Corie Sheppard Podcast
Corie Sheppard Podcast
Episode 220 | Pardy Time
In this week's episode we join the silly season with the rest of the country.
The election date is here, Rowlers' handover is complete and Stuart Young is now the jefe.
He done establish dominance with a. cabinet reshuffle like a true top dawg. Somehow we had him down as a softy after seeing him fall off the stage what day but who knew he was a bully in his school days. Lasana Libud put an end to any thoughts of denying the incident so the PR statements and clean ups are rolling in. Who thought that in 2025 we would be referencing The Mirror Newspaper. We get into what bullying entails and his response to the incident.
The opposition is in go mode to launch their entire slate and with the resignations flying in we're working on getting a call up.
TTFA is also looking for volunteers so we might be coming out of retirement to hold down a number 9 for the Soca Warriors.
Enjoy!!!
Ha, it was party time Once again across the land In Rio Pass People. They got out of hand With DJ George and Robbie in front of the band. All because of party time. Party time, them promoters, all of them had silver tongues. Robbie in front the band, all because of party time. Party time, them promoters, all of them have silver tongue. They made you feel their fame was the best around, with promises of utopia and song.
Speaker 1:All because of party time. Party time, here we go jump high, jump, jump low and shake your manifesto. Ramaché, come la we.
Speaker 2:Ramaché In five years nearly done. It's time to have some fun. Ramaché come la we.
Speaker 3:Ramaché it's PNM UNC.
Speaker 2:If you see Ram God, Ram God oh.
Speaker 4:Oh God, All you miss me there's. Some say I talk too much, some say I talk too little.
Speaker 2:I'm still a little With DJ George and Robbie in front of the band, all because of Party.
Speaker 1:Time Party Time, them promo.
Speaker 4:I alone no guesses today. Guesses couldn't make it, but you know, we could take it Just in time to get in an election talk right. Couldn't be better timing.
Speaker 2:It was party time once again across the land. In the way of class people, they got out of hand.
Speaker 3:With DJ Stuart and Kamla in front of the band All because of party time.
Speaker 2:Party time, them promoters. All of them had silver tongues. They made you feel the effect was the best around, with promises of utopia and song. Party time, party time. You should have heard them jump and fight them low and shake your manifesto. Ram and shake, come on we ram and shake the five years nearly done, it's time to have some fun.
Speaker 1:Ramashe, come la we Ramashe.
Speaker 2:What's up? Can I fall If you see Ramgoat join the bacchanal Just to get your vote?
Speaker 4:It's BNM.
Speaker 1:UNC. Taking me for Chupedi. It's B-N-M-U-N-C. Taking you for Chuppity, as part of me.
Speaker 4:Let's see if the applause is working. It's not. Welcome to episode 220 of the Courage Shabbat Podcast. Long time I haven't seen you all. Long time I haven't seen you all in the flesh and in person and these things. You know what I mean. Good to see you all here again.
Speaker 4:As I say, I'd guess his lineup for today, I'd guess his lineup for today. But when you know the fellas that are affordable, important, you have a little thing in you you could adjust on the fly. Quick, quick opportunity to come here and talk about what is really happening in the country. And the main thing is that I don't know if the timing could have been any better, because the first headline I see when I say, well, all right, the guests ain't come what go? Talk about election date on april 28th. You cannot go wrong. You know so all the rumors and things people are saying before, and all the political proponents and all the experts and all the bloggers. You know now is the time right. I want you to sort of observe something the people who you're feeling I learned this the hard way, right. That's why I can tell you this and I know you probably see it yourself too the people who you've been feeling was independent journalists and independent bloggers and independent podcasters and YouTubers and streamers and things right who talk in the politics. Listen to them now and you'll find out how independent people be. You'll find out. You know it's the people who don't pick their side.
Speaker 4:Pnm went through the little battle when we were here the last time we talked about that. Pnm went through the little hustling and the bustling we were talking about the cabinet reshuffling thing. I think it's 41 candidates in it. Well, if you decide to contest every seat, at the time of recording this I think UNC just barely have double-digit candidates in place. But they go no. And the thing about it is everybody was saying election will come early and right after Carnival and Ash Wednesday election and all. I honestly believe that a part of the reason the election's taking quite till the end of April is because them fellas had a little infighting because penny wanted to be in charge of foster centers and then they said now they kept on foster but it won't vary. Or if that wasn't going on, roly would have stepped down weeks before carnival so he could go and enjoy. He fed on them proper and we might be having a different kind of conversation now. We might be talking now about who win and not about when the election date is, but let me read from the Guardian here the Office of Department of Justice confirmed that the 2025 election will be held on April 28th. The announcement was made via media release. The full release came below right.
Speaker 4:So we're in complete silly season and before I get into some of the news and some of my takes on what happened here, I want to say that facebook, in particular right now, when you're in your 40s, people who listening to this and they're young, right. I don't know if tiktok and instagram are these same issues like facebook, but what I could tell you is my snooze button on facebook is going to get work because from the time the election date, it has some people who like a election talk when nothing happened at all. I like a politics talk and like a politics talk with a little sprinkle of race talks, with seasoning. They like it all year long. Right, them, them is, them is 365 days a year with that, but it is the intensifying where it is. The way is get intense wrong. Christmas election time. I care to take it, so I'm going to be using my snooze button and, gratefully, I recorded this. By the time you're hearing this, right, we are the 20th or 21st of March or somewhere like that. So my 30-day snooze button that Facebook so graciously offered me should take these people all the way down to the 28th of April, because the ketchup and mustard people they back the ketchup and mustard People red till they're dead and they learn you know. And people yellow till they're fellow and they learn you know.
Speaker 4:So the things start about who think. Imagine, they're saying, when I am the most average of average men, you don't get more average than me. Right, where I have average height, average weight, average knowledge, I'm just in the middle, right, I'm in the middle of the pack and I was talking about this election being called early. So for the opposition to come and say that well, we didn't know and they're trying to get you with the pants down and it's electric, is what election engineering. I will say on record, and I've said this many, many times before this is about my 2-4th election.
Speaker 4:We're here in this podcast discussing right, we need to have fixed election dates the stupidity of somebody having an election date in their back pocket when them could step down and step aside and then get a friend to think, and then me and my other friends could battle for which one of my friends I want to put to run the party and which one of my friends, and we had to sit down here and wait. I don't talk about the opposition, I talk more as a citizenry or as a business, the business world. I had to just sit down and wait till you ready and you find it fit and you screen all your candidates, and I had to sit down and wait until Terrence whined. Terrence had to take a whole whine for me to find out it was an election day.
Speaker 4:That is garbage, it is archaic, that is real backward thinking why we can't decide now that the election is the first Monday in every September after the fifth year that a party is involved, unless you have a snap election for some reason, like Dr Eric Williams or the pastor, where you have to hand over to some election, or the next prime minister go on his way. Who knows if Stuart will retire in about a year and a half if he win, or or kamla at some point? Right, you could talk about that, but if it is, we have our fixed date. Everybody could work the thing to suit. Businesses could operate in a way that caters for the election. Because I can tell you this right from the business, will, it cannot or ought not to.
