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I Went a Steam… At My Big Age | The Corie Sheppard Podcast · Corie Sheppard Podcast

0:28
Corie: Where we should start, where we should start this week.
0:30
Corie: We should start with people who we owe in because I feel like I owe in some people some things, you know.
0:34
Corie: I sit on here last week.
0:35
Corie: Welcome back, welcome back to the Corey Shepherd podcast.
0:37
Corie: Nice to have Oli back and so on.
0:38
Corie: Nice to see Oli in the comments giving feedback.
0:41
Corie: It's good to um sometimes I just really enjoy talking to myself, you know.
0:46
Corie: I just enjoy coming here and talking to myself with and nobody who could respond to nothing.
0:51
Corie: Because to tell you the truth, when the comments start, right?
0:54
Corie: And I pause this episode, I just be struggling to remember where it is exactly I say the week before, you know.
0:59
Corie: But I want to start by making amends.
1:01
Corie: I want to start by making amends and making peace.
1:04
Corie: Alright, you hold on, you don't come in so fast.
1:06
Corie: I want to start by making amends and peace.
1:07
Corie: Because I sit down here last week.
1:09
Corie: Do a whole episode about words and the wordiest songs in the world.
1:13
Corie: And I'm out of the comedy comments.
1:15
Corie: I want to salute people who've been listening to solo episodes for a long, long, long, long time.
1:19
Corie: My young friends been around a long time.
1:21
Corie: So they like they like to call my bluff and point out all my wrongdoings.
1:25
Corie: But the most obvious caisso it has about words was sung by a gentleman by the name of the Mighty Conqueror, right?
1:32
Corie: And I had to play the whole song before.
1:34
Corie: So this is part of last week's episode, right?
1:36
Corie: This is last week's episode continued.
1:39
Corie: And if you're having any kind of arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, or any kind of itis, including the N-word itis and them kind of thing.
1:48
Corie: I don't know if you're gonna like the music in the rest of the episode or though, because it's steam.
1:52
Corie: From there on in, it's very, very steamy.
1:53
Corie: So I'm playing this up front for all you for last week.
1:56
Corie: Sap your foot and get ready because the rest of the episode could be very, very painful if you try to dance to somebody with you.
2:01
Corie: But let me start with Conqueror.
5:50
SPEAKER_05: I would like Boboli, of course, could be found on the B you see.
5:54
SPEAKER_05: Let's start should have come to Trinidad to complete the dictionary.
6:08
Corie: Deep deep the grips voice of the great mighty conqueror.
6:11
Corie: I don't know how could forget a song like that in a in an episode like last week.
6:14
Corie: No, but glad I was enjoying it.
6:16
Corie: Or glad only enjoying it.
6:17
Corie: I enjoyed it too much, maybe.
6:19
Corie: Let me tell you what I enjoy, right?
6:21
Corie: And where I wouldn't need a dictionary, right?
6:23
Corie: I, as I usually do, when I done these episodes, I do so bomb and say, well, alright, we have things here, we put out that, we watch with feedback and them kind of thing, and we're planning for what we're doing next week.
6:33
Corie: Kind of day to day, keeping up with the new scene, where it is happening, so we know what it's about when we come back.
6:38
Corie: We watching the process with um the interviews going out.
6:42
Corie: We have interviews.
6:43
Corie: I like that.
6:43
Corie: I enjoy that all I enjoy Michael Callan again, one of them conversations that changed the way I see the world.
6:48
Corie: The unique, unique guy.
6:49
Corie: Not what I expected from uh ambassador of our country at all.
6:53
Corie: I thought it was going to be stiffen us, you know, go on ambassador.
6:56
Corie: Now I'd behave myself and them guys and talk properly.
6:58
Corie: What boy?
6:59
Corie: Cool, cool fellow.
7:00
Corie: Nice team.
7:01
Corie: Salute to his entire team.
7:04
Corie: And as I say last week, the name of the game is Keep Up, not Catch Up, right?
7:08
Corie: So I assuming all you're uh up to date with Vera Bajan at this point in time, because Vera again, salute to Vera.
7:14
Corie: Great, great episode.
7:15
Corie: I'll tell you this, right?
7:16
Corie: Whether it's preempting you're listening with no spoilers, right?
7:18
Corie: But Vera is another one of them episodes where it did not go exactly the way I expected it to go.
7:24
Corie: And it was very them things are encouraging for me, right?
7:27
Corie: And I I appreciate the people who reach out to say how motivating some of the episodes are.
7:33
Corie: And um, especially youths, right?
7:35
Corie: Youths, all the way according to Lord Nelson, all the teenagers who is about 80 something, who taken inspiration for this or from this, from people who basically every week, week to week, we get high achievers here coming to talk about their stories and so on.
7:48
Corie: But what was real interesting in talking to Viewer is that you're you're conscious, right?
7:52
Corie: You have somebody who has a disability, and you want to make sure she's very comfortable and she's cool in this space and we are as accommodating as we could be.
8:00
Corie: And salute to the team out of our team, the team at Affordable Imports.
8:03
Corie: We do our best to make sure every guest coming here very, very comfortable.
8:08
Corie: But beyond that, you're all I am I'm also very conscious of okay, what kind of questions do I raise with her?
8:13
Corie: What do I avoid?
8:14
Corie: Is there anything we shouldn't talk about?
8:16
Corie: Is there anything too sensitive?
8:18
Corie: And like most guests, she comes and says, Well, no, you can talk to me about anything.
8:21
Corie: And we start the episode as we usually would any other episode, and I realized then talking to her that she's not allowing herself or anybody else to define her by what she's lacking.
8:33
Corie: I I find that was a real important takeaway from the episode because disability or no disability, in in in some ways, all of us have disabilities and all of us have superpowers.
8:44
Corie: So you have a decision to make every day a girl, really, as to whether you want to be defined by the things that you feel limit you or the things that make you limitless.
8:52
Corie: It's really a choice we're making every day, you know, because again, when I put myself in her position, my assumption immediately is oh my god, if I had no arms, I I done for let me let me use legs as an example, right?
9:03
Corie: I don't know why.
9:04
Corie: Since I small always had this dream where like I can't walk or lost my leg or whatever it is, I shouldn't put it out there, edit that part out.
9:11
Corie: But if I I I just like football, I like my sports, something so much that I can't I just can't imagine.
9:17
Corie: But what if you could just shift that thinking to say, hey, if you like where you like and you're gonna do what you're gonna do, you're gonna find ways to do it.
9:25
Corie: And you're not because you lose some part of yourself, you must define yourself by that.
9:29
Corie: Or it doesn't mean you have to lose yourself.
9:32
Corie: So that I mean, I lose myself, and now I I never asked Vera a question.
9:36
Corie: Now I can't remember.
9:37
Corie: I just end up listening to Vera for the whole time.
9:39
Corie: Yes, I find that signed up more and more.
9:41
Corie: I signed up, and after I introduced you guys, I go and tell them, no, just talk for two hours now.
9:45
Corie: Let me hear how you do what you do and the way you see life.
9:48
Corie: And in that we take inspiration.
9:49
Corie: So I'm glad that people took inspiration from it and people enjoy it.
9:52
Corie: But that was my week.
9:53
Corie: I I saw to me, do what we had to do, salute to the team, we put together Vero, we have Vero outside, we looking at the other episodes, we be we in planning all the time to see what's coming next and where we're going, right?
10:04
Corie: And then in the midst of me, doing what I do best, which is lie down and cock up my foot and so on, you know.
10:10
Corie: I mean, I'm tired done here, I go and I go I go and rest.
10:13
Corie: I get a call.
10:14
Corie: Now, I am not in the habit of going and read people's messages.
10:17
Corie: I I don't like it at all.
10:18
Corie: You know, one of the most annoying things you could see with people is people who is going post messages like the screenshot at group chat and the send it and they well today I'm breaking protocol and I'm going to read a message that I receive out of the blue.
10:31
Corie: This is on Wednesday, right?
10:34
Corie: I can tell you from the time I received this message, all the clove, the bengue, the the the cognac, anything you could sap your foot with and thing, it starts or finish immediately.
10:42
Corie: Because I can't say no and I can't make.
10:45
Corie: I saw a um a flyer come to my phone from a uh a woman by the name of Adana, right?
10:53
Corie: Adana from Creative PR, right?
10:56
Corie: Who I know Adana for a long time.
10:57
Corie: Adano is a creative uh or by saying creative, a PR professional who works with several artists to ensure that the image and all those things.
11:08
Corie: She has a really, really good episode on Sisway's podcast that you should check out, right?
11:12
Corie: Adana or son.
11:14
Corie: And um we have Adana here one day talking about that side of the business where it's about managing artists and managing their image and reputation.
11:23
Corie: But what strikes me as really, really cool and solid about Adana is every time I talk to her about an artist, she talks about the artist in a personal woman-to-woman or woman-to-man way.
11:35
Corie: She doesn't talk about the person like an asset.
11:37
Corie: So one of the things I don't want to give away is Sisway Podcast, you should really check it out, it's real good.
11:41
Corie: But she was talking about being working with Patricia Roberts at the time she found out about Ricardo Drew's death on air while she in the radio station doing an interview.
11:50
Corie: And she's the one who manages now.
11:52
Corie: So the way she handled that, watch the podcast so you could hear the way she handled it, right?
11:56
Corie: But you you see that you have somebody who cares about the person more than the business.
12:02
Corie: Wait, no, there's an ad for creative PR.
12:04
Corie: But you can see that's how she is.
12:07
Corie: She strikes me as that type of person, and I only know her professionally, right?
12:10
Corie: But I get a message from Madonna now.
12:12
Corie: The flyer say lava, steam, lava, birthday steam.
12:17
Corie: First off, right now, can't I read it good?
12:19
Corie: 15th of August, invitation only, powered by steam, right?
12:22
Corie: I say alright.
12:24
Corie: On the harbour master now, about 15 years ago, I swear to everything holy.
12:28
Corie: Yeah, my wife carry me on a boat, right?
12:29
Corie: I say, I'm never going back on a boat ride again.
12:31
Corie: I don't like it.
12:32
Corie: I don't like that.
12:33
Corie: I drive all the way to Shagaramas, park my motorcar, which is the most expensive asset I have in my life at the time.
12:39
Corie: Come out of my motor car, go on a boat, and them days I live in St.
12:43
Corie: James, and that boat drive, where is boat is do?
12:46
Corie: Sail drive, whatever it is do, from Chagaramas down there, pass with my mother living right on Mukarapo Road, right on the foreshore.
12:53
Corie: Pass the I could have gone.
12:55
Corie: I study in if I could make this woman.
12:57
Corie: I say I could go home now.
12:58
Corie: I want to leave.
12:59
Corie: I am the king of leaving.
13:01
Corie: As soon as the person who invites me see me, I go on.
13:04
Corie: I go on.
13:05
Corie: I don't like to go nowhere.
13:06
Corie: So with due respect to Adana and with all the love in your world, I got this message and I'd like to read people's messages, but Adana, sorry, I had to do it.
13:13
Corie: It's say, hi Cory, good evening.
13:15
Corie: I don't know if you're partying, but we are hosting this invitation-only event on Saturday to celebrate Lava's birthday.
13:22
Corie: Now, Adana is the one who we worked with to book Little Lava to me.
13:26
Corie: One of the best episodes we ever had.
13:27
Corie: Somebody I enjoy talking to.
13:29
Corie: And again, a very, very inspirational story when you see where Lava come from.
13:34
Corie: So what she's able to achieve now, right?
13:36
Corie: She said, Do you want to be in the Steam or you're afraid?
13:39
Corie: Now I'll be honest with you.
13:40
Corie: I will be honest with you.
13:41
Corie: If that question had reached if that sentence had stopped at do you want to be in the steam, I was gonna have a newborn.
13:48
Corie: I have the best excuse any wood.
13:50
Corie: I could just say, Here no girl, a boy, I would love to do that.
13:53
Corie: But I feel you see, oh she put you afraid in here and I didn't like it.
13:56
Corie: I didn't lie, I didn't lie.
13:58
Corie: I that rubbed me wrong, I did not like it.
14:00
Corie: She said afraid?
14:01
Corie: Come on, go say afraid.
