Well, thank you very much it's like a bit sharp Yeah, there are possibilities of lowering them a little bit. I don't know. Thank you I like to see my my audience actually if anybody makes faces I can get back at them I'd like to thank the organizers of this conference for inviting me. I'm very honored and very flattered to be here I must say this has not been the main stay of my talks recently. I've talked a lot more about open access in the Periodical area, but there are a number of things that I think I can say about this area as well all the more so that I am myself after all a humanist so-called and And we have to face the problems of publishing in fields like literature comparative literature being one of them I'm not going to speak so much about money I'm a little bit concerned about the term monograph for those although I understand that we're coming from there Because the main line of my talk today is going to be really how to forget about monographs How to go beyond monographs how to really make the great conversation of Humanists which is just as great a conversation as that of the scientist how to make it work and flow as I would say frictionlessly as possible In order to enhance our understanding of what who we are what we are and where we are going So I I would like to to do so and to do so I feel that we have to perhaps take a small step back and Look at this from three perspective, which I've called the three sociologies of ebooks, but even the term ebooks bothers me in some ways Because there is the word books in there so about documents that are in digital formats, so I Propose to go through a triple perspective sociology of documents documents being actually You might say extensions of text plus video plus audio plus everything you can imagine on top of the text Maybe when they will have taste and sensations as well, but we'll leave that aside for today The second one would be what I call the society of documents and then the last one is obviously the the obvious one The sociology to cool or knowledge of society So sociology of documents. What do I mean there? I'm not being very original. I'm not trying to be it comes from DF McKenzie's It really refers to the fact that to produce documents of any type There is a sociological context which allows the production of these of these documents from if of course it it depends on certain kinds of Technologies depends on certain kinds of techniques. It depends on certain kinds of communities There is a workflow and and then of course it also includes The the reception phase. How do you read that for what purpose? How do you make sense of it and how do you create value around it? All these things are part of what I would call the sociology of documents The society of documents is a little bit different It's how documents relate to each other in effect. In effect It's a kind of sociology of documents without humans in it It's how do how do books relate to each other footnotes Bibliographies references or illusions to other books are ways of relating to other documents links Of course are very explicit ways to relate to other documents So you have this second layer that That is of importance in our understanding of where we're going and where we're coming from and finally there is Sociology itself, which is well-known except for Margaret Thatcher. She didn't know what society was but you know she can be She can be forgiven There are people well no comment Then this is used by me to underscore something which I think is really fundamental in this And that's why the title of the conference was worrying me a little bit. I don't think it's about monographs I think it's about people who are perhaps using tools like monographs, but not essentially only monographs It's also to foreground the importance of communities at both in the sociology of documents in the society of documents and Also the fact that when you have people involved in a system like this of Communication or system a discussion system a dialogue system You end up having a co-evolution of both the Documentary layer and the human layer and I think we should always think in terms of this co-evolution of what we're doing and what we are We we where we are going just as a teaser for the future of this little talk Think of the notion of an author and author is a category of human beings. It's not eternal It did not appear on the eighth day of creation. It's not going to last forever We may have to deal with other forms of Evaluation in other forms of creation of Visibility authority and prestige in the future and it may not take the form that the author took When the print world essentially brought to the to the surface this kind of concept the authorship To summarize all this I love this picture. I've always loved that picture. I should put it over my bed it's It in effect it summarizes all I've said already It's the humanist vision of the three sociologies Witness in terms of the general sociology the gentleman keeping his hat on it's probably cold in that Locking his door. That's always amused me to see how he's totally locked and yet he's obviously doing knowledge for the whole world But that's one of the paradoxes of the Humanists but more interesting is that wheel which is like a ferris wheel on which the books are Allowing this man to move from one book to another so thereby threatening the integrity and the unity of the book by showing that they are related to each other the society of texts there is really at work and Working to create what yet another book which is going to end up on one of those shelves for another humanist in a different room Which will be just as locked and everything and you see those books piling up in the back of the room with with The shelves there. I'll leave aside the gears and the things the Renaissance was fascinated with machinery But it's also shows in the in a sort of indirect way how technical this is really deeply technical It is so when you go into the digital world in the US computers You're just reasserting the notion that it is technical in this response. So so far nothing really new here But you know keynotes are not supposed to be original. They're supposed to be I don't know what but I I'm trying my best Why is it not new well witness the following I think some of the Quotations refer to people that are in the in the room because Kathleen is supposed to be talking at some point in this conference Well, I assume she's somewhere in the room She writes very very pertinent pertinently We need to think differently about the network Relationships among our texts and among the readers who interact with them Well, if that is not what I've been saying about Society of texts on the one hand and the co-evolution of the documentary system and humanity We have it here. So my conference is over The second one is we want to examine how digital changes the process of Making a book as well as what we do it with its afterwards and that's in the the little Not so little actually but the the book or book a futurist manifesto that some of you may have seen coming out of O'Reilly Now nothing new therefore, but all the same I'm trying to retrieve and save myself here The way we think about books Magazine and newspaper publishing is unduly governed by the physical containers We have used for centuries to transmit information and that's by Brian O'Leary You can see that between Fitzpatrick and O'Leary. I do have a liking for Arlen the the This this quotation shows us already that we have to think beyond that little Parallel epiped that really is the form of a codex and which we are perhaps too used to to to familiar with so Let's continue in this regard O'Leary I think very rightly suggests in his article in that book that Context really trumps content and context comes first and context is really the society of text and the sociology of text or documents if you want to extend it beyond texts So what is context for him? Well, he defines it as a mixture of elements But I'm going to go further than that He refers to it as tags the research around the text footnotes other links sources background metadata all this in all sorts of formats and I think that's a good beginning we're going to have we're going to need to go further than that and Now I'm going to give up on slides because I forgot to tell you I hate slides and I Is as I said simply too constraining and too orderly in this kind of thing and I like to be art You know a bit an archic and and disorganized The content in this case. I think kills the context. Let me go on. Let me go on so We are in a situation where we use to a very fixed system of production And that's very familiar to all of you. We have let's take for example the process of a thesis a Thesis the trajectory the poor fellow the poor lady is working labor in your way generally very alone especially in the humanities On the thesis and then the thesis is defended. It's finally a doctorate She's a doctor or he's a doctor and then comes the track towards the publication phase so you go to a publisher publisher tells you immediately a thesis is not a book and You start going back home and start rewriting to make it more palatable reduce the footnotes reduce the BBR Well, you know all that okay, and then by chance you've got a grant or something the book is accepted the manuscript is accepted the book is then considered to be a Assumable risk by the press We've heard about courageous presses a moment ago So with courageously the press takes on that study of Zulu land and and puts it into paper format Second and then the book is distributed physically around and then it's sold in libraries in the bookstores And of course distributed through libraries and all this is extremely Well-defined in a series of very very Stepwise kind of things my argument is that with the digital world all this is going to in a sense The first fit away and then being reversed done entirely differently. Why the thesis person writing alone that thesis is Actually emerging out of a context where a lot of the ideas were first discussed in seminars with friends in bars or on a beer With parents family with everybody and the slowly the ideas mature and transform themselves into writing and and Because of our author obsession We still stick to the idea of having just one person Involved in all of this but actually that person is trying to aggregate and assemble and reorganize Remix as the language goes nowadays And to all sorts of sources in order to create a new argument a new perspective a new Thesis and then we go through the steps of materializing this thesis Through the printing and publishing process in the present digital system And that's why my word my my concern with the word monograph arises Essentially what we're trying to do is do that the same thing but digitally we try to go through the same steps We don't try to observe as Kathleen Fitzpatrick in our excellent book I want to render homage to this book which really raises some fundamental questions We don't look at the how a book works. We look at its form. In fact the tenure and promotions committee more or less look at how thick it is and what the name of the publishing price is and That's about it, you know, so this is not exactly a very very Reliable form of evaluation, but that's what is at work right now. I Would argue that it would be nice to continue to continue the work of Of the seminar that started in grad school to use that particular line of investigation and Perhaps have communities of young young researchers working on Conducted topics beginning to work discuss their thesis without, you know, hiding in a corner in writing without to hope They don't know what I'm writing about because they might steal my ideas See the notion of ownership is also know of authorship is also a notion of ownership There's a very famous book by Rose called authors and owners I think it puts the finger on one very fundamental problem of our present way of publishing So you're going to you're going to a world in which the the thesis Candidate the doc doctoral student could start working in communities and develop his ideas Exchanging more or less freely with others the great conversation again with comrades with friends with Colleagues and developing in this fashion His or her thesis One might even say what is it so important to have just one author to a thesis Why? Really if you do a good piece of work You need more than one brain and it might be a much better work if two or three or four people had Collaborated together