, because I talk about your bands on my YouTube channel because they do such cool things, is you have two artists that particularly do amazing things on YouTube. I wanted to ask you to talk about what you see as the YouTube landscape these days, and how your artists connect on there. Because one, Cave Town and Chloe do YouTube better than most any artist. And two, I never think musicians put enough of an emphasis on YouTube and they do it well and are really rewarded for it because their numbers are insane out there. Yeah, I never took YouTube seriously as a platform for my artists that I managed before I started working with Robin, who's Cave Town. First of all, I would say I am not a big YouTube person myself.  I watch a few creators regularly and pretty much nothing else. So like I was a huge fan of like when Casey Neistat was in the heyday of his vlog days, that really inspired me. And I love that.  And then I watch one series from The Ringer, which is a sports publication called NBA Desktop, which is one of my favorite things on the internet. But otherwise, I really don't like engage with YouTube that much other than watching. And honestly, I probably, the most YouTube I watch is probably like my artists when they're putting new stuff. So I'm kind of like a bad person for that. And that's why I think it was a blind spot for me where like Grace, my wife, like she watches, I don't know, she might watch an hour of YouTube stuff a day, you know, or more. I'm about that. If not more. Yeah. And as I started to work with Robin about two and a half years ago now, like it became more and more clear that like YouTube was just is just TV for younger people, right? And that's a very known thing. It's not like me saying that as a surprise that that is considered to be like an industry standard thing that people know now. But it was not something I really thought much about because my artists, like a lot of like the more like punk or alternative artists I worked with and some still do work with, they were not creating content, right? Like they were they're my age, they're anywhere from 20 now, seven to whatever, 30 something. And they did not grow up with like a phone in their hand, like an iPhone in their hand, like Robin or Chloe did. And I think because of that, like how they create stuff is very different. So when I found Robin, his music was only on YouTube and Spotify. Nothing was on BSPs. So funny when you see that. It was insane. I mean, really now when we think about how much he's grown in two and a half years, it's pretty staggering that he did not exist on streaming services two and a half years ago. And so Robin always considered himself an artist first. But you know, to many people was a YouTuber, but he definitely did not want to be considered. And I did not want to manage a YouTuber. And I still don't. So that was very important to me. But I said, we really got to get all your stuff on BSPs. What was great about Robin was that like he really liked talking to his audience. And it was just him in his bedroom. And he didn't know we could step outside of his bedroom. And what we've done over the last two and a half years was step him outside to tens of thousands of people outside of the bedroom. Unfortunately, as Robin has done that and has toured and has grown and has lived life, like Robin actually makes a lot less YouTube content now and kind of like a vlog he sends. But we still treat his channel incredibly seriously. It is a loss leader for us. We spend a lot of money when he's on tour, having really incredible videographers and sound people, et cetera, out to film and edit. And it's incredibly expensive for us. But the stuff looks great, though, that you guys put out. Yeah, we view it as a marketing tool that we think a lot of what I spend my time thinking about in like a big picture behind the sky of you as a manager right now is like, how can we invest in places where others can? Robin is fortunate in that he owns the majority of his catalog, which means he sees the majority of his income from Spotify and Apple, et cetera. And a lot of his peers don't. Most people in the world don't.  And that's what we want. So we use his YouTube channel as a loss leader for us and as a marketing tool. And we want really high quality stuff mixed with personal personality things with Robin, whether that is him rating milk or him rating jobs or him doing a Q and A. And then we mix that with really incredible music videos and live performances, which I think now are kind of more valuable than ever when people are missing those things. So that's Robin. It's been a winding road. There was definitely a period where we really wanted Robin to be uploading one video a week. And then we gave up on that because it just blew up and we didn't think it was going to blow up. We had him touring to his detriment pretty much for two years straight in music and Oh, wow, I didn't realize that was hard. I mean, he was really just the mistake. It's hard. It's not so much a mistake and not really regrets it. But like, we didn't think he was going to blow up how he did. So when we booked one tour, we every tour we booked for a year should have been twice as big by the time that tour actually happened. So we had to keep kind of doing the next tour bigger because we didn't want to let it language, you know, now we're like kind of restructuring moving forward. But so yeah, like YouTube for him is still really important. We care deeply about that relationship with his audience, but we don't want you to at some point, you two kind of became a chore for him. So he didn't want to do it if it wasn't like out of passion. So now we try to mix it up with what we put there. Chloe is a little different. Chloe is like a monster on YouTube. Every time I go to show her to somebody, you know, it's funny, I showed her to I was talking about both her and Chloe to Alan Duchess's daughter, who is she's really becoming amazing at what she does. But it was like funny.  Yeah. So Chloe just crossed three million subscribers. When I started working with her in August of 2018, I think she had just under a million, which is crazy.  