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Election time.
Election time.
People are now judging elections by crowd sizes now. So they say you go on Facebook.
What is amazing to me is this, right? This is what is amazing to me. This is not new. It's not new, but this is amazing to me.
Many elections we have had in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and we have had elections from 1960.
Well, I'm talking about in an independent Bahamas, right from 1972. I mean, 1977 in an independent Bahamas.
And we've been having rallies and we've been having crowds and so forth and so forth.
And we've had rallies in the Bahamas where when you look at the crowd size, you couldn't tell the F and M they wasn't going to win. Take 1987 as an example. F and M had huge crowds at their rallies.
If you look in most recent times all the political parties are huge crowds at their rallies and somebody lose.
With all the huge crowds, somebody lost. Right?
So crowd sizes can be an indication of enthusiasm of supporters, enthusiasm of onlookers, and it can be a, an indication of many things. What it is not an indication of is who can win or who can lose.
I don't care who you. I don't care who you are f or plb you go sitting down. Oh, look at the big crowd. We are. We go in.
You are idiot.
Yes, you are. You're an idiot if that's what you think. That's not how voting. That's how not. Our elections are. 1 Elections are 1 of the polls.
It's won by. By. By who cast sufficient vote for one side or the other to win. That's as one. Of course. Any party wants to have an impressive looking crowd.
They always do. I noticed when the FNM had its rally in Grand Mama the other day and the PLP had its rally in Nassau the other day, you all notice ain't nobody was flashing no, no strewn pictures of their crowd. Y' all notice that anybody notice that they weren't doing it. Why? The crowds were not that impressive to them. They just, they knew it. They weren't, you know, they, they were okay, but they weren't impressive because, you know, let me tell you something about politicians and you could take this to the bank.
If a politician showing you something, it's because he or she thinks that it's going to give them an edge.
So if they show you their crowd size, it's because they think, oh, that can give me an edge. If they don't show it to you, that's because they think it ain't gonna give them the edge. If a politician has a document that they tell you has good stuff in it, but they don't show you the document, they don't have good stuff in it.
A simple man. Because politics is about popularity. And anything a politician could do that can get them popularity, they will show you the instant they get it. Or the unemployment rate is down to 2%. Oh, my God, they shout that to the mountaintop. When the unemployment rate goes up, they run well, you know, it's seasonal something. So forth and so forth. They ain't gonna talk that up, huh? Politician tell you, oh, we just signed a big deal with somebody and don't want to show you the document. They ain't gonna show you that document. Why? Because what's in the document ain't good. So if they're not showing you the crowd sizes, they're not impressed.
That doesn't mean it was bad. It just mean it ain't impressive.
Right. And so the other night, none of them showed up. None this like head on photos and stuff like that. But they weren't showing no in the day of drones, they weren't showing them drawing pictures. So. So now the F and M at a part rally in the south, someone took a drone picture, right? I. So if you were trying to impress somebody, not right in the space where they cartoned off for the rally. It looked like a fairly tight space. I don't know what the number of people were. But then they took a shot of all the parking lot and so somebody's thinking, oh, why the parking lot in full, man? That's because you.
That's because you someone your side to win. You will find any narrative you will full crack out of the most rosy rose garden you could find because you want your side to win.
If the BLP have a big crowd, FMs go down. Don't worry about that.
Crowds don't vote. Yeah, because you. You nervous now.
It's the crowd big.
But, but y' all keep at it, man. Keep at it. Keep at it. Keep at it. Keep see, see if you could see, see. Why don't you all do this?
Keep record, keep record. Keep a record and say, okay, on X state, F M hard rally size X A, X on Y date, PLP ad rally size B.
Keep and keep it until election day. And then say on average who are the biggest crowd sizes. And then when you're done, go down to when the election results, look at your monitor and see if it was a good prediction.
That'd be a nice little kind of scientific way to do it.
This text says no one can match the rally crowds of the PLP in 2070, in 2017. History spoke to that boy. Just proving my point, man. I just drive. You want to get off on crowds? I mean on Facebook, they should be getting off, man.
They'd be going off, man.
There's so many things that go into an election. But ultimately, at the end of the day, what matters the most is what people do on election day.
And most people when they go into the polls. But many people, they go into the courts and they vote for many different reasons. Some people vote simply because I am, have been and it will remain F M plpcoi, whatever.
