Hey everyone shaper 1000 here today. We got this drill. Well, it's not a drill. It's a it's an impact driver It's a bower it's from Harbor Freight. I gave 40 bucks for this back in 2018 I think it was so it's going on five years old The first thing that happened to it was the LEDs went out the front. There's three LEDs in the front of this thing One there one there and one there now That didn't bother me too much But the problem now is the trigger You got to really push real hard and sometimes it gets stuck Like there, that's all the fat. That's all the trigger you got Like right there. You got to really push on it so We're gonna take this apart and see what's wrong with it still got you know A good battery life in it. I've only charged this thing like three times since I've had it and I use it a lot So that's what we're going to do. We're going to try to see if we can't figure out What's wrong with this trigger? I'm going to use my 62 and 1 precise electric screwdriver set. I use this quite a bit. This thing is handy. I did a review on it soon All right guys, let's go ahead and jump into this. Let's get it taken apart Let's see what we can do with it. Okay. I got my light set up here I don't know how well me you can see the reflection here, but Maybe if I move that up there that'll help. I don't know so anyway, let's go ahead and Open our little tool pouch up here. This is rechargeable Like I said, I've done a review on it. I've used this thing several times This thing's amazing. I love this thing you got a little magnet here You can put your screws on so they don't So they don't roll all over the place. We'll set that there Now let's see what this takes We need to take this off first so Like I said, it's not working properly It's almost You know, you don't even want to use it. So If if we can't fix it, you know, it's 40 bucks. I'll get another one slaps me four years That's $10 a year. You know, you can't do that with a Milwaukee or the walled or Makita All right, so it looks like we've got Torrex in the front there. They might all be the same, but let's just see Get along one here. I'm sure what size This tray is magnetic too next size. I think the other this one might be too big and it is okay Now let's get our little tool out here and then it Locks into place Magnetically, it's got a light on it. Of course, it's very quiet because it's so tiny that off bit Okay, let's see if these are the same size These ones are so smooth these over two different kind of screws so far Okay, so anyway This is the same size. It just had some dirt in it So I got it. It just wiggled it a little bit So far Think these are all the same size Yeah, I'll get this one now So much gunk in there.  I still got two four six seven more. So Now I got five more. So I'll speed you up This screw here does not have to come out. There's a place for it on either side That's to hang a metal clip so you can hang it off your belt. I don't you know, I don't use it So I don't have it on there All right, so let's see if we can get this apart here This is a 20 volt. I guess that's for 40 bucks. It has been very good to me. So All right, here's the problem. It's a piece of plastic there That may have been it may have been sticking down in there and keeping the The trigger from going all the way and I don't know what it's from It's not from it's not from here. I think that was it. Let's stick this back on here. Let's try it I don't know where it came from. I mean it wasn't surprising me because I have dropped this thing the height of the house before on to the driveway out there and it still worked fine Guessing I was guessing off that trigger, but I don't see any brook on there, but that was sticking there and I'm guessing that's what it was There's another piece. Let me see something here. It's not off of that because and it is at first one was first started acting out It saw this don't look that great It It didn't want to switch from forward to reverse Came out of there came out of the inside of here. Is that light helping any? Yeah, see she came out of the inside of there So that's what happened to that But it's kind of it really can't go anywhere You know what I mean? It's kind of snug in there That may have happened Of course, you know plastic gets old and brittle especially, you know if you're in a real warm climate Area like you know we're in Florida, so it's always hot no matter what I do with this thing. It's always hot slain in the sun But I think that's what it was these were keeping this from Let's put this on here Back on here. Let's try it out. It's a quick video for you Monkey asked me the other day if I was gonna do a video day for Christmas until Christmas.  That's it See before remember we was only getting about right there and had to push real hard. We got it Okay, now Let's just go ahead and put this thing back together I know you should pull the battery out Yeah, I'm putting this one This one up top. So that way if I ever have to drill it out It'll be easier to get to so put it up here on top but yeah, I Didn't check them lights, but I'm not Like I said, I'm not gonna worry about these lights They were the first thing to go and I was like wow But I had had it almost a year before they went so all right. Let's get you sped up Okay, so I want to show you something this when you're Lot of the restorer guys restoration guys and And the people that that restore tools they'll tell you because if you if you're gonna be taking if you think you might be taking something apart again And you just screw and screws into Plastic it'll strip out pretty much first or second time So what I'm gonna do I'll show you what they do and what I've done for years But it was good to hear them talking about it was Okay, when you start not a good angle, but when you start that screw back it backwards until you I don't know if you can see that Let me see if I can get you in here a little better shot Okay, now see back it up and you'll feel click it might not be the best one, but I can feel it like clicking Sometimes you can see it go until you felt click and then it'll start right in Just like that. Let's let's see if we can do one more here for you So you put it in there and you can and if you just start screwing Well, it's gonna make new threads every time then you aren't out of plastic So back it off see it just dropped in it started Now we can Gonna go straight in One more for you In case you didn't see that one And now I'm gonna turn it I'm gonna turn it backwards There dropped in sometimes you can barely feel them, but if you go real loosely you'll feel it Like you'll feel it going and then it'll like drop even if you can't see it. You'll usually Usually feel it drop into that hole and that's where you started at See you don't strip that plastic out there that one dropped in really I know you didn't see that one so All right guys Well, that's pretty much that Make sure these are tight Let's get you back out here again I got touch screen on this thing and I can zoom in and out It's a little oops It's a little slower than if I just use the button, but the button I've got my Shotgun mic on and it kind of covers up The regular button up there and you got a kind of feel for but All right, so There we go. That was that was our problem right there Right there I can't see that going anywhere. I mean That's what it was. Let's try it one more time. Very nice I am very happy with that. I like when jobs go good like that. Hey guys, so there you go We fixed it. I am I going to fix this? No, no, I'm not A lot of guys would and there's nothing wrong with that, but as you can see This plastic is shrouded All the way around that handle it can't move up and down. It can't move left and right I mean a little bit, but you know, that's just natural. So I would say when I dropped it off the roof that time That's what happened that plastic got down in there and it wouldn't let the trigger go all the way I would say that's what That's what that issue was from In fact, if you look that trigger there right there I may have been I may have hit something on its way down But yeah, that's uh Yeah, I'm not gonna put those back in. I don't feel a need for it. If more of it breaks off Then I'll do something with it, but I'm gonna worry about it right now.  I appreciate you guys watching I am In this thing I forgot to show you this too It won't slide out until you and this is a metal case Well, it's aluminum. It's an aluminum key. I think I think it's aluminum But it's you know, it's stout so yeah, um Lost track of what I was going to say you guys so anyway Hope you like my light show Of the house.  I don't know But uh, yeah, I worked Two evenings.  So it's not the same thing so So you don't get bored with it and you know monkey and her mom they It was out together for a while monkey had an appointment and then while they was out They went to the mall and did a little Christmas shopping for the grandkids and uh So it looked really pretty for them when they got home so That's what I like about that. I'm just fiddling with this thing Uh, that you know, they can enjoy that. I've been opening wrong into the box guys All this time I've had this thing for what a year. I've been opening that size for food in a sec But yeah, so um I should charge it up. Well, I haven't charged it Uh, well, I can say once. Yeah, I charged it one time when I first got it But I haven't charged it since and I like I said this thing's been a godsend to me. Um I use it quite a bit. We got a lot of little things that Have screws, you know, you got to take a screw up put a battery in something or change the battery or whatnot But so anyway guys again I've got to put this in but I'll go ahead and charge it since it's out I make sure it's charged up for next time Thanks again for watching. Hope you guys this Christmas season is going well. If you don't celebrate Christmas I hope your month is going well And uh, I appreciate all your support And thanks again for watching guys. Uh, Shaybearer the mental legend. I'm gone for now My camera was crooked Sorry guys. I'm not a professional. I'm a youtuber We'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye guys and take care Bonus footage. Okay, so we got these tweezers They came with this kit I don't know how well but you they're very very tiny um Just a little cap that goes on it because this will stab you that's how tiny they are it comes up to it like a needle point so That we've got these plastic little things you can pry off different things your little guitar picks different thicknesses To pry open a phone. I don't have one. Yeah, I do Here, you know to pry off a phone or Not laptop but your notebooks um Also, that's what this for this is for It's also got a little thing here for your Uh, to take memory cards out of like your phone and stuff Just got this little deal Kind of pointy on one side and more around on this side Um, and this is to put on your glass Like for fixing iPhones and stuff you put that suction on there and you and you heat that and you can pop it off I don't do a lot of that because I don't even mess with that kind of stuff But this thing I found really cool It's a magnetizer de magnetizer Uh for those this is for those of you that didn't see my uh video um just Take that stick it through there And magnetizes it now you're trying to get down into something and this keeps sticking to something. What do you do? You de magnetize it run it through that end It's no longer magnetized I just thought that was pretty cool. I wonder if I can magnetize this thing. Let's see. Well, that might not well Yeah, it did magnetize it So let's de magnetize it Run it through here again It's not magnetized anymore Yeah, that's pretty cool Well, this thing's still magnetized There we go Just wanted to throw that in there and show this to you. Oh, this is a C usb-c so Same thing my phone takes I got a little uh light there So when you plug it in, you know, it's charging and then you'll know when it's charged so All right, just a little bonus footage there for you Enjoy the rest of your weekend guys


Video Friday with Art Resin. Whoa! Happy Friday everyone. Rebecca, can you pan down and show them what's going on? Alright, so that's going to pop any second now. Today we're going to talk about how important it is to let your artwork dry, or any of your mediums dry before you resin it. Now sometimes an additional chemical reaction will happen between something that's not dry in the resin and produce more bubbles. Like auto paint? Yeah. If it's auto paint, it actually, if it's not totally dry, this paint used to be white. This paint used to be white. So if you don't let your oils dry long enough, then you could see a bit of a change in color. So just a little tip, something you learned the hard way. Is that why you always use acrylic? Typically? No, I'd, no. I just like acrylic because it dries fast and you can go fast. Well that's what I mean. You're impatient. Okay, see you next week. Video Friday with Art Resin and maybe a baby. Oh yeah. Bye. Bye.


