Welcome back to the Donahue Group. We're feisty and ready to go here on this episode and talking about state issues. Joining me is former state Senator Cal Potter, Professor Tom Pineski, mathematics professor at UW-Chaboygan. Ken Risto, the fun part of the equation, the truth teller as he is telling us, a social studies teacher in the Chaboygan area school district. No, Tom said that off camera, I didn't say that. All right, very good. I'm just a simple social studies teacher trying to get by. There you go. And I'm Mary Lynn Donahue, just a simple country lawyer. Trying to get by. Trying to get by. Just a little help from your friends. I'm sitting on top of the mountain. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I just become Buddha. Well, and we're full of wisdom and all sorts of insights today talking about lots of stuff going on at the state level. And we had alluded to just getting back to the big race in April of 2007 on a state basis, of course, is the Supreme Court Justice race. There will be a woman. It'll either be Annette Ziegler or attorney Linda Clifford from Madison. Judge Ziegler is from Washington County. She was appointed by Tommy Thompson in the mid-90s, I believe. Linda Clifford is a longtime lawyer with a Madison law firm and well respected as an attorney. And as we talked about in our local show, Linda Clifford got schvetzt, severely beaten in Sheboygan County, capturing only about 16, 17% of the vote. And that Ziegler did very well. Judge Ziegler also did extremely well statewide. This promises to be an incredibly expensive election. Both Clifford and Ziegler have raised about the same amounts of money, but the special interests, as they call them, the... Independent expenditure. The independent expenditure groups have been out in force for Judge Ziegler. I know people in Sheboygan who got five robo calls, as they're called, automatic phone calls from the Chamber of Commerce and a variety of other organizations. We got one Linda Clifford one from Senator Feingold. So it's, I just think robo calls are terrible. I don't care who's calling, I find it extremely irritating to have a recorded voice on the other end of the line. I don't know how you guys feel about it, but it must work because they're putting a lot of money into it. Well, there was a lot of media, also radio and even TV. I don't know about TV, but certainly radio.  I actually didn't know who the other two candidates were. I just knew that Ziegler was a candidate. That's exactly right. That was my same experience too. I got a call from Ziegler, or whoever, on the end of the telephone. And it seemed like on the radio, when I was listening to commercial radio, Ziegler was the only name I was hearing. And so if you're the average voter walking in the booth, I would think that's about the only name you might be familiar with. Yeah, because you've heard it so many times. Annie was, she was supported by the majority of police and that was sort of the ad and sheriffs and departments around the state, DAs. If you'll remember that the attorney general's race in the end ended up costing $3.3 million with independent expenditures and so forth, the potential for the cost of this race is really incredibly high. And the concern that I have is that at least we perceive that our justice system is not for sale by special interest groups and yet in order to run a competitive statewide race, who's going to do it? It's somebody who is either independently wealthy or who has the ties because of ideological orientation to special interest groups that have a whole lot of money. And I'm talking on both sides of the aisle here. There has been talk for a long time that has gone absolutely nowhere about true public financing for Supreme Court justice races. And from my perspective, as I watched this sorry spectacle of endorsements and I frankly want a judge who's pretty independent and who's every vote I do not know in advance of the election, a judge who will come to it. What's the current situation? We have seven justices. Seven justices? And a conservative is retired, is that it? John Wilcox is retiring, who is not a trial court judge. Judge Ziegler is making a lot out of the fact that she is a trial court judge. And is the court kind of split on that? Very much. This is being perceived as this person will be the swing vote on a variety of issues. On a variety of issues. And that's why everybody's saddling up and writing checks. And it's interesting because no matter what, we'll have four women and three men, no matter what the... And it was that way for a while before Justice Sykes went to the Seven Circuit Court of Appeals.  Let me make the pitch at least for Supreme Court Justices. I mean, they call it independent expenditures, but you know the fancy name at the bottom of the screen is the Chamber of Commerce, or maybe a labor organization or whatever it would be. And the candidate knows that. And I wouldn't want to walk into a courtroom knowing that that person got several hundred thousand dollars in their campaign from a group that I might be in litigation with or something. It just takes the objectivity right from it. It used to be the Supreme Court election was the last vestige of using public financing. Legislators abandoned it early on and so did the governor's office because they couldn't, spending limits were so low. But the courts historically never spent that much. And as a result, they did use public financing, but it's only been the last couple of races now that has just changed. And it's getting to be most of the ads, as you can see by the disclaimer are not coming from the candidate themselves. But I don't think that's a good thing. Yeah, it's yes and no. The public gets to tell the rest of the public who they want to support because they want to express their ideology. In Congress or in the state legislature, when you give contributions to candidates, you then hope to have their ear on legislation. You will meet with them, you'll lobby with them, you call, you don't do that to judges. You don't call a judge.  I need your support on this. That doesn't happen. That's crossing the ethical line. Well, you kind of front load the system though because you know that you have a judge who has been supported by all of these groups and so you infer that if you bring an environmental challenge to a law that the judge would rule this way or would rule that way. Yeah, but it's by inference. You don't get the, you don't get the lobbying like you do if you buy influence with a legislative kind of race. It's a pretty straight line drawing though, I think. But what we really need more than anything from my perspective on the court, liberal or conservative are people who are smart and who are hardworking and who have good legal minds. And our Supreme Court has some fine legal minds on it. And I know nothing about Judge Ziegler from, the journal Sentinel likes her as a trial judge that she gets high marks as a trial judge. I have no way of knowing that one way or the other. Linda Clifford is extremely bright. I've watched her work and I would believe that. But leave the ideology out of it. And the one way to do that is from my perspective is not make the appearance that the election is for sale, that the chair is for sale. Well, that's my concern too is that even if a judge arrives independently after a well-reasoned walk through the case and writes an opinion or the court writes an opinion, now the premise is always going to be, well, let's follow the campaign money and now the legitimacy of the justice system is really called into question. It could very well be that the judges, once they get behind those closed doors, will not pay any attention to where the money came from. And that's true.  But now you're gonna have at least, again, the appearance of, and in the age that we live in, which is the age of cynicism, it's really gonna be very difficult for the court to continue to try to impress the public with the legitimacy of its decisions, which is the heart and soul of the system. Well, there's also another aspect to this sort of revisionist thinking about campaigns and that's the Right to Life lawsuit that was before Judge Shabazz, where they sued based on the rule that's in effect where judges were not supposed to tell how they would rule in a case. And the Right to Life says they should be able to tell you how they would rule. Well, God, I would not wanna judge previously coming out and saying, well, this case came before me, this is how I would rule. I mean, when objectivity is protected there, I don't see where that is. I don't know if that's being appealed or not. I know Judge Shabazz about three weeks ago ruled, upheld the rule, but I don't know if it's being appealed or not. And in other permutations, the Minnesota rule that was quite similar to that, which really prohibited judges from talking about their feelings on various issues, was ruled to be a violation of the First Amendment. And so what you really need, what you really need are judges who will say, I'm not going to tell you how I'm gonna vote on something because I don't know. Because I'm gonna look at the facts before me and the law as it exists at the time before me and that's how I'm gonna make a decision. And if you want a decision from me now, you need to vote for somebody else. But in this day and age, I don't know if that kind of purity of response gets you elected. Now, can I ask another question related? Do all states have elected Supreme Court judges? No. Some are appointed by the governor? Right. Or by the legislature? Very political. Actually, this is the least political because there's no appointed mechanism. People get to vote. Well, it depends. The federal bench, of course, is a lifetime appointment which should really remove all pressure on how you're going to vote that you should feel completely independent. And yet, there's now certain judges are being, federal judges are being targeted by certain groups for not being tough enough on sentencing, for example. Oh, no, but I'm thinking of state, the various states of Supreme Court. But I mean, it's the same. It's a wide range of different, sometimes the legislature appoints, sometimes the governor appoints, sometimes it's elections. It really varies from state to state. And there are pluses and minuses to an election versus an appointive system.  