We're glad to know you're still there and watching the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. Right now we're going to leave from off-the-press headlines that made it to the national dailies and to do that with us and help us make sense with some of the headlines. We have a public affairs analyst talking to us from Aqqaibom in the person of architect Ezekiel Nyaitouk. Good morning and welcome to the program, sir. Good morning and thanks for having me as always. God bless you. You too. Okay, we're beginning this morning with a daily independence. Today we have just three papers that we're going to cover and let's just take some of the headlines here before we begin to dissect them one after the other. In daily independence, the boldest headline is further Naira devaluation scene now exchanges for 917 Naira per dollar and the writer on that story is federal government may be forced to review FX liberalization policy and that's according to analysts. We also have on top of that front page Nijekou, NGE calls for strategic engagement and diplomacy. Then we have a health issue breastfeeding lowest risk of breast ovarian cancers then other smaller headlines have supreme islamic council opposes sanctions military actions in Niger. Nigeria loses 3.46 trillion Naira to poor infrastructure others at ports and revs threaten to invoke powers against IPPIS AMKON budget office. MFLA asks court to stop DSS from further prosecuting him and subsidy removal, a kitty case, 5,000 Naira monthly to 10,000 poor households and food distribution. Okay, those are the headlines on the front pages or the front page rather of the daily independent and Mr architect let's begin with Naira devaluation. Naira devaluation now there's liberalization of the currency and we're seeing the dollar exchanging for about 917 Naira even though in in Lagos is still about 800 and something but in other places maybe Kaduna and other centers is exchanging in the black market for 917 and beyond so who this liberalization is it hurting us or not because they told us that it is a good policy and it will make things better in the shortest possible time but now it's 917 Naira what are your thoughts? Yeah the very first thing is that I like going foundational what makes the currency of a country to go up in value or to go down when you are able to establish the dynamics that make it to either appreciate or depreciate then you are able to address those fundamentals that address it and then you'll be able to get the desired results any policy that is not based on data statistics and foundational you know we talk about first principles all such policies cannot go far why is the Naira depreciating currency depreciates when the demand for it is more than the supply for it how do we get about demands demands come from the test of the people where even toothpick is imported demand comes from industrialists who want to get certain components to be able to run their factories or their industries where those components are probably available in raw material form in their country but they export such materials in the raw form and go ahead to import them back as finished products with the added added added cost and losing all the derivatives that will come there from demand you know exceeds supply where the people do not produce then on the other hand the currency appreciates when the supply is more than the demand and where do the supplies come from number one people appreciate and they you know patronize locally made goods so they don't need any foreign exchange to buy foreign goods so the demand on the calling dollar this time is not so high number two people are producing so much and are exporting they are exporting on account of which on the basis of the exports they are gaining more and more and more currency so the currencies they bring in is more than the demands here as a result that price hides number three government is training their people in house and not sending them a broad paying ester code paying flight and buying the flight ticket in dollars number four or five the foreign airlines are not the predominant carriers as a result they have to no have capital repatriation their money has to go back to them but the local airlines are strong enough the national carriers to carry the people so you buy your ticket in naira and not in dollars now what is the basis of policy intervention along this very simple economics i'm an architect so if i know this one plus one to be two then the mathematicians should know the exponent and the extrapolation of figures to get better results so for me you know coming to just address matters in the media you know superficially oh government did you know doing the analysis they don't make sense why can't mr president do one two three things number one just as you did not submit list of ministers at the same time you can also sway in meet ministers in batches get your minister of finance sway the person in inside your office there's no ceremony to eat all you need is to take the oath of office and there's nothing that defines me it must be taken get us a minister of finance get us a minister of defense get us a minister of health get us a minister of foreign petroleum yes and labor this critical problem and of course the attorney general and minister of justice these five people swear them in let them go in and start to do their work today everything is being coordinated from the office of the of the uh what was the name by Jamia Miller is the office chief of staff chief of staff nothing but secretary to government of the federation there's something fundamentally wrong and this is not the tinubu that i've known before today there's something something curiously wrong so the naira will continue to to just i was very sure i could have sworn you know with my little finger that by today the naira will be hovering around five hundred dollars i was very sure of that because i believe that as soon as president tinubu came in or president well i've always believed that it to be either a pc or it to be labor party any of the two people you know peter will be for his let's move from consumption to production then tinubu for his capacity to bring in a team of technocrats to handle the system these two are the way the two people that i felt any of them coming in you know the economy will start to breathe life and i foresaw a situation where the dollar actually went to exchange for about 300 naira eventually but what's happening right now uh defies logic as far as my mind is concerned okay well uh let's hope for the best because uh at that time when uh the cbn had a different rate from the um open market as it is or the black market um some people could breathe there was a possibility that if you don't get it from the black market you can get it from the official rate but now that has been abolished and they say that things will get better and is still the way it is now it is uh almost a thousand naira and i'm sure in some on some occasions it will get to a thousand naira uh per dollar and that is really really not good for us okay there are two headlines here that are similar and um nijeku nge calls for strategic engagement and diplomacy and also supreme islamic council opposes sanctions military action in nijek well pronouncements have already been made that an ultimatum has been was given and the day has passed now president tinu is saying that whatever he said was not his the presidency is saying whatever it had said about uh military might and all that was not theirs it was a coerce thing and now they're coming back to talk about dialogue and all that is that just trying to save face or how let me just say how can we save face uh now that it has gotten to this point now nijek is daring us mali is daring us pokina faso is daring us and the world powers that are supporting them are daring us from the background and we need to stay strong and we need to stay united what other approaches can be used to save face and then restore the kind of uh normalcy that we want to see in nijek in your opinion please yeah you know there's a saying a latin saying if you don't understand don't bother i will interpret a latin that says that says for oh your method that's latin that's latin right if you don't understand okay for oh your method as method oh yeah what that simply means that when you are here you want to go there when you are there you want to come back home you see when you are the chairman of a body it's like you're being the president of an organization you know they say the box stops on your table if you are hasty in taking a decision now we could have maybe been a little more understanding with mr president that probably he was compelled to take a certain decision with it without thinking through if at home we could see him as a man who thinks through every decision before he takes he is strategic he is analytic he is firm so we can say because he was a chairman of ecoverse and they were all cohorts of state maybe that is why they kind of prevailed upon him to pronounce something that he did not believe in but the question is in Nigeria do we really see a president as one who thinks through all the issues before he takes a decision will we say that he thought through the issue of you know swell subsidy put things in place and took a decision would we say that the monetary policy about floating the naira he thought through it before taking a decision on account of which we can say look at his track record that's the sort of person he is so for him to have announced this a military option or military threat you know he must have been forced