The Tom O'Brien Show is produced every business day. Tom takes your phone calls toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let's go to Eddie and Bookarton. Hey, Eddie, what's going on? Hey, Tom, how are you, man? I'm doing great, man, yourself? Good, good. It is a treasure to have TFNN every hour during the trading day to be there to help you to guide you.  Well, listen, we appreciate you growling and prowling us out here, because we wouldn't be out here, folks, if we didn't have all you guys, gals, tigers and tigers as clients. And the market teaches you every single day, man. Now, folks, this is Jacob Shoup filling in for Tom O'Brien. So we have my last day with you all. We are out Monday. The market is closed. And Tom, we'll be back Tuesday for some of that great Tom O'Brien show goodness. The market is exhausted. We are down a little bit. The buying is kind of done for right now at least today. GDX is up. The gold contract is actually moving down a little bit right now. So we'll see how that pans out at the end of the day. Gold is in this just strange kind of position right now, where a lot of things might suggest on the superficial that it should be going up, but we're getting just kind of a mixed signal from it. So again, I always defer to Tom. He's got the gold report. It is a phenomenal publication. Would really recommend checking it out. Navidia is still up at 4.30. We were talking a little bit beforehand. We'll get into that at some point in the show regarding some of the smaller guys. And I really want to focus a little bit on AMD as well and how I think that, while AMD might be getting battered right now, relative to Navidia, I think it's still a positive choice on the long term. We'll take a look at Microsoft. That's down today, but it's been doing pretty well on the long term. And this is really done by its implementation, I suppose, of AI. Obviously it acquired chat, GBT or at least invested a large sum of the chat GBT to kind of add it into its Bing search. But one of the big things that Microsoft does, you know, they have Microsoft Azure, which is its cloud computing system. This is a pretty, I have a little bit of experience using Azure and I've studied like how to use a little bit and what you can spin off the different kind of like networking options you have, you know, data storage and everything. And I have a close acquaintance of mine who works basically on Azure, right? He works for another company doing security, but he does Azure implementation. And what's going, these guys get paid in immense amount of money. Like they get compensated very well for the skills that they have, right? One of the biggest, you know, victims of AI will be like knowledge-based workers, okay? And so, you know, of course he doesn't just work on Azure, but it's a major part of his job in securely implementing it. But the way that it's going now is there are more and more AI options for Azure to the point, you know, that it'll be someone who doesn't really have any experience with Azure security is gonna be able to implement secure Azure environments because the AI is just getting so good at it. According to this article here, the company could pick up 10 billion more in annual artificial intelligence revenue from developers using its Azure cloud or open AI models. JP Morgan analysts raised their price target on Microsoft stock Wednesday. Of course, that rose quite a bit to 348, trading off that just a little bit at 343. Microsoft is a major beneficiary of the rise of chat GPT and tangential products on top of its hefty investment in open AI, which will pay off. The company provides the underlying computing power. Microsoft also has exclusive licenses on open AI's models, including the chat GPT for large language model that can spit out natural sounding words and responds to humans text input. We all know this.  What it was being used for was just very standard searches, right? And what it will soon really take over is you're just not gonna have the need to have all these micro specializations, right? Like all these new tools that come out and you know, I would have focused a bit on the cloud with that, it's not gonna be as much of an investment on the individual. And I mean, you know, time to learn how these tools work because AI will really control a lot of it, right? There'll still be security around the servers that control AI and you'll have to have the knowledge of how that works. But very soon, you know, it just, in a way it kind of just lowers the barriers to entry, I would suppose. A lot of this AI does. In the past four quarters, Microsoft has generated almost 208 billion in total revenue. It went deeper onto it because it is really good, excuse me, because it is really a very good platform, we have lots of different ways that 10 billion of ARR is going to show up first. Following the event, JPMorgan analysts go through the price target from 350, excuse me, just to 350. So, you know, we were right around there and had to sell off, but essentially these companies have so much cash flow and they just have enough to basically invest in any kind of program that they're just going to absolutely dominate the AI market. And from that, they'll dominate cloud and kind of expand it. We see that a little bit with Amazon as well. We can pull that up. You know, they just recently acquired, they're expanding in interesting ways into different kind of sectors in general, right? You know, they're doing pharmaceuticals for a while and then, you know, today we're down a little bit. Again, this is kind of just an exhaustion in the market, but they purchased, let's pull it up here for you. The Roomba, the Roomba maker iRobot. See if I can pull it up. And this was up today significantly, up 20% almost. That got the UK approval.  The competition and markets authority in the UK said it decided not to escalate its initial investigation because it included that the deal would not result in substantial lessening of competition. And that's really how Amazon's doing it, right? When you buy into these different sectors essentially or, you know, different kind of supply chains, it's a little bit hard to get hit by these kind of antitrust laws. Consumer groups have always concerns, however, that Amazon's purchase of iRobot, which makes room of course, would widen the e-commerce giant's dominance in the smart home market. The acquisition is still facing review in the US by the Federal Trade Commission amid worries about Amazon's growing market power. It's also under scrutiny by the European Union's executive arm, which opened a review of the deal this month. It said iRobot has a modest UK market position, already faces several significant rivals and Amazon would have little incentive to give its product special treatment over rivals in its online store. But just being able to have these, you know, what may essentially become like Amazon generics, right, is a positive for the company as a whole. And so that obviously enjoyed a really positive increase as well. Take a look at Meta. Meta's up a little bit today, been up and down, trying to figure out, I think at least a positive look for the company as everything's being sold off pretty substantially. And that's, of course, we're still down a little bit, nowhere near that downdraft we saw on the open in a lot of other companies. Folks, stay tuned, we will be right back. 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Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Welcome back folks, take a little bit of a look at Tesla. Give me the bigger picture on this one.  