Oh, exactly, exactly. Well, it'll be interesting to see how it... The key thing is the length of the term. That's really what insulates you. I mean, that in reality, that's why the framers had lifetime appointments. They were just absolutely adamant after their experience with the king's judges who served in his pleasure, or her pleasure, in the court, that they wanted an independent judiciary. We don't do that in Wisconsin. 10 years is plenty long, to be sure. So that's what gives them the independence. So I know this is, I have Marilyn's absolutely right here. This is gonna be just one ugly, very demeaning race for both candidates. And at the end, whoever puts the black robot and sits in that chair is going to be, certainly not somebody we necessarily want to admire.  Brush the stuff off your roll. Well, let's move on. Just to segue off of that, just today, Ziegler got Governor Thompson's endorsement. Attorney Clifford has endorsements from former governors, Dreyfus and Lucy. So that's kind of getting balanced out a little bit. I guess getting Governor McCallum's endorsement may not be all that valuable at this point, but when you talk about purism, and I guess I'm even purer in this topic, very few times I can say that in the show. But I'm not sure why Russ Feingold's in injecting himself in this process as a federal judge. It's to win. I understand that. But I really don't like elected officials and separations of powers to be, what do I care what Russ Feingold feels or Dreyfus or whomever? I guess it gives voters cues as to where they might be politically coming from, but when we're back to portraying judges as no different than, and they may not be any different, I suppose in the final analysis, but there's something about courts and why they wear black robes and have certain types of rituals is to give at least the public the impression that they're different than other elected officials and to again have them seeking out and getting an endorsement makes them look cheap. Well, I wanted to use that to segue into former Governor Thompson's presidential race. And he is working at it. He is, he is working at it. Good luck. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are you kidding? He gets back on the national stage for a while. Okay. Al Sharpton got the national stage for a while.    Well, Tommy says he has to raise $2.5 million to be competitive in Iowa. $2.5 million for Iowa. But he is holding out, according to the journal Sentinel, high hopes that he will perform well in the Republican straw poll that's set for August 11th in Iowa. So, it's interesting, just today, former Governor Vilsack, former Governor, or is he current Governor, Vilsack, dropped out of the presidential race, and all sorts of interesting stuff going on with the presidential race. Maybe we'll have to expand our area of inquiry just as the- But it's so early, isn't it? Yes. It's wildly early. But that leads me to another topic, which I think is interesting, which is the placement of the Wisconsin primary. The presidential primary will be held in February of 2008. It used to be the very definition of irrelevant. By moving it up into February, it has become certainly more relevant. But it depends on, right now, on where it's placed. We might, there's some early Super Tuesday primary, I think, in early February. The Wisconsin primary, I think, is February 19th in that area, and then you have the traditional March, early March, Super Tuesday primary. So, I think it's a great idea that Wisconsin could be a player. You can vote however you want to vote. You don't have to vote a party line. Our media, I think, is a little less expensive, maybe, than California or New York, and kinda played to the local issues. That we don't have to vote a party line where other states have to vote a party line. It gives us a kind of a cross-section of what the country might be doing and makes Wisconsin a player, because we can do that. And what is happening is that, for example, the Republican primary is usually, the evangelical right has been sort of anointing the winner in the Republican party, and they can do that in many states that have caucus systems and so on. But when you get into the open primary as Wisconsin has, in many cases, that gives a Giuliani and others, even Tommy Thompson, for that matter, if he does well in Iowa and Wisconsin, it gives them a visibility that they wouldn't have if it just were pretty a caucus system or some other type of party system in other states. So, yeah, I think for a number of reasons, we could play a more important role. And I'd like to see more states go into that, because when you see what's happened to the Republican party, and it's not, I'm not here to bash Republicans, as although I do that sometimes, you see a lot of people like McCain and others running to the right when, you know they're not that far right, but they're doing it because they know that they have to get to the primary. If you could set up a system where it really would reflect the national view and really who could be winnable, you wouldn't have these candidates pandering to the extremes that I think is now happening. I mean, I think there was a lot of astonishment that George Bush could have won the nomination as opposed to John McCain, but it was clearly that primary system that Bush had really worked, and it may be the reason that Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination because the system is work, the party lines are, the party connections are made, and you have the whole infrastructure and so no matter what the popular feeling might be is that candidates get catapulted that way, and who was talking $1 trillion? I was. Okay, tell us what that was. Well, I was, you know, listening to NPR and they were talking to a Democratic fundraiser the other last night as I was driving home, and they were talking about California moving their primary, which was really becoming irrelevant when it was in June. I'm not quite sure. For February. Really February. Really front-loading it. And they were saying, it was a staggering thing, that they said that, he said, if he was accurate, that when you look at all the money raised nationally for presidential elections, Californians contribute something like 30% or some huge amount, and they give all this money, but they have very little say as to who the actual nominees are in the end of the process. So they wanted to keep some of the California dollars in a home for influence. But he was saying that given all the candidates and how it might be fairly competitive, by the time we get done before the general election, just the primary cycle of this election cycle, $1 trillion will probably be spent on the campaign. $1 trillion. The primary. Right, and everybody, this is kind of interesting. I kind of liken it to sitting in a basketball game and one person stands up and they get a better view than everybody. Everybody's rushing forward. I think nobody's really, on the party level, really thought about what the effect of that's going to be. And I think what's going to happen is you're going to have all of the primary thing, season clustered into these early months. And I don't know at what point you finally say, well, we're not going to do these things in the even numbers and you all end up in the odd numbers. Right, I mean, why not move it up to now? I mean, it's just, it really is mathematical. The effect of that's going to be, I think, is you're going to have it so compact that first of all, we don't have a real staggering vetting process. And secondly, it's going to really play into candidates who can raise huge amounts of money fairly quickly. Jimmy, a guy like Jimmy Carter would never get elected in this new cycle. Carter kind of came out of the caucuses. They would do media rather than state visits. Right, he went to New Hampshire, did that sort of retail politics, met people, created some buzz, went to Iowa. I don't know if the Iowa caucuses were actually in play in 76, but he had a small venue and then media paid attention to him and then some money came in. A candidate like that, even Bill Clinton wouldn't get a nominated. I mean, maybe good news or bad news, depending on your perspective, but Clinton, you know, he took a pounding in New Hampshire, but was able to, actually he took a pounding, able to make his case to a small audience, a small media. If you took a scandal like Jennifer Flowers in a California market, you wouldn't have the money or the time to respond to that one way or the other. I think it's gonna have a real profound effect and it's gonna make money more important and media more important and say what you want about the non-representation of New Hampshire and Iowa and some of these earlier primaries, but at least the candidates have to meet people face to face, make their case, and those folks for whatever their lack of representation, take it seriously, they really watch those candidates and look and pay attention. Now it's gonna be what you see on TV and I just don't think it's gonna be good for the process. Yeah. Well, interesting enough and we'll see what role Wisconsin ends up playing. Governor Doyle's state of the state address had something for everybody. It