and put their brains together and put together a an interesting piece of work exactly after all as People do afterwards when they write articles more and more in science there are very few articles that are written by just one person and more and I Suspect that the same is going to happen in the social sciences and the humanities as time goes on This is a natural trend and the thesis should not run and resist that kind of trend. There is nothing wrong with working together There's nothing wrong in fact one of the paradoxes about universities is to train people to work in a way that they'll never work When they go in real work, which is where you have to collaborate with others and do Elaborate or create teams of research teams and work together. It makes it makes no sense at all, but that's the way we do it We have already examples of that the the French review.org offers a thing called Hypothesis where people can provide in fact the basic landmarks of their research and In fact at the same time staking some ground for their way of looking at things But also calling for people to intervene and bring in bringing in things The second thing that we have to think about is that and I think they're Kathleen Fitzpatrick has said a lot more than I will say this morning is to Assume that when you publish or write something. It's not the end of the world It's quite a piece of hubris to say what I've written about this topic is the end of things Maybe you find that extremely reassuring about yourself Personally, I would find that very disquieting because I know I'm saying very stupid things and And I wouldn't want that to remain the eternal legacy of humanity I mean that would be imagine that going into outer space and being met by intelligent aliens. Oh my god And so let's let's let's be honest and modest We are writing what we can about the topic we know a bit about and we're trying to bring our stone to this edifice Which is human knowledge That's the essence of the exercise the essence of the exercise is not to produce objects called books with authors And they will have rewards like a promotion No, this is a kind of currency and system of an economic symbolic economy Which has nothing to do with the essence of the project, which is really how do we do the research work? How do we communicate together better to create good? Research which is good for the common good for humanity for all of us and for our own work so we move in this direction with the idea that the text should be obviously a Man a mandible. It could be transformed changed It could be corrected added to and so on could be commented of course and leading in this fashion to the creation of not Not a thing but a community So you come from a community you work through that community to create a current of discussion That current of discussion feeds back into this community And of course it reshapes the community and then this kind of back-and-forth movement between the flow of ideas and the flow the flow of the people involved remains like a Just one stream in the long big river of thought of humanity. I Think that's far more exciting than our very clumsy I'm looking for the English word for the French sake a day if someone knows the word in English Please shout it. It's you know, it's sort of a step-by-step and in a very boom boom boom manner you have the You have this system of your producer book takes for many years Then it takes many years to be really assimilated by others and then it takes many years for someone to say No, that doesn't work. I'll give another interpretation to that and then everybody gets excited Oh, new Michel Foucault has just just undermined the whole of history whoopee and and And then someone comes along so well, you know, Michel Foucault is full of your dot dot dot and But in a very like this, it's not a discussion It's like everybody's saying look how beautiful I am look at what a big peacock I am and let's see who can shoot me down Doesn't make sense to create knowledge or I don't think that's a very good incentive to the creation of knowledge So let's move on to this notion that perhaps the texts should be On the course on the trajectory and that in a sense begins to resolve the issue of publishing a publication Maybe the kind the quality of the dialogue going on Would then lead to questions like what is the best form for that discussion because it starts being really Damn interesting for much more than that little community. It's starting to extend to more people Maybe more people should get involved So how do we move from this level to that level to that level in other words? What I'm saying is that if you want to create a book rather than taking it as the starting point and then you know doing everything to do it digitally in the best possible way and Putting again content over over context as O'Leary says Maybe it would be more interesting to raise the following question at what level of the discussion Between a number of interested people should we go to the form of Publication that traditionally we've called the book does it have its place in that particular conversation if so in what Kind of circumstances does it make sense to do so? If you're writing about Zululan It might be much better because it's indeed very expensive to produce a book might be much more interesting to start having the 20 scholars getting together and Really putting together everything they know about Zululan and there again You know it would solve another problem which has been alluded to in the introduction The question of the relationship between what is published and the data that's behind the publication Right now and I've witnessed that many times Archaeologists art historians or whatever They have collections of photos of objects and so on they sit on them. That's their treasure trove They have to exploit that the physicists do the same with their measurements The chemists the same and they sit on that and they try to exploit that to the hilt And meanwhile no one can look at it no one can verify it and we are getting interpretations of all that from one team or one person and it's Obviously a very flawed way of producing knowledge had these known data had these these issues Being solved in terms of publishing them. I think we would get to a better a better result for the production of knowledge Yes, but there is one big problem in all of this. I'm going back to the author We have a way to reward people symbolically and Then there was symbolism is translated into other things, you know, like my being here today It's nice translation of whatever fame I may have acquired in doing whatever stupid things I've done in the past and So we like that We have a we have an economy of prestige and economy of reputation Which of course works for us and what I'm talking here is on the ideal plane in the utopian mode of thinking is something that really looks good, but What kind of entity? What kind of social entity do we have to create to make this kind of system work? I'm going back to the notion of author at this point And we may have to rethink that notion of author very very deeply. I Don't have good answers on that But I think that's what we should be working on without provide at least the beginning of a possible model I'm fascinated and I've been long fascinated by the way free software has been working and evolving for the last Last 20 years 30 years to 30 years actually if we can go back to Stallman's early early interventions and What I find in that is when you look at the source code of software, you know who did what You know who did what you don't know who you don't have generally or sometimes you do But most of the time you don't have the list of all the people that introduced something into the code But when you look at the specific piece of code, you know who did what and you don't you know who did what for two reasons Visibility of course with prestige and authority and all that but also Responsibility that is to say if you put that code into the thing and it really creates, you know a disaster in Whatever this software is supposed to do You end up you end up having to know who was responsible for that when we create knowledge We have to be responsible for that knowledge. So we should be identified actually. That's how names appeared in printed books at first By the way, that was the reason for that that in the very first reason for the production of authors or authors names People that were responsible in front of the king for whatever content was in there, but at the same time it was also transmuted into Visibility authority prestige so we have to I think rework very carefully the whole notion of value the whole notion of Visibility for those who intervene in that and I think again in that and I will quote again Or I'll refer again to Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book. I think her way of entering into the whole problem by Really examining the peer review process is really one way to tell us that we have Really have to rethink the way we create value in Research right now we do it as you all know through books prices and The logo effect of all these things We have to rethink that and we have to find a way to reward The individuals that will intervene into this field and I think that's that's our big real big issue It's not a question of finding which kind of format to do the interoperability issue is important the DOAB is a wonderful tool and I will sing its praise until whatever I can do it and The all this is all this is very very Real and we have to to think about all these very very pressing questions that are around us But if you look about the midterm and even more the long term it is how this new system of communication Which is made? possible by the digital age is going to fit within our society and Within the sociology of texts and of course what kind of society of texts or documents It's going to create and these were the thoughts. I wanted to share with you this morning. So thank you very much Take a few questions Thank you so much and we've got a few minutes for some questions and points for the floor. So anybody would like to Come in with a comment Don't be shy. I don't bite. Yes. Go ahead Well, I mean, it's a constant law of nature that the most fragile are also the most conservative that's it's there is no way to escape that and for example in the issues about publishing in open access and and Trying to find ways to to to really reconcile your practice with the demands of the ground conversation People are for example in my age are from much much better Much better situation than a young scholar. So I think it behooves to the likes of me the old farts of the academe it's really to really confront that and Certainly not encourage our younger our younger colleagues to risk their career on this thing if we want to modify the tenure and promotion Processes of our universities if we want to change the way we create symbolic value around research if we want to define otherwise in different ways the notion of prestige and authority It is for people who are securely in the system and who understand that the system doesn't work well Especially now that it is being anyway It's being challenged by the very nature of the new technologies coming into play One more before we go on top Thank you There you're raising an issue where we may have some real differences between us For those who are on the business side and those on the academic side I am a firm believer that the grand conversation as I like to call it is parts and parcel of the research process research Processes Excuse me are supported largely by public money a lot of the research is supported by by public money in the case of the humanities we shouldn't be fooled by the Notion that the grants are much lower than in the in the sciences and technology We also have of course all the acquisitions Books and journals by the libraries which are really our lab laboratories I mean we we should think in those terms so if we put if we put the The research in that perspective as the publication phase in that perspective as part of the research process And if we understand there is that the research process has never been sustainable in the commercial sense of the word It's being subsidized at least ever ever since Charles II in Britain with the Royal Society But probably way before that when Rudolph the second in Prague was subsidizing a bunch of alchemists He was already doing a strange form of subsidies for for science, but he still was