by others we can understand so for him to say that now is um is difficult for me to really buy that story but bottom line we are here we are here what's the way forward americans cut your losses as far as i'm concerned it's become clear that military option is not an option at all on the table as far as nigeria is concerned if you look at the details of the dynamics of the country niger where our past president says even when he leaves you go and meet his cousins those people niger and nigeria and nothing nigeria there's no line or that closing of border i don't understand how they close border because if you close border it means that the the airlines cannot go there even the road transportation cannot go there even people cannot pass and i kept asking so how did emya of um the car no former emya san usi mayoga how did he go there did he did he how how did he he disappeared and reappeared there so so those things and if you know how that border is closing it is an intellectual exercise because i mean how do you close what is there as far as is you know you can walk across you can i don't even know what to say but for now i think that what mr president needs to do is have around him strategic thinkers who thinks three steps ahead you know there's something about government and governance that we do not have in nigeria and we so desperately need to have and that is a back room you know cabinet that is not known faceless nobody knows that but the job of these people is to take every issue and go three steps ahead take every issue do you know that the phone that you have that comes out today was ready almost 10 years ago some five years ago they kept doing testing and refining and testing and refining as we sit today you know i happen to have a son that is into you know this field of of of of the i city where they like forecast he tells me what will happen in the next 10 years i'm like wow do you understand me you need to know five years ahead of you several steps ahead before it happens before there's a coup you ask yourself assuming there's a coup in mali assuming there's a coup in niger whatever assuming there's a coup in this what are the dynamics what we play out if it plays out like this what should be step one what should be is assuming nobody's thinking of coup at all assuming there's this in this they think through situations they are strategic thinkers there are people who are versed with options and possibilities they are world beaters they that you must whatever it costs you to have such people have them so that you keep smelling like a rose and people are like wow this guy is always on point he is not always on point he has back door back room you know you know dressing where they get things ready for him way ahead of time if that happened number one we would have had an option assuming there was a coup in my in niger option two you see a coup in niger is not the same thing as a coup in kemeron is not the same thing as a coup in gana is not the dynamics are different because within the borders there are certain relationships and you know there's this francophone anglophone kind of you know rivalry so to speak and we are surrounded by the francophone the one anglophone that the one francophone that we seem to have a good relationship with is niger niger leads us to my library uh library what is happening in library has so much you know niger as a buffer before it comes to us in nigeria this is a very strategic country that's where we need to be very careful and not to start what we cannot finish the best thing is for mr president i think if i'm right the the the the the the strategic interventions might be a strategic thinking do you understand me to give him a kind of fall back you know in that oh because the clergy because the professionals because this because that because of the overwhelming and i'm the president of nigeria as much as this is done since i hold in trust the mandate of nigerians and nigerians have overwhelmingly come to me to ask me to think about this gentleman i understand that this was a collective um issue but you see i'm first before uh being the chairman of echo was i am first the president of nigeria and if they remove that mandate i cannot even be here so my people say we should do it this way let him present it that nigerians have overwhelmingly directed him directed him not suggested to him the office of the citizen is one thing that i've been i've been i'm now starting to take on as a national discourse and a national assignment and engagement we need to understand the concept of the office of the citizen mr president is our employee he's not he's not a monarchy he's not a boss he's not a king he is elected by us which means we have sent him so he reports to us we are the owners of the mandate he is not the owner he didn't buy us we sent him when we realize that then you discover that he must have necessity without any room for man over report to the people and do what the building of the people is okay let's move to another item as a fuel subsidy we we hear that akiti state has approved uh five thousand naira monthly to ten thousand power households and food distribution as well remember that akiti state has a population of over three million three hundred five three million five hundred thousand something and above and ten thousand households are earmarks to be given five thousand naira monthly with food and that's the same thing playing out at the national level where we have over two hundred million people and eight thousand is promised to citizens of 12 million households so a household will get eight eight thousand naira per month that vulnerable household might have seven people inside that household or it might have eight people or ten people the poorer the more in population anyway we have seen from experience that we have here because the poor have only themselves they don't have critical meetings to attend anywhere they don't have things that will occupy them in the in the office and all that they have themselves so they tend to have more children and more relations staying in the same place so 12 12 million households to get eight thousand naira each for six months just six months after that you're on your own and akiti state is talking about um five thousand to uh households ten thousand households for every month and i'm just asking myself where is this leading us fuel subsidy was supposed to save money for us and now everybody's talking palliatives and it seems to be just another hydra-headed monster with a different name or what do you think you know you know yeah i belong to the labor civil society group at the highest level and um yesterday we had a meeting of probably about um maybe less than 20 of us and when you have a meeting where you have the likes of the president of nlc is there the likes of mr patun told me is there and i don't need to go calling the rest of the names it's an extremely high-powered you know meeting and i'm privileged to be part of that body and we we we we just crack our heads as to where we are going as a nation our our mindset you know i i am i'm i'm i'm i'm bothered that we seem to run what i call here and now crazy it's about here and now it's about here and now we don't think about tomorrow and nations are built on foundations of you know forecasting the future long-term planning strategic long-term planning in equity states that you just said i'll tell you what happens every month 50 million error goes down to where i don't know because in a population of three million what is ten thousand you bring out ten thousand people out of three million people you feed them for a couple of months and it seizes after the three months five months six months the question is what have you achieved i'll tell you two things that you've achieved number one you have ten million fifty million fifty million every month if you extrapolate fifty million for five months you're talking of two hundred and fifty million six months you're talking of three hundred million gone down and you creating dependency syndrome in ten thousand people where their case is washed up please don't put sugar on my mouth and remove it allow me to be eating my salt using salt to drink my curry the moment you introduce sugar for me to drink my curry and i get used to that and then you remove you stop giving me that sugar what do you think you have done to me you've made my situation worse it's like a man that used to go on keke everybody's knows him he goes on his keke you go and give that man a car and the environment knows him now as a car owner six months after you remove the car from the man i'll say my guy help her wear your moto wear your moto wear your moto so he's now faced with that social stigma of a used to be you know but if he was going with his keke you know maybe he would have now started maybe using code from time to time because he has been able to improve himself what am i saying the federal government is by giving eight million naira to about sorry eight eight thousand naira to about 12 million people in six months would have committed about 30 35 billion into voicemail and creating like what i've just said dependency syndrome social stigma and unsustainable lifestyle but if the federal government like i made a proposal to them a billion i will give you what i call an enterprise estate enterprise estate is you know look how it has 200 housing units one bedroom it has an enterprise center of operator it teaches 200 young people setting skills and it is there 200 houses will be built by probably 200 people who will have engagement and opportunity of making some money