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Episode 182 | Queen of the Road · Corie Sheppard Podcast

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome to episode 182 of the Corey Shepard Podcast.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to all you listeners, welcome to Well, welcome right.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: I had to change that.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: You know Time to change that little address.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Listen, we start where we start, right, because this weekend was a long weekend.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: It was a weekend full.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if to tell you I was out and bad like a baddie, like a thot, in these streets.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: I've been hitting these streets.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if to tell you how old like the hills, but it was a mix between the two over the course of this weekend.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: This whole podcast is probably about this weekend that I've gone here to, because it was a real, the real McCoy, a genuine old people weekend.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: But every part of my weekend I leave my old, lasting memory, right, and I want to play a song for you, for all you mothers who require a shepherd podcast.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Right, Long time I didn't play something.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: You know I need a little side to play some music with.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: I'll find a band and tell them I need a quattro man and let me follow you.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: I'll have a song to play for you.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: It's so amazing how this world was made.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I wonder if God is a woman.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: How this world was made.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: I wonder if God is a woman.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: The gift of life Astones me to this day.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: I give it up to a woman.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: She's the constant wind that fills my sails.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, that woman, with her smile and her style, she'll protect me like a child.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: That's a woman.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: She'll put a smile upon your face and take you to a higher place.
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: So don't you underestimate the strength of a woman.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you right.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Well, two reasons I play that song.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Right, excuse all bad code.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: Two reasons I play that song.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: First, for Happy excuse all bad code.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: Two reasons I play that song First, for Happy Mother's Day for all the mothers and so on.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: And secondly, because I don't want to get no YouTube strike, because I really wanted to play that.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: It's by Shaggy.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: Go and play the Shaggy version for yourself.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: If it's a mother that listens to this podcast, I know that that is me, dedicated to you, but I'm frightened if I play it that youtube will take it on.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: The other reason I play this is because I went over the weekend to a show by the name of the queen of the road.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: I went and see a queen with my queens this is caribbean vibes.
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: This is Caribbean vibes.
• 3:21
  Speaker 4: So give me two.
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: Boom, boom, boom in the soul.
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: The bones are cold.
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: So let me jam, so can jam, can it so jam?
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: So let me jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: Jump together.
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: The soccer rhythm has plenty feeling.
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: It has me waistline, moving my whole body's vibrating To the soccer.
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: Beat this trinidad, beat, feel it.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: We jam, jam, jam, jam jam together, Jam one another, Jam together and let me jam jam jam Before jumping into it right, my review of the Queen of the Road show.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, I could play one of my favorite rows for you.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: I know every song I play is my favorite, right, but this is one of my favorite rows Not my favorite rows to listen to, one of my favorite rows to play when.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: When you're out there playing music with a man like Scratch, this is one of the favorites that we always turn to.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: You know, it would be nice at some point in life that when I talk about a song, I could easily find it in front of my body with my eyesight working.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: These days, where's the song?
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: Look at it, I feel like dancing Tonight.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna put it on From dusk till dawn.
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: I feel like dancing.
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: I feel like dancing Tonight.
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna put it on, baby, from dusk till dawn.
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: So me look and me tell them.
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: You might think I'm cool with my attitude.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: Don't wind back and shake, not because of fire, hotter than ever.
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: Don't wind back and shake, so keep your distance.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: I just want to dance, don't wind back and shake.
• 6:05
  Speaker 4: It's a nice party.
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: Don't wind up on me.
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: I feel like dancing.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: I feel like dancing.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna put it on, and I'm gonna put it on, yes, from dusk till dawn.
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: I went and see Queen of the Road.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: Me and the queens went and see Queen of the Road See my hair make it.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: But my mama and my wife, we went and see Queen of the Road and there are plenty to talk about in this show.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: This show was and I want to tell you I almost didn't make it, because I come here with the express intent To talk to a lot of people who went and stayed.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: And I want to tell you I almost didn't make it Because I come here with the express intent to bad talk a lot of people who went in the stadium and called themselves legends the night before and I bust on my average, but the night after I did go and take in Queen of the Road, an excellent production, and they have.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe let me start with an article about it here, right, and then I'll tell you about my experience there, right?
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: I'm reading from is this loop tt?
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: Who have it?
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: E-buzz tt.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Always on top of the culture as well.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Uh, powerful journey.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Calypso rose fought all odds.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: Queen of the road musical unnecessary reminder uh, technology, social media and the ease of life we've all become used to in this 21st century is a far cry from the odds faced and overcome by so many of so many who had paved the way, this past weekend trended into bigotry.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: Delivery of queen of the road music.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: The delivery of the queen of the road musical reminded patrons of this fact and much and much more, in its walk down memory lane, which highlighted the life and times of the incomparable calypso rose.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Queen of the road, written and directed by roma spencer.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: So you see that song I play in the beginning.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: A big party dedicated to Roma Spencer.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Queen Hell of a production.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: It was presented by yes Productions on both Saturday and Sunday in Trinidad.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: It was first presented as a workshop in Canada in 2019, before premiering in Tobago in October 2023.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: The musical begins with Rose's acceptance of the Victoria Music Award and French equivalent of the Grammy.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: She won the award in 2017 after releasing the album Far From Home.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: In her production, spencer rewinds the life of the 84-year-old, taking the audience on a whirlwind, sometimes harsh, often humor-filled, consistently thought-provoking adventure through the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of Calypso Rose.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: I cannot write that better myself.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: That's what it was basically, right.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: So the play started off, or the musical started off with her.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: But let me tell you about the journey to get here.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: First right it was at Central Bank Auditorium, and Central Bank Auditorium is an intimate little vibe right.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: There's not much happening in Central Bank Auditorium.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: It's not big like nappa and supper and queen's hall in these places, which I was grateful for because I'm going in there and I'm tired.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: I nearly, I nearly make it if I didn't promise people mother's day activities.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: I wasn't going, but we reached there and I mean they have a huge, if you know, opposite, uh, central bank.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Now on, I don't know why I started talking about street name too on the on the eastern side of central bank, not on the promenade side, they have a big car park, you know, with the mollison old buildings, and they're a car park.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Don't tell mommy, tell me well, but you know they go open the car park for you to park there, which seems to be the obvious thing to do if you have an event in central bank.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: Well, no such luck.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: So people park all how on the pavement and all how in your road and you have to take it on your road and walk back, which is not ideal, the way thing going with car and people and taking car and breaking in counting these days, but nonetheless it was pretty smooth getting in.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: I've gotten used to using sites like island e-tickets where you could pretty much get tickets for any game.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: So we went in.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: We we had a little program.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: There's a program, they're selling the program and we're grateful for this program too, you know, because I used to laugh at my grandmother and my mother and then when everywhere they go, they're coming back with that program.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: But I am now of age where I was very happy to see the program there so I don't have to take a set of wrong notes to come and talk to all of you.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: I set up wrong notes to come and talk to all of you.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: All the notes I need inside here.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Right, we eventually get in.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: We get the tickets scanned.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: A little delays with the scan tickets and things.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, but I didn't even know where to get physical tickets for this thing.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: And I mean once we got in it was smooth, easy to get a seat.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Everything was nice.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Right, they start on time.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: I had to commend them for that.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Shows in Trinidad starting to get different.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: I remember coming here to talk about Explainers what we're going to call that tribute show after Explainer had died, and that show start a proper hour and something late, so it was nice that this show started dead on time and while you're waiting for the show to start, we must have reached about 15, 20 minutes early.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: There's some nice little Calypso Rose jamming in the background to get everybody used to it, but uh, the first thing we saw on stage was was really calypso rose coming out accepting that award, starting her speech and then, as the as you ought to hear in ebuzz titty said, flashback.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: Right, I want to honor queen, the queen of this flashback, because I see a little child when I say child a child, child when I say child, a child, child like Zachary, walk out on that stage and walk to the edge of that stage and take command of that audience in a way that I don't think I ever seen nothing like this before.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: This little child born for this stage, and I hope, I hope that enough avenues are created for her entry in Latin Tobago or wherever she go in the world, because she is a star.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: This lady's name, this young queen's name well, it's called a young queen, a princess.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Tara Howe is a self-motivated standard 5 student at St Patrick's Newton Girls RC.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: I would like to pause there Anytime you want Newton, you come from good stuff, right?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Tara Howe is a self-motivated Standard 5 student at St Patrick Girls RC School who is passionate about dancing and singing Outside of school.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: She is adventure-seeking with her family.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Her accomplishments encompass academic and performance awards.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: She was crowned Senior Vintage Monarch 2024.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Now this child is 11 years old, so I don't know what is the Senior Monarch.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: She went right Senior to whom, but she went Senior Vintage Monarch 2024.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Now this child is 11 years old, so I don't know what is the senior monarch.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: She went right Senior to whom, but she went Senior Vintage Monarch in 2024, which suggests to me that she know old Kaiso.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: When you hear Vintage Monarch, it means that she'll be singing some kind of vintage tune, right, she holds fast to God's plan for her life.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: Tara's personal goal is to attend Holy Name Convent in 2025 and become a professional dance instructor.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Salute to utah.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Because the play, the musical, split up into four acts, right, and each one of the acts, I want to tell you, each one of the acts have about between 12 songs to 15 songs in each one of the act.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Act four have a little less, but the first three acts would be it's about 12 songs and, uh, the songs delivered mostly by the person playing rose, which was, which was tara, tara, howard, at a point in time, man.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: So she, that little girl, uh, this child, right, this little child come out on that stage and sing about seven or eight of them, songs.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: Ain't here a stumbler fumble with no chorus, stumbler fumble with no verse.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that with a musical, you don't only have to deliver the song, you have lines, because it have talking.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: The first part of the interaction was really her dealing with her grandmother and the grandmother talking to her, and I like the way they pull the play together.