Now she has three million. And Chloe, unlike Robin, has actually never done the like talking to the camera about my life thing. She's only had one video like that ever. Chloe got really popular on YouTube by doing covers and her own songs. But she talks a little bit before the song. Yes, she does talk. Yes. And that's really appreciate it. It's very compelling because she you see you learn about her. Yeah. It's also, you know, we could all use the word authentic for a lot of things. It's so like more beyond what most artists are doing of connecting with somebody. Yeah. It's very welcoming and revealing. And Chloe is, she's 17. And so I think she wants, that's what she wants out of her, the artists that she cares about too, you know? And so yeah, Chloe does that and she's really good at it. Unlike Cape Town, she's never done those videos of like talking to the camera, I'm going to rate whatever dogs or cats or stuff. But the algorithm has always loved her. And I mean, her videos, especially when she was doing coverage, when I started working with her, would just explode.  And still now, because I mean, we have Chloe, Chloe was in school all year. She just finished her senior year of school. And we had her working really hard on music. So the channel has been a little less active, but when we are active, it again, takes off. We just released a new song. So for Chloe, it's like whenever we release a new song or like a studio produced song, we also have her do like a stripped down acoustic version or ukulele version of her bedroom. And those do incredibly well. So we're always trying to hit you a couple of different times with the song. And that works really well for us because her audience, I mean, they love her produced music, but the YouTube audience really wants to see her in her bedroom just like they did two years ago. So that's really important to us. And it's an incredible marketing tool. Because a week after we release the studio song, we get to hit you again with it and the link is in the bio and she talks about it and all that stuff, you know, so it really helps us. And because she has such a wide audience and can talk before the video, she can also be like, I'm going on for next month or I haven't just shared up or like, I'm doing this thing for charity, whatever it is. And it's incredibly beneficial for us. I think you just hit on a thing though that is part of the YouTube thing that is so simple that people don't get, which is just the like, make a different version of the content. Yeah. And just make it compelling. Like, you know, when we like the music videos we've released for Chloe so far, we did a first music video of this past January and it blew up because she had never done a video before a music video before. And it's really like, well, high quality and it's like kind of like a gory, like spooky video. And so people were really into it. But then we did an acoustic version of it and that crushed too.  And that's more of the artists that we're working with right now. I just, you don't know this yet either. I guess it's very new. I've been working with a new artist named Addison Grace, kind of like Robin definitely wants to be a music artist, but it was, it's really popular on a platform. She has two million TikTok followers. Oh, wow. But she wants to be an artist and she's really talented songwriter, has an incredible voice. And so we were in this quandary of starting to work with her. She had nothing on YouTube, nothing on DSPs, nothing recorded, but she like has these songs that she plays on TikTok and stuff. You know, so I thought back to what we were doing with Chloe and Robin at the beginning and I said, okay, let's not rush music onto DSPs. Let's take our time. Instead, let's, you had a YouTube channel that you haven't published to in two years, let's start releasing every Monday, one original song, then one cover song, then one original song, then one cover song. And she went from having 10,000 subscribers a month ago to close to 50,000 now in just a month. Wow. Her first song that we put up has over 100,000 streams in a month on YouTube. She put a Billie Eilish cover up just one week ago and it has, by the time this is out, 100,000 plays. So, you know, we're really trying to develop an audience there for her on YouTube so that people are really familiar with Addison Grace, the artist, not the TikTok person. And so by the time you release any songs on DSPs, which is hopefully going to be in the next six, eight weeks, it's much more like, oh, hey, like, by the way, I have a new song out now on Spotify. Go check it out because now she'll have, hopefully by then she'll have 75,000 YouTube subscribers. So, we're really also trying to build things in a smart, slow way. We're never trying to rush with the artist we work with. We like to build. I just strongly believe in building foundation. So, but that is counterintuitive to what a lot of people think. What informed that belief? I'm just here for a little long run. I mean, working with Kevin Devine is like a great other swing of that example. Kevin's career is older than Chloe. Like, truly. I think Kevin's been a professional artist since he was 20 and he's in his early 40s. Yeah, I think we're the same age. Chloe is 17. That doesn't happen by accident. A lot of hard work goes on. And we're always trying to build a little more every time, right? Even with Kevin, when I started managing him in 2016, he's still growing. He isn't done growing yet. And Kevin's been doing this for 20 years. It is always a marathon for me. And I think for our company, and that's why we've had success. It's just like, look what I love, like any artist I work with to go mega viral. Yeah, sure. But most artists that do come back down just as fast. You know, it's the very few, it's the very few that sustain to long careers. That doesn't mean there aren't those that do, right? But most don't. And I am not interested in managing an artist that I don't believe in. And I'm just excited. You know, I just want to be a part of them to make money from them for six months. Like, I want to be working with Chloe