Thank you for staying with us. You're still watching the breakfast on plus TV Africa and it's time for a hot topic This one talks about the federal government to begin distribution of grains and nation-wide and joining us have a conversation It's Shagun Shukwiton. He's a chairman accountability candle and transparency network. Good morning. Mr. Shukwiton. Thank you for joining us Okay, so we're talking about the distribution of grains You're suspecting the smile on your face. Are you expecting the greatness? I am. I hope it gets to me And I'm sure that we will just ask him if it has gotten to your duster by now I'm not going to give the answer. I'm going to give off air Anyways, so I think President Inoubad promised about 140 something thousand metric tons of grains And now they're saying there's going to be a distribution of these grains But we're wondering why we haven't seen it now. How many people are going to get there? So many questions to ask. So let's just get your thoughts on this first then we can move forward Well, what these types of promises tell me is that The president doesn't understand the gravity of the situation that is confronting him I don't think he gets it and I don't think the people around him gets it Otherwise, they wouldn't make these types of Rather, I want to choose my words carefully So I'll say rather unfortunate pronouncements I could use much stronger words Look, if we break this number down 42,000 metric tons of grains will be distributed That's the word And then another 58,000 metric tons of rice Would also be shared to the market for price stabilization So I would assume that down would be sold Now, if you take the 42,000 that would be distributed Which means that it would be given up for free I believe they claim they've done this You know about a month ago, I haven't seen it I didn't see any evidence of it so I don't know That's why I said the claim was Let's even assume that it happened 42,000 metric tons across 36 states and their city Yes, how much, how much I mean, that is 1,000 metric tons per state Our annual consumption of rice alone Rice alone, per annum 7 million metric tons So if you take that annual consumption of rice And divide that You have 189, let's say 200,000 metric tons per state And their city is what we consume Rice alone, not grains So we're not talking millet We're not talking wheat We're not talking maize And all the other strategic grains that we consume As a country, just rice 200,000 metric tons per state And then the government says Oh, there's hardship in the land So who wants to ameliorate the situation Who share those 2,000 metric tons Which is about 1,000 metric tons per state You are talking less than 2% of the consumption Maybe even more percent So clearly the politicians, the political class They are trifling with this matter They don't understand how oblivious This situation is You see, when people begin to take the law Into their own hands without caring And they won't report it They do report it to themselves And saying that they are taking this Because they are hungry That you realize that you are very, very close To the brink of civil disorder Or complete breakdown of it It's just a matter of when not following And the danger in this is Sadly, it would only be the government Assets that would be attacked and targeted You know, it would only be a matter of time Before the poor, they have not Who trade their eyes on the people they believe And members of their hearts And attack them and enter their houses Their pantries and their kitchens To take food for themselves It's just a matter of time It will happen Unless something drastic is done We cannot be shared for 2,000 metric tons of grains Across the entire country And say that we are intervening in the situation This is absolutely ridiculous So this government must do better The president must show more sensitivity More awareness He must show more There has to be a clear display of empathy For the people of the country That are suffering as a result of policies He has insisted on pursuing So for me, my preliminary commentary is This is tokenistic And I could almost say it's wicked It's like throwing grains to dogs Who are hungry It's a matter of time before they tear you down Well, a ton of rice is about 18 bags Because a ton is about 907 kilograms So it's about 18 bags That you will go into that So for 42,000, it will be 762,000 bags Of rice For 200 million Nigerians That it will be distributed I'm wondering where data will be used You said something about not being long Before they enter into looting other things We've already heard that not only Was the rice and grains looted They've also entered places where they sell Building materials and looted some of these things Maybe the cement, maybe the roofing sheets And all that These things are being looted But this is where we are right now The AFDB president, Deshino, has said The things they are doing now Will not bring down the prices of goods and services We're looking at inflation in the face And maybe we should go to Zimbabwe To make sure that we find out what they did Because the inflation there was terrible And now they're trying to manage it and all that We don't know what the solution is Now if the government is listening to you What would be your first line of advice to them What can be done Because it's a ticking bomb In this program we've been talking about it That we don't know what will happen tomorrow And we may not be able to manage it when it comes It might be more than NSARs So what do we begin to do Beyond distributing rice to people That may not be the ones that are in need at all Okay, so just to write on that last comment You made about this being more than NSARs Let's paint a picture of how born babies can become And I think it's important I know that people, you know Your station has a wide viewership And I know some people that are connected to the government Or that are in government will listen to this We've had two examples of where we're headed We had the NSAR situation And we had these then phobic attacks in South Africa situation And the reprisal that happened in Nigeria During NSARs and during those then phobic reprisal attacks In Nigeria, you know People that were poor Invaded private estates Yes And attacked private homes People that you live there for Took out their anger You will see that this was just anger And the family The assets, the vehicles I don't know if you guys remember that video That was a very popular video that trended Of, you know, of, you know Letty at West West Way And how some men, some guys took wood Huge, you know, stems of wood And were breaking the glass Of any SUV that was passing by And, you know, people scaled over fences Into lekkies this one at West West Way And were attacking estates in that area My own estate is over here And, you know, over By no means a high ground It's a middle income community We're not multimillionaires You know, and all of that here We're just middle income people Middle class getting by our lives We were attacked People jumped over our fences I personally had to play the game And tell them to bring back the end source period You know, that's how that now That was there Compare the anger And the emotions in the land today To what it was then You know, the hunger The hardship that we have today To what it was then Then you realize how bad things Have been out in the hearts of the people So that's to take the scenario For the government who are listening We have just once Once most part away from an explosion That will consume both of it That may consume everybody So what do we do? The first step, you see Suddenly, the government did not listen To good advice You remember on your show I repeatedly spoke against the I spoke A lot of people spoke You know, there are people in In the middle class elite Good things People who are economically aware Economic experts, financial experts Like myself, that's what I do You know, as my profession Who are sold On the idea of subsidy removal And that subsidy is a problem You have to float your currency They're sold on INF And all back ideologies Right? Now, you can see the outcome Because those ideologies will not work In a full country It will not work And I kept saying this Now, what do we do? We have unleashed Pandora's box The demos are flying around Consuming people We're trying to bring them back And close the can It's almost impossible So for me, the first thing That we need to do is to address it Address the things that we can address What can we address today in Nigeria?  