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Because it was her grandmother talking to her by the seaside in Betel, in Tobago, betel, or seaside, somewhere in the seaside in Tobago, right, the grandmother sitting down talking to her and so on, and just talking to her about the power that she has as a child, the power that she has and what she possesses and also the fact that the seas would bring messages to her.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: You know, she said plenty of our ancestors.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: She used to look, my grandmother said, you know, looking out into the sea and telling her listen, your ancestors here to support you.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: You're not alone.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: We have ancestors in these seas.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Come to these waters when you have troubles.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: It's a mountain.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: And they tell from that viewpoint to when she was, uh, taking her to her household of seven or eight children I can't remember how much.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: That is a lot, there's a lot.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: And her aunt in trinidad who came to basically pick one of the trend, a lot of these things, right, there's things I don't know.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Right, forgive me if I sung in um, uh, if this is common knowledge and I'm sounding ignorant, forgive me, but I never knew.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: This is how Rose reached from Tobago to Trinidad.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad somebody documented this when her father, brother and the wife was adopting one of the children from the family.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Basically, you know, the family's struggling with that.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Among the children and the woman basically picked Rose, played by Karen Francisco, right Daughter of the great slinger Francisco, you know.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: So she was the aunt, and she come and she take Calypso Rose back then known as Carty, back to Trinidad, and all the time all this happening in play, where she interact with the grandmother, sing about two, three tunes, the grandmother sing about a tune or two as well, and then the family, when she come and get selected, all then she's singing tune, delivering lines, doing dance.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: The girls are proper star.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Come Trinidad now come to school, people making fun of her and thing, and she was able to access the grandmother again, which, from the way the grandmother appeared in the play, it seemed as though the grandmother passed away by that point.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: But she was able to access the grandmother to get some of the strength to ward off the bullies and the teasers and thing in school.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: And again, all this I talk about this girl delivering song after song after song.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I had to salute to her.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much rehearsal it take and because this little child couldn't possibly have heard the original and most of them songs she's singing there.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: She went there and learned and delivered them spectacularly flawlessly.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go back to no other show but I went to a show and I see big, big calypso and I see monarchy the whole in explainer.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I took what you showed, have a piece of paper singing out explainer lyrics and them had to come there to sing one explainer song.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the organizers right, maybe the organizers asked them to do it late and they didn't get time to learn this song, but I can't help sounding on this little girl properly well rehearsed and went on.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: So salute to the first queen.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Second queen, I want to salute Teresa Hope, who played the grandmother Legendary performance.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: You could feel the spirit of the grandmother as she went through the play and and guiding kati throughout her young years, not just as she went through the changes of having to move from tobago with the family that she knows to go and turn dad with her family she didn't know at all and to find herself a family who rooted in in, in in religion and so on and church in tobago.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: To go by a family who rooted in heavy kaiso and calypso and the grandmother helping her to fight them battles from a distance, from the same seas that she saw in the beginning.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Salute to teresa hope.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Teresa hope had a great performance.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: But uh, and let me go to some other queens, right, alicia jagger.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: So I want to tell you some more.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Alicia jagger sorry, alicia jagger is a legend, known as the parent queen, so salute to her.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: But I tell you, with my eyesight poor, I watching the play and me him realizes alicia jagger's.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I watch it because she playing some roles where she playing her backup to calypso rose, right, they had four backup singers who legendary them backup singers, his vibes every time them come out, his action, and I didn't realize this is a list of drags I was watching, but I'll tell you something.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: They had a part where them four backup singers were singing individual parts of a rose song.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Right, and the way the person voice stand out, it's not like the other three, wasn't?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: They're not singing bad, they're well in key, they're well rehearsed and thing just, just, just like, just like my little friend from Newton Guild.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But this particular backup singer when she sang, this whole auditorium full, it full, and there's a big voice there.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Listen, jaguars, salute to her.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: She was the vocal director of the play as well.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And the musician.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Again I want to salute her queen by the name of michelle henry, I know from since tranquil days.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I know as a saxophonist, bad, bad musician, and she was a musical director.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Particularly, I want to salute one fellow who was in that band.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: You see, the man was playing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: It had a fellow playing some drums, right, uh, some conga drums, african drums, and take that man, the spirit of the grandmother, when the grandmother parenting is something that he bring it out to everybody in naples.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: But I want, I want to zone in again on all the organizers uh, saluto, racial collymore, past student from mine, who was, uh, very involved in the play as well.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Several, several names and faces that I would have seen either or wrong the creative circuit, uh, and uh, the the creative circuit as well as performing arts, but people who are just know from our wrong to was involved in this, coincidentally.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: But the queen I come here to salute today, you see, stacy sobers.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I remember talking about stacy sobers in some episodes before right my memory not serving me, right as to whether stacy sobers was one of them who I saw in explainer show, because I could tell you the woman in, uh, the woman who came to pay tribute to Explainer.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: They listen and mash up that show.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: They put some of the fellas on them to shame who were singing Explainer songs.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: They properly well deliver them songs.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember now if Stacey Sobers was in that show.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: But whether she was or not, she played Calypso Rose from 17 years old until she collected that uh french award.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Name victory de la music award in france and after mcgill tara, how would it deliver?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I want to say about eight of them songs.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Most act one right, most one, if not coming into act two as well, she come out.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: This is Stacey Sowell, wasn't it?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And I want to tell you that she must have sang about 25.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: 25 songs, some of them, 25 songs is two verse and a chorus in a song.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Again, you know what I mean.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Some of the songs she sang twice, you understand.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Some of them come back and she sing them again.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It was amazing the performance that she put on and again, I want to remind you that they're not just singing songs and leaving her, there's a musical.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: So after they sing song, they had to deliver lines, they had to do dances.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It's a choreography.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Well, well, well, put together, properly put together show.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: They talk about rose from the time she reached 17 and she went young brigade tent and them, fellas and them fighting.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: She don't, they didn't want the owners of the tent them, fellas and them is so interested in putting a woman on top of the game and making her a star, the.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: The reality is that they see her as a star and they realize, hey, we had to put this girl on, we don't have a choice.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And they did.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And then you see the men and them, the.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: The goose that was laying the golden egg at the time was the great Sparrow, and Sparrow is the king of Young Brigade Tent.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: You can't move him.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And they did well to show the interactions between Rose and Sparrow.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Where Sparrow went from somebody who was basically telling Rose she can't get a play, singing along in the tent.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So he know, rose closing the show.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Rose reach the point where he closing the show.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Sparrow must have done damn vex already.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: So, all right, you want to close show, I go stay on the stage for about two hours.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: You know, in the Calypso tent you only have about a 20-minute half hour to deliver your song.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And then when Sparrow, they say he lengthening all and now the performance to make sure that when people see Sparrow they're leaving.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And Rose, even though she had big songs, she performed into her empty crowd.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: She had like Bad Mind and Calypso and Kaiso and Soka.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: It didn't know it was a mafia.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So she complained to everybody she could complain to.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: She migrated again something that I didn't know Went to Belize and got honorary citizenship, sing several songs that would be anthems in belize.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So when I heard that, I was hoping that this play would travel to places like belize or travel to places where you know if they could do things like this up the islands, and I did feel as though I mean to tell a story of 84 years in a two-hour play.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It rough, so some of it rushing through the things, and I feel like you're not getting the true emotion of what she would really go through having to migrate.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You could see how rough it would have been on her and her well-adopted mother at the point in time when she decided to leave the father who put all the holes and was vexed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: She sang encalpso.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I said the devil music, come back.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You can't come back around when she's getting some fame and a big part of the reason she was leaving too is because, with the types of songs she was singing and the type of star she was becoming as a woman, it wasn't just Sparrow and them didn't like it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: The church was behind her, society was after her for being a smutty and nasty calypsonian.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You know the headlines saying that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Imagine it, they showing you where the church basically saying that she's a she, she, she, she playing man.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Then you know you're playing in a man's will and trying to to to galleying yourself in a man wheel and not looking good as a woman, and your church was vehemently against her continuing to perform and continuing to be a part of Calypso and Soka music.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So again I want to salute everybody who was involved in this.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It was a great show, it was a great night out.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I come out to salute my mother.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: She's the one who told me about this and it left up to me I wasn't going nowhere because I'm tired like a dog.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: You must tell you I was tired too.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not the kind of man who could go out more than one night in a weekend, right I?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I need to be home, I need to be well rested every time I go out.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I need about six weeks rest and recovery, right, but I was already committed to that calypso road since before, with mother's day and then me with my fast self.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I was telling you last week the icy Legends game, legends football, advertised on the TV.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Wait, before I go on to the Legends, only forgive me, now, let me play one more.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Let me play one more.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Rose now.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Only know how this car, how this car come out here.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Just so, just so.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I would like to play the song.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'd like to play the song, one of the biggest songs of her career, but I feel the song that would have stole the show in that play last night.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Before I move on to some of the legends, if the thing named Queen of the Road is only fitting that we play Her Majesty, right, but the reality is that, as always, when it's time to play Her Majesty, all of a sudden I can't find Her Majesty on the list and my eyesight is failing me once again.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Trinidadians, what great dispositions.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: They know how to tune when they hear it croon, so I'm gonna drop me bomb in the sun.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: They say it's class, give me the road match.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: No, they are just me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I show majesty.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: They say me music's sweet.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: It makes for the time to be.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: It takes this way to jump on Carnival Day, the brass taking the load.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: They call me Queen, Queen, Queen of Majesty, Queen of the Road.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Everybody hushed.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: They said it was brainwash.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Our lot kitchener.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: He's all they lost here.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: The statement is not true.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Plenty of people lost their shoes.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: It was my new beat made trouble on the street.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Now they address me as your Majesty.