live from Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering Oracle's modern marketing experience. Brought to you by Oracle. Now, here's your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back. We are here live in Las Vegas for Oracle's modern marketing experiences. This is SiliconANGLES theCUBE. This is our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host, Jeff Frick, our next guest, Eric Reynolds. SVP and CMO of the Clorox Company. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much. Good morning, guys. Great to have you on theCUBE. Good to see you on stage. Great to have customers and CMOs on because you're living the dream, as they say in Silicon Valley. So what is the dream? Is it a nightmare? Are you waking up in the middle of the night? What's going on? There's a lot of great possibilities now with data. I mean, you can measure everything now. So you can potentially get everything you need for data. Big ol' stuff going on. What's the state of situation for you? Well, I tell you, it's a bit of both. It's a time of incredible excitement and euphoria and the promise, right? Because everyone's promising everything now, but also enormous fear. I mean, we've been around for over 100 years. CPG is not known for our speed. So, gosh, how do you take something that's kind of old, slow-moving, a successful model, by the way, and then shift it the way consumers are living their lives? We're always trying to catch up with consumers. So it's a bit of both. Fear and excitement. So what are some of the things that are keeping you up at night now? Honestly, you have a big budget. You have objectives. Technology's creeped its way into your world. What are some of the conversations that you're having internally? Well, we're having conversations, I think, similar to most guys like me, which is we have to deliver quarter on quarter. We have to hold and grow share. Most of our categories are slow-growing or low growth. You got to do that while changing out how you market. Very hard to do, deliver the now, prepare for the future, even before the future case isn't quite proven yet. And you know what? And we CPG guys, we love data. We love to be certain. And it's not a time for tremendous certain things. But that's the point, because CPG, you guys have been dealing with data for a long time. In fact, you guys are probably way ahead of the curve in kind of, you know, really managing business to data. That's right. But now it's a whole different set of data. Some you own, some you don't own, some you know the relevance, some maybe the relevance is less defined. And I thought it was interesting in your keynote talking about your 100 year old company, when I was at Intel, it was BKM, best known methods. You know, it was all the ways that they do it, and that worked great for kicking out microprocessors. But it wasn't necessarily built for this dynamic and really kind of changing. And as you said, unknown situation in which we find ourselves. Yeah, I mean, CPG is data rich. We always have been, we're great at retrospective insights. I can tell you exactly what a TV ad does and what they part by what. But now when the mix is changing so fast, it's not just one tactic anymore. How do you harness all that new data quickly to make informed decisions? It's hard to describe just what a seed change that is inside companies like mine, because we're used to being, we really know what we're talking about. Now we kind of know what we're talking about and we're placing bets on the future. It's a new muscle for us. So I got to ask you a question. Some of the tweets from the keynote were pretty compelling. It's some good sound bites. One of them I'd like you to get some, put some color around. You said, digital cannot only be about data and technology. It has to be about the way we work. Talk about what you mean by that. I mean, because you guys work a certain way. You can be kind of slow. You do a lot of TV advertising, a lot of advertising. So advertising is a big part of your business. How are you guys working and how is your work changing? Well, fundamentally, I stand by that comment. We came to a realization quickly that you can buy the data in tech with all respect to my friends at Oracle. It's the organizational change inside. That is the hard part. For example, you have to get people willing to experiment. Do small batch tests to work in very rapid cycles. Hey, we just responded to something on social listening. Let's have it out in two days. These are entirely new ways of working in CPG, which has these enormous long processes. So that has been really hard. So what you say is, okay, if you're committed to the vision, then you have to be committed to changing the way you work. And if you don't, then all that tech just sits in the back and essentially gathers dust. That is the hard piece. And that's quite frankly been the hardest part of it. This is not the data in tech, it's us. It's a super insightful comment. I think that really is what people look at. It's like, what's in it for me? Is there a comment we always hear? You know, hey, what's in it for me? What's for this tech? I got a job to do. So how is that culture changing? Obviously you've got people Instagramming, taking photos, the listening engines are all out there. You could spend your whole life just listening to stuff. What do you listen to? What's important? Well now, because the tech has got to a place where we can constantly listen to all these social feeds constantly, and we have ways of knowing whether this is something real, it says real spike, or just a one-off. So we have, fortunately, someone has figured out how to sift through all this stuff to get the right stuff to us at the right time. The trick is, once we know it, do we have the courage to act on it, or do some marketer who's thoughtful have to go to six layers to me to get a decision to respond? I hope not. But in the past, it was very hierarchical. So that needs to change. That's wild. So another thing that's different with the data, which is kind of an extension of what you guys already did, is the segmentation. Because, right, I'm sure you guys have phenomenal segmentation across your brands. But now, right, it's this vision of the segmentation to one. How are you guys kind of integrating that into the big machine, and how is taking it down to that level changing the way that you guys operate and the way you really look at the world? Yeah, segmentation is going to change. I don't know if CPG will ever get to one-on-one marketing, but we're going to get one to very small clusters. And that is a big journey for us. So what we've had to do is we've had to say, well, let's not try to reconcile all this. We're going to have big strategic targets like for brand positioning and stuff. And now we're comfortable with lots of tactical targets. Tactical used to be a bad word. But through using data like Oracle's BlueKai, we can create small audiences of people and we can talk to them directly. And now we're comfortable, we have something like 14 targets on Hidden Valley Ranch now where we used to talk loosely about one. It's a lot easier actually to execute on 14 than one. I bet we get down to 200 one day. And those are personas that you've identified. Yeah, different personas in the data and they want to be talked to either in a different way or in a different place. But no longer is it just one big target we sort of loosely talk about. And that's going to change a lot because it'll inform our media planning, our media buying, our creative choices, everything. So how does that impact, now that you've got this tighter, better, closer relationship with your consumer putting Hidden Valley on their salad, they still got to go buy it in Safeway or Albertsons or Kroger or whatever. So is there kind of friction in the channel? How do you leverage the tighter relationship that you have with your direct customer and either benefit the channel? How does that work with kind of a channel distribution model? Well, some of our most progressive retailers