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Episode 157 | Salute · Corie Sheppard Podcast

• 0:21
  Speaker 2: Welcome to episode 157 of the Query Shopping Podcast.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to all the oh yes, welcome back the people who are listening already.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Welcome to all the new listeners, the podcast people.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: They find alternative, start working on it right?
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Hey, while I am recording this, we are celebrating the birthday of the greatest Calypsoanian whoever live.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: If you do good God would follow you.
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: And if you do bad, your journey is hard.
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: You always involved with your conscience.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: It's squeezing you up like a tight fence.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: You could be living in a den of luxury.
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: Yet you always unhappy.
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: You go to bed on your lovely mattress.
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: You're dying to sleep, but you can't find a rest.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: No rest, no rest.
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: Don't sing about like a leaf on the bed.
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: You're wrong things you do like a bomb in your head.
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: Many people in this world today, satisfaction is their enemy.
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: They want every object they behold.
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: Their greediness is out of control.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: They could be living in the midst of happiness.
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: Their minds are in sadness.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: They go to the bed on their soft mattress, dying to sleep, but cannot find a rest.
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: No rest, no rest.
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: Don't sing about just like a leaf on the bed.
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: You're wrong things you do, just like a bomb in your head.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: If you know, I have a special connection with that song.
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: I used to listen to that particular song over and over, almost for the first 20-25 episodes before recording.
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: I used to listen to that over and over and over again.
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: It was a great constant daily I know what the hell is going on.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: Right Now I'm suffering from hangover after shock.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: When does it get too late?
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: The time I left home last night it was not past my bedtime.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: It's not my hour.
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: This is not my thing.
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not a young man, but it bring more of a better.
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: I telling you this right, I recorded this on Wednesday, the 4th of October, birthday at the Great Winston Bay, greatest, right, greatest of all time.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: We have a few Winston Bay little checkouts and over the course of the episode we must find some.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: But on the day before that, the 3rd of October, I was invited as media the man.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: Just let me know I'm a big deal.
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to be known, right, a big deal.
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: Talk to him, a nice Talk to him, very respectfully.
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: I was invited by media so little overtime.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: Tt and my guy Nigel Telly, tell us what To tell him.
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: Message man say boy, listen, media, young brother album launch.
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: So I say well, alright, okay, alright, this song.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: And like, if I alter place here, I feel like, and then from the time he send me message I start to feel like the oldest man in the room.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: Immediately I say young brother or old brother, like, what's my purpose here?
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: What's happening?
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: I come here every week and I don't think I play a song later than 1970 for a very, very long time.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: None of my songs are pretty black, poor movement right now.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: But again, salute to Telly Richard Manty.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: Well, young brother album launch.
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: Right, let me tell you.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: I want to explain to you how lost I am in this source here before again to who happened at the event right, name of the album is 310.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: No, that might make sense to some people, right, when I see 310, me don't know if young brother is a play-crack-ative, is run-sy-make we're making come out to 310.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that you know what I mean, that the time the event starting is 310.
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: I so confused, I just see the 310 thing.
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: And when he had completely all the game, right, a lot of things now I just chalk up to young people thing, right, I just say that young people thing I can't understand.
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: So when I see 310, I say alright, the event is 310 and write any Woodford Cafe.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: So things are not working.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: My favor now because it's about five minutes from home.
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: So I say you know it's so bad to come out, you know 310, it look like the night riders, look like TK, I score any final against Guy Anna.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: They're 315, it's also 10.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: But I say alright, I, coming out to the event is tell you, tell you that good one, tell you you'll never guide me wrong.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: And salute him because from the inception of this podcast he's a man who's always reached out with the most random things.
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: That's helped me see things slightly differently and I'll take things to the next step.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: So I appreciated it and I say you know what?
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: That is not the kind of man I could say are going and don't go, because I'm the king of going, I'm don't go Anything.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: You tell me, oh, you having an event for thing, you having, okay, no, dip the top, sure, sure, I'll be there, and then I'm in a place.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: So the way the thing was set up, right there, at a media reception from about nine to 10, 30.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: I tried to reach for 10, right, I say, alright, well, here I go, I reach very, very close to the end of this media thing and then hit him this pain, move and get out of the fast.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: But the media reception was nice.
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: Now my first issue is that when I walk in there, the thing looking like real media people, right, I seen actually a bash, I seen Sonny Blaine, I seen people who's real media people and not just people who come in and talk or something for two hours a week, right.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: So I was like, okay, maybe I should jot down some questions and I'll show it to you, just in case they ask me.
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: And my, let me tell you the quality of my questions is real old people questions do like.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: I jot down two questions.
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: My first question is so how you came up with the name Young Brother, the terribleness starting immediately if they ever call and made it.
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: But it was a cool scene that I'll say that the setup a nice event.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: Woodford Café is a nice place to do those things.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: They generally have a lot of those types of events on Woodford Café that I will typically avoid, with a whole set of crowd and stuff.
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: But from the entrance to the event, it was a nice setup promo girls outside snook on servant and think the vibes was nice and I reached early enough where the place was empty.
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: So remember, I reached the media hour, right, and place a little empty.
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: So I tell myself, all right, maybe there's a little speak easy thing.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: I you know, maybe I had this thing figured out wrong because you tell me what you would picture Young Brother party to look like, right.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll minute Use some adjectives and tell me what you feel it will look like, right.
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: And everybody's supposed to know and all the people listening to this might only know shadow, but you know Young Brother, google him, right, young Brother.
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: So I went, I take a few drinks and I went inside Woodford Café.
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: I say my best bet here is to try to get a table.
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: Let me get a table somewhere, let me eat something and chill, because now I come to the thing, the thing looking smaller can't exactly escape.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: The few people was making me feel good.
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: But then I realized when is it so few people escaping might be a little bit of a challenge up in here.
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: So I chill out and think by the time I went back outside and I want to say that, listen, woodford Café.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: If you have to go Woodford Café for any kind of event and you need to order drinks or food or anything like that.
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: Just order five sets of drinks and about 16 sets of food because you like.
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: The time it take and for them to come is whew is next level.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: This is next level.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: I guess they're busy, you know, but by the time I went back outside, this place is Ram Kram place full.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: You can know what's trying to hear Young Brother.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: See him come into the venue and Nigel and them look like they was doing, look like an interview or a photo shoot or something at the venue itself.
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: And by the time I turned twice he was coming up and said now there are a few things I want to say about this.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Right, I was excited about the idea of Young Brother bringing out that album, because I've said here that number one, he's a star, Easy brother, he's a star, right.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: But a career is a funny thing, especially in this era.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: A career in music.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like a career could be built on a lot of these songs that he sings.
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: I always say it's more of a chant and a vibe than an actual song that you could live with for a long time, right?
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: So when you see an artist going into album mode, it's always a decent thing to see.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: I know that it does not mean the same as what it meant in our time because, for instance, I was talking about Buju on this on the episode last week or week before and Buju have some albums like Mr Mention until Shiloh and stuff that will stay with people forever because my name is Denise Loreye she listens to.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how much time you hear the tell Shiloh album in that house in Four Roads in Diego Martin, and you know our friends with Buju.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: Music means so much to them.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: I always remember my father and my stepmother singing along with Buju song.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: I am living while I'm living to the father.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't know every word to that song and that was not dance hall fans or Big Reggae fans, you know.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: And the significance of albums in our time was critical to the journey of our artists because the album is all out there to connect with the artists.
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: You have singles, right, which is kind of like hit songs at your party too, and it will make up your social life.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: But the ones I listen to when you're alone or when you're in your car or the ones I tune on when you're ready to listen to music, to feel something, they usually come from album cuts, right.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: So I stick into some album cuts for shadow for this episode, right.
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: I know all the big popular ones and everything for shadow and it's his birthday and we'll commemorate that probably every year.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: He have enough songs to commemorate his birthday every year till eternity.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: But I want to build some album cuts from him, some things that might not necessarily be the mainstream, or what you'll call the hit song, or the singles that he pushing kind of all after, kind of all right.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: So just hearing young brother working on an album was exciting.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: We've been hearing about it for some time and Triton, the TKR score, come out.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: So it's.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: Our lady at the venue was telling me.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: I talked to her and she's like, because I kind of you know an old man complaining and I was like, why did you do this to her on Tuesday night?
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: And she said, well, triton, that's the name of the album.
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, I just pretend that makes sense.
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: Have a way, when you tell me something, especially when the music loud, and I don't care here and you tell me something, I mean on the side, when I say right, right, right, right, right.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm saying that, but she said Triton.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: You know, then when he gone on stage now I heard him singing happy birthday.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: I say oh, birthday.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: She said, but she's like his young brother, but I listen, I feel like the oldest man in the joint.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: I say, oh, today's his birthday.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, triton.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: And I was like what went on?
