Welcome back. You're still watching the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa and following the signing into law of the amended Electoral Act by President Muhammad Buhari, Nigeria's Electoral Empire, the Independent National Electoral Commission. This week released the timetable and shadow of activities for Nigeria's 2023 general election and also published the notice of election as required by law. However, there are indications that individuals and groups hoping to float new political parties may have to sit the elections out. As the Independent National Electoral Commission has closed the window for fresh registrations. As it stands, only the currently registered 18 political parties will be participating in the 2023 polls. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Faisal Koye, said the commission won't accept or process any new application for registration of political parties for the 2023 election. Or does this mean a spanner in the works of proponents of a third force to challenge Nigeria's two biggest political parties, the ruling of Progressive Congress and the opposition People's Democratic Party? To help us answer this, another question I'd like to welcome. On the breakfast, Ezekiel Ingeituk, who is a public affairs analyst. Mr. Ingeituk, thank you very much for your time. Ezekiel Ingeituk, please check your audio. We cannot hear you, so you probably may have to unmute. Apologies for that. It happens with Zubuk. Thank you very much. I always feel privileged to be on Plus TV. I'm always very happy when I'm on Plus TV. I don't know why, but I just feel good. Can we call you Obong Ezekiel Ingeituk? Is that art? No, I am Utwe Konk. Utwe Konk is actually about the highest title. It's like Haru Onaka Kanfo, like the general. Fantastic. All right, all right. Interesting. So when one comes to Iran, they should be careful because you might have to deal with you. So your thoughts on this information coming as far as the 22 and three elections are concerned. Is this the end of any possible third force, at least for 2023? No. As a matter of fact, it is definitely not. I am one of the, one of the forefront of the third force. And I've been a national chairman of a party before, so I understand very well. It seems I am, I hope I'm being heard. Yes, sure. Okay, good. So I want to tell people from the beginning, we knew that INEC will not register any new political party. So we don't need a new political party. What you need is one, two, three existing parties agreeing to come and work together. And within that context, any party can say, I want to change my name. I want to change my logo. I want to change my manifesto. The person is already in the house and INEC can affect those changes any time, any day, within a certain time limit where before the ballot are printed. So it does not in any way foreclose the alignment that will form the third force, which is actually what is happening. I can tell Nigeria for free that we are going to have on the third force basket, one, two, three strong candidates that are going to be driving their parties. And when you go towards maybe September or thereabout, they are going to come together and form that third force. Now the vehicle that they are going to use is still left the way we are going to decide in front. But what I can tell Nigerians for free is that they are going to have a credible option that will be referred to as the third force on the ballot. So how can this thing be? I mean, this is the question. No, let me not say it's not a question. It's the easiest thing to do. What that means is that when the one, two, three strong parties decide that this is the person they want to build, they have a choice to adopt one platform, say ADC, for instance. Or they can say, okay, ADC, we take you, but we want to change the logo or we want to change the slogan or we want to even change the name completely. Now all they need to do is give the information, which is a resolution of the Congress of the party, that we will change our logo, we will change our name, we will change whatever status we want to change and we want to henceforth be known by this. INEC will withdraw the former certificate and give them a new certificate. For instance, when I was a national chairman of a young democratic party, we had a tractor as our logo. We wrote INEC that we didn't want to have a tractor, wanted to have a light bulb because this was like a new generation kind of thing and light, you know, bulb signifies ideas and creativity and INEC obliged. So that is not registering a new party, that is simply a change of the logo or the name. So it's an internal affair with INEC that has nothing to do with registering a new party. That is allowed anytime, any day, maybe within a period before the ballot are printed because the moment INEC goes to print the ballot, I mean for very reasonable reasons, you cannot do such changes. But for now, there's ample room up to maybe when names are submitted, probably up to October, up maybe November, maybe December, but from January, INEC is thinking in terms of the final names on the ballot, so that's not the best time for them to start thinking in terms of changing anything for a party. So it's an administrative procedure of INEC which does not present any challenges whatsoever. All right, interesting Otwe Kong. It sounds easy from what you're saying, straightforward that, you know, political party can be volunteered as a, that a political party can be, can offer itself as a third-force party for people to just come and take over. We know the legacy members of the Up Progressives Congress. Only God knows where all of them are right now. I don't know if a party, an already existing party, will want itself to be taken over simply because of the idea of a third-force. And these parties have their rules, they have their their manifesto, they have their ideology, if they, if it exists, they also have their logo. For instance, Labour Party had offered itself, but said it to never change its logo, never merge with any other party. They've been one of the stronger parties along with ABGA in Nigeria and then maybe the SWL CPC. So you think it's going to be easy