maybe five million over a period of time of the construction at the end of that six months what do you have you have in the very very very minimum i'm talking about weighted to one state i'm talking about quibble for instance that's what will come to a quibble that's why i did an open letter to mr prerian said please that 35 billion that should come to a quibble state do not give the first list who don't know bring it let us establish enterprise estate in at the very minimum 10 of the federal constituencies in a quibble so that at the end of one year we would have an estate that has been built and all the money has gone to the power of the people we have 200 young people that are trained on a regular basis we have something to see to hold on to we have people who go back and become employers of labor we have something that continues to kind of expand it's like a ripple the water it drop keeps expanding after this period now compare a and b option a that 37 billion has gone voicemail is over do you understand me option b we now have this estate in 10 federal constituencies where young people are being trained where they are cultivating food where they are getting productivity where things are being so there's a difference between consumption of a thousand and production of enterprise estate i mean it's no brainer for you to know what makes sense but we have this here and now crazy where we must do what the people see working here and it doesn't make sense but even the enterprise thing you're talking about people will see it and that is a collective enjoyment as it is because if you give if you give to 12 million people that kind of that kind of money at least more than half of these people will not be known as you have called them faceless people that's the reality on ground and the people that will even be known maybe they'll be getting six thousand instead of eight thousand it happens in our Nigeria and nobody checks them but you know coming to to enjoying life as it is with the eight thousand or five thousand as the case may be now you are on common governor former governor uh who you like anyway uh quabiu who is now the senate president said that some money had been sent to the senators i'm reading from the the daily trust right now and he said that they are going to enjoy life the clock of the house had sent that money to them for them to go and enjoy their holidays and he came under fire and he had to apologize and then after apologizing he all the so said that the money that uh Nigerians are mischievously that's the word he used mischievously saying that they are just sending to the senate for them to eat or to enjoy themselves is because they need a lot of things for instance they need cars because they cannot do oversight functions with keke those were the words he used and he also said that they have no working tools they went into the tent assembly and they didn't meet computers with which to work i don't know how does government really work because it surprises me that the government will leave or legislators will leave and another set will come in and start buying everything including computers i'm surprised that legislators will have that kind of money at their disposal being paid to them by the way and then they still vote out some other money for them to buy cars the latest model of of jeeps to buy them 2023 model of whatever car they're going to buy that will cost the country 40 billion naira what really happens in governance what is the thing that makes public officers behave this way or makes us treat them the way we are treating them you know like demigods and all that is that how it should be or what do we need to do to change the narrative it's it's one of the things that we spent so much time last night you know deliberating upon we have come to have a very wrong perspective of what government and governance is and the most important element and factor in all this equation is missing if you go to the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria it starts with that quote we the people if you go to democracy you hear it is government of the people by the people for the people and within the concept of the people is what you have as office of the citizen as at today it does not exist it's a terrible vacuum where the elected officers they are not we just go to you know election time and go through the the motions and then give them the mandate so to speak or exchange mandate because we really don't give them what an exchange and boom we sit down and wait for another four years and during these four years we are winding we are completing and we are saying no there is need to come back and have the ownership structure put in place when you are a tenant in somebody's house and you do not know that in your agreement the landlord can come and inspect the facility every six months you can treat the house as you wish but when you know that the landlord is there he's passing he's watching and he cannot wait for six months to come and see you will find more compulsion to keep that house in a good state so we are now saying let the civil society come alive again in those days it used to be labor it used to be the student organizations it used to be civil society you know that those three legs to start with at a state farmers were a force to reckon with but all these people constituted the office of the of the citizen which is what you call the civil society now we need to reestablish that so that we can hold our public officers to account nobody's holding them to account so they are running riots because i do not see how they are local companies you know we you know where we started from value of the naira please convert 40 billion equivalent to dollars to go and buy cars meanwhile there's innocent next door and i'm not hearing them talk about it as a state policy that we cannot patronize any external organization where there is a nigerian option it's a simple you know policy we cannot patronize foreign goods where there is a nigerian option if that option is not good enough let us manage it and when we know that we are going to wear the suits from this tailor now we will go help the tailor to become better because we want to look good but when we know that if the suit is not good enough i'll buy the one that is important we just get this in and leave this the labor leaves this tailor but for reason of self-preservation if we know that important suits are not there we start to look for teller we live all see we teller say a guy look now how about no be you look at this lapel how in the look let it be square now let it be good we will help the take a lot to get better so my brother it's it's a system where we the citizens must wake up and take responsibility on end of this that's saying that you know the problem of nigeria is leadership is a lie is a fallacy is a lie absolute lie the problem because in democracy the leadership is chosen is not the private the organized private sector where nobody knows how i make my money in in in in democracy mr president is chosen by us we chose him so if it is a bad president because we gave ourselves a bad president let us come back and know that the problem of nigeria as of today is failure of taking responsibility by the office of the citizen the moment we the citizens think right people will even be afraid to even contest for certain offices because they know that they won't go anywhere because we the citizens would have done a due diligence and at the ballot they say hey they know go allow who know go allow who are those across problems in this last election please tell me the soldier that came and lined up and say you cannot go you cannot go we got it freely hey they induced us are you be moomoo and they induce you not even mind to say if they are told you i'm sorry to say this on national television but let me say because it's important if you have a girl that you want to marry next week and somebody comes to you and say i beg but guy things are hard with you give me this your bed making come give me one for tonight i'll give you a hundred thousand you look at that man and say god please please respect yourself are you okay my own my own currency i ask a question are things no longer hard but somebody will give you two thousand naira he said things are hard you know you go and give out your mandate it's because you don't understand the power of the mandate you've given out and that you're going to be complaining for the next four years does it make sense so we need to start to occupy that office of the citizen enlighten our people take the right position elect the right leaders and have our country working the way it should be that that opens a really really new chapter when you talk about the office of the citizen some people seem to know some people seem to choose not to know and all that who will lead these fight who will be at the fore when we're trying to capture back i will be at the fore for 20 years i took on social housing there was not a mention there was not a word today social housing is a full chapter in the approved national housing policy and nigerians honor me with the title of mr social housing office of the citizen is another thing i decided to take off i will take it off i will put my money i spend millions in hundreds of my personal money to advance social housing and that is what i'm going to do with social governance and office of the citizen i will do it and you know the good news i'm not alone there are so many people across Nigeria that feel the way that i do look at the answers they are my people look at the obedient movement the