are meeting us right alongside us as we try to work this out. And not just our pure e-com players like Amazon, but like Target, Walmart. We're getting good at sharing data so that when we talk to a shopper, when they get close to the moment of purchase, we hit them with just the right message. Sometimes we're sharing data with Walmart or Target that allows us to get to their shopper before they enter the door. So we do see this as digitally enabled. The retail guys don't want to be left out and we think, again, they want to target those out. Geodata too, I mean, it's mobile experience. Incredible data. And once they get in the store and when those guys figure out how to handle all that Geodata, that's going to be another big evolution. Right, all the low-energy Bluetooth, where they are in the store and really kind of bringing the online shopping experience now into the store in terms of- Two people walk down an aisle, right? Two phones. So if we know one's a heavy Clorox user, one is not, you can target different offers to them right in the aisle when you know they're in the aisle. That's where this is probably going and it's terribly exciting. Chatbots would be great for that. I mean, chatbot technology is booming. So I got to ask you about some tactics on the marketing side. So when you get into the clustering, you mentioned, because we do something similar with our media business, we call crowd spotting. We can engage with people once you have these crowd spots, very efficient on the semantics of it. Does that change your marketing mix and your content marketing on social? Because if you have that kind of clustering, you're going to get different fidelity signaling on what they're interested in. That's right. Do you shift content to them and nurture them that way differently? Yeah, I mean, we're working on our content strategies and are more importantly, the production process behind the content. We can't make infinite numbers of pieces of content, but we are preparing for a day where we're going to have lots of, sorry, less sophisticated might be the word, pieces of content to target at different audiences. We'll do much less big production. And the trick for us is to do it quickly and to do it fast because we do have a scale issue.  I think that clustering thing is really relevant, especially with social distribution as people start talking to each other in this kind of peer-to-peer way. Really interesting phenomenon in the early days, but what's the biggest surprise? I got to ask you over the past few years, obviously you see everything.  And a lot of shoulds going on in the market right now. A lot of promises, as you mentioned, what has been impressive to you? What's surprised you? What's been impressive? What's been horrifying to you? Share what you're seeing in the industry. Having hands down what's impressive is everyone has religion now. At least they have the awareness that everything is changing. We're an industry full of hyperbole and broken promises. But the fact is the future is changing and people are wrestling authentically with the questions from the agency side to my media partners to myself. Everyone says, okay, if the consumer is going this direction, we have tech to get them. Like everything needs to change. So what gives me hope is how serious people are taking it. What terrifies me is separating all the promises from reality. Because everyone's telling you they can do everything. They can do it easily. And that's just not the case. So I think the industry needs us some honesty and some transparency of where we are in the journey, celebrating some wins and keep advancing it. But there's just two, what terrifies me is all this stuff people promise me and they're never going to deliver. So what has changed in the agency? Because the cloud and data as it progresses and obviously as the work streams change inside the customer bases to serve their customers evolve to be compatible with the agile and the kind of dev ops, it implies abstraction away of processes. And I'm not going to say people's jobs will go away, but things will be automated and orchestrated differently. So it implies shifting of value. And obviously agencies earn a lot of pressure now on being relevant, but the value propositions certainly are changing from the promises to reality. So where do you see the value proposition changing and what's the role the agencies in this role? What do you see there? Well what we see in fact, we just went through a process and selected some new partners. Where we think the best agencies are working on now is fundamentally retooling their communications process around media and digital and then informing the creative process. So the value is definitely shifting to media and to media planning far more than ever before. The best agencies start there and then they back into the creative. Now they do it all together and they're not afraid of the data and they're not afraid of putting out lots of content that may not be as beautiful, perfect, or pretty as they're used to. But it is a significant change because it requires- It's a more iterative process. It's much more iterative. It's much more iterative for the client. We used to give a brief, they'd come back eight weeks later, show us three options, we'd pick A, B, or C. It's a little bit of an exaggeration but that's kind of how it was. Now we have to have our content people with the agency real time develop this content. What about when you look at kind of the bifurcation of media, so you still have, you know, friends involved in big broadcasting, right?  That's right. It's called broadcast. And you still have Super Bowl and events like that that really aggregate audience. Then you've got kind of this micro segmentation that you're talking about with the individual that tweeted something that through your sniffers you feel like you need to react to. And then you have this other thing which was represented again on the keynote with social media that when it hits can be as big or bigger than not quite the Super Bowl but pretty, you know, pretty phenomenal. So when you're looking at your kind of media planning and kind of this bifurcation between you still got the mega media, then you have the micro and then, oh my gosh, this YouTube thing went viral and it's got eight million views. You know, how are you kind of sorting all that out or you know what these things are great to see? Well, fortunately I have lots of media people stressing about it over that question. But I would say broadly is we like film. We like TV. There's some things you just can't beat the reach of TV. So, and we're going to do that. Figuring out though, it's not just do we do TV broadcastage or whatever. It's saying what is the intention of that media aperture and so that we know what we're designing for. For example, we have to just set aside a lot more free dollars for content now to deploy quickly. We used to put it all, I used to have an 18 month plan. I knew what I was going to run 14 months from now. That those days are over. But I would say that by being able to direct media very quickly to certain places and certain moments of intent. TV great for big stories, big product launches, big narratives we want to lay down. The smaller apertures are good for micro targeting and tuning the message just right. And I think to be honest, we're still, I'm always honest, we're just figuring out how to plan and execute all that. It's intoxicating at one level. But again, the reality, rubber hitting the road is where you got to see the meat on the bone or the ROI. The ROI has to be there. The ROI has to be there. Well, Eric, thanks so much for sharing your insight with us here on theCUBE. I thought I could stop by. Great date, I was like, Jeff and Jeff just saying, all the answers are on theCUBE interview. You laid down some really good insight. Thank you so much. Oh, my pleasure, guys. Thanks so much. This is theCUBE here live in Las Vegas, SiliconANGLES flagship program. We'll be back with more, you're watching theCUBE.