for any of these parties, even ADC, that seems to be making some noise and attracting some good names, do you think that any of them will sell, will give ourselves up? I mean, will it be that easy and that straightforward? I'll tell you two things. Number one is that I have been, at the stage, I was actually the chairman of the major committee. So at another stage, a later stage, because it's been evolving at different levels, okay? At a bigger stage, the chairman of ADP was the chairman. Somewhere along the line, probably one of the last phases, the chairman of ADC was the chairman. So these chairmen are already talking. And when a party says we will never, please don't take that party serious, politics is a game of interest that has no fixed neighbors. Even the Democratic Party in the U.S., something might happen. A crop of young people might come up and say, well, for 200 years, you've done it this way. It is our time. We want to add this. And they probably bring a new dynamic that has to do with maybe the IT and they add something to it. So parties are not cast in stone. It is the ideologies of the parties that drive which way it goes. Then secondly, I want to say that when you talk in terms of which is the big party, you know, we can say a lot of things, but I want to give you a fact. The fact is that in 2019, which is the latest polls that we had, APC came first, PDP came second, and please do your check against the party that came third. That's the party that came third. I don't know if that's surprising to you, but you know, I will not come and say something that- No, of course, the facts are there, so. Yes, secondly, of all the aspirants that are coming out, quality aspirants, they are either in PDP with a largely speculative, or they are in APC, or they are in ADC. That's also a fact that you can attest to as are today. They're either in APC, PDP, or ADC. Why is that so? Thirdly, not long ago, the youth of Nigeria decided to look for the youth-friendly party they want to get into. These are also facts you can verify. And guess what? ADC won with a humongous margin, a wide margin. The youth say, for instance, ADC tells the youth, we give 35% appointments as a party policy to the youth. We give 35% appointments as a party policy to the women, and then we cut the fees, or you want to buy forms, by 50% for all the youth. So they've shown themselves, and they even created the fourth- Nigeria has six geopolitical zones. ADC has seven, which is- Okay, so- It has- Let's begin to look at this first, of course, we know that INEK, with the electoral bill, INEK is acting in accordance, because you're not expected to register political parties ahead of the 2023 elections. But like you have rightly mentioned, some of this party that constantly dominate the political scene, we know of two dominant parties you have mentioned a few, and this might probably have one or two structures in different states in the country. Don't you think that we should be moving towards having a two-party system, rather than have 18 political parties on the ballot sheet? He saves us all of the energies, and money costs, and all of that. Some people have argued that this is a time where we should be moving towards having a two-party system, rather than waste our resources and multi-party system, because if you look at it, some of these political parties do not even have the structure, as it were, across the entire states of the Federation.  Over the weekend, there was, you know, in the by-elections. In one of the states, a guy who was popular with the people went for a PC ticket. He was denied, flatly denied, and they gave it to who they wanted to give it to. The guy, damn it, moved over to PRP. And guess what? He won the election. He moved over to PRP, and he won the election. You know, the things that we look at as structures and systems, we get it wrong. Structures and systems are the people. For instance, if Gola Atme Tinubu moves over to an unknown party overnight, that party becomes a relevant party in the Southwest overnight. If a man like Kwankwa Soh moves into any party that you've never entered, overnight, that party has structures all over. So the concept of structure has to be seen not within the context of the, you know, already existing two main parties. How do you explain that cross-reverted that was PDP? Just by one man crossing over to a PC win elections? Just by one man? How do you explain the fact that a man like him in a state, you know, who was a piece, he moves over to PDP, and he wins the election. So the concept of structure has to be reassessed, reappraised, and re-understood within the context of the people. But, Ezeka, you can also take out the fact that... Let me just land on this. This pet force, you said, they don't have structure. All we need is one, two, three good people. Because in PDP, they are good people. In PDP, they are good people. Is this people to say enough is enough? Let's realign RPDP, RAPC, they come together overnight. That party becomes a strong party with structures right down to the walls. Interesting, Ezeka. Just a quick one from you. A quick one. Are you saying that there are certain political parties that are meeting to merge? Just a quick one, yes or no? Oh, yes, yes. I can say that with every sense of responsibility. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. But let me just add the last thing. We're out of time, sir. Apologies. Apologies. Apologize, please, please. Thank you very much, Ezeka. We'll have you again. He is a public affairs analyst at O2.com. Messi can give you the explanation of that. I can, but I would for now. It's been a through having you on the breakfast today right here on Plus TV Africa. Well, amazing one. That's so much that we can take with definitely every 10 tomorrow. The time is 7 to 9 o'clock. If you missed out on any part of the conversation, that's all right to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. And do subscribe to YouTube channel. 