Speaker 4:It would be imprudent if you get into big business decisions around the time that our election going to happen. Because, should the government change, you have some changes to policy, changes to board, change of direction, hopefully, because the unc had to be trying to carry down a different road than we are now. Right, clearly nobody happy with the road we're on. So if you're saying that you want to take power and you want to take the reins, you have to be changing direction. That change of direction is any business student, business 101, they will tell you about macro environmental conditions, right, the macro environment.
Speaker 4:The issue with the macro environment is that no one person, business or political party could control the macro environment Most of the time. As businesses, you want to plan and you want to get everything done. Or as entities as a whole, right, same with political parties. Or even as people, you want to plan for as much or anticipate as much as you could. But the macro environmental conditions you can't control, you cannot manipulate, one person can't change it. So in business they have a little tool we use called a PESTEL right, you know it's a class mode.
Speaker 4:Long time I didn't talk to ollie. But pestle, p-e-s-t-l-e or e-l or whatever stand for the political climate, the economic climate, social climate, technological, legal and environmental climate, and those things are basically not governed. Or imagine let me use the environment as an example A quick shake or the hurricane pass. No, one person, people, cannot control those things. The most you could do is react it right. And the first thing in that pestle is the political climate. The political climate affects the business climate. We need to know what direction you're going in the oil and gas done the wells dry, petro-train shut down, we had dragon gas coming, but a fellow named Trump looking like he ain't what. We mean to worry about dragon gas. So those are political factors that nobody can control.
Speaker 4:So as a business, it's a time of uncertainty. When place uncertain, people tend to hold back on big plans. They wait. Let me see who win. Because even stuart young if he come I mean congratulations to stuart young we could talk about him as the new prime minister of trinidad and tobago. Kobo sweat he's still talking about that. It's like kobo sweat and I'm thinking they know him. He might make the shortest prime minister in his year. Trinidad and tobago shortest, both by height and by tenure, you know I mean.
Speaker 4:So the thing about it is the the with the political. It lends the environment. When you have a variable election that is decided on by the people who are in power, it lends to all kind of areas of dis-ease and discomfort. So while I find the opposition disingenuous in the talk that we get caught off guard, they don't get caught off guard. They had to say that that's part of the politicking. But the truth is that they're right in that they ought to know everybody ought to know and be able to plan around when is our election date.
Speaker 4:But Roland's true to form, true to his word, and I did say here many weeks ago that it would be very admirable for me if he actually make that move and step down. And I want to, I want to, I want to repeat that sentiment. I find that, regardless I come here and say all kind of thing about rollers, right, you can say a lot about him. You can say a lot of bad about him and the way he run the country and the state of the crime and sometimes the absence of leadership or at least the vision. I always felt as though he never communicated to us a clear vision, something to hope for, something to aspire to and work towards as a nation, and I don't know if he was the most uniting figure they ever had, you know, I mean, but something about the move I admire.
Speaker 4:I hear people say any second thing, I hope to god the man in secret. Let me let me deal man to man. Now forget politics for a minute. I hope you get to enjoy a nice, ripe, long retirement. I wish for every prime minister of this country to have what baz de opan they had, which is a prime minister or any any official you know or any person where you could work all your life and you communicate wherever. Wherever you did for your community or whatever service you provide and whatever you did, you find yourself in a position where one day you could put up your foot and if it's golf you like to play, like they say.
Speaker 4:They say pandy was a man like he cared and thing you know, I mean quite sounded like a roomie and like that's what men supposed to do when they reach the age there was of service to the country, good or bad or indifferent, whatever you have to say about them. It's nice to see when them fellas retire. Get a little gray. If you ever grow here I don't know if you're gray or not, but they're gonna get a little gray and enjoy yourself. The sharon enjoyed, you're gonna enjoy a grand train and them kind of thing I always feel. For I always remember what it was like when patrick manning would have left and get sick soon after, and um ken valley was another example of that. You know you dedicate your whole life to service marlene mcdonald that passed away, I believe, while still in his seat, or at least, no, not in his seat but still in and around the politics or a popular name in the politics at the time. I like to see people get old and retire and there's something admirable about him saying that he's going to step down and actually stepping down.
Speaker 4:I am eager to see what happens on the political campaign trail because I want to see if roly go hang around to help stuart, because they don't need help, right? You can imagine stuart meeting with trump. Only see, only see trump meeting man from ukraine when he names linsky and trump's like they're trying to gang study man in the meeting and so you don't own a shit and tie it on. I mean I feel like if stuart problem, stuart go cry st Stuart, look like a man easy. You know what I mean. He's tear up easy. But let me read from the from Rhea Tatany Express here, because talking about tear up easy and all them kind of things, and if Trump go bully who I imagine I studying if Trump go bully this man, I can come and see this article here.
Speaker 4:The appointment of Stuart Young as prime minister has led to the dredging up of an incident which took place 33 years ago, in 1992, when he was a 17 year old student at sin mary's college port of spain. I just wanted to be on record that the issue with this started at sin mary's college port of spain. That's where this story became an issue, because fatima would never have been tranquil, too tranquil, would never. I don't know how St Mary's had thing coming out 23 years after a man done leave the school but who gave him bullying and when he was in Fatima he get bullied. He get bullied without a eye right, even though the young was the victim of an attack by fellow student, imran Khan. I wonder if there's Imran from Fatima who went to anyway even though Young was the victim of an attack by fellow student, imran Khan. The accusation has been made that Young was bullying Khan, which led to Khan attacking him Jesus Christ. Khan's sister, nadia, revived the incident on Facebook on Monday. She started my brother, imran, was abused and bullied while at St Mary's College. He was to sit his O-levels and was expelled as he used force with a baton to defend himself from said bully. He never had the opportunity to sit his exam, nadia, never, ever. He didn't do it up to now. This man got expelled from St Mary's and never went back and do ULF. Anyway, he never had the opportunity to sit his exams. The bully bullies, the bully slash bullies, were never penalized for their actions. They sat their exams without any remorse. That bully was Stuart Young. Today he now gets the opportunity to bully a nation, nadia. I wonder where Nadia is working. Nadia is not wanting to do any daycare.
Speaker 4:The Mirror had published a story. Only remember the Mirror, the bomb, the blast, the punch. I find any time in life right Let me use this as a ruler term Anytime you plan to talk serious things and you're doing referencing for what you're going to talk about, and the Mirror is your reference. Peck back right. Peck back. If the mirror is your reference better. The mirror had published a story in the context of a racial episode stating the expulsion of an Indian student from St Mary's College in Port of Spain, has sent shockwaves through the school and has promoted charges of racism to be leveled against the authorities. The mirror stories which went viral on social media yesterday if the Mirror going viral, what the hell are you doing wrong? Imagine the Mirror. When did they stop that?
Speaker 4:The Mirror stories which went viral on social media yesterday, along with Nadia Khan's Facebook post, said Khan reacted to taunts from a known Form 6 bully by allegedly planting some battle blows on the older boy. Right, I'm starting to like, I'm starting to like this fellow now, I'm starting to like him a lot because if you get bullied in school, right, let me go back to fatima days, because if they had battled then I might take care of you, madam. So sources close to young yesterday categorically denied that he had bullied anyone. They explained that he used to take driving lessons during school and lunch hour and one day, coming back to school from the lessons, he felt the blow to the head. The boy started raining blows on Young and almost killed him. Wow, wow, thank God he survived. The source denied that Young ever had any interaction with the boy before the unprovoked attack.