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: We just had to keep saying Triton, like it's a code, like telly Intel.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: No, we're supposed to just say Triton all the time, me or LS Triton is the damn third of October and the third of October is the man birthday and he named the album after his birthday and he had the thing on his birthday.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: It took me whole night by the time I put this puzzle together.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: By the time I put this puzzle together, it's time to go home.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: They felt nearly done.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: But they take the stage, they sing a happy birthday and thing.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: At this point I could barely see the stage because the only place I could go is almost on the highway side of Woodford Cafe, not to be in the middle of all the crowd.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: But you could see people responding to it.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: When you see the energy between him as DJ Hotty and Pimpin, we're gonna call Pimpin a hype man, pimpin a hotty artist too.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: But when you see the energy they have, I like the vibe.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: I like the energy of bringing out our album, making something like a certain stone, something to commemorate your career by.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: It's like your career is still anchored by these albums.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Nobody in buy no album.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: I surprised that it's actually still called album because his songs gonna be streamed and they have one of these songs in particular that I want to play for you.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: But he opened with a few songs.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: That is complete songs, different topics and everything.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: I always say that I admire the fact that it would be easy for young brothers to go down the road and singing a Taliban, for instance.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: I've seen Byron Messiah and TJ's war now and hopefully that boosts both of them career without taking anybody out because Byron Messiah, both of them fighting one another.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: I've seen kids artists who sing Taliban Ta da, ta da.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: I've always had a clarifier left on this podcast Because while I'm the oldest man in the Woodford Cafe room I feel like I talk and say I don't know what song it's on.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I gotta keep down.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: It's a speed right, but Byron Messiah singing the biggest song in the world the other day, tj singing the biggest song in the world the other day with I'm in backup in the.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: And two of them seem to be at war and I think it would be easy for young brother given his style, how popular he is, how good he is at putting lyrics together, even though I mean he's not, you know, lyrical miracle guy, but he put in lyrics together and delivering them in a way that he had to like anything he sing, it would be easy for him to get on the road of a little gondong thing or a shoot up.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean Batman, this and rifle war.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: He seems to be deliberately avoiding that because the whole album, there's nothing like that on the album at all and the opening song is almost as he say last night, it's almost a love album.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: He has a lot of the general team treat his love.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Now I want you to understand that At that age and stage in life, right, and with his kind of vibes, the love is turning to steam very fast, right, to just get very steamy very, very quickly, right?
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: So if you go on Apple Music or you go anywhere, the album then available already.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: But they have a few songs that are that great.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: I think people really react, reacted to a lot of these songs.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I mean people stand up and listen to the album listening session in order to get some songs that, as I say, might be the biggest hit something, but people was there for it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: And then there were a lot of the his most popular songs on the album, songs that already out, like have money when they're inside Don't you know what you do to me.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: And the biggest reaction for the night right, one of the biggest reactions for the night was pimping, sliding in a pimping song.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Generally speaking, a really good event.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: The album is out there.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: That's something that you want to take a minute and listen to because it's again, it's genuine songs, different from where you would hear from a regular basis.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: There are at least four or five songs that completely different from where you're staying from, which I feel is where he needed and with that level of support among youths like that, your car go wrong.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: He stayed true to himself in that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I was wondering if there was gonna be a set of different genres coming together and how choppy the album would have be, especially because he had some older songs on the album too.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: But they think actually it's like Zainlow and them terms like cohesive, the album, the album, well put together and cohesive.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: But they have one song in particular that I want to play for you.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: That to me, showing you the versatility of this youth that all of us would have already see that he had, but he put pen to paper and he put together this and to me is done a classic already all the gate and not sure how radio is respond to songs like these and not sure how much mainstream interest it will get, like, for instance, if you do a video and those types of things, if them is still do that kind of thing now.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: But again, this is one of them songs that people could go back to at any point in time and listen and make it a part of the song track for their lives.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Name of the song is into using number four in the album, right to me.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: And then the interesting you are the prettiest thing about what.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I'm so into you.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I'm so into you you, you make me feel a type away.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: So many things that I want to say, but I can't seem to find a place and time to tell you what's been on my mind.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: You don't change from nobody, girl, yeah you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: You, you make me feel a type away.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I need you, buddy, need you, yeah, with me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: I need you more than anything is made.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Don't change from nobody, cause nobody don't change my pretty girl you find like pearls are safe.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I need your TLC, like, please, baby, please, baby in the water, in the need for shit, I tear my girl.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I'm so into you, I'm so into you in the need for change.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: I think you are the prettiest thing about what.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I'm so into you, I'm so into you, baby, baby.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: She said baby baby she said baby, baby.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: She said baby.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: You know, man love it like food.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: You know I really like you, yeah, you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: You, you make me feel a type away.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I need you, buddy, need you.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, with me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I need you more than anything is made.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Don't change from nobody cause nobody.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Don't change my pretty girl.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: You find like pearls are safe.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I need your TLC.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Like, please, baby, please, baby let me tell you something.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Simple as it might be, that song is a very, very, very bad song and when I say quiz, for instance, right, the very next track is this alright, okay, alright, sorry, sorry, I forget.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I forget I'm not a young man, but listen, congrats to them on a great event.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Congrats to young brother, baby on the way.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: One of the things I like a lot is to see the energy between him and pimping and hot.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It easy to see.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, we have plenty memories and stories about people who come up, start to get, come up, start to see stardom, and you know, I mean start to see the finish line, a success or along the route of success, and the people who are around them is a different to the people who you see start off with them and bitterness between them and the people and and thank God, you could see them sticking together as a group of young fellas and they bring in one another along, because Hotty never used to say nothing.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: If only remember days are young brother being in a house and you know I mean a house and sea lots.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It look like just unplastered brick playing music whole day on Instagram, live and think.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Whole day, playing music and making chants.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Some of them chant his songs today and Hotty just basically smoking and insane, nothing, just vibing and something and somewhere pimping come along and he never used to say nothing but other than that.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, from there they basically know how they own songs and he could see that they they launching off their own career.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: So congrats to them and that is good to see them together.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: It was again great event.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Look a little dicey to me.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: You know, see, so many of the goals and jewelry and things get very nervous very fast and I was the one to get them, but it had no incidents.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: There's a very, there's a very pungent aroma in here, very aromatic opening up in the word for and I mean I may come in home all one two o'clock anymore and I nearly couldn't wake up to record and but, but, but, great events, a little telly, so little overtime.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Tt, everybody who was there hope you're a lot of great time.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: So anyway, people really come here to talk about to, because I know what they're saying.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Alright, everybody relax right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Everybody relax right.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: All they want to talk about the budget.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Everybody want to know that budget, budget.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: People are so frightened for this budget.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you why is listen to the to the budget for right.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: All I want to hear is if income tax gone down and corporate tax gone down or something gone down that causes my money to go up.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I don't really use this to the budget for any other reason.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I am not quite having the budget really to say how much they put in national security, how much they put in health.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: They send this to Tobago there.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: We have a.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: We have a budget that we read like.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: So, for instance, for work, right.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: When we do our budget right, first we separate what we call the budgeting process from the forecasting process, right, which governments?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Those seem to do too much of so.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: When we say a budget, we looking at what, what expenses typically occur in each department and what we're going to allocate to each department, right, or what we're going to allocate to each initiative, and then we have a forecasting thing that says, okay, this is how much revenue we feel we will earn.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Based on that revenue, we could forecast that we'll put we'll all your budget to put X amount, x percentage back into marketing this, into HR and incentives and those types of things, right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So I guess they set the budget, the forecast for us comes from our oil price, I believe is $87 a barrel, let's say, and they work out everything based on that 87.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: So this, would this, this, any money are on.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: One of the bigger headlines is that minimum wage has increased from 1750 to $20 and 50 cents a whopping $3 right now.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Only remember in minimum wage was $7 or I remember the earliest one I remember was six and I remember it moved from six to seven and it went to 11 or something like that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Right, and to be fair, is my sister telling me yesterday.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: She messaged me like quarry, with no minimum wage in this country is $20, she's like that's 3 US.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I never thought of it like that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Like back in the day, you say here about sweatshops and I keep paying people a dollar US hour and all these types of things, right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: And he says, oh, my god, these people live under such harsh conditions.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Wow, could they?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: And when she tell me that yesterday, I said but we live in a sweatshop.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: The place not hot, place, not hot, like the whole trip.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: That is a sweatshop $3 are always working for.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: And I had to tell her yesterday.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I said no, it's in 2015.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I say is now 2050, as of yesterday is 2050.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: It was 1750, early time.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: So I mean they quoted that 165,000 people also work for the minimum wage and the minimum wage is not a livable wage, right, it's just a baseline by which people is really to keep employers honest, because I see economics anyway, it's to keep employers honest.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Right, because if you let the labor market be decided by demand and supply, there are some jobs and a category of work that would get a very, very small wage, much less than $20 and 50 cents.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: A few things happen there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Right, because if your skillset put in a place where easily replaceable, so the work that you do and is not difficult, anybody could do it, anybody, but would be willing to do it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: And will say again, if companies could do it, out it or it moving towards machinery or robotics or AI or anything like that that could do it the wage price or between demand and supply for the wage is gonna is gonna continue to be pushed downwards.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Additionally, if you have a large group of people doing it, that would be this labor supply.