Nigerian Government accuses the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded elections Peter Obi and his Vice Dati Ahmed of Treason. And also tonight we discuss the possible selection process of Cabinet Members of the President Elect Bola Ahmed Tinobu ahead of the swearing in ceremony. This is Plus Politics, my name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. The Nigerian Government has accused the Major Opposition Leader of Treason weeks after the candidate of the ruling party won a hotly contested presidential election. Government spokesperson Lai Mohammed gave their Government's position during engagements with journalists in Washington DC in the United States. Lai Mohammed, who is the Information Minister of the outgoing Government, accused the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi of inciting people to violence over the outcome of the presidential election saying it is treasonable. Mr Obi came third in the 25th February presidential election won by Bola Ahmed Tinobu of the ruling APC. And Obi and Attico Huwaka who came second however challenged the results of the election in court saying the election and the result collation was flawed. But men have publicly called on their supporters to refrain from violence while they challenged the result in court. We're being joined live to discuss this by Director General Omolua B coalition group Tunji Balogun who will be speaking on behalf of the APC and Honourable Funke Awolowo, Deputy Chairperson of the United States Excos Labour Party. Right now it's only Honourable Funke Awolowo who has been able to join us. So Funke, welcome to the programme. I'm glad that you were able to join us. We're having problems hearing you earlier. Okay, let me begin with you Mr Balogun. These are positions on the Labour Party and what your party is talking about. What is your response to the whole issue? I know that your party has spoken but what is your take on the whole situation? Thank you for having me. It's excellent to see Mr Peter Obi and there is rise that's in the first time coming out for the first time for this part of the election under a party that has no structure as we used to see. But having sought for the election, the election to people that matters as Canadians believe that the election is not a dream or that affair and I believe it's excellent to see that between rules for sure that the election is not a dream or that affair. Somebody has to be a winner at a point in time. You know that the election is over, the result is there. The point is the person will go to court to find justice as it's supposed to be. We have taken a very big part by going to court to seek for an admission of other FCT is compulsory, of other two third of the states. Out of that the system is important, it's compulsory. So coming up with this agitation now with all this proclamation that can incite crisis, that can cause firemen, that can already taste environment, things that can bring crisis that can cause war hard, that can cause a lot of commotion. Because already people are aggrieved, a lot of things going on inside. So what we need to do to my own best to host as a member of this is that the election is over. We should start the hearing process. There are times we do for Mr. Peter to say the contest selection. If we can maintain the temple that has already started with this tabaran. So there is no point for any crisis. There is no point for him to be dead. So we can say some of the others are causing crisis. You know, people have not said it before. What exactly Mr. Balogun is that statement that is likely to cause crisis? What did he say that is not true, but will just cause crisis in the polity? What is he being accused of? Yes, he's been accused of inciting people. At the time you are saying that, for example now, at the time of Libo party leadership candidate in Lagos, if Lagos cast fire this night, if Lagos cast fire this night, they say it is so-so. God's election has been ruined. Leave that by the power side. Now Obidati himself said that even on a live television program he said that there will be serious problems and they will share in the winner of the election, which is President, which is President Elect, and we did this live video. This live video of Mr. Peter will be with the conversation he had with Bishop Obidati. If you listen carefully to that, you can see that it is more of a religious war. This is a religious war. I think the election is war.  All those things that, when you now say the first of Kermol's reaction, you know Kermol reacted in that way. In line with that video, saying that Obidati is spoiling the part of the leaders trying to resolve this religious. That is the point. Okay. Well, Funke will be responding to this, but let me just stay with you a little while longer.  And after the election, to be fair to him, he is not the one who dug it up to come and play so that it will incite violence and all that. So why are all these things now attributed to him? That these are the things he's doing after the election that will bring violence and that are label-trisenable? That means, you are right to have to say that connection has happened before the election. But it has not been leaked. Now we get it now. That means the tempo has been on a very high level before the election. That people have been instigated to that level. Can you imagine? That means already that's the nation that, it's like the last nation they had somewhere in Nigeria in 2011, where one of the presidents, who happens to be the sitting president now, in February, were saying that it is, if they did not pull the election, you knew what he was saying at that time. I said, what he was contesting as CPC. So let's not cross over to that place. And somebody else did not come to say, the election is not about to go. It's all victory. It's all demanding for everybody's vote.  But this is our big way now. It's like, we will be there. Our borders in the southeast, the counties are safe. This is our tone. This is our tone. It's either we have it or not. Nigeria was born. This country will be a nothing earth. All those things, but it's good for me, it's as simple as that. But to come out and say that, no, I will go to cause and seek justice. If it is not my tone, no borders should speak any vote. Nigeria belongs to us. We have no other place to run to except this country in Nigeria. It's supposed to come out and make that statement. And now without tension. You might be saying, you know, keep in silence and talking and insulting and delighting people. And we are getting more secret like that. Come, take a bit, we are on the Jayans. Okay. All right, let me let Funke Walo to respond to this. Jepoche person, Lego State Exco Labor Party. Well, what is your response to this? Your principal as it is, the presidential candidate of Labor Party, Peter Obee has been accused of treason here and the deputy have been accused of treason because of statements that they either made before the election or they're making now after the elections or things that the people who are following them, known in Nigeria right now as the obedience are doing. So what's your response and the response of your party to this? Okay. And first of all, Schittler said something that I was wondering. He said to me first, if nothing, first as in CHES, but to be safely first. That means that when it became king, he realized that he caught him through violence, through bloodshed. And as we saw the repercussions, they began to say, you know, really was it worth it? And that's what I want to ask you. After all, as we've said and done, you know, they're quoting Jonathan as saying, you know, they have done what Jonathan did in the past. When Jonathan saw that the turn of events might turn into bloodshed, he said his ambition must not cost any man his blood. That's not for ATC to quote because we have millions of people that their lives have been lost in this process because some people cannot accept that they were defeated. Once we called in England, we saw losers. They have become saw losers. You can see that the presidential election, the first one, you know, that happened, there was a land-fired victory, so to speak. But a lot of things were manipulated and we saw that by the second term, they were back in wedding.  That's not a quote from Labour Party. As far as I'm concerned, presidential candidate Pitalbi has been very dissent. He has not traded words. He has just followed through his ambition and what he wants to attain. And the same goes for Alajie Ahmed, you know, Dati Ahmed. They have done their part in a very dissent way. Now we are talking about the Aguero reason in legal states.  You know, most of the places where people expected to vote dissently were legal. You know, three lot of thugs. Intimidatory people, some people could not vote. Some people after voting for a certain party were attacked. They all disagreeing. And if there is any dissency in most of the people, especially when you see bloodshed, you are talking about youth, people who are very young and they are going there to expect their votes, to expect their mandate and most of them, you know, had to be slapped. You know, they were scarred and all that. And that is why, you know, if it's all being dissent, which he is dissent, that's why he has reacted.  It's uncalled for. And they have to apologize. A lot of people, I know it's a, you know, first fact that I know that people have jacked it. And feeling that he's speaking, unless he's not in Lagos, it's so that people died. And it's all of that, not just in Lagos. Even in the if, you know how it took, the time it took for the IBM governor to be announced. You know, all this violence is uncalled for. If you win, you know, I'm remembering years ago when my grandfather had to go to court. You know, the 12th to 3rd, that's, um, um, son, Akinji Day, proposed, even though Papa did not agree, but he went to court. So going to court is a dissent thing. And over the years, like, you can see the, at summer, Nigerians have had to regret that move of never allowing the late states to become president. We don't want to regret. And that's why we are being proactive. We're going to court. And nobody is going to stop us from going to court. Let them stop intimidating Mr. President Pitao B, President to be Pitao B, because there's no court. Why are they bringing up phone calls in the past? And calling, you know, I was reading on Facebook, I was reading on Facebook, there are get three comments made on, um, Papa or Yejipo. Why? Who would you do that? That office is an office of the clergy. And he got to respect it. Why bring up, you know, I don't know the relevance of that phone call. I can say it was a personality war. Somebody can say it was a religious war. Somebody can say it's a tribal war. It's their opinion. It should not be, you know, flawed. The way it has been flawed. It is uncalled for. And we need to get to a point where we are distant in the polls. Nigerians have been very aggressive. They've taken us back to the sixties, sixties. And many of the things they brought out are doctor's