From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Now. Soldiers of the 117th Infantry Regiment and their Afghan National Security Force partners took part in Operation Southern Strike 2 in the Spin-Boldak District. The goal for the joint effort was to disrupt the insurgent supply routes and hamper their ability to fight Afghan and coalition forces. Southern Strike 2 gave the ANSAF an opportunity to take charge and lead the operation. Whereas initially they kind of went to the objectives that we identified through Intel and accomplished the tasks in the lead we asked them to, and about midway to the end they were pointing out objectives, they were taking the lead and telling us we need to go here and do this and there and do that to the point where we were actually having to hold them back to coordinate assets. So it was very impressive to see them really take leadership and ownership within their own AO. This is the Army Now from Soldiers Radio and Television.


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So perhaps best position to comment on all sorts of... బసిచాaged ... క్� calm back the country and o.would the presented and క్లశ్లు, bio short lots నిక్ట్,aina  행복                      Music and Alcata fans and even the media if you see there is when you go for training for the math math 130 thousand one lakh thirty thousand people come to watch but we will give up training there would be two hundred three hundred people in the media guys in the fifteen sixteen and ten fifteen camera man Where do you get that even in ISL when when when the when the players go for training that's only in Calcutta and people say that Calcutta in Calcutta you have pressure but మృటిర్చలింినీటిందినారే ఆదార్చారోటార్చింద ఞ్తవర్చిమ్చికానాము.. ఇాసతటినిందామున్యెయెస్నిచానినికా, ఇఆథనరిందాకాయెద్చా. They were also a very, very good player. I heard that Subhaal Gwameek and Monadha of a coach. They were all great players. After that, when I joined Mohan Bangan in 1996, was the year when Baishu came back from JCP. So, so came from Churchill. There were many others saying from Samseer Raja, we all were together in 1997. That was a great thing because Baishu, I know Baishu from a very long time. The first time I met Baishu was in 1991, 1991 or 1992 in Tata side tournament. That's when in 1993 he came to Calcutta and started making a mark by coming on for 15, 20 minutes or 10 minutes. In 1995, I think he was a famous player then. In 1996, he was in JCP in 1997. That's when 130 lag, that was the record when we beat Mohan Bangan 41 or something like that. So, that was the best. If you saw about the fans, the number of fans, that was the best of course. Every derby, you will get to see many, many fans coming. But being Calcutta just before joining East Bengal and Mohan Bangan, I'm not being arrogant, but of course all due respect to East Bengal and Mohan Bangan, PFA played final in Durankar and we lost in Thai Breaker, which I missed. I scored penalty in semi-final or quarter-final, but I remember in final when we played draw, I missed the penalty. After that, we played in IFST and we beat them 4-0. And then we beat Mohan Bangan in Durankar. Of course, we respect them, but at the same time, not PFA, going from PFA, winning against them. Respect is there, but not once whistle starts. We feel that we can make it if we could win. If I was coming from Manipu, straight away to Mohan Bangan in East Bengal, that would have been a different mentality, but me going from PFA and beating all the big teams with Mohan Bangan and Mohan Bangan, it was not that difficult. But once we got into that system, once we joined the club, then we will show what it is all about.  And when you win again, you are on top of the world. That's what I mean. In the beginning part, in 1997, all of you guys landed up together at this club, you, Bhai Chung, you were saying Shamsi Raja. So, there must have been, the stories must be enough for you to write a book on. So, at this point, tell us a story that symbolizes the early years. Brother, Dada is there. Dada knows me from a very young age. He is listening. But there are many things, there are many things which 18-19-year-old would do. Of course, in a public forum, it will not be appropriate to share all those stories. But there were some great moments, on and off the ground. On and off the ground, there were really great moments. I still remember, we train early in the morning. In those days, we forget about breakfast. We, 6.30, before the sun came, we used to train at 7.30. So, just imagine, from Salt Lake, driving all the way to Maidan, that was also in our bike. That was those days, we couldn't afford a car in 1997.  But he was also used to have a bike. So, we all used to go in a bike, in those days. And after the training, in the evening, if it's a weekend, there is a party in the bike space. That's the story. On and off the ground. But practice, we never miss the practice. It's not that we party, we never miss, but at the same time, we have got, when you have social, you know, the party, you never miss. The crazy gang. Remember, I remember, I was in a national, national camp. So, what was the name, sir? You remember? Ahahah, So, so was in 1997, Indian team camp. And then he was there for the whole camp. He couldn't get selected. So, so was on high at the time. So, so signed with big money from Churchill to East Bengal. And he was playing and then, the three assists from him when they beat, when we beat East Bengal, Mohan Bagan for one. So, so three assists on that mat. And you know, how good he was but when he was in camp for one month and when we couldn't select it so those days you know names are used to make everyone cut their hair short like a hair those who don't cut their hair they don't select it so at the end also when he didn't get selected just because my hair is big what is the selection for him you know those were the days those sound like the kind of names spent Siddhanth would have been perfect for the Indian team Siddhanth ya it was only the haircut 2000 I will come up with a good anecdote if you remember Reddy 2000 1999 Charchilviti's Swingal Trini let go up Reddy was in the team he was the coach you remember he lost 3-0 in Goa East Bengal lost to Charchilviti 3-0 in that match 1999 league NFL so East Bengal was in bit of a spot of bother at that time they were losing a lot of matches Reddys were losing a lot of matches so East Bengal then went to Travancourt Trivandrum to play that Trivandrum side which team was playing SBT and there was a lot of talk about that Mr Bhomek will be replaced as the coach because East Bengal were losing a lot of matches at that point of time lot of talk about that Bhomek will be replaced by coach but finally he was not replaced of course but the talk was that Mr Naimuddin will come as the new coach in place of Mr Bhomek so when East Bengal left for SBT match that time Mohanmagan was still in Goa they had to play 2 more matches in Goa so I was in the Mohanmagan hotel so in the night in the evening I remember I was sitting at the reception Dipendu came Dipendu Viswas came and he was telling me oh I heard Mr Naimuddin is becoming East Bengal coach I said yeah I also heard so I don't know then he says I must go and call Reddys I said why no no I must console him it's true that it's true that next story 1996 Calcutta those days Calcutta used to be big in 1996 it used to be very big Calcutta league and my first year I got a player of the year in Calcutta football league first year can imagine and after that I had a great year I was in Santosa of the team with all those seniors and next year 97 I was in the one and a half month we were having a camp so those days no five stars in Calcutta Saime we were one and a half month Naimuddin was the coach Naimuddin was the coach for Moun Bagan and was the coach for East Bengal so I had such a great year and then after that I was going to know that everyone coming in PK Vanizi my ex-KFA director is also becoming a coach Monodha the assistant coach the coach PK Vanizi the technical director and then I am very close to them because PK Vanizi knows me for 5-6 years in GFA then I really wanted to join me and Shankar Lal I still remember we were room partners we signed in the morning we signed in the morning we signed in the morning we signed in the morning but those days Calcutta was the main man Calcutta was the main man for East Bengal so Calcutta and Babuda in the morning in the morning we ran in the afternoon we signed in the afternoon we waited in the car and we signed in the afternoon so already for the next camp in Travancore in Kerala we were selected for the next camp already in the name paper after coming in the name paper then I got in the evening a letter and I was selected to go for the second camp after having a camp just because I signed for East Bengal I signed for East Bengal and we told the officer that he was running in East Bengal because he didn't want to sleep so I went in 1996 just because I wanted to because I had a great Mon Bagan with official fans and I was really good so then because of Naimuddin I had to sleep to East Bengal after playing for 15 years so Naimuddin came to this camp so Naimuddin came to this camp now what I do they had this understanding where Mon Bagan players can't go to East Bengal East Bengal players can't come straight away they can't sleep so they had to sleep I don't know what to do so now I pre-season without signing pre-season without signing I started training then my mind is like I have to move from here I don't have any more sleep with Naimuddin but it's just that I don't like the way the games it happens with anyone in the world I have played with 10-15 coaches maybe 2-3 coaches didn't like my game and the rest it is there so you all give respect to Naimuddin he was such a great player but I just don't like playing in his system so then I sleep to Mon Bagan because I sleep well so for 2 months I was suspended then I went to Mon Bagan and then I played for 2 months then I got opportunity to play with Mon Bagan I played for 5 years in Mon Bagan I played for 5 years in Mon Bagan I played for 5 years in Mon Bagan so those are the days and this was also when you made the shift was back to back NFL titles right I came 2nd in East Bengal but when I was there for 3 years that time I couldn't win so then in Mon Bagan I came back and won in Mon Bagan of course when Surotha was the coach we won the league sorry Jerry I would like to ask I want to ask you one thing when you came to East Bengal at that point of time that is like a new beginning for Calcutta football I would say in the way the previous the good players the entire lot in East Bengal and Mon Bagan in both very local players Krishnade, Sudip Chatterjee Amesh Bhadra, Debashish Mukherjee all local players this is the first time in the 90s East Bengal was packed with players from TFA all the TFA players some came to East Bengal Mon Bagan some went to Bombay then Godfrey went to Bombay Alok was a very good player Alok was a very good player then I think Godfrey went to Bombay then Musaq went to Bombay lot of players went to Bombay so being an outsider how did East Bengal fans accepted you because they were used to local players Bengali players I would say local players I would say not Bengali players this is why I like Calcutta so much this is why I respect the Calcutta fans even the Calcutta media if you say they say the Calcutta media but you know we of course when we play bad we are bound to write bad about us that's not a problem but when Calcutta