when she's 30, not just when she's 19 or 15. And in all the years of doing this, I still work with, like, a ton of the artists I started with in day one, a couple of broken up, couple were just mutual decisions to stop working with each other. But like, Nakapak, Citizen, Real Friends, Movements, Kevin Devine, like, these are all artists we have the company of been managing for almost six years now, which is a long time in this world. Oh, and management, that's in turn of the year. Yeah, we don't get, I mean, we've never been fired by an artist, and we don't plan on that changing, you know. So yeah, we just want to grow. It doesn't do me any good, especially for say this, this young Addison that I'm working with for us to release a song on Spotify, too, for it to go well, and then to have nothing else for four months, right? Like, we need to have a plan, we need to have lots of stuff coming, and we need to build a real audience with her over time. And I don't think I would have gone this route if I hadn't been working with Robin and Chloe before, but this strategy is already working, and I'm excited about it. Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing I see working now that people just can't seem to accept is real, is that it's consistent, sustained promotion that it's got to be. Yeah, it always has to be slow growth. It always, obviously lots of people do the other thing and they have success. It's not like my model is the only model, but it's cave town touring for close to two years straight was like really exhausting, obviously. And it was exhausting for me too is exhausting for everyone. Yeah, but I view that as like a punk artist, like that's what I told him. I said, I want you to know what it's like to play in a 250 cap room in Philly without a green room, where it's literally a chair closet of where the chairs are is the green room. So you get to see this. So maybe you never have to see it again, right? But like, I want you to see this, you know, if he did his first two tours in a bam, then we went to 500 cap and 700 cap and 1500 cap, right? I wanted him to see every step and I wanted his audience to also see every step because I thought there would be a better connection for them with him. If they were able to see him in 300 cap room and then at Webster Hall and then hopefully at Terminal five next time, I want you to be a part of that story. And I'm concerned that if we just started at Webster Hall, some of those people wouldn't come along to Terminal five, you know, I want them to be invested in the artist just like I am. Yeah, I think there is that thing that it is true that fans tell themselves a story about an artist. And when you have a story that begins to go shitty, it can be really detrimental to artists. And it's really hard to get around. Yeah, it's hard to turn that back, you know, especially when you're going really fast. It's hard to like, yeah, it's hard to turn that back around and get to back to where you need to be. Yeah, YouTube has been interesting. It's tough. I wish I was like, I'm not a great social media person. People I think sometimes people think like I'm good at social media. I'm good at working with artists that are good at it, I think. Well, yeah, filling in the blank. Yeah, like I don't use TikTok. I don't like, Grace spends two hours on TikTok today. Wow. She is hooked on TikTok. China loves Grace. I only use TikTok to look at her profile, you know, that's it. And you're not seeing things from the algorithm that make you interested in keeping watching? No, no. But and I'm also not interested in, I mean, so many people I'm sure you know, like just, I mean, TikTok is the new like you only record labels are only only sounding artists that are probably on TikTok. Yeah. And that's just not my thing. Like Chloe and Robin record labels, respective labels are not pleased that they don't use TikTok. And I always, I have to tell them once a quarter, they are not using TikTok.  The last thing I want is for them to use that profile because they're being forced and then being bad, you know, I always go back to that thing with the younger artists of like when Lorde started blowing up and her label, like she tells the story, they're like, you got to use hashtags on Twitter. She's like, if I do that, my career is over. You guys do not get it. And she was right. And there is this thing that like, obviously, we've both worked at large labels and have been around this, but there are a lot of people whose only brain cells tell them must imitate other things successful and don't get that there's lanes and separate things that all work for different artists. And not everything needs to be maximized by doing everything all the time. And you can have your own distinct personality and brand. And it's not about being an exception. It's actually about that, like authenticity weighs more than anything else. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, the trust, like the label definitely would rather Robin not be on TikTok than to make videos and why he thinks TikTok is dumb. Am I missing anything? Is there any other way you would have done this? I need to know your questions. And when no one else is telling you, since I want to answer them. So leave them in the comments, since I answer every comment in every post. I hope you liked this video. And if you did, please like, subscribe and get notified. And I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with how to promote your music and how to make songs you're happy with in the future. I have a Facebook group linked below that is only helpful information. No playlist or con artists, only artists having helpful discussions allowed. If you want to learn more about me, work on a record with me, or check out any of my books, podcasts, or anything else I do, go to jessecanon.com or at jessecanon.com on all the socials. One last thing, there's two playlists here. One is on how to grow your fan base from zero to 10,000 fans. And the other is on how you promote your music with Spotify. Or you can hit the subscribe button below and stay tuned as I have tons of tips for musicians.