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So if the labor supply way higher than the demand for labor for that particular job, if they have downward pressure, the price again people will bid themselves down.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: In other words, in basic terms, right forgetting demand and supply.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: It means that if I pay somebody $5, or there's somebody else there who willing to do it for $3, or that was what will happen.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: If you do set a minimum wage, it's not the most effective thing, to be honest.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: But use an example.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Like they talk about Foxconn in China, right, which is one of the manufacturers for Apple components, and they say in Foxconn, right, they say how to make sure and work hard and how to make sure and be respectful to your boss and how to try to.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: If they say a five minute break, you have to try and be back in four and a half minutes, be by a desk, because if you overstay your time on your coffee break, you're fired and a man is outside there waiting for your job.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It's like people.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: There's so much people outside the factory that whenever they fire you, a next man could come in and do it now.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Think about it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Think about the job you doing.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Can they fire you today and the next person just walk in and do what you doing?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: If you listen, if you have time to listen to this podcast, you're not working for no minimum wage.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: If you had time to listen to this for two hours you're having, if you are time to contemplate all these thoughts about what life should be and listen to good Calypso and stuff, you're good, you're doing good life, congratulations.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: But we always talk about this has been an experience where you could listen while you're doing other things right, you could listen while you're exercising, while you're driving on your way to work.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You know I mean you're traveling on your.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You know I mean you had a flight or your your, your in old journey.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: There's a say that help in your past, your time, you know.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So if you have time to do any of those things I just listed, you're not working for minimum wage.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You're okay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: You do good in this life.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: You study hard, you hustle hard, whatever it is you do you get through right people working for minimum wage.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I know job where they could sit down and listen to podcast, hold and contemplate these ideas about labor market and so on.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, it's not.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: They don't study to get to job.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Number two, so the minimum wage is typically is where they call like a price flow in economics, right?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I just basically saying that this is the minimum.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: You could go by.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Anything below here would be illegal.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Situations like Foxconn will come up all the time because they might be globally not competitive in terms of.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: If that factory was in his states, they had to pay people much more, but in China, the among that they pay in, while is low for the rest of the world, is a decent wage for China.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: So people waiting up, waiting for those opportunities.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: There is one of the things that we benefit from a lot to, and I say we all like we.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: So who like to go in people country and walk, you know, I mean, who don't like to, who like to marry people and think you know you're going to get married, to go and work somewhere else, you know.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: So immigrants is part of the reason that the minimum wage or the price flow, it really does not work.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It really does not work.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: The issue is that if I go to our country where their minimum wage so when, when, when my sister lives in Maryland, right, so when you think of it from this standpoint to her, three dollars or is unspeakable.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: You can't pay nobody that is below their minimum wage in their country and whether it was the minimum wage or not, you can't find nobody who would be willing to work for that amount of money.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: And so let's say, the standard wage where she is, the, their minimum wage now is 725, or alright, in the States.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: But think about this if I could leave I work in a minimum wage job here and I could leave Trinidad, I get through the Guawi and I could I register anything like that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I work in under the radar and their minimum wage is 725 if I could go there and get 725, I just double my income, right, I just I just double my income.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I doing good.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Now I could, I could take some of that, I could live, basically live the same standard of living if you, if you can pay in apples and apples, all things being equal, and I could send back some money home too, you know, I mean so you find that immigrants will change that and think about it from this standpoint if our minimum wage is three dollars or all and there's a 725 or all, and I could assume that all jobs is just parallel to one another, right?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: So it means that if their minimum wage is double ours, I mean if I working for 20 usr over here, I could go there and get 40 usr over.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: You see why I got.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: It makes it more attractive for me to jump on a plane, go over there, take chances.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Married strangers salute everybody married strangers.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Right, you go and talk about that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Salute all these mickle married strangers.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: The reality is that even if I could go and they have to pay the average American $40 to do that job, I can accept 35 and be fine.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I could accept 35 and still do much better than I was doing.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Trend that again and again.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: If I stay with our same $20 or all our lifestyle, I could send them $15 or all.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Consider as well that I have to look at what it called purchase and power parity.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Right, I've measured a metric is called purchase and power parity, which is try to identify how much does one us dollar buy me in this country?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: So, for instance, I always look at a big marketing for 99 cents.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: That's something that always fascinated me as, like 99 cents for a burger, I will never lose a pong.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: You know is where I come in from, so I'm not sure if that's their price into the air, but sure we see things like that before.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: When you take a dollar us and turn it out, what kind of burger you could get for that dollar us is both $6.75.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: It's any burger.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: You can get a burger in a school cafeteria for $6.75.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: So that's what they're looking at when they're talking about purchasing power parity, right, they're just basically trying to say, when I have a dollar us and I go to this country, how much can it buy me here versus there versus there versus there?
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: It is not the same right.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: So a dollar us could go a much longer distance in the states than it could go in Trinidad, and I can't even use these states generally, because a dollar us could carry a food in Georgia than it could carry in New York or San Francisco.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I hope I'm making sense now.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I ain't come to call members and talk out for six hours out of budget discussion, you know, but I just wanted to have to talk about the highlights of it and what, what it means or what the impact could be.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: So I hope only with me with the dollar thing, right, a dollar is not a dollar.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: So they have something they call the Big Mac index.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Right, go and Google that the Big Mac index is.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Basically use the price of a Big Mac in all the countries in the world where McDonald's operates to identify what is the purchasing power parity.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: How much does how far the dollar stretch?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: So go back to my 20 versus $35 example.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Right, I work in for $20 over here, so $20 away is about 250 T T.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Right, so I work in for $20 over here and I could go over they do the same job and get $35 an hour, next to the man who gained 40 right.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Remember I legal right to the boss man could pay me under the table and pay me a little less, so he saved $5.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I make an extra $15 now.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: My initial $20 lifestyle that I was living here.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I could live a better lifestyle at that $20 when I go over.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: So makes sense.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I could drive a better car, living a better house, you know.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I mean have better opportunities, have better recreation, travel more and so on a 20 or I could buy the bullet too, and the same $20 lifestyle that I was living here.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I could go there and live that lifestyle for $10.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Now I could send them 25 out of the $35 right and that's do that $25.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I send them every hour.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I could look for land and I could look for apartment, a bill in trend.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I could look for place to retire.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I could send my child to school.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I could send barrel here for the Jordan's.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Coincidentally, all the barrel for Jordan's was in Woodford Cafe last night.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I just want to make sure that I know right I could get a thing by Anton's.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: You understand where I'm coming from.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: So that wage difference and I don't want to make it seem as if I compare in Trinidad to USA alone you could see how I could make the same comparison between Venezuela and Trinidad right, where you would have people who come in from Venezuela and whatever their minimum wage is, once there's a gap between that minimum wage or the wage rate in the country or the labor market, once they have a gap between that, and then purchase and power priority come into play, you could see why immigrants will take the chance, work illegally whatsoever, get paid under the table, do jobs that people in the country not willing to do, and then they take the $20 lifestyle to send $15 and you go back to your country.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I firmly believe I mean the way I feel about, about home and about Trinidad, and I'm doing this podcast teaching me that more and more that you have a lot of people who listen here abroad, but the fact that you could listen to this every week mean your heart is home.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: You understand you doing what you're doing, not saying that it's another.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I don't want to make it sound like everybody who migrate is circumstantial and is a financial decision right, because there are plenty more that goes into that.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: But the fact that you all day and you're working, you know and you can listen to something like this mean you're still patriotic.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Your heart is home.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I used to feel like all, all you leave the country.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I only wicked and bad and I don't like to hear they say nothing about Trinidad and I don't know, but I learned that I wrong about that.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: So when you look at this change in minimum wage, right is a few things that added to that as well, right.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: So just remember that discussion about moving from 1750 to 2050, and remember the discussion about purchase and power priority, and remember the immigration discussion and just observe what is going to happen over the next few years, because if Venezuela's rates remain the same and their wage market did not change and I was improved, I expect that there's going to be a greater impact.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: You will, you will.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: You'll start to see more and more where Trinidad get to be a favorable place to come and work, because that's increasing gap, right?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: You see it all the time in the States and is one of the things that I've always talked about.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Immigration in this Republican vs Democrat thing is because the state is our attractive place to work.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Everybody want to go there and get the American dream and get better wages and better opportunities, and the dollar could go further.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: And then you could add on to that as well working conditions, and Osh complains on things that we may not pay as much attention to here.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: So when that minimum wage change tends to have an effect on the rest of the wage market as well, right?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So, for instance, let's assume I was working for $20 an hour, $20.50 an hour, and the minimum wage was $17.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: So the other fellows, who was either a driver and the porter and them was working for $17 something an hour, they were working for minimum wage, but as a driver I was getting $20.50, right.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: When the company, the firm, the private sector firm now, is forced by law to pay the porter $20.50, what do you think is happening to the driver at that moment?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: You can see it right, it's upward pressure on the price of their wage.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: So I now want to maintain my same separateness.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I see it as an opportunity.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: So he get $3 increase for doing nothing more.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Then I want a $3 increase for doing nothing more.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: I hope you can see where I'm heading right, because there's a knock on effect here on the entire labor market when that minimum wage change.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: So some of the unions and so on were calling for $20 minimum wage increase.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I guess in both ways, saying that they find a happy balance between the employers and the employees and they come up with $20.50 minimum wage rate.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And it's something to observe, because if it puts upward pressure or artificial pressure on the price of labor, you're putting more money in people's hands.