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Episode #143 | Treble · Corie Sheppard Podcast

• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the rainy season edition for the Corey Shepard podcast.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: You can't complain that it's too hot and complain about the rain.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: You know she needs life, you party.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: You know she needs life, you set.
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: You play social, you start up and feel a little so free.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: You know you can move on.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: Yet if you continue on that you regret.
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: Take a bet.
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: You got a lot of fans but we getting set up.
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: Woman said to me you got to mix it up cause and the ball is jamming on the side, jamming on some jolly.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: The apple's set.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: We're hot.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: I said to pull down my body.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: You see it wants you, so feed it up for me.
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: Leave me on the table, nang nang nang nang.
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: Wet me down.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: Honey.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: Your night.
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: Let me feel right when it's on fire.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: You ready to jam me must make me perspire all day.
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: Let me break away when it's time for fun, honey wet me down.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to episode 143, kabode on the Query Chef Hot Podcast.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to everybody who's been listening.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Welcome to all you new listeners.
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: All in the way to find the podcast, share it with our friend right, let somebody laugh too.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, any spirits or rainy season at Instance London.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: For me to dingo lay cause and the ball is jammed on the side, Jamming on some jolly the apple's set.
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: We're hot.
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: You got me body.
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: You see it wants you, so feed it up for me.
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: Leave me on the table, Wet me down, honey.
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: Your night.
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: Wet me down, honey.
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: Let me feel right when it's on fire.
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: You, ready to jam me, must make me perspire all day.
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: Let me break away when it's time for fun.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: Honey, wet me down.
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: I say honey, wet me, wet me down honey, wet me.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: What do you boys say?
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: great, johnny King man, greats, greats, greats, greats, greats.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: What do you want to say?
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: one of the best soka they ever write?
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Wet me down, honey, best, one of the best.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: What do you guys do for the week?
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Do you complain about the rain?
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: Do you avoid the floods?
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Do you do dark work?
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: because you get a little yellow alert, one yellow yellow alert, And rain started to document me.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, work started to document me.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: People want to go to work.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: They're waiting for WhatsApp group to say whether they should come to work.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Are we back to that time where you had to wait for the teacher to say if they come into school in the WhatsApp group before he decides to send the train or not?
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure about what is the April showers bring May flowers.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: Is that trend that didn't think about that foreign thing?
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Is it normal for so much rain in June?
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: I ain't sure, but I know we under yellow alert by late last night and see the updates.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: It's a orange alert.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: So, first and foremost, everybody stay safe.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Everybody try and stay dry in the areas that flood prone.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: Take your measurements, do what you had to do, add clients.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Message early yesterday morning to say well, let me know what's the situation.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: You know flooding could get people more ruined than that.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: It's a sad sight to see.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: You know We have a whole dry season and the first little bit of rain placed on Saturday flood already And I remember growing up as a youth were Shagowners and Central was the flood plain of the country.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: You know I mean, and now is porters pain is done by city gate.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: If you in Tongan too much rain falling, you could be in some trouble.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: But I want to talk about local government election, to open this right and blazing through some topics today.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: Right, because I'm some deadlines right and some deadlines.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: I'm an, i'm an in the office there, our fellow named Stefan Kobe, ma make him a work on some deadlines.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: But local government election, and all of a sudden I went up the highway and I see the whole, all the bush by both sides of the highway, by the nagar, the nagar on one side and some a call on them on the next side.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: All that clip Dredging is going on.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: It's almost as if and you know we, we live in this little paradise where that is acceptable, that is the norm, it is expected and it acceptable, where, once local government going on the unknowns, or we coming close to the time for local government elections, even before it unknowns, all of a sudden man know which road that affects a guarantee and all very high profile, high visibility and high traffic roads going to get paved, pell mail with any next few months.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Sweet, sweet TNT.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Only a cafe road like we see You're going to see it coming along the line.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: Now I repeat that Avenue, you're going to see roads in Tongue.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Pave the highway apportionment, that go get touch.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: Don't only cross in San Fernando by the dial in a rimo busy corner in Chicago.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: You know the normal busy corner in Chicago has have a size of portal for the longest.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: While We're in falling now and covered our portal, people could be in trouble.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: But a local government's election is announced, folks.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: So we will well see roads fixed, but we'll get to that.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: Before I reach there, let me just get a quick update right.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: I went by the great Seagate, adonis and stitches are out.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: Man say stitches for bitches, but the stitches are out and healing is, healing is in progress.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: So I still accept it all healing energy, all positive vibes, all prayers, accepting all of it, all of it.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: The mall isn't my way to better.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping that there's energy, because the little squad out here we used to play small goal football.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: They officially turned into a big match or big goal FETS, fet match side.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: So I call it all people.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: I know somebody listeners here is footballers to elderly footballers, elderly footballers.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: So look, mills and mills, a whole bunch of elderly footballers, right, if only have a little FET match side.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: Now is the time to contact man lemon.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: No, so we could get a little FET match side together.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: All you might have a side to play.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: So my goal now is to get myself back in a little bit of a gear so that I could play a little big goal football.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: I haven't done this in many, many years.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: I remember playing big goal football.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Last of the big goal footballer play was with BG.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: So look that squad from BG.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: And they permitted play last stopper.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: You know I might like to play a front, but they permitted play first stopper.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: And I'm following him, lockhart playing last stopper.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: And these boys have me playing where?
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: against a team named Marion House.
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to know Marion House, right?
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Marion House is a home for boys.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like I talked about this already, but them men permitted me to play first stopper And them little youth men in Marion House so fast.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Them is 18 years old And that's their work up.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Them men running, blazing, coming down the road and Lockhart is telling me mash half line when we had the ball going forward And we have a good little squad, that we have men who could play.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: But he's telling me mash half line when the ball gone forward.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: And I try and say, lockhart, when them men get back the ball, what is we plan to reach back?
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: We can't get back.
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: I just see the ball pop, pop, pop, pop down the road And all of us are now in a full tent sprint going, trying to get back to protect my goal.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm definitely not playing no defense.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe I could play a little midfield if bad come to worse, where I talk about midfield, like in the middle circle, where I don't want to run too much.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: But hopefully I could get a game of fitness back up to play up front, because I went and played some football last week.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: Much against the doctors orders and everybody orders.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: Never play football.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: Stitches in your foot.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: So my wind is low.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: My wind is low.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: My cardio is low.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: I try and to join back the gym loss of that little iron point, as much weight as I put on the first surgery by trying to lose back that game of wind up And hopefully play some big goal football soon.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: But what better place to start than any sports, because we have plenty Congratulations to send out to sportsmen this year.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: I think we finally found the greatest football coach of all time.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: It's hard to dispute at this point in time.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: It's hard to dispute that the greatest football coach of all time is a great Angus Eve.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Great Angus Eve, greatest football.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: The man went at treble over the weekend.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: He had a treble winning weekend.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: First and foremost, we had to say salute to what I think we found the greatest football coach of all time.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: Greatest coach of all time.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to dispute now.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: The man went at treble over the weekend.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: It's hard to dispute that the greatest football coach of all time, without argument, is a great Angus Eve.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Great Angus Eve, greatest coach I've ever seen in the history of football.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: We play against Guatemala on Sunday.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Beat them one nil despite.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: Let me talk to my partner, lassana Liber, a little bit here for a second Right, because Y868 is my source for all sporting news, particularly football news as it pertains to the great soccer warriors, would be the greatest dynasty of all time.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: At this point, in Karycom and otherwise, what is it called?