from the been accepted there was no outsider or insider it's a point problem even from Mon Bagan to East Bengal you know fans they accept if you play well if you are giving 100% in the ground fans love that Calcutta doesn't see that they are not coming from outside all they want is to win and if you can help them win you are on top of the world if you go to a restaurant you don't get that anywhere I know Bangalore has got big fan following I know Kerala has got big fan following I know Boa has got big fan following but the respect you get off the ground in Calcutta I have seen I played everywhere but you don't get that so Calcutta has accepted us from day one like we are their own players and that's why we play for long 12 years in Calcutta by too much it was very important and that's why maybe we could last long I think and then we enjoy the process also and if you just imagine if now any player playing for that long of course there is lot more competition but Calcutta people have accepted us like their own you know so we are grateful for that and till now when we go we retire many years back but we still get the love from the fans when you go towards the match and that's Calcutta I would like to ask you all day we are talking about club will be 100 years since we have played in both the clubs so you will be able to better you will be able to tell us better what is extra in this among these twangol fans what do you get extra from these twangol fans lal holud lal holud I think they are aggressive you see the colour itself you see the colour itself of course both the officials are alike but one is Kama Mohan Bagan, Maroon Green and Maroon it's Kama but if you see the fans also the twangol fans right from the warm up so if you are not having so many players we have had to face this if you are not playing if you are not having a good matches for 3-4 matches in a row if you are playing at Calcutta it's not that far away from Calcutta but if you are playing in that twangol crowd in the warm up they will give so much aggressive they are aggressive but the same people after the match if you are on a winning side they will say wow what a player they change in 15 minutes they change in 20 minutes and suddenly if you are losing they will spit on you and they will wait for you the thing is where on earth fans wait to abuse you for 3 hours seriously but this is very normal in Calcutta I don't know now they are chanting now I think they are sending a lot from in east Spain I was talking to few fans few days back and they said you guys have improved a lot you chant 90 minutes he is bengal will win Mohan Bagan will win but in hot days there is no chanting there is only gali gali gali and if you win then they are like oh you are the best you are the best next year one after the other they were both playing their first game of the season in the durand and Bagan's game was a day after a day before the east bengal game and they won and he was like great applause yes very dignified chanting and all next day east bengal won the fans jumped from the fences after the first game of the season if you are on the bus I stay in soleng after playing in soleng I don't go to the club before the thing is in mohan bagan east bengal if you are playing in east bengal you have to travel from soleng to east bengal and come back to soleng and in the traffic it is quite long when you come of course you get police but if you are on a losing side if you want to go back you have to break the bus you have to break the bus you have to break the bus so I have seen I have seen I have seen I have never parked my car is that why you never know I never parked my car I will tell you a funny story I have lost I can tell this because I am retired now you are the young place I don't know what they are doing now there is a charnuk city a small mall behind the soleng stadium I parked my car there there we never know if I am playing with dempo if I am playing Churchill in Calcutta it is very difficult for them also to be there so I am 80% alright that we will have a good match so we would come straight we are charnuk city I think we will lose then if we lose we will lose we will lose away from the fans you have to hide otherwise you cannot face after losing they get very very aggressive because the emotion is so high the fans they will do anything so we know that we feel bad but you are not guaranteed that you will win sometimes you win when you win it is very difficult don't you think you are talking so much about East Bengal the enthusiasm fans everything will not ISL miss them this season I have been saying this of course it is a great thing Mohan Bagan has joined the hands with DK and now Mohan Bagan is going to be nice but Mohan Bagan without East Bengal and East Bengal without Mohan Bagan it will never be the same so if Mohan Bagan is there East Bengal has to come otherwise the rivalry will not be fun if you play with Mohan Bagan you will never be able to see the back stadium so I really want East Bengal to come it is a great rivalry which we should have everywhere in the world so Mohan Bagan without East Bengal and East Bengal without Mohan Bagan it will never be the same so I really want East Bengal to come up in ISL so that we can see the great football the rivalry, the fans the media, the officers I want that things going otherwise of course I am happy but I want East Bengal to come any couple of matches or tournaments or seasons anything that comes to your mind top of your head in terms of your personal memories of the most on the pitch the best time that you had apart from of course you talked about the 97 initial season but going forward from there going forward from there when we became a league champion with Mohan Bagan and when we of course with East Bengal second twice or thrice but East Bengal coming second and Mohan Bagan coming first East Bengal coming second is nothing but when I was in JCP coming second and third if we win it is the same if we lose the same but in Bengal if you win lose the name it has to be kept in every match and that is the pressure you have if you come again so I came twice or thrice second but it was not enough for East Bengal but having said that we have win derby we have won so when you are playing in East Bengal derby is such a big thing of course yes when you beat example when you beat Churchill those days it's okay it's nothing special but you have to beat Mohan Bagan that's the mentality every fan has got if you are not having a great season great i-league or great national league but if you can beat Mohan Bagan then half of you will say let's go to East Bengal and they have that mentality and that's why suppose when we are not having a great league we always charge up to give 100% best so that fans will say if they are not so bad they will say that's the mentality if you are playing in Calcutta you have to know that in 15 minutes I have seen many players in 15 minutes public pressure there are many cases like that in 15-20 and if public don't like it if it doesn't work then in 15-20 minutes you will be able to play many cases like that there are many players who have come from outside right in Calcutta we are lucky in one way no definitely and I am sure that that had a lot to do with why so many members of these two clubs have represented and gone on to play at the highest level for the country if you see there are many players there are many players who have played really well in Goa but no guarantee that they will come in Calcutta and succeed they are playing well for India they are playing well for Denmark well for Churchill but coming in Calcutta and they will perform again Calcutta fans are very demanding especially East Bengal there are many players who are good players but couldn't stay for long generally we talk about iLeague and NFL these days since you have played in foreign East Bengal can you remember any great match in Durand since they are knock out matches that's why you have played for East Bengal in Durand the Rovers Cup in Durand we lost twice in the final we won once and we lost to Mahindra Mahindra was a great team in those days they used to have a good team so we have this rivalry with Mahindra also and then I think East Bengal I think they are always good well in DCM all Durand in those days but we lost I won twice or I lost once I think in Durand in that year but playing in Durand coming in Delhi it's also a great thing in those days we don't have ISL we come by Rajdhani and in those days we have to travel in that Shaktimaan for the match we don't travel we stay in Daryagan and those days once we shall start I loved coming going and playing for Durand first it's a small ground and the fans are nearer and in those days Durand cup full packed those days Durand it was full packed but Delhi Durand cup many people used to come and watch we see full house every time especially when Calcutta teams sleep why I am asking this because nowadays in Indian football players stop playing knock out matches I don't think they know how to play knock out matches but you you were the players basically East Bengal and Monmaghan were the two teams who were great knock out match players if you put them in a knock out tournament they will always win you will see in those from 1996 like Dada said in 1996 I think East Bengal and Monmaghan be it IFSL be it Durand cup you will always see most of the time most of the time you will always see East Bengal and Monmaghan in those days because to play league is different to play knock out matches sometimes Manchester City lose to 2nd division or 3rd division team to play knock out match it is a difficult thing and they are players in East Bengal and Monmaghan they are specialised to play and we always see even though we are not doing great in the league but if you see in the tournament you will always see them on the final and people used to wait for East Bengal and Monmaghan to have that final even in Durand cup so do you think that there is atleast 2 knock out tournaments do you think because we are not only playing there this is why I want before the start of the season or if they can have like they are having FA cup right now common away they are having FA cup right now and if you can have that tournament like this before when they are having a preseason that will be perfect because players need to know about tournament they play a tournament before the season and if you can have this tournament before the season it will be good for the players and players will be ready for the league and that is very important we should have a tournament also because nowadays how many matches do Indian players play those days 9 months we play and these days players play for 4 months yeah for 2 matches actually can I yeah please just have a question for you taking you back to the thing you were saying about when young players came when they were playing for East Bengal or Moon Maghan in the Derby and just the pressure and you have seen players crumbled under the pressure also and you have had a great experience also that you loved being in Calcutta you just loved that city but now you are a coach you coach young kids and you have the benefit of this hand side so would you like tell young players like if you have to advise them on like a career journey on a career path would you tell them that the first club they should pick is like East Bengal or Moon Maghan or would you prefer if they started somewhere else build some sort of mental strength and then got into these 2 clubs okay that's a very good question so now