On July 14th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an $840 billion military policy bill. The amount is $37 billion more than what President Joe Biden had sought for funding the Pentagon. The U.S. Senate will now vote for its version of the bill and there will be a process whereby the two bills are reconciled. However, the trend is clear. The U.S. continues to be the highest spender of defense globally by a huge margin. What are some of the key aspects of the bill and are we likely to see a continuation of this trend of increased spending due to the war in Ukraine? Eugene Perrier of Breakthrough News explains. You know, it's unbelievable in a way when you look at the military budget in the United States. This has actually happened the past few budgets in a row that the Pentagon request actually has just moved to the side by Congress who adds a significant amount of money. So President Biden was proposing around $803 billion for fiscal year 23. The Senate and their version of the bill added about $47 billion. The House and their version of the bill added about $37 billion. So both houses of Congress who will now have to reconcile their bill, which will be somewhere in the middle of that, have essentially added $30 to $40 billion over top of what the Pentagon was asking for. And the reason for that is multi-fold. A lot of Congress people will often say that the Pentagon is responding to pressure from people who just hate the military and want to cut the budget, that they secretly really want all of this money. But what it often ends up being is that there's a restoration of various projects that either speak very heavily to a certain foreign policy goal or speak very heavily to a piece of equipment that is being built in a certain person's district. And the United States, all of the different production for the various military goods is heavily spread out. You look at a plane like the F-35, it'll be like they'll make one part of the cockpit in California, they'll make the wheel in Illinois, they'll make one little sort of, you know, technical widget in Iowa. And so they spread it out in such a way that that way it creates a pressure on the politicians to not ever do any cuts to the budget because they don't want to lose anything that's there. But when you look at what is being pushed forward in the budget, I think there's a few things that we can see that are notable. I think one of the number one things is the budget restored the money, which seems like a small amount of money, but it's research money, $45 million for a new sea-based nuclear weapon. Now, the United States already has 4,000 nuclear weapons. It's unclear exactly why they would need this new nuclear weapon that can be fired from a ship or a submarine when they already have that capability. It's not even 100% clear what this weapon would be. But nevertheless, we saw Congress restore the funding for this weapon, which obviously is something that is directly related to the idea that we are politically, and Congress is a big part of this, pushing towards this idea of a Cold War style confrontation with China. And a major element of that is to use the nuclear arms race to attempt to cow China and contain them and make sure that they feel terrified about potentially being against how the US wants to reorder things in Asia because they'll be destroyed by nuclear weapons. And so that was one element that was put in there. Another thing that we have continued to see is this, and this is very also similar to the new Cold War mentality, is this pushing around many failed platforms, but relevant ones, the stealth fighters, different types of new kind of low stealth style. They call them literal, but combat ships that are supposed to work right up against the coast, all these sort of like new, you know, not that proven ideas, but that are all deeply rooted in the same mentality. And that's the mentality that China especially is far ahead of the United States technologically, that they have secret technology that we don't know about, that it's a different form of fighting. And so even though there's really no proof of concept in many of these platforms, actually, to the extent they already rolled out aren't working very well, you see that this new Cold War style mentality shows that Congress only wants to increase these new weapons, not even necessarily because they work, but because it creates the perception that the United States is countering, you know, some, you know, big nuclear, some non-existent buildup by China and by a lesser extent Russia. So we can see in the budget itself that some of these key pillars that exist really are centered around this idea of a new Cold War with China and Russia, even when things have been proven not to really work. It's all about really creating a perception using this huge amount of money that the US is rolling out these various weapons systems that are going to allow them to continue to dominate the globe, continue to dominate the world. And I think almost use like a bluff as it were that, well, we have, you know, hundreds or thousands of these planes and these ships. And if you go against us, you're going to be destroyed because they're so high tech and they're so good. So I think this is really a solidification when we look at this military budget of the overall agenda