Some people go on it because listen, over the last five years, my life has been miserable. This happened to me, that happened to me and I blame in the government Boom. I'm going to vote against them. Some people, oh, the government did this for me, gave me this contract, did this for me, and things got better for me. I'm a vote for the government.
All kinds of reasons. People go into the polls.
What the job is of the political party is to do its very best, try to persuade as many people as it can.
Please support me because I have your best interest at heart and I can get it done for you. That's the job.
That's the job.
Rallies are to just listen to the name of it.
Rally. What does it mean? Rally. That's the name of it. Rally is to motivate people. To motivate in particular your base, your supporters. That's what it's for.
Plenty, plenty people who support parties don't go out to rallies. Plenty people, plenty people. Some of them who all be fooling around with that.
Some of them just, you know, that's just not my thing. I don't want to get caught up in people seeing me in no colors so that the next thing you know, after the election, people trying to, to victimize you or something.
Then you got people who go to rallies who can't even vote. They registered, they too young.
All kinds of reasons.
So, you know, you watch them, you watch the crowd, because it, it's. It can be an indication of something. But you see, I do know political parties have to, to. To. To see, you know, how motivated their folk are. And so part of that might be cannot the way people come out to support your cause. But of course, can I also say this?
Y' all don't get mad at me.
Don't get mad.
In the days, in the days.
In the days when Ingram, Pinland, Cecil Wallace and them used to be speaking at rallies. Let me tell you something. Them people alone, they draw a crowd this on their own. They're just the force of their oratory. Political oratory used to draw people.
That is not a feature or a factor of political rallies today.
It doesn't mean that you don't have some people who are capable of speaking or who are articulate and so forth. But, but, but, but the Ingram Kindling type speech given, I mean, Mr. Christie was borderline. That too. Mr. Christie was borderline. Rushing to no rally to go hear Mr. Christie.
Right? That was, that wasn't happening. Nobody was rushing to no rally to go hear Dr. Minnis. Nobody was rushing to any rally to go hear Brave Davis. That's not, not, not the case.
Nobody was rushing to anybody but to go and hear spinning Lyndon Pending oh sugar I can hear him now all the way that baritone voice of his right the go yes sir Wallace Field who who who was not the like he didn't have that same pin in delivery but he was a fiery person man oh he was a so people he was a compelling personality to go to listen to Hubert Alexander Ingram.
What young people couldn't wait to go to the rallies and listen to Mr. Ingram. Mr. Ingram say one time say one time say anyway let me leave that so you don't have that as a feature so the award these rallies that additional put that those kinds of orators could have you don't really have that in our politics today and that matters. Charismatic leaders, potent political orators are a staple of black Afrocentric communities that call what they call it now thing I'm call response anyway I can't remember the preachers know it they you know where you say something the crowd say something back to you and so forth that's not that ain't as prominent today and so you don't get the same level of excitement. We're going to take a break but when we come back I I did catch some of Sebastian's interview with quite strong today and he said some interesting things some things that I I think warrants commentary and so when we come we talk about that for a bit. You're listening to Z live on Chicago line your host. We'll be back after this break.
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This text says the drone picture was a snap in time shared by the plp. A time snapshot of entire event would have been credible at 7 8pm Crowd would be another, etc. Of course, but political parties are famous. Well, their operatives are famous for trying to get snapshots of each other's rallies that tell the story they want. So to find an early gathering, take a shot that go post it on Facebook. The F and M will go find an early gathering of the plp, take a snapshot that post and say, look at this terrible crowd. Or it also is a matter of angles, right? So they'll find an angle scattering of people maybe at the far back or something like that. And then they go post that, oh, ain't nobody was at the Ra Valley. Or they could help in their own causes. They might try to find an angle of their own crowd that says that shows a clustering. I don't even believe Facebook postings of stuff. Now, to be honest with you all, I don't, I don't. The deception is too huge. Ability is too huge. You know why? Because you could take, you could take a snapshot of a crowd and then you could, you could superimpose pieces of that short and into a filler frame and then give yourself the appearance of having a much larger crowd than you have. So I don't, I don't.
I'm sorry, but I keep telling people if you're sending me stuff now on Facebook or anything, I am triple checking and ruble checking because I just don't believe too much liars too Much lying, too much deceit is on the Internet. Too much. You, you click on these YouTube videos, the caption is one thing. That's clickbait. They say the caption is one thing, but the story is an entirely different story. Liars. It's not just marketing, it's lying.