Speaker 4:The source said young decided not to run when he felt the first blow because he was fearful that if he ran can would turn on his turn, on his brother angus angus. Who's his angus young angus? What you do? You just watch your brother take bat out ahead. What the hell is going on? Saint mary's principal then, dr anthony devadile, had said in a mirror report that the expulsion of the student had nothing to do with racism. He said can was not expelled. He has been sent home pending a report from a psychologist. If you beat somebody with a bat, or psychologist report, something like the next logical step. But if you get bullied, a battle is not like when you take this pass, when they're doing relay.
Speaker 4:I read a story about a girl in the stage the other day. She's running relay and when it's battle handoff time a girl pass her and she hit the girl. A battle to head to. They say she get back, she get charged with assault. A matter of fact, in a telephone interview I can't believe we're talking about a telephone interview from 18, 20 something or whenever. The hell's the young and they went In a telephone interview. He said he was being asked to comment on something that took place 33 years ago and would prefer not to comment as he wasn't certain that he could be fair and faithful to the issue given the length of time that could pass.
Speaker 4:What Young wanted to say is that he gets so much battle to head Beep, beep, beep, beep he can't remember what the hell. Who acts this man as quality and realizes battle in the manga? This man, to the best of his recollection, that he can recall from his memory, he cannot remember any famous words of Matt Hoffa, right? So I don't know what this issue is about. You're getting bullied in school, you know. I guess the word bullied is the issue.
Speaker 4:You know, sometimes, when enough time time pass, some things looked at very differently through the lenses of today, like when you, when I was going to school, it had bullies and that was. I guess it will always have that in school, right? But let me change it to people who take an advantage, other people. In my time they used to say somebody picking on you. You know what I mean. And the truth is, in our days in school I think we were allowed much more to police ourselves, in other words, hit somebody some battle. We were allowed to police ourselves a little more than the youth today.
Speaker 4:I was talking to Father Gregory about Fatima, you know, reminiscing on the old days of fights and so on and fighting boys from Compre and you had to run aachuri cemetery by myself, and all these different types of things. And he's saying, nah, school is not like that again, completely different now than it was then. So a boy who bullying somebody else or teasing or picking on somebody else, has a, there's a different reaction in the school to that, with the teachers and so on, than they would have had in my time. Although salute, son and fatima is from one day in a fellow named mr the gale, he was talking about the fact that when he did the orientation for parents and he was talking to the mothers this is the mothers he really talking to he trying to say, hey, your boys are going to have disagreements, your boys are going to have it could get physical. These boys, it will happen.
Speaker 4:Don't call. What you're trying to say is don't call here and run in the school every minute for every little thing. You have to learn to do that. You have to learn to settle your differences. Because what will happen if you go on the beach? Right, somehow on my way here this morning they had a roadblock. I keep forgetting that we're in a soe still.
Speaker 4:But if you go on the beach, at the end, somebody you know, you rent your chairs for a thousand dollars a chair, whatever they have it rented for now, and you pay five thousand for your bacon shark and so on. You're having no time and some other family and a man just come and take up your chair and them. What are you going to do? How are you going to resolve that? A part of school life is understanding and learning about that.
Speaker 4:Because if you go and lasquevas tomorrow and you decide to hit a man, some battle as your way of resolving the man, take a chair on them I feel you could end up in some problems. Right, I don't think you'll be able to leave lasquevas if you hit the wrong man some boot to up there on the flip side of it or to the next end of the spectrum. You can't just let the man take your chairs. At some point in time you had to be able to deal with conflict, address conflict, enforce boundaries, push boundaries. That is a part of manhood. We don't like to talk about manhood, I think these days, right, basically, as a man, let me put it in what we used to talk a long time as a man, you go out somewhere, a man go this year. You have to be able to deal with that. The way to deal with that, you, you could, you have the choice. You could hit man Butu these days now everybody has a gun. You could shoot him. A man tell you he come and you take a shot. You could empty the clip as part of the manifesto in some cases here. But I don't know if that's the best way to resolve an issue. You know what I mean. I'm not sure that that's the best way to. If you just walk away from a VSU and you leave a chair there and you go on with your family now and you just get some more chair for somebody to take again. That also, but there's a middle ground where it lies.
Speaker 4:So let's assume, let me put myself back to 1582 when Stuart Young was in St Mary's and maybe when it was a prestige school back then. And let's assume Stuart Young was bullying him physically and everything Every time he passed tap. I had to see this guy. Nadia, I need to see your brother. I wonder if Nadia have a picture of her brother, because Stuart Young would care to bully me. I ain't lying to tell you, stuart Young, I mean maybe you know what man Bullying could also be slick talk and things.
Speaker 4:Maybe he's a big talker and them kind of things. He's a big talker and them kind of thing. No, not really. From what I've seen with Futskid he's no big talker, but maybe he was a big talker back then and he gained more in talk and things and that was the kind of bully. And let me say that that happened right when that happened, I would like to think that if your reaction to it is to beat the bully senseless with a baton and I want to add in the words there and get catch right, and get catch right if you do it and you never get catch, there's nothing on this, you know. But if you do it and get catch, nadiel, what do you? My name imran.
Speaker 4:Imran, you didn't know you was gonna get expelled. When you beat the man sense less with abutu, like the girl in the in the real. When you hit the girl, the battle, you didn't think you was gonna go home. You're going home. You're gonna expelled, especially the little bit I know about the Holy Ghost Fathers. I think if them fellas was in charge back in the BC days, then you're going to get expelled. So I'm not sure what they.
Speaker 4:I guess when you're running for political office, I suppose one of the things you have to do is either cleanse your palate before you're going like you know the audacity of hope you could, audacity, I hope the thing and tell everybody boy, I smoke my little weed at my little woman and think back in the days. You know. I mean, just let everybody know everything about you, in this social media area especially, and so that is now something that you, you soften the blow, you know. I mean you take this thing out of things that will come up from your past. I mean I ain't sure how much you'd be like.
Speaker 4:I don't know. It's hard to see stuart young today as a bully of anybody. Maybe, maybe I underestimated the fellow, but maybe it's to cleanse what you do, or but you had to expect that every single story that could come out would come out. I guess we had to wait for the the following days to find out if this story could and will get any kind of traction. It probably will. I mean among the, and that's why I had to use my snooze button on facebook, because they're gonna have some people who're gonna carry on this.
Speaker 4:This is the same group of people who said they call election day that we didn't know it was coming and that coming right, that they have some people who, when the issue come out, I sure you could tell me what some of your colleagues or your facebook friends comments gonna be like and what the response gonna be like before it happened. But, um, I I'm not sure that the the flip side of it is is any better, because he didn't do the audacity or hope thing right. He didn't put out anything. But in today's world, I'm not sure that is the best. Um, I'm not sure that is the best approach to just say that never happened, that ain't happened. So, because I think that things like that or saying things like that will give this story more life over time. What's going to happen is more and more journalists, bloggers, people are going to dig up information. So if you went to school in St Mary's anytime before Christ, they might be reaching out to you right now to find out where it is happening and see where it is Like. I saw Newsource. Right, it's Ruda Baradze. Like I said earlier, there's a whole generation of witnesses. Rhea's story was heavily skewed and misleading. Newsource stories don't have to be skewed and misleading. Sometimes too.