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, but putting more money in people's hands when they're not doing nothing more leads to that situation where so productivity not increasing, you're not getting any more.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Goods that are nothing else to buy is the same set of goods that have, but it have more money in the economy.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Now the same thing happens that I was saying will happen on the labor market.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: It means that basically, let me say it only had one plate of food left and two are we working and I had $20 and you had $30.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: All you had to do is pay $21 for the plate of food and get your food and go on.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: You just make sure that you get our food by paying more than I would be willing to pay If I come back with $23 now because somebody give me $3, nobody cook, no more food.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: But I come back with $23 now and I could buy the plate Now.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: You had to pay $24 to get out of me.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: So the price of the plate of food is increasing as both of we get more money.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: If you give me more money, I come back with $100 now and you come back with $150.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: The price of the plate of food go all the way with our $101 to make sure you could get it and I can't get.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: But the plate of food didn't change.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: The amount of food didn't change.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: The quality of the food didn't change.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: As matter of fact, the food might get more stale because me and you are fighting over money now to see who will get his one plate of food.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Now that is on a real small scale when you look at it over the country and all the goods and services we have and the stock of goods and services remain exactly the same.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: But assuming everybody get $3 more in the medium term as everybody bid up the price and all them kind of thing.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody get $3 more.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: The whole $3 more is just lead to where you call inflationary pressure.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I could see where the pressure would be there.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Granted, there was a heavy focus on agriculture in the budget, which seems to stimulate production right and whatever they would call the supply side of the economy.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: So you make more goods available, you make more money available, but you are also making more goods available, so that is a positive sign.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I wasn't paying enough attention towards what was happening all the time, but that was a little surprising to me that you tend to find that every time you hear about the budget is a whole lot to talk about crime and health and education and sometimes water.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: It's been a while since I've seen a budget focus so heavily on agriculture and basically subsidizing agriculture and so on to make sure it stimulates the growth of the agriculture sector.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I guess it's following on from what they've been doing in the past few years where they're trying to look at non oil and gas revenues, as that becomes something that we can't depend on, which is a quick reminder of everyday that we have no oil and we have no money and we have everything now, but it seems to be a long current trend of the at least sitting government to make sure that they work on sectors or grow other sectors other than just the oil and gas or the non oil and gas sectors.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: They look into the company.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Actually, agriculture is positive, a little vague.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: I try to understand exactly what like there's no sometimes.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: What I would be looking for is a clear strategy.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: So I used to talk about this.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Where gate is concerned, right, I found one of the floors where the gate program or the dollar for dollar program is just make education available for everybody at taxpayers expense.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: If you're going to do that taxpayers expense, I would think that one of the things we could do is look at the development plan for the nation and look at where you want us to be.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: So if you want us to be the best in artificial intelligence by 2025, then you could spend more of the taxpayers dollars to go towards students who choose to study.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Things that can help us get there Make sense.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: You're going to need programmers, you need software people, you need AI people, whatever the things are.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: But when you just put card bladged, everybody going, and then you have people 100,000 people studying business and next 100,000 studying literature and I guess well, I guess everybody gets smarter.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: That might be a benefit to the country, but it doesn't take a clear development plan.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: So I was wondering I was talking a few weeks ago, was meeting a guy called Ben B Coco in Miami and him saying that he learned his chocolatier skills from a Trinidadian fellow and he was talking about how great Trinidad chocolate is and the technology in Trinidad and he didn't know how in the chocolate industry and so on, and you know, sometimes you wonder, like, okay, so you're going to pump this money into agriculture?
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Is there a specific form of agriculture that we're working on to make a competitive advantage among the other countries that we're competing against, to make us better off, to make us not have to worry about whether the three dollars will buy anything extra?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Because we could be in a situation where I was working for 1750 and now again 2050.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: And I can buy the exact same amount of goods.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: It feels like you get more money but you're no better off.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: There's no increase in welfare because it's the same thing you can buy, because the price of everything go on up and the more money come.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So when more money come, everybody get back pay.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Before Christmas.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Back pay is on the rise.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: You cannot go wrong.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Money to be made.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Only promise me 4%.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: We didn't like the 4% thing, but you're going to run that bread right now.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: So I can imagine what the public servants, the men, want to calculate this and make this happen.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Who can listen to that budget?
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I hope they had noticed before budget they were.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: But man, come and say all of the girls sell together, all of the pumps, chop, chop.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Everybody needs to get the money before Christmas.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Now there's a real goodie bag.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: To me it's not a change.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: The people owed their back pay anyway.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: All the people who were settled didn't settle is when they were getting their back pay.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: It feels like if it's a budget goodie.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: But I was already there, just timing.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Funny that you say everybody get before Christmas.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I was waiting after I hear that the online taxes going up by 100%.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: For those who don't know, there's a 7% tax on anything coming into the country.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Now that they're bought online through the skybox companies and so on, they pay 7% additional.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: So it's 20 to 25% duties on most items, the type of items that we buy on Amazon and so on.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Then there's 12.5% fat on top of that and those two charges are calculated on the price of the item plus the shipping of the item and the landed cost and trend.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: That is way paying 20, 25% on plus 12.5% on, and then you add additional 7%.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: So you add up all them percent and tell me if it still makes sense for you to shop online or if there's an incentive for you to shop locally.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: So when I hear everybody getting their money, I would think that if everybody getting their money, a good portion of that money could go towards people trying to buy things online which the banks and them handle for an exchange and them kind of thing.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: So it's done a problem.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: But so I was expecting to hear something like the 7 going up to 50%, but nothing like that came.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: So the back pay before Christmas that I could see where, once you get back pay before Christmas, or the old mechanism, courts is going to get money, standards is going to get money, penta Berger, sean Williams they're going to get money.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Hardware going to sell blocks, how's going to add on?
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Again?
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Answer motors, massive motors, all the motors going to get money when back pay.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Reach here, anton is going to get money.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Money is going to flow when that back pick up.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Again, there's a possibility that's, with all that fresh money in the system and the same among the car here, the price of car could go up.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to be going up already.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: So I didn't hear them say much about the inflationary pressure that would be created by changes like this, where more money coming into people's hands.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: But they seem to have it under control.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: It's a solid year before the election year budget where all the goodies are coming and typically it's difficult to track.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Sometimes when they say the health ministry is getting X amount of million dollars, what exactly?
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: We hear about this and then we pretty much forget it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: They come back somewhere around January, february to do a sort of media somewhere around that, six months from now, to do a media review and update where we are on the budget and what was actually spent, where we are on projects and so on.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: So it's one to observe.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: One of the ones that stuck out before moving on from the budget, get back into that little shadow too is tripling the intake of police officers from 300,000.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Let me just play a shadow quick now and let me come back to that one, because I feel like a big part of the plan in this budget was to follow shadow advice.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: The man is detention a little bit, but I was expecting to hear a little income tax going out of the next week, breaking stars.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: They want to conquer me, to control my energy, but they know that well, I am hot like hell and if they play my tune I'll hit from tune to tune.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: So they play parts, trying to change my course, but I blow out their mind With my melody beats.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Tension in my body, tension in my soul, tension in my belly, my blood running cold.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: The tension keep rising, reaching for my friend, if it don't surprise Somebody in pain Is the tension?
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Is the tension?
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Tadah, what Easy tension, easy tension, easy tension.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I know how much tension go easy.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: But, to be honest, I feel how much tension is and how much tension go easy.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: The problem is, when you get money in your hand, you go feel like the tension is and then we back to the same in about 6 months or so, but the intake of police officers has gone from 300 to 1000.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: These are interesting one, right?
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's the best thing the budget had to offer for me.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: It's the best thing I've seen for a few reasons.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Right Now, the crime situation is one that is completely out of control.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I was talking last week about being that frog in boiling water.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: You know, water heating up on me and me and moving.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: I like this as a move.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I like it as a move that shows, from an image standpoint is a drastic move, right?
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: If you only used to take in 300 police a year and you put in 1000, it's already showing a big difference.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Right, it's a big investment.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: It's a big change.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: The recruitment process is probably going to have to change.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: You're heading, looking for support and so on to get the thing done, because if you know what it looks like to take in 300 police a year outside of every comprehensive school is one big, long line of people who want to become police and so on.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Imagine what it looks like when they're taking on a thousand right.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: The first thing that they said they will address is the fact that there's so much administrative leave, sick leave, casual leave, vacation, early retirement leave, all these types of leave that police might accumulate over time and be off means that we have a police force that is not ever fully in.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: We never had full strength and we had a situation that calls for maximum strength at this point in time.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Right, there's no, there's no point at which we should have unmaned police stations, unmaned patrols, unmaned areas where people, for instance, playing music at time by Erica Street and Laventil, there are two police and I've got a whole day and a man telling me if them police only move his gunshot right now, but I supposed to come and play Serena, serena.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Imagine again, one of them police on vacation, the next one on sick leave, and then so the crime left to run right as it has been doing over the past few days.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: I see a story there.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: There's only most disturbing things I've heard in a long time.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: A 13 year old child went and reported a rape and then it's dead, the girl dead.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: They come and shoot up the girl and kill somebody else in the family, have somebody in a wheelchair, get a shot and thank God they live.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: So hopefully they could give evidence or talk.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I'll be honest with you, if it's me and that happened, who am I, me, what am I going to talk and say now?