doing that If we believe that then I my answer is that then the research Publication phase should be subsidized like the rest, you know, and then it says something which Of course may not be to the liking of more commercially oriented people Which is then the the university presses and the libraries together as it's coming Happening now for example at Michigan in the United States How are in the perfect position to team up? They have the complementary skills essentially to to produce these steaks and make them evolve on the kind of Way of the cross, you know You go through all the different steps until you're you're you're rich some sort of catharsis at the end of the Of the process, but what I'm mean by joking like this is that text can improve evolve and at some point reach perhaps certain plateaus of Significance long-term stability kind of text that could be invented as it is done in the software world Which could be the equivalent of the monograph, but a monograph that would be very clearly Marked as being a transitory plateau not as an object, which is fixed rigid and forever So, you know from that perspective I have very little to say to commercial publishers, but if commercial publishers Want to enter that game? Because they like those fields. They are courageous people. They want modest gains from it You know and do it do it in what I would call broadly speaking in the honorable way Not a predatory way as some publishers do Wonderful because I think the commercial publishers in this kind of field Have one advantage over publishers academic prices in libraries. They may have more of an incentive to try innovating So that would be the kind of you know Pushing of the thing to make the the machinery move forward a bit better a bit faster and so on But I keep my eyes focused on the ground conversation its objectives the people involved and then the tools to make it work Ancillary to that very very basic task Thank you


Welcome everyone today. My name is Aisha Driggers. I'm with the City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities. I'm so excited that the rain slacked up for us so that we can enjoy this occasion. Today we congratulate Mr. Shaw on the opening of the Rob Shaw Gallery and Framing. Ribbon cutting ceremonies like this provide the opportunity to celebrate the continued growth of our great city. We've seen a number of businesses open throughout the city this past year and it's exciting to celebrate what that means for our community. It's important that we promote our small businesses to ensure their sustainability as we encourage businesses to locate here. Columbia has a thriving art community and we're excited to support Mr. Shaw and welcome him to the beautiful Inwood Park area. We congratulate you and your staff and we look forward to your success in our community. Unfortunately our mayor couldn't be here but I'm honored to introduce our at-large council member Dr. Bussells. Hi everyone. So good to see so many folks out. I could have walked here. That's how special this neighborhood is to me. I spent a lot of time here with my baby and my husband and my dogs and it's I couldn't be more excited to have Rob leave that other side. I'm just kidding we love West Columbia. But you know cross over the river and come to the capital city. I think that Columbia is very much known for its rich tapestry of art the diversity within the art community and he is just adding to that from a very unique neighborhood perspective. So very excited about that. So I learned a little bit about his business. He started in 2019 and offers more than just art right. We learned and we see the beautiful custom paintings. We see the frame the framing services as well. And really what I really love about Rob is that he started his business as a creative endeavor to really connect with people in our community. And that's what art is about. It's about bringing people together so that everybody can enjoy and create and learn from each other. And I think that this business really epitomizes that. So we are very excited to welcome Rob's gallery to our capital city and the Elmwood neighborhood. And so on behalf of Mayor Daniel Rickman and the entire city council we'd like to congratulate Rob Shaw framing and gallery with the opening of their new location. And we we hope that you have so much success that you expand and grow in this neighborhood. Thanks everybody for coming out. It's an exciting day. You know when I started my business five years ago it was a little scary. You know I remember one night sitting sitting in bed just thinking oh god what have I done. Like you know our customer's gonna come and and see me. And today is we're here to celebrate the opening of this place. But also I want to you know thanks for everybody that supported me over the years. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you know lots of support from the community. So I really appreciate that. So I want to thank all y'all for coming and supporting me all these years. Some individual people I'd love to thank is my mom Liz. She has been here almost every day helping me get ready. Sometimes I call her and ask her for help. Sometimes she just shows up and does whatever I need to you know to get things going. It's tough when you move locations. You know it's it's been a lot of work but we're doing we've got it all already and we're we're here. I don't think Ed Bro is here but he's one of the neighbors down the street. He came almost every day after work and helped me paint walls and stuff and get stuff ready. So you know a lot of the neighbors the neighborhood have been real supportive and come by and say hey to me. So I'm excited about being in the neighborhood for that reason. Everybody's real proud of this neighborhood and it's a great neighborhood. I love it. Valerie my social media person she's out there. She is Valerie. Thank you very much. Rachel my employee she's she had to leave. She had something she had to do this afternoon but she's man you know helping somebody move is just it's it's tough and she was a trooper. She really helped out. Anna Majure a good friend of mine. She's the designer. She helped me just make things look great and it's it's it's such a different space. It's a big space and it's tough you know envisioning how I wanted to be and how I want to look. So Anna was a huge help but thanks to everybody for coming out today and just helping me to continue my journey. You know I'm excited about being here so thank you very much.


everybody what is going on what do you think what do you reckon my pads are probably too big aren't they the helmet feels fucking good though and guess what I'll never lose my mouthguard again cuz it's hanging here alright guys this video is titled what is it titled it's titled some thoughts after my first ever game of gridiron and you know what that titles a bit of a well it's not a lie but it's it's not the complete trees because it wasn't a full game it was actually a scrimmage it was a friendly scrimmage the video after this you're going to see is is my highlights what I will say is that I got put at fullback mostly because of my size we have four running backs for the B team which is called the the Monash Barbarians we've got four running backs that we need to rotate they usually only use a single back formation because of the fact that we didn't really have a big back that could block for the half back or the tail back until I came along so in this particular scrimmage I actually didn't get one run I didn't get one run from the backfield I got a couple of catcher catches but basically I was lined up at fullback with a two back formation either blocking for the running back behind me or blocking as pass protection for the quarterback now bear with me because I'm trying to get this all these you know things through my head I'm trying to explain it as best as I can but basically look the one thing the one feeling I can remember from the game is just a feeling of excitement I was absolutely buzzing I made that video about half an hour before we played talking about my thoughts before the game and you know my excitement levels only went up from there so we got to the game it was it was actually a scrimmage but it was the offense versus the defense for either the A or the B team so all of the clips that you're seeing that you're gonna see in the next video of me were in the offense versus the defense for the B team so this is our offense versus our defense it wasn't actually the A team as a whole versus the B team as a whole so you know reps were limited like I said I didn't actually get any any runs from backfield no no counters no you know inside zones nothing like that I was either blocking for the quarterback I was either blocking for the running back or I was catching a pass so I mean I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go on too long I'm sitting here with my helmet and my pads on it's actually real time guys for once today's date is the 21st of August it's a Wednesday we've got training tonight and we've got our first full game actual game on Sunday so I'm gonna bring the camera down to training tonight get a few clips in the past I've put up videos of my football training it's been from day one to I think day 17 day 16 and we're gonna continue that so I'm gonna continue with the football training videos I'm just gonna get clips from training put them together and keep putting them up I'm gonna take the camera down to the games hopefully we can get some some highlights the highlights that you see we had a cameraman on the side of the field I want to say a big shout out to him for he videoed every single snap of the game what you're gonna see is basically every single snap that I played but you know as I said with the position I was in there's not a whole lot of highlights but you know one thing that did happen and this is you know something I'll always remember I actually scored my first touchdown so I'm not gonna say exactly how it happened but you know after watching back the video that I made prior to playing I actually mentioned that I couldn't wait to do this exact play I couldn't wait to actually line up at the back and run this play and see how it worked and lo and behold it actually worked and then I went the other side and got a two-point conversion so you know one thing I can remember is the feeling that I had driving home after the game we we finished the scrimmage we had a bit of a you know social thing we had some we had a barbecue a couple of drinks not alcoholic and I jumped in my car and drove home and that drive home was you know was the feeling that I had the energy that I had inside me knowing that I'd just gone and scored my first touchdown knowing that I'd actually put on the pads and the helmet I got a picture afterwards I posted on Instagram it was going crazy had over a thousand likes at this point you know I I was feeling absolutely on top of the world and I can remember pumping AC DC the entire way home for like an hour and a half I pumped it I was singing at the top of my lungs I almost lost my voice by the time I got home you know I've never I haven't done that in a long time but I have not been so happy that I've just been yelling at the top of my lungs singing along in the car like clapping my hands man I was just pumping man I was loving it absolutely loving it and that was just after a scrimmage so this Sunday we've got our first actual game and look I don't want to I don't want to talk too much more but fuck it feels good to be finally involved in the sport it feels really really good and I do have a bit of a bit of an ultimatum that I've been given currently which I will talk about in a future video but basically it's it's around Prokick and it's around the fact that I may have to actually choose between playing a season here in Melbourne or training with Prokick and I've got to be honest man the way that I'm feeling right now the way that I felt after that scrimmage the way that the guys have welcomed me into the team already you know the us four running backs have have a Facebook group man a chat group like how fucking cool is that man how cool is that we can talk about moves we can talk about training we can pump each other up for the games you know I feel like the guys in this B team are actually feeding off the energy that I'm bringing with this YouTube channel so you know I can't I can't not play now I can't I have come down here and not play this season it's not happening I'm staying here for good