You're a liar. And I don't buy it. I don't like it. I think it's horrible. So I, I doubt first, and then I believe later, after some verification where I can do so.
This text says, Mr. Lang, rallies don't win elections, but it sure does help you unify their supporters and their supporters stir their supporters up. That's what I said. I think that's what I said. It motivates them and keep them hyped up. Getting your supporters out to vote consistently and influencing the undecided voters to vote for your party causes parties to win elections. I think you and I are on the same page. I believe, unless my memory fails me, I said that very same thing.
So I don't disagree with you at all. This text says, hey, brother, you were right there. Call and response. That's right, call and response. You know, that's what an election is all about.
Fms, blps. And then the crowd goes,
[00:19:36] Speaker F: and then
[00:19:37] Speaker A: you say, are you feeling all right? And the crowd says, oh, yeah, yeah, you know, so you, you, you, you, you.
You know how you know when you are a good political oratory?
When people are walking around saying, boy, you are here with what Pinland say, you are here with Ingram say, that's when you know you've had a good political delivery. The political deliveries can't be about technical things. Can't be no technician running around trying to explain this and that. And the next thing it's about saying things that people can catch, hold on to, walk away with and share with other people. That's the idea. That's the aim, right? Anyway, so Sabas Bastian, who's the Progressive Liberal Party's candidate for the 4 Charlotte constituency and a major, major player in the numbers business in the Bahamas through its legalization and after its legalization. Okay, so for a long time prior to the legalization of numbers, when it was illegal, he was, as well as others, a major player in that business. He is now still a major player in that business.
Sebastian Dwight's show said that, well, people say he owns because he don't personally own anything.
And I thought, okay, good lesson point here.
So many people do not own in their own names, things.
They put the operations they may Even put them in trust.
And a corporation is a separate legal entity in law from the person who is the owner of the corporation.
So the corporation does things, the corporation buys things, the corporation sells things, the corporation does business.
The owner is not doing it directly owned by the owner who's doing it, okay? So they are separate legal entities.
However, the beneficial ownership of a thing is vested in the owner of the shares of the corporation.
What do you mean? Well, you, you, the corporation doing something, the corporation makes a profit where the money goes, the profit goes to the owner. So the owner benefits from it. That's what we call.
Okay, so you have legal ownership, right? And you could have beneficial ownership or you could have legal unbeneficial ownership, but then you have somebody who benefits from shareholders benefit from the activities of a thing. So this notion that, well, I do, but I don't directly own anything, it might be accurate in law, but in point of fact, if you are benefiting from it, then you are benefiting from it.
And that's the point of the business you own, is that you benefit from it.
Okay? So this is one of the reasons why the Disclosure act of the Bahamas needs to be amended so that it can speak to whether or not you are the beneficial owner of something. Now let me tell you what, how that is important.
[00:23:24] Speaker F: So
[00:23:27] Speaker A: maybe you, maybe as a owner of shares in a corporation, you have to declare your ownership in the shares, okay? So in our Disclosure act, you have to declare your ownership in the shares. But some people put their shares in a trust, okay? And so now the legal ownership of those shares are transferred to the trust so that the trust is now the owner of the shares. And now you don't have to disclose your ownership of those shares, but a trust still gives you beneficial ownership, which means that whatever the shares produces in the way of returns for you gets to you as the beneficial owner.
And so if the question of are you the beneficial owner of anything, you should declare those, then that would be a different story. And now you get more information about how people are benefiting from the things they may not, they may own through corporations or trusts.
That's different.
But I heard Sabas say, he says, well, I don't own anything directly.
And so people say I. He said, so people say, I, I'm renting to the government and what have you. Well, it's not me because I don't personally own anything.
If you, if you own a company that is rented to the government, that's you brought, there's no veil there.
And if you own it. And 12 other hundred people own it. Same thing. You still. It's just that they own it too. But you are also known as. So you are renting to the government.
Right? That's a fact.
So we can't, you know, we could try to pass these things all we want, I think. And he said something that I, it was absolutely appropriate. He said, listen, I will disclose what all of the rent that companies I
[00:25:28] Speaker G: hold
[00:25:31] Speaker A: get from the government. I will disclose that information. That's appropriate. Then that's how it should be. I don't understand why people can't and won't be.
Let's just say, let's just try to just be straight about the stuff, right? And then people can make their own minds up, etc. You're a businessman. You do. Yeah, I'm not never gonna. I'm never blaming the businessman.