Speaker 4:However, a story in today's Trending Express headline, the battle attack on teen Stuart changed my mind and, against the firm, well-meaning advice of a close friend, I now feel compelled to share my own recollection of the interaction between the two boys at the time. Somebody else coming out, people coming out. It's hard for me to abide by misinformation, and the claim that Young never had any interaction with the boy before the unprovoked attack is simply quite untrue. I do not intend to make any moral judgment on either party, but I do want to address that excerpt. So, denying that it ever happened or we had any kind of interaction, I don't know that that is the best pr strategy. I think there are pr professionals all over the country. Maybe contact one of them people and see how to deal with this pr. One of the issues with pr is that it tends to trend towards a reactive exercise in tundra and tobago where, after something happened, you call PR people to stress them out, whereas if you know you're going to get stood this thing which you clearly know over all these years, maybe a PR person ahead of time might be a good decision to put in place. But, as I say, I mean let me go to Ky Rodriguez in the Express, because I mean this is Stuart Young alone. Let me hear what the old Cam's saying.
Speaker 4:Opposition leader Kamala Prasad Biseso has called Prime Minister Stuart Young's calling over April election date a hurried attempt to avoid UNC legal action against him. So the UNC was protesting outside. Oh, people were protesting outside the President's House. Let me do. People were protesting outside the President's House saying that the appointment of Stuart Young was illegal. I salute to my cousin family Stephen Shepard. I was asking him on Facebook recently when Dr Eric Williams passed away while in office and they had to hand over to Chambers. I was asking him was there uproar? Was there the opposition make a fuss? He was saying no, there was nothing like this. It was completely understood that they had to hand the power to somebody and that's somebody who would be probably now the shortest tenured prime minister, at least until April 28th, would be the shortest tenured prime minister ever. That's George Chambers People. They're good ways sometimes, you know, they remember songs like Chambers, duncy and them kind of things. Talk about songs too. I have some songs to play for you from elections this year, you know. Sorry, election songs to play in this episode. So only going to remind me about that, right, because I don't forget.
Speaker 4:The Prime Minister yesterday published the April 28th general election date set by Young, passat Bisesa stated that the announcement was an attempt to avoid facing the courts on what she termed his illegal and unconstitutional appointment to the post. So that was what the protests were about, and the opposition intended, at least by the rhetoric, to take him to court and challenge it as being unconstitutional. Last week, Passat Bisesa warned Young that he would face brilliant UNC lawyers in the country's court should he replace the outgoing Prime Minister, dr Keith Rowley, following his resignation. The opposition leader also did not attend Young's swearing-in on Monday, telling the Express that it was unconstitutional and that he would not attend anything to give legitimacy to something that he thinks is unconstitutional. I do not intend to go to that ceremony, she said.
Speaker 4:As for her reaction to the election day, passat Bisesa doubled down on her stance, adding that Young would have had to face an internal election prior to general elections. Young, did cavlo pesad be successful? Just say the words internal election. Like I, confused, like me, it can't see too well, though that's what she said. Young and the pnm is fully uh, fully well know that his appointment is illegal and unconstitutional. His appointment would have been shown to be unconstitutional in the courts and he would then be forced to have a pnm into um. With all due respect, even if there's a key, I don't know if it's that time for all that, you know, because the the end date for the election wasn't sometime in november, at some point in the radical election uh, where was I? His appointment would have been shown to be unconstitutional in the courts and he would have then been forced to face a pnm internal election before the general election. Penelope beckles would have decimated him in any internal election and the camelotan funded now penny would have decimated him in any internal election and the pnm financiers would have would back a coup which would have been put down.
Speaker 4:Okay, she said the party was ready to protect the country. The unc is ready and we will do what PNM MPs fail to do, which is protect our country from being gifted to a selfish select group of young financiers. The KPB responds to that. I suppose, as a good opposition leader, I don't expect much difference. She's going to impose everything that they do. She's not going to attend nothing that they come with and all these types of things. It she going to impose everything that they do. She's not going to attend nothing that they come with and all these types of things. It's just what it is. It's political season. The silly season is here, I think. Uh, by the time you hear from me again, by next week I'm pretty sure we're going to have a full slate of unc candidates.
Speaker 4:I did, I did see a bunch of resignations coming out of the unc camp over the last uh few weeks, as I've been observing and I saw in Woodford Square, surprisingly, the old Larry Lala. The old Larry Lala, he went in a white shirt, right, He'd gone to the PNM rally to name all the candidates and my boy going in a white shirt, know, I mean, I guess white mean neutral surrender, whatsoever it is. It seem as though people, more and more people, uh, willing to talk. Since you're young, getting um in power, I ain't see nobody cross, no flaw in them thing, but it seems to be a with rowley out of the way, because I guess the unm, unm, no, the unc biggest issue, along with all of us in the country, a lot of us issue, was Rowley leadership. So maybe now that Rowley's not there there are more people willing to talk. But I see Joel D'Souza bust out. Larry Lala, I think, resigned.
Speaker 4:Several people over the last few weeks have resigned from the UNC. Unc Faisabad official quits. If you just look up UNC resignations, you're seeing it. A week ago, four more resigned from the UNC. Based on all my observations, I have to assume, and from everything that you're reading, where the people who are resigning are in terms of their reasoning. Let me read one quick right. Four members of the UNC's Library Constituency Executive have resigned in a post from the party. In a letter issued to the UNC Chairman Devandradat Tanku, general Secretary Peter Kanai and Political Leader Kamala Prasad Biseset dated March 9, the constituency's welfare officer, party organizer, elections official and secretary announced their resignations with the immediate effect. Letters stated our decision is not taken lightly.
Speaker 4:However, the blatant disrespect shown to Alderman Victor Roberts after he raised critical issues in the interest of the party has been made abundantly clear that the UNC no longer values those who genuinely want the party to succeed. Instead, the only requirement for survival within the party is blind loyalty to you, the political leader. Sentiments like those have been raised all around, explicitly and covertly, and so on. That is the sentiment. You're hearing the political leader. People find it's time for the political leader to make a move. It's time to step down. We've heard this before. With the last elections that they had whether it be by elections or general elections, local government elections people saying, hey, you're losing a lot time to step down and make some space. It doesn't seem to be the case that she's willing to step down.
Speaker 4:I was eager to see her step down. I was glad to see roly step down. I think I would be equally admirable of Kamala if she was to step aside right now and put her youth I'm not sure exactly who is youth people saying Michaela Pande, but Michaela Pande last time I checked had her own party and thing. She was looking for 41 seat herself. I ain't really hear her since the election date announced but not much time passed. But I'm waiting to see if she really gonna contest 41 seat, because 41 seats, 41 seats is difficult to do, right, it is hard to do. But I I was eager to see a fresh face, somebody new, even if I mean stuart young. You know fresh face and he knew any politics a while. But give me somebody younger. I rather. I rather a young person, and I say this on people's bvx, but I rather somebody like stuart young go there and make mistake and do thing and corruption. I rather see that than see people who've been there 30 something, 40 years.