you have to see the quality of the player so in our tea everyday 10 of us 9 of us joined Moon Maghan and 3 joined Mohammedan and then we came to East Bengal but then after 2 or 3 years only 3 or 4 could survive so now we were lucky to have Habib sir as a coach and we were lucky that East Bengal or Moon Maghan already so we are bound to get a chance of East Bengal and Moon Maghan so coming from my academy first I have to see 18 year old as I know how what it takes to play in Calcutta I have to see how good he is according to that I will not say that my player cannot play in Calcutta but if he is good enough then he can get it like from the first day I didn't come as a sub I didn't come as 15 minutes I didn't come as 20 minutes right away I went to the first level but how many players are going to get their chance whoever the coach is if I am sending a coach from I say under 18 team I have 27 players from that 1 or 2 players will be really really good who will be ready right away but others will not be ready so then I will give that advice first you have to play a manipulative you have to do well after that you have to go to a smaller club where you will get more chance so match is very very important if you see take a Chelsea for example there are so many players now Mason Mounds we had gone on a loan he came in straight away now he is performing I am sure you don't want to hear that because you are Arsenal fans but look at the academy boys how they are some are getting in straight away like Hassan Odoi who has played very well in the World Cup 2 years back he is in the team right now so we have to see that we have to give the players time to have this platform to play FB that's why we have created a league for under 18 also and after that now we have promoted in second division we have promoted in second division first division then we will play a money pool full senior league now we are playing senior league but third division now second division we are going to play so the more matches they play the better for them because East Bengal like you said they are not going to say there is no time for that East Bengal want ready play going to perform or not because there is no emotion for East Bengal you have to stay otherwise you go and play somewhere there is no time big clubs and East Bengal is doing the same so players as you see as a coach I want to see how good he is according to that then you go that's okay like don't worry we will actually cut out that whole Chelsea bit don't worry about that but also like it's like what you are saying here this one thing like I just want to pick on which is to make his moan and East Bengal want ready players which is also like a dangerous thing because it essentially also means your kids will not come they don't have a grass root system that will feed into the top team isn't that also like a negative but can you say the same for real Madrid and Barcelona yeah no so it's the same for East Bengal and Moan Bagan yes but what I want from East Bengal and Moan Bagan I want them to have a proper youth system don't do that before the tournament bring it from Pandwa or from Hauras I want them to have a proper infrastructure where Moan Bagan and East Bengal can produce play young players but if they are not ready to play in East Bengal and Moan Bagan after being in the academy for 5-6 years send them on loan send them on loan be your own player and when you see that in law if they are doing good bring it back and let them play in Moan Bagan this is what they need to do but I know that it costs money and in East Bengal and Moan Bagan they were struggling for money for many years now so now if they have a proper structure and that's the only way if you see that's what they have to do but like I can understand from an official point of view you know 100 and 130,000 people coming towards and there is no time to give you know there is so much pressure on official also on the courts also if you want like if I want to try because that's what Aashen Wengar said recently right Aashen Wengar said if you are giving a chance to 18 year old then he is bound to make a mistake but is your official is your owner ready to give that chance no they will not give so what the court will do to survive himself for the betterment of the club so that's the thing you have to see how long you are going to give a chance so that send them on loan if they are good enough bring it back and that's the only way so this is also interesting because like obviously both the clubs are so competitive and therefore is why they have these transfers between themselves and we will get him next season and vice versa and you are saying in your time all of this is like connected also in a way because Bijay Malia used the one both right and clearly I will ask you one thing now you are a part of ISL Madhav you have been with Pune you have been with so many things and now Madhav we regularly get to hear that Indian football is changing changing for good must be changing for good I am convinced and a lot of ISL new teams are coming up and like a lot of good teams are coming Bombay has come up Bangalore has come up, Mumbai is being taken up by the city group and so many things modern system has got it do you think still is swengle like he is swengle on Mohan Magan now since it is swengle 100 years I am asking you they still have a relevance in Indian football of course yes you can't take away anything from that anything those things from East Bengal in Indian football Mohan Magan play a big part whatever other teams may come but East Bengal and Mohan Magan from the fan following from the football point of view from the history they will always be on top that's for sure but what I have seen I have played for maybe 15 years in ILEET and one year I played for Kerala Blasters I worked for Punecipi as an assistant both for 2 years what I have seen of course you don't have that fan following of course you don't have that pressure like East Bengal and Mohan Magan playing in Kerala or playing because there is no relegation and there is no promotion as long as there is no relegation and promotion players are not going to have a tough time players he will jump from one club to the other without any pressure in our days in East Bengal and Mohan Magan if you lose one match we know how bad it is we cannot go out for 2-3 days if you go out friends will see they will abuse you or they will say bad things but if they have that pressure in ILEET if they don't have that pressure of course but one good thing about ILEET is they are very very organized you don't have to wait for the salary players are staying in a 5 star treatment in East Bengal and Mohan Magan all due respect to the officers the fans wise I don't complain I love fans coming to the training ground and watching and training that what East Bengal and Mohan Magan has given but if you see the infrastructure if you see the training ground if you see the way they eat so in ILEET you don't have to worry about anything everything has been taken care of you all are free family ILEET and the salary the most important where East Bengal and Mohan Magan you need to wait for 6 months sometimes salary after advancement but in last 10 years in East Bengal also they don't have to wait East Bengal and Mohan Magan in last 10 years it was better I am talking about when we started slowly slowly it became better but if you see the infrastructure ILEET it is way more organized but fans culture and you see the ball of course we will always miss and like coming back East Bengal has to be there in ILEET and I want East Bengal to be there in ILEET once you get into the ILEET the structure will be okay then the structure will be there then the fans will come in then it will be a great but but East Bengal going out from ILEET East Bengal not coming to ILEET it's not a great idea but I feel they should come and once you get into ILEET there will be a proper structure and system so yeah you are talking about player salary and I know that you were one of the people who founded the FPAI in 2006 like this was also obviously drawn from your experiences as a player at were you at either of these clubs at that time I don't know were there conversations happening with you and say by June were you guys having these conversations when you were playing with each other like at these clubs of course we all know how it used to be in those days if you are getting 10 lakhs 5 lakhs will be there in advance and if you are getting 15 lakhs 8 lakhs will be there in advance and then monthly it will so on that's how we used to get but I know the players getting injured players getting injured and players will not be they will check out players they will not give money for the treatment they will not sign it again there was not a great thing to do and we have seen that from playing from 1996 but slowly it got better and then come to 2008 when we were in Dubai having a camp by June being in a playing in Burry for 3 years and he know how the players football association in UK works and he has got the idea so he was talking to me and many other players at the training field because in 2008 we are almost retiring few years we have played we were senior players of course in the financial situation there were always used to be a problem and then by June said let's start a players association so that annual players locally we may not get it but annual players locally it will be a very good thing for the players getting injured and if the club can take care and when you sign a proper contract and those days contract paper no one was there you know you are my son sign it we don't know how much it is in those days after forming a players association East Bengal and Mon Bagan it got very good in terms of payment in terms of play you know you have that good relationship earlier we used to wait in our secretaries we used to wait in our secretaries we used to wait for the salary every day even we used to wait for 2-3 hours for a bicycle and then we used to players shouldn't do that players shouldn't do that because players run with that money they run their family these are things in ISL it doesn't happen so slowly I have seen that in last 7-8 years in Bengal and Mon Bagan also they are playing on time and that's a good thing because we form a players association we have our own union and if there are any players are not getting the right treatment then we try and fight we try and request that this shouldn't happen this is a modern world where football has gone way ahead we should also pick up and in 7-8 years it has been nice to play honestly unlike our days and of course I cannot blame them but they are also getting to learn but now it is better but all I want to say is in this secretaries that's what I think fair enough when we were in Calcutta at this time when the celebrations of this 100 year 100th year were beginning and none of us knew at that point that one year on we would not again be in Calcutta indulging in some of those celebrations but thanks for sharing those thoughts on your time at East Bengal and overall if you want to leave us with what it is for either or both East Bengal management as well as the fans we can do that and we can wrap up on that I really want to thank the East Bengal fans I spent 6 years over there for me of course yes there were bad times but more than bad times there were good times as well for whatever we are today wherever it may be by anyone because of East Bengal and I know Calcutta I know East Bengal fans must be wanting as Mon Balan is already in and then Super League East Bengal fans will also be taking if they can and SAX East Bengal play I also want East Bengal to come in and have that rivalry we want to see that rivalry again and I wish all the best and now what I like about East Bengal fans is they are supporting till the end even if they are losing chant till the 90 minutes and players because if the supporters are supporting that long I am sure players inside the ground they can also feel all the best wishes and then officials like you said you guys have been through but you guys can the official can get better also in times to come