Now, when you decide you want to be a politician, when you decide you want to go in the House of Assembly, when you decide that the possibility exists that you could go in the Cabinet, that's a whole different ball game.
That's an entirely different ballgame. In that ball game, your interest in anything related to the government becomes declarable.
Not merely because the law requires it, but because ethics requires it. Because your public trust requires it.
We have a call on the line. Go ahead, caller, we're listening to you.
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[00:26:35] Speaker F: I am right here, sir. I don't know what your topic is today, but I still share something with you right, as it relates to the lottery. Okay, okay. I'm a Christian, but to be honest with you, I have no problem with having a national lottery voices all these gaming houses in that. So maybe based on what Michael, our leader Behemoth is going to gain by that. Okay? And this is something we as Behemoth was calling for a long time ago.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: Yeah, you voted for it. You vote. You voted. You voted for it in the referendum.
[00:27:11] Speaker F: No, I did not vote for it.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: No, no list. No, no, listen to me. You said that's something we as Bahamians have been calling for.
[00:27:21] Speaker F: Oh, yes.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: I mean Bahamians voted for a national lottery.
[00:27:28] Speaker F: Yes, we did. We did. And apparently they must be forget these same people who have a problem with it. And the only reason they have a problem with it is because they didn't taught about it. Okay? It was not their idea. So neither Mr. Pintard is implementing it. They have a problem. Okay? But a national lottery is going to save some poor Bahamians from going to these Gaming house to throwing away their monies. They now could play the lottery. Hopefully if they even don't win, they still win because the country win. So just tell them to do it.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: I think that's true. That's true. Their monies get spent in a place where it goes to service the, to pay for things that they would like.
[00:28:11] Speaker F: It comes right back to rough. And that's why some of these people could save their little sense every day. Gaming, gaming, gaming, gaming and only better make better money goes to. It goes to the same man who has a problem with the lottery and that's his big problem there because he see where the gaming could come down.
And I hope that bill. Thank you by the way.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: By the way, I'm told that the majority of people voted against the national lottery. I thought the national lottery caution succeeded, but I, but I'm told it's. It did not.
[00:28:41] Speaker F: Well, they had a problem with it anyhow. So I think Bahamian probably have a change of mind since that. Because if they say if you're gambling you're cheaper have a national lottery. That's how I look at it. I have no problem with it. Thank you.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: I got you. Appreciate it.
So, so, so one of the things that Sebas indicated in relation to the national lottery and to be clear, Sebastian or others who are in the business of gaming would have an interest in a national lottery.
Some people say so Michael Pintad said the national lottery he's going to set up would be for big ball, not the little ball as the gaming houses do and so forth, so forth. Right?
Well, yeah, but that's not the problem. The problem is a, a person gambling only got $5, say well, you know, she's spending all the $5 now with the gaming houses.
If a national lottery comes, you now have another option. And, and it's a big option because maybe it's got some. You now you got to split your $5 sort of for the numbers houses. That means competition. And I said that years ago that these two could be parasitical on each other. So Sebas is an owner in the numbers business and others would not be intrigued about a national lottery unless they had some ownership directly in that lottery.
Right. In that lottery. Yes. Both failed.
I corrected that.
But more people voted in favor of the lottery over the workshop. Okay, good. Yes, yes, thank you very much. So more people voted for a national lottery than voted for legalizing gambling. Okay. So they were clearly more favorable toward a national lottery than they were favorable towards legalizing the gaming. Thank you very much for that so these owners of gaming, such as the past, a candidate for the Progressive Liberal Party would not be interested in a national lottery because it represents a eating into customers discretionary income because of the choice the customer now has to spend on the national lottery versus the gaming houses. It's not as if the people can have any bunch of new money coming to them. So they have to split the money they have. Do I go and cut all in the gaming house or do I go and put a portion on the national lottery? Right. So that they might have some concerns would not surprise me. What I was surprised about was Sebastian indicating that the expertise for implementing a national lottery does not exist locally.
Well, I don't know that to be true. But first of all, since when in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas has the absence of expertise locally been an issue for doing in the Bahamas in either the public or the private sector?
Every.
The fact that we have government permits for consultants in the private and public sector brings in foreign consultants. Let me get deep with you all for a minute. The fact that the parties FNM and PLP use foreign advisors in their campaigns.
Let me say it again for you. FNM and PLP both use foreign advisors in their campaigns. Okay? Foreign advisors. The fact that most of the paraphernalia you see during these election companies come from away abroad.