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Carrefter, karycom, conker, kaft, we beat this side one nil.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Right, we went there.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to take any game.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a stream.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: I don't understand what happened.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: I see the game delayed.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Next one here it's a no current in Philadelphia.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: You see, we alone do our problems In first.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: There's no current Current gone in Philadelphia and the game per school.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: So I didn't know what was happening, i didn't know if I was going to play the same day or what, and I say let me check Lassana.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: And then, because Lassana must have the updates on the game, and by the time I check it, i realize that the game did play, probably after the late time, and we beat Guatemala one nil, as we should Under the greatest coach of all time, treble winning Angus Eve.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: The first leg of the treble was completed on Sunday evening and we beat Guatemala one nil.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Now I want to start a right for Lassana.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I could write, i'm so good with the reading.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: But if you give me two, three weeks to come up with the article.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: I could come up with one, because we went there and we beat these men in these states, a team that been struggling for so long when we were Bahamas and Puerto Rico and all them people was beaten with Angus Eve hardly considering our goal anywhere.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: We go on and we beat Guatemala one nil as a warm up game to conquer the goal cup early run qualifying.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: And Lassana headline is this is our winning game and we win.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: We beat people, which is what we supposed to do.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: We've been.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say we've been beating people, but we've been competing at a level we haven't seen this team compete maybe since for a decade at least.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: And this man headline saying Alvin breaks six year goal drought as makeshift TNT team edge Guatemala one nil friend.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: We write these headlines So so quarries beat people bad as Alvin finds back his book.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: So something, something positive.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: Nala Sano, what the hell is going on?
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: He went on to say Trinidad to beg a men's national senior team stretch the unbeaten run to six games last night.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: Why the hell it didn't make daddy headline as the edge got him a lot more than an international friend.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: He had his super, super repark in Pennsylvania.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: Alvin Jones got the lone goal item from the penalty spot to snap a six year goal drought.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Six years, a long time for the ambitious right back after substitute.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: Real or real.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: real Gil was tripped in the area by opposing defender Jose Morales.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: So Alvin Jones at.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: I want to assume that that gold six years ago is that the goal that puts a USA already woke up.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: I was there, i was there.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest goals I've ever seen.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: I'm bet you're sitting right with, because I'm almost pushing up from right back and I think he was, i mean, well into their half but very far from the goal still, and that man lined up to shoot.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe he was going to shoot from there and people might forget in that game to that There was a free kick that he took in his second half.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: That was real close to scoring as well, right, but he went on to say, head coach Angus, he was likely to save a decline sheet as well.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Has he so far as considered 68% of what he might have kept?
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: the keep, the keep, the keep, the possession.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: You keep that and spend much of the second half chasing boys.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: All right, we go to that outfit.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Crucially, really look vulnerable to the Central American opponents.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Why listen is, for all, the best news.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: In the last sentence, every paragraph, i don't understand it.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: But our first say a crucially the so far as really look vulnerable to the Central American opponents, although they had 68%, are useless and penetrating.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to write something for the side.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to rewrite this on Saturday and see if I could get all this pay.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: All this pay, all this pay writers by the minute, by the word, by the letter, by the quality, by the likes and shares and so on.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I feel that I just had a contribute to the side, to the side.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: And then why?
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: they say that's a little why?
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: because they always have the news on the soca warriors team.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: So that was the first leg of the treble winning Angus Eve over the weekend, and the second and third leg came at the same time.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: This making making Angus the greatest coach ever.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Trinidad and Tobago have qualified for the 2020 2023 Conkercraft Gold Cup without even kicking a ball.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: That is his coach for your money.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: I tell you, angus is the special one and he is the real special one, not kicking a ball and qualifying for the Conkercraft Gold Cup.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: After Conkercraft ruled against Nicaragua over the use of a naturalized player.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: A naturalized player will be like what if he was born there and you come down there to live and you're so a naturalized player is what butchers?
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: As a further consequence, trinidad and Tobago.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: So that is his second leg right within the gold cup.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Thing to celebrate.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Third leg now, as a further consequence, trinidad and Tobago will also replace Nicaragua in the Conkercraft Nations League A for the 2023 2024 competition, first world, which also serves as a pathway to the 2024 Copa America.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: So we, in qualifying for Copa America as a third leg, we qualify for the gold cup as a second leg and we beat Guatemala for a weekend of a treble, completing weekend.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: First treble ever in history is first treble.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: First treble ever in history are Trinidad and Tobago.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Football under this church, but a great Angus.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Even We couldn't want nothing better.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: So the two things coming out of this.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: First to the team I'm happy to see Winnie Gold cup.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I just want to read out the food into what I'm saying Is a group, is a group.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I'm scared.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I'm scared in my heart because I think in later on in the article he went on to say that we in our group now with USA and Jamaica, two teams that we have not looked very good against at all in a long time.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I believe, if I remember right, somewhere under Angus stewardship we played Jamaica and we drew Nill Nill am I remembering that right?
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: But we typically don't look very, very good against these sides.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: You know, and I mean maybe it's a function of they always say that if the local, if you domestic and there's something Angus was lobbying for for a long time If you domestic cup or domestic football or domestic league not active, then you have a problem being ready for international competitive games.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: So maybe it's a credit and a testament to the fact that we have a pro league.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Players are sharper, fitter, more match ready, a little more competitive.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: They have the aggression in them already.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So when we put together a team to go and play these fellas on them, we could beat people and the only way it could beat us is clearly to field illegal naturalized players.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: So it's either we hope Jamaica bring in some kind of illegal player and America bring in some kind of illegal player, moving us forward to the knockout stage and win the gold cup, or we step up our game a little bit between now and then.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I was you ever watch?
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: um, i mean, in all seriousness, look at the Denver Nuggets as well, because they were the most boring, most boring finals I ever see.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I wish NBA would start to play the finals somewhere between four and seven o'clock in the evening.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: This staying up late to watch football is to watch basketball or any sport is tough.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I can't believe.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: The last time I watch a basketball game is rough.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: But Denver, come through and be the heat this weekend.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Is that Denver's first ever ring?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Probably There there, there.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Um, this playoff series had a few sweeps.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Was it the next?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I get sweep or the Laker, somebody get sweep, somebody get a 4-zip, or they had 24-1 and them kind of thing in this playoffs.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you worry about teams, right, when you do any playoff and you sweep a team.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: At least when I was watching basketball regularly, one of the things I used to have was that you end up waiting to see who you will play next And during the waiting period, which could be a week or a week and a half sometimes it said that the team might lack a little bit of sharpness going into the next series and it tends to work against them.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Some see it as rest and they get rest and they come back better, but some see it as you're lacking some sharpness in the matchup after the game.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And I was hoping that we were able to play the qualifying games to get into the woke up so that Angus gets a build on his 6th match unbeaten and several matches without conceding goals and so on, building his defensive strength and building the attack going forward and all those things, so that by the time he qualified for the woke up which I had no doubt that we would we are a little more match ready.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So my question is this now that we automatically qualified, does that mean that we don't have to play those two games to qualify for woke up anymore?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that it means that whoever come if we had come second behind Nicaragua whoever come third would have to go up and play those qualifying games.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They might have to get itself together and all them guys last minute call.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: But I'm hoping that Angus is able to secure some friendlies in the interim, some very, very competitive, friendly, so that the team could continue to grow and build much, much sharpness ahead of that goal cup.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: We are going to play USA and Jamaica.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Any words of Jamaica.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: We play sometimes here at Nago Pretty, but we in and we have a trouble.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Salute as well, coming off as sports ladies and all sports thing.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: That is his most important story we have.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: So salute to the man city people.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: They make a real trouble.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They make a real trouble over the weekend.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And all right, salute.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to salute the little pep, who probably put in himself any argument for being one of the greatest coaches all the time, after Angus too.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And yeah, they come through with a little one nil win of their own.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: What in the hell is on a right about man city one nil win?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Let me see if it is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: If it is only Trinidad, he's right.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He's right these kind of articles about.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Did you write an article about man city winning Now, like you don't write no foreign article, like it's solely focused on the local game.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I was waiting for you know, listen, i was waiting to see, if you say, a glorious goal by Rodri in a hard fought game.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I was waiting, i was waiting for you.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But we wait and see where you write about the next stages of qualifying to what the goal cup that is.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But yeah, pep win and take the trouble And I just want to salute particularly all man city fans over 30 years of age.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I want to just take a minute to acknowledge all you know man city Jersey.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I just want to acknowledge all you because I'm a neighbor, i even my solar when you're.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: He's had a talk about man city and think it's amazing.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: This man was 55 years old but he's a man city fan.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I die hard.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He says.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell him you have to start supporting aside.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we ask him who's the team before man city?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: He said he never had no team before man city.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: These are ball light or man play football, st Anne's Rangers, dwayne Alzola is what's what.