Okay. Today on the run-up, we're focusing mostly or primarily on youth participation in politics. So our next guest is also going to be talking about youth participation in politics and some other issues. It is our pleasure to welcome Mr. Demola Sanyolu to the program. He is a media consultant and a public affairs analyst. Welcome to the program, Mr. Sanyolu. Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate my coming on this show. I should have added ambassador to it. Your titles are mean, so I had to cut them. Actually, one of my guests on the show actually said, Demola, you end it. It's not the title everybody picks on the street, so add it to your name. I usually don't like all this appellation, but what do I know? Well, let's add something to you. It has to be a long list. Anyway, welcome to the show. Well, like we said, we're focusing on youth participation in politics, and we've seen a tsunami as it is of youth's excitement or I don't know the adjectives to even use, but what would you describe the level of participation of youths in this electoral process leading up to 2023? Let's begin from there. All right. I'm not surprised. The level of information sharing and information dissemination has changed from times past, and a lot of young folks dominate that information superhighway called the Internet. So I'm also an IT person, and I do a lot of feasibility study and interact with a lot of young people, and the level of information that is being shared, you know, level of information that is being shared is really, really high. So the awareness is now high. All the meandering, political meandering by the elders is being demystified by the younger generation. So they know that some of the things they claim to have done or that are doing some of these things are lies.  The level of participation, level of awareness right now is quite, quite high. And that would be my first line of thought concerning youth participation in politics. Awareness is higher, and a lot of people want to participate because they are tired of the system. There seems to be no hope. There seems to be no light at the end of any tunnel. If there was a tunnel in the first place, but people are really discouraged and want to also participate and ensure that their own will is also enshrined. Okay. I know that Bayer wants to ask you a question, but you know, the veterans say that this social media you're mentioning will count for nothing in 2023. Do you also believe in that? Okay. A lot of people would say the social media will count for nothing. But I would say the reason being that a lot of conversions are coming in from the social media, a lot of awareness about Gayo PVC, the campaign gimmicks is changing. Social media is not where your voting starts. Please Gayo PVC. And if you check the INEC record in the recent times, you'll discover that the state of registration has changed compared to what it was some years back. Why? Because a lot of young folks who are social media savvy, who believe in ranting online, are also saying, I need to also play my role. So, conversion of social media participation to real participants in the election is getting higher, and their awareness is real right now. I mean, I belong to so many groups doing journalism work and consulting for so many people. I was the director of media and publicity for Dr. Shinofa Mero Byron during the 2019 elections. And we tested that area. And we discovered that a lot of young people do not participate because there's a high level of apathy, disenfranchisement, frustration in trying to Gayo PVC and things like that. So I love who they are. They vote has already been counted. They know who they want there. But right now, a group of dogs surrounding a snake will intimidate the snake, even if the snake was poisoned. Before the snake would eat two or three of them, the others would bite it to death. So the awareness has changed, and I can tell you the conversion rate from social media to real participation is awesome. Thank you for that perspective. I was just wondering what your comments would be to the question as to whether the political parties themselves realize the potential influence and impact that the younger generation can make going towards 2023. And to what extent they have created room to accommodate these young people or restructure either their political machinery or the political party themselves to be able to give a platform to young people? That question is asked several prongs. But I will talk to you from one point of view. Poverty is being weaponized in Nigeria, and a lot of older people who we feel or we seem to view as tired or worn out do not want to part the bait and to the younger generation. So most of these political parties use the social media when it's campaign time, but they do not want to convert the social media critics to followers. The reason being that a lot of social media followers actually do background checks to confirm what they claim to have achieved or done in the past. Most of the people who the politicians or the political class want to vote or want to meander or manipulate to vote for them are the illiterates as it were. Sampling from opinions are the illiterate. Those who don't really know they are left from the right. The population of those masses is quite high. So the social media people or the IT savvy people, we only use that to share information. They use that to share information but not to convert them because poverty is being weaponized and they weaponize it to use it for the masses. Those whose population is high and they are those who don't even know anything about the internet. But I believe that this narrative will change over time in Nigeria. Okay, just a final word in a very short space of time. What would you have the youth do if you were to advise them leading to 2023? Because some people say the momentum with which the NSAS was carried out died after NSAS and now it is just a commemoration every year on October 20. So what can they do to maintain the energy till 2023 in order to make the desired impact in the political space? Just briefly, please. Okay, briefly. NSAS did not die actually. NSAS was just a sampling testing the waters and the young people know that we can actually start around the economy by ourselves. They tested it but some people hijacked it and changed it. The major advice to young people is they shouldn't give up. The trend is changing. The current is moving and it's going to move to their turn. But like one of my fathers would tell me, Dr. Shinofa Mirobari would advise me, when you see someone who is older than you doing something wrong, learn from them and don't repeat the same thing. My advice is don't copy those things you hate seeing them do because the band were going to effect is that some of these young folks would even be worse than those they claim are not doing any right. So learn from them and plan to do it better when you get the bait in. Okay, thank you very much, Mr. Sanyo Lou for coming on the show. I would like to invite you so many times before the 2023 elections but for now we just say thank you to you for being a part of our show this morning. Alright, I appreciate coming on the show. Okay, that was Mr. Demolat Sanyo Lou, media consultant, IT guru, public affairs analyst. Like I said, his titles are very, very long.  Youths don't go back and relax. Youths don't do this. Youths with deliberate and all that. Is this narrative really sitting with the youths or there's more that we need to do to put it in the minds of the youths that they hold their own destiny in their hands so that they can be more deliberate? Because not all of them are like Richard for instance. No, no, no, definitely. If we look around, I don't know if I should mention names. If we look around, let's take Etiusa here, which is mostly part of Victoria Land, part of Leckie. You would see that there are two young people running, at least clearly two young people. One is incumbent for the Farah House of Representatives. One is incumbent, the other is a challenger and they are young people. One is very well known, is a Nollywood star. The other one is not, but is the son of a politician. But they are young people. And frankly, I like that. When I move around, I see their posters. I like that because I think indirectly they are speaking to other young people. But now these are two young people that are to be considered as privileged. One being the son of a politician. The other one having been given a platform to be popular through what he does. So some of the young people might say, no, I mean these ones are known or these ones. But Richard is a good example of somebody who didn't have that kind of, at least to the best of our knowledge, that kind of exposure before. And he prepared properly. He put his money aside. He was focused. He was determined. He challenged for the position. He didn't get it. But he's not undaunted. And he's looked at many, many references. Okay, the president ran several times. This other person. And I think this is the philosophy. And from what Mr. Asuniaulu has added to the whole of this, is that learn from what the other ones are not doing well. But don't repeat it. You learn from that. You know that to do it better. And then to organize better as well. Because this has been one of the major challenges. Proper organization, proper thinking. I think slowly we are getting there. For the next elections, it's all about actually coming to influence the outcome. So we are hoping that beyond the next elections, we'll see a lot of young people not just seeking to influence the outcome, but actually be the deciding factor by becoming candidates. You know, by influencing the electoral policy and things like that. So I think the space is opening up. It's just that we need to learn the right lessons in order to be able to do a lot better. Okay, whatever or whoever you are, there is something you can do to contribute to society. And maybe not just politics, but that thing will give you the platform to become popular. Like Mr. Bayo said, one of them was nollywood and a musician. And you know, so because of entertainment, he became popular and he's using his popularity to also gain, get political gains, so to speak. The other person, yes, was born the son of a politician, but we've seen sons of politicians who couldn't come out and be anything. We've seen millennia children or children of millionaires who couldn't come out to become millionaires themselves. So we've seen the likes of David Doe, for instance, that you cannot in all conscience say that he is what he is because of his father, no matter how wealthy the father might be, but he has carved a niche for himself. So find something you can do to contribute to the society. That same society you would like to serve because it is there, there will use to judge the kind of person you will be on the global or bigger scene. Well, we'll take a short break.