words. That's not fair. And it's so glaring and visible for all to see. And yet you are saying somebody won't. That's not decent. And that's not the legacy I want to live for my sons or for my, you know, children yet on board. And therefore we're going to see it through. Not violently. You know, I know years ago, that's how they pinged on my granddad, Trisnaboo Felony. You know, I'm seeing the repeats and recycling. And that's wrong. It's so wrong. And you cannot go to the, the Hitler way of propaganda. And so that's playing in through the APC and it's got to stop. We have to be decent in the polls. And we have to be righteous in the polls. And we have to do right. Nobody's saying it's to or die. Nobody can never be to or die because we have children. We don't want to see the IU's big stuff and killed. There's some coldly pictures that are seen. And I'm wondering, is it because somebody wants to become president for crying out loud? Who does that? It's got to stop. And Nigerians have to go forward in the 22nd century that we're going into. We have to learn to be decent. Thank you very much. Okay, at least at this point, one thing has been established that none of us wants violence. Whether the APC or the Labour Party, nobody wants violence. While the APC is saying let's move on, the Labour Party is saying we will see it through. The most legal means that we can find. The most peaceful means that we can find. So we don't want violence. But at this point, whether we are going to court or not, we are in a period of healing. And whether we heal while still going to court or not, we need that healing. So let me start from Mr. Balogun. If you were to profile solutions to this healing process, give some pointers to what we can do to get this healing, what would you say? Mr. Balogun, please. Hello, can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you now. What would you recommend for us to get? Like you have said earlier, going to court is part of the process. Can you hear me? Yes, yes. Yes, it's part of the process. There are many Nigerians and all against every rough person going to court. Even if the second person goes to court and the third person now thinks that he will, this judiciary interprets this for us. A judiciary can prove this for them. And whoever the judiciary declare as the rightful winner will eventually become the president of Nigeria. Are you getting the point now? Yeah. Yes, I am getting that. But you cannot see me because NEPA has just performed the blunder. It's all right, just let us hear what you can recommend. As the president elects us, we can say that this is the time for healing and that it's ready to form the government of national unity. So we should all forget, we should all just put aside the lesson. That's the first thing, we should forget about the lesson. We're talking about Nigeria as a whole. Why we move ahead? We are waste judiciary to do their job. Let healing continues. Let peace reign supreme. Let go back. Let govrants continue now so that the campaign is over. Let's continue to live in peace and unity. Particularly in Lagos. In Lagos, we are the obedient and so-and-bent. There is agitation for this. There is lack of good of tension. I don't want this to happen. I have been living peacefully for years for God's sake. So I wish you peace for God's sake. Call all these obedient and legal people to hold that. And particularly the leaders of the the statement of the chief who I want to. It's not a big matter at all. But I want to say that all of the we should forget about that. We should move ahead. It will be the the top contestant before. So he has a very good opportunity. It just keep on being discussion. I'm telling you to forget about this ethnic crisis, legal crisis, just tell them no. Let me pursue my something in the court. I need to be surely give it to my group. I need to be surely say no. I'll wait for my time. And the jihad will go forward. If he lies, he'll join the government of unity. If he lies, he'll say no. I'm not interested. There's no big deal in that now. If all the jihad should just for the sake of peace, forget about the election, the election is going already.  Let's live our normal life of peaceful coexistence. Let's passion will to move out of poverty. Let's passion will to get out of poverty station. It's in the end is giving us another problem. But if it is the crisis of this, it's still in everywhere. What crisis is today? These are we need to tackle. Okay, Mr. Balogu, just shortly before I go to Fonker to wrap up as well. Okay. Can we get some pointers from the president-elect, for instance, because this seems to be like a battle, well, permit the word a battle between president-elect and the person who feels that he should have been the president or he was robbed out of the office because of the way the election or the process was and all that. So can we get any pointers? What, for instance, has the president-elect done that for you shows that he likes unity, he likes peace more than the other? Because some people also from the other camp are complaining that there are a lot of things that were said and have been said in Lego state. And the president-elect is not saying anything about them, is not addressing them at all. And if you think there are things he has done that Peter Obie should have copied or any other person who is making inflammatory statements, let us know these things so that we can point them to the people who need to throw the line. Yes, if I can get you right, you ask what the president-elect has said. And done. And done. Yeah, because I remember, maybe you have to explain that one too, because he said he doesn't care about the government of unity, he wants competence. Yes, some people may understand it in a way and other people still understand it that he doesn't want national unity. Maybe you will explain that as well. And you explained some of the things that the lawyer-list to the APC said in Legos that Tinibu has been able to address so that we borrow a leaf from them. The point I can conclude from what you've said now is that what, as the president-elect said, if you remember on the day he was receiving a certificate of return, you understand? After receiving that, the first statement that the Ashwajibullah Netanyahu said was that either you vote for me or you don't vote for me, either you have ratified your buildings or you have circulated, let us forget about that. That this is time for healing, that already election is going, that it's ready to work and form a government of national unity. I'm sure you remember that doing it. So having said that now, he has opened his doors, he has opened his heart.  If you have something that you really, so basically you become a president that you want to implement, come with it, come forth with it, let's build strong, let's put one peg in one hole, let's put square peg in square hole so that everything will go through and the children will be greater. He said that actually and I believe he meant what he said, of course, you know, Ashwajibullah Netanyahu and dissidents, you know, he has done what he was in Lagos, you know, I was able to assemble technocrats. Most of them now, there is, you cannot deny the fact that the vice president was the commissioner in Lagos, the president of the vice president was going to Lagos, minister Tashola was the governor in Lagos, all those, you cannot mention the list, this list is, so now having the opportunity to be there now, he knows those that's going to assemble to a purpose of moving Nigeria forward and because he knows that APC and a party, as Ashwajibullah believer, are coming to what the party, manifest of the party says in the past 80 years, but there are challenges, of course, you know, a lot of challenges. But now that he's coming on board, we believe that Ashwajib will do something greater for all of us Nigerians and Nigeria will be very peaceful, if only other agributers can work and cancel the nationalism, cancel the ethnic crisis and things like that, all should just focus on Nigeria of our dream. So now we remember that we don't have another place to go. I for one now, I'm a citizen of Nigeria, I'm not a dual citizen of any country, I have green passport, I cannot run to anywhere. But don't, as you are talking about now, they can just pick up something and fly away now. So all of us should come together, that this is in the constitutional period, a time that we should do because we reconcile. This is the time I think the, our brothers in the southeast, we come together, having conferences and colloquium that, okay, come on, nation is going, what are we going to do now? So can we have the senate president, can we have the, what can we do to have this and don't we should just be thinking pro, let them be proactive, you forget about this, let the Supreme Court finally, and the Supreme Court, leave us that don't cash out, it's not the winner, it's number three that win. So leave, nobody can challenge the Supreme Court. Okay. Then for you, immigration and the people are protesting, anti-immigration, what is that for your sake? So, what are we supposed to be? You think we are protesting for immigration, what are we supposed to be? And in the place where there is government, sitting government, it's not possible. All right, okay, okay, Tungi, Tungi, that, thank you. But let me go to Fungke. I'll come back, there are other things we need to talk about. Fungke, we are in the healing process and I just asked Tungi to say what some of the things he would recommend would be for us to heal. What will the labor party recommend? What would you recommend that we start doing before May 29th? And whatever we do now before May 29th is also going to be what after or beyond May 29th, Nigeria will be as well. So what are your recommendations for these bees and healing? What about, yes, thank you. First of all, I find it so patronizing, in a sense, for somebody to say, having done all the violence and killed people, made people don't market to do what they feel, now you're saying, let's come together.  