It will take tremendous amounts of new power For the president to come back now And say, oh, I made a mistake We're going back to subsidy It's not impossible We have the financial resources, by the way It's not like So I don't agree By any stretch of the imagination With anybody that says That the country was going to collapse If we did on the most subsidy Our fiscal structure was in balance But by its absolute nonsense I tell you that, of free This ideology and this idea Have been sold to us by a political class That had their own agenda Their agenda is not the development of Nigeria But that's a discussion for another day Right now, what needs to happen is that The president must address the anger in the land By simply fixing the optics He has to collapse his ministries He must He has to do a national address And tell Nigeria that I see The impact I did not realize it was going to be this bad I'm sorry As an immediate measure We are reducing the number of ministries We have from 48 to 32 Or to 25 You see, if the president doesn't do something As fundamental as this The anger is going to escalate And it may go out of control Already there are whispers And it's not only not whispers Even former DSS directors are talking About fools About the possibility of fools This thing is not a joke These are presidents and his advisers And the politicians that are running this country Today must understand that These are precarious sites The best way to destroy a country Is to leave its people In poverty and burglary They will ask for the demo To replace the people that they hold responsible For their poverty and burglary And that's where we are heading to So really, for me, the solution Tricks the optics Tricks is very important now Forget the economics Just fix the optics Let Nigeria know That they're not eroding the suffering But I'm afraid I'm afraid because The president, permit me to say Addresses us with some kind of arrogance Even from the time of electioneering The campaign still now And like you said He's not in tune with the sufferings of the people He said that the suffering we are seeing now Is baby steps I don't know what he meant It means that we are going to be Even mature in the suffering and all that And it doesn't speak well He went to Qatar, told the people That his government is so good That you report people that take bribe to him And all those things And people have faltered some statements And all that I don't know how this is going to happen That we will change He said that his ministries are so many Because if he doesn't do that The job may not be done And then on the other hand He's talking about implementing a report That is more than a decade long Or old There are some Yes, so I don't know how How you think this government is going to To be biting from the two corners of their mouths And still do what you're proposing That they are going to do Maybe I don't have to They have to They have to Who will make them They have to Look And I think that Who will make them The answer to that is you and I People need to begin to let them know How bad things are We are in touch with the people I have people working for me In my house and in my business I live in other states I relate with the security men You know I relate with my artisans My book and I is that You can sense the anger and frustration But what about you do Even as CSOs Even as labor or anything It is interpreted as politics Whatever you say Even this meeting and all that People want And they say it's politics Absolutely And that's unfortunate Listening to the president When he came to Lagos to launch The fantastic project that Lagos Take government does in the red line And the president has to spoil In my opinion The mood You know That was a good event Was a very very rare bright light In overwhelming darkness And then the question How to come there And teach you a threat And an ultimate onto labor You know Politicizing the protest That is unfortunate But the point is that Right now I think what Nigerians Need to be doing Civil society organizations like Mine Labor movement The media Influences on social media Public opinion Moulders We must speak with one voice And let the president understand That we are in an existential crisis It will consume everybody Including himself If he does not fix Especially the optics You see this optics sometimes It's You can You can be Shipping the head of a man And blowing wind on it And the man will be happy Will be content Even though you are doing it now You cannot be speaking with arrogance And bravado When you are also Conditioning and And putting into hardship People They will get angry They And a hungry man Is already an angry man Imagine a hungry man That also has reason Outside of his hunger To be angry That's explosive anger That's what you saw happen In Abu Dhabi yesterday And that is just the beginning If you like Put them below security guards The minister Of state What the culture came at And made extremely unfortunate statements Very unfortunate statements Clearing the sensitivity Of the situation Clearing these radio waters going on Calling those guys criminals They were not criminals They were ordinary Nigerians Expressing their anger And their anger Why support what they did? No But it was unacceptable So The president Must be made to see That we have a problem On our hands And I'm telling you I think it's high time We start letting them know That there are whispers in the light There are whispers About change of government By any means necessary There are whispers And the people that are pushing those whispers Are not you and I There are people that are connected In the security services They are coming out boldly In the press To say that Don't say that Who is not possible So look The president Must understand that He is raising specters He's driving Nigeria to the end To imagine Go forbid That we have a clue in this country Imagine what that would mean It means that 25 years Of whatever gains Might not as they may be Democratically that we have made Is gone We start all over Why are these people so I don't understand Look somebody needs to get across To the president And get them to understand That we have problems in this This is a serious situation That they have to take seriously And take immediate Remedial action There are lots of things That can also be done You know to fix the price Of goods and services Bring prices down To a certain degree You can never go back Unfortunately to where we were In June or in May 233 I don't think Can ever get that In terms of price of goods And services Because inflation Once it heats It rarely comes down The prices cannot come down That much But we can at least Tend the tide Revert it for going higher Let me bring it down a bit By some very smart policymaking It's time to do all of that But before all of that Depress their monstrosity To the price of Nigerians It has to stop this arrogant Posturing bravadocious Post-full statements That are obviously Very insensitive And sounds even almost wicked You know the time for Missing words I think for me That time is gone Where the stations Where even You know people like You and I On this show We're in danger So we should cry out And we should speak out Okay so talking about Remedial actions Two things you touched on Was collapsing the ministries And the fuel subsidy Now obviously there was The ORACIA reports That was said The president once Would like to be Implemented And other people Coming out to say Okay we need to Review this We've been implemented But on the other hand Femi Faleno came out yesterday It was in yesterday's news Talking about the review Of fuel subsidy So do you think If we combine both of them The collapsing of the ministries Because that kind of like Reduces the cost of governance And then even the review Of the fuel subsidy Might not be back to Where it used to be Because even as of right now There's still a quacy Subsidy whereby Look at the dollar You know keeps increasing Or rising And then we're still Paying the same amount So if we were supposed to Pay the same thing as the Dollar obviously Whatever we're paying for fuel Now would have been About a thousand Naira Something in that range So do you think Both of this Two things that I've touched on Would actually help With the prices of goods And services in the Country at the moment Well yeah absolutely The cost of governance issue For me is more of an optics issue It will fix the anger To a certain degree If Nigeria sees very sincere Spirited effort To cut the cost of governance Their anger will You know a level Will come down a bit That they would You know they will Who look at us We say in the street palace If that You know may not really fix The problem