I mean, this is really quite impressive, right? The other day I was saying that one of the biggest, you know, attractors to Tesla, you know, is not really like the car production, but it's gonna be that they're mapping all these routes in order to achieve self-driving, essentially, right? And then just the self-driving itself is so positive. And so Elon today was actually speaking in France and he says that the Tesla's market cap is directly tied to whether it solves autonomous driving. Now he's looking at it as well, you know, you can tell he wants to get into automated shipping with the cargo trucks that he developed, but also you think about it as well, this is a major data opportunity for them. And if there's anything in the future where they really have a market dominance regarding autonomous driving and there's some kind of antitrust thing that occurs, they will be able to at least sell their data to other companies who are gonna be entering the market in that competition. So you're speaking in Paris, the younger adult who is speaking with Antoine Arnold, ribbed musk about Tesla's 827 billion market cap, noting it dwarfed the story to luxury conglomerates valuation, of course. The Tesla CEO responded that valuations are a strange thing. He also suggested that Tesla's market cap was tied again to whether or not the company could perfect autonomous driving technology. The potential for autonomy is that the value of autonomy is so high that even if you have a discount, a percentage profitability of autonomy happening that is extremely valuable. He also reiterated the idea of Tesla owners turning their vehicles into a fleet of self-driving robo-taxis, an idea that he once said would be implemented by 2020. Of course, we are off of that. But if you think about it, it goes beyond just the cars driving themselves and people making robo-taxies so they can get some money from it, but it's just this idea that we now have something that's relatively intelligent that can move around our infrastructure and perform tasks. So that capability, while it's positive, could get, in my opinion, hit by some kind of antitrust situation, but the data for it is so positive. Moving on and some kind of sticking with the tech, at least, I was speaking again how important it is that our country and companies understand cybersecurity and invest more into it. And we read yesterday that companies are actually de-investing from it currently. And I said this is not a positive thing and it will be a mistake. This is from today, from the AP, and it turned out that a Russian ransomware gang breached the Energy Department and other federal agencies. The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber extortion gang's global hack of a file transfer program popular with corporations and governments. But the impact was not expected to be great, they said. So yeah, that's the takeaway from it that they're giving is that it was relatively superficial and they compared it to the SolarWinds hacking campaign, which was very advanced and maintained persistence for quite a while. But the point is, is not that it didn't have an extreme impact or anything like that, but it's the fact that, again, it just occurs. And these are government agencies. This happens to city agencies out in Texas. This happens a lot, it happened in San Francisco where there were ransomware gangs essentially targeting the infrastructure. And in some ways it really is a cat and mouse game, right? Hardening can only go so far, but it is important to keep in mind that this is an arms race, right? So while there's gonna be losses a lot of the times, there will be just as many wins if investment continues. If the Department of Energy is getting hacked, it's certain that a lot of large companies will be targeted by this kind of stuff as well. And this was from the Klopp gang, basically. Based on discussions we've had with industry partners, these intrusions are not being leveraged to gain broader access, to gain persistence in the targeted systems, or to steal specific high value information. And some, as we understand it, the attack is largely an opportunistic one. But this is how cyber gangs operate, right? You kind of poke your target and get some information that's called the reconnaissance phase. And you see what works, what doesn't, and how they respond. And so these, they're brazen. And now of course there's evidence as well that this isn't, excuse me, there's no evidence that they're connected to any kind of state actor from Russia. But that can be sometimes have its own bit of issues, right? Where they are just fully focused on getting money. And this really takes a lot from companies. And it'll continue to be an issue. And seeing that de-investment from cybersecurity solutions is not a positive one. And it really should not be in the back of anyone's mind. And I'm not saying this stuff to scare anyone or be like the whole system's gonna collapse. It's not the case. But there needs to be at least some kind of public education regarding it, and there's not. And kind of on that point, and I'm gonna take a turn here for a second. And I was watching some kind of YouTube short of a guy using something called a PV hook, or I can't hook, and it's used basically just to give the operator leverage and basically move logs, right? And someone was bringing up something about it being a fulcrum, and I didn't think it was. So I went down this long rabbit hole of just kind of general like mechanics, right? And I started thinking about, when I was young and before the internet, we had like seesaws and all these kind of, really simple mechanical machines and in a way that was a method that the society we were in was teaching us how things worked, right? You know, nowadays we've focused, we've basically adapted into the digital, right? But UI, user interface has gotten so good that nobody really on average has a great understanding of how programs work or how computers work. And we don't have that opportunity that generations in the past did of learning how basic technology operates. I think young people understand how algorithms work and how to beat them and so on, but understanding what a file directory is and how that works or understanding how to keep yourself and your machine safe is just not there. And so it's resulting in kind of a more like ignorant population. And I don't mean that in a negative way, it's just there's not any real learning there. Where in the past you could see it in front of you, there's no way to really simplify a CSOD, it works how it works. But with user interface, you can kind of simplify the experience for the users and it just kind of becomes, you know, a second thought essentially, right? So I don't know, I was thinking about that last night and maybe, you know, of course it's a rambling, but just some food for thought regarding that. We'll go into this a little more, this headline a little more when we get back from the break, but this is one of the Fed officials kind of echoed what Powell was saying, where they still see an issue with inflation and it's not coming down. And nobody kind of, I guess, listened to that for a while, I know we're down today, but I think again, that's more of like an energy issue. The US Federal Reserve officials struck a hawkish tone in their first comments since the central bank held its policy interest rate steady at its meeting this week, but signaled that rate hikes will likely resume. And this is the quote that core inflation is not coming down like I thought it would. And that's Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller. He said this at an economics conference in Norway. These videos are always so interesting to watch, right? These kind of big international discussions. And it seems like people talk a little bit more freely at them than they do when they're speaking to, you know, not necessarily their constituents in this case of the Federal Reserve, but you know, people in the country that they're overseeing at least. Folks, stay tuned, we'll be right back. The Gold Report as a precious metal gold is still king. 