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G'day mate 40 here so after you get your immediate needs met for for food for air for water for housing for clothing I think most of us spend much of our time our biggest drive is to increase in social status to increase in power to reduce the chances of getting humiliated and And I was just reading this 2008 book boys will be boys the glory days and party nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty by Jeff Pullman and he talks here about the first Cowboys Buffalo Bills a Super Bowl and There's an incident here before the Super Bowl so it was played in February of 1993 Bill's linebacker Darrell Talley Had gone to a Sunset Boulevard nightclub called Rocksbury found himself face-to-face with Magic Johnson's bodyguard so Talley and Bill's quarterback Jim Kelly were quite drunk and they were teasing Magic Johnson who'd recently tested HIV positive about his nightclubbing ways and the teasing went too far so Johnson's bodyguard Ended up punching punching Talley in the face And and took him to the floor now now the Cowboys found this all hilarious, but They're encouraged in the heat of the action not one teammate came to Talley's defense There was he sat bloodied bloodied and humiliated on the Rocksbury floor teammates failed to gather around him So that happened to the Dallas Cowboys this past year their quarterback was knocked out by a dirty hit in the Washington Redskins game and The Cowboys did nothing to retaliate right they didn't they didn't come to the aid of their fallen quarterback So it indicated a certain lack of a spree to core a certain lack of group cohesion And so if you don't have your don't have your tribe behind you or your team behind you You're gonna feel a distinct lack of power now In the in the preparation for that Super Bowl the Cowboys quarterback Jimmy Johnson Was imploring his team to smack the Bill's quarterback Jim Kelly around even when there was no reason to do so Make sure he knows you're there Jimmy Johnson said touches uniform tap his helmet step on his foot Make him feel us make him scared So unless you're willing to do these kind of dirty tricks you don't really belong in the NFL Unless you're willing to hurt people you don't really get to play in the National Football League now a Lot of a lot of life is just like a full contact sport like like the the National Football League and Sometimes life is zero some like either you win or or the other person wins and The power in journalism for example This is Hamilton Nolan writing in Columbia journalism review October 20th, and he notes that Journalism at its rawest level is about power a lot of things in life is simply about power so You prove your importance as a journalist by humiliating important people so I have one friend who Just wanted to devote his life to journalism, but he just realized it was It was about doing interviews with people and then trying to select those quotes That would make the person look bad that you were like looking for human weakness and to magnify it and To draw attention to it because that's how you got status by taking down other people So journalism in many ways is like the National Football League you win by hurting other people so Journalism to show that you're important Yeah, that's like the the TV show and billions I win you lose that's how the world works To prove your worth as a journalist you have to bring important people to heal right in effect You have to you have to put there That heads of powerful people on pikes Journalism at its highest level is about raw power. There's only one way the press maintains its power in society by metaphorically putting the heads of powerful people on pikes so that people realize that it makes more sense to talk to you than to ignore you and If if the Washington Post the New York Times CBS news lose their power to do that lose the ability to put the heads of powerful people metaphorically on pikes then Powerful people in general will stop caring about what the press says does All right, so We've got we've got the Donald Trump example where he simply bypassed the press he was basically impervious to all the usual blows from the press and There was a guy at Gorka who got so exasperated with Ted Cruz's accusations the media were sitting on secret Trump scandals during the Republican primary that in 2016 he wrote a story listing the many scandals That the press had published about Donald Trump with absolutely no effect and he used the headline Ted Cruz Please help us. We have no idea how to stop Donald Trump Turns out that being utterly shameless and uttering the words fake news non-stop while having an entire right-wing media ecosystem Amplify your message really works Trump a pure creation of New York's tabloids is too vain and dumb to realize he could probably ignore the normal elite press altogether He is incredible accumulation of power In the face of countless well-documented scandals in the Washington Post the New York Times and elsewhere stories that would have brought down earlier residents is Proof of a concept that will be used by a smarter people in the future people no longer Need to pay as much attention to the prestige press. So what's the prestige press going to do now that? politicians and other powerful people no longer need to fear it I mean that no matter how meticulous they're reporting. It's not going to move the needle on entrenched public opinion when In the social media age Like the Washington Post the New York Times No struggle to catch up to the to the reach of Dan Bongino That right-wing commentator is so popular on Facebook Yeah, but definitely yummy So we've we've got a real shift in power like Tesla Shut down its media relations department powerful people no longer think they need The the news media. They don't need critical outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post Like we're living in a historic technology fueled shift in the balance of power between the media and its subjects the subjects of The media are winning the internet in general social media in particular destroyed one of the media's most important sources of power Being the only place that offers access to an audience So Alon Musk and say what everyone's to 40 million Twitter followers with no filter So therefore he does not feel compelled to listen to unpleasant questions from some reporter so Journalists experience this as a horrifying assault on the public's right to know and Their own special status as brave defenders of the public good. Well, they've been living in a world of delusion Because there's no necessary connection between what is news and what is true There's there's no special Quality to the to news it's simply a Vehicle for attracting eyeballs to sell advertising. It doesn't make democracy stronger It doesn't hold powerful people accountable. It doesn't hold money accountable None of that is inherent in in journalism so People are realizing that they no longer need to hold themselves accountable to unpleasant questions from journalists a Powerful people have long not wanted to talk to the press because they didn't want to The possibility of looking bad, but they did it because they felt they had no choice So the Washington Post New York Times 60 minutes would offer the carrot of great exposure to those who needed it But then they also had the carrot of great exposure and then the stick of You know, we can make you look horrible So Negotiating, you know, these contentious interviews with famous people Like it was it was treacherous, but you have to understand when the balance of power is shifting and power is constantly shifting all around us and You may not have the stomach to play the game, right in the NFL. Remember what they said about Jim Kelly, you know hit him step on his foot make him feel scared and in the second quarter Cowboys linebacker Ken Norton hit Jim Kelly in the knee and he just crumpled and knocked him out of the game So if you're not willing to do that, you can't play in the NFL If you're not willing to put metaphorically speaking people's heads on spikes, you're not going to succeed in the journalism industry Now, what do you do? When you're out of power, right? So it's fun to pay attention to power when you're gaining it But what about when you're steadily losing it? What do you do when you have no power? Well, then you turn inward So when Jews were in particularly desperate straits in history, they turned to Kabbalah Jewish mysticism So people turned to tend to turn inward. So I had about six years of my life where I was so sick I could I could only read maybe an hour a day and Otherwise, I could just kind of lie there and listen to classical music or just lie there in the silence And so I would turn inward for about six years of my life from about age 21 to 27 Because I'd essentially lost all power so Yeah, turn inward cultivate skills become worthy So philosopher Isaiah Berlin talked about this that when you lack power, of course, you have to retreat and When natural paths towards human fulfillment are blocked, so I couldn't at a hard time attracting women I couldn't accomplish anything academically. I couldn't work I couldn't didn't have the mental power to develop new skills. I was lonely isolated didn't have the energy to be around many people So what happens when the natural road towards human fulfillment is blocked? People tend to retreat into themselves become involved in themselves and try to create in inside the world that Evil fate had denied them externally So when ancient Greece Suffered under the onslaught of Alexander the Great He just began to destroy the city-states of Athens The Stoics and the Epicureans he preached this new morality of personal salvation And that's the same with Christianity the essence of Christianity is personal salvation from this fallen world to a much much better world So if you're totally failing in this life, if you feel like you have no power in this life a message of Individual salvation assured individual salvation to the next world. It's going to be very appealing If you're losing power in this life a message of stoicism, it's going to be very appealing. So this is the It's today a holiday for me. Not that I'm aware. Is it a national holiday? so When you're losing power like okay, Trump Trump was not reelected. So then you can turn to Personal salvation you can say oh politics is not important Right, so to deal with the pain of losing power in politics. You can say oh politics is not important Civil life. Oh, it's president's day. Oh, wow. How exciting president's day Is that it? Is that a holiday anymore? Like? do like Post post office workers there the day after day the courts closed today and banks closed today.  It's not important So all the great ideals held up by Pericles and Demosthenes and Plato and Aristotle well, they're now regarded as trivial and They're just essentially nothing before the imperative need for personal individual salvation so When you have no power in this world, you're going to be very tempted to you know Find power within yourself or within your beliefs or faith or fantasies about power in in another world So it's a very grand form of sale greats. You cannot obtain from the world that which you really desire You must teach yourself not to want what you really desire So if you cannot get what you want much you must teach yourself to want what you can get So this is spiritual retreat in depth Into a kind of inner citadel of the soul in which you try to lock yourself up install the fearful Hills of the world so I Was thinking about lying on your resume or lying about your credentials I don't believe I ever did that except when I was in Hollywood So in Hollywood this kind of lying is expected if you're not lying you're not trying So generally speaking lying about your credentials and your resume is a very bad idea But in certain circumstances such as in Hollywood, it's expected David Geffen Lied to get a job at the William Morris talent agency by claiming he had a degree from UCLA when he didn't but he worked in the mailroom and so when When a letter came back from UCLA saying that He he didn't have a degree. He just confiscated it so that there was no threat to his lie Now on the other hand you may think that you're reading your situation correctly and that you can get away with lying in your situation and Then there's like the Riley Weston story So Riley Weston was writing for a teenage focused TV show and claiming to be 18 when she was really 28 And then when she got exposed it was like this huge deal. So your thing when lying in Hollywood is just it's just like Expected right if you're not if you're not lying you're not trying but But then some sometimes reality can surprise you so she got absolutely humiliated So about 20 years