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: But he said he had no side before man city.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: All right, cool, all right.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So salute to them.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Salute to them on the sports front and so on.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: But let me get back to the local government election in some serious matters.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Headline from the news day Local government election issues.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Local government election has been set for August 14th and is at uptime to address some of the behaviors and actions that are truly counterproductive during this season.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: So the data is set and roadside are clearing, drains are dredging, money is finding, thing is doing, and I always want to ask the question is it that we just do things for optics?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: when is the election time to make sure that we beat these people, you know?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, we keep them on the sideline and we beat them?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Or is it that we have to give contractors money so that we could get money to fund our political campaign during this silly season?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: So we make sure we find things to do And, incidentally, the population will benefit from some of the things we do because we had a bellar box drain.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: We had a clear something that is how we will pass the money to you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Or is it that the bureaucracy is so slow and so it takes so long to react and so long to get anything done, particularly in areas where you have a local government or a council that is controlled by the UNCOL dominant, with UNC counselors, or you know the makeup of the corporation itself, that everything stuck and is only when you announce the election and you dissolve the board that the government could then say all right, we're doing everything that we wanted to do.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Is it the process keeping us back?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: The thing about it is all them three scenarios.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you which one was the all terrible.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They all work against us.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And it's so glaring and people going to run and vote and campaign and say, yes, we think, and all the way we can.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: All the way there I hear a man say Rowley needs to resign because he didn't wear no hard hat at the opening or something.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Was he stadium or something?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So he went on hard hat.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: So he said Rowley had Rowley in that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But this is strange.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Just think that they make political issues here, but this article from the news day seeking to address some of the issues with local government election Right.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: So, unfortunately, history has shown us that in an election season, race and ethnicity still play a role in political attitudes and can be used as a tool for some, by some, for political support.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Racial bias and discrimination are heightened and the relative unity we enjoy as a nation is disrupted in a major way.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You only find that, to be honest with you, i.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: This is the way I feel about this right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: This is this discussion that is always raring and said our own lecture time in recent.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: The racial discrimination and bias in Trindad goes nowhere outside of election season.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It is very much present And if you want to use the social media comments as a barometer for that, go and use that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: If you want to use higher and practices or certain organizations, go and use that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: If you want to use day to day interactions on the road, go and use that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I don't think it goes anywhere.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I feel as if the politicians play on it and familiarity, you know, i mean people people vote for who look like them and who did people trust who look like them more historically from caveman days, and there's a lot of that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of I sort of polarized not even just race, like a struggling to find the word, but it's almost like two movements And there's a polarization among those two movements that could be drawn along racial lines.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: But I think I think it even deeper than race in some areas, but I don't know that it goes anywhere.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I also don't feel like if David or they say how we vote is not how we party Party.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: But rather than a season that divides us, we should look at elections that are time to expose the best democratic principles and practices in order for all citizens to exercise full suffrage to choose our representatives in free and fair elections.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I think we have that already, but it says too often in recent times there are publications of language and rhetoric over the various mediums of communication, the curation and discriminatory undertones which have the propensity to encourage this unity rather than unity.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: The noble aspiration of a tone republic is to be a nation devoid of any and all forms of discrimination, really best wishes.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The Equal Opportunity Commission is mandated, as a part of its responsibilities under the Equal Opportunity Act, to discourage racial discrimination and to actively encourage, through education, racial equality and harmony across all demographics of society.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That isn't keeping with the tenets of a just society.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: So I guess this really is the EOC promoting equality and trying to say don't race bait and don't use them kind of things for elections.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So best wishes, eoc, best wishes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I hope that that is the case.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think the election is just maybe putting a magnifying glass so that it's clearer to see what is already there.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know that changing anything.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: So we have the 14th coming up, we're going to get some things out of the corporations And you know, when I look at the way they run governance in the US, where there's a federal government and then there's the state legislature and the state governance, basically I tend to look at it as a sort of parallel to what we have in turn The different system and everything right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: The comparison I'm making is that they have somebody responsible for laws and statutes across the US, so they have some laws that will be federal, meaning accepted by most, if not all, states, and there's federal government.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So there's high level government, macro government, right, and then they have micro governance at the state level where different states have different laws and so on.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I find, as I came to what we need to work toward here with the system of local government versus what is called the big government again, big, big government, government, government versus local government, where you have the prime minister and the MPs and so on, controlling legislature for the whole country, but every what we squalority or community, every local government jurisdiction struggling to find words this morning as a little overworking manner But every local government, district or they correct me any comments right Could have its own statutes, how we govern the area, how we respond to problems and so on and so on.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And that might be a little small for us to have one law in Shagwon and the next one in Kuva, right, so as you're going down the highway, you had to adjust because they have some different law that going on down there.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: But certainly for the distribution and implementation of services on the ground, that local government system is an important part of it And I always thought what MPs?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: not seeing any MP as a big discussion, i do feel as if we need to see the MPs and see the prime ministers and those people more, but that is, that is for a show.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: That's not necessarily for us to be able to go and tell the prime minister we problems and those kind of things that we like to do.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: The people who we really need is the boots and the grounds of the counselors in the area or the people in charge of local government whatever they call it after local government reform, who might be people who are closer to the ground, who might live in the area, who see in some of the same problems that we have in that area and could help us address them.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So, for instance, i remember when they built a roundabout by Price Plaza how much of a help that was.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: There abandoned a flyover that was taking you that you could have come straight off the highway and go into Price Plaza.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: If you come in South Bong or North Bong you could have gone straight.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: It was causing too much traffic.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Jack won't say here was he seen Reroll that par roundabout.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So and everything runs smooth And it helps a lot.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I feel as if time has passed.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: More vehicles on the road, different communities get I mean nobody in Bill as fast as Shogonas in this country.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Everywhere you turn is housing development inside here, private, public, the full works And I wonder if nobody looking at the fact that Shogonas gone back to being one of the biggest traffic havens there of any country And I like what they do by dong by Chuck E cheese with Brentwood and think they will.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: There's a quicker exit onto the highway.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: But I feel like if we are the point now where Brentwood and 500 and places develop so much that we need a flyover now or some kind of way to get from North Bong straight into Brentwood area and get straight into Shogonas as a different route than going down into Shogonas proper and trying to come onto that main road with all that traffic, somebody had to be looking at that and somebody had to be implementing and lobbying and making sure that funding the right funding comes the right way to get those changes made, which is a real opportunity that we have for local government.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So at this point, what should I do?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Should I encourage people to go and vote?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: go and vote for local, you know what I mean.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Go and vote for representation, go and listen to manifestos, go and listen to to talk, meeting and all these kind of things, so that we can go and see what is happening in the country and be a part of the electoral process of local government, of which I'm not going to be a part of.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I might just take the two hours you know you're supposed to get two hours to go and vote.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I might just take that two hours to go.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: But just observe what's going to happen Local and abroad.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Just observe what's going to happen over the next year or so, so between now and the 14th, so that we could we could see how much of a, how much progress we've made due to the calling of our election.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And maybe what we need, despite all my calls over the years, maybe what we need is elections to happen more frequently.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So every year or so they have local government election and every two years they have general election.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: So that's the easy way for us to get things done.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the way to go.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: In other news I stay at the government level for a minute Trinidad and Tobago tourism.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Trinidad limited.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Once, google's helped to promote some positive news about Trinidad and Tobago through its search engine.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: So Richard Karniziman, writer's article from Guardian, right, and I'll tell you, richard, i find you make any people song bad.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: You didn't make it song like it's search engine optimization, or you know.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I mean they're looking at consultants who could help them with Google image.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Well, google insights or whatever it is so that when people look up Trinidad you kind of make it song like if them boys and them call and say Google only make me look bad, help me look good.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: So the revelation came from TTL chairman Clifford Hamilton, as he spoke about the threat the country's crime rate posed to tourism before a public account enterprise committee panel yesterday, acknowledging that crime was a public menace to the country.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: He said the goal is to counteract the international perception.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: We are hoping that we We will be able to enter some agreement with Google whereby, in terms of search engines, if we give them content that is positive, when you Google Trindad, what comes up first are those positive things that we are saying about the country or other people saying about the destination.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: It's quoted as saying so.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: We're looking in terms of how we can help minimize the international and regional perception of crime in Trindad.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Despite this, he noted feedback yesterday received by TTL suggesting that the international tourists are not as concerned about crime.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: The idea here is to manage the perception of the country.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: This is not new.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: This has been done ever since before it had an internet.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Any perception of a brand is an important thing for marketing.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: The reality is this I talk to students all the time and, coincidentally, i was telling them last week that I have a digital economy class going on right now.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: In that digital economy class, i sung like Clifford's song in this article.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I sung it outdated and archaic and irrelevant, like my time pass, because the examples I used the last time I teach e-commerce might have been about 2013-14.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And I mean the first time I teach e-commerce, or up to date and everything.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Now, when I talk into the class and I'm trying to find examples for websites and I started using Facebook as a parallel for social media.