14:02
Corie: I say and I like a fool now.
14:04
Corie: I send some laughing emoji, right?
14:06
Corie: To give myself time to think, right?
14:08
Corie: But I say, afraid means my reputation is a mess, conk made.
14:12
Corie: And boy, she sent two tickets to go up in his steam boy.
14:15
Corie: Let me tell you something.
14:17
Corie: Now I'm on the hook, yeah.
14:19
Corie: So from Wednesday, my anxiety on all, because I not designed for this.
14:23
Corie: If you know me well enough, I not able in no way, function, form, or otherwise I able with a steam.
14:30
Corie: So I call my partner, Jade, right?
14:32
Corie: I say I say, Jade, you gotta go with me because I ain't going any steam by myself.
14:38
Corie: I don't even know how boat riders work.
14:40
Corie: To tell you the truth, I was driving quite chagarama to think me and realize the harbor mass right next to Peak's gas station.
14:46
Corie: Is it treasure queen I looking for?
14:48
Corie: You know, me, why doesn't it treasure queen not sink?
14:50
Corie: I don't know why I'm there.
14:52
Corie: So look at me now.
14:54
Corie: My problems start immediately.
14:56
Corie: So I say I say, Jade, you gotta tell your wife, this is a non-negotiable.
15:00
Corie: You have to go because you're the only man I could go with.
15:02
Corie: And I know we're solid and I know I'm safe, you know what I mean?
15:05
Corie: Jade know a couple things, and he has a couple things, right?
15:07
Corie: I say in case this thing goes left, uh Jade is the man for me to move with.
15:11
Corie: And you know, you know the Goldilocks and the bears thing with one bed to film and one bed to so I have a next partner by the name of Colonel King.
15:18
Corie: So my boy Colonel.
15:19
Corie: He is the bed on the next X street.
15:21
Corie: Because if I go anywhere with he, he's steaming overboard.
15:24
Corie: He's extra steamy.
15:25
Corie: I can't take that.
15:26
Corie: And my knees don't work like he on.
15:29
Corie: So I say, boy Jade, Jade looking like you're right, man.
15:32
Corie: I will move with Jade.
15:32
Corie: We got thing, you know what I mean?
15:34
Corie: But I to tell you the truth now.
15:36
Corie: I started studying butt.
15:38
Corie: But what people is where to go boat ride?
15:40
Corie: Me, I don't have a clue.
15:41
Corie: I wear any same clothes every day for the past five years.
15:43
Corie: I say, I can't go so that thing gonna look good.
15:46
Corie: I can't show up in the podcast clothes, right?
15:48
Corie: So I say, boy, what and then if if I figure out what people is where to go boat ride, because when I say boat, right?
15:54
Corie: As I hear boat ride, I looking for a towel and a trunk still swim and a rubber thing ding, you know.
15:57
Corie: I think in boat like Dong the Island, so I say, boy, I in some trouble here.
16:01
Corie: And then if I figure out what on a boat ride, God knows I don't know what to where to go no steam.
16:06
Corie: What people is where to go steam?
16:07
Corie: I I say, what is this, boy?
16:09
Corie: Well, what I can tell you is I look through my closet and nothing looks steamy.
16:12
Corie: It didn't look it look bad.
16:14
Corie: I said, boy, you how if I thought I was youthful, I have no youth left with me.
16:20
Corie: None zero, none, it have no youth left.
16:22
Corie: Uh all my clothes looking like it have what's the opposite of steam?
16:25
Corie: Vapor.
16:26
Corie: I know what the hell I have in there, but it didn't build for that.
16:28
Corie: And I boy, I still didn't know how to buy clothes.
16:30
Corie: Well, what to do?
16:31
Corie: What to do?
16:31
Corie: I feel like I need a big change.
16:33
Corie: What's what to do?
16:34
Corie: I'm not sure.
16:35
Corie: So I pull out and say, I say, boy, you had to be yourself, you know.
16:38
Corie: You can't go no way trying to act like no young boy, you had to be comfortable, you had to be cool, you had to so uh uh boy, I find something to wear.
16:47
Corie: I find my way down.
16:48
Corie: Now the thing is, the thing say, what I read for you that Adana sent on the invitation, that is the whole invitation.
16:54
Corie: The thing ain't saying, well, is that small inclusive or all inclusive, bring your cooler, but a shame now to ask Adana, yeah?
17:02
Corie: I feel in shame.
17:03
Corie: I want to ask Adana, Dana, where you're supposed to do.
17:06
Corie: He's supposed to bring you on drinks, or it have a bar.
17:08
Corie: I don't know how they have a master as well.
17:10
Corie: A matter of fact, I went and buy a gift in the went stitches to buy to get in the rap.
17:14
Corie: I say it's a birthday party, you're supposed to walk with that.
17:15
Corie: I don't know what to do.
17:16
Corie: I don't know.
17:16
Corie: Keep in mind, never see lava since the time we do the interview.
17:19
Corie: I never see or hear from her since then.
17:21
Corie: So this is awkward.
17:22
Corie: I don't want sure what to do with myself.
17:24
Corie: But I say, alright, I find something to wear.
17:26
Corie: I must stop and save all my embarrassments and I message her down.
17:30
Corie: I said, Dana, what we supposed to do?
17:31
Corie: Walk with bottles, always the situation.
17:33
Corie: She said, Yeah, no glass bottle.
17:34
Corie: Thank God she said that.
17:35
Corie: Like she knows I completely out of my element.
17:39
Corie: So she tells me what to do now.
17:40
Corie: This thing's starting seven.
17:41
Corie: So you are studying now now.
17:42
Corie: See, boy.
17:44
Corie: If I show up though, half past six, because at my big age, when you tell me seven o'clock, I used to reach half past six.
17:50
Corie: But I go look like a buffoon standing up on the boat by myself because we don't know how this is work.
17:55
Corie: So being no engineer, you know, Jade is an engineer.
17:57
Corie: We could have fixed something on the boat by the time people reach I sweaty.
18:00
Corie: I tell him Jade, I say, Jade.
18:03
Corie: Number one, I don't know nothing about boat, right?
18:05
Corie: I don't know nothing about steam.
18:06
Corie: I don't know nothing about this.
18:07
Corie: I know nothing about nothing.
18:08
Corie: But I know woman.
18:10
Corie: And I know if a woman's birthday party is supposed to start seven, don't reach before nine o'clock.
18:15
Corie: I I I know.
18:16
Corie: She's a superstar, birthdays, makeup, and hair.
18:19
Corie: That's not running on time in no world.
18:21
Corie: I said, Jade, we had to go down about nine o'clock.
18:23
Corie: But Jade is my age.
18:24
Corie: So I say, what time you feel we should go?
18:26
Corie: Jade say half past six.
18:27
Corie: You know what I mean?
18:28
Corie: Jade say, Jade say, I feel we need to leave home at the time or what I planning to do on the boat ride.
18:35
Corie: I said, well, where are you planning?
18:36
Corie: So he says 6:30 years old, boy.
18:38
Corie: Me and Jade in trouble here.
18:40
Corie: But now I frighten me.
18:41
Corie: Because if I reach 9 o'clock and the boat gone, then I even more is more buffooner coming out here.
18:45
Corie: So I say, alright, we go, we go try and reach somewhere.
18:48
Corie: I'll leave home 7 o'clock for manners.
18:50
Corie: And I say, well, if bad comes to wood, I dana go message, she go call her doubt, they go leave.
18:54
Corie: If it's an invitation only, at some point they had to make some calls with the people with the last few tickets.
18:57
Corie: You ain't gonna leave the boat ride, looks pass, right?
18:59
Corie: And I can't be the only man running late.
19:01
Corie: Rain falling like hell this Saturday.
19:03
Corie: When I reach down here about quarter past seven, the boat for love or boat ride in Rise and Russ.
19:10
Corie: You know what I mean?
19:11
Corie: The boat rise and roast still out and I forget clean.
19:13
Corie: Salute to Bobby.
19:14
Corie: I forget clean and rise and roast was Saturday.
19:18
Corie: And since last year I tell Bobby you're coming rise and roast no matter what, I forget clean.
19:22
Corie: So I pack up in a gas station from about quarter to seven till about the very nine o'clock that I say I was supposed to reach a boat ride.
19:31
Corie: My whole face rampful because sleepy.
19:33
Corie: I lean back my thing asleep.
19:36
Corie: I was snoring hard.
19:37
Corie: I will be jumping out with sleep.
19:38
Corie: When I when I wake up, I thought I missed the boat ride.
19:40
Corie: And one point I wake up, I thought it was morning.
19:43
Corie: But we went.
19:45
Corie: And I will say this, right?
19:46
Corie: The boat ride was good.
19:47
Corie: Salute to salute to Dion, salute to Marinch, salute to Lava, salute to Adana, everybody else involved.
19:53
Corie: Because boy, they had a birthday party.
19:55
Corie: They had a birthday party.
19:56
Corie: It feels like a birthday party.
19:57
Corie: Lava look good.
19:58
Corie: First first time I see her since then, and it was real, real nice to see her too.
20:02
Corie: And she looked good, she looked the part, she she she she does the thing on the boat, you know what I mean?
20:07
Corie: It's no when somebody's a style.
20:09
Corie: Lava butterfly around the whole boat.
20:11
Corie: She line with everybody on that boat for a little five minutes.
20:14
Corie: And it was, I will tell you this, right?
20:16
Corie: I had known just like you listening to this episode now.
20:19
Corie: I only know about 10% of the song that played on that boat.
20:22
Corie: I hear everybody sing along, but I learned a trick at time.
20:24
Corie: A comedian tell me, when you don't know a song and you want to play it, no, just say banana over and over.
20:28
Corie: Just go banana.
20:30
Corie: And it's looking like you're singing along with any song any world.
20:32
Corie: Try, try it in very merry, see you go work.
20:34
Corie: But me never idea where it is.
20:36
Corie: I was grossly overdressed, but age appropriate.
20:39
Corie: I didn't know nothing outside.
20:40
Corie: I see people, it's some people dressed like oh, I was describing the Dongie Islands boat, right?
20:45
Corie: So it was nice and I see some good people.
20:46
Corie: The first was I see his cootin.
20:48
Corie: I mean, Koote ain't any cruise people who them is good people too.
20:50
Corie: You see that little grandy squad?
20:52
Corie: I I like them a lot.
20:54
Corie: I went to his show the other day and I hadn't seen him, so I'm glad I see him, and he and the team was there.
20:58
Corie: So everybody was there.
21:00
Corie: People was in a good mood, the vibes was up, people was having a great, great time.
21:04
Corie: I learned some new words.
21:05
Corie: Like I keep saying, go away with this boat, right?
21:08
Corie: Apparently you're just supposed to say mood.
21:09
Corie: That is what Kuten say.
21:11
Corie: Every time I see Kuten, he says mood.
21:12
Corie: I don't know what it means by saying mood now, too.
21:14
Corie: And then they say function.
21:16
Corie: I don't know.
21:16
Corie: I thought like it's a function, like a birthday party, but they say that's how we dysfunction.
21:20
Corie: So I learned some things and dicey things I say.
21:22
Corie: Now, I'll not tell you the genius behind Lava and the team, right?
21:26
Corie: That morning of the boat ride.
21:28
Corie: Now, didn't remember this lava birthday party, right?
21:31
Corie: Lava launch a tune.
21:32
Corie: I want to play a piece of the tune for you.
21:34
Corie: No, cook ears, huh?
21:36
Corie: We ain't really do too much of vetting on them kind of thing, right?
21:39
Corie: So, cock ears.
21:40
Corie: If you hear something you ain't supposed to hear, yeah, they say I 95.5, they say could fly.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: I want to side for side and I got for your breadbang.
22:12
Corie: Alright, alright, Lava.
22:13
Corie: Okay, alright.
22:15
Corie: What the hell is going on here?
22:17
Corie: But genius, because let me tell you something.
22:21
Corie: I always say lava is a super signal, lava is a rock star.
22:24
Corie: She is on a different level.
22:25
Corie: And if she continues the way she's going on that trajectory, she going, you know what, lava needs now?
22:30
Corie: She just needs a few of them international collaborations.
22:33
Corie: They just need to get lover with somebody like.