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Welcome back I've been lucky enough. I've been reading this great book that it's not fiction. It's It's called the three halves of eno mo show Teachings of the wizard of the upper Amazon Amazing book as you probably know, I've already shared a couple Talks from it. Good talks out there. So There's a lot to learn so those of you out there who stick your noses in the air thinking like oh What do I have to learn from? Primitives right like obviously I'd be surprised if anybody like that is subscribed to me honestly I mean, maybe there are people like that. That's fine. You know, you can have your own point of view like we're more refined We don't need this but honestly speaking like You just you should just give it a shot and the rest of you I think you probably are interested most people who'd be subscribed to me who like art and Original style Stylistic music something that where I have my own attacks.  Well, if you're old This is not a young person's book. You know, I could have read this when I was it was 18 and It would have been Much harder to understand I could have read it though, you know, you could read it at that age. I don't think it would be bad I think you do it still be great at Even as a teenager to read the book nonetheless You know, it is a rather mature book so with that Preface I had to preface this book You know, I don't just jump right in and start giving you all of the honey right away, you know, you have to Bite a little bit of gram. All right, so this chapter is an Amazing chapter. It's gonna be a little bit long. They're about five or six six pages here and It's called our guide gets lost Check this out. I Scan the high bush behind me Not one sign of Yvonne His lateness should concern me I know but it is inevitable After Don Hilda Brando, my memory returns to Don Javier It was in La Baguette restaurant in Pucalpa Less than 100 meters away from the Hotel Teriri Riri where I met that jovial sorcerer Owner of 19 children of his own and four legitimately established tones quote You are very home-loving Don Javier. I smiled at him That's what they say he responded Flattered and some also say that I am 40 years old and that I have 60 million souls You know that the reverse is true my friend Soriano because I have 40 souls and and 60 million years old Again, he smiled He was passing by as usual and as usual was polishing off a glass of San Juan beer Which he interspersed with shots of brandy made with Hipporuru Clevawasca or Chuchu Washa quote the Kampa The Kampa that followed in Inganitari by the thousands Refused to join the gorillas The rebel Luis de la Puente should have told them that he himself was going to fight for a woman unquote and darkening His quiet smile He should have told them that this that he was going to rescue a female That female who some still call I believe some still call liberty How was it then that the Kampa did go to war with? Santos out of Walpa was it because they were other men from another time? I ask The Kampa of today are different and they are the same with time This time is identical Luis de la Puente was the same He was white and he was a Virococha, but in his heart he became an Asheninka Within his soul he relieved he relived Santos Ado Alpa But Santos Ado Alpa did not come to the great Pajonal He came from it Maybe that's what it was Don Javier is my godfather Boasted Felix in sepio while we were navigating toward the Inuya River He protects me he said Stepping off the plane in Adalaya. We came across Some German doctors a couple returning to Pucalpa He climbed the steps toward the twin-engined plane arm-in-arm with his wife with his eyes lost and white We were told without asking that the younger stranger had gone deep into the surrounding area Getting lost in the maze of narrow trails Used by the Kampa He spent a whole night not daring to do anything Wounded by the rain and the darkness Exposed to the sightings of vipers vampires and fear The following afternoon they found him seated leaning against a leafy shiwawako covered with ants insane and Numbered and numbed by panic His wife sobbed while holding his arm Speaking to him and hurrying him into the airplane Quote this is a cursed jungle Someone said the next day Incuding into the anxious group formed by Ivan in sepio Cesar and me Addressing our shining guide in a taunting voice. He said is it not true young Felix? Our jungle is beautiful, but very cursed Full of apparitions of snakes of lizards of Otorongos You know that better than anyone else no Then we found out that some years back Felix in sepio had become lost in that area He wandered about for several days alone without a compass firearms or anything innumerable Expeditions searched for him in vain He had already been given up as dead when he suddenly reappeared a wreck in the path That goes from the cemetery to the town It was two in the morning Taking advantage of his habitual insomnia. I questioned Felix in sepio about it on the night We made camp after the after nearly sinking the canoe But before transcribing what the guide told me I must say something else about Don Javier Five kilometers down river from the mouth of the Unine on the same bank Where the forests of blood would shine Lies the property of an affable Spaniard named Andres Rua Don Andreas Rua is Fifty-ish but looks like his own son He is massive although veined with a wrinkle here and there especially on the hands The tops of his hands are full of white hairs as is his copious mane His mustache is stained by tobacco or by a stubborn probably blonde adolescence His face has uncertain cheekbones Tending toward evening reds Ten years ago He was given up by the specialist in the Lima Hospital to neoplastic diseases Made mute by throat cancer draw dawn Andres Rua Refused to have his larynx removed quote.  