was really... Imagine that. It was fairly remarkable, particularly the representative who stood up to applaud the governor's and mention of oil profits as really the way to go. You know, you like those guys that are just kind of out there. Yeah, I thought it was great. One of the things in our, the Wisconsin Academy group that all of us here belong to, gathered last week and talked about healthcare and health insurance provisions that are in the budget. The governor's healthcare task force came up with a plan. There are other plans out there. What is amazing to me is that, not amazing, but one of our speakers pointed out, has it happened in Wisconsin finally that there is what he called the tipping point? In other words, that businesses before five years ago who might have yelled socialized medicine, oh, this is the worst thing in the world, now there are four or five actually fairly well thought out, thoughtful health insurance. Universal coverage plans out there, some that may cost more or may cost less or whatever. But have we reached the tipping point where employers say, we just can't do this anymore. We cannot handle this anymore. I'm curious, I don't know what the legislature's gonna do with any or all of the proposals, but to me they're pretty, they didn't get very far in the Republican legislature, but I'm thinking these days it might be a little different. Well, I think once you start taking the old coalition that was against it, which included the business community, the insurance community, the old state-moneyed benefactors from the system, now that you've got that division, I think people are starting to look at the fact that in the nation 46 million people without a health insurance, insurance companies taking 30, 40% of the money that's spent on health care and looking at what the cost of it is, everybody's looking at this and saying, our businesses are a competitive disadvantage to other industrialized countries, people aren't covered, all these things are piling up. And I think your analogy of a tipping point is probably that all of these groups are saying, yeah, things aren't all rosy in the garden here, let's start looking at solving this problem. And I think people are now open. When Hillary first led the charge, everybody dumped on her and she was out the door in six months with no hope. I think that's not gonna happen this time. The problems are of great enough magnitude and there's a coalition of people talking that I think there's real hope may take two years, three years, but I think there's real hope for some change. And I think there's a recognition on the federal level at least that both Medicare and medical assistants are very efficiently run. The numbers we heard is that their overhead costs or their administrative costs are about 4%, whereas private insurance companies run anywhere from 20 to 40%. And so this is contrary to what Rush Limbaugh might say, that there are some areas where the federal government has run. Are you losing the rush? I am, how did you know? This is all I know from Al Franken. This is what Al Franken says Rush Limbaugh says. I could be wrong. That might be a misrepresentation, but... Al Franken said it was probably more articulate. He's running for the Senate. That's right. Yeah, well, he seems to have lost his sense of humor, which is really, really too bad, but...  But I think you're right. I think businesses, when businesses finally say we've gotta find some kind of a solution, I don't know if the road takes you to a single payer system. I don't think Americans are quite ready for that yet, but at least there are some plans that are being out there and they're being discussed seriously. And I think everybody recognizes that it's gonna have to happen at the state level because it's not gonna happen at least in the next couple of years and the national level yet. And I think the bucks are talking. I mean, even there's plans coming from the EFL, CIO, and so on, models sort of after workers comp, where the cost per employee, I think they're talking, four, six hundred dollars, well, family plans that businesses are paying are eleven, twelve hundred dollars. I mean, eventually you get to a point where you say, hey, I'm gonna listen to you here. You're less than half of what I'm paying. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And of course, there continue to be quality issues in American healthcare and so it's complex. We just have a couple of minutes left, but I did want to, I think that we should, as a group, spend a little time congratulating both the Assembly and the Senate for having passed, at long last, the Ethics Reform Bill, which was in front of it. The Assembly passed 97 to two. The Senate passed unanimously. The bill, which abolishes both the State Elections Board and the State Ethics Board, combines them in one organization that has true investigation power, hopefully non-partisan, even-handed investigation power. I think it's a good start. Now we need to do something about the thing that gets politicians in trouble, so they don't have to come before this new body with their baggage and their law-breaking activities. We need campaign finance reform. Yeah, true stuff that is out there and that really works. Otherwise you're gonna take these judges and they're gonna look at a lot of this stuff and say, this is almost like a sandbox type situation. He said, she said, they did this and then there's maybe the system structure that has now been put in place that this won't work as well until we fix the other part of it. Yeah, so. When something passes 97 to two, is it meaningful at all? I mean, I hate to get into the cynic here. I was just beating up. That's probably a combination. It was watered down and second. I've had a chance to see the conversation back and forth. I know we know the Democrats in the national level were congratulating themselves to the point of breaking their arm on ethics reform and there are such big loopholes in that law that it's not gonna change dramatically anything, in my view. So when I see something passed that overwhelmingly, it seems to me that we're looking at symbolism that will then stop.  Well, we'll see how it goes and I think they'll continue to be efforts to bring forth what we call real campaign finance reform. I'm not real sure what that is precisely and I think it means different things to different people but as time goes on and the elections board is a thing of the past. So on that happy note, thank you. Thank you.


We're back. It's still the breakfast on plus CBA Africa the Central Bank of Nigeria as you may have had last night Has directed commercial banks to dispense And receive old narrow notes as legal tender Across the country the Central Bank of Nigeria gave the directive at a bankers committee meeting held on Sunday According to a statement by the acting director of CBN corporate communications Issa Abdul Moomin on Monday this statement was released on Monday now This is coming hours after the presidency Monday evening said that the CBN had no reason to comply with the ruling of a supreme court on The narrow redesign policy stated that the president Muhammad Buhari did not instruct the CBN governor Go in the mayor fairly and her attorney general of the federation of Boba Kramala mean to disobey Any court orders involving the government and other parties? That was what the statement is quoted as saying now the apex bank in a statement However, titled old two hundred five hundred and one thousand narrow bank notes remain legal tender The CBN said the directive was in compliance with Buhari's administration's obedience to court orders I'm glad to say Joining us to analyze this development is a lawyer legal practitioner show la la mean show la la mean good morning to you Thank you very much for your time Well, the the the presidency released a statement last night yesterday evening saying the president had not ordered Not directed Attorney general of the federation in minutes of justice a book of Malami as a yen and the central banks governor Called the Mifflin to disobey court order But the question some are asking is did the president give them a marching order to obey the court order? It's a bit confusing for some people out there. What do you think? But No, but so go ahead Yes, we can hear you loud and clear go ahead with your thoughts Access Well, I'd also like to ask if you I mean according to what you said the CBN You know the ruling of the Supreme Court, they need an extra directive maybe from the CBN or the president then what exactly Was responsible for the non-compliance To that particular ruling from this Supreme Court Even the other even the other They will see how to hear from the principle of the boss Don't forget that when the issue of a special team came up, it was present as directed as Continue to be used as So I need this Supreme Court is a judiciary and directed to give a fair argument which head of it is the The president who is under immunity So the president and From the look at one this took out a judgment. That was what he gave me again the president but So So It will be against rule of law It will be content that the president Under So the I to wait because of the job not to fall out from the moment And the hair from the president all right Mr. Shalala made what do you expect them to be the the the impact of this CBN or the Supreme Court's a ruling or judgment on this matters Given in favor of the governors who approached it With this Allowance or approval for the Naira old narrow to be used side-by-side with a new narrow notes till 31st December 2023 do you expect to see The cash crunch the narrow scarcity and the unfolding economic hardship around the country that we witnessed you expect to see it Reduce and things get back to