obedient movement is not about a man computer we know it's an ideology of people that say enough is enough but you know we make a mistake of thinking that the obedient movement is about a man no it's not about a man he just fitted the cap and drove do you understand me a time comes when it's going to exit and the ideology moves on so they are there so for me it's a right time and i will by the grace of god as god gives me the strength and capacity i will move it until my last breath is there okay we are behind you so whatever you need to do we are behind you okay we need to take Nigeria to that Eldorado we dream about just to wrap it up let's go to something that is worrisome when when fuel went up okay that i'm talking about petrol now where pms when it went up people began to look for alternatives the alternatives have always been there but people did not take them seriously but now that it was on our neck that we couldn't buy petrol anymore people went to the alternatives one of these alternatives is using gas and luckily when fuel or petrol went up gas was coming down now we just found this story on the point that cooking gas prices will rise next week that's what the marketers are saying so i don't know what your comments are on that that that feels like a threat to me you cannot cook you cannot power your generator because now people are powering their generators people are powering their cars with gas and we were applauding the government and the fact that or on the fact that gas was not going up instead it was coming down how does this look to you gas we've been told by marketers will go up next week you know we we we run a country where people take advantage of every and any situation there may be reasons for for there is reason for increasing the cost of anything there is reason you know because if nothing else i'm an improved buyer of labor and my staff are studying says sir please the transportation the money and it is true you pay minimum wage of 30 000 naira and that guy that used to use maybe 5000 to work is now using 15 000 naira to come to work so instead of 20 000 25 000 being left for him he now has less than 15 000 to feed and everything so you have to increase his salary so they should have known by today that gas will go up so i would have expected that and before now and because like that back room has told mr president that as we are converting to gas how do we keep gas down and i want two three things they would have done you know to make sure that the price of gas is left and let me even tell you that i am one of those that converted you know the big generator we cannot keep them aside there are these little generators that can take three ac's i've said this before one for your bedroom one for the power upstairs and one for any other place that can be taken i actually got one of my staff who told me sir the amount of money you are spending on petrol is not too much oh i said what else he said gas you know that medium size as in 25 kg whatever feels for about 8 000 naira meanwhile i was spending over close to 20 000 i don't know about 15 000 naira almost on a daily basis on on petrol and there was no light throughout in my estate you know where i stay in real shells are free you know so he actually got me the converter which he says there are three types there's this one for 25 there's one for 75 the German or the Dutch product anyway bottom line he actually converted it and then to one of the gasoline that puts it and my generator started and boy i ran my generator throughout and at 8 000 naira gas lasted me for about two days as opposed to the 10 000 daily you get the point so it was like half the price so i did convert to gas you know another thing that we've done in the rural areas is there's there's this save 80 atmosphere cooking you know pot you know it uses 20 percent of what you would have used before like in the rural areas firewood or the petrol the kerosene you would have used this thing cooks very well and uses only 20 percent that's why they call it save 80 and it is globally rated as one of those you know climate change approved them you know things especially for rural areas so that they can stop using firewood number one and number two they can also have the health benefit of not inhaling you know the smokes and everything so different things are coming up you know that converter is coming up to go to gas this atmosphere save 80 is coming up to save the lives of the people and they save 80 percent of your cooking you know cost so many things are coming up and then let the federal government look for a way of intervening in all these areas like this same 80 stuff how can they make sure that the factories in Nigeria there's one in Kano there's one coming up in kefi there's one proposed in Uyo how they can can they come up to you know kind of encourage these different alternatives so that before we reach there we already have you know something that is safe 80 internationally rated and approved by the global climate change bodies such are the things that the federal government and the state government should be getting into i'm happy to say that in a quiet moment the state government is looking into it and though we are still in the tribunal but we are we are working together to make sure that the people are the better for it okay well we'd like to thank you for your time this morning it's been wonderful having you as usual architect coming on the show to share your thoughts thank you so much for your time thank you and god bless you sir okay we've been talking with architect Ezekiel Nyaito a public affairs analyst that spoke with us from Uyo Akwaibom state we'll take a break when we return we'll be talking to another guest on our first hot topic stay with us


My cup of soup is delicious and warm and comforting, good in the belly. It is. And look at these handy coasters we have to put our monks on. I know. We get a lot of questions about whether art resin is good for coasters. And it actually is perfect for coasters. It's heat resistant to 122 degrees Fahrenheit or 50 degrees Celsius. So a good old hot mug of coffee, soup or anything that's, you know, in a ceramic vessel will sit nicely on top of a fully cured coaster. We have a couple of examples here. This is cork made with cork with an art resin coating. Here's one that's almost like a little mosaic tile on a mirror. And then it's traditional tile. Some of these, I believe these are painted on and then we have ones that have been added with the paper and then just gone over with some varnish and some art resin. They're all pretty hearty once they've been cured and they, again, will withstand a nice hearty cup of coffee. And we decided here at the office to have a coaster challenge. So another popular medium or another popular thing to coaster. And so another popular thing that you can turn into a coaster is wood, slice of wood. And of course these are like super popular right now too. So at the office we like to have fun here as you know. We decided to do a little challenge. We did a coaster challenge. We all got a wood coaster like this and we're all going to come up with our own design. And we're going to have a little contest and we're going to reveal the results next week. So stay tuned to our YouTube channel, to our Instagram, to our Pinterest page, our Facebook, all our social media so you can see the results next week when we unveil. And we know that Jeffrey's not going to win for sure. Wow. So look out for our big coaster challenge sometime next week. Have fun making coasters with our resume.


The city of Pikeville is currently booking food trucks to set up for their food truck Friday events that will be taking place between June and August. Last year we started doing food truck Friday and it's such a fun event. It gives you an opportunity to come downtown, get some food that you don't normally get to have. Plus, we try to coincide those with our Main Street Lives, which also means we get to do some fun car shows during that, some cruise ins, some bike nights, some Jeep shows, all kinds of fun stuff. But the big thing about it is, you get to try food that you don't get just every other day of the week. Appalachian Wireless is all in on Tag Madness right now, select devices, get up to $750 off. On the Appalachian Advantage Unlimited or Nationwide Mix and Mash Plants with renewed or new lines plus trade-in, up to $750 off because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Food Truck Friday is the perfect opportunity to get out in the food truck world, especially if this is your first time opening a food truck.  Last year, one of our better vendors, it was their first year. It was one of the first events they did was one of our Food Truck Fridays. It's a great way to get your feet wet when you can start out. You don't have to worry about 300 other vendors that you've got during hillbilly days. You don't have to worry about having a real situation with getting your vehicle in, getting your trailer out if you're not used to that yet because we do it early morning to get you set up when there's not a lot of traffic. Plus we have an anti-confined space to make it easy for everybody and to make it safe for everybody. There is no event fee for Food Truck Friday. Lunch and dinner will run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Food Truck Friday dates for 2024 are June 7th, June 21st, July 19th, August 2nd and August 16th. To book your food truck or for more information, you can contact kevin at appwirelessarena.com or lisa.sizemore at pikefulky.gov. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsea Fidell.