of the United States to not only maintain its overall imperial world domination, but to directly focus almost all of its military spending and posture on the idea of containing and ultimately potentially overthrowing China and Russia. We're seeing significantly more money that's coming through Ukraine, both through this budget, the National Defense Authorization Act, and through all sorts of supplementary budgets that continue to come forward. I mean, this has really been a question. And it was a question in this budgetary process of whether or not the US even has the stockpile to meet some of the needs that Ukraine is laying out. And so that was a big conversation about the need to not only restore things that have been sent, but also to create more capacity for the United States to continue to support them. So, you know, we've seen recently, I think a $400 million request that came through the first lady of the Ukraine was actually here in the United States at the end of last week, early into this week, meeting with various individuals on Capitol Hill to try to insert even more money into the National Defense Authorization Act. So it'll be interesting to see what that final number is on funding for Ukraine between the two houses once they reconcile their bill, because there's a huge amount of lobbying happening right now to make that number as big as it is and to create as much of a flood of weapons towards Ukraine as possible. Laws like this are not passed in a vacuum. Every provision is a result of intense lobbying by private interests which seek to make massive profits. The military industrial complex in the US has a huge role to play in the direction defense budgets take. What are the ways in which the military industrial complex achieve its aims by lobbying those in power?  But it's also the things that people know about in terms of how influence is peddled all around the world. That's campaign donations, especially in the United States. And when you look at what has happened just in the 2022 election cycle, so that's basically the money that people in Congress have been raising since about this time last year. And so ultimately what we see is in the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee. And these are really important committees because this is where the decision to increase the defense budget over and above what the administration asked for is made. So they're having all sorts of deliberations, they're holding hearings and they're deciding really the basic contours of what the military budget is going to look like when it goes to the whole House to be voted on. So when you look at those two committees, what you find is $10 million has flown from the military industrial complex into Congresspeople who are in the House or the Senate Armed Services Committee. And this is a very small number of people overall, you know, I mean, it's I think 40 some odd people when you combine them maybe a little bit more than that. And it really is very top heavy that the majority of the money is going to the chairs and the ranking members and other people who are perceived to be influential. But nevertheless, I mean, you have a number of people on each of these that are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars individually, you know, the highest is coming in the Senate where you had a few people getting 800 some thousand odd dollars in the House, you have 400 some thousand odd dollars for a number of the leading officials in both committees. And then as they're getting this money, they're arguing that these exact companies should be getting more and more military contracts because the budget will increase. And this is actually just the tip of the iceberg because these are like the transparent funds that have to be reported on. But of course, there are super PACs and other things like that, the so-called dark money where we don't really know a lot actually about anyone who's donating to these super PACs. But we can certainly assume that the tens of billions of dollars, the billions of dollars that are spent in these election cycles in these super PACs that many military contractors are looking at it. But with just the money, we know $10 million just to two committees, a handful of legislators. And there's a direct quid pro quo where they're the money is coming in and the money is going out and they're getting huge returns because of these increases that are taking place in the military industrial complex. So whether it's how they spread around their production, whether it's the campaign donations, whether it's the revolving door, because many, many politicians who leave the White House and leave Congress end up working in high level positions for military contractors, also people who leave the military. Of course, the current secretary of defense in the United States, Lloyd Austin, that's exactly what he was doing before he came into the position. Now is after he left the military, he went and became a high level executive in the military industrial complex. So it's the retirement jobs, it's the campaign donations while you're there, and it's the so-called jobs that they're creating, although they don't create that many jobs in your district that all go to create a tremendous cauldron of corruption between the military industrial complex and Congress.