ago, Disney thought that they had, you know, this very up-and-coming star And she was a perfect fit I don't know could she write and act but she held a strong appeal for teenagers because she was a teenager her name was Riley Weston and She when she embarked on a career as a writer actress She soon a little white lie about taking 10 years off her age wouldn't hurt. I mean because plenty of people lie well Somehow she ended up playing for them pretty high stakes. She worked for the famous JJ Abrams. He was not impressed Now a lot of people of course in Hollywood lie about their ages Yeah, so Elliot notes I got my start my vastly overstating my qualifications. So generally speaking not a good idea, but In some circumstance it can work. So Mila Kunis on that 70s show she claimed to be 18 when she was 14 So a lot of people in Hollywood have lied about their age And but then it can all come Tumbling tumbling down So you may think you're at your reading reality correctly But then boom Really love this quote. I kept referencing over the weekend about the advantages of fame You make yourself widely known and famous because you increase your chances of getting lucky Some way you can't predict it in advance one point of fame is simply to increase your surface area exposure to lucky accidents So that's the benefit of fame and also the downside of fame because you increase your exposure to bad things happening as well So on the same podcast where I where I heard that remark It was some author in the United Kingdom and he talked about the advantages Fame is the devil. Well as many advantages Yeah, many people think that people care about a college degree or that they even check. Yeah, so Sometimes you have to be be honest that you put yourself at a disadvantage by being honest In in the job market, so I was listening to this podcast with the UK author and he just made the point the constitutional monarchy Statistically speaking of showing to be a superior form of political organization Then Republics like the United States of America So it's just starting to think you hear this all the time when you talk to Canadians Australians New Zealanders the English That they they often find Ways to work into the conversation So how their people or their system of government in some way is is Superior to to America's so when I talk to Americans they never remark Oh, by the way, the American system or the American people are superior to Canadians in this way or superior to the English or to Australians like Americans don't care. They don't I never hear Americans talking about how that their system in Political system is superior to that of constitutional monarchy and it's very similar to the dynamic Would you rather live in the Wild West or a pod in San Francisco it all depend on the quality of my relationships so if you live in a pod in San Francisco, right if you live in a high High real estate price area your living room. It's not your living room. You don't have a living room You're living rooms local coffee shop So if you have great friends in the great community and an exciting job Then living in a pod in San Francisco is fine If if you have no friends then then it'll be miserable. So everything depends upon the quality of your friendships so people in In big cities their living room is the local coffee shop or restaurant or public park So I was thinking this is very similar to the difference between Northern California and Southern California So Northern California people are talking all the time about how they hate Southern California and what's wrong with Southern California Technological progress is not alienated us from other people Right, so most people are still married and have kids and are happy Only a very tiny percentage of the the population, you know gets into trouble on The Wild West had less medicine but more meaningful. I'm not not so sure Plenty of people have meaningful relationships today. If you're in a church or a synagogue community If you're established in your profession and your workplace if you have hobbies and interests Most normal people have a lot of meaningful relationships So I think social media is only problem for a tiny tiny percentage of the population and that problem is purely a symptom of a much greater problem, which is people are hooked on the dopamine fix of social media because Because they lack meaningful relationships So social media is not the cause of the lack of meaningful relationships People get into trouble with social media because they lack meaningful Relationships and they are addicted to the dopamine hits of social media to try to fill the hole that comes from not connecting normally to other people but most people I know have a lot of meaningful relationships I go to synagogue and I've known people there for 10 15 20 20 years It's chicken or the egg. No, I don't think it's chicken or the egg. Most people don't have a problem with social media Some of your small proportion of people most people do have substantial relationships is the problem the drugs or the drug user answer both not necessarily some people could like Ritalin is a form of methamphetamine and Some people a lot of people can use it without ill effect The people who have a problem with with drugs, right? They have a certain addictive personality that comes from lacking normal human connection So it's not the porn. It's not the drugs. It's not the social media. It's not the tech. These are just symptoms When these things become problems, these are just symptoms of a lack of ordinary human connection So I think in Northern California lived in Northern California for about 15 years and people are often talking about Southern California and what's wrong with Southern California and how much they hate Southern California, but the reversal is not true I'd never hit people in Southern California talk about how they love Northern California and what's wrong with Northern California Solution to amphetamine problem is to eradicate those users who can't handle it or to show them If you've got an amphetamine problem, it's just a wake-up call Right, it could be the greatest thing that ever happened to you. You should be grateful for your amphetamine problem because it means that you need to get help and work the 12 steps and restore a Healthy sense of relationship with yourself and with other people So if you've got an under-earning problem or a dating problem or a drinking problem or a drug problem Or a porn problem You should be grateful for that problem because it forces you to wake up and to get help Because the problem is not the problem. The problem is just a symptom of a much deeper problem Which is a lack of normal human connection Porn isn't the problem point is used by millions of people in a responsible way So there are people who have Looked upon and have not seemed to suffer any You know concrete empirical deleterious effects So So one of the things I like about living in Los Angeles is you never hear any need by Los Angelinos to run down any other city There's no other city that people in Los Angeles hate And that's kind of nice But why is it that Americans in general don't feel a need to proclaim how their political system or their people are superior to other people's? But people in smaller countries are constantly doing their best to help them out But people in smaller countries are constantly doing that vis-a-vis America I think it's because America's got such a big imprint on the rest of the world that the people to Maintain their own unique identity. They have to constantly compare and contrast themselves with you know the big empire So Jews a majority of Jews have lived in the diaspora for about 2,600 years So how did Jews maintain a separate identity living in the diaspora for 2,600 years? and that was by constantly comparing themselves to the majority culture and Usually with an eye of comparison about how what was Jewish was superior to that which was non-Jewish So in Jewish life, you'll often hear. Oh, that's Goyish, you know, meaning that's silly. That's nonsensical That's unintelligent, right? And so all the the goyim do this, but we do this the goyim see things this way or We you know, we see things You know in a superior more more profound way and so I think that's what's going on with say Australians and the English and Kiwis You talk to them and with it when they find out you're from America that they need to tell you how you know Their way their people are superior to Americans in this way or Their political system is superior to the American system in this way because when you're a minority or when you got when you're dealing with some You know major dominating sense of identity and you want to maintain your smaller separate identity the only way you can do that is by constantly comparing and contrasting yourself with the outgroup in a way that Your group is superior. So I think Jews do this people in Northern California do this Now when you have the dominant power, so in the state of California Southern California is more powerful than Northern California You don't need to do this. So Americans feel no need to proclaim how the American system of politics is, you know Superior say to constitutional monarchy Americans have any Reaction to say, you know the British system. It's it's either mild or oh, that's kind of cool Now you're doing things somewhat differently. Good on your mate so But in Australia, Canada England Ireland Australia New Zealand like I noticed people constantly pointing out how their system their country their people are better than Americans in this or that way Okay, you can see Northern California is dominant, but But for example if you're running for the United States Center from California, most votes are in Southern California now Northern California is economically per person is Much more successful than Southern California But more people meaning more votes are in Southern California Why did Jews not get a territory like Mormons were they to non sedentary? I don't think it was a realistic option so Jews are an urban people and So they made their money by money lending by medicine the world resents American power US dollar buying power Right, so when you're number one, you don't care. You're not threatened by smaller groups When you're a smaller group the only way that you can feel good about your identity is constantly comparing and contrasting yourself with With the major group and think about oh, we're superior in this way So if you've got a strong in-group identity You're constantly in all likelihood be looking at the world through different lenses trying to look for how your group is superior So pretty much every every group does this Like Tom Wolf gave the author Tom Wolf who died about a year ago. He gave a famous talk in something like 2000 and in 2006 lecture he said each individual Adopts a set of values which if truly absolute in the world So ordained by some almighty force would make not that individual But his group the best of all possible groups the best of all inner circles So yeah, every group every person tends to look at the world whereby their group is absolutely superior and So you just keep looking for lens like oh, we're superior athletically or we're superior economically We are superior spiritually or we're superior at dance And so we we adopt We adopt values That that help us to think that you know our way is better So Tom Wolf said I think every living moment of a human being's life Unless the person is starving an immediate danger of death in some way is controlled by a concern for status Is restless leg syndrome a real condition or has it been made up to the need of pharmaceutical companies? Well, I think if you talk to someone who has it It's real to them. So I Think remember words are just metaphors for reality. So there's restless leg syndrome. Is that a metaphor for reality? Is that an effective? Metaphor for reality. So that's what I would say. And yeah, I think rest restless leg syndrome is an effective metaphor for for reality All right, something's going on that people have Have trouble and and so and so that that metaphor Right that they have trouble sleeping and they toss and turn right you you've heard about people tossing and turning so I Would use that same with like sex addiction or porn addiction or love addiction. Is it a real disease like cancer? It's a useful metaphor for people who tend not to make good decisions in those areas and have some problems in those areas So Tom Wolf said There's 2006 speech even before I left graduate school. So he did a PhD in American history I come to the conclusion that virtually all people live by what I think of as fiction absolute Meaning each individual adopts a set of values, which if truly absolute in the world So ordained by some almighty