22:35
Corie: You see when Burner Boy was on the on like White Hot, you need to get her with him.
22:40
Corie: Or get her with one of these artists who come who just fly in.
22:44
Corie: Get lava with Drake.
22:46
Corie: Because she she is at different level in terms of putting together these kinds of things.
22:49
Corie: Because this birdie song is bad, right?
22:52
Corie: And you could see somebody or the team working on deliberately in terms of how you build a catalogue.
22:57
Corie: Because one of the greatest things you could have as an artist is a birdie song that becomes a hit.
23:01
Corie: Axe Busy Signal with a happy birthday.
23:03
Corie: He a royal side.
23:04
Corie: I'm sure that is one of the songs that given him his biggest royalty payment.
23:07
Corie: Because every day is somebody birdie.
23:09
Corie: They say the song that pays the most royalties in the world is the regular old Happy Birdie song.
23:13
Corie: Happy Birthday.
23:14
Corie: So you is the most played song ever, obviously.
23:16
Corie: If you have how much a billion, seven billion people in the world is always somebody birdie.
23:20
Corie: So you see, and I mean lava going on.
23:22
Corie: Okay, lava going in a different direction.
23:24
Corie: Because most people, like treasure, busy signal there, you know what I mean?
23:28
Corie: Is a celebratory thing where lava, lava celebrates in the lava way, right?
23:32
Corie: Because I ain't really let the um the choke stroke stroke part of the song play at, right?
23:38
Corie: You see the choke stroke stroke there when they saw.
23:40
Corie: But you go and Google it for yourself, Lava Birdie song.
23:42
Corie: So salute to everybody, salute to everybody, and all the all the songs you will hear in this episode is from people who were on the boat ride and perform on the boat ride because they had performances when Lava started performed, fireworks going off.
23:53
Corie: It was, it was, I I glad I went.
23:56
Corie: No, I will tell you with things started go left, right?
23:59
Corie: You see, it's just like when I'm playing football.
24:01
Corie: When I'm home, my body feeling stiff and it's in pain, and I studied in boy, I could go and play tennis, I could play football, I ain't show everything hurting.
24:08
Corie: But cata flow and wolf and them things, my friends when I tell you I take two of them and I rub down, I sort of feel good and your blood get warm and you start to play, you just feel like you're young again.
24:17
Corie: And that happened to me on the boat ride.
24:19
Corie: I start to feel young, I start to feel youthful.
24:22
Corie: And I find like all the time I watching the boat, I say, but Jade, where this boat going?
24:26
Corie: What are we going so far for?
24:28
Corie: But boy, when the things started get steamy and performances come and think I started to feel myself a little bit, boy.
24:33
Corie: I was doing rum and a few cigars in, I starting to feel myself.
24:36
Corie: So I said, What?
24:37
Corie: Boat ride done already?
24:38
Corie: I said, Jade, what is this?
24:39
Corie: I see the light come on.
24:40
Corie: And I hear after party in sips on the avenue, right?
24:48
Corie: So I said, well, we in that nice, I look into I said, I said, Jade, we going down in sips on the avenue, we taking in the after party.
24:57
Corie: We not, we not, we been playing that.
24:58
Corie: We who is we?
24:59
Corie: We we ain't folks too.
25:00
Corie: We we in it.
25:02
Corie: Well boy, I'll tell you this, right?
25:04
Corie: I reached down the by the avenue, I see a line in front of sips, my eyes started closed.
25:09
Corie: Dung, you see as that air conditioner in that car hit me when I first had a park quite up Carlos Street by Brooklyn Bar.
25:15
Corie: When I walked my sips, when it's I started to feel the pain again, like all my all my anti-inflammatory wear-off.
25:21
Corie: I couldn't do it.
25:22
Corie: I couldn't do it.
25:22
Corie: I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't get myself to go.
25:24
Corie: That sips, I just I just didn't have it in me.
25:27
Corie: So I went by the deck.
25:28
Corie: I eat the worst set of wings I ever.
25:30
Corie: From the time the first wing touched my that was it.
25:33
Corie: I started it.
25:34
Corie: I guess slippy from I repeat it when you're a cascade.
25:37
Corie: I had to hold my eye open to Rachel.
25:39
Corie: But again, thank you.
25:40
Corie: Thank you very much to Lava and the team to manage to Dana, of course, for putting it together.
25:46
Corie: And again, Lava is a stubby.
25:49
Corie: I'm a tune to play for here.
25:50
Corie: See, when this song sort of play, that's when the boat, right?
25:52
Corie: That's when I sort of feel myself.
26:38
Corie: Is not the same when it's edited, you know.
26:40
Corie: Them tune is to play unedited.
26:42
Corie: So I'll give you the name of song, right?
26:43
Corie: For people who need to Google name or song.
26:45
Corie: Name of this song is Matrix.
26:46
Corie: Go and listen to the unedited version in 2019, you know what I mean?
26:49
Corie: Listen to it with the children and then find out how they come into this world.
26:52
Corie: You know what I mean?
26:52
Corie: But salute to lover, salute to everybody who was on the boat, right?
26:55
Corie: Everything you hear from today, from no one.
26:57
Corie: Well, it might be just apologies for not playing Conqueror at the right time.
27:03
Corie: And songs from the boat, right?
27:05
Corie: Because plenty of artists was there.
27:06
Corie: It was nice to see.
27:07
Corie: It was good to see some people.
27:09
Corie: Salute to Hakeem 5.
27:10
Corie: Always always show a lot of love on the Instagram and on the social media, hoping to Hakeem here someday soon.
27:15
Corie: You know, once Hakeem comes, it will still be a battle between Soka versus Dance Hall and what's supposed to play.
27:20
Corie: And Hakim is look forward to them kind of battles.
27:22
Corie: So I'm looking forward to it myself.
27:24
Corie: I want to get into some news, right?
27:26
Corie: I want to get into some news because we're backing, we're back in again.
27:30
Corie: I want you to forget completely everything we say last week and week before.
27:35
Corie: Because all that is nonsense.
27:36
Corie: Because we back.
27:37
Corie: They say money ain't no problem.
27:39
Corie: Money is no problem.
27:40
Corie: We back in again.
27:41
Corie: Article says by Anna Ramdas in the Express.
27:44
Corie: Kamala hails Delcy congratulates Venezuelan leader on signing Laurent licenses.
27:49
Corie: You know what I mean?
27:50
Corie: I guess who couldn't see this coming?
27:53
Corie: Prime Minister Kamla Pasadbi Sessa has congratulated acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez on the historic signing of licenses for the exploration of hydrocarbons in Venezuela's Laurent Phase 2 development and the platformer Deltana area.
28:10
Corie: I hope I read that right.
28:10
Corie: Pasad Bicessa noted that Trendada and Tobago stands to benefit from Venezuela's progress with these energy deals.
28:16
Corie: Rodriguez in a social media post announced that after 23 years of inactivity, Venezuela is moving forward.
28:22
Corie: What how much yes?
28:23
Corie: 23?
28:24
Corie: I thought it was like a year and a half of activities.
28:26
Corie: There's not since election last year.
28:28
Corie: Rodriguez said in a social media post announced that 23 years of inactivity.
28:33
Corie: Venezuela is moving forward with the development of the giant cross brother, Laurent Gasfield, adjacent to Trinidad and Tobago's Manatee Field.
28:41
Corie: Phase one was licensed to shell, while phase two agreements were signed with BPXRG and UCC Holding.
28:49
Corie: Rodriguez spoke about partnering with energy companies, including NGC, of course.
28:54
Corie: Great Ramdi.
28:56
Corie: In a social media post, Prime Minister shared Rodriguez's announcement and noted the strengthening of energy cooperation between TNT and Venezuela, saying progress on the Laurent Manatee gas field signals a major step forward in cross-border energy cooperation and regional development.
29:13
Corie: She said the two agreements signed in Venezuela could send approximately 7 trillion cubic feet of gas from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago for processing and processing of the country's LNG and petrochemical plants.
29:28
Corie: So we back.
29:30
Corie: We back.
29:31
Corie: They got to open back the programs, CPEP people getting back their contract, nutrient opening back everything, everything back in a gear.
29:38
Corie: We have no worries again.
29:39
Corie: Gas is here, cheap gas is back, subsidization is back, we in the game, we can be careless, you know what I mean?
29:45
Corie: So all the things only say, I take it out of myself out of anything I say.
29:48
Corie: So forget what I say last week.
29:50
Corie: All the things all you bad talk and think about the government, the government is working.
29:52
Corie: No, I will say that Del C herself said it's 23 years in the making, yeah.
29:57
Corie: 23 years in Trendran Tobago is at least five different administrations, right?
30:01
Corie: But I if I was them, I taking credit for it too.
30:04
Corie: I saying, like, I now start this negotiation, but they send Steat Young in a tizzy steat.
30:08
Corie: Young was busy on the social media trying to say.
30:10
Corie: It's exactly what I was telling them to do.
30:12
Corie: And politics, and and this is what I mean last week when I said don't fall for politicians and they race baited.
30:18
Corie: Thanks so much for people who last week agreed with me and said that what we see when we leave home and when we go out and we line with people is not the same thing as we hear in the in the politics.
30:29
Corie: And for the people who disagree, disagree, you know.
30:31
Corie: Once we we we could always talk.
30:32
Corie: I don't, I always give in my opinion here.
30:35
Corie: It's just my opinion.
30:36
Corie: And if you disagree, this is food for thought as far as I could see.
30:39
Corie: You think of the episode as a conversation starts.
30:41
Corie: I ain't making no final decision here, even about how I feel.
30:45
Corie: But it's the same thing with this, you know, you go out and you see people having a good time, and then you hear politicians talking about who say they see wood and who is 1% and what this one does and what this one thing, and then that and Rowley.
30:57
Corie: And that politics, I know a lot of pay less attention to that kind of drivel, to be honest.
31:03
Corie: And it's the same thing as this, right?
31:05
Corie: Because understand that the politician, was it Pandey who say politicians, strange bedfellows?
31:12
Corie: You know, is it's a unique thing.
31:14
Corie: Them men and them is agree based on what suits them at the point in time.
31:18
Corie: Because I remember the dragon is dead.
31:21
Corie: I remember I listen, there was a there was a point in time where the same type of arrangement with the dragon gas field was going to be made.
31:28
Corie: I don't know if I forget these things sometimes now.
31:30
Corie: Is that my memory is the greatest?
31:33
Corie: But I remember the most well, I was gonna say most short, at least ten years prime minister in history trainer to be good, backed by what looked like the VP probably at the point in time, the outgoing, then men and them was trying to get the dragon gas deal signed, and the opposition was, and when I say the opposition, as an entity, led by Kamlo Pasadbi Sessa, and everybody else around her.
31:58
Corie: All of them were saying, Dragon is dead.
32:00
Corie: I'm talking about it as if number one, the PNM of Styot Young under the PNM under Steer Young's leadership didn't have what it takes to get the dragon deal signed.
32:09
Corie: Maybe they were right about it, who knows.
32:12
Corie: And they also talk about it as if the dragon deal was not going to do anything for us.
32:16
Corie: They say whatever they need to say to get their agenda across all the time.
32:20
Corie: And as we now, and when I say we, I mean me and you, we we just fall for it all the time.
32:26
Corie: We we trying to decipher what is um what is useful, what is good news, where the country is going.
32:31
Corie: Because we had children to mine and trying to send to school and money to save and things to do, and we affected by everything that happened in the economy or in the political sphere.
32:41
Corie: So maybe rightfully so we listen to them.
32:44
Corie: And if you if you if you already have um like I was thinking about something last week where I used to always talk about this, the country split into three parts, right?
32:52
Corie: It have a PM part, a UNC part, and then an undecided part.
32:58
Corie: But I feel like it's four.
33:00
Corie: And that undecided part might be the smallest group it have.
33:02
Corie: I used to say it's a one-third piece, but there's a fourth group of people who don't care at all.
33:07
Corie: They don't know what Camelas say, them don't know what Rowley does, them don't know who's dragon gas, them don't know what they don't care.
33:14
Corie: They don't care.
33:15
Corie: They're not paying attention to none of that.
