 You are still watching Waze. Now, International Rock Day is a day for celebrating this substance which has been critical to the survival of mankind. Throughout history, rocks have been used since the Stone Age rock have been important for use as weapon and tools. Now, the metals and minerals that have been found in rocks are critical to human civilization. So in case you did not know you have to go and look for a rock after you have watched it, give it a kiss and say thank you to that rock because a lot of things that we build on today is because there's an existence of something like this. Yeah, you know say sometimes you don't value what you have, you know So it's important that you just look for one rock, you can go to Luma Rock, go and kiss it Just say thank you for existing. You know, I mean, I don't think we see a lot of rocks here. When you go to the north, you will not understand, you know, ah my god Very very very critical to human civilization. So thank you rocks That's very... I've never heard of that before, you know, the line it's critical to human civilization. That's very interesting. But it is very built in every... You just never... You know, you don't click, that's what I'm saying. You see what I like? I like what I'm doing now. When we were in school, if I had the brain that I have, I'd have been in Bologna. Because now you can connect what you learn to You know, so imagine if teachers begin to teach and connect the pieces. So you see how important The child will never, will not have failure anymore because now the child can relate to oh, okay I'm driving on the road because this exists. And you know, so imagine if we start to teach experiential teaching Where the child now is now able to understand and say okay, you know, I'll put the pieces together and say okay I see what my teacher was saying in class and I can relate it to it, you know So I mean that's the kind of learning that we should start having. Yeah, I'm happy I taught you something All right, so what we're starting with? Jennifer. Abiyo. Let's start from there I don't know All right, all right, all right. So TikTok first rising artist, Murray Pounds Was arrested by men of the NDLEA in the early hours of today due to his song lyrics Dance like you drink, then smoke some weed and take some gas And then he was arrested because of that I don't have a there's no much details right now. I don't even know who Murray Pounds Because I'm not even on TikTok, right? I am on TikTok. I'm not active So I hardly watch TikTok before I don't even watch it But honestly though TikTok influencers are a lot more powerful than Instagram influencers. Yeah, so I heard yeah Like it's really really strong. So I mean, um, it is important that we understand what we're doing Unlike what TikTok has done in China Do you understand? You can't just be be talking any kind of content, right? They have really really, um, what's he called? Censored their contents Right, so it's important, right because you're fighting a society where there's a high And what's it called drug proliferation? That's the word that English is really But there's a high level of drug penetration in our society So imagine now somebody's singing and almost like normalizing and making it okay For you to take drugs to do things, right? You can't it can no longer be for entertainment or fun anymore The government have to take it seriously and say no, this is actually impacting negatively Yeah on the society. So I I would agree with them if they want to arrest such people It's a pandemic now. It's a huge pandemic Very huge pandemic I'm so proud to talk about it, right? Because I know um before now when artists were singing about Things like this here. They found a way to like code it. Yeah Yeah, they call it something else It's when you're actually singing the lyrics and you put two and two together before you're able to figure Oh, yeah You know science student for the longest of time, we didn't know science student was like a normal people like me Oh, because I think the people that No, we're we're mixing understood the lyrics. Yeah, it's true. You are 90. No, no, it's not But people that people that were drugged people They were mixing it. They said they understood what Olamide was because I didn't understand how there are some keys from a rose um by silk. Yeah I mean it was last year or two years ago. I found that he was talking about cooking Tots. Oh, really? You should say this Matadonte And it has been, you know The the different name it has been given different names over time very very It's a subliminal. What's it called programming? And you see subliminal programming are a lot more powerful Than when somebody just comes out rightly and tells you you see those on the line on the layer on the layer It goes straight into your subconscious. Even you we wake up one morning. Why did I become like this? Somebody already programmed you 50 years ago. You just did not know So you're just you're just beginning to exhibit it. So those ones are a lot stronger Than when somebody comes and tries to shove it like if you come with drug to me now I would definitely resist it But there's a way There's a language that you will use like to go and bypass all my barriers and enter So that's what music is music is actually a very subliminal tool So that's why it's very important that the lyrics and whatever it is that you're listening to You have to censor it So the house of rips have approved the request of president Volamed Tinnubu for for the amendment to the 2002 appropriation