He came across Don Javier with no hope at all about his cancer He limited himself to consulting Don Javier about a circulatory difficulty that painfully affected his joints in Exchange for boarding with him for a few days. He was prescribed an infusion of garapa de kosha a Spiny vine abundant in the trees of that region Drinking daily from that golden water Don Andres Rua healed not only his circular afflictions To the amazement of the cancer specialists who incredulously examined him The garapa de kosha had stopped the death gnawing at his throat When I was introduced to Don Andres Rua in the bar of the Grand Hotel de Sousa in front of the central square of Atalia he could already drink cold beer and smoke fearlessly and he laughed and spoke with a voice only distantly scratchy and now Let's hear Felix Insepio's story From the strapping coppery proud God son of Don Javier Quote that afternoon. I was traveling to Puccaupa. I had my seat in the airplane already reserved. I Was flying for the first time my godfather Don Javier wanted to give me that experience out of affection Since it was early to kill time and to say goodbye to the jungle as I thought I was leaving it forever I decided to take a stroll The previous night I had dreamed about Juan Gonzales Juan Gonzales told me not to travel. He told me that in the dream But I did I took a stroll as you see me now without boots or machete I got lost because of my pride in thinking I knew everything. I Followed a wide path for a long time Looking here and there to the better-looking branches Saying goodbye to them. I considered returning and Did not and did turn around to go back when the sun was burning bright in the middle of the sky directly above me I looked upon a madhouse An infinity of identical trails spread before me crossing each other Partly guessing I picked one Praying that it would be mine. I walked and walked worse Then I heard the noise of my arriving plane I went faster. I became became tired without a veil I kept going Nothing Before I realized it Suddenly it was dusk and I told myself Felix You are lost Now more than ever You must be in sapeo You must be the son of your father and your mother You must remain calm Because you should know that even the smallest animals Can smell fear If you let fear take you over You are a dead man The tigers will hunt you the rattlesnakes and even the bees will hunt you And I sat to one side of the trail To breathe deeply To calm myself down Slowly I became calmer I searched for a tree to sleep in before it became dark Away from the reach of wild animals The snakes already began to be heard Invisible among the dry leaves on the ground The rattles murmured I selected a tree A medium-sized young chari coilo I climbed it There I spent the night tied to the highest branch With a rope I used as a belt I hardly slept I came down with the first light Again I walked and walked But this time I began to eliminate trails as the Kampadu The Ashaninka Cracking small branches to the right as I went in the direction of my travel In that way when the trails appeared to confuse me again I could tell thanks to the broken branches Which trails I had already traversed and which I had not I discarded trails until sunset Again I selected another tree Because the night came so suddenly it gave me no time I had to climb the nearest one A medium thick one rising next to a Tsangapiya Have you ever seen a Tsangapiya? It is a beautiful plant It is a bush that produces only one flower A single one And that flower is enormous With an orange color And a delightful perfume And it is a hot flower The skin of the Tsangapiya petals is warm Just as you're hearing it That flower is very hot It appears to be more an animal than a flower When you cut it It begins to cool very slowly Gradually losing its perfume as well As they lose their heat They lose their aroma or vice versa It is the same Once cut Once plucked from its stem That Tsangapiya flower doesn't live more than seven days That happened to me A week after I was lost My soul began to get colder I started losing my courage I lost all hope I had to hurry Drawing strength from I know not where I climbed the nearest tree Just to one side of the Tsangapiya Darkness prevented identification But judging by the wrinkles of its bark I believed it was a Tortuga Caspi The cursed tree was thick At least it was criss-crossed by ropes It's trunk covered by chaotic hairy vines Holding on to them I began to climb I barely reached the top With a little A little breath left Sweating and cursing It was then I lost my belt A rope newer than this one I'm carrying now It was so high that perhaps it was not a Tortuga Caspi Could it have been a Machimango? Perhaps Because I was received by a pleasant odor When I reached the height As high as possible I leaned against one of its branches Half dead from sleeplessness And hunger and close to suffocation I could not sleep that night either A tremendous itch invaded my shoulders The back of my legs My neck and my waist I almost jumped in desperation It was so dark I could not distinguish anything I swept my right hand over my back Scratching myself madly In the full darkness And smelled my fingers They smelled of pure stinking acid That tree was the home of ants A nauseating nest of Ishinchimis Great ants that make up for their lack of venom With a fetid and painful sting I wished that I were a bullet And the trunk was greased So I could come down faster I grasped a vine and started to slide down cursing I don't know how in the hell the vine broke As I was still grabbing it with my hands And I fell all the way to the ground It was night I could not see I could not judge the distance to the ground That is why I crashed standing up Without bending my knees Like a poor ass Stiffer than a spear I wanted to be a bullet But it is so funny Instead of a bullet, I came down like a spear That is where I damaged my spine I doubled over with pain That I don't want to remember With my face lying on the soil I heard the snakes Very near Surly Disporting themselves on the wet grass Dry and wetted by the drizzle And I could not even stand up I could not even stand up for several hours To this day, I don't know why the snakes did not bite me Finally, when I could stand the pain I rose halfway and thought The only way out was to keep on walking I had no strength left to climb trees I walked and walked in the darkness Feeling my way with my foot to avoid Strain from the path And going deeper into the woods I searched for hard soil For the hardness of the compressed soil in the path Shunning the softness of the grass Which would lead me nowhere Walking in this way Covered my face with cobwebs Several hours later Sleepy against my will I leaned on a