Speaker 4:I'm not saying that to say that roly should ride off into the sunset and as you pass a certain age you should go away. It have roles to it, because I I would think that any prime minister no, whoever the new prime minister is could benefit from the guidance of Keith Rowley with his years experience and a Kamala Passadby session with all her years experience. They could come together as retirees and help whoever the next person, because I think it's supposed to be about Trinidad and Tobago. I don't think it's supposed to be about PNM and UNC and anything when it's election done. So let me assume Michaela Pandey and what's the party name. Or Kizel Jackson, what's her party name? Or my boy named Philip Alexander. Let me say Philip Alexander, why Rowley and Kamala, as two retirees, can't spend two hours a week coaching Philip on what to do when he goes to meetings and wear a suit when he goes to see Trump and all the basic things, all the experience that they have?
Speaker 4:Again, I am on record as saying and it's not something that I will change there's no chance that kamala possad be says to ever get in a vote from me after her open comment, to tell people your name is the name of a slave master. It's that I'm a very forgiving person, I'm a reasonable guy and so on. But if that, if you could, if you could utter them words, you can't govern me. I anytime you say that I know how you feel about me and I don't think that is something. She goes, say that in front of cameras and them kind of thing, but she ain't coming to say that to my face or say that to people or if I have a battle anyway, you can't. You can't tell me things like that and then come and tell me nice things about yourself and the people, who is your cohort, and get me to vote for you. And you can't tell me things like that. And then come and tell me nice things about yourself and the people, who is your cohort and get me to vote for you. And you can't. Come and tell me things like that and get me and come and tell me bad things about somebody else and tell me I mustn't vote for them. If that is your sentiment, then your rebuttal.
Speaker 4:And let me say Kamlo was bullied the way Stuart Young was bullying the man, allegedly. You're only going to set me up now. I have no money to pay for nothing, right? If it is. You want to claim that Kamala Prasad Bisesa was bullied? They say the worst about her I wait here. They say the worst about the woman, all kinds of things they say. Right, the response to bullying cannot be beat him senseless with a baton. And that's how I feel when a prime minister, a former prime minister of this country, come and tell me go from here with your slave name, you cannot get my vote.
Speaker 4:I'm not saying UNC can't get my vote, but she needs to bongs. When she bongs, I will listen to all what everybody else has to say in UNC. Until then they can't get my vote. Unfortunately, pnm not in a position to get my vote. Neither vote. Unfortunately, p and I'm not in a position to get my vote, neither. Neither is um, me can't remember the rest of the name and me don't know. Is the symbol neither. So they might have, they might struggle to get my vote and all.
Speaker 4:Oh, this election is just further for me to come and talk and make a, make a fool of myself and enjoy this election season. Only forgive me, me and the computer. And I done write down the song and then I can't remember to to where the hell the song right. I have a song here to play, me and the computer and I done write down the song, and then I can't remember to. To where the hell the song right. I have a song here to play. It's election time and we have a song to play. So this is from a man by the name of Mighty Sparrow.
Speaker 3:Let me see where the hell, the song name again.
Speaker 4:My God, all the songs I play tend to have relevance to the things I talk about, right? And this is by the great slinger Francisco, and it pretty much sums up. I'm playing this song in dedication to everybody who is a lifetime PNM, a lifetime UNC, a lifetime Prakash Ramazad I'm still around. Once is a lifetime mom.
Speaker 3:Day for you, neighbor. Look, if I was a selfish man, I wouldn't be involved in this election. I done old already. I ain't one fan Plus. I ain't looking for fortune again. All I'm asking is that you pay close attention to the many problems we all face from dawn to dawn. You're intelligent, I think, and you should face issue, but you're behaving like a moron, cussing me for way of bond. But you pipe a hand of water. You pay too much for butter. Take your steel beam and go. The terrible school system Is such a bloody problem. Take your steel beam and go. Agriculture's in a state Planning is inadequate. Take your steel beam and go. The northern and southern idol, the two kingpins, are bubble. We know. We like it.
Speaker 1:So we like it so.
Speaker 3:Free. Anything that's wrong, you go put it right. Georgie Poggi, tell me the other night. So, instead of displaying impatience, pull yourself and give the fella a chance how the hell you could say O and R would do better. Bet we send you back Grenada in a drum, we and Georgie going to put it right together. We have freeness and freedom. Plenty roti, plenty rum. Hospitals have no linen. It's brown paper they're using. Take a steel beam and go. Public transportation is an abomination. Take a steel beam and go. Well, food, clothes and rent is proof. Cost of living gone through the roof. Take your steel beam and go. Classified information for personal gain Is common, we know, but we like it so. We like it so.
Speaker 1:Take your oil rig and go. Take your oil rig and go. Alright, take your oil rig and go.
Speaker 4:All right, let me hear what people say. Let me deal with the positive side of this election thing now. Kamala Prasad Bissessa is reported by Kamala Rodriguez and today her opposition leader, kamala, says she's ready and she is ready to beat people. The party has not yet named all of its candidates expected to contest seats alongside those presented within this coalition of interests with other parties, but the UNC has been making arrangements to the poll since last year. Passat Bisesa said in a statement yesterday UNC is ready and we are on the road to victory. This has come as no surprise. She said in response, the young's calling of the election dates on his second day in office. We've been calling for the elections and preparing for the polls. There's kind of more along the lines of what I expected to see, because to me, I've been calling elections for a long time. I think they was waiting for this. You know what time they tell a man to call an election. She said we've been calling for the elections and have been preparing for the polls. Media houses have known that since last year. We have all had our election arrangements pre-booked and prepaid since last november. Okay, the unc is ready and will do what the pnm mbs fail to do, which is protect our country from being gifted to a selfish group of young financiers, the people of the power, to effect change and finally put the end to the pnm's decade of destruction. The unc's coalition of interests will win. Oh wait, I kind of bypassed that last statement. The UNC's coalition of interests will win, heavy statement. So the UNC has been a little more open to the PNM in terms of coalition government.
Speaker 4:I don't find coalition government to be a bad idea. I think more parties need to be open to the idea of coalition right, need to be open to the idea of coalition right Because I think the more ideas we have and the more checks and balances we have within the parties that we have. That's why I finally agree with her in that internal elections are an important thing. You can't play and toy around with internal elections because when you gerrymander them things, when you gerrymander them things, you end up in a position where your governance structure will suffer from it. You have a thorough and well-managed internal election system. As far as I concern, if we have at least two parties. With that, we onto something. So I believe that things like coalition governments, where different parties come together, the truth is that they go fallout eventually.
Speaker 4:And, as you know, in business management I used to learn about a thing back in the day called conflict teams. Right, they used to use it for things like innovation, like if you had to come up with new products and stuff. They deliberately put together people who are not like-minded, people who might be from different racial or ethnic backgrounds, different age groups, different areas of discipline or disciplines of study and so on. So you might be an engineer with a marketing person or finance person with somebody from hr, just to get a healthy amount of conflict between the two people so that you end up with the best ideas, because nobody don't let substandard ideas from the other person go through. So it's sort of a check and balance. So from that standpoint I don't mind the idea of a coalition government.