They don't get made locally, they come from away.
You go ask customs how much import duty that's paid on them stuff.
So if the local expertise does not exist, what difference does that make? But you go pay for the expertise since you know what the benefits are going to be. That's not new. We do that every day Bahamas.
When the numbers business was set up, prior to being legalized by these operators, was the local expertise in existence then?
As a matter of fact, the software that's used by most of them, my understanding, these are foreign applications, These are foreign software.
So when is that a new thing? So when is that an impediment to anything in the Bahamas?
See, I tell them people, right? Come on man, let's be sensible, let's be reasonable. What, what's the problem? Is the problem the local expertise does not exist? The problem is slush fund. Do you know what it means that something could be a slush fund? That means you have excess money to spend. Could you imagine having excess money to spend on youth, sport, education, health, so forth and so forth?
If, if it is true, it would be a slush.
So I don't see how the absence of local expertise creates a challenge and I would. I'm surprised that someone with the business acumen of Sebastian would actually raise that as an issue in the 21st century. Because expertise is so fluid now, so capable of being had. I can't imagine somebody with a great business idea being impeded of local expertise. I mean the whole notion of globalization, the whole notion of internationalization is predicated on the fluency of expertise to be moved across the globe to achieve ends. The stuff that these numbers people are doing, why are you people waiting to see what they throw in Chicago?
In Chicago, you in the Bahamas, in Nassau and Freeport. And you waiting to see what the ball drew in Chicago?
This text says, Mr. Lange, I approve the national lottery once the money don't go towards the travel budget. Boy, I tell you, they could fly.
His text says, good afternoon Mr. Lang, based on what you said, that means anybody that does a lot of talking without any documentation to show means that it's a flash in the plan, just a mere distraction, no substance behind it. His Texas. I think that there are a few people who captured the crowd with their voice. Such as Dr. Myers, Monroe, Lyndon pending Dr. Charles Saunders. Oh yeah, I think Paul Adity was quite articulate, but not a crowd attracted. That is true. Hubert, Alexander Ingham and a few more that eludes me at the moment. Yeah, it says Good afternoon Mr. Lang. Don't you think that disclosure of one's financial standing is a two edged sword? People will use what you have against you. I feel a person with modest means of financially stability. Stability is good, but a person who has great gain also needs protection.
Please.
You think people don't know rich people? Rich in the small country like the Bahamas.
This text that Mr. Langley has BAME is voted clearly against gaming. But national lottery we didn't oppose. You didn't oppose as much, that's for sure.
This text says the voter turnout was low. There was 21,415 no votes for the question on web shops.
14,098 yes. There were 20,000 no votes for the National Lottery and 14, 5, 32 yes votes. Yeah, yeah. Well the vote, the vote turnout, the voter turnout was low, but they were still decisive. So don't you know, and I elect. In our voting process, we don't worry about how many people show up, we worry about how many people represent. And that's why it's called a poll. It's not called a. It's not, it's a poll. And polls reflect, they try to reflect randomly the general population. That's why you could have a whole government Selecting on the basis of the poll. Right. So you don't need to have everybody show up. You don't even have to have a majority show up.
It tends to suggest that if you did do the majority, this would be what would be reflected.
We have a call on the line. Go ahead caller. We're listening to you.
[00:37:11] Speaker H: Good day. That's the line.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: Hey. Yes, hey.
[00:37:15] Speaker H: Time caller here.
Yes, I see you brought up an interesting topic about the gaming industry. Right.
Let me just enlighten you something on the gaming industry.
When they legalize the gaming industry, what they did was they took away the competitive edge. So we the beheming people, we still get jam at the end.
If you could recall, Ren gambling was illegal. They used to play between 800 to 950 a dollar.
Right? Okay.
Now they legalize it. They drop it to 700.
Before you used to have hand palms where persons when they fall on hard time, you could go get a hand palm, walk the streets and hustle and sell to put something in your pocket.
They took those off the streets. Right.
You could have go inside a bar, a third party and play numbers inside a bar. And that bar owner could have generate revenue by collecting income from what they would call third party benefits. So you work on just commission pay.
So everybody was able to eat off of the gaming industry. Then when you close the door on everyone's face.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: But you know that, that's. That's. That's not unusual for illegal operations. Illegal operations operations have a premium attached to them always. That's why you make more money in the illegal drug trafficking than you make illegal drug trafficking. Anything that's illegal has a premium attached to it. When, when the. When the. When the liquor business was illegal, there was a premium attached to it and people made lots of money. Now that the business is. Is legal where now you have to set up these major. These companies and so forth and so forth. So it. It that's. That's true of illegal operations.