I'm staying here for the season it finishes mid-November and so that is that's the date that I'm I'm sort of you know locking myself in for until locking myself in too so there we are it was a bit of a rundown there's some thoughts after my first game of American football and you know I'll leave it at that and you know like I said I was kind of disappointed that I didn't get any specific runs from the backfield but as you guys have said and as I believe now you take what you get you take the reps that you given effort is not coachable I've got faith that in good time I will get a few runs but hey I don't mind I don't mind catching the past okay I don't mind catching the past I actually don't mind blocking I fucking I quite enjoy the I quite enjoy blocking I'm not gonna lie blocking is not the worst thing in the world especially man if you're in a two-back formation and you go and block for your running back and you see your running back run right beside you and keep going up a field like that's an amazing feeling you just helped that run and that happened to me a couple of times so you know that was a cool feelings feeling I've never felt before I thought that the best feeling I'd feel on the on the field would be actually running with the ball but on Sunday it wasn't the best feeling I had was doing a nice block and having my running back run behind me and and make some ground so I'll leave it at that I'll take my helmet off and hey if you've liked the video hit the like button if you want to subscribe please do and in the next video you're gonna see my highlights you know as small as they are at least we've got something for the camera if I didn't get anything I would have been real disappointed so you know we've got something you're gonna see them in the next video thanks for all the support as always it's doesn't go unnoticed and I'm pumped for trainings tonight I'll tell you that much so as I said this video is in real time I'm gonna shut the camera off right now it is midday on Wednesday the 21st of August so a lot of you guys are actually gonna be seeing this in the future which doesn't happen a lot on this channel because I'm always behind by about two weeks but this video I made sure to come out on the day can't wait to go to training fucking thanks for all the support man I've got some decisions to make but one decision is made and that is I'm playing a season of American football here in Victoria regardless of what I lose out on for that okay well see you soon guys


Things are getting really exciting at Canada's Wonderland. Boy, I'm not even caring about 2024 anymore. I am so hyper laser focused on 2025 and I can't wait to share more details with you guys this Saturday at 8pm on the podcast. I just want to discuss a few things with some people before we make a big announcement about things this Saturday. But yeah, stay tuned. I swear we know, okay? We are very confident in our predictions and we're ready to make a solidified announcement about our 2025 predictions, okay? And you know when I say something like that, it's serious. But nonetheless, as you can see, Behemoth, the train, the yellow train, I think it's the yellow one and not the orange one. It's hard to tell sometimes, you know, especially with this paint job, is back on the track. I think it might be missing a couple of cards. That could be wrong. I'm not really looking closely right now. But it's a pretty good shot. One of the trains is back on the transfer tracks. It's really early. Wonderland seems to be ahead of the game already so far. And I mean, with that new job posting with that high wage, it's probably going to continue. Snoopy's Racing Railway is still working on those footings. The station outline is very visible today. And along with the launch shed. It is really confusing though. Can you see how small that station and then that launch shed is? I mean, it's probably a lot larger in person. But from this far away, you have to remember this drone's got crazy zoom. So we are really far away still. So the perception it gives sometimes is very misleading. For example, when we're looking at the footings for Tundra Twister, it could be a really misleading. So I'll show you guys that in a second. But yeah, the construction site for Snoopy's Racing Railway is well on the way. More track is obviously arriving here and there. And there is a special shipment. Purple waterslide should be arriving around Tuesday. The little birdies are telling me. So stay tuned for that. So super excited about that. We'll be there, you know, trying to see if we can get it. Not like in a rush to obviously get it, but we know it's arriving around Tuesday for you guys. So nonetheless, let's go over to Tundra Twister. And Tundra Twister appears to have one footing poured. We're not exactly sure if that's a footing for the ride. It looks really small. But again, when you're this far away, it's really hard to tell size. But it could be it. If you look at the rebar cage, it looks about right. So I'm assuming that's one of the footings done. So yeah, they're making pretty good progress. They got the drill over there on the construction site. And we are hearing once they're done Tundra Twister and Snoopy's Racing Railway, some work might start on the 2025 project. But yeah, super excited about this. Everything's looking great. Wonderland seems to be ahead of schedule in terms of hiring, maintenance and construction. So super excited for the 2023 season. Thanks so much for watching guys. Can't wait to see you on the podcast this Saturday. Alright guys, have a good one. Bye


I don't know much about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. I like good old American cash.  I don't think there's a lot of small business opportunities in crypto or a lot of other, yeah, no. It's not something that I'm interested in. I feel like there's too much unknown around it. What? Listen to Bob Dylan, Marcus. Don't criticize what you can't understand. Safe to say no one will profit from watching your show. If life gives you limonus, make your way to the exit. It is hard to predict what life has in store. Even harder, it seems, to stay when an ETF will finally get approved. Pump and dump schemes are still slam dunks for secretive trading groups. A drop in Bitcoin transaction used for crime was reported this week by the DEA. Have you heard of Bitcoin? Da, say the Russian public, and Barclays are 100% definitely, maybe not potentially, certainly not starting a crypto trading desk. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your good old-fashioned Hodler's Digest. A ginormous $15 billion was wiped off the total market after the SEC postponed an ETF decision. The deadline for approval or disapproval is now September 30, for the proposed Bannec and SolidX ETF. There is one more reason to be hopeful about this one, compared to the Winklevye proposal, due to its high minimum share price, a discouragement for retail investors, fingers crossed Hodler's. Approval in late September is still possible. A new WSJ report claims that crypto price manipulation is largely conducted by organized trading groups using apps like Telegram for so-called pump and dump schemes. In the first six months of 2018 alone, trading groups generated revenues of $825 million. The WSJ report looked at 175 schemes, trading 121 different coins, operating in private chat rooms accessible only by invitation, and generally overseen by an anonymous moderator. The WSJ took the aptly-named Cloakcoin as an example, an older outcoin that experienced more pumps this year than all of the NFL footballs combined. On July 1, the price of Cloakcoin skyrocketed on Binance, shortly after Big Pump's signal sent a message on Telegram to followers telling them to buy. It would be easy to call this kind of report FUD, but realistically, it is the bad actors in the space that really do serious damage to the prospect of mass adoption. More so even than FUDmeister general, Kenneth Rogoff. I think Bitcoin will be worth a tiny fraction of what it is now if we're headed out 10 years from now. Bitcoin is cleaning up its public image. The Drug Enforcement Agency, a.k.a. the DEA, noted that Bitcoin's rolling crimes have dropped to just 10% of transactions, while transactions themselves have grown tremendously. DEA's special agent, Lalila and Fonte, part of the Cyber Investigative Task Force, said that the ratio of legitimate to illegitimate Bitcoin transaction had flipped over the past five years. Bad news for those who like to scapegoat Bitcoin as responsible for increased criminal activity. Looking at you, Rogoff. Good news for hodlers. Looking at you, neck beard. What? When Fonte went on to say, the blockchain actually gives us a lot of tools to be able to identify people. I actually want people to keep using them. Cryptocurrencies.  Anderson Horowitz covered similar ground recently when he told a U.S. House committee Bitcoin is law enforcement's best friend due to the ability to track illicit transactions on the blockchain. From Russia with crypto. A Gallup and Bromir survey of 1500 Russians revealed this week that 44% of Russians have heard of crypto, 13% said they had a good understanding, and 56% didn't even know what the word meant. The survey's other findings included a relationship between income and knowledge of the crypto sphere. People with lower incomes tend to know more about cryptocurrency. Russia is in the middle right now of formalizing its regulatory approach to crypto after years of uncertainty. The first reading of the package of draft bills concerning crypto and blockchain passed earlier this year. The Russian government has yet to formally approve the statute's law. Russians may love their dancing bears, but when crypto comes to town, they should adopt the non-native bull. Are you on your way to Starbucks right now? Well, I have some bad news for you. No, it hasn't been taken over by the English, only serving tea at exactly five o'clock every day in no other time. Starbucks has just clarified that it will not be accepting crypto for coffee, despite reports to the contrary from mainstream media. Last week, the New York Stock Exchange operator, Intercontinental Exchange, announced plans to create a new global platform and ecosystem for digital assets, backed alongside a group of big name enterprises, including Starbucks. Both Bloomberg and CNBC then ran misleading headlines like, new Starbucks partnership allows customers to pay for frappuccinos with Bitcoin. A spokesperson for the coffee chain clarified, customers will not be able to pay for frappuccinos with Bitcoin. But you can convert digital assets like Bitcoin into US dollars, which can then be used at Starbucks. Starbucks stated that the backed offering will, however, include physically delivered Bitcoin futures subject to CFTC review and approval. Starbucks did not comment on any imminent threats of an English invasion. In March, Barclays partnered with Coinbase to allow for considerably faster funding options for UK traders. But this month, for the millionth time this century, the bank denied it is opening a crypto trading desk. Two Barclays employees clearly had a different idea when they listed crypto-related duties on their LinkedIn. This has since been removed. Let's hope the same is not true of the employees. Their LinkedIn profiles still say Barclays, so it looks like they're okay for now. One of the employees had written that he was involved in a digital asset project and was hired to produce a business plan for integrating a digital asset trading desk into Barclays' market business. After being approached, one employee said the info was accurate and the other declined to comment. Barclays told Coin Telegraph that they have no plans to open a crypto trading desk. Big banks denying involvement in crypto is getting more and more curious. This week, Goldman Sachs Insiders said the bank planned to offer crypto custody services, but a spokesman claimed the bank had not reached a conclusion. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink last month claimed its clients had no interest in crypto, yet his company formed a working group to assess Bitcoin involvement. Banks need to come out of the crypto closet and embrace the future. Banks will fall, governments will crumble, Bitcoin will reign supreme. Like, subscribe, and huddle, and we'll tell you a secret. Have you done it yet? Okay, good. There is a chance Barclays might be starting a trading desk, but keep it to yourselves. Coin Telegraph, like, subscribe, and huddle.