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You know, one of the things that Powell had said, I think maybe two meetings ago or maybe three, basically saying they're gonna wait to see how credit tightening from the banks affected inflation, right, and would they need to take more action. This Federal Reserve official here said, it's still not clear that the recent strains in the banking sector materially intensified the tightening of lending conditions. The US economy was still, quote, ripping along for the most part with the underlying pace of price increases moving sideways. Of course, recent declines in headline inflation have been driven largely by food and energy prices. Volatile commodities whose price swing can mask underlying inflation trends. Excluding those goods, the personal consumption expenditures price index of April was increasing at a 4.7% annual pace more than twice essential banks targets. Demand to the US was weakening somewhat, he said, but quote, I am still looking to be convinced of a plausible story that slowing the man returns inflation relatively quickly to the 2% target. That's a really interesting comment, right, because the whole thing essentially that they're trying to do is decrease wages and in some way that decreases demand for certain things. And then that results in, you know, just through basic supply and demand would decrease the price, essentially. And it's interesting to just hear him bring that up, right, because is that really the way to do it? Is that really the best way to do it? Are the people who are getting wage cuts and they bring this up all the time, but are the people who are having their wages cut? Are they the ones really contributing to inflation? The Fed this week ended its run of 10 consecutive rate hikes when policymakers decided to keep the benchmark overnight interest rate, of course, of a range of 5% to 5.25%. Fascinating anyway. I think, again, we are still in the woods. I'm gonna be really curious to see like when the dust settles after this kind of skip, you know, if there's any kind of better insight into really why they did it. So, you know, the European Central Bank just decided to go ahead and deviate from what the Fed is doing and just raise rates even higher. So, you know, we'll see kind of how that peels out and if there's any kind of real consequences for us not doing that currently. And again, if we hit some situation where, you know, of course there are droughts that are occurring and that's gonna impact some of our food stuffs. But if energy, if something goes weird with OPEC or, you know, whatever, if an increase in that, you know, obviously we'll increase the general CPI. And then what is that gonna do to the market, right? So, again, I think this is just more of like see how it plays out over time. We stick kind of with this IT talk that we've been doing. I thought this was super interesting and quite a way to move forward. This is 930 million in grants announced in President Biden's effort to expand internet access to every home in the US. The massive federal effort to expand internet access to every home in the US took a major step forward on Friday with the announcement of 930 million in grants to shore up connections in remote parts of Alaska, rural Texas and dozens of other places where significant gaps and connectivity persist. And this is an interesting point where you're seeing government step in to do this. I know that Starlink was essentially attempting to fill these gaps as well, which was a pretty noble pursuit. And it's crazy seeing them in the sky as well. Very sci-fi, I would say. These networks are the workhorses carrying large amounts of data over very long distances, of course. White House's infrastructure coordinator said this. They're the ones that are bridging the gap between larger networks and the last mile connections from tribal lands to underserved rural and remote areas to essential institutions like hospitals, schools, libraries and major businesses. And unless you're living out there in order to get away from the internet, this is a positive. Having access to the internet does result in higher income. It results in, I guess this is arguable in some sense, but better education in a lot of ways. The largest grant of nearly 89 million was awarded to an Alaska-based telecommunications company that hopes to build a fiber network through a remote section of the state where an estimated 55% of people lack basic internet. The expansion is one of several initiatives pushed through Congress to expand high-speed internet connectivity to the entire country. And as we go on, this will just become, this is just a game of getting the whole globe connected, right? And that's been the goal for quite a while. We have the undersea cables, which are very important for connecting the continents. What's interesting about that is there's some talk and I like talking a little bit about some news that occurs with the war that's going on. But I guess the Russians had moved their missiles to Belarus and that caused an uproar and everything. But they're now also talking about maybe sabotaging the undersea cables, which is just would be absolutely horrible. But just to keep you in the loop of what they're talking about very interesting stuff and maybe a little bit worrisome. All right, obviously we've had a lot of money flowing into these equities. We had so much sitting in money market funds for a while. This is a report from Reuters that the US equity funds registered the biggest weekly inflow in 28 months. US equity funds saw their most substantial weekly net purchases since early 2021 during the seven days leading up to June 14th. As concerns over a potential rate hike during the Federal Reserve's policy meeting this week were alleviated by cooling inflation readings. Again, I just think this isn't 100% correct and you just heard from the Fed as well. The Fed left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday in line with investors' expectations and broke a streak of 10 consecutive rate hikes. According to definitive Lipper data, US equity funds drew a net of 18.85 billion worth of inflows in their biggest week, excuse me, weekly net buying since mid-February of 2021. You can see this here. US large, small, and multi-cap equity funds attracted 7.76 billion, 3.33 billion, and 1.93 billion worth of capital. And that flow will most likely continue to some extent, right? There's still a lot of money that's kind of sitting out currently. Among sectors, obviously tech secured an immense amount at 1.73 billion, the biggest inflows since December of 2021. And investors also racked up financials, consumer discretionary, and industrial sectors, fines of, excuse me, 581 million, 517, and 460 million respectively. The money market funds witnessed net withdrawals of about 10 million after observing net purchases for seven weeks in a row. And again, as those get drained out, there's just a bunch of money that's still waiting to get in to the market. Data showed US bonds received a net of 3.96 billion in inflows during the week after having a net of 577 million worth of outflows the previous week. People are trying to restructure what's going on. Investors exited 374 million worth of inflation protected bond funds in a ninth straight week of net selling. Yeah, the like I bonds obviously, you know, those can get sold out. But again, I'm like concerned reading these kind of things and reading like sentiment that people have. And it's always like, it's the small voice that's saying, I don't know guys, like there is still inflation. 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The Gold Report. Tom O'Brien publishes his weekly Gold Report every Monday morning for subscribers, consisting of coverage of the XAU, HUI, GDX, the Dollar, Bonds, the South African Rand, as well as 25 different mining equities with specific buy-sell recommendations. The Gold Report. New subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. Subscribe to Tom O'Brien's Gold Report newsletter now at TFNN.com. This program is brought to you by Vista Gold, traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. Welcome back folks. I was looking over the break a little bit at Cava, right? And that was the new IPO for the restaurant at Cava. And not much to say on it right now, but it dropped 15% after its IPO. The IPO was hyped unbelievably. And it just still blows my mind. One of the first things we really talk about in any kind of investments class that we had in college was don't buy IPOs. Like if it is a bloodbath in the beginning, it shoots up every time. And if you're buying at that top there, you're gonna get hurt pretty badly. So West of Pharmaceuticals gained 2.3%. I only say that because my granddad worked for them. And so I thought that was pretty neat that they're still in the game. Virgin Galactic, I think it was a few months ago that we were talking about how they were just closing doors entirely. Give me a second. What is their ticker? Thought it was space. Aha, obviously. Oh yeah, four. So that just said, what's up? Give me 16% increase. So yeah, they're gonna put some Italian scientists on it. Virgin Galactic announced Thursday that monthly commercial flights to the edge of space will begin for ticket holders in August following a research flight planned for the end of June. Those will be Italian scientists up there. Space Tourism Company will be taking a team of specialists with the Italian Air Force and the National Research Center of Italy to conduct, excuse me, conduct microgravity research. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So I mean, that's kind of a neat little comeback story for them when they were definitely like they released that really sad update a few months ago saying they were done. So, and it's kind of a novel way that they're doing it as well. How they have, you have like your aircraft and your rockets on the side and it just essentially sends it off, which I think is, that's kind of neat. We were talking about how some of the dock workers in the West were striking and they reached a deal. Well now UPS workers are thinking of striking this summer and they're scrambling supply chains and home delivery.  They don't have air conditioning in these vans. They work a lot. So, you know, it might be worth giving a little bit to them. The unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and Teamsters can't come into an agreement before their contract expires next month. The Teamsters said 97% of unionized workers voted for the authorization, which the union urged for in order to have more leverage during negotiations with the company. If the multi-billion dollar corporation fails to deliver on the contract that our hardworking members deserve, the UPS will be striking itself. And it's just the supply chains, whatever energy is surrounding it, they're just, you know, we had a COVID plague them terribly and then all these strikes that exist in so many countries as well. You know, especially during a time where like the Federal Reserve is trying to lower wages and a lot of these guys are arguing for better time off and better wages as well. If a strike occurs, it would be the first in a, first since the 15 day walk, excuse me, walkout by 185,000 workers that crippled the company a quarter century ago. So, pretty impressive. And obviously they have a lot of bargaining power with that, right? So, Tommy was saying earlier today, you know, he was bringing up and we were speaking about it a little bit as well about the interest rate payments for loans that are about to flood back in, right? And it is yet to see what's gonna happen and collection agencies are probably gonna be booming around that time. This article came out, it's just, you know, I think probably look at this as like a society, people who live with each other, to kind of figure out what's going on and is there a different method of doing things, you know? The interest rates on education is so expensive, excuse me, they're so high because you can't really like revoke it. You see what I'm saying? You can't take away that education. And so in order to kind of offset that risk, you know, with like a house or whatever, the bank can seize the house with a car, you can repow the car, but it's kind of possible to do with an education. So this headline is, bankruptcy experts claim it may be your only option if the 20K student loan forgiveness plan fails. Obviously the president was talking about forgiving up to 20,000, I think he said he was gonna do all of it when he was getting elected, but now we're down to 20,000 here. So that would be in federal student loans debt per borrower and this could soon reach end game if the US Supreme Court rules against the plan this month as many predict that it will. If the plan is struck down, at least one legal expert says bankruptcy might be the only option for many borrowers. Let's be real, that is absolutely going to occur, right? So many people have had to like, you know, we've adapted to having this money, right? After three years or whatever of not having to pay it. And so I don't know if people are gonna be able to pivot that quickly and what they're gonna lose and things are so expensive now as well and some people are just gonna outright not be able to afford this whatsoever. About 20% of student loan borrowers have already defaulted on a loan. According to Jonathan Pett, CEO of Upsolve, the total amount already in default is more than $124 billion. That's just intense. This demonstrates a clear need for a plan to help borrowers facing challenges with paying off their debts. He said the Biden forgiveness plan is likely to be struck down by SCOTUS, which means both loan payments and interest will resume not too long after. Relieving the debt through bankruptcy will be an option that many borrowers may be able to turn to instead. But before considering bankruptcy, obviously there's a lot of things that you as an individual can do. If you are an individual who's worrying about this, definitely check out your options. So bankruptcy is always the last resort for that kind of stuff and obviously has implications. We're talking to Gen X isn't saving any money at all and there just seems to be a lot of issues on the individual level within the American economy, right? The average balance in employer-sponsored savings planned last year was 112,000 and that's a massive decrease, almost 30,000 from the 141,442 recorded in 2021 and this is for the 401Ks. From this latest reports, from Vanguard combined have nearly 5 million participants with a median age of 43 and that's such plans as 401Ks and 403Bs as well as much smaller universe plans. Vanguard participants average account balances decreased by 20% since the year end of 2021 and that's driven primarily by the decrease in equity and bond markets over the year. The numbers look worse if you consider the median balances which was just 27,376 last year. It's insane down from 35,345 as well. Of course, the market corrected quite a bit and so there's something like with that that you kind of have to keep in mind when, excuse me, reading some of these numbers. But not all is so bad. The factory boom is occurring. This Yahoo Finance article is saying under President Biden, the manufacturing boom finally seems to be getting started but we had lower output or at least the output didn't according to the last kind of documentation on this, like American factories weren't putting out as much. The manufacturing boom, of course, finally seems that it's getting started. Since the beginning of 2022, construction spending on new factories has more than doubled from an annualized rate of 91 billion in January of 2022 to 189 billion in 2023 and that's the biggest jump by far in data going back to 2002. In April, a factory construction accounted for 9.9% of all construction, which I thought was pretty impressive and that's the highest portion in Census Bureau records, going back to 1993. 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A wind turbine is recyclable from the steel tower to the composite blades. That's a cumulative mass of 2.2 million metric tons of waste by 2050. 90% of end-life or defective solar panels also end up in landfills, largely because it costs far less to dump them than to recycle them. Isn't that the story? And that waste is pretty nasty. I mean, you're talking like heavy metals like cadmium and all that kind of nasty, nasty stuff for the environment. So any kind of solutions for that will be a positive and quite welcomed for our little science thing of the day. It is about to be summer in Florida and the state bird becomes the mosquito during that time. Well, luckily it seems like scientists might have figured out a new way to repel them. When using deat, you use a bunch of nasty chemicals that your skin absorbs, but apparently you can use cellulose nanocrystals and you put them in some kind of aqueous solution, it creates actually a pretty significant barrier and that decreases bites on humans for about 80%. The effect was further confirmed by artificial feeding on the Egyptian species, wherein the nanocrystals appears to act as a chemical camouflage to the many cues sought by insects. And you know, there's so many different alternatives. It turns out people just don't like spraying whatever the market currently has on themselves because you have the tiki torches that repel them. You know, you have the little lights, but all these things kind of affect the rest of the environment as well and you kind of end up killing, you know, other species indirectly, which is bad for the environment. So this weekend I'm gonna bathe in that stuff and hopefully can avoid the bites that I get consistently. 