Speaker 4:I did see recently in in pazaroly's um exits, you know. I mean he opened a hospital, so he opened something, so and he went and he opened the anr robinson terminal in the anr robinson airport, right, brand new airport over there and them thing terminal building looking nice, right, I think the building finish, or is one floor in the building finish like the hospital? Maybe the building finish right, but when he was there he take the opportunity to take a swing at farley and watson and them right, he say, sandals coming back. He get to get him back to the table as one of the last things I do. And he say say you, farley, sit down with Adam Stilton. You, watson, you know, I guess as a politician you're always in politics mode. I see the lady next to Farley, her head just drops, she ain't like that. None of the people are around Farley, and you know what the thing about it is. When you say you, farley Watson, was just about to clap and celebrate. Then you say you, watson, but celebrating. Then he say you, watson, but saying all that to say it's not looking like if Tobago is the most settled place right now. I don't think for watching that, observing that, uh, salute to Marlon Mills.
Speaker 4:I'm usually my Tobago correspondent. Should I call his name my usual Tobago correspondent to tell me what happened? I ain't get to talk to him yet, but it does seem as though Tobago is a foregone conclusion in terms of, uh, a Tobagonian party winning. That. I felt like when I see watson and farley and them fellas win last night I said, well boy, tobago will never go back to a trinidad, a trinidadian based or run party again. If that is the case, then there's no choice but to do more of a collaborative approach to to governance and, and to me, more collaborative than what rollers and them would have pulled off over the time.
Speaker 4:Rollers and Farley clearly didn't have the best relationship, if any relationship at all, and it's on both sides. You're telling somebody talk to Stuart and whoever Adam Stuart is I guess the son of Butch Stuart was running sandals on. I believe he had Jamaica as well why don't you make sure you tell Stuart and Farley to talk? Because if, if it's trinidad and tobago, you had to have a cordial relationship between the person who's at the head of the th and the person who's at the head of trinidad and tobago, regardless of which party both of them come from, it can't be that because you're not from the party that we from your thing and I I boy, listen I dislike politics in this country for them kind of reasons, because they show us over and over that is party first, and maybe it's party first, then individuals in the party and the friends of the party second, then the population, by just sheer coincidence, anything that we do for the party and we do for the people in the party, if there's some and we're in economics it's called externality.
Speaker 4:When you build a, you know you build a project. You put a and one of the externalities is the fact that you catch a lot of salmon. That wasn't the point of the dam, but it's one of the things that you get. I think any help we get as a country, like hospital and new terminal, is externalities of corruption. I could coin that. If I coin that, will they go talk about Lloyd Best? Will they talk about Lloyd Best whenoyd best, like all this, talk about lloyd best. We're not dead and gone. Just tell them cory shepherd, come up with this concept. Right, somebody, do the research, I will get your credit. Externalities of corruption is what we usually get. At the end of the day we don't really get no project that is really to benefit the country as a whole.
Speaker 4:So when she said, as part of her statement here, unc and collaborators or UNC's coalition of interests, it brings to mind, surely, the folks in Tobago, farley I'll never be able to remember Farley's party name. I think Watson's party name is PDP or Kizel Jackson. Get out and go. Kizel says she's taken um, she's taking 41 C2, but stability, in her way she don't look stable.
Speaker 4:Phillip Rough, rough, rough Rough on the edges, right, I'm not sure, although he have a good following and people, people believe in him. But, um, who else? Michaela's? Is she going for the one? Gary griffith is an interesting one, right, gary griffith is an interesting one.
Speaker 4:And I just want to take a moment. All the kicks I get about the politics and them things, right, uh, gary griffith is is a polarizing character, right, if, if, to put it mildly, he's, he's when, when he talk, he go make news. You know he's one of them, fellas, who he? He will all. He'll probably always stay in the news and I know that he had his, I believe, his nta, his um political party and he was. He was going gung-ho for several seats and I remember seeing him do screening and stuff.
Speaker 4:But boy, life is a hell of a thing sometimes and maybe within a year we saw some sad news coming from his family where nicole diagriffith was diagnosed with cancer. You know, I spoke about her here and she in our prayers as listeners and as a family in this podcast. We keep her in our prayers and it was so sad that last week I saw her. The caption said storms don't forever, but the good strength they gain from them does. And you know I was so happy for her when I saw she was recovering and, you know, going through a thing. And then she said she wasn't feeling well and getting some pain. She went back to the doctor and she had a tumor that had to be removed.
Speaker 4:I want to thank her and commend her, if that's appropriate, for her bravery, not just for her family and and and loved ones that will be going through that with her, but to get up and, you know, put on her makeup and turn on that camera and come and talk to us. Who you know the, the fans, friends, well-wishers, party supporters, all them people real insignificant when you think about what it would be to get a diagnosis like that and to know you have to go and do surgery a brain. So that must be our nerve. You won't frighten you if you hear you have a tumor in your brain and you're gonna go and do surgery for that a real frightening thing for you and your family, the people who closest to you, all your loved ones. So I always appreciative and grateful that she would turn on her camera and spend a little time talking to the insignificant people like myself, just fans, well wishers, people who not there for you, you know, or who there for you in a different way, who not home with you, I should say and it it's. We pray for her, we wish all the best.
Speaker 4:I saw that by the time I recorded this she came out next captioner, so was home and pictures with her husband and her son home, thanking, thanking God for his mercies and grace, when I tell you Trinidad and Tobago has the best of the best right here on these shows. Many thanks to the incredible Dr Robert Ramcharan, the neurosurgeon, who made this journey as smooth as can be, ably assisted by anesthesiologist Dr Maraj and his entire team. Many thanks to my day one still at my side, dr Capildeo, dr Bovell, dr Olivier, dr Nimra, dr Pura and their incredible staff at West Shore Medical. Thank you all for your patience, real love and support and, of course, my family blood and bond. I smile because of you. Long walk ahead. However, I'm up for it. By the way, all these incredible people operate both in public and private sectors, as I have used both during this period. So moving and I'm so happy that the surgery seemed to have been successful, as she says here. I know the journey isn't over, but it's nice to see.
Speaker 4:So I wonder, with something like this happening in your household, how focused Gary Griffith could really be around an election. I think it would be insignificant to any one of us. You sit down with your wife going through something like something like this, or a a loved one or your mother. The last thing you want to do is number one the amount of work you had to put in and time you had to put in, and keep in mind that she was also a big part of the party as well. I don't know if you have that time, or let me talk for myself, right, I don't know if I would want to be doing that and spend that time away from my family at a time like this and, to be quite honest, I don't know if I would have the interest in it at all to go and listen to people saying this and that about me. I also could be a little on edge. I could be a little on edge. So if I go out there and I'm doing the campaigning while I'm going through something like this home and Philip said the wrong thing, or or no, no, really, again must be out young city. Wrong thing tomorrow is battle. Boom, bap, bap. I'm going, I'm going straight back to him. Ran an accident, ran back for that same battle and a tripping clean off because I'm on edge. A lot going on in my household. So we wish gary griffith and and nicole nicole diagraff in particular and gary griffith and the family, the best wishes and I hope that they take this time off.