And there's no apologies. Let's just, you know, begin, let's even get married. I think that's a huge slap on the face. We are on peace, but you see, first of all, we have to establish peace among the certain people that they have burned their market. I've heard that even today, so many markets were locked up for no reason at all. So how do you begin to heal? The healing can only come through equity, through justice, through, you know, at times by the party that has inflicted all the pain to seal the people. And how do you do that? You submit their mandate to them, you know. You cannot smother us away and say, yes, it is done. Just come and join us. That will be foolishness on our part. And that means that as parents, as leaders, we are not seeking after justice. The bad is that we must seek after justice. We must seek for equity. We must know how to treat the people. And that's not through violence. You know, so the healing is going to be a long-run thing. It's something that, yes, we are going to do a lot of reparations to get to the point of healing. You know, I'm not being unnecessarily obstinate, but there is a lot that has been done that I have seen. I'm not, it's not even about healthy. It said it's a full Nigerian. So am I. I have my green passports and everything. I am a full Nigerian. You know of my parentage and all that. My mother is a fast one. My father is a late chef. So I'm full. But nobody should be able to deprive or deny us justice as a people. And it said the Igbo's will be alright. That's very condescending. The, am I Igbo? You know, there are many people. There's a diversity in LP that's mostly respected. And if we say we don't want a certain government, then we don't. It said it's why it was talking that NEPA just took the light and all that. Is that good government? Is that not what APC has done to us? So please, don't insult us. And don't tell us, come and join a government we do not agree with or that has not demonstrated any form of justice. So yes, it's a good suggestion to go towards it easily. In fact, I'm a healing minister. But I know that before healing, certain things must be done. When Jesus was healing the people, he had compassion. He was full, full of love. And so he stopped to healing people. We're not seeing compassion here. We are seeing disrespects of people's persona. We are seeing disrespect of tribes. We are seeing disrespect of people's mandates. How do we start behaving? I'm asking myself. It's going to be a very drunken and it's going to take, first of all, the APC parties apologizing to all involved. Then we'll start steps to all the preparation. Reparation also means we'll get our votes back. Not just they would gain our votes. No. So we have to look at equity. We have to look at respect for mankind. Because people, oh God, you should see what I saw. People were stabbed. People were killed. Somebody said he was going to vote. I said they looked into what he was doing and gave him a dirty slap. All just that. Please. I love what he is saying about healing. But healing comes out of love. Healing comes out of empathy. Healing comes out of compassion. And we have not seen that yet. Thank you. Okay, let's digress a little bit. Let me know about the Nigeria of your dreams. What you were hoping to get and what you are still hoping to get as a person, what is the kind of Nigeria that you would want to leave for posterity?  What is this legacy that has been playing out in your mind that you think Nigeria should have, the Nigeria of today should leave for the Nigerians of tomorrow? Okay. So the time date, when we started the movement and it all became out over the years I've read about him, what he did in my memory. So I was hopeful that at this point we are going to get a leader that will respect the hopes and aspirations of the people. And when we started speaking and going around to learn, to learn especially when we went to Egypt and so many places to learn. And so that this man had a teachable spirit. It's not coming as a tyrant. It's coming because he wants to impact and he wants to put certain things into the system. And so he actually aligned with my Nigerian dream. That's utopia that you wish. Because I've lived, even though I have a Nigerian passport, I've lived in the UK. I've gone to so many countries and I've seen, even Dubai, I've seen what the government can bring. A government that knows what they're doing. That's a curious government. And as I saw, as we all got together on the drawing board, making strategy, I saw that this was a dream that is achievable for Nigerians. So that's, it's all being aligned with my Nigerian dream. You know that the years was it for Dukou that came to my granddad's funeral and said, this is the best precedent Nigeria never had. And some people would say that Dukou was Papa's number one enemy. But he had insight in me that this man really meant well and all that. So that's what I'm looking for. I saw in Peter, I'll be the hour and hour spirit. And that's why I'm back in here. And I know by God's grace, he will get there. He will get there through equity, through understanding of the legalities involved. He will get there because he has insight. He means well. He has not failed his people. And that is my dream. A dream of Nigeria where we have light, where there's water, when children can go to very good schools. Years ago, when I was going to England to school, at some point I went to England to school, we used to send, transcribe, you know, what he did in the University of Lagos was as good as taking it to every university at work, even Oxford and Cambridge. That's not the case today because we are filled with education. My dream is for us to get back there and to surpass what we used to know Nigeria to be. My dream is for every child, every son of us, to finish school and to get to job, not to have to jack back as they say. My dream is to go on the road and it will be death traps. Can you imagine the other day, a train and the bus hit each other? And it was because they said later, they were saying, they told the bus driver, don't go. He wanted to go on too. People, they are no traffic laws. You know, people just do as they please. And it's because there's no good leader. So that's my dream. My dream is a place where the economics of the nation, the economy of the nation, will supply and demand is very good.  But we don't want that. We want a balanced economy where we are able to have a good local industry as demonstrated in ABBA and all that. Where they make things, you know, it's all be kept on saying, I'm taking you from, is it production? Where we're able to, yes. You know, we need to produce. We're just to be consuming. We need to be responsible. And that's the dream I will have. And I'm seeing it in Peter of you. And this is a dream come true. And I just hope, I just hope by the grace of God, we call that our call upon, that we get there. We will get there in Jesus' name. Thank you. Okay, let me go to Tunji as well.  What is that picture of Nigeria that you see, that you hope to get, even when you have left the stage? Tunji, can you hear me? Tunji, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you now, finally. Please go ahead. I said thank you for that question. Yes, yes. I will still go on to my sister there. This is our pastor, Funker Aulao. You see, as a real of Nogwabi, I have a lot of respect for Aulao dynasty, a lot of respect for Aulao family. I was one of the youngest people that used to attend the Uda Youth Forum in the Fuyela Hall in Kennedy. When the great reformer of New York Pife was there. So for pastor Funker to speak in this direction, it's not new to me. I quite agree with all what she's saying because Tunji, the bad units from here, Baba, the Banjo, and the likes are, we have serious issues for Aulao people, I'm telling you. I'm saying this is not an exaggeration. We have very serious and passionate, passionate issues for Aulao people, I'm telling you. How do some people, like my sister, my sister's caliber, Funker Aulao, we've seen that OVF and this day, all of us, since yesterday, we are not campaigning again. I think we have passed that one, Tunji. Because, yes, we've passed that one. Right now, I am saying, I am saying pastor Funker Aulao has given us a picture of the Nigeria of headdreams. What is your own picture? Beyond party lines. Beyond party lines, yeah. Beyond party lines. I want in Nigeria, we are peace, justice, equity. I want in Nigeria, we are businesses, we try. I want in Nigeria, we are the youth to be fully employed in a civilian environment. I want in Nigeria, we are security, where we can close our highs. To close, we are sleeping. We are boundary-tracking, not one has to be stored. We are God-made. And our leaders will be responsible to the picture. We are proud to call in our group of leaders. We are leaders who come to trust and believe in leaders, not exceptional leaders, not religious leaders. Not in Nigeria, we are unity, unity and strength, we are supreme. It is just my dream to be here. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Mr. Tunji Balogun, chairperson of the Director General, rather, of Oumoluabi Coalition Group. You have spoken well. And we've also had Honorable Funke Awolo, deputy chairperson of the Lego State Labor Party Exco. At least we've been able to agree that we want in Nigeria that is a lot better than the one we have today. But we also have to realize that all of us have to put our hands on deck to make sure that happens. Both parties have said that we want a Nigeria of unity, love, prosperity, and equity above all other things. And we hope that we'll get to that El Dorado one day if we have the right attitude towards our country and the way we do things. So thank you very much, Mr. Tunji Balogun, for coming on the show and also Honorable Funke Awolo for being part of our show today. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. And thank you, my sister. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, we'll be talking with Tunji Balogun, director general of the coalition group and also Honorable Funke Awolo, deputy chairperson of the Lego State Exco of the Labor Party. And with that we are wrapping up the show for today. We do hope that you had a wonderful time. Do join us again tomorrow as we bring you another edition of Plus Politics. Until then, my name is Nyam Gul Agaji. Thanks for being there.


I, at the time, also had an incorrect bipolar diagnosis, which I think is extremely common for Audi HD people specifically, because we have very cyclical energy. Yeah, autistic women as well, seems like a bipolar, BPD, schizophrenia even I've had. Yeah. But like in particular, the really cyclical energy of Audi HD of having these like big bursts of energy and then needing big rest and like a lot of rest, like that looked like bipolar. And so when I went and got the ADHD testing, there were, you know, two issues. One, because I had bipolar, they were like, well, we can't give you stimulants. You can't have stimulants, right? So I've actually never had stimulant medication. I'm thinking about trying it soon. Okay, they get that that pharmaceutical grade. My fun pet's mean. I want to try it and just see like, what does this do to my brain? I think I've heard enough stories about it to know it's not it's probably not going to do what I hope it's going to do.


Released Russian prisoners returned to Moscow after Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners in the biggest single release of captives since fighting started in February 2022.A military plane brought some of 248 Russian servicemen, who had been freed according to Russia's Defense Ministry, from Belgorod to one of the airfields near Moscow. The country's state TV showed footage of a military plane on a tarmac and buses approaching the plane, Ukrainian authorities said that. Two hundred and thirty Ukrainian prisoners returned home in the first exchange in almost five months.Russia's Defense Ministry said that two hundred and forty-eight Russian servicemen have been freed under the deal sponsored by the United Arab Emirates, Russian officials offered no other details of the exchange.