pomegranate Which had a strong nice smell There I was bitten by a vampire in this arm It was lucky that I woke up Because these vampires are noiseless They are not betrayed by their wings Or their bite Their saliva first numbs you And they need not suck your blood With their saliva They also put an anti-coagulant In the bite and your blood oozes out While you feel nothing I was lucky to wake up Thanks to the fact that again I had a dream about Juan González that night I dreamed I was floating in mid-air Floating just before falling down With the ground far below me When Juan González peered out from behind the sun And said, you have to walk I told him, how could I With no path below my feet He shouted, you have to keep walking And pushed me with his right hand Which was very warm And his hand was at Sangapia flower It was the smell of his hand that woke me up Frightened and not comprehending I started walking again Holding my wet sleeve My shirt warmed by the blood Somewhat further on I came across a clearing in the darkness A black space full of small fixed lights Like eyes that were watching me Fireflies Eye and yawies Eyes of the dead They could not be They did not twinkle Neither could they be tigers pupils So close together I panicked I was frightened And at the same time Controlled my fright If they smell all my fear They will kill me, I thought I reached out to the closest little lights They did not move I touched them They were branches I breathed deeply and felt relieved It was moss that accumulated on the Cavities of dead trees Moss that is nothing during the day And goes unnoticed But at night Shines better than 100 little lamps I went back to walking with confidence Always feeling my way with my foot in the darkness I came across a creek Drink like a madman And lay down in the grass Then I remembered If I follow the course of the creek Sooner or later I will reach a bigger river And if I reach that, I am saved Some traveler or some fisherman will rescue me I waded into the water laughing And went walking over the stones In the middle of the creek I was so confused that in order to know Which way the creek was flowing Instead of using a leaf I tore off a piece of my shirt And put it on the water I could not see Touching the strip of cloth that was moving Looking through my fingers I could determine which way the creek was flowing I walked with water up to my chest Sometimes over my head I walked and walked until I could hear Very near in front of me The roar of the ukayali I was about to hurry When I noticed that the creek ended The accursed creek ended Some miles before entering the river It dispersed into a gigantic swamp It was impossible to continue I remembered that swamps are full of snakes And I also remembered that All the creeks, all of the ravines And also the smallest rivulets in that area Are inhabited by the small black deadly Venomous viper called Naka Naka And by another even more ferocious one Called the Yakujergon You guys got to get this book for the glossary alone Trying to cover up my fear I began to backtrack along the creek I went for hours fighting against the current Thinking I would be killed at any instant by a snake Finally I arrived at a clearing Left the creek and collapsed in the grass In surrender I give up, I said But no, I am confused What I am telling you now happened days later On the seventh night Let the critters eat me And I fell unconscious Some time later I thought of my godfather Don Javier I very clearly remembered that one time he told me Godson, when you are in trouble call me Fix your thoughts on me And call me with confidence and I will help you I closed my eyes and began to call him I remained that way for a long time With closed eyes lying on the grass calling him I felt nothing, I heard nothing I opened my eyes and saw nothing I raised my head Then I saw Then I saw through the ceiling of branches Ahead of me a multitude of yellowish lights Like oil or kerosene lamps over the huge trees They must be my friends I said to myself to give myself courage They must have hung their lanterns In the crown of the highest Lupuna to orient me I started walking in the direction of the lamps Later entering another clearing in the forest I could have a better look They were not lamps It was the moon Shattered very high behind the branches A cursed moon I yelled knowing well that it was not the real moon I had seen but only its reflection in my soul The reflection of the lamps What my hope wished to see I collapsed this time forever on the grass But right then immediately I thought that Don Javier had made me believe that they were lanterns That they were signal lamps So that I could return to him And that way driven by an idiotic illusion I kept walking toward the moon It was not however an idiotic illusion It was the moon of my godfather That was lighting my way and dictating my path I did not walk in vain Further on I was stopped by laughter The laughter came from the left And one could hear it clearly It was the laughter of Don Javier I deviated from the path that led in the direction of the moon It was a full moon I shall never know why it shone so in that sky Because it was not its time Neither shall I know why I could never see it In the previous nights or those that followed I followed a very narrow trail to the left At this hour of night I wondered At this hour of night my godfather is living it up Surely he must be with a young woman I thought then forgetting that my godfather Could not be anywhere around Because he was waiting for me in Puculpa And in spite of days without food or sleep Seven days of fasting like a sorcerer Feeding myself only with a piece of plantain And with ravine water I moved resolutely toward the laughter Forcing my way between the branches And pushing away vines and bushes I could not see I could hear the laughter more clearly Every time I became discouraged When I heard it I recovered my determination I went after it with renewed persistence And I heard the laughter ever closer, sharper, clearer That was the way in which I returned Safe and sound when everyone had given me up for dead Once again, Tom's gauntlet with you Reading from the three halves of Eno Mosho Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon Published by Inner Traditions