The fundamental problems Of Nigeria I don't know how much How many ministries Do you want to remove How many But a thousand agencies Do you want to How many jobs will you Eliminate And how much will that result Into in terms of The Naira power that is saved How many billions Trillions can you save I'm not sure that This government Even its body language Has the will To actually tackle That issue they're done If you really really Want to make impact In terms of possibilities In that direction It has to be A very extreme Surgical operation I know they won't do it So for me You're talking about Our SIE report The reducing ministries It's really about Fixing the emotions In the country Showing that you are also Making sacrifices And making changes The other part of it What everybody said Is very instructive I don't do the quick calculation If we were to pay The current Plat rate for PMS On the international market At our current exchange rates In Nigeria Petrol itself for 2,112 Nair At the pump Has paid on today's exchange rate To sell at 2,912 Nair We know Without a doubt That we're importing petrol We know it Because now Obviously look at That was the refinery That started Oh, we celebrated Pump and Pregentry The political Media Propaganda Machinery Who rolled out In January And said Can't go to the refinery And received So that's a million Barriers of food They're about to start Well, this is March Oh, we still haven't started But to talk about the refinery Oh, the Turn-around maintenance Has been completed I think they called it Engineering Something They used the technical time That had been completed Production will start soon This is March That was in December This is March Nothing So we know That we import petrol Till today If we're importing petrol It means that we're importing petrol At 1 dollar Sorry 1 dollar 32 cents That's the current international price It moves, it varies But rarely by more than a few cents So around 1 dollar 32 cents Convert that at 1,600 Or let's say 1,500 Because official rates Is about 1,550 As of yesterday Convert that You get 2,000 Straight So clearly Since we know We're importing this thing A subsidy is being paid Somehow Somewhere By some A subsidy is being paid So what we're calling What we're saying is Admit it You know Come out and tell Nigerians We are still paying subsidies So that again What that will do Is that it will boost The confidence of the people You know In the government It will boost the faith Of the people People will know That these people Are not aligned towards You know It's very bad for you To be beating somebody And they're aligned Okay So we're paying subsidies Let them In fact This can be something That they can use As a political You know They're looking Always looking for Political points To make it To say Look Yes We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said We said New liberal Economic ideology Is just simply to pander To the wall Back at the IMF Imagine The CBN Municipaly coming out To say that they are Working with the IMF On places That would help stabiling The Nairobi So interpersonal The central bank Of a country How can you be Working with the IMF To say that Yet Its a multilateralISH issues Whose interests are not You know Capital Underline They are not Tune the interests They're pursuing the interest of people that sets them up and that call the shots there. So how can our CBN be telling Nigeria that they're working with the IMF?  So the president needs to come out and admit that we're paying subsidies. That will help again with the options too. Are they always doing it? Okay. Yeah, so let me quickly run a problem. On the issue of exchange rates, I think the area, and I've repeatedly said this, the area that the most impact, the most boot can be done today is in exchange rates management. If we're able to somehow persuade, manage, massage our exchange rates back down to under 1,000 there, let's just say 950, you will see how the temperature will come down in the country because it will have an impact on prices. We import a lot of things, almost everything that we eat and wear and use are imported to it. If we're able to manage that, the CBN can do this. It will just take some bold, very hard decisions but they can't do it. They need to intervene in the market at market prices. They do not need to intervene in the market the way they did last week using a specialized exchange rates that come back to MSLADs and then you begin to look it for critical. So they need to intervene in the market. It's a desperate need now. They need to provide supply for at least two months to drive these prices down. Why are there policies to bring in foreign portfolio investors, foreign direct investment, harness the square of evidences? Why are there policies going on and why are there policies useful? They must intervene to bring the exchange rates back down to below 1,000 there. If we do that, then you will see that things will be much better. Yeah, like I said, I wanted to say I was always asking myself why they were hiding the fact that subsidy was being paid when it was a point to their advantage and you expressed the same. But I'm just wondering in the news also we find that CBN has slashed customs effects duty rate. I don't know, will that help or is that just playing to the gallery? It will help, but it's not enough. It will only help us to be much enough. What we, you know, I mean, so the way to simply look at this is what percentage of lending of any article that you talk about is accounted for by duties or percentage. Duties typically 10%, you know, or some items 5% or some items 20%. And those are usually items that are considered almost lottery and non-essential. And then some luxury goods you talk of 50% to 60%. So it will affect those ones, you know, significantly. But you know, the irony of that is that the things that will probably bear the enjoy the benefit of this reversal, the most will be things that we don't need anymore. But for the things that we need, the percentage of their lending costs represented by due by import duties is small. It's not significant enough. So, you know, so the human right over them, adjusting the rate of course, I didn't really follow it because well, yeah, it's bad, it's again just for the optics and yeah, there's some first implications of that. But it's not significant enough. We need significant fundamental actions from the CBN. Just reviewing the rate for duty computation back down to I don't know what rates they've gone to now. I don't think that will do it. It's good that they've done something, but we need a whole lot more, something far more fundamental as to happen. We need to drive our exchange rate down. Yeah, but we need to drive our exchange rate down to below 1,000. That is the solution and it's the only solution. Okay, I don't know. So well, maybe sometimes they have to just put their tail under their legs and then go back to the policies that were before now and admit that they are wrong. Kenya did it. I think Kenya also, they did this fuel subsidy removal and after a while they said, oh no, we find out that people are suffering more and they revert it to the old thing. Why can't we do that? Are we too proud to do it or something? Anyway, this is where we have to draw the cotton with you this morning. We would like to thank you for your time, Mr. Chopiton, for coming on the program this morning. Thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure. Thank you so much. We've been talking with Mr. Shergoune Chopiton and we're looking at the fact that the federal government has said they are going to distribute grains again to the people. Again. Again. In high pitch. Again, yeah. That is 762 bucks or so to 200 and something million Nigerians. Let's see how that goes. Yeah. I think it's crossed. I hope it gets to your duster. And I hope it gets to mine as well. I don't hope it gets to my duster. It might be contaminated. Or bad. Yeah, that's bad. Anyway, this is where we draw the cotton. I'd just like to give you some motivational talk this morning. Sometimes you feel that at day, you're at the end of your life but nothing else can work for you. There are some people who made billions at the early age of 20s. Like the Mark Zuckerberg of this world, he became a billionaire in dollars at the age of 23. But we have people like Tiger Woods that got to 45. We have people like George Lucas that got to 52 before they became billionaires.  I'd like to thank you for being a part of our program. My name is Nyam Gol Aghaji. My name is Rume Paul Singh. Thank you for having breakfast with us. We'll see you again tomorrow. Have a good day.