What's this war in the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? The land contends with the sea. That's the extraordinary Jim Caviezel from the extraordinary movie The Thin Red Line. Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power, but two? It's a movie that poses a lot of deep big picture kind of questions. The kind of questions that I find most motivating here on Skeptico. And as a matter of fact, and the reason that I played that clip and the reason I thought it was relevant is I wanted to take this opportunity in this rare solo show to tee up four questions that are driving me right now in terms of what I'm thinking about with future shows. So I'm going to get to those questions in a minute and I'm really hoping that you will give me some feedback on what you're thinking about these. I have some clips to go along with them, so I think you'll find it pretty interesting. But before I get to those questions, I also wanted to share with you a clip from a video I just produced about someone who I greatly admire and respect, the podcaster Miguel Conner from the very excellent Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. Here's a clip from the video interview with Miguel. And deeper we go, my beloved true seekers. Deeper into the wastelands of matter and graveyards of broken dreams. Please allow me to introduce myself and keep you company as yourself. No need, Miguel. I can do that. This clip you just heard is from a video that I've produced and just am releasing today on YouTube. I'm a little bit embarrassed for this because it's taken me well over a year to figure out a way to put this together and put it out. And it has some real flaws to it. And the project was supposed to be a much grander project where I would bring you some of the ideas from some of the podcasters I most admire and I think are really changing our understanding of truth and reality. And Miguel certainly fits that category and he's one of the first ones I started with. So let me play you a little extended clip from this new video, which you will find on YouTube. I think the beauty of podcasting is that you can literally have a PC and a mic and very little else. And you can connect with scholars in Oxford. You can connect with researchers in Australia. You can bring them into your room and then you can spread that information out. What I like about Gnosticism is that you can take it as psychologically, spiritually or materially.  The archon can be the boss at your job. Write your own gospel and live your own myth. And for my life, I've got my myth that I'm trying to live in my gospel. Carl Jung said, we have inner archetypes and mythologies that reside deep within our unconscious. And when we bring those out, we can actually start changing the narrative of our life, changing our personas, changing how things go. And I think that tagline is what I really want people to know. I want people to have as much information as they can so they can write their own gospel and live their own myth. So they can, as I say in my show, create better than the creator gods and their butt slaves in the establishment. Because all of us have been programmed. All of us are living a story that was written by somebody else. And it was the ancient Gnostics who said enough of this. We're going to write our own narrative. We're going to create our own reality, not in this. Great stuff. Classic Miguel Gnosticism stuff. And I think, of course, that's an important part of this larger question, which I'm going to get to in just a minute. But I do want to stop and say, I hope you will check out the Truth Bump video that I produced and I have on YouTube. I hope to share it with people. I have some other ones in various stages of development. So if people really, really like it, I'll try and push forward with that. But I basically abandoned that project because it just didn't have any legs to it for me. But I throw that out there and offer it to you to help guide if there's anything there I need to pursue. And along those same lines, what I really wanted to do in this show was give a roundup of the four questions, I think, that are really driving me forward in terms of Skeptico right now. And as I've said all along about Skeptico, I've always viewed this as my personal journey shared with you. But that's holding something back because it's really a collective journey. Your input and your feedback really does make this an interactive process for me. But I like to hold on to the idea that this really is my personal journey and I decide where it goes. So if you'll allow me that little kind of egocentric kind of thing, I'm going to hold on to what I think are the four questions that are driving me forward in terms of Skeptico at this point. Question number one. Let me offer up this clip. I mean, for me it would be what's consciousness? Because that's totally battling. That's Richard, you know what I think? What I wonder whether there really is no such thing as consciousness at all. To that I've got to say like, oh wow. Perfect. You're laughing. I'm laughing like, you're like, bro, I was laughing. What is so funny about that? I mean, the idea that maybe consciousness is not there is probably the weirdest, stupidest idea ever conceived by human thought. I mean, where does thought take place? It takes place in consciousness. So here we have consciousness speculating about the possibility that consciousness does not exist and it may not be there. I mean, the very thought is that in your face contradiction and the fact that something like this is not only seriously entertained, but even verbalized by a person with the public exposure of the gentleman we just saw is a worrying sign of cultural sickness. That, of course, is the very excellent Dr. Bernardo Castro. And while it may seem that the question that falls out of that clip is, are we biological robots in a meaningless universe? As you know from listening to this show, that really isn't the question for me anymore. I mean, it really was my question initially a few years back. But now the question for me is something that Bernardo hit on there, which is how can this still be propped up as a real question among what are supposed to be the intellectual elites of science? It's really a strange, strange situation. And I think we have to continue to dive into that question head on, you know? Head on, not just keep proving them wrong, baby, proving them wrong, but saying, how and why are they promoting such nonsense? So that's question number one. You ready for question number two? It's from Dr. Jeffrey Martin, who I interviewed a few episodes back about his rather amazing research into consciousness transformation, enlightenment, awakening, whatever you want to call it. And it's common in most of the mainstream population of humanity around the world. There's just sort of this fundamental sense of discontentment that we all have at the root of our psychology. And it manifests in all kinds of ways, in the extremes, it's fear and worry and anxiety and stuff like that. But no matter who you are, no matter how great your life is, you still have this sense that something's just not quite right. And so your mind is constantly trying to figure that out in a normal, and this is normal, right? This is what psychology would consider normal and healthy. So it's just like this little shift that happens way at the bottom of your psychology, away from that fundamental sense of discontentment and towards a sense that everything is really okay. So the question for me here, and it's an absolute huge one, is there a reality to what he's describing? Is our normal, and I'm using air quotes there, psychological state to be this experience of fundamental discontentment? And actually, I don't even know how anyone can deny that. I mean, that's just everywhere. That's what our culture is. But the second part of the question is really the most significant, and that is, is there a way to change that? And let's mirror that to the first half of the first question. The question I didn't ask, are we biological robots in a meaningless universe? So the answer is obviously no, we're not. So we have this condition. We're in this predicament. And then is this predicament that our mind has created this continual dialogue of fundamental dissatisfaction with the way things are? And is it possible to change that state, that consciousness? Is it possible to raise it? Of course, this is what so many spiritual teachers throughout time have been telling us is possible, that there is a way to transcend that state. And I'm holding back from any kind of talk about extended consciousness at this point, right? I'm trying to confine it to our reality, if you will. And all these terms are, you can shoot holes in them, as we all know. But these first two questions have to do with our reality. So again, question two is, is it possible to awaken out of that state of perpetual dissatisfaction, perpetual discontentment with that internal dialogue that's going on in our head? I think that's an important question. That's question two. So the next two questions that are driving the Skeptico mission at this point have to do with this extended consciousness thing that I always talk about. And again, the words don't exactly match up. Extended from what? I mean, what are we to make of this reality and the other reality? And why would we have this kind of dualistic that's extended? This isn't all those problems, but you get what I mean, right? So the third question is teed up, I think, by the following clip from Ray Hernandez, who was recently on Skeptico, to talk about what he's discovered from the first scientific survey of folks who have had ET contact experience. This is the next two findings discussed the initial two, which is that these were overwhelmingly positive experiences. Number two, it resulted in a positive transformation of the experiencer. Number three and four is that these experiences were primarily not physical. They were primarily paranormal. That was number three. Number four is that these experiences involve a manipulation of space time. And that in turn leads to the hypotheses that these experiences might be interdimensional. And Jacques Vallée alluded to that over 45 years ago. So one of the things that's really interesting to pull out of that clip is this transcending of time and space. So we understand at this point that there is this extended reality. There's an NDE reality, an OBE reality, an ET reality, a psychedelic DMT reality, if you want to stay with three-letter acronyms. What is our relationship between this reality and that reality? And more importantly, if that other reality, if one of its key characteristics is that it transcends space and time, then what does it tell us about this reality that is confined to space and time? And does it suggest, as I think it might, that this reality is a lesser reality, if you will. Lesser in the sense that it's further away from the ultimate reality. And again, don't pick on my words here because there's no words to talk about this stuff. But the basic concept is there seems to be a lot of evidence pointing us to the ultimate paradigm shift that we really are looking at things from the wrong end of the telescope. We are in the unreal reality of time and space continuum where things have been locked down to work a particular way. So we get this particular experience.  