[00:39:03] Speaker H: All right. So why didn't they open up the industry for everybody to eat off a gambling. In terms of persons nowadays have outdoor poker games that. That we could charge them for mid fees. They have dice games. We could charge them permit fees. You could have go inside a bar and sit kiosk and make money. But they stripped that away from everybody.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: Because politicians in the Bahamas because politicians in the Bahamas have businesses about the business of protecting benefits for a privileged few in the business of protecting special interests. That has been the case. For instance, there is a moratorium supposed to be on Taxi plates. So you can't just go out there and have. There's a moratorium on cell phone licenses. Because we are, we are trying to tell people. Listen to this now. We're trying to tell people oh you shouldn't have a lot of cell phone licenses because people ain't making the money. But, but if you're in the restaurant business like a billion restaurants could come into being and they don't make no difference.
[00:40:12] Speaker H: Uh huh. That is the same thing with. All right, say what I'll call when we legalize alcohol. All you needed was the alcohol license in order to sell alcohol. Right.
So gambling is a product. Numbers. What they sell is a product. Why aren't you allowed to have the permit to sell these things where you could create more job creation under an average hustler can now eat off of this. Everyone don't have to get super rich, you know. But we need to get by somehow and that's a hustle and they strip it away from us.
[00:40:45] Speaker A: I got you brother. I understand, I understand.
[00:40:50] Speaker H: All right. So that's my only point. I trying to get across. If we could now give permit and charge people for permits to have poker tournaments, dice tournaments, all these things that we do behind closed recording stuff currently exists just like numbers.
[00:41:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: If gambling, if gambling legal everything around it should be legal. I would you.
[00:41:09] Speaker H: That's what, that's what I'm saying. But they, they, they, they make it narrow to. Whereas only them could afford to do so. And they so far gone. For you to apply to get a license you need 250,000 and if you don't get approved, you lose your money.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Thanks man. Appreciate your calling. Appreciate you calling. This says it is. It is terrible what's going on with these political ads. I just ready to vote. Shake my head Mr. Langston. Pass. Talking foolishness. I know states right now the Amens who work for.
For the Florida Lottery. I am sure they will be able to assist along with foreign consultants if required for a set period for the implementation and startup. I wouldn't even shout I can't issue in the 21st century. Bahamas says he even admitted that his company has to hire consultants on things.
Exactly right. He was only trying to suggest he is in the industry and could implement a national lottery while also suggesting it's not needed. Yeah, yeah, I, I understand.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna take a break for our sponsors and for news and then when we come back we will continue our discussions. We'll be back after the news break.
[00:42:29] Speaker C: I'm not afraid I'm not afraid to take a stand Take a stand Everybody, everybody come take my come take my we'll walk this road together through the storm whatever Weather, cold, the warm Let me know that you're not alone.
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[00:45:24] Speaker B: You better get out the folks.
[00:45:26] Speaker A: It's the big concert Saturday, April 18
[00:45:28] Speaker B: at the National Stadium. Just added Punchy, Carlin, Ding Dong, Fayette, Lyons, Skinny, Fabulous, also Sweet Emily, Damien,
[00:45:36] Speaker A: Troy, Ray, Shawn K, Blondy, Sherwin, Gardner, Wendy. 242, El Polly and the Pawn Pack.
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[00:45:58] Speaker D: Five years of pop rule. Are you better off today while you work? They've spent millions on taxpayer funded trips, a government funded luxury car, and handed out hundreds of millions in no bid contracts. But for the rest of us, gas and groceries through the roof, vat on bread basket items. Health care that is broken, unaffordable and out of reach.
And it's not just your wallet. For five years illegal immigrants have flooded our communities. Police putting excessive pressure on our schools, our housing and our social services.
As they flood in Bahamian families fall behind under the F and M There will be a change. The F and M has a plan to address the rising cost of living, secure our borders, protect Bahamians from illegal immigrants and fix our health care. Because the F and M knows our job is to work for you and not the few.
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[00:47:11] Speaker C: Through the storm, whatever weather, cold, the war Let me know that you're not alone. I'll get you feel
[00:47:23] Speaker A: welcome back welcome back ladies and gentlemen to Z Live. I'm Shabab, your host is so glad you could join us here today on Guardian Radio 96.9 FM.