Deep inside this concrete labyrinth, a linear accelerator is creating radiation which is used to battle some of the world's most toxic pollutants. Electron beams are already a proven tool for treating industrial wastewater, such as from the textile dying industry. Many complex chemicals cannot be broken down by bacteria in the normal wastewater facilities so they are very hard to dispose of. However, electron beams are powerful and effective in breaking down their chemical bonds allowing us to discharge them very safely. This technology can also be used to clean even more toxic materials. For example, in Slovakia, a channel contaminated with the cancer-causing chemicals known as PCBs is feeding into the huge lake Zemplin. Medical scientists who have been using e-beams to sterilise medical equipment have now set their sights on a more ambitious goal. We want to use the irradiation to clean the polluted mud before it gets to the lake. We are bringing samples of the mud to our laboratories, irradiating it and we are already seeing strong results. The team hopes that irradiating the contaminated river mud on site will stop the slow trickle of pollution into the lake. Using e-beams for treating the most tenacious industrial pollutants is fast, effective and ecologically sound and could offer a sustainable solution for governments and industries.


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while the show choir at Bemidji Middle School knows how to put on a show. For this week's Golden Apple Haiti Clotter shows us how Bemidji Middle School is connecting dreams through song and dance. It's 7 a.m. and Bemidji Middle School, six and seventh grade girls are dancing and singing their hearts out during pizzazz practice inside the gym. Nearly 70 girls participated under the direction of show choir director Jessica Ben-Stop. I think they learn how to cooperate with each other in a large group. Just like a sport, you have to work together as a team in order for your show to go really well. So I think they have that teamwork aspect involved and making sure, you know, helping each other along to make sure their show goes well. This extracurricular activity is voluntary and practices twice a week for an hour. The theme for this year is dreams and all the songs performed incorporate that. Seventh grader, Tiana Ness, decided to join pizzazz because she likes to sing and dance.  I usually just pray to God that usually strengthens me. Former pizzazz members and high schoolers often come back to help with the singing and choreography. For example, Anna Kerry joined pizzazz as a sixth grader and now as a junior, she helps lead the team by teaching them new dances. Absolutely love it. They're so sweet, they're so cute and it's just so fun, I just love it. Sixth grader, Olivia Ethier is in her first year with pizzazz and enjoys the closing part of the show and so much more. It's really fun. What's been your favorite part? Probably getting to meet new people and like putting all the dance moves and the songs. The girls are hitting the right notes for their upcoming performance this weekend at Bemidji High School. For this week's Golden Apple in Bemidji, Haiti Clutter, Lakeland News. And the girls will be busy in March as well. They'll perform in two shows in March. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


It's Saturday morning. It's time for the livecast. Did anybody in this group inherit anything they want? Do you have that you inherited? The profiles for this week that we are going to talk about are inspired because of the most recent weekly challenge that is finished and that's the London Westminster Little Sex Ancestor. I have a tip and I would like to know how many people like to do lists. Information here for the things that are coming up in the next week.


Hey guys what's up on our previous episode we made a video about the signs of burnout and burnout is a serious condition that everyone should take note of. Today we will be giving you tips on how to avoid burnout but before we do you know what to do like subscribe and gong that bell. Well that's normal but once you have it don't forget that it is a serious condition that you should not just ignore. For ignoring it it will pile up on you and it will have a really bad toll on your body. You will need to assess how to move forward with it so that you will not be consumed by burnout. So in order for us to combat this let's get the show started on freedom quick tips. Number one is reassess yourself and get the basics in check. So what are the basics you might be wondering? You'll need to exercise so that your body can remove the toxins and stress from itself. Sleeping is another basic factor that you will need to cover. Guys sleeping helps you regulate your body. It repairs the cells that you use in everyday life. Sleeping helps you get your batteries up and running. Number two is go out, go to the beach, visit mountain ranges, go to places where wifi is not available. Okay so we all know that one way to get those pesky stress monsters away from you is to completely distance yourself from it. Well have you ever heard of taking a vacation? Well you will need it every once in a while because if you just follow around your content creation it will just gnaw on your system and before you knew it burnout has you within its grasp. Number three is think positive, do positive, be positive. So okay it's harder than you think but hey it's always a good idea to think positively about your surroundings, about yourself and the things you have accomplished thus far. I know now that the negativity is sinking in and it's so hard to think about the positive things in life. Trust me I'm a pessimistic person out of habit and the negative things are the things that always sticks to our minds. The positive ones sometimes are forgotten and taken for granted but if you let those positive feelings fill you up then you might have a chance to combat burnout. Number four is go out with your friends. You guys have friends right? Well you can ask those closest to you to get out of town a few days and just relax. Maybe for you guys to go to some province and watch the stars or maybe go somewhere your office mates won't be able to bug you or that constant gnawing on your shoulders about your deadlines which reminds me I need to make another video ugh I need a vacation guys. Also guys do you know those negative people who puts you even more under when you're having a bad day? Yep I'm looking at you negative people hope you stop being negative one day. When we're having burnout it's better if we limit talking to them because it's not healthy for us to talk to people who will just put us down even further on our darkest days. Number five is eat a healthy diet. Yeah I'm looking at you 20 year old me even up until now I still do that. French fries, soft drinks and all those high sugar and carb drinks so now I'm kind of paying the price and I'm trying to lessen or refrain from consuming food or drinks that adversely affect my mood. Like coffee, trans fat and other preservatives.  Number six is get off your chair and do exercise. Yep it's one of the things that we all hate but must do exercise well honestly if you exercise maybe do a little jog around your house or do a little push-ups it kind of lightens your mood try to lift some weights pursue another hobby like basketball or volleyball or if you're brave enough try rugby football with no armor a tackle from your foes will definitely knock out the burnout out of your system if that doesn't ask the condition I don't know what will honestly one tackle from a rampaging dude will even get your socks off of your feet and that's the episode guys those are the things you can do to counteract burnout if you have other techniques or remedies let us know down below do you have a friend who is in the burnout stage you can share this to them so that you can save them from a miserable condition this will really help them out guys before you leave guys you know what to do leave a like subscribe and gong that bell my name is nold guys bringing you tips on how to grow your channel always remember freedom quick tips I'll be seeing you guys on the next episode goodbye


module 1 to 3, which is about the Timaki Morori village. Okay, so how did I distort this culture? As I told you, in the Australian case study, how did they get rich earlier and how did they develop fraudulent exercises? Here, founded by the Morori brothers, Mike and Doug Timaki, they're driving vision of helping to preserve the Morori culture. An authenticity to tourism experience has been fulfilled, as he has ancillary aim to develop run successful Morori tourism business. Rotara and Gautramal capital of Autoria, New Zealand, where other industries such as agriculture, retail and forestry have also flourished in area. A tourism that remains as the center of the region's infrastructure. What did Mr. Timaki do? Timaki's first nice tour landed with a side story telling, Morori culture and humor began the September 1990. In the first week of the business, the brother took five people on their tour. By the end of the year, they had 5,000 clients. So, here, by distorting this fraudulent exercise, he did a new job, which was not criminality. He pitched a culture. As I told you about the culture, just like I told you about how Sahara started the culture of Parchi and Chit, Fisherman also started the culture. But here, in the Morori village of Timaki, his culture was depicted. So, his clientage was reached up to 5,000. A special culture. In the past days, Pakistan was also listening to a village where they made a culture that you won't be able to see dirty things there. Then there is no insult, no theft. Everyone is educated there. And 99% is your literacy rate. I have forgotten his name. But for you, this is not a case study. It is brainstorming. You also find out where he is. But I am sure that he is there. In the same way, there are other places where you can see his cultures. You can see his cultures. Then if you can convert it into a culture, a food, a new idea, a taste, a culture like Idli Dosa with sambar. If we go to Lahore on the lower side, then there are some ideas of a closed-plaster type. So, if you depict these cultures, if you make something new and earn some kind of revenue, there's no harm in it. So, this is how the living culture can earn you a bigger amount and bigger new idea, a bigger entrepreneurial idea. Thank you very much.