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: I frightened like hell if I could make a police report today and tonight I did, me going to make witness against all of you.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: So we have again.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Policing is not the solution to crime, right, crime happening as a decision that being made long before the police get involved.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: But I like the measure because the presence of police in this country still seems to have an effect on the mind of the criminal in that if that police on the corner on America street we're going to kill nobody, we'll come back.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's respect for police.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's fear for the police and the training and how the police and them crackshot and so on.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly what drives it, but it seems that we have some sort of respect for our policemen and uniform.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: So the fact that they're taking on more to fill the void that is left by people taking leave.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I want to salute that move additionally, beyond just putting people where the leave is concerned.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I hope that so.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: For instance, when I look at workforce right, this is a challenge we have in work all the time.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Right, one hour, it types of work we do is hire merchandisers and groceries on behalf of manufacturers and distributors.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Right, so you might have a unilever and we hire their merchandisers.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: One of the issues is that when I'm merchandisers stay home, for whatever reason it is, it's a domino effect, cause real problems because and not just stay home, but the unplanned stay home you know you're sick and you just didn't come out.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Or you're duck work and you didn't tell nobody and we find out.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: You duck work later on in the day because we were getting 400 countries.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: You might have somebody who didn't come out and you didn't find out until 10 o'clock.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be there since 8.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Give me an example of last weekend or a long weekend.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Right, you don't want to see how fast Caribbean Coke and everything is selling on a long weekend.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: You know, because it's going to buy us all, right, the speed that that's selling at.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: You need to get out the back store and put it on the shelf fast, right?
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: So the issue we usually have is if I'm reaching, that is, I'll stay home, reach late, duck work, whatever the situation is and somebody not at that particular store, the goods don't come out, the shelf end up getting empty.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: The goods are at and remember we dealing that timeline right.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: We have expiry date coming up so the goods could stay in the back store.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: The clear clothes are expiring now and it's problem because nobody even want to expire goods, or no clothes to expire goods.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: They had to sell 2 for 1 and you're giving away a sale, right?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: So one of our challenges is always okay, if I need to, my workforce has to be 60 to do the job that you need me to do.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: We always had to use a metric to determine how much additional people do I need to hire to make sure that we have 60 at all times.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, this is difficult to measure.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: We've been doing this 15 years and I haven't figured out the exact science that says okay, you need 1.35 that you want to people.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: It's 35% additional people.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: And then you had to figure out now if I keep 35% additional people on staff, I have to pay all them people Sometimes.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: So when the 100, let's say I have 100 people I put 35 extra just to make sure that the 100 covered, regardless of where is the situation right.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: The issue is that when the 100 come out at 35 extra people to pay, I can't make no money is a tough place to be.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: So I could see what happened to the police force now with the administrative leave and all those different types of things that will be happening and additional staff needed.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: I just hoping that what they did by moving from 300 to 1000 doesn't only address the leave situation.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: We need to have a police force or a police numbers in the police that are larger.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: The force itself has to become bigger.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: So if the total police force is 2500 police now or let's say we have 5000 police in the country, we don't need to just hire some more people to make sure that when 500 people are leaving we have extra 500.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: What we need is to get the police force from 5000 to 7500 so you could both study different departments so that the fraud squad and them get more people.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: They get more man who was involved, the constabulary, who doing patrols on the streets and making sure those things need to have more people in those areas.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: Now I find, again with one of the better measures that was taken, and the last one is creating employment and creating opportunities for more young people to see an option or avenue that is not crime, that they might be able to get a job.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: If they have so many people who are still willing to join the police force, that's a good idea.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: So my guy, maurice Berker saw him posting about it and some people under his comments was talking about quantity and quality.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Right, and I guess they're right.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: If the police services are set to pull off corruption and they're being bought out by the criminal elements and so on and people just joining the police force to become a part of the biggest gang in the country so that they could benefit from it outside of the salary, then we have a challenge.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, but in a sense quantity could breed quality.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: So you have to address the quality issue on its own, as a separate measure from increasing the number of people coming into the service and making sure that they have enough people to cover the leave as well as additional people to do the crime is placing a great burden on police.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Police going to court, police are there are non-criminal police.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: The burden on police must be enormous, so having more police join and I think it could only be a positive.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: The one thing that I will say that I missed is that I would have thought that, if you're going to make that investment in people, there would have been a discussion on an investment in technology that could help us with solving the crime.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: I know we had a camera thing before.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: You know implementing or furthering these things so that the police force at some point in time is not so dependent on people and more and more and more and more people to solve all the issues where we already have technology and so on that could could solve it Right.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: That's also against the backdrop of the fact that the retirement age, the retirement age going up to 65.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: So that is a measure I would have talked.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Every time I try to say I would have spoke, I just go to say I would have talked.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: So I would have talked about that in some of the episode back in the day, right where the NIS is becoming a challenge in this country because the amount of people working versus the amount of people dependent on those who are working.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: So as the workforce ages and heads close to retirement and younger people, less younger people, are working or contributing to the NIS fund, then you're going to have this problem.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: So that was always coming to that retirement age being pushed up to 65.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: I figured I was coming.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I like how they tried to put it together to say, yeah, we do that to make sure employers and longer living life for people in the world, but listen, that's just an NIS measure.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Do I have enough money to pay people NIS and old age pension and them kind of things?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: So they make sure that they make sure that that is covered where there is concern.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: So we got to go purely a little later.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: We have five years to figure out this situation before you could.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: You could get into that.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I really come here to play Calibri, so I come here to play.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: But again, what do you want to say?
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Want to get your budgets are rated.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: It's one of them.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: Nothing happened.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: Budget, I feel, as a budget is.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: They now hold in pattern here and by next year's budget we will see.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: We will see some changes, we will see some goodies and the things that we expect them to set themselves up nice for 2025 election right.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Hopefully I hold in the faith that by the time that budget, we're really looking at a 6% income tax, corporate tax of about 5%.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: I mean I could play a little quick shadow for you Give nice demand but then everything when it's people, but then must treat them nice.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Again, one of them that I like it's somebody had to tell me the people who was wrong in this time, had to tell me if this was a big hit or not by certainly one of the shadows that I like to listen to.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: I come out to rock the party.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: I come out to rock the party.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: The rhythm is right, the action is tight.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: I come out to rock the party.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: The rhythm is right, the action is tight.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: I got a party feeling.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: I thought most of you feel me buddy.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: I picked up my hat already.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: I will do my best, but I must confess I am not a dancer boy.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: But I want to spread some joy.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: I come out to party party.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: I come out to party party.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: I come out to party party.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: You know, against the backdrop of the police force increasing.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: I go into the first story I don't talk about after the budget here, where it's here right.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: This is from Ian Allen Facebook page.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: Cctv footage allegedly captured a policeman who was dressed in his uniform breaking into a supermarket in Karanaj, stealing $10,000 along with a DVR on Wednesday, the 27th of September.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Don't include the any thousand.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: The alleged suspect was PC Wayne Peer.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: He was taken into custody by his colleagues at the Karanaj police station after CCTV footage showed him breaking into a Chinese supermarket using a grinder.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: Pc Peer reportedly moonlighted at the supermarket along with a stuntman, so he was aware where the cash and DVR were located.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Wayne, what the hell is wrong with Wayne?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: When the owners discovered the breaking this morning, the police notified the responding officers visiting.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: They seen reviewed CCTV footage where they recognized PC Peer as a suspect.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: It says investigations are continuing into the incident.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: But whatever WhatsApp groups are in, ask them to send me the video of PC Peer.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Pc Peer is crazy.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Pc Peer taking the people money to moonlight to protect the people and going for $10,000 hungry dollars.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, pc Peer, what the hell is wrong with you?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: You throw away your whole career, $10,000 and he takes the DVR like he never heard about Claude.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: Call him, you could do something for the police.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: We could up them.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Forget the minimum wage, just get the police more money.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: If the police have to be different, $10,000 are starting to see what up.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: If that is what you will enter a risk for.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Call him, come and say he increased millionaires tax rate by 5%.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: So I think income tax now is not quarter a salary or some ridiculous rate above any time you're making more than I want to say $7,200 a month, you gotta pay 25% tax on everything above that.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: You have some exemptions for your first mortgage and maybe some savings and utility and some exemptions for that.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Other than that, quarter your money gone.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: But now if you're making over a million dollars a year, a million dollars a year is about $80,000 a month.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: As you could tell, I think about this a lot.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like that is where I need to get to kind of fast.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: But yeah, $80,000 a month, as a matter of fact, $83,000 a year.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Set your goals right.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: I wait till you.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Now you set that goal together.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Now, $10,000 a year, your income tax going up to 20%.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Come see if you could put this Policeman 80,000.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: Give this Policeman 80,000,.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Let this Policeman live, because if you had to be tiffin' 10 grand from the place where you're working, we in some problems.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: I go into cultural things.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Should I get back to this beauty queen thing?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I want to say about this beauty queen situation.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Since we record last time, and every time we record, I keep saying this story here finish, and almost as soon as I hang up the phone with this recording here I see another part of this story.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: So where were we?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Last week we were talking about?