normal with this. This is called Court judgment and the subsequent Directly by the central bank of Nigeria Yes But And You Okay, so do you expect, because some are saying that the Supreme Court never addressed the issue of the amount of the currency in circulation, you know, and therefore, yes, the old and new narrowness relief side-by-side, but and it could be accepted as legal tender around the country, but since a lot of people have taken their old notes back to the bank and don't have any notes at all, if the central bank decides they don't want to increase the amount of money in circulation, there will still be scarcity. So do you expect, in that regard, now do you expect anything, things to change significantly? Yes, that's where I say, if there is a full employer with that Supreme Court, you know, before, the money in circulation, yes, it's coming by the CBN and then the commercial bank, you know, the money that is your account, is your money, you have the right to it. No one can deny you access to your money. Yes, I agree that if the CBN causes a big prostration, the availability of money, no, there is not enough cash in the system, but that will still be against the judgment of the court. The reason for that judgment of the court is that the policy is a violation of the fundamental rights of citizens to their funds. The funds in the bank account, in everybody's bank account is your property. Nobody can deny you how you're going to use that money. So if the CBN, the first time it's complied to me, with that judgment, the Supreme Court, and make the money available in the system, in the system, so if guys, they do not comply, then I'll see the problem. But I know that, like you said, from now, without stress, it will be, it will not go to normal, it will not go to normal as it was before the policy, because they would have to comply, because there are some benefits of this policy. There are benefits, there are some benefits. So they would have to increase the money in that position, and then it would gradually be. Well, I'd also like to ask what you think would play out following these directives from the CBN, more like endorsing the ruling of the Supreme Court. Do you think that all of this would solve the cash crunch that Nigerians have been faced with for the, you know, the past months? Yeah, I'd say it depends on the CBN employer, by releasing enough cash into the system. They don't forget the policy as they are not required. The problem with the policy is that the limit is going to go every week. The limit of cash that is needed for cash is going to go every week. There are specific to do transfer for all the transactions. So everything depends on the CBN to release enough cash into the system. Without even enough cash into the system, that would simply be a problem. All right. What's your take on the constitutionality of certain governors in Nigeria before the CBN press release yesterday, making statements, you know, telling their residents that the old Naira notes remain legal tender in their states. Do you think there's some sort of treason somewhere here, you know, trying to usurp the power of the president? Because we're aware that no matter what the presidency in court says, we know that after the Supreme Court's initial, sorry, the court's initial order, the first one, that the president on... The interim... Yes, the interim year injunction, yes, the interim order. That the president, in defiance to this interim order on February 16th, gave a national address, a national broadcast, where he insisted that only the old 209 notes will be accepted as legal tender whilst the 501,000 Naira will be phased out, you know. So the president had already said this. But the governors had gone ahead, started to air a fire. Most recently Babaji Nesamol of Lagos State yesterday to say the legal tender, the old Naira remain legal tender, and anyone who Banco rejects them will be shot down. So do you think there's some sort of... Someone said maybe there's some sort of treason here. Some governor is trying to usurp the power of the president. What do you say to this? Let's see. The Supreme Court, the air fire and Babaji Nesamol, their statement was made possible to sprinkle judgment and order. You know, the interim order that was made. The one that had the interim order. That means everything in status quo remains. Because all the deadlines for the old notes were suspended and that it remains in the tender. So the statement was made possible to those orders that were made by the Supreme Court. And they were justified in making that order. And don't forget that even the statement of the president that was falsely to the interim order, because he called this a finding on that one. And so it was dictatorship for the president to falsely to the order. I don't say this. I don't think you are trying to say that. You are justifying and making that statement. All right. So generally, what would you say this would mean on our economy? What would be the implication for the Nigerian economy? For the policy. The Nigerian policy. Exactly. Yeah. The policy has some benefits. But I think the problem is the position of the policy. Because it will reduce cost in the system. And you do a lot of things. It will increase the bank revenue. It will increase the federal government revenue. It will reduce insecurity. It will reduce corruption. But I think the timing for the election, and as well as the fact that even this limit that was given to each individual was not available. So it affects the other sector, the common sector of the economy, who will learn how to cast a section. So the money was not available today. So it depends on that policy as affected the economy, plasticity and plasticity. So for me, I believe that if the policy is where it mentions, and then the cast, no matter how you do as I said, it's available. It will be very good for the economy. But let it make the cast appeal. All right. Mr. Shalala Mead, legal practitioner. Thank you so much for your time. You're welcome, man. Thank you. That's the size of that conversation. We have more discussions ahead. Of course, when we come back from our break, we'll be looking again at the, by model voter accreditation system machines and their reconfiguration of mixed reactions still trailing that. We'll be right back.


You know, when we worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and when we prepare ourselves for the worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, there's a certain level of Sukun that we find in our hearts, right? That's the sign of a believer. You know, when people say, am I a good Muslim? Am I a believer? There's, you know, sometimes I have a hard time believing in Allah. You know, people have all these things. And the reality is that if, just as I mentioned last night, it's Friday, so make sure that you take a shower, wear clean clothes, go to Jumu'ah. Even if you're not going to Jumu'ah, be at home, you know, like, it's Jumu'ah for God's sake. And so as we spend that day in happiness, as we spend that day in contentment, feeling good that I've actually done something, you know, the moments before, if thought, having raised your hands and then after, you know, making if thought, feeling this level of excitement, happiness, contentment, that it was a good day. That's a sign of our Iman. That's a sign of our faith and belief in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And as long as we maintain that and continue to maintain that, of course, especially in Ramadan, but for the rest of our life, then we will be in a good place with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Which actually reminds me of the hadith. And a few days ago, we mentioned this hadith. The Prophet, A.S., specifically in regards to Ramadan says, Mansama Ramadana Imanan. Whosoever fasts in Ramadan with Iman. Like, why would Allah put the condition of Iman? The vast majority of people that are going to fast in the month of Ramadan are going to be believers anyways. And Mansama Ramadana Iman and whosoever, you know, stands in the month of Ramadan with Iman. And then, of course, anticipation of reward. In other words, this belief in Allah, not just believing in Allah, but belief in the reward from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the kindness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because it's having that belief that inspires us and facilitates for us to do more and more and more and more. And when we have that Yaqeen and conviction in Allah, then we have this desire to ask from Him as well because there are people who unfortunately, and this should not be the case, there are people who unfortunately at times are shy to ask Allah. They say, I haven't been an obedient servant. How can I ask Allah? I haven't been an obedient slave. You know, how can I ask? Or how can I make dua to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? Or ask, I can ask Allah for this, but how could I ask Allah for something so big? Interestingly enough, in Surat Al-Baqarah, when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions the verses of fasting in Ramadan, the verse begins with Ya'ayyuhal Lathina Aamanu Kutiba Aalaykum Al-Siyamu the really famous verse. And then after that the verse, Shahru Ramadana Lathin Unzila Fihi Al-Quran. You know, immediately after that, the verse is Wa Itha Sa'alaqa Ibadi Anni Fa'inni Qareeb. Wa Itha Sa'alaqa Ibadi Anni Fa'inni Qareeb. Ujibu Da'u wa Tadda'i Itha Da'an. When my slave, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, when the slave asks Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, supplicates to Allah, asks Allah, makes dua to Allah, Anni, from me Fa'inni Qareeb. I am close. Ujibu Da'u wa Tadda'i and I answer the call of the caller, Itha Da'an, when he calls unto me. As long as we are not making shirk, as long as we know in our hearts that everything comes from Allah, and as long as we can convince ourselves to ask Allah, right? And as a friend once said that with Allah go big or go home. Like ask Allah for the impossible. Have conviction in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and ask because that's what we're supposed to do. This month is a month of asking. This is a month of conviction. This is a month of Yaqeen. This is a month of love, right? This is not a month in which we doubt ourselves. Whatever we do, we're able to do with the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And as we now begin the weekend, we have a little extra time on the weekend. Many of us, some of us, let us not utilize all of that, simply sleeping through it, but making sure that we get in an extra juz of the Qur'an or two, get in some more ibadah, be able to go to the Masjid during the course of the day if we haven't been able to do so. Make it out for Salat al-Tarawih if you're able to do so. Some of the things that we may not be able to do during the course of the week, let us try to do those during the weekend. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala facilitate his best and choicest blessings for all of us, insha'Allah. Ameen Ya Rabbi Al-Alameen. Barakallahu Feequm. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. One of the things that I like to do in each of my introductory astronomy classes is to begin the class with the astronomy picture of the day. From the NASA website that is apod.nasa.gov slash apod. At today's picture, for December 4th of 2023, it is titled Plane Crossing Crescent Moon. So what do we see here? Well, here we see a picture of the moon up in the sky and this is in the very early morning hours. This is a very thin, waning crescent moon approaching very close to the new moon phase. And while it may look like a bow and arrow here, that thin crescent is again the moon and the arrow going across it is an airplane that happened to cross through during the image when the photo was taken. So when we look at this, we see that both the moon and the trail left behind by the plane have a very reddish color. Now that is not how they actually would appear. The reason is because they are very low in the sky and when you look at things low in the sky, everything is going to appear a little bit redder than normal and that's because we're looking through a lot of atmosphere. The more atmosphere that we look through, the sunlight that's coming out will look very red. So the sunlight that is illuminating these, both of these would be very red because it's coming through a lot of atmosphere. Those very short wavelengths like the blues get scattered around and come from all directions in the sky, giving us a blue sky, leaving the remaining light to look much redder and the closer to the horizon you are, the redder that sunlight will look. Now here again we see the waning crescent moon and we know that it is waning crescent and taken in the morning because it is the left-hand side of the moon that is being illuminated and in another day or two, this would then reach new moon phase and be completely invisible. The cycle of moon phases going from one phase to the same phase again takes just about one month which is where our measurement of the month comes from. In fact, it's about 29 and a half days between, say, full moon and the next full moon. So it takes almost a month to go from one to another which is why we can sometimes get two full moons in the same month and have what we sometimes called a blue moon having nothing to do with the coloring but a blue moon is often called when we have two full moons within the same month. Now an image like this has to be taken by chance unless you have the airplane planning exactly where it's going to fly and you know exactly where to stand for it. There's a big difference in distance between the two and that means just a small change in position here on Earth will make the relative position of the plane as compared to the moon change. So if you moved a little in one direction or another the plane would have passed above or below the moon. But if you know where the flight paths are you can kind of plan when this might happen and be able to be on the lookout for images something like we see today. So that was our picture of the day for December 4th of 2023. It was titled Plane Crossing Crescent Moon. We'll be back again tomorrow for the next picture preview to be Powerful Ray. So we'll see what that is about tomorrow. And until then, have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.


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That's right, to recover our natural health, our rights and our freedoms. Good morning. I'm Paige Clark. And I'm Niko Dahan. It's a beautiful day in downtown St. Petersburg. Well, it's kind of beautiful. It's beautiful if you like lightning and thunderstorms and lightning that just struck. Thunder and lightning.  It's all flashing and everything like that. So, but you know, it's just made the drive a little bit more difficult, but we made it. Oh, we're here. Yeah, that's for sure. Hey, make sure you subscribe to our health signals newsletter. This is news you can use twice a month in your inbox. And so it kind of follows our show outline articles that we think will be useful for you and your family to stay healthy. Yeah, articles that we already discussed and one about antibiotics on this one. So a really good issue there. And also, please pick up our primal edge, our one shot wonder over 310 organic cell-ready ingredients. It's a liquid ingredient. It's easy to take. 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You know, when I put a little extra salt on my meat, I can feel it breaking down easier. So according to the FDA, if you follow the FDA, Americans eat on average 3,400 milligrams of sodium, a chemical element found in salt each and every day. So that's probably about maybe 100 pounds, something like that. Is it that much? Wow. Well, the concern is salt consumption has gotten out of control. But in fact, folks, I think what really has gotten out of control is our use of a chemicalized version of so-called salt. The man-made, highly heated salt that is not the true salt. Yeah. It's not the true salt because it's really been butcherized in a sense because of the high heat chemicals they use to extract it. They bleach it. Do all kinds of things to it. Luckily, there's lots of other salt around that we can tap into. Well, in highly processed foods, they're using these inexpensive salts. Yeah, they are. For that very reason, they're very inexpensive. And I think that's the biggest problem we have. Yeah. You know, it's in everything. Every fast food has it because it does enhance the taste. We have a, we are drawn to it, let's say. We're drawn to the salty taste. I mean, you've got a block of salt out in the woods, and the animals love it too. Right. Well, but the salt that we're using in our franken foods is not the salt that we're meant to eat, like I said. Yeah. And it's two chemicals instead of the 98 minerals that are actually in salt. Right. And it is very inexpensive and used through the food supply because of that reason, but it wasn't always this way. And that's where we want to go with this. Okay. So salt has been around for thousands of years, and according to real salt, probably you've heard of that brand, which is a full, true, multi-mineral salt. People actually traded salt at the same ounce per ounce with gold. Yeah. That's how valuable that is. That was gold in those days where it was a lot less, but in relative to everything else, gold is still the standard that we judge many things by. Right. So if salt is as valuable as gold, and I believe it is, it's something that we should be really concerned about whether we're eating the right stuff or not, I think. Yeah. I mean, there were actually wars fought over salt, and it inspired a largely black market through Europe and Asia. And how did this valuable product actually become so mass produced as a cheap counterfeit is what I would actually call it that we use that is actually not helpful and not the same thing. But I think you would be surprised to learn some of the lesser known facts about salt. You know, most bacteria can't live in high levels of salt. So it was used as a preservative. Yeah, especially in climates that aren't too cold or too hot. If it's too hot, people tend to dry the fish and the meat and hang it out. If it's very, very cold, of course, you have your natural refrigeration. You know, it's so funny I was visiting family up in Connecticut and I thought it was so strange, but it made sense.  