33:16
Corie: I live and dying by this because I don't watch it.
33:19
Corie: I have a son who's 14.
33:20
Corie: And about four years, I'd have fine university money for you.
33:22
Corie: So all these things affecting what we do.
33:24
Corie: I also affect whether or not I'm going to continue to stay in and live in Trinidad at all.
33:30
Corie: Let this podcast thing and start to make money.
33:32
Corie: It's the fastest.
33:33
Corie: I gone.
33:35
Corie: Because you can't, if you're buying a property and taking a 30-year mortgage, you're concerned about what's going to happen over the next 30 years in terms of your income and your family income and the ability to pay it.
33:45
Corie: I remember meeting with a financial advisor, soon that's Nick Dean.
33:48
Corie: I remember meeting with him at a point in time, and I tell him I say, But suppose my son falls sick, or suppose something happened to me.
33:55
Corie: You had to be concerned about these things, and again, the economy affects that.
33:58
Corie: Because if I fall sick now, I could go any hospital for free, very, very close to free.
34:03
Corie: And if we if the economy goes any direction or continue to go in the direction, it's going now.
34:09
Corie: At some point, just like how gate fall off, we we don't live in this world at all, right?
34:13
Corie: We believe that, like only remember light belt story in Jamaica.
34:18
Corie: We believe that education is free and healthcare is free.
34:23
Corie: And we believe that is a universal given, but that is not the case.
34:26
Corie: If you look at places like Canada, it's a first-world countries where you're not getting that.
34:31
Corie: Free education.
34:32
Corie: I always remember Jamaica was a place where boy, well, at one point in time I wanted to adopt a little child in Jamaica.
34:38
Corie: I used to buy all these school books, and I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that the boy is seven, eight years old, and school fees is the reason the mother car send him to school.
34:47
Corie: And and I mean, when I hear what his school fees is, I think, wait, this is where you can't afford to pay it.
34:52
Corie: But better let me pay it.
34:53
Corie: Send me the booklets.
34:54
Corie: I will buy everything because and and again, I'm very, very biased because school helped me progress a lot.
35:00
Corie: I don't know if it's the same for him, but I'm thinking, how you could just not go to school.
35:04
Corie: But we take these things for granted.
35:05
Corie: We feel like that will always be the case.
35:07
Corie: The truth is them thing this cost money.
35:09
Corie: And we could come to a point where the public healthcare system collapses and they say, Here what?
35:14
Corie: Everybody, you can imagine having to pay West Show and and who they call the next friend and them Sinclair.
35:22
Corie: Well, you know, if you feel the fees high now, if they eliminate public healthcare for free in Trinidad and the demand on them places skyrocket, where things will happen to the price is going to be insane.
35:36
Corie: I can help you, I can help you quarterback this too, you know.
35:39
Corie: Just like what we were talking about with Nestle a few years ago, what will happen is some international, very big uh healthcare provider, the first thing they go do is come and try to buy the facilities.
35:49
Corie: You see, we have a brand spanking new one in Potter Swain, they go buy that first.
35:52
Corie: I think 0.14 of our big hospital, somewhere somewhere they had built a grandion, relatively new last 10, 15 years, too, they go run and buy them thing.
36:01
Corie: They go muttball the old one in Potter Swain, they go probably muttball San Fernando and keep the sell the train in college.
36:07
Corie: The same thing that we're talking about happening in the energy sector could happen in the health sector.
36:11
Corie: We don't feel is real.
36:12
Corie: But I can tell you, if that happens, we have a real serious adjustment to make in this country.
36:18
Corie: So ISO this pay attention to all these things and all the political things.
36:21
Corie: Maybe that's why I pay attention to it too much.
36:23
Corie: And of course, to come and talk to all every week, right?
36:25
Corie: But I want I just want us to appreciate when we have in these discussions that there's a bunch of people there who we feel like we are the third voice.
36:34
Corie: We are the undecided voter.
36:36
Corie: We are the if according in the words of Dominic Hadid, I vote yellow three times and red three times, and I vote based on who give me the best policies and da-da-da-da-da.
36:45
Corie: All that he said, right?
36:47
Corie: We feel like that.
36:49
Corie: But it has some people who them don't know where's the issues, they don't care where's the issues, they're not voting for either party.
36:54
Corie: And as in words of Queen Omega, nah read me finger for no government.
36:59
Corie: That's just what the life is for them.
37:00
Corie: So we must remember that them groups exist too.
37:03
Corie: But those groups are affected more likely by the kind of basal comments on things about who is this race and who is that race and who teeth in it easy to go along with those things while it might be hard to have discussions about hydrocarbon.
37:16
Corie: I catch my table just to read the thing about 7 trillion cubic feet, I guess.
37:20
Corie: So, by any stretch of the imagination, and whoever wants to take the credit for this, if a party in power could probably take credit for it.
37:27
Corie: This is a good thing for Trinidad and Tobago right now.
37:31
Corie: I am I'm eager to see how it pans out because I do remember at one point in time, I think it was under the I can't remember if it was under the partnership or under Rowley first term, somewhere between 2013, 14, 15, 16 or there.
37:46
Corie: Somebody come and say, I can look at Philip was a Rowley and come and say they find the biggest guys finding the world out in the Gulf of Paris and they they sold this thing as if we back, like we're Abu Dhabi, you know what I mean?
37:57
Corie: Or no, I could say we're Gaia now, Suriname, you know?
38:00
Corie: And um, it turns out that there was some old news about the quality of the oil and them things wasn't good and all, you know, so that never got anywhere.
38:07
Corie: So I'm hoping that this means, and from all indications, because what I can tell is when them people cussing one another and the thing, and that is not useful.
38:16
Corie: But when you see PM and UNC, even in their own way, you gotta read between the lines, right?
38:20
Corie: But you see, when both of them agree on something, then it's probably good for the country, good for both of them too, right?
38:25
Corie: But good for the country because your tung was hell-bent that we have to make these arrangements with Guyana.
38:30
Corie: I uh Venezuela, I uh anybody who knows anything knows that you needed to get these things done.
38:35
Corie: And when you see the boss and them celebrating it now, so it means that they both see any same thing, then it should be good.
38:41
Corie: What we need to see is how does it affect the other industries?
38:45
Corie: Because the the availability and the fact that we have petrochemicals does help the standard of living in the country.
38:52
Corie: So that is where you have things like well, free education and healthcare.
38:57
Corie: Uh, we could have some add-ons too, like we go back to having free tertiary education, uh, what else we get?
39:03
Corie: Food card and all these kinds of things, subsidized gas prices and all those things.
39:07
Corie: I feel like this administration now has a chance to make an adjustment that I feel should have been made or never started really with the with the Williams administration back in the day and with the Ufhan Ali administration I see in now.
39:21
Corie: Because if you ever like use ChatGPT, I don't stop telling all you read books and things, right?
39:26
Corie: If you never hear about it, use ChatGPT and tell it explain the Dutch disease to you.
39:30
Corie: The Dutch disease is a simple concept where we get dependent on a highly valuable primary resource like oil or sugar or oil, sugar, bauxite, nutmeg, banana, all of them.
39:43
Corie: If you look through the Caribbean, we've always, I mean, they should call it the Caribbean disease at this point.
39:47
Corie: We bank all our money on these things, and then the society ends up developing a taste and preference for champagne because we're making good money.
39:56
Corie: But again, you're only making good money in a very propped-up way.
40:00
Corie: Because you have oil and gas, you subsidize everything else so everybody could drive nice cars, Rolls Royce coming back, you know.
40:06
Corie: If only feels sweet car.
40:07
Corie: As soon as oil and gas deal signed, is sweet car coming back Trinidad?
40:12
Corie: So everybody develops this champagne taste, live at a very, very high standard, uh, start back traveling and running all over the place.
40:20
Corie: If this goes the way it's supposed to go, by the end of next year, once that thing gets in train, that US problem, you could go in the bank and buy how much US you want again, the credit card, things will be lifted.
40:30
Corie: When all those things happen, our tastes preferences for goods and services from Amazon, Walmart, Farfetch, Saks Fifth Avenue, American Airlines, all those things are gonna skyrocket.
40:41
Corie: We're gonna go back to what we what we like to do, buy things abroad and travel abroad every minute of the day and so on.
40:47
Corie: And you will find that it it happens at the expense of local industries, right?
40:51
Corie: So that Dutch disease is where you're highly dependent on one thing, and then you get so dependent on that that it subsidizes everything else in your society, it tends to, in our case, cause us to spend more money abroad, which makes even more the the other parts of your economy like manufacturing and food and beverage and so on, start to shrink now because everybody doing everything from abroad.
41:14
Corie: There's a little innovation and so on.
41:17
Corie: And gas is a finite resource.
41:21
Corie: So we will come back in 2026 now.
41:24
Corie: Again, when I was in Lockjack, all these studies then was about um remembering Patrick Manning?
41:30
Corie: About a 2020 vision, and the idea behind the 2020 vision is that oil and gas production is going to be a problem in 2020.
41:38
Corie: You can't predict the price, right?
41:40
Corie: But the production was going to be an issue.
41:42
Corie: So said so done.
41:43
Corie: We reached there from 2020 to 2026.
41:46
Corie: So we're bracing for revolution uh for uh depression, we call it now, uh the the economy starts to shrink from about 2017, 18.
41:56
Corie: You start to see it slow down, and then it's you know, it'll be not heading in a good place.
42:01
Corie: What my fears, and something that I hope we don't do, and this is my comparison to Ulfanali and the on the old Eric Williams admin, when we first get oil, is that the tendency is, I would say, politically motivated.
42:14
Corie: It has more to do with re-election and governance, if you ask me, in my very humble opinion.
42:18
Corie: But if, let me use Guyana as an example so it's less sensitive.
42:21
Corie: Is Ufan Ali in charge?
42:23
Corie: You're a very popular president, people love you.
42:25
Corie: Oil and gas come in.
42:27
Corie: The first thing people do as Caribbean people tend to do is where you go do for we?
42:31
Corie: Where are you gonna do for we cost hard, it tastes hard, the roads are bad, the healthcare system is bad, is that so what they tend to do now is try to shift money into development.
42:40
Corie: Because I mean these fellows, bright, so they will look at other industries and see how they could boost those other industries.
42:45
Corie: But part of what they do is just give people money.
42:48
Corie: Give people money.
42:50
Corie: And when you give away money and you don't get productivity for it, you had to hope that the source of money stays and the source of money had to grow.
42:58
Corie: Because if you keep giving me, and this is a funny thing.
43:01
Corie: I saw somebody will say, I wish I could give the person credit.
43:04
Corie: I can't remember who I was talking to, and they were telling me that every three months we adjust psychologically.
43:10
Corie: So if I give you now double your income, you say it takes just about three months for you to go from this thing being this great thing where your income double to start being normal.
43:20
Corie: And now you start to believe that you deserve that thing and you should have it and you live based on that.
43:25
Corie: And then it imagine this, right?
43:27
Corie: You making 10 grand a month.
43:28
Corie: Tomorrow your boss can say, Hey, well, you're doing a real good boy, it took all 20.
43:32
Corie: You feel like the greatest thing ever.
43:35
Corie: After six months of collecting that 20, if you had to go back from 20 to 18, it's hardship and pain.
43:41
Corie: You can't sleep any night come, you lose this much.
43:44
Corie: And you only have three, four months of this.
43:45
Corie: You live most of their life making much less than this.
43:47
Corie: But it's human nature.
43:48
Corie: And I can't remember who it was, but he was telling me that three months is about the time that we take to make these adjustments.
43:54
Corie: Real interesting concept.
43:56
Corie: So the issue is that when you give away money, people are gonna be happy.
44:00
Corie: For three months.
44:01
Corie: And then after because you know what's happening in three months?
44:05
Corie: Within three months, your real estate agent.
44:10
Corie: This call.
44:11
Corie: Not your real estate.
44:12
Corie: The insurance, them is called fools.
44:14
Corie: Them is no one everybody else get money, you know.
44:16
Corie: So the real estate agent is called and them is say, here, what going on?
44:21
Corie: Your life value is so much more.
44:23
Corie: You was making 10,000 hours, you're making 20, you know.
44:26
Corie: So you up your life insurance, you're up this, you're up your thing.