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: These people attempt to say that xenophobia is what causing people to react to Milady being selected.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Well, milady stepped down.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: Milady stepped down.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: Milady, say here what we're doing.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: I'm here, brothers, I'm not on all you and I'm not on that tutorial.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: So she step aside and she's no longer our representative For the ever so important Miss Grand International.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: I keep saying tournament in Miss Grand International pageant, but she's suing.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I'm not getting a clear handle on who she's suing.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: I think some people are getting some libel suit and so on For calling her name at all.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: I guess Darren Marcellar should be on that list, or they're gonna ask you.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: You had no right to ask her nothing, but no kind of.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: You had no right to ask her nothing about Watch words and all these kind of difficult questions and embarrassing people and these kind of things.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: That was wrong.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: So I suppose you on the list to get sued for sure, darren Marcellar, along with I-95.5.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: But she said that there was supposed to be sponsorship, but she did not get her sponsorship, to which she was entitled, or she thought she was entitled.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: No luck with that.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: She out and people going down.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: I like going down with her fighting spirit.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: I see some people say the reason she pulled out is because she now finds out that if she goes to Vietnam she's not gonna get back into Trinidad.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: But I find she should have go still and win man.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Go and win.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: If you had win, you would accept it back with open arms.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: If you lost, you ain't going back for sure, and the forces are up, right, but now we have a new queen in place.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: We have a new queen in place.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: What I find very strange is the fact that I've been monitoring the Facebook page and the Instagram page of these stolen production people, stolen pageant people who own the Miss Grand International Frangize, and it seems as though they had no intention Of post.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: The actual girl who go in every story they did Was still woman, lady.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: So let me talk about this lawsuit Right there from the Express.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: But it's only a lady.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: Matarano has stepped down From his Grand International Trinidad Tobago, sighting a lack of sponsorship by the local franchise holder.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Matarano's attorneys, led by Wayne Sturge, indicated yesterday that she will no longer represent TNT In the competition, having been told by her pageant holder Within the last 72 hours that she would have to pay her own way To Vietnam.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: This was contrary to what had been put to Matarano when she entered the competition.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: The development has now caused a lumen threat of litigation, so it said.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: However, more will be said publicly Following discussions with the company.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: This announcement was made at a news conference At Sturge's Regis Chambers For the Spain, where Matarano was present but did not speak, did not speak or could not speak.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: Also present were attorneys Lemuel Murphy, tamara Gregorio, as well as Matarano's manager, cheris Parsons and supporter Raj Arjun.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: Is Raj Arjun the guy who was talking about last week?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Who is the PR guy for these folks Quoted here from Wayne Sturge.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: We have today instructed Melody against answering questions as there is a real risk that this matter may occasion litigation.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Matarano dressing up in a statement read by his own.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: Matarano has chosen to step down, to relinquish.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Alright, that's about it for that.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: So she's out.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like this story has a few more twists and turns involved and I don't want to say anything disparaging about the young lady who they chose to go up to replace.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Well, not chose to go up Once.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: He's second runner up and the first person careful to go Vietnam.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: You next and, if you could afford to go, you are now Miss Trinidad and Tobago, grand International.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: I just find it take long to pose this girl and MYB and them the pictures they sent out to this girl.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: At first this girl was looking like Michelle Obama mother.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: She was looking all like the hills, but she's a very beautiful young lady, a happy fellow.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: Let me read from the Guardian here Stolen productions limited, the pageant franchise holder From his Grand International has distanced itself from Anigations made by Melody Matarano, who announced on Wednesday that she was giving up her crown Due to sponsorship issues.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: You just remember last week that the accusations, or the talk, was that Melody is involved with somebody on the stolen production side or somebody who is one of the judges and them things.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: I know I've made any scenes who were supposed to sponsor who to go with, but it clearly went wrong and it went into court, or at least threats of court.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Guardian media on Tuesday morning, spl's head of marketing and public relations, kerry Gobadhan this is the man who can't say the whole answer Be it song like if we Zeno-Fo-Baker, I wonder where he had to say no.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: He said the company is sponsoring the delegates.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Wait what?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Speaking of the Guardian media on Tuesday morning, spl's head of marketing and public relations, kerry Gobadhan, said the company is sponsoring the delegates.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: First runner, rebecca Hislop, will now be travelling to Vietnam Next month to represent TNT.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: As the crown is now passed to her, I don't understand.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Who am I in here sponsoring the delegates?
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: So what happened to Melody?
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Dollar didn't have enough beads to get him over.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: Anyway, our attorneys are preparing a statement on what was said.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: The accusations they were making were inaccurate.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: The new delegate, rebecca, the company will be sponsoring her trip, her tickets and her accommodation, which, in fact, are already paid for.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: The only thing we were seeking sponsorship for was the airline ticket.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Everything else for the delegates in terms of accommodation, foo, those things are already paid for.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: So the claims they are making are very inaccurate.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: I confused.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: They said it will be sponsoring her trip, her tickets.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Bus ticket?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: Or you could say sponsoring her trip and her tickets?
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: And the next thing you say the only thing we were seeking sponsorship for was the airline ticket.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Anyway, venezuelan born, melody Matarano was crowned as TNT a few weeks ago and she scheduled to represent TNT in the next month in Vietnam.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: She stepped down, got him, she stepped down, decided she has stepped down.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Her decision to step down Came out in new development earlier this week.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Put in into sponsorship and not because of the public outcry.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted to make that clear in the press conferences that it wasn't because of the public outcry, but they do so good.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: So get the light shed on this pageant.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you that even in this article, which is basically designed to talk about, ms Hyslop is like 80% of the article really focused on Meladia and this lawsuit and those kind of things.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: Nobody out, and you know it's so funny boy.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: I was just saying last week that we have people who go out for pageants all the time, sports people, all kind of people who do things all over the world that get no recognition whatsoever, no support.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: But we have such strong opinions that we could make the name Meladia Matarano.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: She went down in history in Trinidad and Tobago as a legend.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: 10 years from now, when you see Meladia Matarano, people go remember.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: I have to go, I have to go now I have to go.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: She became a legend while most of our own heroes go unspoken and heard of and mentioned, completely forgotten by the time.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Times come again.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: Time becomes the wrong.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: Funny the way things work, sometimes Funny.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: But Salutomies, hyslop, we will show you best.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you that if you go Vietnam, stay safe, make sure you are good with these people and come back and tell you what happened.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: I wanted to be known as well that nobody we going back to where, nobody ok about this pageant.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: They will come and go and nobody is going to pay attention to it unless you win or do real good.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: The show is over.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: The scandal is what was driving this and unfortunately we don't really have that kind of support for one another to say that Ms Hyslop is going to get our support now because we finally oust this wicked Venezuelan who tried to represent you wicked and these wicked people who tried to power Venezuelan to represent you, only for the grand prize of not caring about the local who went.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: I ain't come to talk about that, iza man, really just come to wish you a mighty shadow, but a great shadow, great Winston, really, I come to wish you a happy birthday and play tune like this I'm leaving life and it's problem.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: A nickel, drop me.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: A nickel, be made A nickel.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: Cheat me, but you can't change me.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: You put these out in ice, yet I'm better forced with a prize.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: You put that in me alive, but you can't change me.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: Now you're buying me man good life from the daylight.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: Man good, cheat me from my book.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: Man good, cheat me from which is man good?
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: Place me into the chess.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: Man good proof my game.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: Take my place the night and the day.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: No one who takes away.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: I believe in the stars and the stars.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: I'm leaving life and it's problem.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: A nickel, drop me.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: A nickel, cheat me, but you can't change me.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: You put these out in ice, yet I'm better forced with a prize.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: You put telling me a life, but you can't change me.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: I'm better forced with a prize, I believe.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: I tell you some listening classics from shadow and I'm the biggest party hitter.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: I have a party one line up here, but my biggest party hitter is album cut.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: I think you can listen to sing with message.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: The rest of this episode, as I do every week, is dedicated to not be trinity.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be trinity for a while.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be no trinity.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: I want to take the rest of this episode just to acknowledge the hard work people do in different spaces.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: I can do that.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: Can I do that for the rest of the episode?