I'm here in the Geneva studio of the ITU with Mr Alfred Hannick, the executive director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. Hello, thanks for being with us today. Hello. Now, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, global network of policymakers and regulators, what is the main aim of this organization? The main aim is, in fact, to fill a critical gap on the globe, which is to be a mechanism for knowledge sharing and peer learning among regulators from developing and emerging economies on financial inclusion policy and regulatory issues. We have seen that many of these experiences, knowledge is available, but what it really takes to make change happen is a mechanism, a mechanism to share this knowledge, and that's what the Alliance is actually doing. So we are connecting regulators. And to give you one of the examples how that can work, we have seen, for example, in Brazil since the year 2000, that the central bank through actually allowing non-bank agents like, for example, petrol stations or pharmacies or supermarkets to hand out financial services to poor people under a banking license, because this was actually done under an agency agreement where the bank has led to a situation where nowadays each and every municipality in the whole of Brazil is at least connected to one financial service for the poor. And of course, that is now being exported to other members in the network. I know that big progress has been made. I think around 700,000 people now have access to some kind of banking facility, but there's still a lot of work to do. And what do you think are the main issues that are holding things up? What we need to understand is that there are always regulatory barriers, meaning that regulators who normally move cautious, especially against the background of the global financial crisis, there is caution. And of course, that means they are moving carefully when it comes to regulating innovative financial services, especially those ones which are based on technology. Now, these regulatory barriers can be overcome through mutual learning among private sector, apparently, and regulators, and we are supporting this. And this is what you call smart regulation? We call it smart regulation. This means, of course, to allow for proportionate regulation so that it is important to keep the risks in check, but at the same time, it is, of course, important also not to over-regulate, because that would actually lead to more exclusions of the poor. Could you give me a specific example of smart regulation that's improving the situation? Well, one example, which is very recent, is again from Kenya. Kenya has been in use quite a bit, but there is one innovation which is not so well known up to now. There is a bank which is called the Commercial Bank of Africa, and this bank was a very small bank like a couple of years ago, 250,000 customers. But through the partnership with the telecommunication operator and using the channel of a mobile phone, this bank has grown to 6 million customers, which is now the biggest bank in Kenya, and really handing services to the poor through the mobile. That means you can now even obtain a loan through the mobile phone. You don't have to see a bank branch anymore, and you can make a deposit. This is huge progress and, of course, a role model for many other countries. Let's get back to your organisation in particular. What are you doing in all this? Is it linking different countries together, different areas? And also, what's your role within this process, the focus group on digital financial services at the ITU? Well, I think our task is basically to allow for mutual knowledge sharing and what we call peer learning. And this is, I think, very attractive among developing and emerging country regulators. We do it through many ways, through working groups, through visits, exposure trips, but of course also joint production of knowledge products and so forth. Now, through the ITU focus group, I should say this is a new terror for us, but it becomes increasingly important to also work across regulatory domains. In other words, to allow for learning among financial regulators and telco regulators, because let's say, for example, the security of the system to hand out mobile financial services is very important, the stability of the signal, consumer protection issues. So in other words, many things that are regulated by telco regulators are preconditioned to make mobile financial services work, and we are trying to allow for this mutual exchange as well. There are lots of groups out there like yours that are trying to promote financial inclusion. Do you think that at the moment they are working in concert or is there duplication? Do you feel that there's a good ecosystem here? I feel there is a good ecosystem, I must say. I think, especially in the past two to three years, we see an emerging consensus, a convergence even among the players. And this is all centered around what we call the country-led approach, meaning that countries themselves determine where they want to go. Countries are no longer told what to do. And it is very apparent that countries make their own commitments and then follow these objectives through very systematic implementation of policy reforms. AFI has been promoting this quite a bit. And I must say that you see this kind of spirit of country-led approach also reflected in the newly realized sustainable development goals by the UN. So we see a convergence which is actually driven by such an umbrella of a common understanding even under the UN. This is very good. Well, we're speaking today around about a year after the focus group was set up and we're looking at various working groups reporting back. Are you pleased with the progress that's been made or do you think more work could have been done over the last year? Well, I'm not here to judge on the work what has been done because I must say for us we know how difficult it is at the beginning of creating a network to get things going, to get people engaged, to keep them engaged. And we should not forget that this kind of activity that we see here comes always on top of your usual workload. But having said that, I think we see a great engagement. I have seen today that there are many more telco regulators in the room than last year. So we have an increasing demand for these issues. And I do understand that the groups have really identified the major topics which is, for example, in the space of digital financial services, the whole issue around interoperability, but also consumer protection issues. So I think there's good progress, but of course it will take some time to get real momentum and of course to get a broad participation from all over the place. But I think you are on a very good way here. And finally, when can we see financial inclusion for all? Well, this is a very good question and various organizations, of course, come with different forecasts. I think financial inclusion will always be an issue, no matter whether we are fully included or not. You can see that from the financial crisis in countries that show full inclusion, you see serious issues around consumer protection, financial education, and so forth. So I think the challenge is going to be permanent. Even if we have managed to close the access gap, which could maybe be around 2030, we will still see other issues around usage and quality of financial services for all. So I think this is an issue which is going to be there to stay. Afrohanik, thank you for being with us today. Thank you very much for the pleasure being here.


right at the end of the story, some wonderful Catholic political philosophy. Aslan commands Prince Caspian, now King Caspian, that he will rule under us and under the High King. The High King, of course, is Peter. So he rules, but he doesn't have absolute rule. He doesn't have absolute power. He rules with responsibility and with conditions and with limits. It's like, what is the United States? One nation under God. It's not something that can do its own thing irrespective of God and God's commandments and God's teaching. So, Aslan, God, you will rule under us. You will rule under God and under the High King. In other words, under God and the commandments of God, the commandments of religion and under tradition.


Do you have like any thoughts on like attributes of like some of the best project managers you've come across? Are there like common things you've noticed between them? So one of the things when I interview project managers I actually ask them they like to do puzzles because I think that's a key attribute because you're not only like jigsaw puzzles but like seductive or cluster puzzles because you're figuring out a problem coming on the fly. That's a big piece of it. The second thing is kind of a level of confidence. So when you talk to a customer and the world's falling apart around you you don't want to be in that kind of mess. You want to let the client know that I got this, we'll work through it, we'll straight it out, we'll get to a conclusion or a result and kind of have that calming effect that's important.