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You know I talk more about my space and ICQ and these kind of things that people watch me like.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: What is this guy talking about?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I need to up my technological knowledge as this course goes along fast before I get booted out.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: But the reality is he's saying here for Clifford just the way Clifford would in some of these things.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He said, boy, here I go, send only some images, i go send only some good story and only a good story for me.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: It's something so archaic and dated, but the idea of managing a brand perception is something that agencies have done for a long time.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: The main focus is, a matter of fact, of advertising agencies.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, one of the best books I ever read in marketing This is what makes me love marketing, as I feel right, there's a book by the name of Positioning.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I feel I have that wrong, so lemme google it as I go.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Trout Right.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Positioning The battle for your mind is written by Al Rice and Jack Trout.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I hope I have them names right too, do I?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, al Rice and Jack Trout, r-i-e-s and Jack Trout Forward by Philip Cutler.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: If you're in marketing, you know who Cutler is.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Right Cutler.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: That had to be new.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: When I read this book, cutler wasn't writing nothing in there, but Al Rice and Jack Trout Positioning The battle for your mind.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: If you're into marketing and you're into business as a whole, i would encourage anybody who's gonna start a new business to read two books right, read a book by the name of Fired Up.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I can't remember who wrote that, but it talks about the emotional issues associated with starting your own business, the ups and downs you roller coaster ride.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And positioning by Al Rice and Jack Trout.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: It says how to be seen and heard in the overcrowded marketplace.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Now, i read this book in the early 2000s.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: The 2001-2002 is when I was introduced to this book.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: So imagine if there was a calling a marketplace crowded in 2001-2002.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: What would you call the marketplace today?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: If you're looking at any marketplace for any business that you could identify or come up with, they are all crowded.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: We work with people all the time to do business plans and feasibility studies.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: If you're not going into business, you might do the feasibility studies, do competitive analysis and so on, so you know who are your competitors.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: It's designed to give you a document that you could go to the bank with to try to get financing Not the bank so much, hopefully finances right or investors.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: So we look at what you're bringing, what's the problem that you're trying to solve, who you're trying to solve the problem for, how much it will cost you to solve the problem, how much you could make by solving the problem, and then how much you will need to get into the business so that you present as a pitch deck, basically, so you could present that to your investors or you would be investors And get your business off the ground.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: All of us have a problem we want to solve.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Our business is not just to make money And that starts with some problem you're trying to solve for somebody.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: And if you could do that consistently over time you have something.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: But what Alraize and Jack Trout talk about went a little deeper than that for me and it resonated with me because it was saying any problem that you are attempting to solve somebody, don't gain the problem solved already.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: So I tell people in marketing classes, for instance, if you're chair rocking in the class or the table rocking, what would you do right now After the people say I will bend up a little piece of paper and put it under the thing, rocket again until it's stable.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: So there's my point any problem that you have, you could find a way to solve that problem for free.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: So the idea that you have some novel idea that have no competitor does not exist to me at all.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Number 2.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: The idea that you create something so innovative and new that everybody will come running down your door There's fools ambitions, there's boardroom ambitions for fools.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: That does not happen.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That way nobody cares about what you're making.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: And Alraize and Jack Trout will basically talk about brand positioning as a way to not just identify what is the problem you're solved and who you're solved it for, but identify.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: How are you going to solve it differently from the other people who don't solve that problem already?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: It makes perfect sense to me and this stick with me throughout my whole career.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I want to know what make you special, what make you different than everybody else.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I don't listen to quarry podcasts already.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: You want me to listen to yours.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: What you going to do special?
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: what you going to do different from quarry?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what you going to do an addition to what quarry doing to help people sit down here for couple hours a week to listen to or get people to go on YouTube and watch podcast, even though they scream black like hell.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: What you going to do different?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: what you going to do special?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: what you going to do an addition to how you going to help, because I don't want to part with my money, my little money.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I make it every month.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go and spend it on anything.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: If you could give me a good reason and solve my problem differently from how I would solve it myself or from how some competitor solving it for me, you're on to something.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: What's the point of positioning in relation to what Cliff talking about for Trinidad to be go to Rism Limited In the 70s or 80s, these two gentlemen worked with Jamaica government to position Jamaica government to craft all that brand positioning for Jamaica In a similar, in a similar and I want to say maybe, although all the Cliff song and like he from these 70s to any way, he talking about this, but it's very similar to what he is trying to accomplish, because what he talking about is a brand positioning.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he realized this, but putting out an article that says here I want to hide the crime statistics from people so they could just see the good side of Trinidad.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's not the best way to word that.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Right, cliff?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: What you could have possibly say is I really want to make sure that all brand positioning is strong.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: We identify something that Trinidad and Tobago stands for, that is meaningful in the marketplace, and I want to be able to.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: When people looking for a choice for their budget, where they could spend the money to go, i want them to have strong impetus and good reason to come to Trinidad and Tobago over some of the other countries.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: That would have been addressed, because what you could do then is say alright, what are our strengths, what are our weaknesses, what are our competitors?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: We could compare those things.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: How do people view St Lucia vacations?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: how do they view Jamaica?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: how do they view Barbados, if that's who you're calling your competitors?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: or how do they view Greece and Santori?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Why people are there to take pictures of places and all the houses are white and all the things blue and it looks good on the ground and everybody know you spend plenty money to go there.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, alright, so say this sounds like kind of exclusivity, you can do this.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: This is not rocket science.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: They don't have to go and call a man from Google and say here we'll put a crime thing by Sonor, have some pictures of Richard's bacon shark to send here.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: So anybody Google, just show them Richard's bacon shark.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Don't show them Sandman.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Get gondong on a beach about a mile away.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Don't show them that hide, that.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Just show them Richard's bacon shark.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And show them Hyatt.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Show them Hyatt.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Show them nice Palaisso.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Show them the nice parts of Trinidad, the savannah.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Show them York and Lara and these kind of things, these films.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I know, i don't know, i don't know who, and I just strain for a minute.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Right, but I wouldn't stop complaining about men like Cliff or never.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Right, because myself included, along with every other person I talked to who is in my age group, the best and the brightest people I know refused to become a part of the political process, including me All.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Are we afraid of so much?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Most of the people I talk to, the first problem they have is my reputation.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: My reputation.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: At that time I could tell you from me I'm afraid I don't know if my life could stand the scrutiny of politics when Padarrat and Saddam Hussein and them go and find all kinds of things to say about them.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden I have problems, i could do it all that.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I don't need that to go through.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody recently and they were saying if I have all the bank in the world and I have all the backing and my house paid off and them kind of thing, i could easily run any politics because I have nothing to lose and I have a good fall back position.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: If I run and I lose, i have no issue.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: So I complaining about these things as somebody who probably want to stay very far from political process until somebody, some bright young person my age, overhaul the whole system.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: But what Alraize and Jack Trout were able to do for Jamaica back in the 70s.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I believe it was a looking for articles on it and I don't see anything clear on it.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: But if I remember from the book the idea of positioning Jamaica behind a one love thing that was what Bob Marley had done was it was a one love or Jamaica, yemen.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: There was some slogan or tagline tied to the campaign right, because it came down to a campaign that would be running the US and European markets, encouraging tourists to come to Jamaica.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: The work that they would have done then would have increased Jamaica's foreign direct investment through the amount of hotels and so on.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: That would have continued after today continue to invest in Jamaica.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: The amount of tourists that started to come in Jamaica as the results grew, but also the perception, like anybody who was living in New York in the 80s used to tell you from the time you started to talk, they want to know if it's a Jamaican.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: In my mind, my very humble mind, that is a direct result of the work that Alraize and Jack Trout and the government of Jamaica would have put into their brand positioning.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: They were seen as the Caribbean destination, not a Caribbean destination.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: They were seen as a place to get away and experience life.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Give away what they call.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: You know they did the work to show what Jamaica is bringing to the table and why you should think about Jamaica differently.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I'll read a little piece of what the book was about here for you right?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: The term positioning was coined in 1969 by Alraize and Jack Trout, and the paper.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Positioning is a game people play in today's Me Too marketplace.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: How odd that is.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I'm no time more relevant than now for Me Too type marketplace, any publication in the shill market.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: It was then expanded into their groundbreaking first book Position in the Battle for your mind.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Positioning is something that happens in the mind of the target market, meaning who you're trying to sell to.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: You want to put something in your mind about them.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: So, for instance, when I say the name Mercedes Benz, nike, apple, ratans, something goes in your mind as to what those brands stand for.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: That is what we call any positioning, right.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: So positioning is something that's happened in your mind, in the mind of the target audience and his relative target competitors are Ratans.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: We want to say cheap, we want to say it's low cost, it's bargain, whatever is the word that you want to use, it is only low cost or cheap compared to what the rest of the market does.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: If the rest of the market starts to sell cheaper than Ratans, they can no longer be positioned as cheap.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: So Ratans are to pay attention to what's happening with all the competitors, right?