Good afternoon. So I'm going to shift gears and speak a bit more granularly about much of the work that I do, which is in the molecular profiling of cancer. Everyone knows about precision medicine, that's why we're here. So in the cancer context, what we're mostly talking about today is looking at genetic changes to establish diagnosis or prognosis, importantly response to therapy and potentially side effects. So in our traditional analyses, we're looking at tumor, our traditional analyses are tumor type and marker specific, we're using them in histochemistry, in situ hybridization and PCR, we're looking at a single or a small number of markers with highly specific limited information. An example would be her two testing here, we're looking for an increase in her two copy number that predicts responsiveness to its Tuzumab and you can do that a few ways, fish, histochemistry or even expression profiling. Another example would be this single mutation test for EGFR mutations where we're looking at mutations in a single gene that relate to a single class of drugs and predict therapy. But what's happened is we've come to look at cancer in a new way and now we're seeing cancer as a series of interrelated pathways and what we're trying to do now is look at many genes and interrogate them for mutation simultaneously to try to understand the biology of the tumor and to treat it in that manner. And so hence we have next generation sequencing, which is the tool that allows us to do this. It's resulted in enormous decreases in per base costs. We can interrogate large regions of DNA, targeted regions. We can look at the whole exome or genome. We can do deep sequencing to detect low level mutations. And the detectable mutation types span the gamut from single nucleotide changes to rearrangements and copy number changes as well as deletions and insertions. So basically, this is really entered routine care in a big way. And there's a couple of ways to do this. This is a report from Foundation Medicine, which is one of the early providers in this area. Since I believe 315 genes and a bunch of introns, so this is one way to do it. They use a capture method for library construction. And then there's, I think, the more common method within academic medical centers and hospitals and amplicon-based method of generating the library, which really looks at tumor hotspots. Typically these are anywhere from, say, 20 to 50 genes. So how are our oncologists using these tools? Well for diagnosis, and this tends to be somewhat more in the diagnostic realm. I think it's even more so perhaps the pathologists, where they use these as ancillary markers to help identify tumor versus benign or tumor subtypes. So we're looking at appropriate targeted therapies, the identification of resistance mutations, but truthfully, much of the broad testing. And I'll distinguish broad testing from simply using NGS as a methodology. At our institution, if I do an EGFR, I'm going to do it by NGS, that's what I do. And that's just a methodologic substitution that allows us to do a bunch of mutations that are known and enhance the workflow. But the big use for broad profiling is actually off-label use in clinical trial selection. And what we're finding is a lot of variants, large numbers of mutations with potential prognostic and therapeutic relevance. We often don't know what, usually don't really know what to do with them. Many genes overlap different cancer types. Germline variants are really key issue that we're just beginning to address. These must be distinguished. So to translate all of this into a useful test requires the ability to first accurately and reproducibly detect variations, which is another whole talk in and of itself, but then meaningfully interpret the results and effectively communicate them. And the types of questions we ask are, is the mutated gene potentially relevant to the patient's management? If so, in what way? Is the particular variant potentially relevant to the patient's management? If so, in what way? The variant analysis can be equally or more complex than the gene analysis at the ground level. And then is it the type of gene that appears to respond to therapy? Is it a type of mutation that appears to respond to therapy? Is it an entire synkinase domain? And sometimes we do a lot of extrapolation. So how do insurers and how do payers view this? Well, this is our, I think the country's largest private payer. So this is a recent coverage decision, July 1st. Molecular profiling using multiplexer next generation. Sequencing technology has proven medically necessary for guiding systemic chemotherapy in patients with metastatic stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer when the following criteria are met. And basically they say testing for EGFR, her two mutations, RET rearrangements and ALC gene rearrangements. That doesn't sound like 315 genes. It doesn't sound like 50. Their comment at the bottom is molecular profiling using multiplex or NGS technology is unproven and not medically necessary for all other indications. So that, and I think that, by and large, I think that many payers perceive what we're doing in that way. So are they right? I think they have an argument to be made. So we did a study at our institution. We did a prospective study looked at, I think, 224 tumors that were profiled. We found, I think almost half of them had some sort of potentially actionable mutation. In the end, about 11%, I think 24 out of the 223 patients received some therapeutic change. Half of those were clinical trials. That was 12. Nine of those were off-label use. And then three of them were on-label use, which, you know, anything on-label you could, you know, pretty much get with other tests. So to the extent that these are patients who have exhausted other therapeutic options, they're prognosis isn't good. We're basically using and pathophysiologic reasoning, educated, informed decision-making, in order to try to treat people who don't have other options. Including putting them on clinical trials shouldn't ensure pay for that. You know, they may consider research, but I think at a major cancer center, people come to a major cancer center to be treated that way. How can we fill these gaps? Really what we need are more data. And I think the problem is that the data are lacking. Again, we have the situation with patients who have extremely bad, extremely poor likelihood of a positive outcome. They've exhausted therapeutic options. We really don't have anything else we can do for them. Can we find a mutation that they're potentially responsive to? Do we have a targeted therapy that is active against a tumor type, a different tumor type with that mutation? Can we try it in another tumor? And I think that's sort of what we're left with there. Can we put them on a clinical trial, which in some ways is, you know, from a medical information standpoint is better. The new type of trial, the new innovation in trials that we're looking at our basket trials, instead of looking at the histology of the tumor, we take tumors and we look at the mutation. And we categorize them by mutation and drug. So NCI has a couple of these types of trials that they're funding, the NCI impact trial. In this trial, they're looking at four treatment regimens. They're looking at three pathways and 20 targeted genes. There's the NCI match trial where they're looking at potentially 3,000 patients. Again, a series of different tumor types looking at specific mutations and specific targeted drugs. This is a different type of study, a registry study. The ASCO is a taper trial that's taking place in private practice. I'm actually on the, we have a molecular, I'm on a molecular tumor board. We have this, we actually have meetings with community physicians who have questions with patients who are enrolled in the study and present the findings to a tumor board to decide whether or not to take action with a specific drug. So what do we need? We need trial information, but we also need tools to help the people