force would make not that individual but his group the best of all possible groups the best of all inner circles Politicians the rich the celebrated become mere types Does this apply to intellectuals also? Yes? So the human being's belief in his own fiction absolute accounts One of the most puzzling and in many cases irrational phenomena of our time So it's hinted at in the 2004 book what's the matter with Kansas Thomas Frank wrote that book wondering why doesn't Kansas vote Democrat and Tom Wolf said he was at a subject at a conference on the subject of Latin American writing and it quickly got into topic of immigration and Tom Wolf arrived believing that Mexicans who had gone to the trouble of coming to the United States Legally going through all the prescribed steps would resent the fact that millions of Mexicans were now coming to the United States Illegally across the desert border, but he was completely mistaken I Discovered that everyone who thought of himself as Latin even people who'd been in the country for three generations were whole-heartedly in favor of Immediate amnesty and immediate citizenship for all Americans who happened now to be in the United States And this feeling had nothing to do with immigration policy itself Nothing to do with law. Nothing to do with politics. There's not a debate about immigration The very existence of the debate was to them a besmirching of their fiction absolute of their conception of themselves as Latinos Somehow the debate cast an aspersion upon all Latinos implying Doubt about their fitness to be within the border of such a superior nation And this this accounts for the extraordinary emotions of sports fans, you know what earthly connection to the Citizens of New York City have to the New York Yankees And how can such a team get such a strong grip on local emotion? So we see Championism in its most elemental form as far back as a story of David and Goliath in the Bible Human beasts has become excited by those who represent them in what at that stage of history was known as single combat So before battle each side would send forth its champion.   Even the most trivial the most unlikely of circumstances Can give rise to humiliation? Let's have a look at the chat here ADHD isn't just energetic boys. It's people who can't concentrate have short attention span or easily distracted. Yeah, so Apparently about five percent of boys benefit from medication for You know, it's this this thing. So if people's lives are benefited Without much harm, then I think the diagnosis of ADHD is a metaphor for something real is The disgust reflex that causes people is it the disgust disgust reflex that causes people to ostracize the humiliated Yeah, we have certain We have certain innate tendencies to to back away from the humiliated or the sick or the dying So remember no one wanted to go to Hillary Clinton's rallies in 2016 because she looked like she was dying That's why it helps to belong to a small tight-knit community because if a member of your own community is suffering You're much more likely to overcome those disgust feelings to to go visit someone Is ADHD a real condition or is it a label applied to boys to pathologize the natural energy of young boys? Well Sometimes it's a useful metaphor for reality that helps Some boys lead or some adults lead a superior life I talked about Madafino on Saturday night and how it helps a lot of people who kind of borderline ADHD They take Madafino as a Attacks for them as a massive force multiplier and improves the quality of their lives now can ADHD Be misused as a diagnosis. I can sometimes a metaphor for reality not accurately fit sure So sometimes ADHD is a useful metaphor for reality that enables some people to get help that they need and sometimes it's pathologization of the natural energy of young boys A B says people from the Northern Territory in Australia see that about people from New South Wales, right? Because the Northern Territory is small New South Wales has you know, 40 times the power of Northern Territory So the the things that we will do to try to avoid humiliation right People agonize over how much of a tip they should give Because they they don't want to be humiliated Undergraduate life in universities involves a status system in which sexual activity can be summed up It's our eyes met our lips met our bodies met and then we were introduced So the attitude of young women towards sex It made about a hundred and eighty degree turn between say 1959 and 1972 there was a time when the very worst word you could say about a young woman was slut now Many young women in in university. They want to at least create a facade of sexual experience so Tom Wolf heard a conversation between a Boy and girl at college and the boy was saying how could we you know have sex? We've known each other since high school would be like incest and then the girl says please I can't stand the thought of having to do it with somebody I hardly know and can't trust So she was beseeching her old platonic friend of many years standing to please relieve her of her virginity That way she could honestly maintain the proper social stance as an experienced young woman in college Is getting young boys to sit sit still necessarily an improvement Sitting can can deform the body and and the spirit So I guess their advantages to sitting and their advantages to not sitting complicated ADHD describes the mismatch between masculinity and the modern world well For some people who suffer from it and found a solution for it it the solution massively improved their lives Other people are being wrongly diagnosed So I don't think and I think it's one thing or the other Little boys can't channel their natural aggression in healthy ways or turn inwards Yeah, you want to be able to channel your natural So the educational system does seem to be quite anti-male For example boys would love classes in military history or military strategy, but you know, they get denied that So education tends to be highly feminist Young boys with ADHD should be training in combat sports all day instead of being lectured to about the history of progress Yeah, so yeah boys need Need exercise and ways to channel their aggression ADHD medication has emotionally blunted them, okay, maybe but If for some people whether they're boys or men or women or girls medication There's on the one hand some kind of emotional blunting but overall they've experienced a massive increase in the quality of their life and in their ability to cope and perhaps at extreme levels as Reduce the chances of them self-harming or harming other people Right. So sometimes these diagnoses and medications can be useful and sometimes they can be harmful hypersexualizing young girls for 60-plus years was a plan really planned by Who to be continued?


What's good Josh boros back again with another video? So we're gonna check out John Moxley's response to see him punk's comments, man and apparently He's not liking it. It seems as if we talked more about AEW on the behind-the-scenes Situations and beefs and issues that they have going on behind the scenes rather than what's happening on Their weekly television, which is honestly not that good to be honest with you We tend to care about what's happening behind the scenes and what we see for the wrestling that's on On television, so we're gonna see what John Moxley had to say didn't have a too many kind words here So we're gonna get right into this one man. Appreciate all the love and support you guys showed on the channel This is brought to you by the wrestling observer AEW's John Moxley on CM Punk's comments. I don't want to get dragged into this You know what Moxley didn't mince words when it came to a punks situation former AEW world champion John Moxley spoken about CM Punk's recent comments about their title program last August and how punk thought Moxley Rocky 3 idea for For their for their clashes sucked He also had some thoughts on the backstage drama in AEW on this week's session with Renee Piquette Moxley talked about the Instagram post where punk claim Moxley didn't want to lose him It's effin annoying Moxley said just because someone said some stupid ish on social media That's not news, but it is but it is and become Become a thing. I don't want to get dragged into the dumb s I could effing unload on a lot of effing people right now Moxley just don't care. He's letting all the F bombs and S bombs drop But I'm not going to sink to that level Moxley noted that he was a free agent during the summer To the point where he could have even showed up to WWE SummerSlam with the AEW title if he wanted That's an interesting situation just just On its own the fact that he could have actually walked out Showed up to SummerSlam after Roman Reigns had a beat Brock Lesnar in that epic last man standing match You could have heard his music and he walked down there with the AEW championship That probably it would have sit the internet the wrestling community into a stroke I think everyone would have stroked out I think that would have been one of the craziest things we've ever seen in wrestling So it is it's crazy to know that could have possibly happened or potentially He didn't resign with the company initially as he wanted to take things slow after just having left rehab and getting that advice I just wanted to ease into And see what life was like on the other side Moxley said noting AEW extended his contract because of the time He spent in rehab, which he said he was glad that I'm glad they did He talked about the night in which punk returned right after Moxley and Chris Jericho's match in Minneapolis I basically don't work there. He continued talking and the time period in which he Which his storyline with punk took place for all intents and purposes. I don't even work here Tony Khan is not my boss. I don't even have to be in in this room I don't have to do this. So even me being in his room offering and agreeing to a storyline that puts you Over on the pay-per-view if anything, I'm bending over backwards for Tony and for this dude in the company and Everybody I didn't have to I didn't have to do this. So that's it. So basically What he's talking about is pretty much when the match was Going to happen before their pay-per-view match He's saying I have to do nothing I really didn't have to do anything for anybody because technically I didn't work there You know, I was only doing the favor for Tony Khan. So I didn't have to Do anything of the sort, but it's still always is weird to me because it's like I don't understand why they had to match two weeks before they were gonna have to match on pay-per-view To this day, that still just didn't make sense Moxley Later added That while he was having fun and focusing on the positives in his life He can't help but wonder why some in AEW complain on social media. I am I am I as an observer I've spent eight years in the Indies a couple years in WWE developmental eight years in WWE I've never seen so much BS drama in one place in my entire effing life Moxley said that's a big thing coming from one of your top guys I hate to say that and I don't know if it's because of the age of social media It's getting blown out of proportion like one person post a drunk tweet and all of a sudden it's all Everyone talks about he's frustrated that instead of talking about things like Kenny Omega and El Hito El Hito I don't I'm probably mispronouncing it. I'm sorry El Hito. They'll Like, you know, I don't I'm Mispronouncing that like, you know or revolution. They're all talking about controversy Let me be clear the vast majority of people there don't cause any problems there But they're getting sucked down into this it's like everybody else. There's plenty of people who want to get Better and perform Moxley resigned with AEW last year to a five-year contract back Blackpool Combat Club are set to face Dalton Castle and the boys on Wednesday on a Wednesday Yeah, it's crazy your top guys Even commenting on so much of the backstage drama and issues and like I said at the beginning of the video It seems like people care more about the drama and issues and the tweets than the actual wrestling on the show That is a very very crazy thing and honestly, it's not a good look I think Tony Khan really needs to have that sit down with the locker room and in the shirt who he is He is the boss. He is the boss. He needs to get a hold on these things The crazy thing is and I know some people want to sit up there and you know, they they talk about how Vince McMahon was or whatnot the one thing Vince McMahon made sure that everybody was on the same page Even if there's some discrepancies, you didn't really care about it too much unless it got leaked out It was always Vince McMahon made sure. Hey, this is how we run in this ship Either get with the program or you're gonna have to get out That's just what it was and I see the same happening with Triple H running things in the back Like hey, this is how we're going, you know, you can you can air your grievances But hey, either you get it together or you won't be seen on TV like Vince McMahon felt like the boss Triple H feels like the boss Tony Khan Unfortunately, he doesn't feel like the boss.  