Speaker 4:I admire people who put themselves up for public service, regardless of what I might say about them when they win and their ways and all these kind of things. But I don't know if I could do it All the talk I talk here. Somebody was telling me. So Joel Julian, I see he posted the other day that Patrick Manning was 45 years old when he was the first prime minister in Trinidad and Tobago. I want to say that I am 45 years old now and if it's anything that this podcast has proven, I am not ready for that kind of leadership. I ain't going to make it, I ain't going to survive it, it ain't going to work. You can imagine having a prime minister as immature as me. So I admire people who go out for public service service, but the health and strength and well-being of your family must come first. So I wish gary griffith and they all the best.
Speaker 4:Let me talk about another third force now deputy political leader of the honesty opportunity, performance and empowerment party. Well, the ancient honesty that? Um? That's silent, not so. So this is that'd be oop. The whole party has resigned. From what the hell is this, I know, going to about? You resign. Deputy political leader of the honesty hope opportunity. I don't know what the hell to read this. No, honesty opportunity, performance and empowerment hope party has resigned following a contentious joint meeting with the Community Reform Network, crm NGO and the National Transformation Alliance. Gary, you meet up with people. Last Wednesday the three groups met, but Karen Nunes Tishera abruptly left, visibly upset. She later confirmed that she's been scheduled to speak on the state of the economy, but declined to elaborate on what led to her departure.
Speaker 4:When contacted, uh hope political leader timothy hamilsmith revealed that new nestishare was displeased, that her party's flags were not hoisted before. Those are the empty. He explained that the person responsible for setting up the flags arrived at 6 15 alongside hope chairman steven alvarez. All flags open. Listen, it's flag. These people talking about being in the election? A place running out of oil, it's got nothing to do in the country. You know, I mean youths looking for opportunity and and hope. Your party name hope and youths looking for hope, and all this of more. Who flag? I don't know. I don't know, I don't I. I be confused by some of these things. Sometimes, you see me, I is not a read no article, and so you know I is to come here and play, so enjoy myself. I can't deal.
Speaker 5:This is an FOS from the Trinidad location, seven miles off the coast of Venezuela. Fos F Seven miles off the coast of Venezuela. F-o-f, f-o-f. Mayday, mayday, mayday, help, help. The Trinidad, a luxury liner sailing the Caribbean Sea with an old captain named Eric Williams, but sadly Eric William passed away. The ship hit rough water. That day Someone turned the bridge over To a captain named Chambers. My blood crawled. Things started to fall. Hold me head when I sail up all.
Speaker 1:Captain, this ship is sinking.
Speaker 5:Captain, this is a rough ball. We gas tank almost empty, no electricity. We oil pressure reading low. Shall we abandon ship or shall we stay on it and perish slow? We don't know, we don't know. Captain, you tell me what to do. Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4:A man say when he hit you, he he blood crawling the trinidad.
Speaker 5:Oh, she was a beauty With wealth that few surpassed, and in her day she sailed majestically. There were few in her class. Faithfully, she fulfilled her sailors' need. Some were overpowered by greed, and so they built, but slow. Some took by bulk and go. Now she look dull, she's at a lull. She could barely sit on her hull.
Speaker 1:Captain, the ship is sinking. Captain, the seas are rough.
Speaker 5:Oh yes, we gas tank all this empty.
Speaker 4:No electricity. We oil pressure really low, so we sit and we wait. We sit and we wait. We don't know what it's looking like. We know what the election season brings. I will be here for election coverage.
Speaker 4:Thanks for all the feedback to everybody, with the episodes that came before as well, because I am living my dream when I get to sit down and talk to people in and around the culture. I get to sit down and talk to people in and around the culture and, of course, my sit-downs are not limited to people who are in Kaiso, soka and the arts and so on. I have a few people who are coming from a business standpoint as well. So one of my goals right now, just to share with you, is to build a catalogue of people who are coming through us. I kept saying from the beginning of this podcast sitting down and talking to people is something that I will always do. I kept saying from the beginning of this podcast sitting down and talking to people is something that I will always do, and it's to find the cadence and mixing, because I know this is important too. We had to talk about the things that are happening and follow up on the weekly Kutura and back and all. We must laugh and get some kicks in the mix, right, but documenting some of these stories. So, thanks to people like Zan Turner, frank, a lot of different people who come through jungi you know the funniest things that are doing a long time and and many of the the others who've committed to come and been coming through, appreciate them coming through. And I should be back to get in your weekly episode where we can, especially when it's election time. It go always has something to talk about when I come here, so we should be back to that. But my heart lies in the cultural, you know that. So I had a, had a uh kind of all wrap up with Franka that is out now. You should take that in. That is episode 219, but uh, I guess for me, kind of all, always there's a special time and, as I say in Franka episode next year I'm going to try to see if I could get through the whole of kind of all without paying a cent. I cannot commit to that. Where my wife is concerned, right, I could only commit to that for myself, right, she done planning to go the most expensive set of thing for the year next year, but I trying to see how I could get through that. Again, just following the vein of what's about Frank, that's something somebody was asking me the other day, right, somebody was asking me about. I had done an episode recently where I think that was with Frank himself.
Speaker 4:I was talking about the, the structure of party, and why is a a hell of a roadmatt song, a forever song, as I like to talk about forever music, and a big part of it is that same thing we talk about with the chord structure and all that right. So when you look at the way the song designed, I am not trying to say that the songs copy another song. Same thing thing with Free Tongue Collective and David Rudder High Mass. It's not that Take Me Home is a copy of High Mass, it's just reminiscent of it.
Speaker 4:So the point I'm trying to make is that music, while it might be infinite in the amount of combinations you could get from maybe 12 notes or so, there's a finite amount of things that you could do with music and it's an even more finite and smaller amount of things you could do with very, very popular world music. So when I saw Marshall Pardee going viral in St Patrick's Day in Ireland people having a time and singing Pardee and them kind of thing. Well, you know now that I say it's St Patrick's Day. I assume I was in Ireland, but I forget. St Patrick's Day is a thing right in TGI Fridays. I don't know where it was, but you see some st patrick's people, it's called in irish singing party.
Speaker 4:And again, the point I'm trying to make is why is popular music, and a lot of popular music, a lot of your favorite songs, though they built around a similar chord structure? Let me, let me show you exactly what I'm talking about here. So if you take in the chords I'm playing here is G, then E minor, then C, then D. It's some of the foundation chords for most of the popular music. Say only fools rush in, but I for your touch a long lonely time.
Speaker 1:What's it?
Speaker 4:We work so hard all week, we deserve a party so hard all week.
Speaker 1:We deserve a party.
Speaker 4:Tell everybody we deserve a party. I can say this. I can say Begin, now's the day, begin now's the day that you went away. When you went away, every bar you break every time you take. I'll be missing you, or the original might go like this Can I sing Every step you take?
Speaker 1:and every move, you make Every bond.
Speaker 4:You break Every heart you break, I'll be watching you. And then a man take that locally and say In a double deck party, double deck party Is upstairs, you're finding we Upstairs, you're finding way Upstairs, you're finding way In high heels, mama and gym boots On the ground, bamba Day On the ground. And he's singing something. Footsteps stamping harder, footsteps Stamping harder. Footsteps Back together, footsteps Crack apart footsteps, footsteps stamping on the ground. Bamba de on the ground, let's have our next one. See, see the sun set in your eyes.