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It's insane 24 out of 35 billy joe depri That is going to the cowboys That made sure we had the right boxes for the next one for some reason. I thought I didn't grab this year's spectra Uh cmc to 99. That's justin jefferson Really, I think kobe's the greatest of all time. I I disagree. I disagree That's to 99. We got a zack wilson for the jets And to 99 we've got three colored rpa kyle hamilton Hey, that's your opinion. I mean Absolutely So I'm there for the ravens What do you say that for? Need to be changed Oh, just not your goat gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha six out of 20 is uh tom brady No, I mean kobe had a killer killer mentality. He had the best mentality probably ever Who would he get? Brie salt to 99 for the jets As prisma, what's up as prisma as prisma. Why'd you say that dookie? You listening green day right now or something 10 out of uh 10 out of 15 is josh jacob's Oh, this one's sick, dude. This is really sick elusis What up elusis 29 out of 50 fred valetnikov For the raiders angelo congrats on that one on the combo spot, man the holy roller Got that forward fumble uh band with the holy roller one of the craziest plays of all time. That's awesome The best receiver in the country gets his uh name the valetnikov award One of the greatest receivers in uh, I would say raiders history outside. Maybe tim brown That'll do it for the break guys do these points random really quick Speak bo tell them Bo knows All right guys again doing the random here going to uh roll the dice whatever team is on top after six times. We'll get the um Uh points one Two three four five six ravens getting the points ravens That's on that baltimore You have jordan. Sorry about that jordan Josh jacob's raiders zack willson jets christian mccaffrey panthers barry sanders lions uh taekwon thorton patriots that is uh james harrison steelers joe montana for the Niners Uh rott agronk going to the patriots Dak uh cowboy c lamb cowboys hunter renfo raiders jesson herbert um chargers George pickin steelers eric azucama dolphins and uh mike will for the chargers We've got um fred beletnikov raiders kyle hamilton ravens billy joe depri for the cowboys calvin austin steelers isaac likely ravens willy roth Saints danie gray niners chickeel barrett bucks ryan robinson jr commanders torrey holt for the rams Uh, that's hasan haskins trail on berks dual for the titans Then we've got a Sorry to kenny pickett rpa's both to 125 for the steelers uh brice hall to uh Hit hall and picket. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, kody killed it, man Uh, we had uh john elway five of eight going to the broncos Later bill later by in my opinion the cool card trevor lorence catalyst laundry tag one of two for the um Jax that'll do it for the break. Thank you guys again for the fill next up. We've got more spectra


Alright, this is an easy activity to do, especially, I do this at the beginning of the year. Actually throughout the year, but especially at the beginning, because it's pretty low-key, but it works on several different musical things. One is timbre. I'm just using sticks. Of course, these are ready-made sticks. You could just use sticks that you find on the ground, but this uses a... Timbre is the different sounds you get from an instrument. It's what makes a trumpet sound different than a flute. For sticks you've got a rubbing sound and different types of taps. Also volume, because there's a soft component and a loud component. It just goes like this. Two little sausages frying in a pan. One goes pop, and the other goes bam. So I'll do that several times. I don't know, four or five times. The kids will usually just join me on their own as I get it. Sometimes they leave it on the floor on their hand. Be careful. Don't let them hit their fingers, because they'll be crying after that. Make sure they're out here on the ends of the sticks. But it's an easy way to get kids playing without really a steady beat or anything, but you still get soft, loud, and the different sounds from the sticks. And you get a way to get them involved.


A former governor of Iowa State, Rashid Ladija, and the chief in-mum of the University of Nevada, Professor Abdulrahman Oluyide, say that Nigeria's state of affairs is fragile. Reacting to recent attacks on the advanced team convoy of President Buhari and Kuja Correctional Center, Abuja, Ladija said bandits are oppressing Nigerians, which is threatening the security of lives and property of the people. Professor Oluyide was also a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies called the Nigerians super-priorful to prevent the country's collapse. Speaking with journalists at his border Jihad resident during the Eid celebration, former governor Ladija called for religious tolerance, saying the adherents of Christianity are one. He noted that Nigerians are cautious of some fate candidates ahead of next year's presidential poll because of terror groups like Boko Haram and Iswab operating under the cover of Islam. He said religious beliefs of the candidates wasn't a bother. They have something in common. They are selfish. They are there for their own pocket. That is why I'm saying, I'm serious, I'm farming that we need a lot to choose for us, somebody who have mercy on us, who will be very compassionate and be able to keep his promises. That's all. We have tried everything. There's no way we will know who fulfilled the promise and who will not. There's no way. There's no way. Therefore, let us ask the person who sees the arts, who sees the inner mind to choose for us. That is my message. It's a call for concern. But what can we do here? We can continue praying, but only prayers will not solve you too. We have to educate our people on the vigilance. We have to become brothers keepers. I mean, you see, it's getting worse. The message is not going to be for the leaders alone, but for all of us Nigerians. Nigeria is on life support. It's melting away. All we can do is to start praying vehemently. We have now seen that those in charge have lost control. So, Nigeria is melting. So, we need to pray, and vehemently too, for Allah to hold this nation for us. So, we all need, all of us, in respect of where we come from and what we believe, we must start praying, lest we lose Nigeria. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.