If you've recently done an exam that hasn't gone the way you wanted then taking a little bit of time to reflect can go a long way. I think taking a day or a week or even longer than that to sort of process what's happened and you know feel bad about what's happened has its own place. But then after that I think it's really important to shift the focus onto what you can do to prevent this from happening again in the future. Taking even five minutes to reflect on what happened as opposed to just blocking it out of your head and throwing it behind you can really help for your next exam.


Ever eaten a cockroach? Ever eaten a what? Cockroach? Cockroach? Eating a cock? Melt chicken!   Can you post that on Instagram? It's the guy I'm into now! It's the guy I'm into now! It's Joe, he's- It's Joe, he's- It's the guy I'm into now! It's the guy I'm into now! It's the guy I'm into now! It's the guy I'm into now! It's the guy I'm into now! It's the guy I'm into now! What do you want a movie review? Oh, you know what? The classics are over. Oh man. Forever, till next February. Yeah, we're never watching another one. Not again, till next February. Joke! Anyways, so we are watching, we watched, trapped, finally. It took forever, but only because I couldn't find it. It was trapped somewhere. It's not available, I think it's available in India on Amazon, but it is not available in the United States on Amazon. Nope. I had to go on Amazon, find the DVD, but I had to go to Amazon Canada, because you can actually switch on Amazon through different countries. You can get Amazon India, Amazon Canada. I went on Amazon Canada, and I found the DVD, and so that's how we were able to watch it. It's been recommended to us since we've watched Rajkumar. Since we saw the trailer. And I remember when we saw the trailer, we were like, want to watch that. Do you remember when we saw the trailer and we didn't realize it's Rajkumar Rao? Of course. But I don't think at the time we knew Rajkumar Rao. But even still- I think we thought it was Vijay Rao. Probably. But even still, after a while, I knew Rajkumar, and then I was like, yeah, when you watch Trapped, and then it's- I almost didn't realize that it was Rajkumar in the trailer. So later. Yeah, because we haven't been as familiar at the beginning as we are now, obviously, with the Rajkumar Rao. But yes, Trapped. It is- Hold on. Where is it? Is that it? 2016, it looks like film. Yeah. Hindi film. A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself in a high-rise devoid of food, water, and electricity. Yep. Yep. And it's directed by, say his name? Vikramaditya Mathutwani. I know he's not the guy who directed Devdas, but is he the guy who directed- Yes. Same guy who directed Udayan. And I'm assuming other- I don't know if it's same guy as Queen as well. Same guy. I know he was part of it, but I don't know if he directed it. No, he was part of it. Yeah. But yeah, so he directed Udayan as well, obviously starring Rajkumar Rao, and then a small appearance by- Yeah, by Geetanjali Sapa. Yes. Who plays Noori. It's only 90 minutes. And it's produced by obviously, one of the big things right at the beginning is you see the logo and you know it's coming from Anurag Kashyap, a company. Where is this at? Phantom. Right? That's what it is? Yep. But Anurag Kashyap, it's going to be a spoiler review. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. Once again, really short. It's on Amazon, I believe, in India, so go check it out and then come back.   I don't know why it was so difficult to find. With a star as big as Rajkumar Rao, it's weird to me. Very strange. And produced by Anurag. Very strange. Very weird. But anyways, so Rick, your initial thoughts. Well, I'm having a hope before we go into this. So we'll see if my hope is fulfilled. So I'll tell you the hope after I say. Okay. I didn't like it. Okay. Did you like it? I did. Okay, great. That was my hope. My hope was we would have a disagreement about it, as to what we liked and what we didn't dislike. Well, I didn't love it, but I liked it. Okay, I didn't like it. Okay. Yeah. Now, I like Rajkumar. Okay. As everything we've ever seen him do. Even, for example, you pointed out your least favorite thing from him as far as White Tiger, but he was still enjoyable. Yeah. Okay. I, same here. For me, there were so many things that strained credulity and the believability aspect for me that I couldn't stay engrossed in a story that was just not believable for me. It felt, and as a premise, the originality factor for me was, this was the exact same premises cast away. It's just put in an apartment. Well, that's a very different situation in an apartment. It is, but it's the same story. He has a relationship with somebody.  That's cast away. And he talks to a rat instead of a soccer ball. I mean, a volleyball. Well, that was one scene. I know, but the premise is. That was one scene. Cast away. Well, there's lots of films that have the same premises. Oh, I know, but here. I mean, I think it was, I've never seen this story because obviously. True. In America, you wouldn't have this.  It would only work, I think, in this situation. Yeah, but there were so many. I just nonstop things where I was like, okay, so why, why are we doing this? Really? That's not noticed. That's not noticed. That's not noticed. Well, that's not noticed. But you tell me what you liked about it first because I have a long list of those things that just strained carnuity for me. One, I really enjoyed Raj Kumar. I did too. Obviously, I think he did a phenomenal job. I enjoyed the simplicity of the story and I think it just, I would have loved it if it would have actually gone farther in terms of making me even more uncomfortable. I always enjoyed it. Did you even get uncomfortable? Well, I don't like it when people drink their urine. Yeah. And we'll get to that in a second. Or eat rats. You know, I don't enjoy those, but I just, I wish it would go farther. Like Castaway, even though I wasn't a huge fan of Castaway, the certain moments that just irked you. Like when he took his tooth out or there's a whole bunch of different moments like that. So I thought it was well done. I would have liked a different ending. I think going back in the department, I didn't really enjoy that. That's just my personal taste. I don't like it.  