Speaker 1:See the dawn twist in your side.
Speaker 4:I'll wait for you sleight of hand and twist of faith on a net of nifty weight.
Speaker 1:I'll wait for you without without you, without without you, without without you, I can't live Without without you.
Speaker 4:Only remember that when Marshall said I got a whine on me, I'll whine you back and if you don't know how to whine, I'll cut your slack. Anyway, back to where we were supposed to be supposed to be singing that of this year, right? You see, we work so hard. Every week we deserve a party.
Speaker 1:Tell everybody.
Speaker 4:We deserve a party. We work so hard all day. We don't want to worry that.
Speaker 3:I need a dress reliever With a drink in my hand and my wife in the middle.
Speaker 1:I don't want no other girl in the middle, just in case you're listening in the middle.
Speaker 4:All you can get me in trouble for the sake of all your entertainment. I don't know sometimes if people are laughing with me or they're laughing at me, but you can see now why that song will be playing. I see that thing going viral where the song is playing in Ireland for St Patrick's Day and things, because at the spine of the song is popular music and pop music and pop culture. And while I keep saying that it's not, it might be my favorite Marshall song of all time and most people, the sentiment seems to generally be the same that is not Marshall's greatest song ever. They're my chord sheet and lyrics thing. Right, you know what I mean. I'm not a young man, but at least you know now. At least you know now you could do the reference. And I want to say this too like people, the more do these things. Like I was comparing, um, I was comparing the, the, the voice, where you do over kitchener song, or or you know, david, rather, song, who a high mass with, with, with free time collective earlier. It's not to say that people, people seem to think that they're copying these songs or just taking this on. That's not the case. Music, while the combination of chords you could play unlimited plenty of these songs we hear. Like, when you hear a song for the first time and you find like you like it off the bat, tell yourself the chord structure is real, similar to a song that you would have heard before. In other news, listen before I go.
Speaker 4:I always had to talk about some sports things. You only know me well enough to know that once Trinidad and Tobago playing, I am there. I believe they have a game next week. It's a sort of a warm-up game or some kind of, I guess. Well, dwight York's still getting his legs right when he's on more captain, the ship is sinking. That ship was a little bit sinky. It was a little sinky for the longest time, but it seems as though we're finding some kind of footing, hopefully, with Trinidad and Tobago football, because the last thing I see from them is that we went to Jamaica and they play some indoors games. Do I talk like a little indoor game boy? Look, when I say indoors, closed doors, they're not allowing anybody to see the game.
Speaker 4:I don't see any shit men playing, but at least we're having some games coming up. And on the 21st of March, what's it is.
Speaker 4:We'll be seeing them play against Cuba in Santiago. I don't know if we should play against Cuba right now. I'm not sure, dwight, you're paying attention to what Donald Trump is saying. But, rolly, and what is my name? Ralph Gonzales, who met young brother the other day, and I can agree with you a little bit. I mean, carter, all them say give back the visa. I mean I want to let it speak for itself. Number one, and next time I record I will give you a little idea about what Trump.
Speaker 4:I had to make some time to talk about Trump and this whole tariff situation. I'm pretty convinced that he did not show. It does seem as though he cleared on exactly how a tariff works and how it should work, and they have a back and a half brain between them and their neighbors and them and China that I want to talk about. But he did come out and say we slave labor in the Cuba and doctors and all these kind of things and he don't want that. No dealings with me and now Dwight York going to schedule a game at Cuba while he's doing this. But 21st we play in Cuba. I believe on the 25th we also play in them at Atobolden Stadium. I think Doitio need to study international relations, but I will be there on the 25th to take that in. I see they certainly need volunteers, so I think they're looking for a striker. So I'm trying to stay trim, just in case I go down there and I'm a volunteer and tell them that I might get a call up for the first time. I mean, it's overd overdue, if you want to be honest.
Speaker 4:But more importantly, we have world cup qualifiers coming up 5th of june with uh green against grenado that seemed to be in trinidad. The 8th of june against bahamas looking like it's over there. The 6th of june 2020 what are you doing with the old thing? The 6th of june 2025 the one with grenada and the one with bahamas gone. Apparently friday, the 6th of june, we're going Grenada and the one with Bahamas gone. Apparently Friday, the 6th of June, we're going against St Kitts and Nevis. And then we have Costa Rica on the 10th of June important games.
Speaker 4:I can't remember where we was in the standing, but I do remember it in the woods of Gypsy, with a sinking ship and not looking very good. So I'm hoping that by the time he gets these warm-up matches under his belt and I I mean with his pedigree, and I think he's right there alongside he should be right there alongside Dwight York sorry, russell Latipi in terms of, well, their accomplishments in the career, but also the respect that the team will have for them as a whole. And I see in that Defence Force doing better and better, and you tend to find that when Defence Force or when you have a local league where the team's doing good, your national team have a better chance. So we're sending all powers, hopes, prayers, wherever you believe in the universe good energy and vibration to the soccer warriors as they journey forward. I'll leave you with this one, a political one too, and one of my favourite ones. You know it, one of the songs that best sum up the political season for me.
Speaker 1:Hmm, da da dee da da die die die die die Die Da da. Dee da da die die Da da. Dee da da die Da da dee da da die. Die die, die, die die. He promised he'd fire next time. He promised he'd fire next time. He promised he'd promise, he'd promise, he'd promise. He promised he'd fire next time. And who ain't there? They badly wounded. Who ain't there badly wounded? Who ain't there? They badly wounded? Who ain't there the badly wounded? Who ain't there badly wounded? Who ain't there? The badly wounded? Who ain't there badly wounded? Talk and talk like a mocking pretender. I'm checking the reason.
Speaker 4:I'm comforting you Far too long you're fooling the children, Telling the head when they wash and you teach and whose they reach wipe and you repeat, Cause the children coming to take back the kit.
Speaker 3:The power of the word in the conscious styling.
Speaker 1:Taking you for a brand new morning.
Speaker 3:The power of the word and the rap, so styling, rocking the roots of the vampire system.
Speaker 1:Talk you talk, you're mocking, you're trying to die. Talk you talk, you're a bloody deceiver.
Speaker 3:Talk you talk, you're a silver master. Talk you talk, you're a friggin' oppressor.
Speaker 4:One thing we show about over the next few weeks right, about four or five weeks. We are real, real, real, real talk to here. You know what I mean, but I'm here, I'm here for it. So we're going to be listening, we're going to be keeping them in check. You know, in this horse race, just like when you wake up racing to some big side, it's a two big side in this horse race, no matter what they want to tell me, it's a two big for the carnival season. That is, keep we honest and we just keep we committed to the culture. We have to stay on top of these fellas.
Speaker 4:Next, time we have to come here and continue to listen, to make sure if it's anybody who need to get some butu and some bato.
Speaker 3:We have to have bato to get them and some battle. We have to have battle together.
Speaker 1:I will see you all in the next one.
Speaker 4:Bye.
Speaker 1:All right, bye. Talk your talk, talk your talk, talk your talk. Alright, bye.