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: They say me music sweet is made for the country beat.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: It's not bit straight to jump on carnival dance, the brass taking me low.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: They call me queen, queen, oh my dear city.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Queen of the road.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Only forgive me now, I couldn't help it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I heard a ballin' Like somebody cryin'.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I just could imagine what was happening.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I saw this old lady running calling out to she never ran, saying never, never, come on, let me have some fire.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And if you hear she, fire, fire, hit me, wire, fire.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fire, fire.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Bring a cup of tea and a lot of water.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, I jump off the bed, start holding me hand.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I said to my love, like somebody dead, because this old lady, she ain't living with nobody.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I'm coming from the house and I'm traveling like a crazy man and if you hear she, fire, fire, hit me, wire, wire.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, fire, fire, burn in a car, baby, don't, don't let mucho agua.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It was so Fire, fire hit me, wire, wire.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Hold it for a minute.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I can't help it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Bye, let me party, let me party, let me party.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Let me party.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Leave me.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Let me run.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Jose, I can't go in home, so leave me alone.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I ain't going home.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Olé, I can't help it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Olé, forgive me.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I could understand why a woman must have an outside man.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I could understand why a woman must have an outside man.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I could understand why a woman must have an outside man.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: A man does want to run like a rat and have his wife to abide by that.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: And every night he having a ball and when he reach on me and kissing his wife at all.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: And if the woman say, she feeling sexy, tell me where she go do, and the man say, he feeling sleepy, tell me where she go do, and she, bawling, come on, do do.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: But this time he soft like soft candle.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: No satisfaction, I don't like it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: I don't like it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: We can't end on that note, right?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We can't end on that note.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I can't take this tension.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: It's too hard to mention, but it's been too small For the kind of bad I know what will happen.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Is this a disaster?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Is people like red that make us spend more in spare but Patrick's street club Sell us street clubs so I can smoke.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: It's people like Red, jammie, gwennon's men, murray Square, hot, patrick Street Rock, sala Street Rock, so I can rock.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm going down San Fernando.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Down there, have plenty tempo.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Hattersteel Orchestra jamming, sweet.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to join San Fernando and roll on Coby Street.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: So give me more, give me more, give me more Tempo.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going down San Fernando.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Down.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: There was no tempo was in the Legends game in the stadium the night before.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: It had no tempo inside.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: They tell me legends football.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I want to salute russell latipi foundation's air committee.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Everybody was involved in putting on this legends game because I saw why they succeed.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Write an article from tanner's destiny and imagine the men write an article saying they didn't realize it was taken.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: When I went there I guess six or nine, because what kind of footballer do?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Who's a legend?
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: This man is 99 years old.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Let me see rivaldo.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Rivaldo and there was a shadow of themselves.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: But I'm not understanding where this talent really right and why I did succeed today.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Because it was very clear where he was going.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Therefore, he was going to see all people play football.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: What he was going to see is, for the first time in my life, I could safely say I am better than rivaldo.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I have a better chance of scoring on rivaldo.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It was bad.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: So we went on the legends game.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I tell zachary about it.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Zachary is a man who follows football avidly.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He knows all these footballers and I don't know they're trying to just stay on youtube and learn facts about stuff.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Salute them, right.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: So you know all about football.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So this little boy at 11 years old, properly, well, no, kafu, no way.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kafu win world cup.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: He, no, kaka win ball and do either.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: So we say we went down in the game.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I tell him I'll carry him and we go on.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Now I really forget what it's like to be a child.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Right, I'm not the greatest and most exciting father they ever had, because I reached down in the football.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: So, jade McKesson, my little squad, went with me from down home here and I meet up with my partner, my husband, in the game too, and in my mind, I really go in the stadium to watch football.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: So I walk in past.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: We had to park in Movietown first thing.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: First there was a good bit of traffic.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: The stadium had a good bit of people too.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's not like I saw before the game, people complaining about the ticket price.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Right Now, let me say this before I get into the action on the night, the price of a covered stand ticket, I think, was $450.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: And uncovered it was $300.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And I'm trying to figure out what people would be willing to pay to see these men or what they're expected to see, because I play it this way, like I commented on Wired today saying if they bring Rivaldo and them in a wheelchair.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I was never much of a Caca fan, right.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know much about Ed Milson.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Cafu was one of my first exposures to Brazil winning the World Cup and that kind of thing at the time, which is heartbreaking for me.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: But I know kafu and I know that team.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I know marion babetto and them fellas, so to get to see them I don't know when in my lifetime I will get to see them.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I talked to my cousin shepi salute shepi and he was saying he paid less than that to see bigger players in the prime.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: When he went bernabau and and he's played he went to is bernabau, he went to real madrid.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He went spain to watch football.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Let me just say where he went.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I can't remember which one of them he went to see, whether it's Real or Atletico Stadium, I'm sure he went both.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Uh, I never went them thing.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I will probably never go them thing because I have a fundamental issue with supporting slave owner clubs, especially when Chelsea not doing good.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: If Chelsea doing good, I could support a slave owner club and all a league from the slave owners, right, but I don.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know what we blow us upset.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I mean the price, I guess.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: But again, it's kind of telling a story.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So don't just judge everything you see on social media as fact.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Like I remind myself of that Because when I see the way people complain about the game and what they bring these old washed-up men for and how expensive this game is, I say the stadium will be empty.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: While it was anything but the stadium had a good little following and a good turnout.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'll get back to that good turnout in a while.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Right, but reading from the guardian here, legends versus all-stars score big time.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Brazilian kaka and local striker anthony wolf both scored hat-tricks in an entertaining five all draw, uh, featuring brazilian legends against trinidad and tobago all-stars.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So the game was really, uh, a combination of Trinidad and Tobago All-Stars.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: So the game was really a combination of Trinidad and Tobago and Brazilian Legends.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: They had four Brazilian Legends, which was Kaka, kafu, ed Milson and Rivaldo, and they had.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: They followed the team with other Trinidad and Tobago Legends, including New York and Latipi and things.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: For those of you, for the nostalgia's sake, you want to tell me who was in the game.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Like some of them, I find they do a good job spreading it across a few generations, but apparently Turner and them find they do a terrible job.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I know it's take to please certain people in this country, you know.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: But the legends was Kelvin Jack, elijah joseph, joven jones, kalim, highland, kevin molyneux, anthony show with gary glasgow, kendall velox, earl jaw.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: So earl jaw would be legendary status, kelvin jack would be legendary.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I guess the argument is that joven jones and highland and them and molyneux now done play.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: If Well, highland done.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Joven Jones and them might come back for this campaign, but Highland finish.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Highland like he eat that, this current legend Highland like he eat the young seal.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I don't get big.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I never seen nothing like that in my life.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Until I'll call Cone Cupid, then I'll call Foucault, I'll call Ronaldo, I'll call Mason York Latipi, carlos Edwards and Kenwin Jones.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you that the only person who looked like himself in that whole stadium is Kenwin Jones.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I never see a man throw away when he's old.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Throw away when he's young, it's no different.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Clean up mongol and hit the clock up of um all-stars as well, including people like dorica cornell.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Glenn man, who people glad to see.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Anthony wolf was there, anthony wolf?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I just want to say that anthony wolf was younger than me.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Right from what I could, from what I could could gather colin samuel might be a little younger than me too.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Sid gray was over there.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Nice to see sid gray.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Sid gray was one of the 2006 men.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Uh, hudson charles.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: If people can remember, you'll remember hudson charles and what hudson charles means.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: At trinidad and tobago football 1989 kind of thing, you know, I mean playing against usa clint, marcel clinton, and so a lot of the names are.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Marvin fustin was in this game, leonton lewis was in this game.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: So I don't know what there is to complain about.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, if the price too high, I suppose if you can't pay the price, you can't pay the price, but it certainly was not reflected in the demand that was there for the stadium last night.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: See, they must park at the park over in movie town.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Walk across, uh, they, uh.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: When I say I don't always like to be a child, what I mean is I can't walk through the gate, walk past all the activities and zachary's like daddy, look at how much things to do.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I think we need to go and give a seat.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: But we went on me like you could have and be mobile thing, kick a ball and do something.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Coca-cola had a boot.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Salute to Coca-Cola.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: You could have done cornhole thing to win something.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: You kick a ball through some holes in a like a kind of net something, you win something.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: They even had a little netball tic-tac-toe game.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I think Subway was the one who did that.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And what and what you're doing is you're playing against somebody and you're shooting into a little basket and if you make a tic-tac-toe, well, zachary, you make one, and the woman make all three and make tic-tac-toe.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I said, but wait, you still want to practice.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: So she's a netballer.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: So people come out, people partake in the activities and I'm trying to figure out what I had to complain about.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I just see work in us.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I want to blow past them and go and sit down, but when we did go in, they gave us a good game.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Of course, anthony Wolfe is 20 years old.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: He scored a hat-trick earlier.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I believe he scored 20 in halftime, or they played 3-2.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: It was a real fat match.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you Rivaldo, who I wanted to see the most.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Because of the brilliance of Rivaldo, I want to tell you he didn't do nothing.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: He didn't do nothing.