providing these data to efficiently and effectively communicate the meaning of the variants. This is an example of one such tool, Alamute. I use it, it provides links to different resources and sort of helps with organization. Believe it or not, Google can be a really good tool. I use it all the time. It's probably better than anything else we have out there. But that, and then this resource, my cancer genome, I think a lot of you are probably familiar with this from Vanderbilt that William Powell I think was the originator and this provides a wonderful summary of the meaning of various mutations in different tumor types. And then we need to learn how to report. And to collate these data, so this is a company and of one they provide a decision support product. It helps list clinical trials in addition to, so it will give you the mutation, help you draft a report which provides a mutation and potential therapeutic options and then potential clinical trials. This is another company that does something similar and they break it down by region. It's always hard to get people on clinical trials. It's people don't necessarily want to go to, people who live in Cleveland say they don't want to go to, you know, can't go to a trial in Los Angeles. So we try to use tools that can inform the oncologists about local trials. And so I think in the end what we're really dealing with is a situation where we have wonderful tools, we have to use them to learn, we don't have any other option. The reimbursement is questionable at best for the bigger panels. The smaller panels are starting to be reimbursed but in the solid, I saw one series of data from one Medicare provider, 75% of the profiling and the 5 to 50 genes, the 81450 code was paid 75% of the time, around half or less for the solid tumor code. So we're starting to get some inroads in more narrow profiling. There's some tests before the FDA with smaller numbers of markers. And I think what we're really finding is that the key markers and the ones you can develop a solid evidence base for each tumor tend to be relatively small in number. The problem is that there can be reasons to look at more markers in an individual case. And it also, from a laboratory perspective, it's very helpful to be able to perform a test, one test for everything unless you have enormous volumes. So, but I guess what I, the take-homes that I would leave from this presentation is really, I mean we have to acknowledge I think that there is a positive data but we also have patients who are, who have exhausted therapeutic options. We have a core group of mutations in many tumors that are known to be actionable. And we have a series, and a growing number of over 1,000 targeted therapies in development for other mutations. Can you go from one tumor to the next with a particular drug? That's just something we're going to have to empirically learn. So I would, I will acknowledge that the data aren't there presently to definitively decide whether or not this testing is going to help somebody, whether in bulk or even in, you know, many of the specific genes and mutations. But on the other hand, we're not going to learn if we don't do it and patients don't have any other options and if we do have a realistic and reasonable chance of helping those patients, I would urge a broader consideration of the clinical utility criteria that many payers, upon which many payers rely to make these decisions. Thank you, Roger. Next we have Julie Johnson presenting from the Knight Network.


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Tell me if what I'm about to say makes any sense. I am so Addicted to 2k.   I'm so addicted I don't know how 2k does this Rodney 2k's got me man. He's got a big firm clenched Good boys welcome back to wheel of 2k and despite our current record being one and three I have never been more optimistic than I am right now I gotta say one of the most depressing things I see in the comments section for me is when people talk about wheel of 2k being Tough to watch because I'm not good enough and at first. I was like, oh my god You guys go outside, but I thought about it more and it makes sense I know exactly what it feels like to watch somebody play Madden and just see just how bad they are and sit there so Frustrated so I said it before but I'll say it again I'm gonna give you guys one hell of an episode with the best gameplay you've seen from me yet right here right now So let's talk wheel of 2k now looking at the challenges for season three The best case scenario is I take subscribers on an a thousand dollar shopping spree in the mall I want to do that one the absolute most but it would mean I have to win every single game from here on out Don't count me out. I actually think it's possible.  I'm excited for that now. Let's talk about the team So the team despite being one and three is incredible We pulled our first ever invincible lamella ball after an amazing challenge wheel from last episode That was amazing. He though Turquilu came out of a pack We fully maxed out our power-up player which is Shaquille O'Neal and we pulled big Georgie a seven-foot seven Romanians our starting lineup has a little bit of grit, you know some sneaky athleticism and then we also have some Explosive dynamic players, but right now I feel like a whole lot of talk and not a lot of action Oh, yeah, the jersey so I got a Kevin Durant Brooklyn that's Jersey She's an utterly pointless jersey now So if I want to write this off on my taxes and give a gigantic middle finger to the IRS I have to wear it in today's wheel of mud. Now audit me, pussies! Without further ado, our first wheel spin before a game that I will literally guarantee you a fat W Oh Oh hot to keep the player they must score 10 points granted There shouldn't be too difficult since it's a jackpot, but the issue I'm seeing right now What am I even gonna get wait a minute? Wait a minute hear me out here hear me out here, okay? So let's just move let's move turkey Lou to my bench point guard if we consider that turkey Lou could be my bench point guard LeBron goes back to the three I could get a shooting guard right here now granted I could get a power forward center as well But I could start whatever center I get could start over big Georgie Do we like the lineup we had in or do we want a shooting guard? It's any single player in the game Let's look at all the dark matter centers this line up survive to get real ridiculous now Here's the thing invincible Kobe would be really cool, but I actually don't want to load up on too many Lakers I'm gonna have chat Kobe and LeBron. That'd be a little weird Michael Jordan. I'd have the two goats on the same team I know that's technically not possible But I actually feel like it'll be kind of difficult for me to score 10 with Jordan Whereas if I got Kareem it would be so simple to score 10 points But listen if I can't score 10 points with invincible Michael Jordan, then I shouldn't be making 2k videos I'm going Michael Jordan. Let's go.  Oh wait warriors team team Maybe Clay Thompson Steph Curry Durea Amarie Stottemire and Arvidus Sabonis well, he's got three warriors at least all right boys a must win ball game I really don't want to spam big Georgie, but how did this happen? Drills one with KD. All right boys. We're gonna have to step it up We need ten with Jordan and we got an outscore KD with brawn. Oh Oh, I had him early Whatever, I'll take it late. Who cares? Let's go. All right, Jordan on Durant I can't let Durant go off because I won't be able to get my challenge Ah, ah, I say oh he bricked he bricked. We good. We good down to Jordan. You want two more Jordan? He's trying to post up. I'm just keep my arms up. Hey, look at that defense Let's go Shaq because he's got Curry down there Drop step. Oh, that's actually the best defense Curry could have played But this is invincible Shaq and invincible Shaq and hit free throws. Let's go baby I didn't even get it perfect. That was still 86% but that one will go green.    Damn it.  