The unofficial kickoff to summer is here and many will spend the Long Memorial Day weekend traveling on the road. Earlier this week more than 300 law enforcement agencies across the state added extra patrols for the holiday weekend. Many of those agencies will be participating in the Click It or Ticket program to help promote seatbelt use. Law enforcement will also be on the lookout for impaired and distracted drivers all in an effort to help save everyone help everyone be safe this weekend. For the next week probably there'll be some more towards zero death patrols and focusing a lot on seatbelt enforcement but our officers are always on the lookout for drunk drivers and any reckless vehicles anybody getting too carried away in their travels to their destination will be on the lookout for it. The city county and state law enforcement agencies will have extra patrols in place through June 3rd. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Day 22, shiny world, the best 2018 from now on, suggested by Get Lost Photo Club and seconded by 10 people. This one's a fuckin' minefield. The last time I talked about K-pop on this channel was May of 2019, after seeing Blackpink perform at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. At the time, I was obviously aware of what K-pop was, had a sense of the uniquely corporate and exploitative nature of the industry and enjoyed songs from individual artists, but Blackpink was the first group I really liked beyond just the singles. I didn't know the YG drama of it all, how weird it was that they'd released so little music and the way that whole thing was going down behind the scenes. I also didn't understand the fandoms, which means at that point, I'd have been conceptually open to making a video about BTS. I cannot think of a dumber thing someone could do than make a video about BTS. If you like K-pop, you should subscribe to Mara. She's one of my favorite YouTubers and is the person who got me deeper into the music and culture of the industry than I ever thought I'd want to since 2019, so much so that I have turned several of her best ofs into Spotify Playlists for myself. But despite how clearly great she is, she made the mistake of putting two sentences in an hour-long video about the writing styles of BTS that were misunderstood as slightly critical of one of the members, and the army came for her. Sending genuine death threats, despite being fully anonymous, she was getting messages with her current address and had to leave school while it died down. So that's what the BTS army is like. I don't know much about Shaol. I don't know what they're gonna say when I say right now that I think Chinese music is good and that's about where it stops for me. I watched a two and a half hour long performance and I didn't dislike any of the songs but I also didn't fall in love with any. I really enjoyed what I saw as with everyone in the industry, literally by design, they are all absurdly talented performers. The show itself is unlike anything that I've ever seen. It had much in common with the Blackpink performance but like extra, extra, extra to the point where fake hot air balloons started flying two members of the group around the arena and it was amazing, but it didn't convert me. Then again, that's not really the point of talking about this particular performance, is it? There are many shiny world tours and I could have been asked to review any of them. Heck in 2021, they did it as a big virtual performance and I'm sure that would have been interesting to discuss though probably more last year than this one. But the absolute mouthful that is shiny world best of 2018 from now on is entirely unique because it came just two months after one of the group's members died. In December of 2017, one of the original five Jonghyun committed suicide. Mental health is basically a forbidden subject in Korea. I remember when looking into teaching abroad over there that all of the mentally ill ESL teachers on the forums were hiding their issues and getting medication shipped in from back home because if they went to see a local doctor, that information would be shared with their employers who would then fire them for it. Jonghyun's suicide note was posted on Instagram by a friend of his apparently at his request and he specifically called out among other things, doctors who just blame suffering on personality instead of doing anything to help. You can see how that culture almost inevitably leads to something like this. 2018 was the band's 10 year anniversary. They were formed during the so-called second generation of K-pop after its success had spread beyond the borders of Korea but remained generally confined to Asia. It was still years away from becoming the true global sensation, largely ushered in by third generation groups like BTS and Blackpink. 10 years is a big milestone for anyone and to lose someone who had been there since the beginning and to lose them in that way at that moment is crushing. How could it not be? But they decided to keep performing as a way to honor his legacy and that's what this show is. The recording which is available in its entirety on YouTube has no subtitles which makes the talking bits and sections where there are words on screen a little odd for me but someone in the comments translated a few of the key moments and all of them were obviously about Jung Hyun. They emphasized over and over again that he would stay with them. They kept his voice on the track. They rarely adjusted the choreography to account for the missing member letting the dances be kind of lopsided rather than filling the gap with the backup dancer. I imagine it must have been strange for this group of Korean boys to mourn the loss of their friend and partner in a language that wasn't theirs. They played the Japanese versions of their songs and spoke Japanese in the interludes as well. This is pretty common. Many K-pop artists have Japanese specific releases with translated lyrics and even new albeit much less elaborate music videos. And I understand the value from a marketing perspective. But doing it like that really emphasizes the show of it all. According to that commenter I mentioned before there was actually a bit towards the end where someone broke into Korean and at times throughout you can see on their faces how painful it is. And you can also see the joy, the love of performance and the appreciation of tens of thousands of screaming fans. But I didn't really feel it until the very end when they played From Now On, which was their first release after Jung Hyun's death and which featured him prominently on vocals. The four remaining members came out on stage in white suits with roses in their best pockets. In the center a fifth mic with a rose in the stand and when each person sings the spotlight comes on them and when Jung Hyun's recorded vocals come on the empty mic is lit up as well. In the midst of the live performance the more heavily processed recording is actually kind of unsettling, which hurts the song musically but makes it more captivating experientially. It emphasizes what who has been lost? By the end one of the four has completely broken down into sobs while the others are clearly on the verge and it got me too. I cried both times I watched it. And when I tried to explain to my girlfriend why I was crying I couldn't. I was too choked up. And that speaks to the power of that particular performance but also everything that came before it. I didn't know SHINee before this but over the two and a half hours of this concert I became invested enough in their work to see how beautiful and sincere this tribute was. It's so easy to be cynical about K-pop honestly you probably should be but underneath all of that corporate machinery these are four guys who lost someone incredibly close to them.  That this is something they are doing rather than something they're being told to do and it doesn't matter who actually designed the sequence they just don't seem like idols anymore. They're people mourning the loss of a friend and in this heartbreaking.  Thank you so much for watching. Thank you particularly to my patrons. My mom, Hammer and Marco, Kat Saracota, Benjamin Schiff, Anthony Cole, Elliot Fowler, Greg Lucina, Kojo, Phil Bates, Willow, I am the sword, Riley's and Claire Bear, Taylor Lindy's, Andrew Madison Design and the folks who'd rather be read than said. If you like this video it's great. If not, oh well. 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Now have you received an exotic from a blue rare engram if you have let me know all it was down below in that comments section the only time he has kind of been generous to me was the instance you guys are seeing on screen now.  Okay so I'm to the loot and we're going to start with the night full and with my hunter I received the Esprit 1.0 legendary chess piece dropping at a 330 defense absolute garbage on my titan from the night full I received the dragon SRT 49 rocket launcher dropping at a 330 attack again garbage on my warlock I got a 330 attack have it pigeon with rangefinder and advanced tracker you know shit is bad when this is the best thing you get from the night full across all three of your characters I did however received the treasure pun stars bullets roll wasn't exactly great okay so let's move on to my true meaning of war loot and starting on my hunter from last week I received the exotic fusion rifle the telesto dropping a disappointing 344 attack from this week I received 17 strange coins moving on to my titan and from last week I also received another 17 strange coins from this week I received the mark 44 standards which I had equipped when caching in my true meaning bounty and they also dropped below par with their light score shitty really moving on to my warlock and from last week I received the thunderlord exotic machine gun dropping below par due to my light level being lowered and it should have been from this week from the true meaning on my warlock I received the ash factory crazy thing though is that it dropped at 300 attack even though my warlock was a 345 light score so something definitely isn't right here with loot and the way it's dropping post 2.4.0 patch typical bungee they try and fix a few things and break 20 others in the process but it is what it is but have you guys experienced any crazy going on since the patch let me know hope you guys enjoyed the video do drop a like I do a much appreciate the support and I will catch you guys on that next one peace until next time POST!