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Within five minutes of the game, I started to get a strong center Bengay, cataflam, olfen, kometrumen, pauza, coxia.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: As this place started to smell like clove, brandy, flamma, midocam, radiant beanie.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: The place started to reek of them things.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I want to tell all of you it wasn't just the players on the field, because the people in the stands good, properly old too, all like myself.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: All I keep thinking after the second turn is hey time to come out here and hear why this game going on so late.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I had to go to work in the morning.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: All I said is this is a lot, there's a lot.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Salute to Stefan and his partner, oscar.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: After the first third, that man said no, there's not for them, there's two, them young, them going their way, them, because they're going to lime otherwise.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: But in very, very small glimpses you saw the brilliance of latter people thing set up one of the final goals to to molly.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: No um, kafu score a great goal.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Kafuu put a I believe his Jaa the keeper, one named Jaa Jaa Michael.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Is it Jaa Michael?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Whoever was the keeper, cafu put a keeper to lie down there.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: It was very, very impressive, cafu.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Look.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: The thing about Cafu, too, as a Brazilian captain, is that he liked the people part of it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: You could see he take more to the people thing than all the rest of the players.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: When he scored a goal, he ran to the covered stands, all them children and them stormed the track.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: It's something else to see that little children who couldn't be nowhere near his era, rushing to take pictures with him and rushing to hug him up and down.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It's to show you how these youths, now so much brighter than us because of social media and YouTube and these things they know everything about everything and regardless of what era you're from, they identify with you because you know there is.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: It was something else to see and, of course, at the end of the game they um, if you came to see good football, I think it was in the wrong place.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: If you come for a nice lime and some good nostalgia and to see some legends, I think it was in the right place.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: And they do.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: They did a great job with it.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I hope that between russell, atopy foundation air committee, whoever else involved in doing this, I hope they do more things like this.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I sorry I ain't get to see what the old jailbird name ronaldinho or fat ronaldo.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: It'll be nice to see some players like that, you know.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, imagine they bring batistuta, if they bring players from different uh countries or different regions, and I'm not sure how expensive it is to do this, but at 300, 450 again, that's out to me every single time.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Ain't nothing like that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: And then after the game they came and walk around the track.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, rivaldo couldn't get all the way around the track.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: There was so much people swarming him, throwing jerseys for him to sign.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I just want to shout out ret, that's the man I used to play football with named Rhett, rhett, I know Rhett and Kambi.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I call them by name, rhett and Kambi.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: And these fellas is real sneakers men, right, if you want a link for brand new pair of sneakers or hard to get pair of sneakers.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Them is good men to link up with because them just go in every sneaker lottery and thing and they have a.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: They have a site too.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: You know can be have a site on our instagram page.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: She's do call something kicks.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: My memory is not great, but them fellas and them is link for sneakers.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: But I want to tell you that in the midst of seeing rivaldo walking around the track, I used to see ret.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Where's ret name brother?
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I see red walking with rivaldo and have about 35 barcelona jersey.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Red is a scammer.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Red, this is informal business, this going on.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Red is a scammer.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I give a bunch of jersey.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I see red gain rivaldo.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: How red know rivaldo to reach and track walking wrong with rivaldo, I think I don't know.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: But if you want a signed Rivaldo shoot, maybe check red.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Give me a link and I will give you a red number and you can go and check Rivaldo shoot.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: But to me the Legends game was good.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: It was worth it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I feel good being there At one point when it's time to go.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Now I tell Osman.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I said are you ready to make a move?
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: He said yeah and we start to walk out, walk out, and then I saw the guys walking around the track and all the little children go down and I say I said, zachary, I want to go down and see if you could see kaka and them close up.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I, I really forget what it's like to be a child and things.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: So, me and osman.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Now I go back to osman.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: He stay with man, wait, we just stay by the track and he covered stands.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: They're waiting for them to reach all the way around and he was so glad to get a glimpse, a wave.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, a child is a special thing.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: You know, you had to enjoy your childhood and and get a chance to see a legend.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that there's more of that.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, fast forward.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: From sunday I'm gonna have saturday, mother's day.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I take it light, you know.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I mean thanks, god.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: God for stacy, because she, she had to pressure me, because my system couldn't take it again.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: When Mother's Day came, I couldn't do nothing else.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I'm tired with the people, I'm tired with the out.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I want to be home.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I just sleep all day, which I did, but then Monday night, now I'm going with my fast self because, again I tell, is playing football.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I want to be there and this week we had two games.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Well, we have two games this week, uh, two friendlies against guy, you know, coached by great jamal shabazz, remember him.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: And as a precursor, a warm-up to what?
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: His world cup qualifiers coming up in june, right.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: So when I see these two games apart, I must say, you know, I want to go and take any little football in the stadium, but the old age and the bengay and thing are fucking me.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: So, me, and one friday I'm going out, saturday, monday night I'm back on the road, but I make a bad joke with zachary after he come home.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: So I was like zachary, is that football in the stadium?
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: He's like I come in, I'm gonna bathe now.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh lord.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: So now I can disappoint him.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: So we went in the stadium and I saw Trinidad and Tobago win 2-1 against Guyano.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: We take in any wins, right.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: But the team, it looked a little scrappy, it didn't look so good.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: They have a man by the name of Showtime, right, kevin Woodley, who they calling for.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I only see him in the comments, right, when you look at football comments, they're talking about why he can't get a call up and why he can't play and why they can't bring him, and he known as a uh, beach footballer.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: He make his name as a beach footballer and he and and in the pro league as well.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Let me don't limit him to just saying he's a beach footballer.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Right, he's known in the pro league as well as showtime and he's a goal scorer.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: He's about my age, you know, I mean, he's over 50, but he did score in his stadium on debut.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I'm very, very glad to see that he.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: He didn't look so great in his second half, like you know, I mean, he was little, he my age, you know, I mean he was a little roast in the second half.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: But it was a tale of two halves between that team because we were so dominant against um ghana in the first half when the second half started.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: We make a ridiculous mistake in the first couple minutes of the second half and give them a goal back and then all of a sudden, we, under big pressure from Guyana it looked like Trinidad team wants to play physical with them.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: We have a little bit of a problem.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping that I will probably go back in his stadium Wednesday night as well, uh, just to give support, and I like to see they have a youth named Wuling.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Wuling had a great game.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I hope he in that central midfield he could be a difference maker.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: But we had to get to the point where we're playing a little more physically, boy, a little more aggressively and so on, because we're not.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're looking the part and while playing like that, we go still be Guyana and probably beat Grenada, although Guyana give me a run for the money.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Guatemalans and Panamans of this world and Jamaicans of this world are going to have any problems beating us very badly If we showing up there playing like that In the first half.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, we could stay with them teams, if we play the way we play.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: I ain't saying beat them, neither.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: We could stay with them and we could compete in the way we play in the first half, but the second half I think it was poor.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I guess we have plenty to say about that.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: So I'll go back Wednesday and I'll tell all of you.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I'll go back Wednesday and I'll tell all of you.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I'll tell all of you.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll reach out to Rhett and get a little Barcelona jersey to come out in at that point in time.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: On to the news, on to the news of the week, and I'm going to run through news stories fast here.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Let me see where it's lined up here.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about something that I've seen becoming more and more popular over time here, and it's something that an article that I saw about tiny houses some time ago and well, coincidentally, I hear Stacey talking about the whole tiny house thing and she's like this tiny house, they have a tiny house explosion and I was like I don't know if it's an explosion, I don't know if you looking at tiny house, so more tiny house ads coming up to you.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: You know, you know the algorithms work.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: But the article is from Vishana Pag, who said tiny spaces TNT addresses the housing real estate crisis one at a time.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize we had a real estate crisis, but let's find out about it.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: What if you could get a house for the same price as a vehicle?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: The team at Tiny Spaces TNT is creating home or office spaces using prefab containers that can range from 50,000 to 185,000.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Tiny Spaces was created by Andrew Figueroa last year in response to the needs of the people in Trinidad and Tobago.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Express Business recently spoke with two of Figueroa's managers at the company's model home on the corner of Ryerson Road and Duke Street, port of Spain, who provided insights into the business operations.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: The managers also showcased their Rangways warehouse, where assembly of the units is done.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: There were a few finished units, with one currently being worked on.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Almost all units, unless requested otherwise, come with a bathroom and a shower, which are set up by Tiny Spaces TT, come with a bathroom and a shower, which are set up by Tiny Spaces TT.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Reni Ningfeng, tiny Spaces TNT manager, said they always recommend that customers customize the space and the spaces to their needs and like it.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: We allow customers to really and truly see the unit, to get their vision, and we try to bring their vision to life.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Basically, said Ningfeng, in terms of the cost, the model home in Port of Spain costs $165,000, which is the largest owned by Tiny Spaces TNT.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: At the moment, however, we are able to join units together.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: In that sense, we are able to add as many 20-foot containers to create an even larger container setting than what we're sitting in.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: The containers are joined with the help of a contractor who, according to Ningfeng, seeks the customer's vision to bring it to life.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: When asked about the time frame of putting these containers together for people to start living in.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: She said it really takes about a week to two weeks for us to manufacture it.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: So when the containers come in for us to really build the unit, it takes about two weeks for us to manufacture it.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: So when the containers come in, for us to really build the unit, it takes about two weeks and if the customer has any customizations then it can possibly go up to three weeks.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: It depends on what, on what the customer is requesting from us.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: So I just find this was interesting and I'm eager to see how, if this is a a trend that picks up more.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Granted, you're going to have to have your own land, which is is I mean the the ability to purchase real estate in this country.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I mean the price of real estate, uh, depending on the area you're looking at, could really feel intimidating, like.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I wonder okay, when zachary and them reach 20 something years old, will they be able to buy property in this country?