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Okay, as we promised, we've been joined by Dr. Lawrence Oshoba, who is a lecturer in the University of Lagos.  We'd like to say welcome to you, Dr. Oshoba. Thank you very much for using the program. Okay, let's go straight to it. We heard the brawl now is half salary for October and all that. So take us through what is really going on now, because the strike has been called off, and now this umbrella is still coming up. What is really the position now? Thank you once again. Members are very, very disappointed in that fragment, not only in which you could get your own signed agreement with the UN, but also in the memorandum of understanding and memorandum of agreement. It can also not keep the integrity that the gentleman's agreement with the speaker of the others, such as who promised that Mr. President will speak, and that we should expect this positive response only for our October salary to be amputated as it were. The salary I was paid is not just a poor answer, but rather the one that cannot be scientifically calculated based on realistic formula. What do I mean by that? You are giving a salary when you remove 100% of all deductibles. The taxes were removed 100%. Every other, every charge, whatever other indictments or deductions were removed 100%. But the balance was not even paid based on the number of days that you assume you work during the month. This has been untold, despised on members and colleagues. So the mora currently is everywhere in Europe, and we have shown our disagreements or our disappointments with the purpose that it did for yesterday. So sending the signal to all who cares to know that academics are not casual workers, or you can determine their pay based on the number of days they work. In fact, one thing is called academic freedom. Academic freedom by implications means we can plan and do our work based on our best in training. We can deliver that job done. So it is very, very wrong for the government to say we have not worked, even while we are on strike. You know, since we resumed quite a number of previous students have defended their PhD thesis, some of them have defended their master's thesis, this would not have been possible if some form of supervision were not going on throughout the period of strike. And as is well known, our job has three major components, which is research, community development and teaching. And in fact, if we teach all the courses in the engineering system, which are so brilliant, you cannot be promoted if your research does not match up to what is required for it to be promoted. We are all in this country. While recently, the US has celebrated the citation of the up-world movement of the US in the world, during this period of strike. Would that have been possible if there were not condom of publication that happened during this strike? Where people, where colleagues were able to have ample time to see them and write, I mean, publish on their work, some of their findings in recent years. Whereas, I mean, what do you get in return for all this effort? Okay, Doctor, just... That is the case. Let's understand. Maybe you have said it and I didn't get the point well. We're here of the complaint about October salary being paid half, half of the salary being paid. We don't seem to hear anything about from February to September. And we've been wondering, is it that they paid for all the months, and it's just October that was paid half, or as who accepted the fact that they shouldn't be paid from February to September and only from October that they resumed? Because we've not had much talk about other months, just October. Okay. Well, our salary was topped in February. The last salary payment was in February. So we have not received any salary since then, from March. And the last salary that was received was corrupted, as they mentioned, from October 14 that we resumed from this fight. So we have not received any salary from March to end of September. I mean, to October 14, or October 13, when we call out the strike on October 14. So, and one of the gentlemen agreement with Mr. Speaker and all the consents may be added up to intervene was that the fragment was going to pay off this salary because our job schedule is not only teaching, it's teaching research and community development. The evidence of the teaching and of the research and community development is, I mean, but when you see the ranking of three major investors in recent years, in recent times. Well, that is serious. So what you've talked about, the gentlemen agreement, like you said, that the speaker of the House of Representatives had with you and one of the provisions was that they were going to pay you the outstanding salaries. Can you work us through some more provisions of these gentlemen agreements? What are the things that we agreed upon that made lecturers to go back on their words and say, okay, look, we're going back to class? What are some of these things that gave you so much hope to return to class? Well, as we all see, based on Congress that we had and feedback we had from the National Executive Committee of the House of Representatives, the gentlemen agreement entailed that the provision will be made in the 2023 budget concerning the funding of the industry, concerning a new salary package, concerning an academic allowance and Mr. Speaker, including Mr. President, when he was presenting the budget for next year, mentioned those things. So, practically, we were assured that those provisions were made in the budget, and this was confirmed when Mr. President presented the budget to Congress to the National Assembly. In addition, it was mentioned, I mean, the Congress, who abbreviated the Congress, that Mr. Speaker has spoken with Mr. President that he should consider, he should reconsider the standard of argument on the new work, because lecturers cannot be so treated in view of the fact that our job is not only teaching and as part of finding a reasonable solution to the impasse, our salary, the backlog of our salary will be paid. So, that was the gentleman's view. Like now, the lecturers have been protesting since Monday or Tuesday, if I'm correct. How long do you people intend to keep protesting? And what's the plan? What are you going to do afterwards from here? Is it only the protest has also met on their own, and what is the way forward from here? The way forward, sorry, please, the way forward, if you can hear me, is that you continue to agitate the mind of Nigerians and call this government what they are in the sense that they cannot, they have proven that they cannot resolve this issue so far. And this would tell evidently on the quality of the services that members will be rendering in the system, because you don't expect somebody that has not collected salary for the past eight months that has been to pay, that has been to pay not to show his disaffection in class. And I mean, just like the way the secondary and primary education system collapsed in this country, I might be seeing something towards that regarding the university education as well. That's really serious. Very scary actually. But you know, apart from everything, there are some people who have argued that we can't be seeing strikes every day from academicians, from lecturers, from university system where the university system was supposed to be like a mini-country on its own. It has everything in the university. And