What's going on guys got Kyle here relating sports cards, and we are ripping 2023 legacy football six-box number 17 random team style Show you the results again real quick. We had Christopher. Oh with the Colts down to Christopher. Oh with the Packers Alrighty guys. Let's rip it. Good luck. Good luck box one First hit is for the Raiders the 249 Aiden O'Connell Aiden O'Connell Tool jerseys there. That's crazy. Welcome to the world for the ages Charles Woodson. That is crazy. Which teams I'm not bad Some safe flowers here. I know dolphins fan. Yeah There is Texans on the under the lights rookie auto tank Dell Texans to start off the autos Tank Dell Joey Porter rookie for the Steelers Decade of dominance champ Bailey Redskins champ Bailey I don't remember him on the Redskins. Oh, yeah, I remember a good champ was on the I remember the Broncos They was on the Broncos. I remember the Broncos. I don't remember him on the Redskins. Oh, yeah He was lights out man. Oh, that kid of dominance or Ronnie lots. Oh, yeah, they got a ps2 now, man He's pretty good, too, but they're saying he's that's retainers Passortain is legit. Yeah, legit. His dad was it too. That's our is that's a BB coach at first date. Yeah, he was up when he read a 299 We got Keisha on boot a Patriots and say flowers Ravens under the lights. Yeah, champ Bailey was a beast Devontae Adams Raiders to 299 blast from the past of Thurman Thomas from the past I remember the I was living that we were going to games all the time and dude Stan silver many many Marvin Mims for the Broncos Yeah, yeah, that's true you a division rival I mean That's actually crazy Pink ice for the Texans is Damian pierced a five nice one there Texans three of five on the mini Nice to love number there Damian Pierce Washington, yeah, that's true Yeah, you can see the craziness of the bill's fans now like under the lights to your Gibbs Lions until they were Pins up for a little bit. Oh, yeah, up in Buffalo ain't much. That's no But they're the plow them boys out to get them Crazy community. Oh, this one's short print lore for the Ravens About a case hit on this one nice Lamar here Donald on the lower they go Donald come on Nice one case hit Ravens. Oh Under the lights Hopkins Haven't seen one of those. Yeah, those are sweet the lore Yeah, a lot of people live in Florida now, man, they've been so on 99 we got Chris Carter Mike Dicca on the Bay the Bears there My family South Florida raised yeah down in Homestead 249 and got Alex Smith for the ages and Was the other place Jalen Hertz dual card their birds Cluiston Nobody know where Cluiston is box to I do Fox to legacy my grandpa was a he was like a manager at the sugar plantation down there. So oh Sugar factory whatever it was. Yeah. Yeah, Dixie. Yeah. Yeah. So they were There forever Aaron Rodgers Jets go the tiger. Let's go. There's a Steelers Kenny pick it on the silver decade of dominance Josh Downs There you go DW There we go. There he is Lamar There he is. There is 250 for the Titans we got under the lights tractor seat. Oh Just got a hold tight It's true. It's true. I'm telling you I Speak hey, I got I fell asleep on the break Bryce young rookie And I because I give it up pretty much. I fell asleep and I woke up and the breaker and texted me Nice hit, bro. I was like, what are you talking about? I really had no idea what you're talking about He's like, oh, you need to watch the video like now It's like Jalen Hyatt rookie. Um, that was giant. Is that one-on-one? Um We're in all though. Oh, yeah I had no idea I hit it He's like, do you want insurance? To 190 or sorry to 150 that one's worn moon seahawks seahawks worn moon. What? Price prospects butte for that either. I don't need dude. Some of these some of these throwbacks are Some strange some strange combinations Yeah, the darts oilers through darts Or moon Yeah, that was not one I saw really 480 points there. We'll random that one at the end Quentin Johnston price prospects Legends to 100 we got Barry Sanders for the Lions Price prospects Jalen Carter I'll say Barry Sanders better be for the Lions there, man I don't know any other berry teams You get the L Diablo burger No, man I'm trying to drop some LBs Tyree Wilson on the uh red that one is the 50 Tyree Wilson Uh, let me see here. What's the wrong wrong sheet? That's why Raiders and that rate is Tyree Wilson to 50 there to market swear Tyree Wilson That rate is What? I have Jersey's mics today Hmm? I have Jersey mics today. So did I did you yeah, I brought you what you get probably cheese steak. It's pretty solid Is it really? Yeah Did you get it? I just got an Italian Just a hoagie. It's $2.99. Uh, Cedric Tillman Is it good? No Decadent diamonds I've been seeing a lot of uh Jersey mics uh content on like tiktok or whatever like instagram like they are they're always they're always making different kind of subs and stuff It probably works. I mean it might it might have been why I went today. It could have been subliminal That's $1.99 ram staffer there Will levis on the under the lights first Jersey Mike.  Yeah, the pub subs are pretty serious, man Gold pub subs are pretty serious. I do like Jersey mics though, man. I got some good hot subs like all that The italians good there too. I mean they slice it right as you go. I like that Yeah, I might go pub sub too though do tiger, you know You get chicken fingers have a wow It's not the same To five we got nfl shield for the browns dorian thompson robinson Here we go browns who had the browns Think it's a combo team. It is robert h We'll mag this one the qb out of uc la two of five nice one there on the nfl shield auto Great hit there Combo spots ronnie lot Yeah, you can hit with a combo for sure. It's it's many times Really clean Oh diddy gamer, we were just talking about that. We completely forgot about the uh the game tonight So 249 or 299 we got trinton simpson literally completely forgot about it I told you when I walked in the door today, I was fired up so we were gonna watch some football Yeah, and then some swirl and then I was forgot about it. Yep, we're watching top 50 still They're on 18 still dude. That was like three hour. This one is gridiron greats. That's gonna be a throwback for the bears dan hampton Throwback gridiron greats not numbered auto there nice one bears Under the lights of cd lamb Yeah, it's just that set rory that set um, I think it's under the lights or which one was that futures futures They have the they photoshopped the the jerseys on for the ages. We got charles woodson. That's the only set in this one But um, I think they've been doing that for