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Because I remember being extremely frustrated the first time I tell myself I want to buy a house and you know, you want to move out and you want to live, you want to become your own man and looking at house price and them kind of thing.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: It felt impossible to me because I, when I see them, days $1 million for a house and I look at my salary, it must be $4,000.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I can't see how you're getting from one point to the next.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: And then when you find out how to buy a million dollar house, what kind of legal fees and how much for valuation, the whole thing just seemed completely impossible to me at the time and it seemed as though the only hope you would have at that age evaluation.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: The whole thing just seemed completely impossible to me at the time and it seems it seemed as though the only hope you would have at that age and at that stage in your life is you had to get the hdc.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: You had to win a lottery to the with the hdc, or win a lotto where you could buy any house you want, right.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: So it felt uh, demotivating and depressing.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: It feel like it'll wait now.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: You will never be able to see that.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: You know you study hard and do all the things you think people say you should do and then you will never see a way in life, you will never have a house.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: So I think that this is a good and this is something that has been uh, not just uh in trinidad and tobago, but all over the world.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: You're seeing the the rise of this, not just container homes, but the tiny home thing where you have the chance to to own your own house.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: You don't need no whole set of land, like five thousand square feet of land, to get a place.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Also, when you know, start now, if you don't really need no set of house neither, before you have husband and wife and child and a whole lot of things like that.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: So I I hope that more is said about these folks in terms of how many people buying into it and if, possibly, when you look at hdc and all the issues you have in hdc communities, from contractor issues to people be building on fault line and whole thing had to get abandoned and building cracking and falling apart and those types of things.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: I wonder if this could be a contractor issues to people be building on fault line and whole thing had to get abandoned and building cracking and falling apart and those types of things.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I wonder if this could be a a solution or a company who could align with hdc to ensure that a specific type of hdc applicant could get this kind of house.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Because it's much.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: It isn't just cheaper than building a hdc house, it's also much faster.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: This woman woman talking about two, three weeks, she said if you want to customize it it could be four weeks.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: When you had to build a house here, you know how long it take me to build my house.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: It was two years.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: So when you look at that for a first-time homeowner, especially a very young homeowner, I feel like it could be a very positive thing if the government can help with land, because one of the issues with HDC is that it feels like if every single applicant goes into a big pool and we all just line up and hope to get a house right.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I know that everybody care get a house and everybody certainly care get a house at the same time, but I always feel like if you take HDC applicants and put them in some different groupings, so you have to take into consideration people who have any disability, different ability or varying ability and help them right.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: So that's one bucket of people who need help with houses right.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Another bucket of people who I believe need help with houses is people like who in the defense force and the police and the air guard and those people who need a house and need they have to be taken care of.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: So that could be one bucket of applicants.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Another bucket of applicants could be general public servants who are not in any defense force or that type of thing.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: But I feel like if there's an opportunity to put a set of applicants that are young, upwardly mobile adults, I could use you my thing that are young, upwardly mobile adults.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I could use you my thing Young, upwardly mobile adults, like people who now, coming out of school you could even specify like people who, coming out of school, earning a certain income or went to university, do a first degree.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: We had to change the prospects of young people in this country.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: The youths need to have real hope and real vision and feel like they could be successful in this country, particularly youths who are already on the right path, who want to work, want to study, want to invest in themselves, want to be entrepreneurs.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Those are people you had to encourage.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: You can't leave it.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: You can't continue to live in a state where that youth feeling discouraged and now, if you, if you're from a certain area and you have certain influences and you you have a little brain.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: You could end up using that brain for different things If you realize life got frustrated and nobody there to help you, right?
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Additionally, you have another sector of them, youths now, who think how they are going away and I'm going to do something else and I'm going to, you know, we could stem the tide of that and make youth more valuable contributors to society and allow society to contribute to them by using things like this.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Because from what I saw, the images of the tiny homes thing right, they're very modern.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: This is the kind of thing that young people will like.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Young people when I say young, we get 25 as the age, right, you're not yet, for the most part, interested in married and settled down and make a whole bag of children and them kind of thing.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: You're living by yourself and you have plenty of visitors who just spend night and you know what I mean long-term boyfriend and girlfriend and them kind of thing.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: And they would be willing to give up a lot of the space like the two and three bedroom and the this and that way.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Half the time, half the space in your house up in your roof you can't access it anyway.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: The way they build these houses, they would be willing to give up a lot of that to live in a modern, very nice household with a one bedroom, one bathroom or something like that, where you could feel proud and you leave your mother house, you could entertain friends every now and again by living in a nice space.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I see it all the time when you go to airbnbs and places like miami and so on in big cities, these condos or I'll give you an example right, I went and see some condos in claxton bay at time and I was now looking to looking for house and the whole condo is three bedroom and three bathroom, was 1100 square feet.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: These things were real small.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: You know, if you had take the, the living room and and kitchen and it's one little crowd.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: They're like a container anyway.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: And when you see some apartments in Santa Cruz and them things too, I'm not saying at my age, they're nice, they're very, very nice and you'll feel good living there and things.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: But, boy, when three, four, they're moving there, you're a dog and all these kind of things, boy, listen you, you start getting frustrated being on top of each other.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: But imagine for some of y'all, y'all are big children, graduating and then now coming out and imagine at 24, 25, your daughter could have a home of her own, a one bedroom, a little two bedroom, place it, container it, modern it, every, the air condition, everything looking nice, and they use that as they start to life.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: I just feel like it changes the prospect of that youth, because that tiny container home is not for everybody.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: But I just feel like that is a segment that they could go after and do well and I hope, I hope, I hope they continue.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Miss, miss ning, what's your name?
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: And I hope I pronounced it right too.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: How do you pronounce ng?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: It had to be ning, right?
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not, um, I'm not a young man, I'm not a very smart man at that point.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Well, what else we have here?