Sprinkle some parm on it. Today, we are making Alfredo. This is in our second volume cookbook, one of the easiest recipes you could ever make. And it's so good. It is so simple, but absolutely delicious. Head drop the pasta while we make the Alfredo sauce. Always add a little salt, don't put oil and stuff in there. And I'm gonna use Angel Hair Pasta today. You can use any kind of pasta you want, really. But I'm using Angel Hair because we like it. And I always cut it in half. We're gonna put the lid back on this and let it boil while we make our Alfredo sauce. Now, we don't have any fresh parm. So the first thing you do is you preheat your skillet. I'm using this large skillet just so y'all can see good. We're gonna put in about five tablespoons of butter. And this recipe is in our second cookbook. This is a dish that lots of you go to a restaurant and pay for, especially the kids love it. And it is so easy. It's made in a matter of a few minutes. So it's easier than just as easy as making spaghetti out of a can almost. So I urge you to try this with your family because they're really gonna like it so much better than the Alfredo sauce that's in a can. And it's really better than most restaurants. Give you because I think a lot of them get theirs pre-made as well.  We're gonna time that pasta on seven minutes. And this is whipping cream. And you're gonna add it to your butter as well. And now you're going to mix this together. So you're gonna add about a half teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of pepper, and you're gonna simmer this. And we're gonna add just a little bit of nutmeg when it's finished simmering. We're just gonna simmer it a couple of minutes. All right, we got four minutes left on our noodles. And I'm just gonna turn this off for now. Because it's really ready. All we're gonna do is add the cheese to it and nutmeg. And I'm not gonna do that till the last minute before we serve it. All right, we're gonna drain our noodles because they're ready. All right, now we're going to add half of our parm. Well, most I love it, but not quite all of it. To our cream sauce, turning it back on for a second. And then you add just a touch of nutmeg.  Now we're going to put this sauce over our noodles. And always remember that you can always make more if you want a whole lot of sauce. Double the recipe, mix that in our noodles. I'm gonna use my blending fork. This blending fork comes in handy for a lot of things. All right, we're gonna serve this up and have some chicken with it on the plate. Sprinkle some parm on it, a little extra pepper. Be good. Now I only make one recipe of sauce because it's already so fattening, but now if you guys want a whole lot of sauce, you need to double it, remember that. But to me, it's coated well and make sure that you do not put oil in your pasta and it'll make that sauce cling to the noodles real good. You can see it's just really clinging onto the noodles. Well, it is so simple, but absolutely delicious. I hope y'all try this recipe. Your family would be impressed and boy will you love it better than Alfredo out of a can or out of a jar. Thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did.


The Northern Elders Forum announces that the North won't vote based on sentiment as it did with Bihari. And as regards the Electoral Amendment Bill, the People's Democratic Party, PDP and their governors are asking lawmakers to either override the president's veto or delete areas of complaints. This is Post-Politics. I am Mary Anacol. Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Northern Elders Forum has announced that it will only support a presidential candidate who has the capacity to address the nation's socio-economic and security problems irrespective of where the person comes from. The Elders say they will no longer vote for a candidate based on sentiments as they did for President Mohammed Bihari in 2015, describing the incumbent as a disappointment to the entire country. The NEF's Director of Publicity and Advocacy Dr. Hakim Baba Ahmad dismissed calls by some groups that the presidency should be left for the south, describing such attestations as command democracy. He said, and I quote, the North supports for Bihari in 2015 and 2019 was a mistake, which should not be repeated in 2023. Joining us to discuss this is, of course, the Director of Publicity and Advocacy for the Northern Elders Forum, Dr. Hakim Baba Ahmad. Thank you so much, Dr. for joining us. Hello, hi. Thank you very much. Great. Walk us through why you have decided as a forum to take this position as 2023. You're saying that you're not going to vote based on sentiments. What exactly do you mean by that? And does it mean that you had been doing this in previous election years based on sentiments? Well, a lot of voters vote on sentiments all over Nigeria, right now the people who are making the speech against the law, against common sense, against the very first post-democracy that only its Nigerians from the southern part of the country should be voted for are acting on sentiments. Their position is not supported by law. It's not supported by the demands and the challenges of the country. And it's certainly not going to be supported by anybody, not by the law-runners, not by even their politicians. And so there's still a role with voting on sentiments. But sometimes where that sentiment should be formed by interests that are wider than some of the considerations we are hearing from the southern part of the country. It has to be an ethnic candidate. It has to be a Christian. You have to come from the southern part of the country. You have to go over, I guess, people or you have to be from one part from the south. So these are sentiments that are negative. Last one, I really thought this is too much. In Nigeria, of 2019, has no business electing a president who would have a whole month of ethnic identity or a major identity and can fight possibly a major breach in terms of the process. A Nigerian president should be elected by all Nigerians. He should be the product of the constitution of the month that all parties will be free to kill their candidates. And also citizens should be free to elect who they want. If you compromise this, you'll produce a section of presidents. And we are quite possibly end up with the fact last person rather than the best out of all the lots that come out of it. We have always been our position. We haven't changed anything. We're just re-emphasizing the fact that as far as the law is concerned, even if we think there ought to be a sentiment, we prioritize competence. We prioritize the record and we emphasize the fact that he or she must be accepted by all Nigerians. We must not be the product of ethnic politics. Okay, let me take you back to 2014. In 2014, there was a clamor that power must return to the north.  That was a valid sentiment at the time. Nobody kicked against it. In 2022 now, everybody's saying no rotation. We only want competent people to run for that office. So of course, the south is saying, well, there's been power rotation this whole time. Now it's our opportunity. Why are we saying that we no longer just want rotation? We want a competent person. Is it that there are no competent persons in the south? Because these are also the questions that are coming from those in the south. Let me ask you a question. When did the 2014 power return to the north? I hope. Waters watered for a candidate. I guess I have a candidate. Thank you, thank you. Water. I don't know what he wrote in his candidacy. Let's say a watered candidate happens to be President Wali. Before the voters voted, these candidates were actually put forward. Obviously, because, again, I use the word loosely, sentiment. And of course, because of the power rotation that has been in play for so many years. I have no power. I'm sorry to interrupt you. But when we say things, we need to be sure about what we're talking about. Only one party in this entire country, out of all the parties that are PDP, has rotation as a requirement. PDP. Not any other party. So don't say it's nothing there. But was it kicked against? Nothing in the constitution. As much as the PDP did have rotation, did the north, the south, did anybody kick against that rotation plan that they had in place? If it were a problem, why was it adhered to? It was just a PDP plan. Why was the PDP able to continue in that power rotation and unhindered? And everyone that was presented who won on that platform was accepted. I will answer your question, but let me take you back to this, especially the article. When you say competence should be prioritized, it includes everybody who has come out to save their community, including people from the south. It's quite possible that the most competent Nigerians out of all the lots who are asking to be trusted with power will come from the south. And also, we can't go to the south enough. We are not saying absolutely only another is competent enough to be president. We are saying prioritized, don't prioritize the region they come from. Don't prioritize the ethnic group. Don't put this kind of narrow, negative qualities ahead of the needs of all Nigerians who are rising and solve our problems, who will be accepted by everybody. And have complete this country aware of where it's at. So that's the second, that's the question you ask. Now, this thing in rotation, there is nobody who can become president in these countries. People relying on only the support of one party. As it is, the constitution has already made it mandatory to be a president who needs to enjoy the support of all parties in the country. And the law, that's the constitution. And anything else you do to compromise that is fundamental to the constitution. What is the truth? If it consumes a person, I do mean it works, because it will not work. And that's why we said this is my democracy, which is meaningless. Governors, everything Governors from the southern part of the country, you might have met for a few hours, came out and reviewed the statement saying, power must stand forever. And we thought we had great success for which we're going to clear.  You must know. We are not impressed in any way.  