This text says Abbas thinks that he's the only smart person in this country when he talks about where the F and M is going to get expertise Chago you write about what you are saying. Sebas wants him and only his crew keep the number business child if it's working for you you would want to keep it. It's working for you.
It is working this Texas Good afternoon sir. I was at old rally I could say without a shadow of a doubt that the PLP crowd was twice as much as the FM crowd. That's the facts sir. If these rallies don't have significance meaning why political parties pay so much money money to host them why don't why down play the reason because your party isn't turning out crowd I don't know who would be downplaying. Yeah people do downplay the reason etc.
I just make the point that both sides try to uptick their crowds Downtick their crowds. If the PLP had twice the number of people as the F M that's great.
The FMN therefore might think okay was what was this? What was the reason maybe was where I had the rally because where you have the rally matters. If you go on if you go on Fort Charlotte, it's a RM Bailey. It's a different dynamic than if you go out east or so forth. So you know, I've been in this business so you guys be taught you, you, you talking to somebody who's been the business. And I've been to rallies in the Bahamas for the F M and we won, won, won, won where the crowd wasn't big we were in West End or the crowd we were in someplace else. And then you go on Fort Charlotte and you get a bigger crowd. So it matters where you are too. Right. And yes, the, the parties do emphasize their crowd. So I'm not denying that at all, bro.
But if you, but if you think that can determine who wins, go ahead, do your thing.
That's all I'm saying. Go right ahead.
Let's go ahead and make a bet on it. If you bet.
Let me see here. We have another text here says Good day Mr. Lang. I would like to respond to Mr. Bastian talking about using $20 million from the treasury towards the needs of the country. But Mr. Bastian should pay attention to the budget where the government is short in revenue. National lottery will be able to assist government in some of its shortfall. The Baming people voted against it. Yeah. There's no question that if a national lottery were implemented the government would come into much more revenue just like the government came into much more revenue when the, when VAT was implemented. There's no question that a national lottery would give the government additional revenue.
Even the Prime Minister Obama's Mr. The Honorable Philip Brad Davis admits that because he said were they trying to get a slush fund? Well the only could get a slush fund is you can make money from it.
So yeah, the Chicago define quid pro quo. Quid pro quo is I do for you, you do for me.
That's what a quid pro forward quid pro quo is I do for you, you do for me.
This text.
We have a special guest I'm talking to in a little while so I'm gonna try and get as many of you.
Texting as I can.
So Mr. Lang, me and a few friends travel with PLP&F and M straight in the car to go to all the rallies. Just have fun. Of course.
In fact the fellow who text me said he was at boat rally's so he was in the count at both rally's too. So both rallies were added to by him and were subtracted to by him.
This says good day. Lying. The only thing being worse than being Blind is having sight but no vision. But too too many people can see and don't know what they are looking for. Okay, this says good day lying. They should make a rule that no one wear no party color apart from the only doing voting. It will probably ease tension on that line. Okay, this text says they can't compare the crowd from the PLP on Saturday to the FM's rally last night. Firstly, PLT was on a Saturday. F M was on a weekday. Exactly. Exactly when people have to go to work the following day. Secondly, that rally last night was for the constituencies in the south. PLT on Saturday was for all constituencies. Absolutely correct. Absolutely correct. This Texas a line comparing the PLP rally to the FMN rally so far as apples and oranges number one the PLP out of week and rally at Iron Bailey park. So more with a 10 because people are off from work compared to a work week rally. What the F M had last night less people would attend because people are working. Now when the F M has a mass rally at Iron Daily on a weekend then you can make a fair comparison. And that's why parties when you know when you rarely want to tell what the deal is, wait till they have a head to head when they both have Saturday night rallies at the same time. What then and see what happens because people go to people float about this Texas Mr. Lang, the PLP's crowd on Saturday night was impressive. Reminded me of that 2017 crowd. Okay, Red splash. The the must be Donald Trump focusing on crowd size. Okay, so why did he not just disclose from day one of his candidacy?
His text is there was a growing call for him to fully disclose.
Well, I don't know what fully disclosed mean but there are disclosure rules attached to nomination.
This text says good day to you. Love your show. I would love to hear your definition of success. There are many coming on shows touting their success which in some cases are derived from from ill gotten gains. I personally do not see owning plenty things as a measure of success.