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: We are all representative and then when you get your own representative, nobody don't know this girl name.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: Before I jump into recognizing some people to close this episode, I want to acknowledge the folks behind Japan Caribbean carnival.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: As carnival continues to expand, I always remember people talking about music, rum music, we music is a festival music and the music is a festival music and the music is disposable and the songs are only there for a year.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you that one of the reasons why we can have somebody like shadow to go through a catalogue as big as we can go through is because these fellas compose songs every single year.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: The greatest artist in the world on tour.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: Right now there's Beyonce, 400 other ticketed guests in the stage.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: She use Rihanna as an example, who means I don't know if Rihanna will ever release music again.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know how it looks.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: They didn't release an album.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: Them fellas take years to put out an album.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Sometimes they take the time and curate the music and decide on this and decide on that before they don't produce.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they have any other genre that's produced at the clip of Soka music.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: Sorry, dancehall, sorry dancehall.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: Them fellas make songs every day, but they clip Soka's albums every year.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: When you look at somebody like shadow, who kind of are coming there and putting out an EP every single year and then leave hundreds of songs in their legacy if they reach a thousand that they could leave with us and we could revisit.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: In episodes like these, one of the arguments has always been the music.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: To specific, you're walking me in a truck.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: In Germany, we could also guarantee ourselves a hit for our entire year by making Trinidad and Tobago Carnival the anchor of Carnival and then, as the carnival moves everywhere, all roadmatch songs is still the biggest song for the year.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: Our Soka Monarch is the monarch of all the carnivals in the world.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: We had a set this thing up.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: Just like our Nike could convince we that they are the best running shoes, we could convince people that we have the best carnivals are branding and thing is you.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: I spoke about Jamaica and how they were able to reach out to two men by name.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: I'll rise and jack trout to do.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: Brand positioning for Jamaica as a country and what it has done for the image of Jamaica to the rest of the world is something that we need to pursue to ensure that Trinidad is and I Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago's identity is created and communicated to everybody else everywhere in the world so that, even though you have a Trinidad and Tobago carnival, when you have that same Trinidad and Tobago carnival in Japan, it is the same.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: It had Japanese restaurant here.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: You understand, it had Japanese restaurant here.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: Moving something out of the country as a concept and selling it in another country is not new.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: It's not even novel.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: There's something that done all the time.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Every major city in the world have a china town, including Charlotte Street.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: So what stops us from taking Trinidad and exporting it in the former kind of world everywhere in the world?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: So I was glad to see this in Japan and if we continue to do this in a very organized, pointed, strategic and meaningful way, we will dominate the carnivals based on.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: I could stop here and people tell me about Rio carnival, which is a small carnival compared to Trinidad and Tobago carnival in aggregate.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: If you look at the total Carribanum New York, miami, la, Berlin, notting Hill, japan, trinidad, jamaica if you tally up all them things in aggregate we could outshine them numbers in Rio.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: So I never understood the algorithm.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: I was glad again from Rio McKenzie in New Day, japan Caribbean, kind of all a big hit.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: I thought it was the first to, but I saw my boy, damian Archie, who would notice much, much better than me, saying that this is not the first.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: But I hope that this becomes an and continues to build as an additional leg of our Trinidad and Tobago carnival.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: So the reviews are in and inaugural Japan Caribbean carnival or not inaugural has is being hailed by many, by many attendees, as memorable and a once in a lifetime experience.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: From September 13 to 17, participants were treated to 1000 parties and on September 18 the annual Soka in Japan events and then in a Trinidad and Tobago style parade of the bands at Maruba Twin Circuit race track in Chiba Prefecture, japan, and I'm sure have all had a draw.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: While Soka events, including parties, both rides and juve have been happening for a few years in Japan, this year marked the first time participants were able to follow a big music truck and revel on the road as they were in the islands.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: Many people in Japan are quite familiar with Soka music, which has been popular there for years, prompting the rise of several Japanese led steel bands, japanese Soka DJs, dancers and dance classes and Caribbean parties in major cities like Tokyo and Kobe.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: This is Princess Towns, yufsheda, silo-chan waves are trinidad and Tobago flagging Japanese.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: Listen all you need to go and watch this article.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: Anyway, what we can in our unrelated event.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: There was also a pan festival in Kobe where trinities and Japanese locals were serenaded by the fantastic Suki Yaki steel orchestra at the Kobe Steel Pan Festival.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: But organizing a parade of the band style event has been a dream of Soka in Japan organized a Kigon Tuse and his team for a few years.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: Tuse thanked his team, comprised of trin-megonian experts and Japanese locals, for the dedication and executing his vision.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone who came out this weekend.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: It was truly unbelievable A lot of hard work by the team and our culture is powerful.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: Next year can only be bigger and better.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: Tuse was a mighty man and, to make matters worse, he was black.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: So salute everybody who is involved in the Japan carnival as a big hit.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: It looked like a small hit, but this is how it all started and you continue to grow that, because one of the things that you find about the Japanese culture is a very, I will say, open and absorbing culture.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: When you look at how they've embraced dancehall music, almost like if it's their own, they make their own Japanese sector of the dancehall culture and dance culture in dancehall and you see them being more and more part of pan music and being a part of all carnival here.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: Taking the carnival there could only do well for us.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: So continue to do that.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Salute to them until maybe you know the shuttle.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: One of the best right ik.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: He came in my house to feed me.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 3: He came in my house to bite me.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: I do song for the house of music.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: He's either crazy or real sick, but I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: Just don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: That was confusion.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: I was transformed to a demon.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: I got mad at my stomach.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: Only wickedness in my head.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: My blood hot-tail is violent.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: I begs no more feeling to bite him.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: He came in my house to feed me.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: He came in my house to bite me.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: I do song for the house of music.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: He's either crazy or real sick, but I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: I don't want to sing that song a-bow.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: Stop talking to that rhythm and bass.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: We, musically, are missing nothing.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: But when people talk about reggae and that and hip-hop and R&B, we talk like this genre of music is lacking something.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: When they hear that piece of music you will not love that.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: Salute time.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: The episode is salute.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: Shane Ramne Rhyder shines on the New York fashion stage.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: This is from Newsday Reporter Bavina Sukde your tax Bavina, trinidad and Tobago's Shane Ramnerine is making significant impact on the international fashion stage with his brand 11 Threads.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Rumor Ramnerine, originally from Marabella, had his designs featured in the New York Fashion Week, which was held between September 7th and 13th.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: He presented at Sony Hall 235 West 46th Street, manhattan, new York, on the open night of runway 7, spring summer 2024 collection shows on September 7th.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: His collections embody sophistication, edginess and a distinct Caribbean, trinidadian flair, with its bright, vibrant colors, tropical prints and playful accessories.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: While he always loved fashion, ramnerine's fascination with the industry deepened when he relocated to Miami early 2020.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: Due to his job at a sugar trading company, ramnerine now manages its Caribbean operations In Miami, a city he says is known for as the fashion capital of swimsuits.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: He was determined to expand his fashion skills and eagerly learned to sew.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: This newfound knowledge, combined with my background in Trinidad, carnival design propelled me towards creating swimwear collections that perfectly captured the essence of the beach, sun and luxury, he told Newsday in a phone interview.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: He poured his heart and soul into crafting a swim and resort wear collection that would turn heads and make a lasting impression.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: This dedication led to his debut at New York Fashion Week, where he showcased swim and resort wear, as well as carnival costumes appearing at NYFW as a fulfillment of his dream.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: Quoting a saying as a creative soul with a passion for fashion, attending this prestigious event has been a dream come true for me.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: Stepping into the world of NYFW was an experience beyond words.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: The atmosphere was electric, buzzing with excitement and anticipation.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: Everywhere I turned, I found myself surrounded by fashion icons, designers, models and influencers who shared the same passion for the art of lifestyle or art of style.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: It was awe-inspiring to witness the creativity and innovation that unfolded on the runways.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: Each designer's unique perspective showcased a kaleidoscope of colors, textures and silhouettes.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: I couldn't help but feel humbled and motivated to showcase my own collection, eager to contribute my creative voice to the vibrant fashion landscape.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: That applause was really for me, being able to read that.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to know, because that was a little bit of a struggle.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: But the idea here is to salute our own, shane Ramneryne, as we continue to salute our own, and not just vex when Venezuelan representatives we but take that same passion that we have when we are upset to put behind the people who represent us.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: But who is me to talk about that?
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: I really just come to play a little shadow.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: It was Tuesday night last Saturday night me had feeling right when I met this girl.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 3: She said I drink up me whiskey and I smoke up me chammy and right now I'm searching for a man to jump up with me back for her dancing like a freighter's touch me, I come out to play.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: Hold me tight around my belly, I come out to play.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: I come out to play.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: I come out to play Me, have no man, I tell you.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: I only hope you don't have no man in the band.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: If you have a woman, that don't be reconfusioned.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: I am in search of a man with your description and you gotta play with me from now until last Wednesday.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: I said to the com take a drink around.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: She said me shoot bus.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: And I lost me the bus.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: I told her to away the damn shoe.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: And I told her away me shoe too.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: She said hold up, I could bounce up someone like you.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: But you, dancing like a freighter's, touch me.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: I come out to play, hold me tight around my belly.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: I come out to play.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: You're afraid my man will be you.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: I come out to play.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: I don't have a man.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: I tell you.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: I only hope you don't have no man in the band.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: If you have a woman, that will be reconfusioned.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: I am in search of a man.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: I tell you.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: I only hope you don't have a man with your description and you gotta play with me from now until last Wednesday.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: I told him, I told him, I told him that I've been playing with him for like I told him, I told him, I told him by an anana whoa About half past nine.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 3: Now she start to whine.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 3: Then she follow lost Mila Stickbus.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 3: I told her to wear the damn thing Mila Stick was holding.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: We can't stay to join me.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: We got to get to the last lap.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: She don't seem like a friend to touch me.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: I come out to play.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Hold me tight around my belly and my father tell me, when you play in song, you must play the original version of song too, right?
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: This is Quicken Rides.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 3: It was Tuesday night Last lap.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 3: Can you val my head feeling right?
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: I bounce up this girl.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: She say I drink up my whiskey and I smoke up my tampi and right now I'm searching for a man to jump up with me.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: But why you dancing like your friend to touch me?