act to allow the federal government to take 500 billion for palliatives to Nigerians Cushion the pains of subsidy removal the lawmaker approved the request during preliminary Session today Well july 13th. Yes They approved the sum of And they approved an additional 319 billion to take care of other needs by the president Bringing the total to 819 At the moment, they approved 185.236 billion to the house of walks and housing And the plan is to alleviate impact of severe flooding experience in the country in different six Geopolitical zones they approved 19 billion for a ministry of agriculture For different a different reason An additional 35 billion was approved for the national judicial council and 10 billion for the fct Administration for critical projects and 70 billion to the national assembly to support working conditions of new members I'm 19 billion for agriculture Yeah Out of this list, um, you know, it's I don't know Is is is this happening Sometimes I don't know how to react when I hear news like this You know, one minute we say there's no money in the country We're trying to manage resources and then the next minute they bring out something like this in the news It's I don't know how to react sometimes when I see these things because I'm like In other countries when there's a problem like this the the appointed representatives of the various Agencies and institutions take up, you know Humanitarian I'm choosing my words carefully. They take up humanitarian You know measures to show the people that do you know what we are here to serve you and we're here for you Yeah, so they come up with ideas like someone would say, you know what this month I'm not collecting my salary. Yeah, rather than collect my salary use that money to Maybe they focus it on somewhere else or they ask the government to you know, use it for other, you know pressing matters It's only Nigeria That I see no because I don't live anywhere else. It's in Nigeria that One minute they're shouting. There's no money. We're trying to save money for you people And the next minute you are telling me that you are are proving such billions That don't even get to the masses at the end of the day. So this idea of palliatives I don't know who came up with this idea My question first of all the selection criteria. How did you determine that you're going to give 12 million households? How did you from how did you arrive at what what makes me exactly what makes me use to measure Because I did like this. So I mean if it is the borough Yeah Well, do you know what are the last names of all these people? It's not even that Jennifer and the Abidula and the engine as I did like this It's if I say so already they give me 8,000 every month. I will collect it Do you know some because what are the what are the parameters for some of these? What's it called some of these? Projects what are the parameters? I would expect that a government that is thinking of truly liberating the people You will think about creating opportunities for them to earn money and make money Why all these handouts every single time because all of these handouts it is short lived. It is not sustainable Do you understand you have to give people a way to catch the fish themselves stop handing fish to people All the time we see this thing And we know that this 8,000 naira Let me tell you what we eventually even if it if if if if if it finally gets to who these people they want to give Maybe at the end of the day and I won't fight because before you go That change somebody wants somebody will take somebody will take somebody will take you know how these things work Right. So what is your criteria? Why are we coming back to issues of palliative? Is it for a government that could not share noodles? and pasta Now you want to now share money Is it like I don't understand how these things work like sometimes I just keep wondering in my head How there are people that have great initiatives to open soup kitchens or something If you are putting that you say, okay, you know what these are the things you want to probably put across the country I can do it for free. Exactly just that one. I it can resonate with me But you're handing over people money. I don't understand to create opportunities create jobs There are so many things that we can do today that will earn us money Right. Why don't you make that happen first? Jella, please your story Sorry for raising your mood No, it's quite unfortunate that this is where we are and there's 70. Oh my goodness 70 billion will not be with us Okay Is the fact that you would think this one is actually going to get to these rooms now That's the animal that's what you're fired at. We're just looking at us. I'm going to vibrate it for nothing Because when I when I saw when I saw the news I was already upset. I just Had it I didn't learn his Because obviously, who do you think you're fooling? Right? Because if I think about what happened during covid and what you're doing now Okay Hollywood sets for first shutdown strike since 1960 Hmm. So um that's 63 years ago. Yeah So, um, you know, there's been an ongoing strike with um The script writers, you know, that's been going on for about 11 weeks But this one is the screen actors guild Which represents about 160,000 performers including a list stars Said negotiate negotiations then late wednesday has ended without a Deal on their demand and whatever bottom. Okay on their Demands over dwindling pay and the treth posed by artificial intelligence So So, um, in some ways I Honestly, yes, you know, I