Would have just... I thought it was going to end at that point when he walked past the guard and he's just walking about into the city and looking around. I thought that was going to be the end. But I thought he did a really good job. It takes a certain kind of actor to actually carry a film that you're basically the only one in. Yeah. And obviously he's a very talented actor who can absolutely do that. And I feel like he did do that quite well. And yeah, but overall it was a very, very simple story. It was no... One of the most simple stories I think we've ever watched. Yeah. And the simplicity isn't... I love the simplicity of the story. I love the concept. That's why I had high expectations for this thing. Gotcha. But there were so many things that I thought of while watching it that I couldn't imagine why Rajkumar Rao or Anurag Kashyap or any of the other creative team and the writers and the director didn't go another step to get rid of those things for me. Even like you mentioned the fact that he drinks his pee. Okay. His pee, he was hydrated when he peed. He wouldn't have been hydrated after that long without water. His pee should have been a very dark yellow. And seeing that instantly drew my attention to why am I supposed to believe he's been without water for three days and he's going to the point where he's drinking his own pee when he's not dehydrated? There were dozens of instances like that that pulled the believability out for me. Interesting. So, and I don't want to go on a tirade of it was also this and also this, but I literally, I've got at least 12 different points in the film where something like that happened. And my thought was why didn't anybody notice this to fix that? Because anybody in survival mode, anybody in this situation, there's so many moments I was like, okay, why didn't he think of that? Why isn't he doing that? Why aren't they noticing that? Where did the debris for the television go? What, so that believability is the number one thing for me, not just in the performance of an actor, but in a film. So if there are things for me that pull me away in the believability factor, I can't, I can't become engrossed in the story. I think that's one of the things that with survival films is you're always supposed to be questioning like, why didn't you do that? You do that with Castaway. I always do that with survival films. I'm like, okay, why don't, because this is what I would do. I'll be sure, because like if he saw that thing, I was like, I'm pretty sure I could scale that thing. But you know, certain people might not. If one, they might be too short or they might be scared of heights and they might go, because like if you look down, it's like, that would be my way out because I'm pretty sure I could go down like that. So that's one of my favorite things about like zombie films or whatever, things that you have to survive. It's like, you question it all the time. I question all those films, because I'm like, okay, I would have done this. Well, yeah, of course. But not just why did you make that decision, I would have made that decision. So for example, I made a list of other films I've seen that for me are like way superior in terms of believability and one person stories or two person stories of survival. Robert Redford and All Is Lost is spectacular. There's no flaws in that movie. And he has one line in that film and it was improved. He's in the middle of the film.  There's no other lines. And there's no other people in the movie. It's just Robert Redford lost at sea. I also love the movie. Obviously when I mentioned cast away, I remember it was called The Two Towers. It was Nick Cage and another actor and it was about 9-11. The true story of the guys that got stuck at the bottom and the movie is just these two guys. Oh, I've seen it. It's terrible. Stuck and talk of it. But I love that concept. So for example, not just I would have done something different. Here are some of the things that for me were why several times we saw camera shots that show you directly beneath him. Cars, traffic, people. And rather than drop the myriad of things in the apartment that fit through that slot, like the pot, the bricks, the plaster things, the tool he tried to open the door with, the other things, it was the cardboard thing he threw out. I just found it hard to believe that there wasn't the plausibility that he could have tossed any of those heavy objects down into the street or to the people directly below. When the TV went down, it suddenly, if the building been deserted for two years, wouldn't it have struck somebody to see a TV laying at the bottom that clearly had fallen from the top of the place? But it just, the debris disappeared. The debris was just suddenly not there anymore. As well as the fact that did it not dawn on Rajkumar Rao's character when the guy took him to the place, that he's in a completely abandoned building for two years, and that didn't occur to him that there's something odd about this transaction. Maybe he was just blinded by the fact he wanted to be with this girl. But that for me strained crudulity as did not even thinking, okay, so the walls are made of drywall or plaster. They're not going to be concrete at that height. Why doesn't he just kick through the wall and get into the apartments on the other side of them? Those kinds of thoughts and things I was seeing pulled me away from the believability. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah, that's something I would have done is obviously break all the walls. One, I don't know how thick they are, and I don't know what's in between them, but there might be pipes. If it is long enough, you could... There could be beams. Yeah, you could kind of get down via that way. That didn't bother me because there's always stuff like that in survival films. I get what you're saying. And why did the woman, two things, the woman who came over, why didn't she show the sign to the guard when he said, no one's been in here for a while? Why didn't she say, okay, well, I'm over here because I got this? And then when she went in, why did she only go a few flights up and then just randomly decide, I'm just not going to do this? She didn't see anything. Maybe she was on vision in here. I don't know. Yeah, but still, if it's written like that and you found it and you're interested enough to walk over there, that for me was again, it just strained credulity to me that she... So again, I'm not trying to harp it. I'm just trying to give you my explanation. That's what I was hoping for, that we would have a disagreement about the liking of it. I just couldn't get myself into the story, as well as his escape. If you've ever watched Nate get an afraid, if you've been without food for five or six days, these guys barely have the energy sometimes to chop down branch on a tree, let alone repel five stories and then kick a glass door down. Yeah, you could have some level of adrenaline, but every episode I've ever seen of naked and afraid, when you're at that level of malnutrition, which it isn't really malnutrition, you're just undernourished and you have no energy, no protein, no nothing. And I know he had a couple of birds, but it just was very difficult for me to comprehend, and that the door actually just happened to be open for him when he got into the apartment. Well, those doors wouldn't be locked. Well, plausibility for me. At that point, I was like, of course the door is open for him. Well, why would the door be locked? Why, it's abandoned. Yeah, but they had to get a key to get into his apartment. Well, I don't think... I think they actually needed to just push it open. I think that I don't remember if they actually used the key or not. For me, it was that... Those were just the myriad of things for me. I was like, like I said at the outset, for me it was cast away without the believability, but except for Rajkumar, he, with what he got, like he does all of the time, did a very good job with everything that he got. I thought he did it ahead of Rajkumar. He's a dedicated actor. And he's one of the most versatile actors. Who can do pretty much anything he handed. And he obviously has the ability to carry a film as a lead, as a supporting character. For all of that, this shows you how good of an actor he is. For all of those things that bothered me, I didn't want to turn it off, because I still wanted to keep watching him. Yeah, yeah, he was, I had to really... I enjoyed this film because I was going in it and I was like, okay, this is a revival film. And I enjoyed those aspects of it. I didn't have much questions. I mean, there was, same amount of questions I would have, as I did for cast away, which I told you about, I'm actually a huge fan of cast away. I never was. But in terms of those style of films, zombie films as well, I have those exact same questions. And that's just, I think, the genre. And so I just assume that's how it is, because I always assume I'm smarter than the person in the movie. True, but like for all is lost with Robert Redford or cast away, there weren't any moments in there where I thought, that's not believable. I believed everything I was watching. I haven't seen those. Yeah, but I will say this, you know, the moment where he's going to eat the cockroach, and I thought that was great to include in the story, The Hallucination. I thought that was really great, the survival guy coming into the place. Yeah. But the best cockroach eating scene, in my opinion, in cinematic history, is Nicholas Cage in Vampire's Kiss. Which Vampire's Kiss, have you ever seen that movie? I don't watch Vampire's Kiss. You won't watch Nick Cage. I know. Vampire's Kiss is one of the corkiest, funniest, dumbest movies you'll ever see. And it's because of how insane Nicholas Cage gets. He's a guy who has convinced himself he's turning into a vampire. That sounds like Nick Cage.  But he really thinks it's happening. So he starts doing vampire things. So it starts with him doing, you know, staying up late. And there's this moment, and if this was Nick Cage's idea, the scene, just look it up. Nick Cage eating a cockroach. The scene will pop up. It's a real cockroach. And it was Nick's idea to do it. He eats a cockroach on camera. Could you eat a cockroach? I could. There's very little I couldn't do on camera.  No question. You? Yeah, I think the hardest thing would be... Would you take the role? Oh, no, this. Yes. No, nothing. I'm not talking film though. I'm talking film. If you were in this situation... Oh, I'd do anything. Yeah. Drinking the pee would be the hardest thing. I could probably eat the rat. I could probably eat the pig, obviously. I've watched enough Bear Grylls and I've done enough hunting that I'd drink in my own pee wouldn't be a big deal. Doing something like taking elephant dung and squeezing the liquid out of it to drink it, that I would do it, but man, would that be hard. I could, I would eat an eyeball because I know I could hydrate that way. So to survive, there's very few things I think I would ever look at in a life-and-death situation and say I'm not going to do that. But you never know until you're in a life-and-death situation. I don't know if I could drink my urine. That's gross. Yeah, easy. I could do that. I could do that right now if you ask me to. Gross. No, I'm not going to ask you to do that. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film. Let us know what should be the next Rajkumar Rao film. He's got a lot and a lot of movies. We're going to watch all of them. That they're good, good ones. I don't know. You guys know which one's the good one? I don't. I know Shahid or it might be, it might be Shahid. Kapoor? No, he has a film. Oh, he has a film. I think it's with Hansel. Because it's Okar and Shahid. Okay. I think of the, I think they're similar stories as well. But I know he's done a bunch of... And he has a new one coming out that we just saw the trailer for. Yeah. Yeah. That horror one. It looks great. Yeah, it's the makers of Street. And Kaipoche with Sushant. That was one of their earlier films. Yeah, we need to see that one. 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