You can get that experience, but don't get too attached to it because it's really such a small part of the overall thing. So that is, I think, the third question for me is what is the relationship between this spacetime reality that we occupy and we play this science game in and we play this skeptical dialogue questioning game in? What is the relationship between that reality and some of these extended realities that we will never know, but we do get bits and pieces, fragments of information back from. So we do get information back from into eScience. We do get information back from ET contact. We do get information back from OBE. So I'm asking, you know, what happens if we filter that information through one very narrow filter and that is what is the relationship between our reality and the larger reality? That would be kind of the third question. And the fourth question is very much related to that and I think it's best teed up by this clip from my friend Gordon White at Roon Soup from an interview that I did recently, but I have to say I didn't, I noticed that I hadn't posted it on YouTube. So there is a YouTube for this as well and it actually has a video of me and Gordon. So it's a good YouTube to watch. You can kind of follow along kind of thing. So here is that clip. Here's the thing, the 20th century technocratic project and you include all the people in it like Bernays. So the technocracy thought it fell to these rich people to manage the development of the world and the West for our benefit. So it isn't even just necessarily keeping them alone and afraid. That is a side effect of, well, we are the technocrats, we are better at running the world. So our competing narratives are here in the church and here in the family and so on. And what we actually want, because where are all the doctors? Where are all the educators? Where are all of this kind of stuff? You need to get it from us and we will manage the society and you will eat the right food. And the population will grow or not at the rate that we determine the economy will work. This is the demonic goal. So it's funny. That's why I wanted to start there. On a human level, that's the kind of 20th century idea I think they're shooting for. It is demonic. Like if you want to go to a higher level when you're talking about, well, what are the kind of metaphysical implications? I have no idea if any of these people realize they are being ridden by demons. But nevertheless, the goal of this kind of project is in some literal sense, Titanic. So there's a lot there to pull apart. And the demonic part is going to rattle a lot of folks, I'm sure. But it is kind of interesting how this clip brings us back full circle in a way. So if the opening question was not, are we biological robots in a meaningless universe? But how does such a ridiculous meme remain intellectually viable? I think Gordon is kind of trying to answer that question and saying, hey, man, that's the program. That's the demonic game. But I broaden it a little bit and say the question for me is, what is the role of deception in this process? And I, like all of us, am reluctant in some ways to go there. Because I'm not sure it's the right question. But we keep bumping into that reality, that Gnostic reality, that I will create better than the creator gods because the creator gods are really making a mess of things. So there's so many layers to that. Because as appealing as that Gnostic sensibility is, it doesn't really give us any hope of transcending outside of this little street fight. I mean, certainly not in the way that we talk about when we talk about, for example, the recent interview I just did with David Sunfellow about NDE experiences and the potential that maybe exists for something that truly does transcend that back alley brawl between the creator gods and those of us who want to create better than them. So bringing that back to the question is, what is the role of deception in all of this? Why is there deception? Why is there evil, as we've talked about many times on this show? And I think this question, as I'm stating it here, for me gets to the deeper question of the nature of this evil. Because it's one thing to say that there's evil in the world and that it's an evil doer as our ex-president from many years ago, George Bush said. And again, I'm trying to bring it to more of a personal journey of who are we? Why are we here? Why are we clearly being deceived at various points in this process? What is the purpose of that? Who does that serve? And why does that seem to be so much a part of the process and tricksters and all the rest of that, almost at every turn? So there's four questions for you. There are four questions for me, I should say, because as I said, those are the four questions that are on my mind and are, for the most part, driving my thoughts and ideas in terms of who I'm talking to right now and who I want to talk to.  But I do feel good sharing with you these ideas in these directions. And I'm certainly open to feedback and thoughts and ideas and discussion about these four questions. And maybe you have an answer. Maybe you can provide a shortcut to my learning here, which you've done many times in the past and I'd be totally open to again. So if you do have any thoughts along those lines, please join me. Skeptico Forum is always a good place where you can email me. You can find the links to all that stuff at the Skeptico website, s-k-e-p-t-i-k-o.com, where you can also find links to over 400 interviews all available there for free. So that's about it for this solo show, a unique one. I really don't plan on doing many of these, but there was an open spot in the calendar and it really turned out to be, I think, a fun opportunity for me to engage with you about this issue of direction and what's on my mind along those lines. So thanks as always for being there and staying with me and until next time, take care and bye for now. So thanks for watching this video and if it wasn't really a video, but just an audio, stored as a video, I apologize. But there's more videos out there as well, but please check out the Skeptico website. You can see it here. We cover a lot of different stuff you might be interested in relating to controversial science and spirituality. A lot of shows up there, over 350 of them or so, all free, all available for download. 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Wife passes away hours after giving birth, good tells him to check her blog. He house felt empty and cold, like it would never hold happiness again. The pain in his chest gripped his heart and threatened to squeeze it into dust. How could he go on? He stared ahead, into nothing, thinking about everything they would miss a sippy.  Matt had loved Liz since high school. Never since their first kiss, they had never been apart. For 10 years, their life had been like a perfect dream. He didn't think they could be happier, until she told him they were going to have a baby. But then, she started to feel off. What was supposed to be a joyous day, quickly turned into a nightmare. The frantic drive to the hospital and rushing her in for an emergency C-section, was a panicked blur. Being by her side for hours was agony rather than a celebration. Instead of tears of joy, he listened to his daughter's wails and his wife flatline.  Matt sat in the taxi, unable to drive and barely able to cradle the perfect pink cherub his late wife had brought into the world. Everything felt dull and gray. He could never imagine that something unthinkable was waiting at home for him. He sat in the darkness and felt his baby girl squirm in his arms. He desperately tried to figure out what to do. More than anything he wanted to numb the pain, to escape from the world and everything in it. But he suddenly realized that meant his daughter would also be without a father. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a tiny notification light blink on her still open laptop. She had spent hours on it, crafting amazing stories and weaving tales that were better than any video or snapshot. For some reason, Matt found himself opening her blog. There were new comments. Matt looked between the screen and his daughter, Maddie. He had a choice. He could fall into sadness or he could be the father he dreamed of and help what was left of his wife grow up. He rested his hands on the keyboard and opened the blog. It was like his fingers moved on their own. Words and feelings poured out. Stories, stories and musings took shape. Over the next few months, he found himself in the same position his wife had been in, addicted to writing. But his gut told him there was more. He poured over the comments old readers had passed on and new ones had offered. They loved her so much and their kind words made his heart lift a little. And when he finally got to the most recent notes, he couldn't believe his eyes. People wrote in with sympathy and advice for the new father. They loved his thoughts on parenting and the brutal honesty of his struggle. Things took anew and even more astounding turn when the doorbell started to ring like crazy. Gifts from all over the world poured in everything from diapers to nail clippers. The support was overwhelming and had in and tears nearly every day. It wasn't just gifts. People showed their love with money as well. And Matt knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. This had also been a runner. So Matt, along with his town, organized a charity run, with the proceeds going to widowers and their families. As years passed, the event and cause grew to enormous levels that went well beyond a simple 5k jog. Famous people and countless talk shows, including Oprah, took notice. Everyone wanted to share Matt's story. However, his little girl in writing were more important than any attention. He took his daughter to India, which had been special to Liz. There, his book, Two Kisses for Mattie, a memoir of loss and love took shape. Their journey had already been amazing, but he still couldn't believe what followed. Life turned into bestseller lists, Hollywood offers, and children's book publications. But he never forgot why they were there and what was missing. Part of him watched with pride as his girl grew up, but the pain stayed as he watched just how much she looked like Liz. And it wasn't just an appearance. The young girl found her own joy in sports and running, always taking part in her mother's charity. He shed tears of joy when she took it upon herself to raise money for other causes as well. He knew for certain that, somewhere, her mother was looking down on them and smiling.