And some people in the south of the club, they are like, ah, our Governors are pleasant, they are not. We were not impressed in any other country. If it was first for me, no, they don't stand in the way. They don't stand on anything other than playing through the very damaging, very difficult country. Now, this is the joke. The leaders of the south-south and some elements of the big effect got together and again they said, no political party should field a governor. Imagine this, no political party should field a governor. And if they do, no first row governor will vote for that kind of no party, for that party. Now, this is very simple. If these politicians will know that you cannot be president and also understand the fact that you also need the vote to support your candidacy, they must understand the damage that these, the Debra and George, Black, and the Fandex, and the England Forum, others. Because all they will do is to get votes in the vote to begin in the other political positions, read the sections of the constitution, and show me where it says that you can compel all political parties to field a governor. And, as you may have seen, this means that we will be cowed enough, and we will have to also pass the other candidates because of the elderly people in the southern part of the country. What that means is that all the voters in the northern part of the country will line up only to elect a southern candidate. They are all right. To fight, choose, and vote for a northern candidate are being compromise, and so I have given up. Now, who will accept it? Who will accept it? But can you really blame the southerners if they, this is just a campaign. I don't see them putting a gun to the head of, and I'm not in any way holding brief for them, but I'm just asking. Just as every other person has campaigned that some points are the other to say power must return to the north, whether it was constitutional or not, they were canvassing for power to be given to people in that zone. And if they're saying, well, we want political parties to do this, the political parties do not necessarily have to do what the likes of CLAC are saying, but they are obviously pushing that they want to govern a president from the south. What is wrong with that? This is not the first time zones are canvassing for somebody from their area to be put forward as president. There's nothing wrong with that, is there? Absolutely nothing wrong with any section of like that. We want one of our own to be president. Absolutely nothing. That's one. Two, we have said a southerner can, she can be the president of the country and it makes us in the constitution of the federal public of the state. The constitution says, to become a president, your party must lead you and both of us must be the majority of both and you must act this. So it's not as if we're failing, no one else has the right to be president. But politicians understand this. Maybe you and I don't really understand what they're doing about it. It's about doing the hard work that some people don't want to do. You want to be president of Nigeria, you want to be in your country that's not an issue. It's very difficult to become a president of Nigeria. Then you have to compete against other candidates, other parties and convince the voters to vote for you. So, for example, for Medjugorje, there were two people from Australia there were only two people from Australia, there were two people from... So, it's kind of narrowly let's say, damningly challenging the people from particular parts of the country. Because what you did is you say, my choice is more important than yours and therefore you must do what I want to do. You can't do that. Okay, let's go back to something that you said about the North having the votes and that you would not accept to play second fiddle or second position come 2023. That was, you know, then a lot of people took that with a pinch of salt. Some people misinterpreted it, but you're here. You can help us understand what that meant because there are people who felt that that was a threat of sorts to those who were pushing for a Salden presidency. You're very polite. People were very well. Arogan, he was a teacher, he was a... He was very polite. When I said, you know, you must accept to play second fiddle I meant that no one has the right to circumcise the rights of your voters but I actually be president of this country after a few days of time to be candidates of their parties with their parties to make them candidates or to be voted more by other nations. Because if you do this, we ask the Constitution because in all of us things need to be the role of leaders and you say you vote only for the candidates. All of you can vote. Well, that's it very much, but no, it's not quite enough. We will not accept it. Not what I'm talking about. People just work to tell me what they think. Because when you say we don't want the South to play second fiddle by that. It's not our case to say the South must deal with you, you know, a right that they don't follow. It's not. If people don't understand this, if the people don't understand this, then what we have to think about is that they are so deeply involved in actually creating our leaders that they should not even opt to a real commitment. So, I'll repeat again. The North has the same right as the South to have candidates for the North as a South to be killed in. The North and the South are voters where you decide to vote if you're the president. The danger, the game we are playing now is that you could set up compounding the already existing fragile and dangerous political situation and security situation with all the concepts about political terms. But all of these... I'm sorry to talk over you. All of these sentiments that you're making reference to, the divisions that you're making reference to has always been there. How long did it take the North Nilders Forum to realize that this is what has been playing out to now wake up and say, well, we no longer care about these sentiments. We now want competence over everything else. And I'm not in any way saying we should play down on that because we need that to be able to determine who becomes the president even though sometimes that takes the back seat. But the North has been playing that card alongside with every other region in the country. So, is it that you're waking to the responsibilities of as elders, as leaders in your region to make sure that you put an end to it? Or is this just another ploy of sorts? Come to 2023. It's a question. I'm just curious. It's not boring. There's no game where we're playing that. There's not obvious other than this. And... We talk... This is not about sentiments. When some people in the North said they prefer northern countries, they are doing exactly what they are doing today. There's nothing wrong with that. The bottom line which is why we have the democratic process is, ultimately, is the democratic process that will be decided by the president.  Convince them that you're the best. Show them your program, show them what you do, about the security of the North, about poverty, about the tragedy. Show them what you're going to do about the everyday situation in the South. Tell them what you're going to do about crimes or of counseling. Convince them that's the real hard work people don't want to do. Let old people from the South bring the policies in the presidency and bring them... to the presidency. And we've been trying to get people to understand it. For the last six, five, five people from the northern part of the country who said they want to run. And we have not come out to say to the people of the South look, if our northerners it makes the president. Because we have demanded that each for northerners to prioritize confidence about everything we do. And we said on the 15th of January, just three days ago how he northerners is not enough. Even if you are a northerner who would criticize you as a country, I would not. We want to know who you are, we want to know what you stand for, we want to know what you bring to the presidency. We want to ask specific questions. What are you going to do about our policy? What are you going to do about this? What are you going to do about the media? Thank you for raising that. Thank you for raising the issue of insecurity. Because I was going to come to that. We saw the protest that happened. Of course, the north is saying enough is enough. We saw young people even though a couple of them were arrested for coming out to protest. But you, I remember there was a report saying that the north regrets voting the president for the past eight years. And, of course, you are also talking about what you have been experiencing for the past eight years. Why do you feel that way? The presidency, on the other hand, has said that they are doing their best to deal with the level of insecurity both in the northeast and in the northwest. Well, there is just a little help. That's a simple thing. You got in people who would defend their administration. No matter how bad the administration is, they are bound to get the hands of people who are in the United States. That the security situation is not as bad as it is. But tell them to go to Zongbada. Tell them to go to the United States. Tell them to go to Zongbada and teach a tent and spend four days. Go there. We are not creating friction over our lives in the north. Our lives have never been worse. And we don't want to continue living the life running around being ICC. We have enough problems in the north. We don't want to elect another president who will continue from where President Bahar is from. And we certainly don't want a governor who will come forward and say I'm not a governor. It's my turn to move. So you move away and give me a direct run. We wouldn't have to. I'll give you my direct run. With the president, we can must go before we vote for you. What are you going to do about ICC? What are you going to do about a bandit? If you're not like Shatla, you're prepared enough to be a nigerian president. Look for somebody else. That is a apology. It's not going to be business as usual All the president quickly before I let you go because my time is up So what is the North's going to do and talking about the NEF here? Because it's not enough to say this is what we want How do you educate the people in terms of money politics in terms of sentiments? How do they get rid of that? It's not about I'm going to ask again. Can you hear me now? Yeah So I'm asking what is the the NEF going to do going forward because we have a few months before 2023 Educating and rebranding the minds or the mindsets of people in terms of money politics sentiment Muslims Christian tickets and all of that as opposed to what you are demanding for now because it's not enough for a group of people to Say this is what we want, but then when the election comes is business as usual A lot of we have we recommend it. You know, we met Two days ago I hope it's in it because we addressed the needs for the this president Thanks to a whole battery of things which have been proposed in the Electra act. We believe they we should have sent to them It is one go that then the Right Then you can salvage what is left what you take what you want Wait for another president who will approve or will support maybe take this in the Electra first You can we won't know who will emerge who will who will command enough Enough support of course the length and breadth of Nigeria But we were willing to support it. We don't want a candidate to buy votes Okay, we don't want the candidate who will send subs to break Following this one reduce the pollution of wireless above all above all We want Nigerians to look at 2023 as a major turning point in this country Okay, we have to go. Thank you very much. Mr. Kim Baba Ahmed for speaking with us. We appreciate your thoughts Thank you for making a guess. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Well, thank you all for staying with us We'll take a short break now and when we return we discuss the options given to law makers on what to do Regarding the Electra act bill and across the PDP is talking about zoning They have been behind closed doors. What is the plight of the PDP also in Lagos state stay with us