I think they did that in score too. There was one set that had it I guess they caught up a little better because the past couple years they've been a little bit more behind for sure Get into these products um blast of the past thurman thomas That was a nice dory and thompson robinson man. I remember him at UCLA. He was pretty good There's cj stroud nice one there to 199 texans Oh, yeah champ bailey Yeah, it'll be his first one for a while for sure Should be the first uh pro jerseys for a little bit besides like the one set. Maybe they do in a couple products Probably won't have the full thing yet. There's paris johnson rookie. Um, 275 out of ohau state Yeah, college just don't pull it like pro It's green berry sanders lions to 100 marvin mims rookie How many packs are stronger than others man? How many legacy packs are strong? Trying to get me working out blast of the past tony dorset dorset I didn't see Isn't he I thought he was a cowboys mostly. Yeah broncos on that. That's weird. It looks like a bobby boo shaders. Yeah Guy rookie quinn johnson that one is the 50 for the chargers. It literally looks like the the uh water boy Oh, are they the Mud dogs or something? I don't know. I don't remember what their name was. I saw somebody at the at the national awareness jersey You know when bobby boucher came back? Yeah, bobby boucher. And uh, I think it might be them. I don't know And it's a 50 matt judon patriots Mike dicka What was the name of the team and um No, water boy guys. I'm gonna need some help here Hey guys eight to go come break it next panini. Um Optic team all optic team all breaking next only eight to go There's a um Bryce young rookie ready three left. Good luck. Good luck Hey, thank you Mike grabbing one of the spots And gary grabbing an impeccable soccer for later appreciate that guys The mud dogs. It was the mud dogs The mud dogs won the bourbon bowl There's a um mac jones Remember when bobby boucher came back and the mud dogs won the bourbon bowl CJ stravaprize prospects, uh Texans. I thought it was mud dogs appreciate gdw There's red burrow that one is number 250 bangles red joey b mini Got a mica stray hand See if you're hutchinson rookie. What do you think about that breakers delight?  I try cop a few if we had personals, but I don't think we're playing on just doing the breaks of them Yeah, two 100 got legends of warren moon seahawks Very sanders All right, I think a lot of people are thinking that way A lot of people thinking that way 250 we've got lt for the ages Maybe get something going lamb jack points 400 another 400 there we'll get two Um get a random for the top two teams here Steelers There's cj stroud again Hey, thank you robber taking a spot in team all Down to seven now guys seven Appreciate y'all we'll get that one going next Select team all this one is zack evans on the rookie out of there zack evans giants Rams rams out of there zack evans rookie silver Giants rams pretty close. Yeah nick bosa under the lights I don't know the rams are gonna be this year because Boy, did they have a down year last year after winning the championship last from the past of jr. Pearson Cowboys I wonder how I mean I guess I get staffered back. I don't know Are you rams fan christopher? Um decade of dominance mean joe green Hey, me and joe. Here's a Pepsi. That's how the commercial goes Something like that have a Pepsi There's red cedric tilman number two two ninety nine And orange will anderson rookie for the Texans their number to 149 Texans I feel you. Yeah, I just wasn't sure Yeah, I feel I mean there's a few good, uh, this receiver class is pretty solid man. There's there's four or five real good guys Even just at the top of the class too to two ninety nine jimmy garoppolo Mike myer prize prospects Alrighty guys two more. Oh the owner's own arsenal. That's right It's that cronky. Is that the rams owner? stand cronky rich guy Quite wealthy. Alrighty two more Yeah, stafford's chilling over in la. He's probably not going anywhere. He's He's chilling There's bijan to 249 here for the uh falcons. He's gonna be good, man Bijan andre redecaded dominance. I can't wait to watch him play Bijan's gonna be good. They said he's been lining up at like slot and stuff Yeah, because they got it. They got enough receivers like they're gonna need him on the field So they got him at slot a couple times. I'm sure he'll play running back, but There's bijan again. This one's the 50 for the um falcons. Nice bijan Um, this one is dual kelsey card dual kelsey card. Was that other duel in this one or the other one? I think it was the other one. All right, we'll roll again guys. Um, one two three We'll go to the top for all these duels and four five six. We'll go to the bottom for all these duels Four we'll go to the bottom This one will be eagles bottom for all the duels. Oh, no not conky from the trailer park boys. Oh boy Yeah, not the same guy stand cronky and conky not the same Yeah, I have to watch that. Oh, dude. It's good. Is it it's really good. What's it on that place? Yep, you got a rushy rice under the lights auto chiefs Yeah, it's uh, it's a good one It started out like real low budget Like it's based on like a camcorder recording and then and then they have like 15 seasons or something Joey Porter. Oh, yeah, they got they went in for years Really good show. I am the liquor old jim lehi man. RIP Like I was awesome the trailer park supervisor was always just pissed off always hammered always hammered This one is jordan battle the 149 orange. I know I just looked this one up bangles jordan battle and the orange color maps there To 149 tanner mckay prize prospects Yeah, basically they're just criminals living in the trailer park and Doing all that I think every season ends with them going to jail Then the season starts with them getting out of jail There's a blast from the past bob lily I don't know if it's every season, but many of the seasons do start that way Munoz for the ages bangles Randy's on the cheeseburgers again It's at 299. We got kirk cousins Got a prize prospects of bichon Yeah, randy's a good character. He's the assistant trailer park supervisor. That was got his shirt off with a big gut Orange to 199 got marino dolphins. Let's go dolphins And under the lights a flowers radens I'm assuming that's how all the canada is right to me the trailer park boys. It's an accurate accurate depiction of canada There's a dolphins tua on the mini mini tua Got a um allen page throwback. There's orange tank del uh texans on the mini to 125 For the ages killing windslow You tell me man. I got it down to the science