So an extensive... Nature's cooler. Right, an extension of their refrigeration. That's for sure. But there's modern food sciences telling us a different story. You know, the salt will actually draw out the moisture, as you mentioned, for this preservation. And it will kill most microbes, but the salt level that actually prevents most bacteria from growing, it's actually very high. So 10% or higher is what's needed to kill bacteria. Yeah, and that's why when we preserved food in salt, we used a lot of it. Yeah, exactly. Good point. Yeah, we want to do it. I mean, we want to make sure that if we're using it as a preservative, that it's at the height of... Yeah, they use a comparison here. There's a lot of salt by comparison. Seawater is just 3.5% salt and a piece of beef jerky is 2.2% salt. This means that salt can be used in conjunction with other preservatives like smoking, salmon, things like that. So it's not just used by itself, but it's also used. And remember that we discovered that the salt itself is a type of... it creates a bacteria in the food that helps preserve it and ferments it. Right. So now we have a food that's even more valuable because it's added... it's kind of digested for us, partly. So it helps with our digestion. That's absolutely true. We need salt. True pink salt or healthy salt or grey salt or the salts that have all the minerals. We need those to create stomach acid. Yeah. We can't make stomach-add hydrochloric acid. Right. It comes from the chloride. That's right. And I forgot what I was going to say, but the salt is so important to us that, like we said, it was so valuable. And now it seems like it's a cheaper product, except for some of those brands that we really like to... like the Himalayan. Those are getting more expensive because they're probably rarer. They're the true salts. And also they're in areas of the world that are harder to get. Right. And you have to keep these things clean. And the reason they're so good is like the Himalayan salt and the Celtic or Celtic salt that we talk about are in these deep ancient beds and they don't have the pollutants in them. So we open them up and... We're going to continue this talk about the salt of life and we're going to take a short break. Make sure to pick up our health signals newsletter and get some final edge while you're on the break and we'll be right back after this short break. No longer contain the vitamins, minerals and nutrients our bodies need to stay healthy and strong. That's why we need primal edge daily nutrition. It includes a special blend of ionic, soil based vitamins, minerals, baddie and amino acids in an easy to use liquid form. Primal edge is powered by highly concentrated folic and humic acids. 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Yeah so like converting nutrients into energy because our bodies are continuing to losing salt when we sweat or use the restroom replenish the supply of salts through our diet constantly. And although dieticians and so forth might warn us against consuming too much salt that's really because most of them are referring to the toxic man-made highly heated too chemical salt table salt which is not the salt that we actually need.  I've often shared with our listeners that Chinese medicine the solution to high blood pressure in Chinese medicine is to eat more sodium in the form of celery. Six stocks of celery. Yeah my physical therapist always has had trouble with her stomach not being able to digest fats and proteins. She probably doesn't need any salt. And she has had in the last year an oriental practitioner that comes to her for therapy and he started advising her. She started eating the Himalayan salt and now she can eat much more. It took about three months. What goes back to what we said in the other thing I've been saying that for years hydrochloric acid we have to be able to digest and disinfect our food and we must have salt in the diet. Very good. I hear she's doing better. Yeah it's a nice process but it's stress too and that's leaving so that always helps too. We might need salt for our bodies to function but the reason we love it is because everything tastes better. It does. That certainly does and that's why the manufacturers put it into the fast food and all these TV dinners that we used to get and things like that just to make it taste better.  But we have to get it out of there and eat it in a good way to where it's going to be. It's a good thing for our bodies to be able to digest that. It's a good thing for our minds and minds to be able to digest the food because it's the only other thing. The salt and sugar is thrown in to make up for what the flavor was lost. This is interesting. And then, all of a sudden, our taste receptors can identify the flavors that we can't sense without it. Yeah, when used in low concentrations, the sodium ions target bitter flavors and reduce the brain's ability to perceive them, increasing the sweet, the sour, or the other types of flavors. Umami. Umami flavors. So, adding a pinch of salt to a cookie recipe would actually make the cookie taste sweeter. Right. Just like when Italians tell you when you're making a spaghetti sauce, put a dash of sugar in it. That's right. That's the acid, too. Right. That will cut the acid. That's very interesting. And how about, you know, we've known that some of the cities, such as New York, led the charge for restricting salt use. Well, again, let's put this in perspective. We should not be restricting our use of healthy salt. We should be restricting our use of processed foods, and thereby restricting the use of the toxic, man-made, heated to 1,500 degrees salt indicator. Yeah, and what we're trying to do is really get rid of the salt in the chains of these fast food companies. I think the wrong way of doing it, I think we have to just have a conscious way of dealing with food, and we have to serve the healthy. And the consciousness is if we don't eat these highly processed foods, we won't be getting this bad kind of salt. Yeah, that's for sure. And so that gets us to the point. There are different kinds of salt. And, you know, this article says, but one isn't healthier than another, but we'll go back to that same point. If it's a natural, fully mineralized salt, like the ones we see in the picture, those have different colors. You get the black salts, gray salts, pink salts. It notes what the mineral content is, too. It sure does. The mineral mixes can vary depending on where it is harvested and when it is harvested and the various methods of producing the salt, too. According to the tasting table, the variety of sea salt is almost endless because you can produce sea salt anywhere there's salt water. Well, truly, some people collect salts, like they collect fine line from around the country. One of the things with the salt water problem is, of course, a lot of our oceans are polluted. They have different minerals in them that we don't want in our bodies. So maybe the modern sea salt is not what you want. Maybe you have to go to those ancient beds and that's kind of, I remember in the 80s, kind of switching over, always buying the sea salt and then saying, Indiana, we're swimming in this stuff, we're peeing in this stuff, we're throwing chemicals and fertilizers in this stuff. Maybe this isn't a good idea and that's when I kind of made a switch over to and investigating really the Himalayan salts and the Celtic salts and those types of things. And, you know, I'm going to say what I've been doing personally. You know, Himalayan salt has got the red color from the iron oxide. Well, I do believe as we get a little older, iron may be an issue for some of us, particularly women, because we no longer have been straight. So I like some of the gray salts, too. I like to shake it up a little bit. Yeah. What about the iodine content in it, like the Himalayan? We're going to get to that point. Really most of these salts are not the best sources of iodine, you know. And the reason we put iodine into the mix of our regular table salt years ago was because we were doing a lot of atomic testing and things like that and that's the story that I heard. Yeah, we were doing atomic testing and it was radiating the thyroid and so we were iodine deficient. So a lot of the soil areas still have that lack of iodine. That's a point that I want to make is that much of our soil, that's the point of the primal edge. The soils are de-menor lives. That's right. So we're not getting these crucial nutrients. Right. And I would say the salt water is, too, and that was my point on that. That's a very good point, Nika. So the table salt that we were talking about was added iodine, which could have made it smarter. And there's been quite a few studies on this showing that there is a growth rate that was, they say, perhaps not natural in the last 100 to 150 years because of the iodine that put in there. I always question the quality of the iodine. Is that the same garbage that they're using in the salt, not being that good? No, it's not a good source of iodine. I'm sorry, because that's not a reason to buy the little Morton Girl salt. No, I agree. No, there's other places that get our iodine. Much richer place would be sea vegetables or grass-fed milk from cows that eat the grass that are getting it. But I really want to go over this. Let's see what this article says. Unlike sea salts that are made by evaporated sea water, table salt is a processed product, as I mentioned, 1,600 degrees, two chemicals, sodium chloride. And they add non-caking additives to keep you flowing, flow agents. And so they're not really good for it. It also has another special ingredient, iodine. They do add the iodine because it was very efficient in helping to correct the signs of goiter, especially in certain Midwestern states that we're having goiter issues. However, that's not enough iodine. That's not a body-sufficient amount of iodine. 115 micrograms is not sufficient for all of the organs and glands that need iodine. Okay. So the last thing here is the number one thing for salt isn't for food. And here we have the guy spraying it on the roads. And of course, that doesn't happen this time of year. But I remember the corrosiveness of the salt you'd really have on the cars and everything like that. I'm just wondering how dispensing this type of salt is that healthy for us. I don't really know. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, you really do know that that's, again, probably a salt that's highly chemicalized. Sure, and who cares if it's on the road, I guess. Anyway, stick around, folks. We'll be right back. So we're going to switch over to doing some talking about sunscreen when we get back. We'd like to tell you about the Personal Training Studio that Niko is the owner and president of Performance Training. Since 1998, Niko has trained individuals and groups to improve their health both mentally and physically. As a certified personal trainer, Niko's main focus is on demonstrating exercises correctly to avoid injury and teaching his clients how to manage their past injuries while getting the most out of their personal training sessions. 