people see this as going cap in hand to the federal government all the time for funding and everything. It really has to stop. Does us who have any plan for the future, that they will move for autonomy, they will move for financial independence and everything that will make it work better and not rely on the federal government or any other government for that matter? Well, that question, everything, but the fragment is the owner of the university system. That's why the president of Nigeria is a visitor to the federal institutions. So, and the policy of the fragment is what is being operated across the Nigerian institution. If you go to the section on the constitution, as of today, the funding of the university is the responsibility of the federal government. And they have not abdicated their role. And even in their campaign and everything, they keep saying, the education will be free up to the university level. So, I strongly believe that the issue, we are asking for autonomy. When we ask for autonomy, we are asking for autonomy in terms of autonomy in the management of the system. And that is what we have been pursuing for a while. However, it is left for the government to go to the public and say, I mean, I'm going to, education is going to be free across all borders to the university level. And they now provide the requisite equipment and facilities to make that environment conducive for them. When you say management, sorry Dr. Just a moment, Dr. When you say management, to what extent do you want, does the university system want to be managed by itself? Like, if you say management should be handed back to the university, are you talking about management in terms of funds and academics, curriculum and everything that is in the university? Or is it just management and still expect funding to come from the federal government? Because if that's the case, he who pays the piper dictates the tune. No, there is no where in the world. As it is, there is no where in the world. Where the government abdicated responsibility concerning education. Even in the most of the best of the country that we aspire to go or we look towards like buildings and like, they still commit quite substantial amount to education. However, the system also makes sure that the university education is competitive. What do I mean by that? In the sense that government does its part, the industry does its part, and then the parent also does its part. If you go to a country like Canada, for instance, up to 18 years old, the government pays the parents for them to budget for the university education of their wards. So when they get to the university, then they will not claim that they don't have funds to pay for the university, for the university education of their wards. But is that the case here? Is anybody taking of the Nigerian child to invest in them? So that when they get to the university, they have funds to go to the university? That is not the case. However, as I said, the constitution has to today promise that education is going to be responsible for the fragment. As the fragment changes, is it the answer that will change the constitution to reflect that? As you cannot change that, you can only do that whatever the fragment promise, whatever the constitution promise, you can only ensure or try to twist the government to fulfill the obligation. In terms of running of the university system, the government council of the university, the chancellor of the university system, is also being appointed by the government as an overseer. So they have an overriding factor in the decision that is taken. There is no decision, even when it is taken at the Senate, they have to go to the government council of the university. We are not quarreling with that. However, we are saying that the issue is that when you promise that you are going to do something, then whatever you are going to do, you have to do it. You have several agreements with us, and then you fail to implement on your agreement. Where is it done that the last increment for salary of professors or lecturers will be in 2009? Where is it done? It is not done everywhere. Is it a sin for us to agitate for that, for implementing our welfare? Okay. Well, doctor, there is so much to talk about, and we are still hoping to have this interaction. Hoping that at that time, you will be talking and smiling more than you are doing today, because the conditions hopefully will be better. We would like to thank you for coming on the show today. Thank you very much. Well, that was Dr. Lawrence Oshova, a lecturer at that. What is going on? It won't be so wrong. Well, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, and being a member of us too, it's also a biting hard on him.  Or just society that has to have these young men and women just come home without knowing right from left. It's easy to say when there is strike, you need to go and learn a trade or something, but it doesn't always work that way. You need to pay money to learn a trade. You have to pay money. Money that could have been saved to pay your fees. You're paying for the trade, and then suddenly government wakes up and says, as you come back, and then you're still looking for the other money to go and pay. I know no knowledge is wasted anyway. And then there are under a lot of pressure. If you're active on social media, you would see students complaining bitterly about the amount of pressure that they have to go through, because they have to write an exam that is usually supposed to be like three weeks or two weeks at most, they have to write it in one week. And for a session that they should have prepared for in three months, they have to prepare in one week. That's not a very nice place to be in. And there's no way, like we were saying at the opening, that there's no way you can tell a lecturer that, okay, since you didn't work, I'm not going to pay you. And then the lecturer leaves what he should have taught from February to September because he was not paid and goes, he has to go back. Yeah, because somehow, he's not going somehow. He has to convert the curriculum. He needs to finish whatever he has set out to teach for the semester. That is the only way exams can happen. And that is the only way complete education and learning would have happened. So whatever scripts he had to mark for a year, he will mark him one week. Whatever assignments he had to give for two semesters. So there's so much pressure everywhere. But we shouldn't be talking in the 21st century about lecturers going on strike, people relegating education to the background and all that. 2023 is coming. I do hope whoever will take the reins of leadership will look very, very critically at the education sector and make sure it's better. Because someone said that a country is not marked or the greatness of a country is not measured by the money they have, but by the number of educated people that they have. Because you can be... What do they say in Nigeria? Money means road. Money means road. We have been like that once when somebody in government said that the problem of Nigeria is not the money. It's how to spend it. And there was boom. And that money couldn't get into something that today could have been reaping. Now we are crying. We go out to import oil. It's crazy. We will continue having even more interesting conversations on the run-up. We'll go in on a quick break when we return. Another guest will be with us. Don't go anywhere. Stay with us.