Good day, fellow investors. Welcome to the stock market news with a long-term fundamental twist. And I started to prepare the news, usually on Friday, wanting to discuss oil, the economy, the monetary policies, the budget deficits, the implications of that in the long term, and then an investing strategy where to look for opportunities. I started preparing and then I said, okay, methodically, first make a video on oil and then tomorrow make about economy, monetary, etc. And then even discuss Ray Dalio's recent letter. So let's start with oil today, discussing the price of oil, the long-term implications of the supply and demand. How does that work? Investing opportunities, what are the bets that people are making on oil, the long-term outlook, and then also finish with my investing strategy and my, of course, long-term natural gas stock pick. So let's immediately dig into the content. What is the situation with oil? A few weeks ago I made a video about oil, oil stocks and how oil stocks at current oil levels are a long-term buy. Then over the last two weeks I got hammered in the comments. So I made a good video, the comments, the comments I'm putting here were really bad. If you want to look the ugly, really, really ugly comments then you have to go to look into the comments of the video. But then also what was really ugly over the week were oil prices. So oil prices were down to negative territory minus 47 something. That's insane how you can go from 120 just a few years ago to negative prices. And many wonder how is that possible that we see a commodity like oil seeing negative prices? Well, if you look at the demand and supply curve, this is normal negative prices with commodities like electricity. This is from Germany and in Germany when there is a lot of sun and a lot of wind in a hot summer day, let's say, then there is so much oversupply of electricity with low demand because nobody is using it because everybody is outside enjoying the sun. And then simply because it doesn't pay to stop all those windmills to stop the production of energy, then the electricity price becomes negative and they are selling it for negative prices. Same thing happened with oil. We are now in an oversupply situation. Well, there is no economy, nobody is traveling, nobody is flying, nobody is doing nothing, nobody is using oil as much as it was the case two or three months ago. And therefore simply everybody is still producing because to stop those wells, it costs a lot of capital to create them, to create the necessary pressures and stop producing would be extremely cost would practically mean damaging the well forever at that production cost. We'll later discuss all the cost levels at which it is profitable to produce, invest or have you have to shut down, that we'll discuss a little bit later. So that's what's happening with oil. Plus, there were a lot of margins, there is a lot of trading and we'll also discuss the oil ETF and how there is not just oil in the picture but also financial instrument derivatives, trading speculative bets that create those short-term situations where oil goes down to 35 negative. Interactive brokers issued a statement how there were big losses on oil contracts and margin losses and the consequence is that oil went negative. However, I said in the video two weeks ago, invest in oil stocks. So April 5 oil stocks, Exxon stock for example is up. How can that be that we have seen negative oil prices, oil prices going down and Exxon stock is up? Well, because there is the short-term picture, the short-term bets that people are making and then there is the long-term picture where you price in the cash flows the company is going to make from now till judgment day and that's the valuation of stock. Given that Exxon stock is still good, the market still thinks it will not go bankrupt, the economy will recover in the long-term and things will be as they have been in the past. Also, something very important to understand, oil is traded in many many places and the negative price was in taxes. However, across the world we have different prices from the United Kingdom at 21, this changes on a daily basis, euros 17 and then we had negative prices in taxes. Now they have rebounded to a more global average. So the situation with oil, supply and demand, short-term anything can happen as we have seen with the negative prices. Long-term there are some balances, there are some forces and we have to see how to be positioned to get a nice return from those investments. Let's look at the United States Oil Fund, the ETF that attempts to track the price of West Texas intermediate light sweet crude oil. They attempt to track it because they have some limitations and the limitations have been seen recently. So assets under management have grown from approximately 2 billion to 4.2 billion in the last few months as many retail investors have been betting on higher oil prices in the future and then they read, okay ETF, how can I bet on higher oil prices? Let's buy an ETF that tracks the price of oil and yes, if oil prices go up tomorrow they will make money but it's not that easy, it gets complicated. Similar situation was in 2008 when oil prices went down 2014 and 2004-2015 also a lot of people invested in oil ETF because they hoped for a rebound and now we have seen 1.6 billion inflows but the ETF is disconnected from reality as it can't track the price of oil as it did before. So there is a disconnection because they need to issue new shares to adjust for all the inflows and they are not allowed to issue new shares that fast plus they can only have 25% of the future contracts which means that they have to change their strategy exactly where many, many retail investors are now rushing into the fund because they want to make a bet on oil and then if you look at who's betting on oil, this is the number of users with Robinhood accounts buying the oil ETF. So it's insane, it went from 10,000 a few months ago up to 150,000 so every retail investor using Robinhood is buying oil contracts through the ETF. That's really, really insane because what is an ETF and I bet that of the 150,000 people few went to read the prospect of the ETF and how it works. A lot of people bet on oil prices 2015-2008, there was look a small recovery every time so it's not that it will recover to where it was because it can't simply track and there is always the issue of timing. Nevertheless, all over YouTube everybody is betting on oil, how can we take advantage of the situation? We can double triple our money in the next six to 12 months. We're going to put huge amounts into the hottest bets that everybody is already making and has made it. And then also tanker bet that financial education has been making because oh yes, spot prices for tankers used for storage have exploded but as demand and supply which we will discuss in a moment evens out then tankers will return to the normal situation. And I have made a video about investing in shipping, I think it was a few months ago. What is the situation that and if you are interested into investing in shipping stocks you should watch that video. Now before continuing with demand and supply the short term and the long term all these bets that you make using a buying a tanker buying an ETF that tracks future contracts etc are bets that include timing. I don't know when oil prices will go up, I know that oil prices will likely go up let's say to 50 at some point in time. Will it be in six months? Will it be 12 months, 18, 24 months? I have no idea and actually depends on the situation on how long it will take for all the oil in the storage to flow back into the economy. So when are we going to use that? So when it comes to betting like I'm buying American tankers or I'm buying the oil ETF then you have a big component of your investment or speculation that is timing and if it doesn't happen in six months let's say in six months the oil ETF is 50% down then it goes down again another 25% in nine months then you start thinking okay should I do something else but I already am so much down and so much psychology comes into the game that is that most people become insane when related to such speculative bets and that's also the problem with speculation and therefore I prefer investing. How to find investments that will do okay over the next two, three, four, five, ten years with low risk so that I don't have to worry about the timing component of my investments. If you are a long-term investor this is the channel to subscribe to also click that notification bell and if you like this content please click like or comment for the youtube algorithm thank you. So let's discuss now the demand and supply the short term and the long term outlook for oil. So this is the global liquids capacity 2040 by break events. There are production costs Saudi Arabia 20 per barrel I don't know OPEC onshore Russian Federation 20 to 40 depending on the company Iraq and then you have all this more expensive Canada oil sands oil shale US tight oil etc big productions that have much higher costs from 15 to 60 and then if you put it in a perspective what is the oil consumed over let's say the long term now we are at 100 million barrels per day let's say demand law goes down in 2040 and we are at just 90 still the price of oil to justify the investments should be around 60 because if you want to produce 90 million barrels per day you need to have a higher price of oil in the short term the situation is much different if we were look at world consumption then it is really declining and it probably will look even worse than this from the energy information administration so down what 12 14 percent it could be even worse and that just that change of 12 percent goes into negative oil prices because that's the impact and it's not that easy to stop production and production has been going down a little bit will continue to go down likely but as there is no economy until it rebounds we will see same similar situation with oil will it rebound in three months will it rebound in 12 months once nobody knows I don't know and I'm not taking those bets however long term this is the key demand and supply so supply you need capital investments you need to invest a lot of money to find those oil wells produce increase productions explore for new oil fields etc and as we see in 2014 production investments in new production has been extremely high especially offshore and now those offshore's well wells are drying up but the low prices are really deferring investments Exxon said they will cut investments by 30 percent Petronas shuts down 14 projects so it's very interesting how demand drives also supply but it's disconnected from a time basis so the lower amount of investments means less oil in the future which means higher oil prices and if we look at the break even prices to supply what is needed over the long term we are still well above 50 just to look at the US wells they really need 50 to attract investors to profitably drill a new well however also not to shut down wells in the Permian they will not shut down if the price longer term is around 27 but we are at 30 45 40 dollars a barrel not to shut down not to close permanently the well it's extremely costly a lot of money has gone into that but that's the situation with all and it's likely that long term when the supply demand stabilizes again we'll again see good oil prices between 40 and 60 and again volatile as oil prices are always volatile and when it comes to investments this is very interesting at 50 dollars a barrel depending on where you invest it takes 12 10 years to get your return back which is a long commitment in volatile oil markets at 70 dollars still a little bit less but it's hard now to convince investors to invest in offshore deep water or shelf to get