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When we smear on sunscreen, dermatologists at the Canadian CHI with the University of California says most of us don't think about what's getting underneath our skin. Yeah, I think there's assumption that these things that we apply on our skin, they don't really get into our bloodstream. Well, I say they do. My philosophy is if you wouldn't eat it, you shouldn't put it on your skin. Yeah, that's for sure. And it's a good one because we do know that our skin absorbs. It's actually the best way of applying medicine, transdurable. That's right. Hormones are applied transdurable. They get right into bloodstream. And more and more we're getting into the type of science fiction that the Enterprise and Star Trek used to have where they're just no needle, just going right through the skin and no problem. Well, all television like Star Trek and all that, the future, that's actually disclosure. They're actually telling us what they're doing already or gonna do. Sure. Yeah, exactly. But that's interesting. But earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration raised some concerns about chemicals commonly found in sunscreen. Well, welcome to the world of what natural people have already been doing. The FDA noted that only two of the 16 active ingredients commonly used in the commercial sunscreens, the marrow blocks, the zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, are generally recognized as safe and effective. So that just goes to show you, look at what he says. Only two of the 16 active ingredients, the sunblock zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, are generally recognized safe. And quite frankly, I'll tell you, titanium dioxide is not really recommended as safe and effective. The zinc is the easy one. The zinc is the one that is. That is a mineral, that is a physical block actually. That's the best product there is. And so in a study published in May, the FDA scientists found that four active ingredients found in commercial sunscreens, avabenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, and a camsule were systematically absorbed into user skins. And they've been found in breast milk, urine, and blood plasma. And the high absorption rate of these ingredients means we need to study their potential toxicity. These are chemicals, folks. These are like soy-machined oil. I just get blown away when I watch parents slathering sunscreen on their kids' bodies as if they think they're doing a good thing. Sorry guys, go buy them a sunshirt, get them a hat, make them sit under an umbrella, or enough time in the sun, or use a zinc oxide or a physical sunscreen. Physical sunscreens are becoming bigger and bigger. Clothing manufacturers are highlighting these. I think they're a really nice option because then you don't have to worry about these chemicals, which a lot of them are not even listening to their perfumes and things to make them, I don't know what to really tell you the truth. Yeah, folks, these chemical soups that these companies are making are profit-driven and not proven to be safe. And here's some things. If you're nervous about sunscreen ingredients, as I am, I'll take a burn versus putting some of these chemicals on my skin, honestly, I really would. Here you can avoid some of the more questionable ingredients, which basically means most all the sunscreen you would buy at a traditional store. Your grocery store or your drug store, they're almost all toxic. They all have these oxy-bin zone and all of these chemicals in them. So you want to avoid them. You really need to seek out the brands that are approved by the environmental working group or, you know. Remember the old days, I remember in the 50s and 60s, a lot of people were using just baby lotion with some iodine in it. Baby oil and iodine. And iodine is a natural antioxidant, so it protects the skin. Yeah, so what the crazy people were doing on the beach back in the 50s was actually something really good. And we can probably use today. Exactly. Baby oil, not bad chemicals in baby oil. I make my own, well, baby oil is a mineral oil, so it's a petroleum-based product. I prefer to use jojoba wax. Jojoba looks like an oil, everyone thinks it's jojoba oil, but it's actually a skin wax, like what's on our actual skin. So I make my own with jojoba and my own aloe, and I add astaxanthin, which is the red-colored, and I really think that might have been part of the ingredient that they used in that bandicillé tan that had that orange jelly, and everyone used that. Almost they were using iodine, but that's more expensive, of course. Now, iodine's pretty cheap, so, but it wasn't the exact color. It always had this uncharacteristically red color, and I'm curious, I have to check it out. I have refrained from using any kind of sunscreens for probably maybe a decade or two. I don't really recall when I stopped using it. I just have cut my exposure at certain times of the day to the 15, 20 minutes, something like that, because the sun certainly does feel good, but... Well, I really believe that the clothing is a great solution because I think the key is we're not getting enough sun. We need to be out the sun, but we have to protect it. Yeah, we weren't designed. We were designed to be outdoors, and what I've learned from Jack Cruz is the importance of being out in morning sun. This is the day that I have to miss my routine, but sunrise... I'm going to claim the rain. Yeah, wouldn't work today anyways. Sunrise, seeing the sunrise in the early morning actually prepares our skin to handle getting the heat of the day sun. So we get the UVA in the morning so that we can tolerate the UVB in tan and do less damage. And those kind of rituals, going and watching a sunrise or a sunset, these are things that human beings have been doing for millennia, and if you go down to Key West or we go to, like, the farthest point west in the United States or the farthest point east in the United States, you'll find there's little rituals going on where people are waking up to the sun or going to sleep or having a little party at sunset. These things are intrinsic in us, and it's a very important part of the day because this is the last part of that beautiful light that we get. And sunrise and sunset is where we're getting these really rays that are really good for us. Well, the rays that we're getting in the morning and in the evening are in the infrared range. So they have real healing abilities, but they're also the light spectrum that stimulates our neurotransmitters. So we know that if we miss the morning sunlight, we are not getting the proper stimulation for dopamine, the happy hormone. Right, so this hinders our sleep later on. Well, the dopamine is our happy one, but it's the melatonin. Believe it or not, people think of melatonin as a sleep hormone, but we actually stimulate the melatonin. The circadian rhythm is such a clock that the morning sun says to our body in roughly 12 hours, it's time to start thinking about making melatonin. So if we don't get that morning exposure, if we get in our car and we drive directly to our office and we're indoors in an office and we don't come out, we eat lunch at our desk and then we get off at five o'clock and we get in the car with our wifi in our car and we're in a glass car with no natural sunlight, we're not getting our inoculation of the sun's timetable and it's crucial. This is one of the reasons. This is why we don't grow jaws. Excuse me. This is why we're having chronic disease because we are not in sync with nature. We certainly are not. And it's a struggle. But getting back to the sunscreen, folks, I'm gonna recommend that you consult with the environmental working group to find brands that are more healthy for you. Again, I'm gonna make the recommendation if you see any of those questionable ingredients, put them down. And you're not gonna find these brands, healthy brands at Walmart, Walgreens, et cetera. You're just not. They're buying the ones from the big companies. And they're less expensive and that's why people buy them there, that's for sure. So, and you can make your own. There's plenty of recipes on, and I'll try to find a couple of good recipes that I can throw in with this article. Yeah, you can buy zinc oxide and make your own, that's for sure. Just think around, folks, we got a lot more. In fact, talking about the, what were we talking about? 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Here, Robbie Bessner, our friend who's been on here, he's got products that have infrared embedded in it. Yeah, and I remember years ago, there was a company, Jisuro, that was selling some type of vitamin drink and they also had this blanket that was from this type of thing that had the infrared. Of course, I use infrared in my sauna. I have a couple of pads that we use for it, so I'm really big into this and this is just another way to help you recover and doing exercise is great. We need to do that. But we need to do recovery. We need to do recovery, too. And because we are not outdoors like our primal plan was, we need infrared light, which is found in the morning and in the evening. Because it's one of the best ways to give your muscles the rejuvenation they need and I don't know, does it penetrate the tissues, the joints and the muscles and alleviate minor aches and pains.  