44:29
Corie: Sometimes your house starts to get a little uncomfortable.
44:31
Corie: You know, you say, Boy, I don't, I don't have room here.
44:34
Corie: You know what I mean?
44:36
Corie: You have to build up our upstairs.
44:38
Corie: Well, don't talk for your car.
44:40
Corie: Because you see the car you had that that that that couldn't change immediately.
44:44
Corie: Find it, you know.
44:45
Corie: I I don't know, like a car relatively new, nothing wrong with my car, but you give me some more money.
44:49
Corie: No, I say, no, this car is really burning a lot of gas.
44:52
Corie: I must get me one of those BYD EVs.
44:54
Corie: I'm to go and look for a pro.
44:55
Corie: We always looking for progress.
44:56
Corie: It is human nature.
44:58
Corie: We always look for it and we want to see ourselves improve over time.
45:02
Corie: So when that three months pass and you start to the disbelief of you getting double your income, well, here now, if you feel double bad, don't go and get five time your income and think five time your income is divorcing.
45:14
Corie: You start to get uncomfortable with your madam and your mister.
45:17
Corie: You want to start a whole fresh life then now.
45:20
Corie: Don't let it don't let certain people, don't let certain genders start to make enough money where they can mind themselves and each children and load you realize it for you, you know.
45:26
Corie: You're hearing from them again, you ain't seeing them know each other again.
45:29
Corie: It's just human nature.
45:31
Corie: So, point I'm making is when you come into this, let's assume that there's a windfall and we're gonna do good.
45:37
Corie: You had to manage this thing about giving away money.
45:40
Corie: Like just giving people free money to do things.
45:43
Corie: Like CPEP and URP is one of them, you know, there's no product and there's nothing to buy.
45:47
Corie: When I say production, I'm not saying productivity.
45:49
Corie: I'm not saying the work that people, CPEP contractors, do is not important.
45:53
Corie: But the issue is that if you're doing work that does not lead to anything that can be bought, then you're not stimulating the economy.
46:00
Corie: You're not stimulating it in any way, giving people money.
46:03
Corie: It's just transfer payments, basically, you're transferring public funds to people.
46:06
Corie: They get accustomed to that lifestyle.
46:09
Corie: Then three months later, they want more money.
46:12
Corie: As an example, PSA still waiting for meeting with CPO over back pay arrest proposal.
46:18
Corie: Now, to tell you the truth, I taught them done with this.
46:20
Corie: I taught them agree to take their little thing in about 10% cash and about 90% in kudos because they tell them it's some kind of non-cash deal and things.
46:28
Corie: So I was a little surprised to see that um this still ongoing.
46:33
Corie: And I like the CPO.
46:34
Corie: He's my hero.
46:36
Corie: The CPO have a way.
46:37
Corie: He just look if he looked ambivalent in the dictionary, like he just always he never have an expression.
46:45
Corie: He expression neutral right.
46:48
Corie: I guess that's what he had to do to be a negotiator because I don't think I ever see him smiling.
46:53
Corie: I don't think I ever see him vexed, he's just who is.
46:55
Corie: I don't know, he's doing home hunting because when I home they see my face-looking thing, he looking like it's I don't know this man, face always just neutral.
47:03
Corie: So from Akash Samaru Public Servers uh Association president Felicia Thomas says the union is still waiting with this uh on the CPO to discuss its counter proposal for set uh settling public officers' salary negotiation arrears while describing the delay as unprecedented and claiming it represents uh the first unsettled settlement in history now, Felicia.
47:26
Corie: I want to be honest with you.
47:28
Corie: Is you say it's settled now.
47:30
Corie: You can say it's the first unsettled settled thing because I remember, and you see how the man faced Stoic and he does say nothing.
47:36
Corie: I will never forget Felicia Thomas come in her Facebook post with her envelope and knock the table to say offer in hand.
47:45
Corie: And I know the offer wasn't in hand.
47:47
Corie: She poke her face any same as the CPO.
47:50
Corie: She was looking so stressed and worried when she does that that uh but anybody could have said to Felicia, you don't all do even believe what you're saying here.
47:58
Corie: So the fact that Oli celebrate and say that the thing settled, or let do all kinds of photo-ops and all kinds of comments about it being settled, and then within the same three-month period, they said to say, Well, we settled, but we had to figure out how we're paying this back because we do have the cash, some will be in cash, some will be in this, some will again.
48:18
Corie: I see, I spy with my little eye at one point in time.
48:22
Corie: If I could remember, I want to say it's Marvin Gonzalez now, but I can't remember my memory.
48:30
Corie: Stand up and ask them how I see this in the budget at all, or they say only paying back public service, but I ain't seeing no line item.
48:37
Corie: But boy, they dance, they do they do a proper dance like why I do in Lavo Boot, right?
48:41
Corie: And that was the end of that, that fades a black, you know what I mean?
48:44
Corie: But this is the thing.
48:47
Corie: The government comes into a wind full of money.
48:50
Corie: Nobody in their right mind as Minister of Finance willing to stand up and say, well, except one very short mind, nobody willing to stand up and say public servants' increases are going to be zero, zero, zero over the last three years.
49:04
Corie: When you don't have the backdrop of a struggling economy.
49:08
Corie: When the economy is up, the expectation is that public servants will get much, much more.
49:13
Corie: We will go back to them 9 and 10% negotiation we used to get that was 5, 5, 3.
49:18
Corie: When you work into a city and you get a piece of back pay, you're good enough, you could add on the bedroom in the back by your house, courts going and get money.
49:24
Corie: McNeil and Massey and them who's selling cars, them guys going and get money.
49:27
Corie: That's the reality, you see it all the time.
49:29
Corie: So I feel like we have an opportunity here to not do that.
49:32
Corie: And in not doing that, had to start with us as a society.
49:37
Corie: You see this expectation that because the government is making more money now, it must be handed over to the citizens.
49:42
Corie: It feels like a good idea, but I guarantee you, the good idea is only going to last three months.
49:46
Corie: Because let me tell you what's the next problem is not just you and how you feel about new money you come in for the last three months.
49:52
Corie: The issue is if you give public servants now a whole bunch of cash, because it's safe to assume that the productivity in the public service is not going to go up, they're going to be doing the same jobs, the same outcomes, and they're going to get the cash, which I mean you deserve.
50:06
Corie: How much ever years you're working at, how much ever people like to say they're working on 20 or 10 salary.
50:10
Corie: I don't even know what I mean.
50:11
Corie: But they bring you up to date now, and everybody get an increase.
50:16
Corie: Government in Trendan Tobago is still the biggest employer in the country.
50:19
Corie: When everybody gets more money, and it still have the same amount of tomatoes selling.
50:25
Corie: Tomato can't grow fast enough.
50:27
Corie: All it causes is that the price of tomatoes go up.
50:29
Corie: Replace tomato with whatever is your favorite thing, with car, with real estate, with insurance, everything goes up.
50:36
Corie: So that the benefits you think you get when you get an increased salary with 5% and 5% and you get back pay and is eroded by the inflationary pressure of that.
50:45
Corie: So again, the opportunity is there for some minister of finance who is tanku.
50:52
Corie: They should put the CPU in.
50:53
Corie: To come and tell people, here we're going.
50:55
Corie: We get in a windfall of money, but these are the things we need to fix in the economy to make sure that the economy is making more money outside of oil and gas.
51:03
Corie: Data center looking like one they say where the data center is.
51:06
Corie: It's done called Condor side somewhere on that side to Ruba side somewhere it's happening.
51:12
Corie: So wherever the new thing is, wherever the new industry is, maybe it's mobile police station, wherever we invest in now, because we have the first set of mobile thing in this country that care moves.
51:20
Corie: The greatest thing I've ever seen.
51:22
Corie: We have a whole set of mobile police station that casts down with suspicions and them going.
51:26
Corie: I want to know what part of it mobile, maybe it's the police that's mobile.
51:30
Corie: But just fair one, again, I'm very, very happy.
51:33
Corie: I'm relieved actually when I saw that that deal was signed because, like everybody else, I following up on it.
51:39
Corie: I watching to see well, where are we going next?
51:41
Corie: What is happening?
51:43
Corie: But it looked like we have money coming in.
51:46
Corie: And I'm hoping that that means the stain of the execution of some of the big energy companies.
51:52
Corie: I see we have a steel plant coming, them gonna need gas.
51:55
Corie: You know, hopefully it it holds over.
51:58
Corie: I I see I see this morning I was in my partner.
52:02
Corie: Let me read this.
52:03
Corie: Nutrient Review advances with third-party visits to Point Lisa's facility.
52:09
Corie: Nutrient strategic review of its Trendad nitrogen operations is continuing.
52:13
Corie: Representatives from third-party organizations expected to conduct site visits at Point Lisa's facility this week.
52:19
Corie: The visits form part of Nutrient's ongoing evaluation of its future Trendad operations, which has remained shut down since a controlled shutdown in October last year.
52:29
Corie: Guardian Media has been made aware of documents circulated internally to employees, which indicate that third-party site visits are taking place as part of the review.
52:38
Corie: The document dated last Monday said the Nutrion continues to evaluate all strategic options for the facility, including the exploration of exploration of a potential sale.
52:48
Corie: I don't have any more information on this than YC in any papers, yeah.
52:52
Corie: But I will say that when they say third party, that looking like when you carry a car, you know, you put your car on Facebook or pin not TT, it has some third parties that's come there.
53:02
Corie: So I guess as a company, as an international or global company, they going ahead with their decision or from a strategic standpoint to look to sell the plant.
53:11
Corie: The third party people can't be coming here as a cleanup.
53:13
Corie: It has to be to look at the plant and see its viability.
53:16
Corie: Now, a decision ought to be made at this point because if if we know in the public that the gas deal signed, the people behind the scenes here would know that the gas deal was going unsigned, right?
53:26
Corie: So I'm eager to see what the move is here.
53:28
Corie: From a strategic standpoint, does Nutrian decide, hey, alright, good, we're getting a gas price that we want, we get any port prices that we want, and we stay in, or do they sell it and then sell it to who?
53:38
Corie: That's sell it to who looking like a you know, they have a familiar group who when they ask for sell it to who?
53:43
Corie: Like the same thing when you sell it to who with Hilton.
53:46
Corie: It's a familiar group of names calling Trinidad Politics Suite.
53:49
Corie: Let me go back to Lava boat, right?
53:51
Corie: And talk about thing where I mean see the good, good Kootein, you know.
53:55
Corie: Always good to see these fellows.
53:57
Corie: So when performances start and think lava, of course, is fireworks and them things, but they kootein is a little bit like me in that he hides so far in the back of that boat is a shape.
54:07
Corie: Everybody who is somebody and all the artists up close to the stage and in the zone and thing, boy, you could barely see Kuten down in the corner.
54:14
Corie: At one point, I see artists started playing.
54:16
Corie: Artists started to perform, and his Akima to say, Raga, love a birdie, what we gonna do?
54:21
Corie: And he went up and let him say something.
54:23
Corie: He's the next one could be a mega star.
54:25
Corie: Like I tell them, I tell the team when I went to the show in Song Forge.
54:28
Corie: I can't wait to see them men go and sell out Madison Square Garden.
54:32
Corie: But have a tune for you from Koote.
54:33
Corie: I go, he's all up, right?
54:34
Corie: I go play one that all you're supposed to know.
56:02
Corie: Let me tell you some of the feedback I get sometimes with real encouraging.
56:06
Corie: I was leaving Kooten show today, and a man come and tell me, he said, boy, you is the reason I come here, you know.
56:12
Corie: I say, Well, I say, I is the reason you come here, I can't barely stay up late enough to go cooten show you I'm the reason you come here.
56:17
Corie: And he said, No, he said, but I watched I interviewed Kooten about 10 times, you know.
56:20
Corie: He said that make me start to know him and start to realize that boy he's a man to take in and he is because the way all the limey lime in the back of the boat, you know, when they call him to perform, uh other than um they had several performers, they could play, I will play a tune from all of them before I get out of here.
56:38
Corie: But he had to go and sing, sing, right?
56:41
Corie: He's a singer, he's not chanting like lava or anybody, you know what I mean?