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: So again, the aggregate perception of the market in relation to the perceptions of the competitors in the same category.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Most importantly here, it will happen whether or not a company's management is proactive, reactive or passive about the ongoing process of evolving a position.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: So what it's saying here is if you start a business and you don't pay attention at all to what is the perception people have of you, they are still going to have a perception.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Because when I pull up Caribbean vacation let me use that example right, when I pull up, i want to go on a Caribbean vacation and I in Switzerland, somewhere, something is going to come up about the destinations, probably on places like Travelocity, hotelscom, expedia, wherever the places they use in Europe.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Right, ryanair, the airline, go, have some information.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Ryanair, come here.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Amsterdam, klm, somebody will have information about the destinations they go to.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: And if you never do any work to position yourself as anything in the market in the minds of the people who are traveling tourists or sunsy and fun tourists, they will still have a perception about you.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: So I think this is what Cliff could have said a little differently To say that what we want to do is manage the brand perception of Trinidad.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: One of the most important things in this book is that you have to identify what the other people do in ES and how they are perceived.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: But the starting point for you is to craft how you want to be perceived.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Clifford's starting point is how you do not want to be perceived.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I don't understand the starting point.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: In other words, rather than starting by saying we want to be seen as an off-the-beaten type tourism thing, we want to be seen as people who could come and do ecotourism.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: What kind of tourism do they have?
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: In other words, you could come carny, you could go bird sanctuary, you know, remake a sunrise as well as a moon, remake.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: We could position ourselves like that and say, boy, listen, when you want the commercial thing, the gone smoke, i said a bush weed and thing, go, do your makeup.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: But when you want the hard stuff and go up, and you bush and go up, you have to push where you are, clack and thing, here's the place to come, identify the target audience for that and you might say boy, listen, they have millions of people interested in this and set yourself up from our product standpoint in terms of what people experience when they come here.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Set yourself up so that you're true to what you're telling people to expect.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: But he didn't come from that standpoint.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: He can't come from a standpoint We say you know, if you just hide crime, if you just sweep crime underneath, just play it or happen.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Play it or happen and we should be okay.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I want to say that we're not going to be okay.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I want to say that the approach state is a little bit backward.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: When will we take the time, as Shrindadan, to be?
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I heard Roger Hossain, who was one of my favorite economics lecturers, on Blaze and Miles show one Monday morning And he was talking about the idea of diversifying the economy and talking about the fact that in manufacturing we see in growth outside of petrochemicals for some years now two, three years And he also said that the forecast from the IMF is that we're going to continue to see and enjoy economic growth.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a real good opportunity now to look at the tourism product And I'm saying tourism will replace oil and gas.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: It's just a help to diversify.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: If you're getting 100 billion from one industry and that industry going down to 20, then we need to.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Our best bet might be to find 10 other things that could make eight billion or piece together to the hundred and maintain this another living but also be in a position where, when we lose one industry or one industry and down to you know whatever you want to call that in recession we there's not such a hard follow from the economic or the standard of living or the average person on a day to the interim.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So tourism is a good time to look at it and say, okay, we want to be just like Jamaica, we just want to be an alternative to Jamaica And our brand position is that come here because we cheaper than Jamaica.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Jamaica too expensive.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: All them results expensive.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: You could come here for half price or you could say we've run more expensive than Jamaica because we better have a premium experience when they come to this country.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: But we must find something that is that we hinge in our thing on.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I want to say again that people, when you see things and you say things about Jamaica like how Bob Marley Josie's one everywhere in the world, how they have a Jamaican's, more proud than everybody.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: They still had this talk with their own accent for longer than we talk, although if you ask Jamaicans, they say the same thing about Jamaican to go abroad is lose their accent immediately.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: They wear their colors everywhere They go.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: They're bright.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: There's.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: All those things came out of the same positioning exercise that they would have done.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: This is 50 years ago, if not 60 years ago.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: They would have embarked on this exercise.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: It's a position to make.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I know that they did another brand positioning thing in 2020 around there and I'm sure that between 17 and 20, they did others because while Mercedes-Benz positioned itself as premium, it will be fair to say that the definition of premium in the 60s, the 70s, the 90s, the nows The definition of premium changes.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: So they have to go and update what they're doing to make sure that they still Positioned as premium because the market definition of premium change.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: So Jamaica would have updated it over time.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: But this is a good time for us to invest in a program like this that helps us to have one voice and One perception that we can manage and control in the international space, rather than people just coming up with whatever perception they have of us.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: And We're fearful that the crime is eliminating that thing that we never work towards getting in the first place.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: But salute to Clifford.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: At least, clifford, clifford, you're doing work.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Man, call Google and ask them to just think the search engine and tweak it.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: You know, i mean fine tune that to what Shrinda to be called.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I like direction you're going in.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Yo, what's some help.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe I could do some consulting for the government.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I could.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Um, you know, my philosophy about government is the idea of Private public funds gain in private pockets.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: But I'd go and try and become one of them, private pockets.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: If I just say all that thing, i just say for the last 10 minutes or so, you think they would take more in more news of No clear direction for tourism at all.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Kilgwyn Bay Hotel to create 2600 jobs.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: So this is from the new, this is from the express And it says that the proposed 500 room hotel to be constructed at Kilgwyn Bay, tobago Anybody know Kilgwyn Bay?
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I never hear about this Kilgwyn Bay.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: No, this is a real place.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Kilgwyn Bay, tobago will attract 34,600 travelers to the island every year and create more than 2600 jobs.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: The developers came.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: The proposed secrets slash dreams all inclusive Hotel resort is scheduled to be built on an estimated 46 acres of land at Kilgwyn Bay, tobago.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: The 500 rooms are expected to comprise 200 rooms on secret side and 300 rooms on the dream side.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: The major difference between secrets and dreams is that brands dreams is a family friendly offering, while secrets are adults only experience In that, but a secret and I believe they have one of these in Jamaica to the secrets and dreams thing that that that is a popular Hotel chain, if I could call it that.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: According to the developer, the construction of the hotel is carded to come with our us 100 million dollar capital injection to Tobago.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: The five star hotel is also expected to produce an estimated annual operating income of 69.4 million.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: The hotel resort will be managed by AMR resort marketing, a subsidiary of AMR resort, a leading international resort management company and a subsidiary of the Appalachia Group, which is now part of the Hyatt hotel corporation.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: So, according to cliff, just show this, don't show nobody that way, just show them this And we supposed to get.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: But I want to say that is a great move for Tobago.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: I was disappointed when I heard about sandals having to be Shelved due to what seem as though is political reasons.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I have some doubts about that sandal thing there, to be honest, because big businesses like that, big businesses run governments right.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: So even if the government plainly fool, you tend to find that big businesses will work a way around that and still get what they want out of our market if the market important to the, important enough to them.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: So sandals withdrawing seemed to me to be a sign of either one The market wasn't attractive enough for them to go through.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Hassler was happening on the on the side with Tobago with on the side with government here, or there was too much being asked on the, too much unofficial asks that make any profit, the project Unprofitable.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Because typically what tends to happen with these things right, just like with the oil companies what tends to happen is that We have to give up something to get these people to come here.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: They can build another one of these in Jamaica, st Lucia, barbados, a place that already have several arrivals, big enough airports to handle big jets to do this, which we don't have in Tobago.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: So you might find that It's easier for them to go and build in countries that already have the infrastructure.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Same with the oil companies the oil companies When they first came to Trinidad.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: 60s, 50s, 60s, 70s, when they came into Trinidad they had to build the infrastructure to have an oil industry.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: When they, when they work it out, it worth it, helping them construct our road network, proper ports and those types of things.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: They had enough oil here at a high enough quality level that could sell globally.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: So they will invest in the country.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: But We typically in countries like ours that don't have the negotiating power, don't have any.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: We don't have the ability to build Oil companies ourselves.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Evidently I know I would.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: I should have to think that we want to get into mega results as our government take tax bears dollars to put in that?