I said I'd hit it this time I was slightly late the first time this time. I was really late. So that's great Clay Thompson kind of cooking in there Dude a lot of running not a lot of shooting Oh feed Good pump fake do it mellow the off-balance leaning three as opposed to set feet Durant puts up another this one won't go Pump fake chefing up up there He's got a wide open three drills it good shot 15-7.  I almost just said football make them earn it Yep, Jesus clay has a fast free throw to look at this.  I'm about to start hacka-shacking on him Oh Jordan in transition Charge ooh block. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, bronze got three and I think his Durant still has three He's gonna leave me. No, but I can't shoot. I can't shoot with my feet set. I literally was gonna say I can't shoot like that.  Oh, whoa.  Oh my god Oh, not the right not the right.  He's got six definitely outscoring Durant, and that was a Trash free throw. What am I doing?  I swear the meter is actually messing me up now. Oh shit, I Thought LeBron switched on to him. Oh Lamello Let's go Lamello 21 in the first quarter as it turns out you guys learning how to shoot threes is actually quite beneficial I don't know if you guys knew that or not. He is drilling around like a monkey Get a shot charge Dude, he's been holding turbo for so long his curry's already got the Gatorade symbol the first quarter on pace to score 96 points All right, so Jordan has five Lamello has eight and LeBron has seven or six. Well, the good thing is his starting small forward is out.  Well his team name is KD. So coast-to-coast Shaq You out of your mind shooting nine four twelve Shaq steals the inbound finds Mike pump fake All the way to the top of the key. Don't you do it Mike? Little early little early on my release out of bounds He's gonna try and get that screen and we're gonna go all the way. Oh Give me a rent took that basketball.  Oh Got him jumping do it again. Yep. He'll jump again. He'll jump again Michael Jordan spot up drill it turns out seven Okay, so I need ten with Jordan Great defense great defense. I'm sorry. That's just not the shot you want there Taco fall big board. All right, let's get Jordan his final three Honestly, man, you just have a wide open three. I'm sure you'll break it. Yeah, listen, man.  We ball. I Legitimately feel like I have a slider for three pointers on right now in an online game Like my just quit man, please just put us just put us out of our music The ladies and gentlemen Jordan had 10 so we keep it LeBron outscored KD So we complete our challenge will and we got a rage quit Of course we get a spin first and on the 2k rage quit wheel. Let's see if we can get First on this is a Calvin Ridley Michael Jordan James and William special this one's a gamble All I do is I click search auctions That's it and I could choose one player out of the first five So those first five players are golds and I don't get shit But if it's invincible Kobe, I get invincible Kobe.  Yeah, it's between Jamarant And Tyson Chandler now the reason I like Jamarant would be to have a depth shooting guard That I really like but I like Tyson Chandler because I literally have nobody to bring in around bringing in taco fall for 24,500 MT. I'm going with Jamarant and also I just got I am really grateful that there was actually good cards on there Obviously y'all is the best choice, but I'm not doing it. I had y'all all last season We we need some uh, we need some diversity, you know though the new bench lineup is turk aloo job Bernard King and PJ taco fall So yeah, Tyson Chandler, I see might have been a better pick, but I really did not want to hear it from Grizzly's fans I know you guys wanted me to get Jamarant Jamarant 97 three pointer while he is a really good shooter 98 mid range a very good shooter His close shot is 98 he could shoot from anywhere free throw 95 shooter What a shooter You can't ask for much more than that boys except you can because we also outscored his small forward So I get my challenge wheel as well completing the challenge wheel gives me one of any pack in the store And as I record this there's a glorious pack which has these glorious players along with invincible Kobe Invincible bird invincible Jordan who we already have and invincible creep come on glorious come on glorious Oh, that does not look like a dark matter to me. It's a pink diamond by his hairs.  We can't be the luckiest people in the world every time Although just to humor myself. I'm gonna open one more. This doesn't count I don't get to keep this but I want to feel the pain of getting a dark matter Okay, I didn't get a dark matter anyway challenge wheel does not clutch up But honestly in the past it was so clutch I can't really complain We have more bench depth for this second game. I'd love to get a center a bench center All right boys our second game second wheel spin We are now two and three and we'll a two case. Let's see we can we can actually get oh So this is not quite a jackpot. It's any viable dark matter I have always had a weird affinity for the old-school bigs David Robinson a Kimalajuan Sean Ken so there's this 99 overall radiant dark matter David Robinson. He's seven foot one He's kind of light for seven foot one. He's consistently selling for about 60 70 KMT So I feel like he's got to be pretty decent. I'm gonna try this out So George you'll come off the bench and the new starting lineup is Lamello MJ brown brown Shaq and David Robinson and the builder of this team How could we forget the challenge wheel our challenge wheel for today's game is I could do that I could do that. You know what's funny actually I feel like this is harder now that I'm getting a little bit better 30 points one player was easy when I literally only used y'all to win every game, but who's gonna drop a 30 bomb now Evan Booker He's got hero turk aloo thorough Bailey big Georgie an invincible Kareem. That's a massive three four and five Oh, oh jump a little early there Matt Luckily he does miss transition take I went to icon pass and I think I just said David Robinson to the line What is it faster slow slow? Yes, beauty. All right two points early I'm gonna step up dish and drill it Points from Brian to start out invincible Kareem. I thought he drilled that I'll add Jordan do it I'll just let Jordan do it. Oh, I got so good at this game I know I'm still not that good at this game, but guys.  Oh Big three from Kareem.  I didn't even jump. I really did it Oh fake the three and get the dog Shit Shit all right invincible creams on the board got him jump got him jumping Back to Jordan wide open that's I'm like Mike, baby ten points for Michael Jordan. I know who's getting my 30 Ron with the steel up to Shaq Patience patience patience. Oh, do I do it to him bucket? Dude invincible Shaq moves so fast Yeah, Karim will probably do that. Hmm. You better step up buddy. It's gonna be a long night.  David Robinson on Karim.  Come on. Come on.  I wanted the end one three so bad Jordan free throws I know these for some of the easiest free throws in the game I need to not look at that bar bro. Just look at his hand. Look at his wrist. There you go, man Yeah, thank you guys for all the tips by the way seriously.  He is really struggling to get the buckets he wants.  He was cold before he's freezing now.   We got robbed of our challenge wheel like I for sure was gonna drop 30 deja vu, baby We'll start with our rage quit wheel once Again, it's a team we'll galaxy opal. All right, boys team wheel galaxy opal won't be anything too crazy It'd be nice to have a depth power for remote with team. We got clippers. Yo Blake went so hard before This is literally perfect soon.  It's 20% of a dark matter I'm three in no dark matter darn it. All right, boys a little shorter episode than usual today But that's because we were hot today three and three is a brand new record next episode We can potentially move to as good as five and three or as bad as three and five So we'll see but hey, I love you guys. Thanks for watching as always and I'll see you in the next video. Peace