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: I come out to play, hold me tight around my belly.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: I come out to play Like you afraid me.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 3: Man, go beat you.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 3: I come out to play Me.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: A human, I tell you.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: I only hope you and I have no woman in the band.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 3: But if you have a woman, that will be real confusion.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 3: I am in search of a man with your description and you got to play with me from no one till our 20th.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: I am in search of you, man, go beat you.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 3: I'm in search of you, man, go beat you.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: I go out to play.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: Like you afraid me man, go beat you, I come out to play.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 3: I say do, do, come, take a drink around.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 3: She say me shoebox and I lost my pos.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 3: I tell she throw away the damn shoe.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 3: And I throw away me shoe too.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: She said, oh, they are hoping I could pounce up someone like you.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: But why you dancing like you're free to touch me?
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: I come out to play, hold me tight around me, baby.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 3: I come out to play Like you're free man, go be here.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 3: I come out to play Me and a woman.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 3: I tell you I only hope you have no woman in the band, but if you have a woman, that will be real confusion.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: I am in search of a man with your description and you've got to play with me from now until last Wednesday.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: I say dancing, like you're free to touch me.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: I come out to play.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: Hold me tight around my belly.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: Mover, native Denzel Street takes up a leading role at prestigious MIT.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: We must celebrate these things.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: We must celebrate these things.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: This is from the news day again feature from Andrew.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: Andrew, your name is Gionetti.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: 40 years ago, denzel Street was just a dream a young bibliophile destined to explore the world outside of the confines of Mova Lavantil.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: All he made for me to read was that bibliophile.
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  Speaker 2: Today's street is the senior associate dean and director of the office graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most prestigious institutes in and outside the US.
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  Speaker 2: He took up the role last week.
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  Speaker 2: His mandate includes the oversight of some 100 graduate programs catering to approximately 7,000 graduate students.
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  Speaker 2: Denzel is a trainee.
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  Speaker 2: He had an opening door.
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  Speaker 2: He had a lever door open for me.
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  Speaker 2: What we need now is a link right MIT.
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  Speaker 2: In her statement, said street brings vast experience and important role as a leader in critical aspects of the graduate student life and learning, including admissions and recruitment, diversity, academic success and graduate student support.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke with Skeet, who was in the process of moving to the Boston area of Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: He said it's an honor to have the opportunity to shape the environment that will allow groundbreaking research and exploration in the future, exploration that in the future will impact society in fundamental ways.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years, many of MIT's former PhD students have gone on to win Nobel prizes.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Waits, vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education, describes street in the statement as a natural collaborator and a passionate advocate for students.
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  Speaker 2: Waits said this will serve us well as we navigate some very complex issues like graduate student unionization and the impacts of the recent Supreme Court decision on the use of race and admissions.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: The US Supreme Court controversially ruled in June to ban the consideration of race as a factor for university admissions in a practice known as affirmative action.
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  Speaker 2: It's been my goal to create educational structures that provide opportunity to students.
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  Speaker 2: Like my former self, I have been particularly focused on diversity in PhD programs at the elite institutions, just making sure that students from an underrepresented and underprivileged background has just as much opportunity to access these institutions and contribute to the creation of the knowledge just as anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: I know the reading is before, but just remember it's 2 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: This morning I reached home to an earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Go easy on me and looking for grace in this episode because, between them, amongst the drinks this evening, I tell you, do this media event and have me drinking heavy.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: On a weeknight, all reading is blamed on overtime TT, nigel Telsford and everybody who was my younger brother last night.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: But for me to read some of these things, I'll go ahead and get some help from Shadow here again and, most importantly, saluta Denzel Street right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, podcast is not shared, sorta slot today.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we say you're singing nonsense, but people love your nonsense.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: It's Obea, you're working.
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  Speaker 3: Obea, you're looking like a boo boo, but then let's just tell how you.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: It's Obea, you're working.
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  Speaker 3: Obea, sing.
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  Speaker 3: Obea man, hands on the first chair.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: Obea man, you're not to keep even with the table.
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  Speaker 3: Obea, you're working.
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  Speaker 3: Obea.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: It's Obea, you're working.
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  Speaker 3: Obea, you're looking like Obea.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: You're saying it's you that you refuse.
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  Speaker 3: Don't make me feel, but I'll be in shoes.
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  Speaker 3: Obea, you take a smile.
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  Speaker 3: No more, no more, don't be like that.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're singing nonsense, but people love your nonsense.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: It's Obea, you're working.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: Obea, you're looking like a boo boo, but then let's just tell how you.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 3: It's Obea, you're working.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: Obea.
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  Speaker 3: Obea man, hands on the first chair.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 3: Obea man, you're not to keep even with the table.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 3: Obea, you're working.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 3: Obea.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 3: It's Obea, you're working.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 3: Obea.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 3: Obea, you're working Obea.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 3: Obea, you're working.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 3: Obea.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: Obea, you're working Obea.
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  Speaker 2: Obea.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea Obea.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: You're working Obea.
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  Speaker 3: Lady Minnie bet never went to bed, always in the house, quiet like a mouse.
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  Speaker 3: Then she took a chance and went to her dance.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 3: The band started to play and she broke her way.
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  Speaker 3: I feel naughty.
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  Speaker 3: I feel too puffy.
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  Speaker 3: I feel naughty.
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  Speaker 3: I want to party, I want to dance, I want to dance, I want to dance.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: I feel too fly.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 3: I feel too fly.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 3: Living on a farm school and alarm.
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  Speaker 3: Quiet like a dam, a simple up-lump.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 3: But she put on clothes and beauty exposed when she started to crawl, then boys started to fall.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 3: I feel naughty, I want to party, I want to dance, I want to dance, I want to dance.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: I don't cut her off because if I could listen to that for the whole day, I could play that over and over for two hours and put that out as a podcast episode.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: So let me spare that.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 2: But the next one is a classic that sometimes I'm not sure if people know it or not.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: Shadow is a man lived through life feeling like if he was one of the greats, but not being recognized as one of the greats Through the competitions.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: I think he had a hard time winning and this was a song that he had put out that I'm addressing that directly.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: And next one is my favorite Shadow.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: I've done more before I go out, but these are next one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 3: Society man here in Trinidad.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: They take it for fun.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 3: Pushing me around the world of my music is solid like brick.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 3: The people enjoy it.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 3: They jump to the beat, but when they have competition the judges will swear.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 3: I am a comedian so I ain't going back there.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 3: I want to catch some judges in hell to have them jumping, just jumping, no stopping.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 3: I want to wear them up with some clothes and have them jumping.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: Just jumping, no fooling.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you a jump, jump, gotta jump, Jump.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you a stop, keep jumping up, and if I catch you jumping up slow, I boss you too.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're fine.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom boom, boom, boom, boom boom boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, Listen.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: that brings me to the end of episode 157.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: I hope all you had a great and a very productive week and I wish you all the best for the week ahead.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: I see 100 done.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: Start to play.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: 100 days of Christmas.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 2: I shall not be listening to no 100.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: If all you feel like a Pomeon Christmas mode from all now, you're wrong.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: I also want to say that, being the husband of a wife in the public sector, I was looking forward to the little back pay, the little dust and the little cacada.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: So I'll be monitoring very closely when it comes in, because it have a way that extra money don't count on certain sides of the relationship.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: Marriage Friends, you know what I mean Extra money.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 2: It is never here what the extra money is, so please keep me informed.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: If you are any public service and you listen to this broadcast and you collected your back pay, please message me on any one of the social media platforms.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: Put a comment on YouTube, message me directly and let me know if teachers collect their back pay.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: Please just keep me informed when I have concerns.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: I want to leave you with one more of my favorites from the great Winston Bailey Make it merry, oh yeah, rock your body.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: Rock your body.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: Have a good time, have a great time.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: A little pleasure is a treasure.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 3: Everybody, everybody, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Rock your body, rock your body, make it merry.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, rock your body, rock your body, rock your body.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 3: Have a good time trolling Until judgement morning.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 3: Only got one lifetime.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 3: Have yourself a nice time.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 3: Everybody, everybody.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 3: Rock your body, rock your body.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 3: Rock your body, rock your body, make it merry.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, make it merry, make it merry, everybody.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 3: Rock your body.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: Every time I say the last one, I find the next one.
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  Speaker 2: I want to leave you with.
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  Speaker 3: He is somebody.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 3: But if a man is born in poverty, starvation and misery, he is nobody.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 3: Everybody is somebody.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 3: Nobody is nobody.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 3: I mean the papa or the wetty, everybody is somebody.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 3: Poverty is what it takes to make such dangerous mistake About who is somebody.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 3: But when a woman makes her son, from the time that child is born, he is somebody, everybody is somebody.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 3: Nobody is nobody.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 3: The papa or the wetty, everybody is somebody.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 3: An empty pocket makes one sad.
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 3: A loaded wallet makes one glad.
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  Speaker 3: Listen carefully.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 3: If you are the one who is feeling glad, remember that someone who is sad, he is somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is somebody.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 3: Nobody is nobody.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 3: The papa or the wetty, everybody is somebody.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 3: Everybody is somebody.