And so Under Armour has released it, so here's a big brand name, so they will do well with this, I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure, and they've got a lot of recovery gear at themselves and this kind of is what we're talking about is that Mother Nature has pretty much most of the answers for us. We have the cold, we have the heat from the sun, we have the cold in the morning dew, we have that far infrared light that comes in the morning and the afternoon. So nature really has its, and because we're living in buildings and because we have, you know, we're slaves to our jobs to exist and all these things that we have to do, we have to come up with artificial ways of doing this. So I'm glad this technology is here. I still just wanna emphasize that nature is probably a better way of doing it, but there's nothing wrong with supplementing it this way either. Exactly, I'd prefer to get it out in nature, but it has this work. It's because the mineral-aligned fabric used in the recovery shape reflects the infrared light back onto your body. And doing this, you're able to amp up your self-care while you're off the clock. Again, why do we have to have so many tech tools? Just why does everyone have to have the latest gadget? I'm a little bit overblown with all this.  I mean, I get it, why can't we just... Because man has always done that. You know, we walked for a long time. We always think we're gonna figure out a better mousetrap, huh? We figured out riding a horse was a little bit better and later on the wheel, and now we have cars and a man in his car is kind of like the man in his horse of years ago. And we're definitely, we love these things. I love my truck. I mean, you know.  Yeah, you are.  I love gadgets. You even have Alexa in your house. Yeah, I do, but we always have it unplugged unless we wanna listen to the music. So we're paranoid about that.  And I mean, I don't have Alexa. I mean, I'm like super, I would... Well, you were on Facebook or something. I spent $1,500 repairing my refrigerator because I don't wanna have to buy a new one that has all the spyware in it, okay? Because we have the built-in, it would have been... Yeah, but I'm sitting there, we're talking about the kitchen.  I'm just terrible. Okay, so we're sitting there talking and all of a sudden I get all these videos saying, here, visit us for a remodeled kitchen. And here, try here for neat cabinets. We do kitchen. It was amazing how the ads were targeted. They heard us verbally, they're listening.  It's AI, it's artificial intelligence that recognizes the voices. Apple did a study and they had people listening to the commands and what people were actually saying and to parse out the ones that were interesting that aren't so, yeah. The ones that they can sell to their marketers. Right. Or to their advertisers. Exactly, so, I mean, both goes on. I mean, yes, it is kind of ambient catching, but they have identified the certain words and certain phrases and... It's funny. That's what they do. All right, let's go, how does this work? We're getting back to these bedsheets, okay? Here's another biohacking thing for those of you guys that have to have the latest and greatest. What's the fastest thing in the universe? It's light and the fastest way to recover, it's also through light. That's why you see so many athletes using red light therapy, et cetera. And infrared light, to be exact, because it says underarmor developed in advanced sleep system that helps your body rebuild itself through faster muscle recovery while you rest, okay? And as we said, the print on the inside of the recovery sheet, and I'm gonna show you, I don't know if you guys can see it. It has a compare. You actually see tiny little threadings, mineral rich threads in the sheets, embedded in the sheets. And that's what gives off the far infrared light. Actually what it's doing is reflecting your body's heat back to you. Well, now we also have sheets that have EMF protection embedded in them now. So the question is, which one do you want? Maybe for one and one on top of the other. We'll have to ask one of our experts on that. How many sheets do you have? You know, so if you wanna really biohack your workout recovery, maybe you need to buy one of these underarmor sheets. Yeah, so the sheet two-way stretch construction provides just the amount of flexibility for perfect comfort. The recovery sheet set comes with a mattress grip silicone band on the fitted sheet for a one-of-a-kind non-slip fit. No snag stretch, a top-bottom indicator tab on the fitted sheet for zero hassle and concealed zipper enclosure on the pillowcases for the perfect fit. How about that for a commercial one? Right. Underarmor doesn't measure thread count for their sheets because it doesn't work with their advanced technology. Instead, they take the premium fabrics used to make high thread count sheets and engineer them in a mesh of greater breathability. This way you get more intense ventilation from a unique constructed, high quality material that can't be compared to standard thread counts. Well, there you go. So it might be worth giving it a try. So get rid of your Egyptian cotton sheets. I don't know, those are pretty comfortable. You know what, I love finishing up our show with some of these little things that have a little, you know, what they can remember. So let's go to this section on lemons, evidence-based health benefits. You know, when we talk about biohacking, getting all this technology, sometimes we wanna come back to what can we do really simple that gives us a big bang for our buck. And there is nothing better than the lovely lemon in terms of helping us. We're talking about flavor, how salt, you know, is used to enhance any flavor, whether it be sweet or sour. And we know that the lemon is tart and that's kind of a delicious flavor for us. But really, did we realize that science, there's powerful medicine in the lemon. And in all flavors, Ayurvedic medicine has taught us that it's the key five flavors, salty, spicy, bitter, sweet and sour, that really are key to health. And the lime too, I would think, be in this category. In fact, I'm more drawn to the lime than the lemon and I'm not sure why. But I remember in the old days, back in the nineties, when my dad was still alive, I would go over to his house on Sunday afternoon and he would make these great rum and lime. He had a lemon lime tree. I love limeade, yeah. Yeah, he had a lemon lime tree. It was half and half, each fruit. Oh, how cool is that? It was very cool. Oh, yeah. He would squeeze that and then he'd get some really nice rum to it and we'd have a daiquiri. And it was always fond memories of my father and I sipping daiquiris on Sunday afternoon. For sure. So, and that comes to mind that alcohol too was used as an elixir, as medicine. Oh, I told you I'm gonna bring that book when it shows. Oh, okay. You know, drink yourself to health. Yes, I mean, but it's about alcoholic beverages that are actually good for our health. So, we'll come back and give you some tips on lemon's evidence-based healing properties revealed in the next segment. So, we'll be right back. And for the last 12 months, Timer Digest has been tracking my newsletter signals which have earned me the ranking as their number one market timer in the nation for the S&P 500 for the last 12, six, and three months. Timer Digest also ranks me as the number one market timer for gold as well. The fact is, markets can be timed and I'll teach you the exact set of tools that I use that has transformed me into one of the best at what I do. 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And it can lessen constipation. Who knew? In combination with rosemary and peppermint essential oil, the smell of lemon has been found to relieve constipation in the elderly. Yeah, it also can remedy bad breath in combination with tea tree and peppermint essential oils. Yeah, very, very interesting. It can reduce esophageal, geocancellar risk. Lemon, like all citrus fruits, contain physiologically significant levels of flavoynes. And flavoyne intake has been found to be inversely associated with cancer. And also it was good for oral yeast infections like Candida, HIV, AIDS, even. Wow. Can help with that. Can help to dissolve kidney stones. Yeah, I didn't know that. That's interesting. Well, again, because it's acidic. Yeah, right, right. It can reduce inflammation, and that's a really important thing. Anything that can take away inflammation is... And the lemon is a heart protector. And we know that anytime you have antioxidants and the power of vitamin C, many people believe that the cardiovascular tree is cleansed and protected through vitamin C. Yeah, it can also protect against cholera, the pathogen that causes cholera is reduced. And the other thing I like people to realize is that having that lemon a day is probably a great way to protect the oxidation of your cholesterol. Remember, cholesterol is not the bad guy. And the LDL is not the lousy cholesterol. You want LDL. You need your hormone shuffled. Especially the big puffy ones. Yeah, you just want to say puffy. And you do that by having a little squeeze of lemon. So you know that idea of why you're having your coffee. And I have to remember to do this sometimes, because I really just want to have my coffee in the morning. Is to make a lemon juice shot. And you can put different things in it, but at least get the lemon in the water. Yeah, also can lift your mood and reduce anxiety. And that was also a bergamot. Bergamot essential oil is used to lift the spirit. And the last thing is it can help you maintain an ideal weight. Excuse me, weight. Yep, and help prevent insulin resistance. I guess that's our show, guys. Yeah, well, thanks a lot for sticking around. We'll see you next time. Have a wonderful day and stay healthy. Pick up some Brian Lodge and give my newsletter, please. See ya.