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: I hope not.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: I hope that never come.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: So wait, What tends to happen is that They give away the land or they give away leases at very favorable rates, if not free.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: So the article went on to say the stakeholders have identified 46 acres of Lavalos Kildwyn for the for the proposed site.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: A document in the cc application indicates that 18.72 hectares of land were transferred to Koso, pesadra and Pesadra and Robert Sanowa in 2003.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: The issue of the proposed Kildwyn Bay was first broached by THA Chief Secretary Fali Agaston in November, as he opened it to Begos stand As he opened it to.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Begos stand at the 42nd edition of world traveler market at the excel exhibition center in London.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, i'm not seeing anything clear here that says what is the arrangement for the land.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: But you typically find that the government plays a role in securing the land for the people, or they give them government lands.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: This seems to be land and private, private hands, but The deals are made.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I would be very, very surprised if there's not a deal made between the government or trend and to be, oh, the THA and these people who build in these results.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: But all in all, i think is a very positive move for Tobago.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I feel as though more results of this nature need to be built if this is the direction we go in, and right, because If mega results is where we want to position the country.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: But we see, when you have no clear position in this, take all kind of decisions And about if mega results is where we want to go, we had to do some border airport.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Make sure you wrote nettle good, because you wrote Netto good in Tobago to a point when you start to go past a certain point, it is not the most Friendly driving experience, although most of these results people.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: They talk about them as increasingly economy in Tobago right, but the way they increase economy is that they hire is still very labor intensive.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: So they hire a lot of people and You might find that small service providers could do better in environments like these.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Like if you do Parasailing and them kind of thing, you could make a deal of the hotel to come there and pay.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: They will pay through them and you get paid to do parasailing Or glass bottom boats could work from the resort.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: So you tend to find that there's Benefit to the economy.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: But these Mega results are self-sufficient and almost self-contained.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: If you ever went all inclusive results, we typically don't leave at all.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: You typically go there and you're kind of done for the day.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: But what I feel we need to work on is to if you again 20 of these things built in Tobago, because when you're looking for a destination, a destination with several options for accommodation will always look better than Somewhere with one.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: So if people looking for all inclusive Caribbean vacation, you tend to find that the brand names like royal Caribbean, not royal Caribbean sandals, dreams and these people grandpa lady, i'm on these people real Grand Bahia These are names that people in the countries that we may want to attract Would look for.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: And when you find names like those, i want to say that If you're going to a real resort, the destination might matter less.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: If you see any options for all these, you're going to a sandals, you might go.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Where you will go with sandals is you're looking to go for sandals experience, or let me say a better example, like a redskullton type experience.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: If that's where you're looking for and you're looking for vacation, you might choose one country over the next, because One of them have a redskullton and the next one doesn't.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: One of our four seasons, the next one doesn't, and so on and so on.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Added to that, tobago just have one golf course With that I know no mountain even, and um and plantations and he's not the greatest right when he play white witch in jamaica and they see somebody Play.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: So they see dj kallit playing golf and somebody places He's play golf.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe those are things we need to work on too.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: So this it goes back to my same argument about brand positioning.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: If we clear what our target market is, we want high end tourists, we want multi millionaires and billionaires, which is what's in lucha at position themselves as and mega rich person is not coming here to stay in no dreams and nightmares hotel Not happening.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: So what's the solution?
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: It is they made properties available for the mac jaggers and these people and so on, and, and that in the of george foreman's and they.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: They then contributed to the economy in their own way because they will hire their own staff, they will do their own thing, they will play the golf courses, they will look for restaurants, they will, they will support the local economy almost by default.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: But the fact that we have no clear brand positioning tells me that We're gonna take a helter skelter approach to this and a hit and hope approach and a whoever come, come and hope for the best in true cliffhard style, rather than take a organized approach to how we want to go.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: But anyway, i really hear To play.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: All you know all this talk There's been incidental, and I really just come here to play music.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: What I want to play today, in the spirit of the first song by johnny king, one of the greatest soca ever written, i really just want to play song that related to water and flooding and them kind of thing.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: It'll.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Be, But this is a creeper.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Hold on your daughter.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: When you see we back down, Water flowing, flowing all over the town.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Water flowing, we join up like our starlight Water flowing, we'll pressure when we start to wind Water flowing and now we go wind down, drop, drip, drop.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: I say the beating water.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: When you see, we back down, water flowing, flowing all over the town.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: Water flowing, busing like our friend starlight.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: Water flowing, the wind is perfect.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: Water flowing where we going.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: These two 4s dealt with their.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: But from now on, the꾼in is zing low or projects like Rock.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: We go to one floor, to the valley and in the meadow.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: Then, you see, the time come now.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: What's up going?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: Going all over the town.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: What's up going?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: Join up like our salami.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: What's up going With pressure when we start to run?
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: What's up going?
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: How we going?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump On your deep, deep water.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump On your deep, deep water, On your deep, deep water.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: Jump, jump, jump, jump On your deep, deep water.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: Let me see the time come now.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: What's up going?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: Going all over the town.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: What's up going?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: Busing like our friends Salami.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: What's up going?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: muntin' man, I'm water-blowing.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me go.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, here's the bindi water.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, here's the bindi water.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: I said the bindi water.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: Here we go sing Na na, na, na na.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Na, na, na, na na.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: Na na, na, na, na, na, na, na na na.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: When they see we have come down, water flowin' flowin' all over the town.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: Water flowin' what's in like our saliva Water flowin'.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, what we going back to now?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Star Network No, if you're not up to speed, if you're not up to speed, you gotta get up to speed fast.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: In this country, star Network is who we talked about last week, who was giving away laptop and phone.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: If you go to the TTT News page and look for Star's Network's $1 launch event, you will see a picture of the Star phone and the Star laptop.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: You can't say the people with the Nano phone and the laptop are the only ones.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: But they didn't say how much they were giving away in the first place.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: They were paying $1 for a smartphone and $1 for a laptop.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Of course it cost some mayhem down my movie tongue And it was shut down.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: They couldn't make it.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Karen Lapia is the man And Karen say here what's going on.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: We need to rethink this.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: We need to do this at the front, because you know what I mean to when people hear So region from the TTT.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: As a refresher, star Network turned down to be those who forced to abandon their planned subscriber promotion.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Today, due to an overwhelming response from the members of the public, the company advertises $1 devices for customers who signed up on their mobile subscription device.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: At Movitown on Friday, that event come and get shut down right now.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you in truth, trinidadian style, it's an easy to get away with thing here, right, as much as you could get away from the police and you could get away with a crime concerned.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: The quarter public opinion is going to be waiting on you.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: All the social media people and the gurus who like to dig up information and Twitter and so on, they're going to be waiting on you.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Ttt writes a letter.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: They say here what went on The response to Star Network's TNT $1 device or laptop promotion on Friday And it's subsequent postponement due to overwhelming public response.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Ttt CEO Lisa Agar has written to the telecommunications authority at Trinidad to beg for asking the organization to issue a public warning.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: So what they're saying basically from Lisa Agar is that these people are not licensed to operate nothing here In this country.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: You still need a license to run a telecommunications network.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: So all who come in to give it dollar phone and dollar laptop and them get the thing under the guise of having a telecommunications network and think they sign up too.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: And who name?