He feels like one of the fans. He does he operates I've never seen someone own a company tweet so much and there's nothing wrong with tweeting But Vince very rarely tweeted Triple H rarely tweets unless it's to promote the show or promote an event He rarely gets into the trolling because people troll Vince people troll triple H trip people troll Stephanie but when you're of that stature and you own this multi million billion dollar company people expect you to handle yourself accordingly and Tony Khan just off social media alone hasn't been handled himself accordingly and how he addresses trolls and stuff like that and Criticism so I can only imagine what he does when the wrestlers are having issues Like what happened with the media scrum should not have happened with CM Punk He should have did it that but he didn't he just let things happen What happened backstage should have happened He should there shouldn't have been no altercation with anybody granted It's wrestling that does happen. It's always been like that Don't get a twisty job just because it wouldn't talked about or there was no social media back in the day No, people will always have fights with each other But you rarely heard about it. You hashed it out. You got it through and you moved on None of this should have happened What we're seeing and how people are feeling John Moxley is saying it himself There's a lot of a lot of messy stuff going on behind the scenes is getting posted That's getting leaked. That's getting sent out and now People got to defend themselves and now is all the drama people care about the drama more than the actual wrestling MJF is your world heavyweight champion No one's really talking about MJF much Outside of the great match he had with Brian Daniels. Nobody's talking about him much No one's I haven't really seen too much other than you know the con you know that match No one's really talking about the guy that they've been trying to build as the guy for the company But now everyone's talking about the CM Punk thing. Everybody's talking about this John Moxley thing This is going to be what people care about going into Wednesday And it's part of you know part of the wrestling landscape, but if I'm Tony con bro, you gotta have you gotta Stop being a fan and be a business owner be the boss No more of these outbursts. Hey if you doing Handle your you know saying if it ain't within your character like don't let's let's let's air our grievances in the locker room No more putting out no more leaking it to to certain news reporters news reporters But quotations. There's no no more leaking that stuff. Keep it in the house If I find out you're doing it you're off TV. I'm finding you something you gotta put your foot down cuz I Just think they run over Tony con to be honest with you. They run him over people can say and do whatever the hell they want to There's no way Vince McMahon Would be cool with your top guy as the champion not being Resigned to a deal yet and he can legitimately walk out There's no way Vince would allow that.  No champion Unless you resign on that dotted line or we get something going on maybe a temporary contract We got to get something going on the fact that that wouldn't even it was just kind of thrown together And it looked like it was thrown together I don't know Comment down below. Let me know how do you guys feel about John Moxley's comments on this whole situation? Do you agree with how he feels do you disagree with how he feels and also? How do y'all feel about Tony con as the owner of AEW? Do you feel like he could do a much better job and work on? Actually, you know being a better owner. Do you feel like what he's doing right now? It's great for the business. Let me know down below But I appreciate all love and support you guys shown on channel road to 150k And I am still young to speed a YouTube wrestling channel of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking with me


Art is an important part of the cultural landscape of any city. Art is something that needs to exist to be able to open people's perspective in multiple different directions. Minescapes is a project undertaken by The Welcome Trust and I'm an artist in residence at the Museum of Art and Photography. We are multiple artists who are working for this project and we are all trying to address what minescapes actually means to us. At the same time, address the concerns around mental health. Mental health in India, there is a certain kind of taboo around it. With this project I'm hoping to address and at the same time try and create these safe spaces where it is easy for us to express ourselves and at the same time use that space to kind of further talk about and bring more awareness about mental health to create this sense of community and to also know that we are there for each other. We do stitching activities where we sit together and stitch text and multiple different stories. We've started with stitching their own name. The moment they start stitching they see their name and then they feel the sense of identity, the sense of like, oh I am not really at the time to see myself and it's so beautiful to see. The act of stitching is also like repair, you know. There's a certain mayor in which we are trying to bring together and create a certain togetherness in the fabric of the city. With regards to the space I'm working with six Anganwadis in the area. Anganwadis are government recognized bodies which is primarily a scheme by the government to make sure that women and children are taken care so there are multiple different programs that run in these spaces all the way from education to nutrition to taking care of pregnant women. One of the things that we are also doing at these Anganwadis is installing swings so that the women have a time to just be a child again to be able to move away from family chores and house chores and to take some time off for themselves. It's a space of care, it's a space to slow down, to reflect, to share their stories. A lot of women are coming back and they keep coming back to us saying let us know when the next workshop is, let us know when we can start working together again. That's why today I think we've had 200 women have attended these workshops. Things cannot change overnight. For example if mental health has very strong roots of having a certain kind of taboo it's not going to happen overnight saying okay everything is going to change it will take its own course and it will take its own time. But I do believe that art can make a change.


Hello, good morning. So thanks for joining us for this brief presentation on how to overcome the key challenges of high-end MCU application based on SCM32F7, based on your core Cortex M7, the newest core. So you could take a sit. So first of all, we have to remember the key challenges of the high-end MCU real-time applications. High-end MCU application requires more performance. It requires more real-time determinism, rich connectivity, more integration in one microcontroller, and finally, power efficiency. So low-power conceptions is one of the key challenges for high-end MCU applications. One of the examples is smartwatches or AOC applications, all of wearable devices or applications. And to reach the key challenges and to fulfill the key challenges over these applications, we need a high-end MCU answering all these key challenges and offering rich connectivity. And the example of smartwatches is needing rich connectivity, it's like connecting Wi-Fi model, LCD display to be connected through either LCD TFT interface or just parallel interface, audio interface, and as well as any connectivity to have Bluetooth model and the connect sensor. And all of this to be powered by a battery. So the SCM32-F7 is overcoming all these challenges. So today, it is the smartest SCM32 delivering the highest performance thanks to the core Tex-M7. And it brings smart architecture and also offering a rich connectivity of new brand of setup peripherals and keeping the same power consumption as the SCM32-F4, reaching down to 1 micro-amps in V-BAT remote. And the great investment is that SCM32-F7 is designed to be pin-to-pin compatible with the SCM32-F4, starting from 144 pin packages. So the SCM32-F7 is the first worst MCU based on Cortex-M7. And it is not only integrating the highest core, but it also taking advantage of all the new features of the core and with the smart architectures and connecting a rich set of peripherals. So if you remember the key challenges of high-end and serial time application is the performance, determinism, power efficiency, and the rich connectivity. So the SCM32-F7 has the smartest architecture today while combining real-time determinism and performance. So thanks to the unique RT accelerator for Flash, so we reached zero weight state execution from Flash through ITC and BAS. This is a new BAS of the Cortex-M7. Also, you have the ITCM RAM and DTCM RAM. So this is advantages for real-time deterministic executions. And for more performance, the core integrates a cache. So there is an instruction cache and data cache. Allows to accelerate CPU access to external memories as well as internal memories, either internal SRAM or internal Flash through the ICSI bus or external memory. And to reach zero weight state execution from external memory. So you have parallel data transfer, for example, from internal memory to external memory through the GP DMAs. And to take advantage of the BAS matrix, the interconnection on the BAS matrix. And you can have benefits from ITC and BAS for real-time execution from Flash and reach higher performance through the external memory through the cache, using the online cache. So the SM32-F7 is running up to 200 megahertz. So it's delivering up to 1,000 score mark today, or 428 DMIPS. So it's reaching more performance. That means better responsiveness. And at the same time, it skips power efficiency. In addition to the smart architecture, the SM32-F7 it embeds smart peripherals, a new set of smart peripherals. We have all peripherals for graphics, like LCD, DFT, the Chrome Art Accelerator, camera interface, all the connectivity around the audio, serial audio interface, I2S, and the SPG receiver. And then all of set of communication peripherals like Qzart, I2C, ZMMC for SD card, or connect to Wi-Fi module, and all external memories. And for external memories, you are extending the interface to support quad-SPI, that is more useful for graphical applications. And the most important is that any application on STM32-F4 is fully compatible. It will be fully compatible to be migrated on STM32-F7. This is to optimize, develop on time, and reaching higher performance with a new core. OK, in addition to doubling performance, but the power consumption is kept the same for low power mode versus the STM32-F4. And for dynamic conceptions, we are reaching the same performance while running at the same frequency, like delivering 7.4 mark per middle watt while running at 1.8 volt. And this is quite beneficial for the wearable application or a smartwatch to keep very low power conceptions in low power mode while switching to low power mode. You can build yours. This was one example on how to build a smartwatch applications based on high-performance MCU while not consuming, so with low power conceptions. And here we do have a prototype. So build around the ecosystem of the STM32, or like nuclear board, NFT expansion board. So this is basically on the F4-11 device. But just one example, you can build the same. The hardware is not smart, but this is just a prototype. You can build your own applications. And it is easy to move from one F4 device to F7 to reach for sure a high performance and easy migration between F4 and F7. So F7 will respond to any needs for wearable applications, industrial home automation, home appliance applications. And today, we already have running applications like home automations, control, and wearable applications. We do have on our booth one application gateway where we connected three different ecosystems, system alarm, watcher breaker, and home control. And I invite you to have a look on this gateway application, as well as we have three different demonstrations around the graphic HMI. And you'll see the advantage of the F7 while comparing to F4, how you reach a higher performance today. So that's it. Thank you.


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