their money back maybe in seven to eight years so if these projects fall into the water then we'll see likely when things stabilize and demand and supply comes back to normal we'll see again higher oil prices even the forecast here is this consumption will be higher than production for a while and that's very very interesting for long term investors and then if you look at things the current situation oversupply we have a clear content go so if you look this is natural gas prices if you look at the price immediately it's very very low but if you go lower longer then it goes again up which means okay now it's clear that there is oversupply and therefore nobody wants to take off the oil or the gas but longer term they know again it will supply and that's why prices are higher and that's where everybody is betting okay if i buy now and sell later and storage it there is my arbitrage you are not a professional trader so you cannot arbitrage therefore you need to time things that you buy something now and you can sell it later at a higher price but if the timing is not correct if these lower prices persist over the long term then you will not get a reward for that maybe you will sell in seven months and in the eighth month it will boom up but that's speculating and that's what you have to keep in mind when you speculate on investments or oil related derivatives long term some producers with it will go bust already happening exploration companies are really out of money now nobody wants to invest there that means that there will be less supply demand will likely ramp up slowly and then we'll have again balanced oil prices for a while oil prices either shoot up or go down the long term balance is what you have to look at and that we have shown with the cost curves plus over the very long term let me do my thing with the very long term the global middle class is expected to grow from 3.5 billion now to more than 5 billion people using a car using oil if they don't go electric but that again depends that's why i prefer natural gas if they go electric they'll produce electricity with natural gas so i'm still fine also energy demand likely with this crisis or not to grow significantly over the next uh decades as the world improves as the world grows and then also depending on situation we don't know whether uh oil will have such a high component with energy will it be growing will not be growing doesn't really matter what i know what i do over the long term i buy businesses i'm not buying royal dot shell because i'm not directly invested in oil but i buy businesses that will likely still produce over the long term let's say exon royal dot shell i lie i prefer russian so so i'm personally invested in guts from natural gas if those wealth in the united states dry up are closed down less demand much less supply of natural gas which is a byproduct there which means natural gas prices will go up the companies i own unlikely to go bankrupt because of the extremely low production costs which is okay maybe the dividend will be lower one year but in the next one two three four five years the dividend will go higher and here like all other youtubes i think i can double my money over the next five years perhaps it will happen in three perhaps it will happen in seven but i'm okay with that in the meantime i'll be getting a nice dividend so no doubling my money in six months with me but long term that is always the goal so my message is simple invest in what will survive no matter what oil prices will go up and down when those are up you get a great dividend stocks will likely go up when those are down you'll get a smaller dividend and stock likely go down you can buy more that's it that's investing so if you're an investor please subscribe click the notification bell click like for the youtube algorithm check everything that i do if you want to know more about me about my research charity we are donating the 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We talk with Basil during this hour, every Tuesday, and he gives us a little oversight of what he's doing, very, very accurate technical work. Now, what is different about this week is that March 19th, so that's gonna be next Tuesday, Basil is having a live subscriber webinar, okay? So, this is 90 minutes long. This is for all subscribers of the opening call newsletter. Okay, so you don't have to pay anything extra. And this is from four o'clock to 5.30 p.m. Eastern time.  Critical nine by 14, moving average cross over the weekly Chapman wave buy mode, sector rotation, stock selection, check this out, and I'll let Basil kind of explain the rest there. Basil, how are you doing? Hi, I'm doing well, how are you doing? I'm doing well, I'm doing well. What are we taking a look at right now? I know this market is taking quite a turn almost from where we were a few months ago. Yeah, this is very important because within the context of, well, let me just go to what I'll be discussing on Tuesday. One of the technical tools that I've used forever is the 914 crossover. That means the nine-period exponential moving average when it crosses positive, let me just go to this chart right here and show you what I'm talking about. When it crosses positive, and you can see this, these three lines here is made up, this is on the right, a gray line is the current Dow price. It's a daily chart. There was a low made October the 27th in the Dow, and a few days later, it went from pink, you see this little line here, this pink line went to green. And ever since then, that's November the third, I believe it was, and November the second, so November the third was already green. And this is now, so November, December, January, all of February, and part of March. And this one technical tool has been able to keep this price positive, even when it turned down quite sharply back in mid-January, and on the 17th chip quite sharply, that nine-period moving average held, and it remained green, and even here, and I have to say that in the long term, we've got a number of positions that are long the Dow for a couple of years now, actually, and even from 2022, the low that was made in October, but on a very short-term basis, because it looks so much like this chart right here, that the green nine-period moving average was about to flip negative, which would be the first time, as I say, since it crossed positive back in November, it flipped to positive, and even today, it started to look weak, and then it came back strongly. So this is the one tool. Now, we do have a very short-term, short position on the Dow so far that's still active, and what's very important here is that if you look at this one technical tool, which I'll be explaining and going through with different charts on Tuesday the 19th, is that the distance, sbx.x, the distance above the line is so important. You can see on this is the chart, as we're looking at it right now, the sbx are 57 to 5175, and it's above the green nine-period moving average and above the black period moving average. And here again, although we are looking out the weekly charts, we are very positive on a short-term anticipating some kind of a pullback. So we've actually implemented a small short position. This is just as a trade, but that green period moving average is not much. It's been absolutely beautiful. Look at the QQQ, that's the NDX100. And it's the same thing. This was a little more detailed because you actually get the candles as the QQQs on balance volume. It's been pulling back as a divergence here. So you're not quite getting the volume flow through in the NDX100. So the nine-period moving average is still positive. There was a moment in January where for a day it flipped to pink. Other than that, from the low that was made back in October the 26th, this one indicator has kept the price above the nine-period moving average except for those two days, different days. So, but you can see it's getting closer and closer than nine-period moving average. It's getting closer to the black line. That's the 14-period moving average. If it turns pink, we can anticipate we've got some kind of a sell on the daily chart. We've got some kind of a selling phase going on and we'll see how that implements the weekly chart. So that's one thing. Then I talk about the chamber of notation and when we get by modes, what does that mean? Well, in this particular instance, look, going back to the Dow, the Dow is still above the nine-period exponential moving average in the weekly chart and the daily, but look at the weekly chart how strong that is. And it's in leg B. In the Chathamree methodology, once you get a bicycle that gets upgraded to a buy mode which the weekly is, it should go to at least four higher peaks. That's alphabetized, it's peak A, next one's peak B, next higher peak is C and then D, it can go E, F and G but D is your objective in a buy mode. So the long-term is still very positive for the Dow weekly and the monthly chart is only in leg C. So I'm just explaining, these are the different technical tools that I use. These are core tools, and I'll be going through them in great detail. Then another thing I talk about is round numbers. Now this is the number of round numbers. The round number is, let me just give you an example. I thought I'd grab this just on the spur of the moment. Nvidia, everyone's talking about Nvidia, Nvidia made an all-time high three days ago. What did it do when it made the all-time high? It hit a round number, 974.00. It had a quick pullback, there were a bunch of round numbers and it made an 871 low the other day, yesterday and today, it's got a 912 round number, 912.00 round number. I mean, I've just, the only time I've ever seen this in, not these numbers, but in great numbers was back in the crash of, in October the 19th, 1987. And that day, I said, I've never seen such round numbers and that was the signal for a major buy signal, but that was on the way down. So I'm watching this very closely because I want to do another one, ARM. This is arm holdings, made about two and a half, three weeks ago, it made a round number high of 164.00 on the 12th of February. Here it is at 128, all this time, it hasn't been able to surpass that. So I'll be talking about round numbers, what the usual implication is and what this huge cluster will be, which I'll do over this weekend, I'll try to do a study on this because I've never seen so many, even, what was it, Costco, I believe, yeah, Costco makes it all time high and very soon after that it makes it, the day before it makes a 775, it opens at a round number. So my thinking here is that these round numbers, especially when they're at the open, it's like fear of missing out. Someone wants it so desperately they just, because you can go through chart after chart and you won't find the round number. So that's one thing that I'm looking at. What's the implication? I'll be looking at sector rotation. We've already seen that the semis are getting pretty overboard. Anyway, you measure them, we'll be looking at gold aside to move, some of the commodities aside to move. So I'll be looking at the rotation, where we can go. I like Bank of America, we still have, so the finances are still doing well. Fantastic. So that's what's gonna evolve. Awesome. And I'll talk about this when we get back from the break, but Basil, thank you so much for joining us. That was fantastic. I cannot wait for it. Stay right there, folks.