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: I saw netflix, netflix and them, the, the discussion, and saluta, uh, morrisburg of sliced bread is somebody who has seen discussing this for quite some time now and, um, it's not something that I would pay a lot of mind to, to be honest, because I'm a man of conveniences.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Once I have conveniences and they're working for me, I could get insulated real fast into why this is a great idea and why it works.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: But the issue of dot-coms and internet companies using or attracting our dollars right, attracting our eyeballs, attracting our dollars right, attracting our eyeballs, attracting our dollars, attracting our investment and so on.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: It's something I spoke about here in terms of buying things on amazon and bringing in rather than buying locally, and how you could get the things much cheaper even at the seven percent additional price and the duties and taxes, and everything is still getting cheaper when it reaches.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Now a lot of people argue, and I agree, that buying local, if we find ways to keep more of our money in the domestic economy, it could help us maintain a certain price level, reduce inflation, increase small business.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: There's several benefits to that right and uh.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: That now comes down to some kind of education and personal choice and adjustment of taste and preferences, which takes time.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Right where we could keep more of our dollar here.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Let our dollar circulate in trinidad and tobago for longer.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: But when I look at this headline in the guardian that says netflix, popularity comes at a cost and and I heard more and more the cable companies here are talking about this and the reality is that these global entertainment providers like Netflix and Disney and HBO Max and all of them they don't pay any tax in this country, but they take away good earnings from this country and it's against the backdrop of the foreign exchange issues we already have as a country.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: It leads to some concern.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: When I saw people talking about it, I read into it a little more.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: It does lead to a little concern.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: I'll admit that the first time I saw cable companies complain about this my first thought was that was like how Francis Fashions was telling us don't shop in the Amazon jungle.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: It sounded like local companies again wanting to ensure that they do great via a way called protectionism.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Right, stop foreign things from coming in the country so that we could earn.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: That typically does not work very well in the long run and it usually leads to companies.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: It sounds good in theory.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Right, if I force people not to buy nothing from abroad and they only buy local.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: As I said, there are several benefits.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: The drawbacks tend to be that companies tend to behave like companies and when you create a monopoly, so I create a situation where you cannot bring in foreign goods and services.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Local service providers and local manufacturers tend to get more efficient because sorry, more inefficient, because what they tend to do is pass on, pass on any inkling of a cost increase to the consumer in total, sometimes total plus right, meaning what they will do is, rather than get their thing efficient, uh downsize if they need to, uh cut out excessive management and bloated management structures or bloated middle management or staffing structures and so on, and they don.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: And they tend not to do that.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: What they tend to do is just raise price because we don't have an option.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I worked in TST for a long time and I see TST suffer from this became a very, very big company and very, very bloated and then when time to compete with outsiders, they could not compete.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: And it shows now that when they open up the market, tstt suffered the car compete.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: And so when I heard businesses complaining about this in first I said boy, this is local companies again wanting the government to stop anybody from bringing in anything foreign under the guise that foreign companies that.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: But what they really want to do is close the markets in and create monopolies for themselves.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: And when they create a monopoly, they could just charge more and more and more for the service.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: And you have to adjust and pay, because if you want it, this is the only place you could get.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: So let me go to the guardian, peter christopher.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Netflix's popularity comes at a cost.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Tnt is still very much into netflix and chill well, very much into the chill part.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: However, the popular streaming platform platform's popularity is silently a significant extractor of local foreign exchange, with tnt subscribers spending millions of dollars us millions of us dollars annually to maintain their accounts.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Local telecoms expert quacey prescott said no one but netflix and its shareholders know how many households in TNT subscribe to the streaming service, which reported on Thursday that 269.6 million subscriptions worldwide at the end of March.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: But Prescott, a telecommunications consultant, said a conservative estimate of the number of TNT households subscribing to Netflix could easily exceed 200,000.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Estimate that the number of TNT households subscribing to Netflix could easily exceed 200,000.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Given broadband penetration is 94% according to the Telecommunications Authority and conservatively estimates assuming that 50% on Netflix subscribers, that means the number of subscribers could be 200,000 based on 410,000 households, said Prescott.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Notably, jamaican subscription number was said to be 150,000 in 2022.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: I want to add to this that Netflix you only notice Netflix clamped down on the password sharing thing.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I used to have my account.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I could say that I could have my account done, but it is good in Netflix, but now I had to create my own account to put and if it's not in your household.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: It seems as though you had to create my own account to put, and if I'm sitting out in your house, it seemed as though you had to put your own account.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: They also started off when netflix was this big thing where you could see all movies.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: But slowly but surely, some of the bigger content providers like, uh, I believe, paramount, uh, disney pull all their content from Netflix and now they have their own streaming service which you have to pay for separately.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: So, rather than and I want to say that we as consumers was complaining, we was real happy for streaming at the time because we was fed up paying this big cable bill for a set of shows that, um, a set of shows that, firstly, people were looking at as uh just repeats.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Like you see, I said, a repeat shows is nothing, nothing new showing at all.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: And you look at cable, you can't find nothing to watch.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: And also, you remember the other day when some cable providers were found to be themselves tiffing hbo and charging me for it?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: They're like trundle them not paying the subscription fees, so they're making sure that they make good money and they charge you.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: You could go ahead and pay, they may pay, but the fact that these companies and this is not a local problem or a domestic problem.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: I tend to find a lot of companies, a lot of countries discussing this now where a foreigner typically if a foreigner doing business in Trinidad, they still have some taxes to pay so that some portion of your profitability goes back into the pockets of the PNM and the UNT I mean it goes back into the coffers to be able to better the lives of everybody across Trinidad and Tobago.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: So I think it's more of a concern, certainly, than I would have anticipated at the time or thought truthfully, and I'm a little bit more concerned about it now and the what to do about it is the thing.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: The what to do about it in our country might well be switch back to the fire stick thing and and and and stream your movies.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: We'll do the illegal thing so that we're not paying all this other money that going out.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Uh, because busy.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: They start off at 12 us a month and then they go on 13, then they go on 14.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: May know how much it reached now if it's 20 something.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: They're constantly increasing their prices and these, the service itself so sticky that I don't know that I could have a, a conversation, homie, and tell my wife well, all right, no more netflix.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: This is what we're going to do.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: We're going to fire, stick it out or go back to cable tv and watch a thing like, like house hunters and all those other thing.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Again, I don't know.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we could go back to that.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: So it's another interesting thing that we had.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: We continue to watch because, as the US continues to leave the economy and we have very little prospects for industries, the road productions that we could sell to companies like netflix to start earning forex for ourselves.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: The oil and gas and you know they're looking.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: So 100, you know, I mean we, the football, we're struggling to beat ghana and I'm seeing where, where our industry is coming from that going to replace the oil and gas revenues that came in in us.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: So I think we had to be judicious about how we spend us, uh, as a society.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: So, whether it is campaigns to ask us and I'm talking to myselfa little bit here to shop more locally or partake more in domestic products and services, and if we are 200 000 people conservatively conservatively estimated to be paying out to Netflix being the only streaming service that they analyze in this article, so people would be paying for others as well.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: I think it's something for concern.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: But people seem to be more concerned about Digicel.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Talking about cable companies, right?
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Digicel have a new CEO and, to my surprise, before you could hear much about who the man is and the qualifications and what bring him here, people was very concerned that he had too much of a tattoo.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: He said I like tattoos.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: This is from Loop News right, I like tattoos.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Digicel Group CEO on viral introductory video.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Diversity, equity and inclusion matter to new CEO.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: Newly appointed chief executive officer of Digicel Group, marcelo Cataldo, embraces diversity, equity and inclusion, and if you've seen his introductory photo, you'll know he walks the walk.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Last month, social media platforms lit up when Cataldo's photo, which accompanied the official announcement of him as new group ceo for digital, hit the internet.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: In the picture, he seated it in his library wearing a red t-shirt and jeans on full display.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: His tattoo covered arm.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Fun fact too, his daughter took the photo.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: In jamaica and possibly the wider caribbean, uh company ceos often opt for corporate dress code when being introduced to their staff and the wider public, but but not Cataldo.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: The question of the inspiration behind the photo was put to the digital group CEO during a company town hall meeting last Thursday by head of communication and corporate affairs, elon Parkinson.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I would say diversity, equity and inclusion is really a thing that matters, said the 52-year-old Paraguayan native.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: You know you can be dressed in whatever you like color of your hair, the piercings, the tattoos.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: You know your sexual orientation, your religion.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: That's a part of you, right, and we need to appreciate that and respect that added catalogue.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: He said, generally, there's a culture in the company where persons are aligned towards the business people.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: He continued.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: We are, we come together as a company and there's still a culture in the company for us to be aligned towards the business purpose.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: But you are, you, are you?
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: So I like, so I like tattoos.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: Pointing at the started army disclosed that he has some phrases, all right, so then you tell me what the tattoos is about, and so on.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: The.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: The greater contest or the wider conversation I want to have have here is the.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: The business discussion around diversity, equity and inclusion, right coming hot off these heels of sustainability, that whole dei movement is becoming an important part of the corporate world, right?
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: The idea behind diversity, equity and inclusion really comes from several.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: It's a layered thing, right, even going back to the States when you had things like affirmative action and so on.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: It was, if you ask me, a big part of this movement come out from the fact that all white men had run everything at a point in time right, out from the fact that old white men had run everything at a point in time right.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Everybody who wanted to be somebody either had to be an old white man or learn to talk like an old white man or dress like an old white man or act like an old white man, and if you didn't know how to do them things, you could not reach past a certain level in this society.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: So I feel like in Trinidad and Tobago we still heavily judged by the way we dress and there's this expectation that if you wear a suit and a tie, you have some edge or some kind of whatever.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: It might be a flashing back way, way back right, which is which is not relevant today.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: But remembering yetmingat Ming wearing a Neuronec jersey to Parliament Although Yat Ming wasn't poppyfoot or anything, yat Ming was good, miserable.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: But when Yat Ming wear that, I remember that being a big issue in the news and the media because it was seen and he had to explain to people that this is Chinese formal wear, from where his ancestors come from and you know, going back to more recent past, where we just seen the, the king of the ashanti tribe, or the royalty of ashanti, come to trinidad and enter government buildings in.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: Where that we could not wear to go government buildings until february of this year, I think, is when we were able to start to dress how we want to go into government building.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: So I feel like if the movement where dei concerned is is is places where we, as a region, supposed to be able to shine compared to the states.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: I always argue that the the fact that the rest of the world take lead on marijuana before the Caribbean is a damn shame.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: The amount of weed, I think per capita, we go through more weed in this country and in the countries of this region, particularly places like Jamaica.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: It's a staple, it's religion, it's pastime, we are accustomed to it and we let these white folks and I'm gonna take that it's amazing and they move much faster than us and I feel like if, in terms of, uh, diversity, equity and inclusion, which is a catch-all statement to say respect people for who they are like, like my boy, why he tattoos and thing in digital and you know it.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: Understand the cultures of other people, understand the issues that people have gone through and just just accept people for who they are, where they are, when they are and so on, rather than judging too much based on if I qualified for the job.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: I qualified for the job I've I've for the last must be 10 years.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: I went polo and jeans every day to go to work and everywhere I go you're going to see me in a polo or t-shirt and I can't do the the shirt and panting and that's a fine thing to hire.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: And I remember reading a long time ago where steve jobs was wearing the same black turtleneck and levi jeans and new balance sneakers because he say he suffer from decision fatigue.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: He say you don't want to get up every morning to try to figure out what to wear every single morning.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: And little by little I starting to get more and more I mean you can see it behind my again more and more like that every day.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: I just I I don't know that I didn't reach the point where I could do the same exact jersey and jeans on, like he had plenty of them same turtlenecks and jeans and sneakers.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't reach there yet, but close, because, whichever is the polo in front, on top, if it's in front on the hanger or it's on top, that is what I'm wearing and I can't spend much time getting up in the morning to figure out what to wear and to iron this and match this with that and put on this tie.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: And I feel like we're also in an environment where some of them things could be very, very uncomfortable and, again, more reason why we could lead the charge on this.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Again, it's not just about how you dress right, it's about your background, your religion, who you are, and I feel like we already live like that trend out in.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Tobago is a place where nobody should not have come here from.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: No, nicaragua, whichever my boy come from, or whatever corporate training you're going on, nobody should never had to come here to try to explain to us what is no diversity and equity and inclusion.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: We don't know what that is already.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: I I find we live in that every single day and it would be a shame for us to, rather than taking the lead on it and teaching people about it, basically sitting back and let the world bring this thing back to us.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: I like things like that.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I look at this whole movement about eating whole foods.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Right, you go on TikTok or Instagram or you look for any diet, people will tell you eat things as close to real as possible real food, no processed food, eat from a tree, eat something that breathing or growing up and I feel like that's how we live our whole life, like we stray away from that towards eating packaged foods for somebody to come and sell.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: We back the idea of whole foods.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Now we have people selling, we going in the grocery and paying top dollar and by peppercorns, and these people for free range egg when we eat, grow up eating common fall egg.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Like, if you know, I mean we, we, this whole organic movement, we of all fruits was organic.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: You know, I mean when we eat banana, we getting spotty banana.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: If you eat a banana, especially when you buy banana from massey, then must be the most organic it have, because from time we buy banana from massey, eat it one time.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: I know what going on in massey there.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: But you know what I mean is we.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: We grew up on organic foods and grew up on whole foods and stuff and it's almost like we stray away from it and now we get in consultant to come and tell we how to behave and how to eat and those types of things.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: And it's the same with diversity and equity and inclusion.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Go back to my episodes the weekend after Easter and what I was talking about there and you'll understand what I mean when I say we're paying for things we invent.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: We're hiring people to teach you what we don't know.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: It's a strange phenomenon in this country, you know I mean.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: But talk about teachers.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: I saw a very interesting headline that I would like to just run through here quick.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: You know I mean fast.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: You know I mean teacher lord and robbed after meeting man on a gay dating site.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: You know I mean if you're talking dei, let me talk dei so we can Come on.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Teacher Lord robbed after meeting man on gay date in Samuel, I mean when you read this, I mean the crime institution in this country.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Biden, oh, you're going to take a man.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Who come to take a man?