56:44
Corie: He had to sing and whole note.
56:46
Corie: And it's amazing the comfort he do that with from the back of that boat, right?
56:51
Corie: And I mean, I guess when they're there, they expect to perform so that he's not completely out of it.
56:56
Corie: But he takes that mic and rip that boat right in half, you know what I mean?
57:00
Corie: And it's just one of them guys, special, special dude.
57:03
Corie: Salute to Kutin, salute to the team.
57:05
Corie: How about the police station and then?
57:07
Corie: We said three of the 30 plant joint army police posts are 95% completed, says Homeland Security Roger, speaking with TV6 in a phone interview yesterday.
57:18
Corie: He said three three almost completed posts are located at Grandda's at Toruba and Eddie Hart Grongs in Takarigua.
57:25
Corie: I believe since this article I saw them uh well, I see drone shots and thing of Toruba complete.
57:32
Corie: I hope it means complete and occupied.
57:35
Corie: Asked when they would be commissioned, Alexander said the date would be set by Prime Minister Kamla Pasadbi.
57:39
Corie: So he said the staffing for the post will be decided following a meeting.
57:45
Corie: What the staffing for the post will be decided for I thought the name of the game was keep up, not catch up.
57:50
Corie: Only decide on this yet.
57:52
Corie: So only building and now we're anyway.
57:54
Corie: The staffing for the post will be decided following a meeting with police Alistair Guevaro.
57:59
Corie: Who's Alistair Guevaro?
58:00
Corie: Yeah, wrong.
58:01
Corie: Yeah, from me a long time.
58:02
Corie: Chief of Defense staff coming out on polo next week.
58:06
Corie: So the police and army now looking to see all this staff.
58:08
Corie: This is perfect.
58:09
Corie: The staffing is a strategic agreement between the police service and the chief of defense staff.
58:14
Corie: He explained, he also spoke about the process by which a community will be allocated an army police post.
58:19
Corie: He said that will depend on the crime in the area.
58:21
Corie: We are asking for information from the police.
58:25
Corie: Oh, this had to be for the next 27.
58:27
Corie: Like, I can what is this?
58:28
Corie: We're making it supposed to go along or this is not like a plan thing.
58:31
Corie: We can hear them call areas with the thing going.
58:33
Corie: What's happening right now?
58:34
Corie: He said it will depend on the crime in the area.
58:36
Corie: We are asking for information from the police or the crime and problem analysis unit for the statistics and crime according to the area.
58:43
Corie: But we know it's at 30, right?
58:46
Corie: So but while we're looking at the crime in the area, these units are not only just for the purposes of preventing crime, but also to foster good relationships between the police service and the defense force, members of the public through constant communication and visits to schools, churches, businesses, residents.
59:03
Corie: But if you make it up as you go along as our people as we yes, I never hear nothing like this yet.
59:08
Corie: That is fair.
59:09
Corie: You know the answers you used to sing when somebody asks you questions.
59:11
Corie: The minister said you might see these structures going down, but just as they go down, they can be removed.
59:16
Corie: That's why we call it a mobile unit.
59:17
Corie: Well, first of today, my house is a mobile unit because just as it went down, it could go, it could be removed too.
59:23
Corie: But what I mean is a whole foundation only digging cuspits on NGC line and them thinking having gas now or no.
59:29
Corie: You know, the first thing I say when I see this thing as simple, all you say the country are no gas and NGC thing on commission.
59:34
Corie: Del C signed the gas deal.
59:36
Corie: Now the cesspit is on top of our gas line.
59:38
Corie: Is this special?
59:39
Corie: This is where you do when you plan years ahead.
59:41
Corie: When you have 23 years to plan something, this is exactly how it turns out.
59:45
Corie: You say the mobile post can be upped, dismantled, and moved again.
59:48
Corie: Simple as that.
59:51
Corie: You know what has been upped, dismantled, and moved again?
59:53
Corie: The Northstand.
59:55
Corie: I see that for many, many years.
59:57
Corie: When the Northstand get upped, dismantled, move again, and rebuilt.
1:00:01
Corie: I am not sure again how useful that is as a strategy.
1:00:04
Corie: I'm not in fact, I'm pretty sure it's real money wasted.
1:00:07
Corie: But you see, I talk about money wasting from this fourth group, is a little call call with the 5%, right?
1:00:12
Corie: It's a tribute ways, it's undecided, PM and UNC, and then that's the 5%.
1:00:16
Corie: I will call with the little 5% squad, right?
1:00:19
Corie: The 5% squad understands that if every year you build up that note stand, number one, it's dangerous.
1:00:25
Corie: Number two, it's not cost effective.
1:00:27
Corie: We're using it all the time and we could find use for it.
1:00:30
Corie: And there's a cost to breaking down, there's a cost to building backup, there's a cost for mobilization, there's a cost for mobilization to bill it and mobilization to take it out.
1:00:37
Corie: So every time we pay in this cost for the last, how much ever years?
1:00:41
Corie: The 5% will say, well, why we don't just build a permanent stand or move the parade route or change it.
1:00:46
Corie: Oh yeah, man, make a real good suggestion.
1:00:48
Corie: You know, you say when they were billing Napa, you say what we could have done at that point in time is bite the bullet, break down the grandstand, let the grandstand facing in the next direction, build a next stand on Napa's side that have to do with Napa activities.
1:01:02
Corie: So Napa has now an amphitheater and thing they could use whole year, and now it's facing the road and make the road the stage.
1:01:08
Corie: I find it was a real good suggestion.
1:01:09
Corie: Me and no major cost and thing, but it makes some sense because now you could leave the grandstand as a permanent structure in the Savannah, now it will be facing south.
1:01:17
Corie: Have all the offices, because I believe NCC office, it has some offices in there and thinking.
1:01:21
Corie: You have a permanent structure that anybody could rent and use for different things.
1:01:23
Corie: Build it like when you build Napa wait as zones, people could do conferences, whatever you could do.
1:01:27
Corie: And then let Napa manage you next side.
1:01:29
Corie: And then when it's carnival Monday and Tuesday, or the times when you need it for a parade, you just let people go there and the thing.
1:01:37
Corie: And then you have a more permanent.
1:01:39
Corie: If it's a Lana Carnival, we should be like doing things that are not mobile for a carnival that's coming every year.
1:01:45
Corie: But apparently we are specialists in building mobile things that are kind of permanent and fixed, you know what I mean?
1:01:51
Corie: So while the while the um the units being constructed and we could move them.
1:01:56
Corie: So what he's saying basically, if I hear him right, is that we are tooty hotspot areas.
1:02:00
Corie: We we're not sure how much crime in each area, we're still waiting on that from the police, right?
1:02:04
Corie: And we're not sure how much people we go put in there, we're waiting for the police and the army sitting, but we know we need to, right?
1:02:08
Corie: So we know we need to.
1:02:10
Corie: So we're gonna figure out what to put them to as we go along.
1:02:12
Corie: When we put it tooty, if Golconda is one of the tooty or Eddie Hart is one of the tooty, and the crime path down there.
1:02:18
Corie: And then St.
1:02:19
Corie: James started heat up, we go break down Eddie Hart quick and put it in Sun James, but then we go to what Eddie Hart, the crime will just move.
1:02:25
Corie: But again, the situation is fluid.
1:02:27
Corie: I think that should be the new answer.
1:02:29
Corie: I don't think I have PR working.
1:02:30
Corie: We're not done now.
1:02:31
Corie: I don't got a PR work for this government.
1:02:32
Corie: Well, they just had to say every single time, the situation is fluid.
1:02:35
Corie: We're working it out as we go along.
1:02:37
Corie: Well, in no paying attention, right?
1:02:38
Corie: We got driving across the savannah every day to go home.
1:02:42
Corie: Every day I had to pass it.
1:02:44
Corie: And I'm seeing the northern side of the savannah, Pell Mel construction going on.
1:02:49
Corie: Savannah Parade works only temporary, says Alexander.
1:02:53
Corie: This is one of the greatest things I see in a long time too, right?
1:02:56
Corie: Because that one is not looking very temporary, right?
1:03:03
Corie: Thing paving, structure going down, the structure and thing looking like trussing and scaffolding and thing, but it it wants a foundation, it's human beings, you know, and uh the most important human beings in the country go in there, so I know they're gonna make it stable.
1:03:16
Corie: If it was me and you, the rest don't too scaffold there and some board and thing like what they do in Emancipation Village, you know, and every man for yourself, but the most important people, there so the the Stanha Foundation and thing.
1:03:27
Corie: Let me read what it's here.
1:03:29
Corie: Enhancements being made, and the word enhancements is doing a lot of work in the sentence.
1:03:35
Corie: Enhancements being made on the northern side of the Queen's Park savannah to accommodate the 31st of August, they parade which will be removed after the event.
1:03:44
Corie: Says minister in the Ministry of Housing.
1:03:49
Corie: Why are he talking about this?
1:03:50
Corie: Oh, he's the sentence, man.
1:03:52
Corie: Okay.
1:03:52
Corie: UNC shadow MP Philip participants in James Philip Alexander.
1:03:55
Corie: Alexander spoke amid concerns about growing encroachments on the savannah.
1:03:59
Corie: As we say, is the Carlos Johnny Feck.
1:04:02
Corie: On Sunday, the government officials, including Alexander, confirmed that the parade will be held on a location opposite the president's house on the northern side of the Queen's Park Savannah instead of its usual venue at the grandstand on the southern side.
1:04:13
Corie: Now, the consensus in this room is that they're doing that so they don't get booed, right?
1:04:18
Corie: They don't want to face the public because they know all your PNMites go and come and boo the people and tell them, I will remember you gave us food tomorrow when we ask for food today.
1:04:28
Corie: I've tried the woman who's uh she lives here, she has food, she has food for it.
1:04:33
Corie: But the parade route changing.
1:04:36
Corie: Now, I I I struggling to figure out because as a man is one to have balance and understand the reason people do think.
1:04:44
Corie: I don't think people mad.
1:04:45
Corie: I feel is the best and brightest people we have in charge.
1:04:47
Corie: But I'd tell you every day that pass a sign to agree with the people inside here.
1:04:52
Corie: Because I cannot see what is the point of this.
1:04:54
Corie: I can't see number one, the stand real small compared to the grand stand.
1:04:59
Corie: When I'm building up there and calling a stand, can't hold no set of people.
1:05:03
Corie: It leads me to believe that what is going to happen is that the entire stand is only going to be accessible to people who were invited.
1:05:12
Corie: It's like lava boat ride.
1:05:14
Corie: Because you know what it was nice to see?
1:05:16
Corie: I see everybody who came off of Rise and Roast, like they didn't get enough rising and roasting, so all of them on their phone trying to figure out how to gain lava boat ride now.
1:05:23
Corie: But lava boat ride was not payting, it's by invitation only.
1:05:26
Corie: So I know who gets on or but the people from Ryze and Roast really would have liked to stay and party with lava.
1:05:31
Corie: That would have been nice too.
1:05:32
Corie: I'll find some people my age group there.
1:05:34
Corie: But it feels like one of those things.
1:05:36
Corie: It feels like when they're done where they stand, they're going to say it is only for invited officials.
1:05:44
Corie: A sign to wonder if they're going to invite the opposition or toilet because it might make their men take some hot sun and think, you know, only who really wanna sit down next to some Gonzals and Penny and these people.
1:05:53
Corie: But I suppose he had to do it, right?
1:05:55
Corie: Let's hope.
1:05:55
Corie: Let's hope they do the right thing here.
1:05:57
Corie: And they they trust that Steertio can go boo onto.
1:06:00
Corie: He's a man that's had trouble with too much riser and thing, you know.
1:06:02
Corie: When you see he had a walk-up riser, he has a boo he's accident prone, you know.
1:06:07
Corie: So he will be focused, he care boo.
1:06:08
Corie: So they're gonna get the people who are in opposition, I assume.
1:06:12
Corie: And that will be a little small percentage of the crowd in the area, so and da da da da da and poor little one side away from the thing, and then flood it with um friends and family and supporters of the UNC.
1:06:22
Corie: So we're gonna see is a lot of board members, a lot of parliamentarians, a lot of bloggers and vloggers and so on, because the social media narrative coming off of this independence day is gonna be strong enough.