now. I've been doing it so long There's a silver tyreek tyreek hill dolphins More packed and we got one more box Every canada canadian can relate. I like it You ever been to canada? I've been once I went to it was like I was going to alaska So I went to vancouver and like went up pet from there, but I didn't do much in a canada. No under the lights. Uh, hopkins I didn't do much. Yeah What about you? No, no, no, I would like to Yeah A good place like toronto or something montreal I heard montreal's got really good food. I'll be down for that Hey, what's up, kody? What's up, kyle? Um, we are full tonight kyle We'll have some personals tomorrow. Um Matt'll start at five. He'll be going all night But we had the internet go out for about 35 or 40 minutes earlier today in the stream So i'm a good bit behind. Um, we're not gonna have much time for personals Not much at all. Um, we are over full Got a marvin mem silver rookie Uh, kody. I've got a uh, silver pack. I'm gonna open for you, sir Sorry about that. Uh, short of card last night. I'm gonna open another one for you and base Got it over here. We'll do that first for personals And chillin man chillin Devon at shane rookie silver Hey, no worries kyle. No worries Yeah, we got a little behind so we'll have matt tomorrow though Like I said, he starts at five and he'll go till midnight So we'll have plenty of time tomorrow if you guys are trying to grab something The 299 got deandre hopkins not a lot of time tonight Richardson Last one here guys blue is jimmy g Raiders to 20 nice jimmy munios Wonder how jimmy's gonna do this here. They don't really have any options behind him. I got I think they got like stittlem You don't hear too much No, the raiders are chillin The raiders are chillin They lost waller. That's a big that's a big uh lost sequan for the giants Yeah, they got mike myer, which is a good rookie titan, but Never know how rookie's gonna do first Yeah First part of the career. There's de marcus laurence to 299 Oh sevens of the broncos now. So who's their backup then? And in hooker prize prospects. Who's the raiders even backup then I Can't think of anyone Montreal's like europe of north america. I like it Yeah, I've heard that there's really good food there. I know they speak french as well So there's probably some good french food to 150. We got dak prescott Uh paul kraus vikings Oh aiden o'connell gotcha gotcha Bijan So jimmy should should be in control for sure I don't know how late o'connell was drafted, but is to 100 rookie auto devon ashain Come on cow No, I look this one up dolphins. You're dolphins dolphins to 100. You gotta help me out I was reading what they were saying last of the past okoye That's fair his brand is his mustache. Hey, I'm about that ladies boy. Come on Come on now Here's a joe nameth future for the ages auto to 100. We got cleaton tune rookie auto for the cardinals Cardinals new rookie out of uh, utah Or no, that was uh, camera rising that one's uh, houston Jordan battle there on the bronze to 100 I do not I do not Ain't no florida stuff Freedom toast through it. I don't know Yeah, I don't remember toast freedom toast There's two 100 brian burns go nulls Best linebackers in the league at a floor state tyree wilson on the rookie on the back guys In base. Alrighty guys. We got two um points to do. We'll do a quick hit recap as well We'll get moving on to um Team all done or she got five left guys five left on team all coming up next It's cleaton tune auto to 100. We got ashain ashain auto to 100 Jordan battle for the bangles um auto to 199. We've got rushy rice Zach evans got dan hampton on the throwback bears auto Um under the lights is tank del houston. We've got aiden o'Connell. There we go I asked I already saw eminerators jersey aiden o'Connell there on the dual jersey took 249 We had to five dorian thompson robinson on the nfl shield Nice one there browns, and we had the lower super sharp super short print of lamb jack nice hit ravens Alrighty there guys, let me roll dice here. We'll see how many times we go on the um points top two in the random We'll get the points here I'm gonna go nine times five and four Give me one second. We'll get this set up. We'll see who gets the points Yeah Good to go. Alrighty guys got all teams in here bucks down to jets. We'll go nine times Good luck top two. We'll get points one two three four five six seven eight and nine chargers and stealers Chargers and stealers each gonna get 400 points Oh, we got number 40 to cars number that's savage. I like it Alrighty guys, let's get the next one going got five left on um team up


Are you taking positives from tonight though? Is it the fact that we came back obviously with 2-1 down down at 10 men You could expect the game just to Peter out But we showed some fight to get it back to 2-2. Yeah definitely You know that shows the character we've got in the dressing room and we can't down towards you've got a fight until the very end I think we did that and that's the positives we've taken to To the next to Saturday and we're talking of positives We can't talk to you without talking about your goal Arguably the best goal of the night really sit for a breath of a point of view great finish No, I definitely am I think Saturday I was very disappointed not to at least get to by my standards But you know tonight I've got nighty under my belt and I've managed to get a course. I'm delighted Pleased with it with the goal the nature the goals. It was it was some strike certainly. Oh That's why I don't know say that's what I do But that's what I try to do and I pride myself on finishing pace and power game getting past people and tonight That's that's worked in my favor and you had a little bit of it and not a little bit of stops that preseason I guess but you've come on showing a bright appearance in this from the subs bench on Saturday Obviously scored and played tonight. You must be quite pleased with how you started the the first team You know the main season in these last couple of games really definitely I was out, you know just towards the back end of preseason which kind of took me out of contention for starting beginning of the season but credit to Chris and Dale for getting me back and Yeah, like I said, I was happy to get 15 minutes And to see that I can play nighty tonight was was great I've come out unscathed ankle feels fine And I'm just buzzing that I've got the nighty in the locker now No, that's kind of like a personal thing, you know when you're injured or how much of it Are you could you've kind of missed a few games in preseason, but now I'm delighted