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: What the hell is going on?
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: A school teacher was robbed in his car of his car, cash and cell phones on Sunday after being lured to East port of spain by a man teacher, show me everything.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: I won't forget you, teacher how are you going?
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: east port of spain?
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: You're gonna.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: This is the only place you're gonna find to meet your man anyway.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: A school teacher was robbed of his car, cash and cell phone on sunday after after being lured to East Port of Spain by a man he met on the gay grinder dating app.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Ooh, I grind all that.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: I grind all that phone.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Check your man phone and see if your grinder gave permission.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: This is a show for queens, right?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: There's all kind of queens we're talking about today.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: A similar incident involving an American citizen occurred last year, also in East Port of Spain.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Police said that around 3 30, the 41 year old victim from chagonas park his toys on field a wagon near the police administration building on edward street.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: Port of spain.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: You park near police station, all right?
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: He left his wallet, 200 and a full season's bank card in the locked vehicle.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: He then made his way to print street port of spain, where he met the man he found on the app near Park Hoos Bar.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: The man and the suspect then walked to the George Street plant.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: And you want to just think bad, you willing to.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: Risk it for the biscuit.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: It's teacher you're talking about.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: The man and the suspect walk into the George Street plant.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you something before I go any further here.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: As a testy man myself, I've done some crazy things.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: I've gone to places I should have never been.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Why did I?
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: Was ideal.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't look back at that now I just thank god I get through some of them things.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: So I meet woman, all about it.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Well, let me say woman guilt, you know, I mean when you're young, you're 20 something years old, you're young, you're living, and I would just like to say that if I meet you you could be how nice you could be, how nice.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not going in George Street plannings.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: I went in some plannings in my time, but I'm no tongue.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: If I go in plannings you're going to catch me in the east.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: They catch me in La Hocquita a few times, they catch.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: They catch me alone a couple times, and I don't know the east.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: So when you say maloney and the hockey tower, I don't really too know his plannings are going to a grub shelter, but george street plannings I don't know.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: I feel like and them days I don't have no money, I can't go in no hotel, I can't no double palm.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately it's my mother house.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: I'll carry you home Better than George Street Plannings.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: The man and his suspect then walk into George Street Plannings, where the teacher was approached by six men.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: He must have got so excited.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: He must have got moist.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: He must have said six for the price of what?
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Six to what is murder?
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: One of them drew a gun.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: He must have gotten moist.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Give me confidence.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: One of them drew a gun and one of the men dealt him several blows around his body.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: I must die.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not grinding Anybody, I grind.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: They're singing like I had good time.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: They're singing like the kind of.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: One of them drew a gun with which the man was dealt several blows about his body.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: The six then robbed him of his car keys and samsung cell phone.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: You see, I should buy iphone, iphone or grinder, samsung cell phone and then told him to leave.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: I think samsung has come with grinder.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Check with a grinder.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: The man then went back to Edward Street but his car was not there.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: I want to remind you that it's outside the police station in Liddycar.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: He called FCB's call center and was told that 6,000 had been withdrawn.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: I want to know why this happened With the grinder, the gun and the six-man and the moisteness.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: Did you give them your pin?
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: How did they get 6,000?
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: How did they get 6, thousand out of their account?
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: He then made a report to the best of street police station.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: On october 3rd last year a 25 year old from queens, new york, told police at about 7 30 pm that he went to upper nelson street upper nelson street police main, where he met the individual he had been talking to for a couple of days.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: He and the man went and walked a short distance, but the American was then confronted by a group of five men.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: He gets shortchanged.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: You only get five man.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: It's six to one.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: You sell his Yankee dollars, you spend it.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: The announcer holed up and proceeded to beat the victim above the body, more blows, demanding that he hand over all his valuables.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: These include their iPhone 13.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: All that, the handover, all is valuable.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: These include the iPhone 13.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: All right, it don't matter what you have.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: Whether you have Samsung or iPhone, you're susceptible.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: 300 US on a bag that contains US credit and debit card, as well as the keys to his rental vehicle.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: They're taking car.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: They're taking car, they're taking car.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: I find this a lot.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: So I just want to encourage, in the spirit of diversity, equity and inclusion, I would like to encourage all who are so inclined to be very, very mindful to not go in one.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: Take a man trying not to get taken.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: I mean be you know.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: I mean they have so several.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: They have, they have, they have double paths all over meet, meet and meet in common locations, like when you're gonna sell something on Facebook market.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: They tell you, you know, meet by the police station.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe do these things.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: Stop going and planning in tongue.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: And I want to talk to the bandit and them too.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: It's wicked, you know, because you don't have no kind of diversity, equity or inclusion in here, only not about our life, only just going and grinding and posing, because only fully well know them, two men who get robbed.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: There might be the only two men who went to tell this story Because them decide they're going to tell police something, but only fully well know, only robbing plenty people.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: And the problem is that when you're married and you have a life outside of that and you just do your little grind down Nelson Street and George Street and things you cannot tell the police, well, it must be so.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: Well, it must be so in this life.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Last but not least, before I go right, I just saw this article today and because I had spoken about this before, I want to revisit it real quick.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: I saw again, for people who like to say when prices go up they never come back down.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: People only carry up the price.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: I saw the Flower Association of Trinidad and Tobago.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: What do they call them?
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: Fas?
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: Reading from the Express here will the price of doubles drop Vendor on reduced flower prices.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: So it was announced that flower prices once again went down.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: This is the first time they reduced, but it was announced that flour prices once again went down.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: It's only first time they reduced, but it was announced.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: So of course the question would be the the things that using flour as an input, will they drop despite a decline in the price of various flour products?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: One of the nation's leading doubles vendors said a consumer should not anticipate a decrease in the price of doubles.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: On friday, nutramix floor uh announced a reduction in the price of its flour products by as much as 17%, effective immediately.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Effective immediately.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: We have reduced the price of our Country Pride and Nutramix premium grade 2kg and 10kg range of flour.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Our Country Pride 2kg and 10kg baker's flour are now reduced by 17%.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: 2kg all-purpose by 8% and 10.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Flour are now reduced by 17%.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: 2kg all-purpose by 8% and 10.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Wherever the airflat fluctuation in flour prices, trinidad and Tobago inevitably pond down one burning question how will this affect their beloved breakfast staple?
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: But according to Kelly Richards, of the original Sauce, hot Doubles, I saw an article to where they shoot behind sauce.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: This shooting at Doubles meant signs of becoming a trend Makes me wonder.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Consumers shouldn't anticipate any price changes for doubles, and this is because several other costs involved in creating doubles have increased, but the vendors chose not to pass these increases on to consumers.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: With the price of flour dropping, we'll just stick to the price that we have right now.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Reason being is because it is not flour alone to make doubles.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: The price of channel raised, garlic raised, dal raised, everything raised, you know what I mean.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: And we did not raise the price of doubles.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: All of the market staff raised, but doubles is still $6.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Garlic is now scarce.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: We're literally paying $400 a bag of garlic when it used to be $120 or $100.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: What's your name, lisa?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: What's your name, kelly?