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: after Elon Musk announced, or it was announced, that Starlink Network, which is apparently related to Elon, or a company belonging to Elon Musk that offering satellite internet services was launched.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Now come and launch here.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: I and all thought Star was Starlink, because me and reading too deep.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: But Lisa Agar said TTT responded and TTT sent out a letter and let people know where is the truth.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: While TTT waiting to draft that letter, people went on the internet and went a lamb Went and do a little light digging right.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: So first I'll read an article from Joel Julien.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: To look at Joel who is back with the Express Nobili It's a Leper Distances Star from previous low cost laptop initiative, kiran Yadamnada low-cost.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Let me hear what he's saying here.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: This is not the first time that the name Karen Lapel has been affiliated with the provision of low-cost laptops in the country.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: In 2014, he was CEO and founder of a company that launched an initiative aimed to lower income parents.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: The name of it was Good Remedies A Parent Should Exercise Socially.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Good Remedies A Parent Should Exercise Socially.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: That don't mean nothing.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: I don't mean it.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: And it is Grips his wife's son with Good Remedies A Parent Should Exercise Socially.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: It's still not up to Grips, but Grips was the acronym for them and was a six-step program created by Lepehe almost a decade ago.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Under the program for $1 down and $25 a week for 17 months, grips provided a new 2-in-1 laptop tablet combo, tstt, partnered with Grips.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: However, lepehe has distanced himself from Grips.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: You would like to address a recent rumor and incorrect information circulating on social media platforms concerning association with his Star Network and Grips Group.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: As a responsible organization, we feel it is crucial to set the record straight and to provide accurate information to our valued stakeholders.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: In a statement from Lepehe stated, there are concerns about Friday's launch released online.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Firstly, star Network would like to clarify.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: It has indeed acquired the social media accounts and followers previously owned by Grips Group.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: In one quote, karen says Star had nothing to do with Grips, but we acquired their followers and their page.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Some bright personal social media went and looked up their GoToFacebook page on when it was created and showed history.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: It's saying 4th June created a group by the name of Grips.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: On the 8th June, the name was changed to Grips in all caps.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: On the 13th of September 2016, it was changed to Grips for a good life limited.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: By March 2017, it was changed to Grips Education.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: By the 14th of July 2020, it was now Grips Education Group Caribbean.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: On the 23rd of November it was changed to Grips Technology Group And then, on the 28th of November 2022, name changed to Star Network.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: My guy says he's sent in from that.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: All they do is buy the page.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure who you all are who run this Grips thing.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why your name spells Gripses, but I would like to offer you some money so that I can buy your followers and your.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, because we plan to give away phones and laptops for $1.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Similar to what you would have tried to do with your $1 dong payment.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: So we see in these synergies and we see in the alignment here, but we don't want to wait and get all those followers.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: If you give away things for $1, you could never get no followers under this thing.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: So what we want to do is partner with someone Sorry, not partner Buy this thing from people who already did dollar things.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: We already approached Colin Lucas.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: We're now approaching you for your page and we want to get this thing done.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: You went on to say additionally, we would like to bring to your attention that Grips Group is currently engaged in a legal dispute with the financial securities company.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: You're just trying to be on camera.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: You're going straight to school, right, brother?
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: I don't even get iron first.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Alright, bye, okay bye.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: So you're kind of disturbed.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: What's this deal to him?
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: and he's just running around and he can't get away from it.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Where was I?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: This is ongoing matter.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: The company has temporarily closed its doors until the dispute is resolved.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Wait, i don't understand, karen.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Karen, you start off this article by saying you're distancing yourself from Grips, but now you're explaining Grips disputes as if you're intimately involved in.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: These disputes are very confused, as the way it's happening.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: Let me explain something.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: This man, when you see people in jacket and polo jersey, don't trust them.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: When you see people in jacket and polo jersey, don't trust nothing where they wear that, don't trust nothing there.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: To say This man sitting in a legal dispute with you, saying we understand that this situation has caused inconvenience and concerns for individuals who are associated with Grips Group.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: He stated.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: However, this is an ongoing legal matter.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: We are able to provide further details or comments at this time.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: We understand that transparency is essential and we have committed to updating our stakeholders as soon as significant developments occur.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: The significant development might be in a place called Ruman Yad.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: Significant developments Courthouse to jail is where anyway.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Lepeyre stated that Star Network values its relationship with its customer.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: This man is just interchanging between.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: It's so hard to keep up with which organization he's on.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: He stated that Star Network values its relationship with its customers, partners and the community and we remain dedicated to maintaining our commitment to integrity and ethical business practices.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: I can see that We appreciate your continued support and understanding as we navigate through these circumstances.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: So look to you.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: No word yet on when they will resume their giveaways.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not seeing anything like that.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Not giveaways, they're $1 and not sure when the network launching.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: But I did see the great DigiCell come out and say here what We backing them.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: They say don't worry about yourself, we working with Star.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: So a little bit of worry about nothing.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Digicell backstab network, as Tat says, no green light given to operate, despite the telecommunications authority statement that there's no third provider.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: Digicell are licensed telecommunications providers offering support to Star Network to legally provide reliable connectivity.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: The move comes after TSTD lodges formal complaints to Star Network as since denied being a mobile virtual network operator and accused TSTD of misleading the public.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, digicell has expressed his willingness to provide reliable connectivity to anyone who wants to use the Star Network's services lawfully?
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: I confused.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: We have a telecommunications authority who's supposed to be responsible for any granting our licenses to telecommunications providers?
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: This is my very basic understanding Me so good at researching, but that is my basic understanding.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: So what we're trying to understand TSTD and DigiCell could sublet to other networks like they could sublet, so I could buy out a portion of TSTD license and sell my own phone.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: And when you get your phone from me, here's a TSTD phone.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: I just call it just quarry network.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how this work and I'm very, very confused and concerned.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: I also concerned that this statement that it was published earlier in the week that Star Link what's the people name?
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: What's Elon Musk's thing?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Star Link the Star Wars people.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: They say they could offer internet, but the open line of this article says that telecommunications authorities stated that there is no third provider.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: So if Star Subletting from DigiCell, if Star Link Subletting from TSTD, like what is happening, and you know, all in all, i can't.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: You know what's the most surprising thing about this whole?