1:06:32
Corie: I hear the city about a drone, what do they call it thing now?
1:06:35
Corie: A drone display to do.
1:06:36
Corie: I wish they would do drone displays instead of um instead of the fireworks.
1:06:43
Corie: I like to see the fireworks, you know, like uh like lava fireworks was good.
1:06:47
Corie: That's how it needs to see it.
1:06:48
Corie: Can't frighten the dog on them.
1:06:49
Corie: I don't know if it's do the fish on them anything.
1:06:51
Corie: But uh I just find that the fireworks is such a a waste sometimes.
1:06:55
Corie: So I'm looking forward to the drone show.
1:06:57
Corie: Let me see what I look like, but again, as we as we approach, we are two more weeks still independence.
1:07:02
Corie: I still stand by the state, man, that I I find it to be one of the biggest wastes to build this carlos John thing at the top of the savannah there.
1:07:12
Corie: Because it's a thing that temporary in this country is trying to get permanent real fast because as they find use for that, they go find some other use and you know it's our way going up now and it's struggling to come down because I also feel like if when Bravo was here, he was talking about it.
1:07:26
Corie: He was talking about the fact that several um several sports clubs like running on them things, the rugby, the national rugby team on them, they use that area, the savannah to train.
1:07:42
Corie: And if I'm to take any of the very, very detailed and meticulous planning that went into deciding where police post to go to go in these 30 places and what should be mobile and immobile and so on.
1:07:56
Corie: But the great, great planning and strategy that went into arresting people under PDO and letting go people, but letting go two of the people, but one had to stay under house arrest and the house arrest van had to move from Bay Show and go by riverside plat.
1:08:09
Corie: If I'm to take that level of planning in place, I had to assume that this thing in Savannah, in terms of where it was, was planned out well.
1:08:17
Corie: The the environmental effect was planned.
1:08:19
Corie: I had to assume that all those things were planned out very, very well.
1:08:22
Corie: Because I live long enough to see when certain people say the Savannah need this and the savannah needs that, which it did.
1:08:28
Corie: Because we benefit from Carlos John space all now, right?
1:08:31
Corie: But it could have taken a little more planning so that Dung Tong does start to flood immediately after you pave the thing.
1:08:37
Corie: But we forget, we forget, we forget.
1:08:38
Corie: A man I shan't forget.
1:08:40
Corie: It's a young gentleman by the name of Christo.
1:08:42
Corie: I tell him people on the team here like Tano is a man I need to see.
1:08:44
Corie: I need to sit up with Tano.
1:08:45
Corie: I don't understand what happened.
1:08:46
Corie: Why I can't get Tano in here yet?
1:08:48
Corie: And Christo is one of them men I want to see soon too.
1:08:50
Corie: Because Christo, again, young, bad, bad man.
1:08:54
Corie: I see him on the boat.
1:08:55
Corie: And there's a salute to him.
1:08:56
Corie: He said, you know, he's boys listen to all the interviews.
1:08:58
Corie: I say, I say, boys listen to everything you do too.
1:09:00
Corie: And he's one of the men who went up.
1:09:02
Corie: I'll hear your next little tune, you know, right?
1:09:03
Corie: I know Christo.
1:09:05
Corie: When I say Christo, you people who listening to this expecting to hear the pirate and the dumb boy.
1:09:10
Corie: Not that Christo, not that Christo, this Christo.
1:09:45
SPEAKER_01: I love the energy party boom.
1:10:55
SPEAKER_01: When I put the cut and we showed us, we don't see that, you know, we cut the party boom.
1:11:27
SPEAKER_01: Come on, let's come in the mama.
1:12:13
Corie: You know, one of the biggest differences between music, then and music now is them, man, is make some songs short, you know.
1:12:18
Corie: If a man and catch this groove like Crystal in his 70s, 80s, this song would have last about 15 minutes long.
1:12:23
Corie: This song is barely, barely two minutes.
1:12:26
Corie: You don't like them.
1:12:27
Corie: Let me tell you a random story right before I get out of here.
1:12:30
Corie: And I I it's something I can't understand.
1:12:32
Corie: And as I as I say, for people who in the in the comments and thing, I appreciate the comments, I appreciate the feedback.
1:12:37
Corie: But I appreciate the debate.
1:12:38
Corie: I ain't here for you to agree with everything I say.
1:12:40
Corie: Me and no, I don't know much, much less for everything.
1:12:43
Corie: You know what I mean?
1:12:43
Corie: So I always welcome it and open to it and open to correction on anything.
1:12:47
Corie: When I say wrong, I will fix next week too.
1:12:49
Corie: And you know, if you give me my perspective, that changed my mind, that's what we're here for, that's what we're here for.
1:12:52
Corie: I think all of us deliver the 5%.
1:12:55
Corie: We we we we in it for the betterment of the place, right?
1:12:58
Corie: But you know who caretakes being wrong at all or who obsessed with being right?
1:13:03
Corie: And I can't understand it.
1:13:04
Corie: Is is let me let me read an article here that I read, right?
1:13:07
Corie: And I think, in my little naive mind, that anybody who reads this article should have the same sentiment.
1:13:14
Corie: Because whether it's a mother, a father, you have a brother and sister, you have whatever you are, you're humoured.
1:13:21
Corie: So I think when I see an article like this, everybody should be thinking the same thing and feeling the same way.
1:13:25
Corie: Headline says police probe sudden death of an 18-year-old.
1:13:29
Corie: Police are investigating the sudden death of an 18-year-old student who became ill at a Gasparello home on Friday night.
1:13:35
Corie: The deceased is Jedi Bihari of Happy Hill, rest in peace to our condolences to the family, who was a student at School of International Travel and Languages, Cital, a place where I lecture coincidentally, and the lead dancer for a troop in Gasparello.
1:13:48
Corie: According to the police report, Bihari was spending time at the home of her boyfriend in Ben Lamon village when she began complaining of sudden chest pains around 10.40 pm.
1:13:59
Corie: Police were then told police were told that she subsequently began gasping for air and her boyfriend attempted to administer CPR and alerted relatives who also tried to revive her.
1:14:09
Corie: Bihari was taken by a relative to San Fernando General Hospital where she was treated by doctors.
1:14:13
Corie: However, she was pronounced dead around 11.46 p.m.
1:14:16
Corie: Again, sad, sad, sad.
1:14:18
Corie: 18 years old.
1:14:19
Corie: I mean, those things, those situations are unimaginable.
1:14:23
Corie: Like to imagine the pain of a parent in a situation like that, losing your 18-year-old.
1:14:29
Corie: This girl pursuing tertiary education, she's the leader of a dance troupe.
1:14:32
Corie: This is the kind of things where anybody could relate to how difficult that is for somebody to go through that.
1:14:40
Corie: I always feel like it don't take much to figure out how tragic that is.
1:14:44
Corie: I can imagine what the boyfriend is going through.
1:14:47
Corie: Because all you're good, you're having a lime, you know what I mean?
1:14:49
Corie: Your girlfriend comes over and then it's it it escalates quick and and then you hearing news now that this person is no longer with us.
1:14:56
Corie: For all of you who pass a certain age and start to study your mortality and how long you got thing and how much Dominica did say do a eulogy.
1:15:03
Corie: Tell yourself how much more years you have left.
1:15:05
Corie: And when I when I do my calculation, I am I have less years left than I done live already.
1:15:12
Corie: Plenty of us who listening to this in that situation.
1:15:15
Corie: But 18, you don't even study them kind of thing.
1:15:17
Corie: You you don't study at 18 that you could lose your girlfriend or your brother.
1:15:23
Corie: You them things don't even enter your mind.
1:15:25
Corie: You just you just live in.
1:15:27
Corie: But for some strange reason, that is not the sentiment of everybody who reads the article.
1:15:33
Corie: Because, like I say, it has some people who hell bent on being right no matter what they're sounding like or how insensitive this song is.
1:15:46
Corie: Because on Facebook, and I promise myself there they are gonna stop reading Facebook comments, right?
1:15:51
Corie: They have a bunch of comments that saying the same thing in terms of how sad it is and all those all those different things I say and the tragedy association associated with it.
1:15:59
Corie: But they have some people in the comments, and you see it all the time now when young people pass away.
1:16:04
Corie: The first thing they start to talk about is the vaccine.
1:16:07
Corie: I I wonder who these people are.
1:16:09
Corie: Like what is your upbringing?
1:16:11
Corie: Like, how you feeling in life?
1:16:12
Corie: Like when you go to work on a daily basis, what is beyond your mind?
1:16:14
Corie: Where does your study?
1:16:16
Corie: Because for you to be so self-righteous and so you you you love yourself so much that during COVID, all they had this idea that the people who take any vaccine is sheep and who don't want to take the vaccine and think, which I am fine with.
1:16:30
Corie: I never really liked the idea of a mandatory vaccine.
1:16:34
Corie: It's a very, very tricky thing.
1:16:35
Corie: I understand what we were going through as a world at the time.
1:16:38
Corie: We're seeing now we're Fauci pain for the price for some of the decisions that were made at a point in time, and questions can be asked about whether the vaccine was a good thing, a bad thing, a mistake, a deliberate thing, or whatever.
1:16:50
Corie: I just wonder if, like, the the article where they're talking about an 18-year-old passing away.
1:16:56
Corie: Is that the best time you feel to come in the comments to say vaccine?
1:17:04
Corie: Check the job.
1:17:05
Corie: A way to check it.
1:17:06
Corie: Check it for yourself now, right?
1:17:08
Corie: COVID injection acting up is the vaccine.
1:17:11
Corie: I show she was vaxxed.
1:17:12
Corie: And this and that.
1:17:14
Corie: You check the comments, and I want you to don't check it just with this situation.
1:17:18
Corie: Again, condolences to the family and everybody involved in this.
1:17:21
Corie: That is not no easy thing that family going through right now.
1:17:25
Corie: And I just feel as though there's an opportunity to shut up.
1:17:31
Corie: In the words of the youth, S T F U.
1:17:33
Corie: That time like this.
1:17:34
Corie: If you if if that is where you come up with, like be right in your mind and be righteous in your mind and just say just say that and move on.
1:17:40
Corie: Because for the life of me, I cannot understand why that is the response to things like that.
1:17:47
Corie: It's just one of them things.
1:17:48
Corie: I see it this week and it it bothered me to no end.
1:17:50
Corie: Because I don't I don't sometimes I just don't understand me.
1:17:53
Corie: I don't understand me.
1:17:54
Corie: I could go on to lighter lighter things and and again maybe maybe it's my fault, you know, because I clearly is we spending too much of time in the comments.
1:18:05
Corie: Hey, you know, wait now.
1:18:07
Corie: While I reading this, wow, 10 minutes left, right?
1:18:09
Corie: While I reading this, I see in here a headline with the PSA president sitting next next to Barry Padarath saying there's no moral authority.
1:18:19
Corie: Hey, I ain't lying trending that's sweet enough.
1:18:21
Corie: The PSA president tells Marvin Gonzalez to stay out of Wassa business.
1:18:25
Corie: She wasn't just fighting like listen, this according to wise words are duke.
1:18:29
Corie: This fungal sweet.
1:18:30
Corie: You can't go wrong in this country, you know.
1:18:31
Corie: It must have thing for you to back an alien yourself and them kind of thing.
1:18:34
Corie: Another place where I see the comments very, very wild.
1:18:37
Corie: I find this was such a nice article.
1:18:39
Corie: You know what I worry about in my spare time?
1:18:42
Corie: I don't like how Patrick Manning went out.
1:18:45
Corie: I bad top politicians to know any.
1:18:47
Corie: I I feel a career politician.
1:18:50
Corie: Them looking into sort of their self.
1:18:51
Corie: Well, you know how I feel about that, right?
1:18:54
Corie: But you know, one of the nicest things I ever see in this country is the little time we get to see uh Patrick Manning and Bazdi O Pandey in them little press reunion when the men play their card and thing to just show that it's normal people, you know.
1:19:06
Corie: I mean, they just they're just cool and they're talking and playing their card like normal.
1:19:10
Corie: I I hope one day boy, but meaning if I go ever see that, nah.