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: How much garlic is putting that doubles out of that 400 out of that 400 garlic?
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: Break it down for me, how much exactly?
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: Let me know what percentage of garlic is doubles so that I could see what is your input.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: If you're total, if you're selling doubles for six dollars and it costs you four dollars to make a doubles, give me a breakdown of the four dollars now let me hear what it costed.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: Uh, let me save all of this.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Let me save all of this right, because I was.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: I was very happy with joel julian, the author of this article who uh, included here a line that says on january 1st the national minimum wage of trinidad and tobago increased some 17.50 cents to 20.50 cents per hour.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you, don't expect the price of none.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: No, um, especially goods like these we call convenience goods.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Right, don't express, expect the price of none of them, things to go down against the backdrop of a minimum wage that is increasing.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: The morality story is labor is one of the biggest parts of several businesses, particularly service businesses and food businesses.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: Until we can figure out how to AI doubles and, from what we see during COVID, let the experts make the doubles right Demand and supply couldn't determine the price for them doubles Until we decide that we're not eating doubles again, which is probably not going to happen, because, as they continue to remind us, it's one of the cheapest, most convenient foods we could get, tastiest and all that, so we like it.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: So the chances of that going down higher if we decide to stop eating doubles as a whole for whatever reason.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: But this idea that doubles are going to go back down because flour went down is poor.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: That's not going to hold up.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: When that minimum wage goes up, the price will going to go back down because flow and dong is poor, that not gonna hold up.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: When that minimum wage go up, the price will continue to go up.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: I want to say that the doubles people should probably also stop using the excuse that the price of flow going up, so that I mean maybe maybe they just don't want to come out and say it's been three years, we've not increased price.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: All our costs are going up, so we will increase from six to seven.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: But they tend to use the.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: The media outcry about flour going up is usually used by double vendors to kind of slide in a price increase to say, well all right, flow going up.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: We had to think I mean we had Flora ain't carrying up the price of doubles on its own.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: I think it's more to do with demand and supply as a whole than that.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: So sorry to bust all the doubles, I mean bubbles.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Let me just play 2-3 more Calypso Rose for Oli and come out here.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: And I did have a plan because I was looking at.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: I was looking at Drake vs Kendrick, oli was following that, oli was following Drake vs Kendrick.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: I see about 10 songs dropping a weekend and I'm not the greatest.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm the biggest fan of hip-hop music as a whole.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: But I did like the fact that them fellas do a little battle.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: I hope you know I see it shooting by drake or something.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: I hope they had nothing to do with the battle, but I find kendrick come good and he make a little tune that, uh, you know, I mean what is called it now, the crip walk and thing.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like I could learn to crip walk with some of the tunes.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: Um, there's some of the tunes that that that uh.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: Well, the last tune that kendrick did I said they don't like us, I think, is the name of the song and um, it make me remember one of the greatest when we're talking about beef and battle and clash.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest beef and battle and clash that we had or ever had in this country was between the great lord melody and the great mighty sparrow.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: So I have a plan, right, I will take all it through, some of those songs that were so great at the point in time, you know, I mean where they was able to clash with one another, and I mean, like kendrick and drake, stay where it is.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: We studying, we own people, right.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: But I'll even now for another week, because, in full disclosure.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: All hell break loose this week, right?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: I'm recording this very late.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: I'm very, very tired after this weekend as well.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: Too much was going on, too much was going on this weekend.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: And then when I do find the time to sit down and record, all of a sudden the camera carry my memory stick and thing.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: It's all kind of issues I feel to go and download Grindr.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: I would like to play for you just a few of the non-traditional Calypso Rose songs that I would have heard over the in the show, in the play Queen of the Road that some of them.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: I did not know that she had versions of those songs at all, so as much as I enjoy them, you go ahead and enjoy them here, right?
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: The first one I want to play is a song that I am not sure.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure another reggae group had sang this before, so she might be doing it over, right, but again, the rendition of it in the play was so good and the band was so tight.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: I think that I wanted to play this one for you.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: This is israel by bus, by calypso rose ¶¶ bus.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: You sit by the wayside looking as though you get lost.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: Nigga, take you from Babylon.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 3: Nigga, take care of the children.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 3: You'll see the journey is in vain.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: Nigga, loose the chain.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: There really isn't any galoose to change.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: I'm from out of the bottom of the bed.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 3: Israel by bus we going, we going, we going Israel by bus, we going, we going, we going.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 3: Israel by bus.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: Not a drive, not a train, not a combo.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: Israel by bus Rastafari.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: Sir, if we cannot take captivity for land, I will go back home and from Babylon and miss me ice and water.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: Man, rest and cry.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 3: Come, little children, forward, back into Zion, Back from Zion, baby, where I will teach you wisdom from King Solomon.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: He is the lion, the king of Judea.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: Teach you wisdom from King Solomon.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: He is the Lion, the King of Judea.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: He never leave his children to suffer.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 3: He never leave his children astray.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: I say go away.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: He not a bus, stop Israel by bus, be going, be going, be going Israel, israel, israel, israel, israel, israel, israel, israel, israel.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: Israel, israel, israel, israel Israel.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Israel bus.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: It would be remiss of me not to say that we want to see a end to the war in israel and palestine.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: Right, that song is in no way, but israel by bus are googling it now.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not seeing anything that indicating that anybody had sang that before.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: So I know, know that Israel by Bus song coming up as a ska song, never Knowing the Scalp, so we'll sing that.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: This one I know several people sang, but it played in the play and it sounds so good.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 4: By the rivers of Babylon.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: Where we sat down and there we wept.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 4: When we remembered Zion.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: By the rivers of Babylon, where we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion For the weeding.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: Carry it away the activity Required from us.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: A song.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: How can we sing it Out of a song in our Australian land For the we need.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: Carry it away the activity Required from us A song.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: How can we sing it Out of a song in our Thank you?
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: I could play a genuine authentic kaiso for you two that are here down there with me never hear yet, but it's sweet bad.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: I just had to listen, wendy, the pudding man bawling pudding, uh-huh, I just had to listen when the pudding man bawling pudding.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: He just come right in front me door and I get him the hot pudding every morning.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: He's the greatest I ever get and after now I cannot regret Every morning, every evening, the pudding man passing and the only eating, and if you see the man With the pudding in his hand Pudding or wrong, he weighs is the greatest I ever taste.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: Hey, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 3: The pudding, the pudding.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: I ain't got no reason.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: Every night I eat black pudding.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 3: From the time I hear the voice Pudding, pudding.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 3: I have no choice.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, I stop eating sausage From the time pudding in the village and I could be sick in bed and as I hear pudding.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: I open my bread Every morning, every evening, the pudding man passing and I only eating.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: And if you see the man with the pudding in his hand, pudding or wrongy, where's the greatest I ever seen?
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: Hey man, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, hey, the pudding, the pudding.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: You see why the church has to vex the church vex like hell.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: The church wants to All Rosefather, vex Rosefather, push you out of the house.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: You see them come here with that devil music again.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: I leave in here with one that's not traditional, right, because I enjoy the play and I enjoy the interaction that went on between Rose and Sparrow.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: I think they play a great role.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Is it Coon Crystal, for the fellow name I?
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: That went on between Rose and Sparrow.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: I think they play a great role.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: Is it Coon Christopher, the fellow named I'm not getting my name right, the guy's a man Coon Samuel, coon Samuel, right, who would have played Sparrow in the play?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: And the interaction between both of them was great and it was good to see and I'm sure that if two of them was to see each other now, the love and reverence and respect they must be have for one another don't mind, he gets you pressure like hell it was nice to see the interaction, and I mean youths, uh, bringing that back to life.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: So salute, salute to kern, salute to stacy sobers.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: And in the essence of the play, I want to leave you with one by spar right, one of my favorites, this is a little dancing time, you know, pull somebody and dance something now, man, yes, oh Lord, oh Lord.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 3: Rose, darling, can't you see?
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, Darling, can't you see?
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: You mean so much to me.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, why, why should you leave me?
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 3: Why you leave me, why you deceive me?
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: Girl, you're looking for souls.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: Tell me why you leave me.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 3: Heaven knows.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: All I want is rose.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: Ross, tell me what to do.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: Tell me what to do.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: I'm so in love with you, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord Ross, you're my, everything You're my everything.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be like a king.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: Lord, why, why should you leave me?
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: Why you deceive me, rose, you're looking for rose.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 3: Why tell me where you'll leave me?
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: Heaven knows all I want is Rose.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: Rose, you're the only girl, you're the only girl I want in this whole world.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, my love for you alone, love for you alone.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: Please send me on my own, oh Lord, oh Lord, me.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: Why should you leave me?
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: Rose, darling, come back home.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: Darling, come back home.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: Please don't leave me alone.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, I give my word to you, give my word to you.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 3: I'll never be untrue.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh why, why should I?
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: Why you deceive me, Rose?
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: You're looking for flowers.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, why Tell me why you leave me?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: Heaven knows, all I want is rose.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord oh, I hate to stop it in that solo.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: It was one of the greatest solos I heard in Calypso music.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: But here's what.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: Only have a good week and a safe week and a productive week.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: If you know, here's a legend keep your ice pack close, keep your bengay and your radian bee, keep your little Hennessy and your brandy to sap your foot and thing.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: Only have a safe and productive week and I will see you all next week.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: Bye Lots of big air pass.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.