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: this whole thing Like it's still a people with TSTD.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: How TSTD getting people to respond when they call them.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: They can't get them on the phone at all.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, i don't know, it's like a ghost hung inside there.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: At the time I used to know everybody there.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Now is a problem.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: But anyway, i don't wrap up in all.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to run through some things quick here and go to a meeting before this man cracked down on me.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: No proof of Jaguar, despite claw marks and attack claims, right.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: So there's no confirmed report of a Jaguar in attacking Palisaco.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: And to Vitor Forest, denny Dipchancing said yesterday in a response to a report by a Palisaco resident that he was attacked by the animal.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: They did my way the script.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: Some last week, on Wednesday, the resident went to Santa Flora Police Station and reported that he was attacked by the Jaguar.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: After this happened there were several videos shown, some of them in Degu Martin and Fila La Perto, some of them in Degu Martin where people had a little Jaguar in a cage and feeding a Jaguar.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: They were drinking cold milk and all these things.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: And the zoo came out and said listen, there's about 3-4 Jaguars we recovered recently within the last few years, but none of them are underdue in Palisaco And the more I mean.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: The Hunters Association was down there looking for things but it looked like there's no Jaguar happening down there.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: So I didn't know what the man would do to explain to his wife which party he really was and what he was really doing.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: But apparently there's no Jaguar.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: So that's all.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: That's sung like a rap on that story to me.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if more Sightons will occur.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: I feel that man better talk to whichever Jaguar he went by and tell him better, you don't scratch mobs.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: But I want to give him credit for being very quick, people being very quick.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: My philosophy is deny, deny and cry.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: But he philosophy is read the news and whatever is the biggest story in the country, go with that when you get catch on them, thing Onto more stories.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: Destra and Chained.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: Bacchanal says this is her last Soka album.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Destra is moving to release her Soka album.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: Unchained means unplugged.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Let me see what they're saying here.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Destra Garcia's newly released Unchained album is a collector's item for all true Soka fans.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Destra says the album project is 16th over 2 decade plus career in the genre will be her final full album of festival music.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: I do want to explore different genres.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like after 16 albums I could do another genre.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: My fans have been calling for Christmas album, a gospel album.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of music left to me.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: I think Destra we just singing ability.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean When Destra sing, like ballads and popular songs and stuff.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: Even as a part of what she does, like her performances is always song great.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: She about engaging where performing those R&B and those types of songs is really good.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: And when you look at some of her biggest hits, they are Melodies that borrowed from other popular songs like Bonnie and Clyde I can't remember the song that Bonnie and Clyde come from, or even kind of Valentines.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: There's another older song that they use and remake lyrics.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's called life is remix or sampling or whatever it is, but you can see that she likes that type of music and I find that she's sung good singing it too.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: So if Destro was to slow it down, give her a Christmas album.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: I want to say Christmas album.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: No, no, park park, park, park park.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: Now that you know what I mean, leave that for me.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: So Leave that for Rampare and Nero, but that like a, like a, a chestnut roast thin kind of thing.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: You know, sparrow used to do a lot of ballads.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: And I forget it.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: Why do I keep fooling?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: myself.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: I should play that Love you when you love someone else.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Only a fool.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: You know them songs.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Briggs says, oh no, sparrow, plenty of that.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: Barok could put that album of them, kind of ballad.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: I would love to hear Destro do a chestnut roastin and them types of songs, but I mean I don't know if she had a localizer or anything like that.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: I think she should just do them as covers, like you see how Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey and them have covers of those types of songs.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Destro should do covers of them.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: You know, white Christmas, do all them things.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: Because you have enough trainees living abroad, we do have to come and make it a local version of the thing.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Just do a cover album that could sell anywhere in the world.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: All this could be part of your brand position in other countries to showcase the artists that we have and showcase the type of talent and range that our artists have.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: Gospel album for sure, because there's a lot of gospel in the way Destro performs now anyhow.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: And I would like to hear Destro do a reggae too Reggae, reggae, reggae.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Good Jamaica, destro is the most loved Jamaican artist, trinidad artist performing in Jamaica at a point in time You know she was the boss.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: So if she do a reggae and I ain't talking about all the old times, i'm saying chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken reggae.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Go and work with Torres Raleigh.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Go and work with Cronix if people like him.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: If go and work with Kofi if people still like her.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: You know, whatever is the new version of Jesse Royall, whoever is new reggae, and work with some new dance or art or something.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: I would love to see something like that.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: So widely considered the Queen of Soka Destro is one of the few female voices leading the mainstream regional emergence in the genre.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: In the late 90s, a former junior Calypso winner, the then 19 year old Destro had a breakthrough.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: The front line sang a Roy Kip.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: I only know Destro history.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to read that, but it would be nice to see I always like to see Alice Nines on Denise Belfort and commenting.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: We hear his expressive vines with a deal without the timers.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: Imagine three of them come together and put together a song on that little ballad album that Destro planned to do.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: I find it was so good.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: Nostalgia for everybody and so on.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: All right, i, just, i, just.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: I want to have a headline here that says LBGTQ activists, challenges his country's anti-sodomy law and wins Right.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: Due to time constraints, i'll be covering that next week from all angles.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: They might say anti-sodomy and you might see the government on win.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: So we'll cover that next week because we hear what the time.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: But I do want to leave you with a few, just a few, of the water songs.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: Given the, given the and you know the thing about this is right.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: While I was planning for the power, we honest to tell you, when I was planning for the spot guys, it was rain from since Friday, saturday, sunday heavy rain, thunder wakening up at the night.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: Now it's time to publish the podcast.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: You know it's hot sun and all this water song irrelevant like hell.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: But of course, when it comes to flooding song and water song, this is one they care leave it Divide by winning their place.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, when no hell, as soon as you die.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 5: Again, cannae, wake up late.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: Supposed to meet my gal on my city gate, but today I sleep just a little long, cannae.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: So come sans, inspire me to write a song, cos the last time I laid with me she's screaming balls.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: So I make up a lion city taxi stall.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: But I was last week in front of concert mall And I can't come back with that old life.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: I should get off Under the sun rail, put on the daydry And white and ly'll make up my make cry.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: And as of the excuse for my tarneness From his boyfriend and her girlfriend, she move to Hess And the O Live this long out.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: Adonis Takeo comes o get off Suddenly, a good day coming down when you mean when he said donkey card coming down at the relief as well.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Sitting on the 여사 1.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: More.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: An ol' goat.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: Is bright sun shining, there's a flood.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: One more.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Every time I say one more, it's about three more, right, But with all due respect, there's a man I find don't get enough respect in it.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: To be honest with you.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: You see this fella in Soka music.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: They like to talk about Bayesian invasion and the era when Barbados was singing better groovy Soka than Trinidad, And they like to give Allison Hines rightfully so A lot of credit, right, But I'm telling you that this fella here might have more bombs.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have verses.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: He gonna be a hard man to beat.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: You know, Has he have more bombs in his catalog than plenty artists from any island, including Trinidad.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: You know ИНТИТИМИ wants this power.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: But I'm only finding water.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: Don't give all deep lips Water.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: Know it's me, i am still water, so I'm some pressure Water To get oil.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: I need to True dollar Deep dollar.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: This dollar Deep where dollars?
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: True dollar.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: Deep dollar.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: This dollar Deep to deep.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: I need to True dollar Deep dollar.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: This dollar Deep where dollars?
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: True dollar.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: Deep dollar.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: This dollar Deep from day.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: What's with fighting And you receive no flowing Because it's hard work digging?
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: But that just being even.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: Water Deep from day.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: What's with fighting?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: Water Deep from day, with no flowing, because it's hard work digging, but that's good to be even Hurry.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: Don't give up.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: Don't give up.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: Don't give up.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: Dig deep, dig deep.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: Me too little no-chini From the constant constant, but I have to keep on.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: Tell me sweet-blocks are still.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: You get deeper still.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: Now it's just high and still.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: So I ask some pressure To get all I need The truth on low, deep and low this on low Dig, deep, dig, deep, dig, deep, dig, deep, dig, deep, dig, deep, dig deep, dig deep And we're not kinda whaty talking boy Man is get confused easy, you know.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: But it would be remiss of me, it's a bit disrespectful.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: I still talk a planer episode about Randy No-Minds-Hudson And not pay respect to the man who We used to be the Bum-Bum Master.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: Right, they used to say he's a Bum-Bum Master.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: Then they started calling me Jump and Wave Master.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Then they started calling him the Wine.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: It's a heavy Wine, wine, wine, wine, wine, wine.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: He turned every master it have any art form.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: He passed through that as a master of that And now he known affectionately and rightfully as the Water Lord.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: Bat.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Coming front for your blessings, coming front for your blessings, the Water Blessings.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: Coming front for your blessings.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: I am Blaa-aa-aa-aa-aaa-ha-a-aaaaa-aaaам, father Blessings, coming front for your blessings, the Water Blessings coming from for your blessings.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: Coming from for your blessings, water blessings.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: Coming from for your blessings iron, blaze, blaze come, pppp, pppp, jesse mardin, chillin out on fire fire, chillin out on fire water water.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: Come to one new water water water.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: How about a good weekend?
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: i will talk to you next week.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: It had orange alert, that yellow alert, thankfully i hope nobody engine flood damage and all of them take all the joke i like to make.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: I hope everybody safe and everybody dry, but judging from outside looking everybody safe and dry.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: So i just hoping yellow alert go dong.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: It had no such a flooding, but enjoy the rain while it last, enjoy the hot bushfires.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: We can't complain about everything at the same time, so let me enjoy whatever the week give to it, be productive.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Well, let me be good and i will talk to you next week Tuesday.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: Bye, water, water, water.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Please back to vanna, the sunshine and hot sun and pepper.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: It's all made to cool down.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: People want water.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: People want water, people want water.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: Come to one new water water, water.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: People want water, water, water, water coming.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: What you gonna do can't have fun morning in the rain falling, let by.