I know that's on one of our episodes. We have talked about The merits and you know, did the merits of course with technology There is a lot of advancement, but there's also the drawbacks and all that and When you think of um, if this is how you end your daily living and then something comes to threaten that, I mean, it's it's just, um It's it's um expected, you know, that there will be agitation and all that So, um, it's interesting for me because I'm trying to Understand what I will come on do Is the AI going to be the one acting, you know, I I don't know Yeah The things he was talking about No, they said yeah, you can't be gay friends. Yeah, I said, okay, no problem. We have my That we give you love no cheating No, but that's the thing the person who someone actually tried it and the person who tried it said Okay, that the AI was void of the right emotions It's not just see if you don't think to be Intellectual. Yeah, it's one thing to have the right say all the right When you go go certain things you see it's good to have that information But how to layer the information is the problem And you if you're not human It's hard for you to have that Like no matter how many wires they put in through no matter how many things they try A clone would be a clone It's all right Hollywood I'm with you You would make them to see the light they have seen the light now You're not remotely but I think it's so it's only fair. It's only natural that you know and again This is not even to Hollywood. Why did I I mean in my bucket list acting was part of it? Oh my test study once I said never The only thing that is still on my bucket list that I really want to do because that was what I really used to do When I was younger stage play So if I see a very good stage play and they are willing to take a risk on me I know I'll give it my all I'll do a stage people that acting Because again, most of all of these things are like, you know the other sort of hidden kind of negotiations Maybe your role has a specific amount But so there's a lot of there's a lot of magumagu that happens with payment of Especially in all this kind of production. So it happens right and it's everywhere. I'm just so shocked that Hollywood, but it's true even in Hollywood. I remember one actor. I think it was Scarlett Johansson She had issues with black widow or something. Yeah I remember that time when they were having issues with her contract. So it's been there So maybe now that they are probably going as unstrike collectively. It's possible that you know They're able to resolve before there is a pocket of actors fighting and the blacklist and all of that So maybe maybe maybe maybe All right, my story is quite interesting. I just thought to to share it that say our daddy Our thread daddy is practicing his skills. He wants to Do you know who I'm blue like this He's practicing his skills and he wants to he wants to he wants to mean I don't know I don't know. Hey, my media cannot load what I wanted to get serious I just think they're both comedians, right? Yeah They're rich men who like to draw attention to themselves, right? Yeah So Facebook found that Zuckerberg has been photograph training with New Zealand, Nigeria That's in New Zealand, Nigeria Mixed macho art and star Israel Adesanya in preparation for his proposed cage fight with Elon Musk Cage fight? After both tech billionaires called each other out Madzuka Berg whose firm owns Facebook and Instagram recently released. Of course, you all know The social networking app called threads to complete. I mean, so sorry to compete with Elon Musk Twitter, so however while some viewed the challenge for An MMA fight as playful banter between the influential figures the anticipation surrounding this unlikely showdown Continues to grow with both of them pictured training with MMA fighters Sharing the photos from via his instagram page on twitter That's them today. Adesanya said we both have South Africans to deal with He said I say let's do more in apple hashtag thread. Hashtag stitch Stitch him up or the stitch stitch stitch up or something like that. He says I add a sign referring to Zuckerberg tech competitor Elon Musk and undefeated middle bell fighter Drey Koss du places whom he will Most likely fight next week. So both of them have contenders Adesanya is going to contend with the South African You know more. I mean Zuckerberg is also So they have to practice to get aspiring partners. But hey, it's actually fun for me But guess what if this fight truly happens, you know, the billions of dollars that they work in if people subscribe To be lying somebody will cash out. Hey, how do we cash out in this kind of thing? Is there a betting? I've never done anything on betting my life. Maybe I will bet Right I Thought this was really beautiful to work because it was a good comic relief for me I mean You know what really struck me again was the fact that this was a Nigerian Adesanya is a Nigerian, right? It had to go to another country, of course, like every other Nigerian story that has really exploded in the careers, right? So, I mean we have opportunities here. So I just plead with our government, right? Outside of all of this drama that we talk about So funny, right outside of all this drama that we talk about right We really have great talents in Nigeria and it cuts across all fields So let's pay attention to what we have and just you know what give them an enabling environment and they will thrive All right on that note. Let's discuss infrastructure. Stay with us. We'll be right back