Welcome back everyone to another episode of Let's Play Dragon Quest 2 on Nintendo Switch. Last episode we came to this town, this river port town. What's the town called again? Ripple port. That's exactly what it's called. Okay Ripple port. Basically this girl was being attacked by some Hargon's forces because apparently these people don't realize that you're supposed to check the walls and make sure there's no cracks or like you know penetrations in but yeah regardless of that we have earned this boat now for saving her. Before the guy said he won't give it to us but now he's letting us have it. Also I just spotted something I wanted to see. What is a bunny girl doing here? Oh a heartfelt puff puff. Where are you? I should look no further than she. Wait if you say no does the fair maiden deed with whom travels? Where are you? I should look no further than me. She's my cousin okay this is well I mean they are they are royalty after all they kind of the royal families in like England and stuff do do hang do do that kind of stuff. Oh look puff puff. So I wonder what the princess thinks about that. I think the princess is probably upset about that. She's like why is this guy getting a puff puff? Oh yes I did pluck your own granddaughter from Jaws of Fate. He's so slow. Alright we're gonna take the boat out. Take the boat out for a little spin. It's a very nice boat. Now according to the map I can't zoom in right? Now watch this listen to the music when I get off the boat listen to the music. You recognize that don't you? You know where we are? This is Alifgaard from the original Dragon Quest. This is where the entire events of the original Dragon Quest took place and we're here. Isn't that crazy?  It has tougher enemies though. Spells. No I didn't mean not mean to do that. Spells. Sizz. Spells. Woosh. So we are oh it didn't work. It doesn't work on him. There must be like spell proof or something. Anyway we are in Alifgaard right now and the original Alifgaard music is here. Mud mannequins. Kind of creepy. And that must be Tentacle Castle. Now isn't this a familiar sight? There's Charlotte Castle right across the river just like in the original Dragon Quest and there's Tentacle Castle and if you notice the actual town next to Tentacle Castle is not there anymore. The reason why is because in the original Dragon Quest too there was memory constraints so they couldn't fit the entire content of Tentacle and Alifgaard into here. So they trimmed it down a little bit and they incorporated the town of Tentacle into the castle. So this is okay if you notice it looks exactly like the Tentacle Town originally right? Like the weapon shop is here. There's like a door here. There's an old man here. There's a shop here. There's an inn here. It's kind of similar but not quite. So this is the castle it's all incorporated in and we've got a weapon shop here. I forgot I have no money.  Oh the heck? What is that? Okay hold on a sec. Uh yes I am the descendant of the mighty Erdrick. This is my ancestral home of Tentacle. Wow. The Dwarf here castle. Tentacle Fair Princess Gwailin. The legends tell that she quit this place to journey forth outside of who did deliver the world from darkness. Oh. Oh so I can save here cool. So we can save here and we're gonna continue of course. Hello. Lights shine upon the signs of Erdrick. That's cool. That's pretty badass. So what's going on here? Where's the king? I don't have the right key. I don't have the right darn key. What's going on here? A tale of sunken treasure? No. A merchant in Rippleport who is possessed of a great fortune. He loaded untold treasure into the hole of a northbound ship and it sunk. So north of here there's a treasure interesting. There's a lot to explore here. Oh this must be a dead end shop. Let's see it's got a wing, a chicken wing, a banishing bell. It's kind of not worth the money if I'm being honest.  Let's head up. Some soldiers here. A gold key to open a gold lock. Nobody has the gold key though. King himself deserted his subjects. That king was hiding right? We know where the king is. All right if I open this door I can open this door right? Oh yes. I can open the door and the keys don't just destroy it. What? I don't even know. Okay let's just get out of here. This place is a waste of time. He's hiding in the freaking attic of the weapon. He's hiding in the... Let me show you where the king is. He's hiding because he's so scared of the dragon lord. Look at this. He is hiding. I can't open the door. He's hiding from Hargon's forces because he's so scared. But what a... And he's a descendant of Erdric. He has to be if he's ruling over the castle. That's the only thing that makes sense. Or is he? He is the descendant of Erdric right? Or maybe not. But anyway let's explore the gold times. Did I even rest up? I should rest up actually. They got an in here right? Yeah I'm gonna rest up actually at the inn. Then we'll leave. Better be three gold. Six gold. That's a little expensive. That's two per person. All right so we're heading off. I think there might be a hint. We should go to Charlotte Castle. That's my my gut feeling is telling me we should go there.  What's funny is the entire Aleph Guard is... If you look at the entire Aleph Guard is modeled but there's only a few cities because the cities they couldn't they couldn't render all these cities in an NES cartridge right? Obviously not. Okay there's a cave.   All right so we made it. And flee. Okay looks like I can. Oh it's not all dark like it was before. And this is where the sleeping dragon slept before. Is a Rimmeldar still there? Oh no it's it's not there anymore. That's kind of sad that the entire town's not like it's not there anymore. It is missing. Where should we go now? I guess we should go to Charlotte Castle now right? Oh some track. Oh no. Please okay this is not good. I didn't realize I was so so damaged. Okay well they're doing a good job these guys. Okay she she rescued me. Somebody leveled up. Someone leveled up. 14.  One damage. Might as well just run. Just about had it. I'm just about done with you guys. Okay so Charlotte Castle I wonder what's here. I mean the dragon lord was defeated years ago. What could possibly be here? It's all ruined. You see this the entire castle's all destroyed and this must be behind the throne room where it was originally. The hidden circle stay at the bottom. This looks oddly similar to the original. You know it's very it's very accurate.  They look a bit different than the ones in the later games don't they? And a mummy boy. Okay they're tough. They're not easy. Well he just died. He just freaking died again. I can't believe he just died. Again we are he's dead again. Okay now I don't have healing powers anymore. Wait how much health does she normally have? Can't tell exactly how much health she's normally supposed to have but what? Then just flee. Okay just keep fleeing. There's something in this place that I need to get. So we gotta plan out our strategy. This is the only one place to go. Lee. Surprise is working. You see the treasure chest right there? You know what that treasure chest is. What's in there right? You know what's in there. That's what I'm here for. I need to get that. And it's odd it's very early in the game and we're already getting that. I gotta say run. Okay so now we are on the third floor. I just have to think about where we should go because there's a lot of staircases here. Okay I'm poisoned now. These enemies are really tough. Do I have any antidotal herbs? Oh I got a bunch. These heal me. That staircase should be bringing me somewhere now. Three path down. Up. The prize I'm managing to flee from everyone so far. Okay so now this is a place with a lot of staircases. There's three different staircases here. I have to think. I'm just thinking of where I should go. 11 to 13, 13 to 14. Okay try this. Oh there it is. Now you know what this is. You know what this is. It's our ancestors. Our ancestors gift to us. Erdrick's sword. There's no epic music or anything like that. It would just... oh you had Erdrick's sword. Hey it's no big deal. Yeah it just increases my attack by about a 25 extra. Yeah I'm equipping this. Okay thank you.  It's just not... it's not no big deal though you know. Whatever just a typical typical day for me.  All right we're going downstairs now. We're going... This is the the original U path to get to the dragon lord fleeing from you. I've managed to flee from every person so far. Okay okay wow we're really good at fleeing. This is really confusing. Who's that on the right? You see that? Oh my goodness. Okay okay please heal yourself. Come on heal yourself heal yourself. This is tough. It's tough because she could easily die just from a couple steps on this thing. Small steps we gotta take. That spells is really powerful. Powerful stuff. All right we're gonna have to mid heal her now. I might as well mid heal myself also. 146. 