1:19:15
Corie: I hope one day I could see Camlon and Mooney Lal play a whole first game against Rowley and Stewart.
1:19:22
Corie: Only if you will live to see that.
1:19:24
Corie: Right! They're gonna meet each other, it's a death wrong that table.
1:19:27
Corie: They never live to see that.
1:19:28
Corie: But when they get old and thing and you retire, and you know what I mean?
1:19:30
Corie: All you retire on a nice old cushion as politicians, only set up all yourself nice and thing, little airport contract and sunny and these things.
1:19:37
Corie: Well, they good now.
1:19:38
Corie: It'll be nice to see them laugh.
1:19:39
Corie: And so I really feel for the Manning family at the time for the country as a whole, when Patrick Manning, you fight so hard with this politics thing.
1:19:46
Corie: And then when you're done now, we ain't get to enjoy good, good retirement and let people celebrate it because the newer generations that come up inevitably see them as just old people.
1:19:56
Corie: So they forget all the things that they do, and I wish that for people sometimes.
1:20:01
Corie: And I feel good to see, as much as our bad talk rollers over the years, I just feel good to see him.
1:20:07
Corie: And it's somebody who I admire.
1:20:11
Corie: He seems to be a very disciplined man, he's been angry a lot, right?
1:20:14
Corie: One day I will get to talk to him, he'd be angry.
1:20:15
Corie: I'll ask him, What are you just upset about because your life is good?
1:20:18
Corie: But that man, very, very fit, maintains himself well, and and that's something you had to admire somebody that age.
1:20:24
Corie: But I see a little article again.
1:20:26
Corie: Headline says, From courtroom to canvas, Sharon Rowley fulfills a lifelong passion for art.
1:20:32
Corie: And then a nice little breakdown, she had a piece of art there.
1:20:35
Corie: I think it's through Blue Shutters, I believe the name of the piece of art wiggles.
1:20:39
Corie: Uh, if Sharon Rowley, this is by Sharice Mo.
1:20:42
Corie: If Sharon Rowley had her way, she would have pursued her career in the creative field.
1:20:45
Corie: Ever since she could recall, she had a strong passion for visual arts.
1:20:48
Corie: Her favourite subject in school.
1:20:50
Corie: However, she was at Bishop's Antsy High School.
1:20:53
Corie: When she was at Bishop's Antti High School, she was encouraged to explore other parts considered more practical, and that is when she went on to become a lawyer.
1:21:01
Corie: So they show a painting that she revealed recently, and she says she dabbled with it.
1:21:04
Corie: Her husband and everybody used to tell a girl, you know, why you don't pursue your art?
1:21:08
Corie: And I find it peaceful.
1:21:10
Corie: Well, no, I'll gotta tell you that, right?
1:21:11
Corie: I can't write in a straight line, I can't sign my name too good.
1:21:14
Corie: Me, me the best of these things.
1:21:16
Corie: So maybe I easy the fool when it comes to artwork, but what she does here, I couldn't do.
1:21:20
Corie: I could tell you that.
1:21:21
Corie: A painting by Sharon Rowley, the title Beyond the Blue Shutters, and it was featured at an exhibition on Barbados.
1:21:27
Corie: I find the thing real nice, and I feel more than anything else that I glad for the woman because to live in a life of politics and she's the wife of a politician.
1:21:36
Corie: That's no easy thing.
1:21:37
Corie: And when you reach any latter years, especially looking good as she's look, she looks healthy.
1:21:41
Corie: Does she any husband?
1:21:42
Corie: In terms of we call it royal family, prime ministerial, presidential family.
1:21:46
Corie: Nobody ain't better looking than two of them.
1:21:48
Corie: They fit and like fiddle and they're looking good.
1:21:52
Corie: Sharon could have been on the boat ride with Lava.
1:21:54
Corie: She don't fit right in.
1:21:55
Corie: She's fitting better than me.
1:21:56
Corie: She might have got sips after too.
1:21:58
Corie: So I think, you know, this is such a nice thing, but boy, here you know, in the comments, they cuss this woman all in at people.
1:22:05
Corie: Maybe again, I think I am the problem.
1:22:07
Corie: I just had to stop reading comments on them things.
1:22:09
Corie: But again, from us, congratulations to Sharon Rowley.
1:22:12
Corie: Find your retirement thing.
1:22:14
Corie: Find something to do that you're enjoying.
1:22:16
Corie: Find something to do that you're good at.
1:22:17
Corie: Have a good friend who might, you know, I was talking to him and he was talking about, you know, maybe it's retirement time for him.
1:22:24
Corie: And he was saying, you know, when you look at your health and you look at your age and think, maybe you have 20 more years to live at a, you know, very decent level where you're not nobody had to take you and sick every minute and thing.
1:22:35
Corie: And he was like, boy, I was watching this, this, this retirement thing as maybe negative, maybe I'm too young for that.
1:22:40
Corie: He said, but now I feel like I have the opportunity.
1:22:42
Corie: He said, if I take 10 years, he said, in 10 years you could master something.
1:22:46
Corie: So I hear him talking about golf and maybe taking you 10 years to master your golf swing and them kind of things.
1:22:51
Corie: And maybe there's a good way to look at retirement rather than an end, look at it as a new beginning.
1:22:56
Corie: So salute to him for looking at it that way.
1:22:58
Corie: And I mean, I I hope that as I start to turn that corner too, I could be as positive about it as he is.
1:23:06
Corie: But it depends on how much boat rides I really go.
1:23:09
Corie: I'm gonna leave a little bit too much tuning or leave a little bit of few more of the people I see on the boat ride.
1:23:13
Corie: This is where I'm gonna sort of confuse people a little bit here because uh Bijan man by the name of Jordan English on the thing, right?
1:23:20
Corie: I had to ask people here who is Jordan English when I coming up, because I hear the man sing the song.
1:23:24
Corie: Me in no way he's saying, but somehow it vibesy.
1:23:31
SPEAKER_00: I've been looking for the words to describe you, and really and truly is just like easy type of woman that like Alright then.
1:23:37
SPEAKER_00: Easy type of woman that will make a man or break a man or make a man go and get some money that he never had.
1:23:42
SPEAKER_00: Make a man, book a flight of somewhere that he never been.
1:23:44
SPEAKER_00: Take you up on flow, you and up in the Netherlands.
1:23:46
SPEAKER_00: No, he in the Netherlands.
1:23:48
SPEAKER_00: We saying that he never had.
1:23:49
SPEAKER_00: He gave a piece and a rather that he ever had.
1:23:51
SPEAKER_00: He said they lookin' like a flat flop, running with deep swabs.
1:23:54
SPEAKER_00: Or he moving like the wet of mine.
1:23:56
SPEAKER_00: You got it super stucker.
1:23:58
SPEAKER_00: You bet, rat, the nigga hotka, the nigga jacker, they not, it's bit smash up the ball watcher, yeah.
1:24:04
SPEAKER_00: Alright, man, you got it.
1:24:06
SPEAKER_00: Got it, you got it, got it, you got it, got it.
1:24:11
SPEAKER_00: You river give her this never figure.
1:24:14
SPEAKER_00: It's grippery, grippery, slippery, slippery.
1:24:16
SPEAKER_00: Feel like she tricking me, but I love trickery.
1:24:19
SPEAKER_00: Boy, I know she trickin' for the more.
1:24:21
SPEAKER_00: Miss Water Parker got you kicking out the door.
1:24:29
Corie: I'd the place because when I see the reaction, you know, when it's one of them things.
1:24:33
Corie: I remember we're in a club in Miami at a time, right?
1:24:35
Corie: Me and Mobs badna Kelly at an salute to Kelly.
1:24:38
Corie: Them grilled peppers, right?
1:24:40
Corie: You gonna club in Miami and them days they have a song saying, I think it's all I do is win, win, win, no matter what.
1:24:48
Corie: No, is it everybody's hand go up and they say there me know this song, yeah?
1:24:52
Corie: We in Miami and we having our time, boy.
1:24:54
Corie: Everybody hand gone up except we.
1:24:55
Corie: I try oh, ballin' when Jim Jones sings ballin', everybody say ballin' and everybody bust a basketball shot.
1:25:01
Corie: Me and Kelly saw watching one another.
1:25:02
Corie: We have no idea what people doing, anything.
1:25:04
Corie: We just looking like losers.
1:25:06
Corie: That's how I feel when that Jordan English come on.
1:25:08
Corie: Because the only thing I understand in the whole song is use the kind of man and Netherlands.
1:25:13
Corie: Me know where he's singing between the I don't know.
1:25:16
Corie: If you want an age check, start to realize the time when you cannot understand nothing nobody saying in a song.
1:25:22
Corie: Nothing nobody saying.
1:25:23
Corie: Somewhere in the middle of the dance, before I get out of here, I hear people say, calling Mr.
1:25:28
Corie: Aaron St.
1:25:29
Corie: Louis to the stage.
1:25:30
Corie: Now, better than something they see, artists, artistry is a hell of a thing.
1:25:34
Corie: Because just voice passing through that event and doing a two-tune, lift the event to another level.
1:25:40
Corie: And I again, lava gonna wrap up on a lava, right?
1:25:43
Corie: Is only right as lava, but it's happy birthday to Lady Lava, happy birthday, great, great, great Keisha Harris back.
1:25:48
Corie: When voice reaches up them, the event is just go to another level.
1:25:52
Corie: And that's why I say to me, a lava could be a globally recognized like like Rihanna and Beyonce and them level.
1:26:00
Corie: And I'm not sure if people paying attention to who she is and the way she's commanding a crowd because if it was my buddy and I on a boat, right, and Kutin there, and Voice there, and Crystal there, and Jordan English there, somebody had to sing before me.
1:26:16
Corie: I can tell you that.
1:26:17
Corie: They're only a woman with that crowd.
1:26:18
Corie: I know there first.
1:26:21
Corie: Why music playing, lava walk up there, take the mic and rip the place immediately, and she starts calling up artists and he said she's on another level.
1:26:29
Corie: But again, this gentleman by the name of this man who go wrong in the history as one of the greatest all the time.
1:26:34
Corie: Great, great eran simple.
1:27:57
Corie: Thanks to people like Vaughn at Bigfoot and so on.
1:27:59
Corie: All you might know this one and all your knee hurt it might know.
1:28:02
Corie: If you tap your foot too hard to this episode, you could be looking for surgery come next week, you know.
1:28:06
Corie: You could be looking for a new replacement, a hip replacement.
1:28:09
Corie: This one's gonna be bad.
1:28:10
Corie: I hope all you went easy.
1:28:11
Corie: But for the for the for the for the for the seasoned among us, this might be the only lady lava, all you know.
1:28:16
Corie: I like all this play all the like lava and think now, but this might be the one all you know.
1:28:30
SPEAKER_02: I sure outside with my girls as some man.
1:28:32
SPEAKER_02: You don't have a ring, then you don't have a mistake hands up, let me see a finger, up up, let me see a finger.
1:28:37
SPEAKER_02: You don't have a ring girl, Ben for the camera, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you don't have a ringle Ben for the camera, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you to Ben, you don't have a ringle, Ben Fidi Camera.
1:28:54
SPEAKER_02: But my man and my man and my man and my man and my man gap that shit na.
1:28:58
Corie: Alright, that's the part I like really.
1:29:00
Corie: It's kind of my man and my man and my man.
1:29:01
Corie: Because all you boat have a ring on all your finger and bending still, all the bending still.
1:29:05
Corie: I don't like it.
1:29:06
Corie: If you do have a ring, then it's you to bend.
1:29:08
Corie: But you have a ring, your man ride there, but you bendin'.
1:29:10
Corie: I ain't like well, I encourage you.
1:29:12
Corie: But again, happy birthday.
1:29:13
Corie: Thank God birthdays has only come once a year.
1:29:16
Corie: Cause I go can't make too much in them boat, right?
1:29:18
Corie: You know what I mean?
1:29:19
Corie: I do my best.
1:29:19
Corie: I do my best.
1:29:20
Corie: I stand up for real long.
1:29:21
Corie: Uh a lot of compression in the spine and the disc and thing right now.
1:29:24
Corie: I don't have to decompress, so I go and I will see you all it next week.
1:29:27
unknown: Bye.