1054. Full plate. See the strength. Okay how much is that going to... it's exactly the same. He's dead. She's dead. Oh she's not dead but... well there's no point in me buying that then and I've got a lot of money now looks like. Was it worth almost killing myself though? We're not gonna make it out of here. We're gonna die if we leave. And it's not gonna be worth it. She's dead. I'm dead. Oh no. Okay well the money we just got we got split in half and we didn't get anything from it. Okay okay bring them back to life please.  If he wasn't so useless he would have been able to save us. Her back. Right now she's back and that was kind of worthless going in there but we gotta go fight that dragon lord guy. Get rid of the dragon lord still alive. Hey you know we have more money than we started out with at least. I'll say that much. Let's see the chain sickle. Oh yeah we also got full plate armor. Now wait can he equip that chain sickle? 60 for me. It'll make him 41 but maybe yeah I should sell it and I should probably sell some something else to give anything else that can be sold. Super stick. Super stick. Cypress stick. Okay uh kind of get ourselves something. Plain clothes. 1993. And then I could use an antidol herb. You don't want to sell one of those. Okay just one antidol herb I'll sell. 2001. My favorite movie. Okay now where the heck is the bank? Where's the bank at? There's gotta be the bank around here right? I want to lose all my money. All right whatever. Maybe we can afford an armor set of some sort now. Okay we could buy buy something. Steel broadsword. You know what? Look of evasion in the iron helmet. I don't have money for that. If I bought the steel broadsword that would make me a lot stronger and then you know what I could do? I'm gonna equip this and now here's what I'm gonna do next. I'm gonna give the legendary sword of Ertrick to this guy because you know what it makes a bigger difference for him than it does to me. At least now we're kind of equal now you know. Oh look at that. Oh and that's easy. I didn't realize that would happen. We don't even have to go all the way that all that way then. All right so I think I memorized where to go.    You poisoned her.  Heal her. Put that on her. Okay now let's move forward. He's got the sword of Ertrick which means he's stronger now. See. Deeply flea.  And as you can see that treasure chest is not opened which means we've gotten the treasure from it. We're just gonna keep fleeing until we until we get there. Now I remember where we need to go. We go up here. It's a lot less complicated than was in the original Dragon Quest. Do not make me snooze. Basil. Come on. We've come on. Okay nice. We all almost died. Heal yourself now. Everyone almost died just now. Okay so we go down here. We go up here. I flee. And it doesn't work because I suck. Okay attacking. Okay now he's gonna heal himself. Heal the girl. He's gonna mid heal me. Go downstairs. Go down here to the left.  This is just like the original Dragon Quest Dragon Lord dungeon. All right now we're not going up there because that's gonna kill us and we don't need that in our lives. We go around here. Let's fight this Dragon Lord. Let's get ready to mess him up like our ancestor did. How is he still alive? How's the Dragon Lord still alive? How does this make any sense? All right what do you want? So thou come before me at last. I'm the great great grandson of the Dragon Lord. Master of Masters Kings and Kings. This is the Dragon Lord's great grandson. It's one named Hargon. Wait so he wants me to take on Hargon for M and team up? What if I say no? You will not leave this place. He'll tell me something important if I take on Hargon so he's on our side. Five Sigils. You might earn the protection of your dear mistress. The seat to the south where Kantlin once stood there's an island. Journey south from here and you will surely find it. Take the five Sigils there and receive your blessing. Then you can face your foe. So he's on our side. Wow. I gotta say I'm impressed. Oh we hit our head in the ceiling. Gotta say I'm a bit impressed that he's actually on our side this time. Did not expect that. Though the Dragon Lord the great grandson sees him as a mutual threat that we should both team up to defeat. Why we're going? Why is he still saying his baddies after us then if he wants us to be friends? I guess he's not that bad after all then. Okay we're heading on here. You're not like that cobra. One bit.  Please don't kill me. Okay I'm dead. Okay he's dead. She's dead. Okay now we're all dead. Everyone's dead. Resurrect him. That's a lot of money for a guy who's completely useless. All right. Whatever. We have loyalty to each other. Nip 35 that's worth it. Nope. Don't need anything else from you. We know what we need to do. We need to go where Kantlin once was and we know where Kantlin is. Imagine if you're not a Dragon Quest fan you don't know where Kantlin is. You know imagine if you were in Dragon Quest at a boat would that be crazy? All right so this is where Kantlin is. Or it was at least. There's an island south of Kantlin. I see the island. Take the Siglet of the Sigils there and then we'll get a power unlike any other. Hawkman. At least Hoth. Come on Sword of Erdrick.  Who was it? It was her. Holy protection. All right so you gotta heal yourself bud. I wanted to check out this. Is this a shrine?  Do you have proof of your birthright? What? Is that what I think it is? Is that the helmet of Erdrick just sitting there? So this guy is not going to give it to us unless we have proof. What is this? What is this? The sun? Okay we already got one of the Sigils in. So this one on the right brought us here wherever we are.  All the way in the bottom right hand corner of the map. That's odd. This is fast travel in this game. You gotta figure out which of these portals to take. It's claimed that Serendia awake those who enter the Hollow Paragon. He needs a golden key. Okay where am I now? That's very far away. I gotta say. Maybe we should move from here. Check this place out. These guys. I didn't think there would be such tough enemies here.  Okay I'm dead. All right you gotta zoom us out of here bud. All right you can zoom us to Dantico Castle.  Some hero he is I guess. It is such a maze getting around here. 70 gold yeah I'll take it. I forgot how much of a headache this game is.  This game at this point right? The game is not linear anymore. This game is open world. It's a true open world game. Those sigils you can get them in any order you want. You do not have to you know follow a specific order. You don't have to follow a specific order. Oh we're still poisoned. I thought I got rid of that. All right we'll swoosh these guys. Hopefully I get some EXP. I keep hitting X. I keep hitting X. I keep freaking hitting X. Okay who is Squelch? He has Squelch. Okay he's not poisoned anymore. Now let me think. Where was I supposed to go? I'm supposed to go south of Cantalinta. This is one island. That guy's a teleportal.  Yeah yeah that's true. The non-material objects they're signifiers to quality qualities of soul itself. Okay whatever that means. This must be the tower of Rubus. They might come here after I get all seven. I was thinking of where to go. What was this tower called again? Some Gorgons. All right so this this tower is pretty tough. This is the lighthouse. I just realized because I'm trying to remember where to go considering where I went before. So if I'm correct they don't notice us but we're gonna flee. Best to avoid confrontations. Oh they're not nice. They're not very nice people. Don't hit her. Please work. Please work. Okay we're dead. We're dead. We're dead again. All right we're back in Cantalinta Castle. You know what let's just save again. 21 EXP will level me up. All right I think we'll end today's episode here. That was a lot of running around we did and we made it to the Dragon Wars castle. We met the Dragon Wars great grandson and we joined forces with him. He gave us a lot of good information. So yeah that's uh some good progress we've made. So yeah thanks for watching. See you next time when we continue our journey in Dragon Quest 2. Bye.