Me and you can have that conversation. That's a very good question. But we will definitely have that conversation.
Very we will definitely have that conversation. Because that's an important conversation for the young people in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. For all people in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. That is a very important question.
Ian Thomas, what do you say you come see me today? What's going on? I go bro, direct marketing is in the house.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: You know I mean big up yourself.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: No, no, no, no no no no no. You trying to. You ain't Doing travel nowhere.
It's Nami.
[00:54:29] Speaker B: What you saying, man?
[00:54:31] Speaker A: Welcome. How you doing?
[00:54:32] Speaker B: Everything is real good, man. Everything is everything, man. You're having a great show. I love it. I was listening to you on the way, driving here, I might just jump straight into my spiel, man, because my time for your.
[00:54:43] Speaker A: For your clients, Paul. Trying to get on me, I tell you.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: And I leave my glasses right on. But everything cool. I think I can still see. I make the screen big.
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[00:55:22] Speaker A: Listen, carry on, man. You want me dancing, man?
[00:55:24] Speaker B: That's good, man. Hey, look here, Chivago, please listen. I will hear no more men using these phrases. All right, child. I weak girl. Don't do it.
You all messy. Hey, period.
Clock it.
This. This is giving. But I hate to hear dudes talk.
So if you ever see me on the street, please don't use them phrases around me. Aye, for that. Hey, look here, man. Chivago. Porky's gas station. You know, Badell.
[00:55:54] Speaker A: Oh, Porky is a legend. I know.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: Porky's been around for long. Now Porky says, listen to this. If you guys want to save more, drive more, and worry less when you visit Porky's gas station, you guys are gonna have a wonderful time. Everywhere I go, I hear the same old thing. Baymans are complaining that they are tired of watching their money disappear at the pump. I think it's time to take a smarter move. And now you can go and fuel up for less. At Porky's gas station. You can pay $6.49 per gallon. That's lower. I don't want to use the word cheaper. You can use cheaper if you want to. Lower than every place else. Porky Service Station, $6.49.
One of the lowest prices in town right now. You got to go there. And if you don't, you're crazy. Or. And if you don't know about it, you're living underneath the rock. If you haven't heard about Porky's gas station, discount prices at $6, 49 cents. You are doing yourself a disservice. Porky's is conveniently located East Street South. Everyone knows that. On East street south, like I said, and Victoria Boulevard. So whether if you are parents getting kids ready for back to school. I mean driving them to school in the morning. Of course. That's what I meant to say. Driving them to school or workers commuting daily or. Or if you're a bus driver keeping the country moving, you gotta go to Port Keys gas station. They understand that your journey means so much to you and they want to help you save, save, save. Now, their service station is powered by the trusted Reubis family. So when you feel, when you go there and you fuel up, you know that your vehicle is getting advanced detergents and additives in their tank cleaner fuel injectors and intake valves, which reduces carbon buildup so your car has a better combustion and engine performance. And remember, Porky's is open 24 hours, ladies and gentlemen. Why? Because they know everybody's not on the same schedule. If you want to give them a call, their phone number is 392-2832. 3922832. That's 3922832. And don't forget, Porky's is more than a gas station. You can step inside and you can pick up delicious snacks and treats, cold drinks, chips and grocery essentials. Quick and convenient shopping on the go. And this is why most people brag about their excellent customer service every time they visit there. Now, of course you know Porky's is the. Is the Dorset family. So you go there, you visit them, you see them and you enjoy the staff. And they're known to go above and beyond delivering the kind and friendly reliable service that you can count on every time. So don't overpay at the pump. Drive smarter. Save bigger. When you visit Porky's gas station, East Street south, one more time, the phone numbers, 392-28-32. And go down there and check them out. Great, great prices on gas when you're moving around town. This is my girl. I think she's your girl too, man. I just send you a WhatsApp, you know. You know, I talking about. That's Dennelly Penn Mackey. Dennelly Penn Mackie. You know her?
[00:58:39] Speaker A: No, I don't know her. Yes, of course I know. You know. I do.
[00:58:42] Speaker B: I know that. That's my girl. My age. What you saying? Although I may not live in Southern Shores, one thing is undeniable. The word on the street is clear. Denley Penn Mackey is the people's choice, and I can surely understand why so many residents feel that way. She is someone I've known and trusted for over the past, what, 20 years. Our children went the same school. She's been a client of mine for those years. And we share friends and our friendship and memories and moments that reveal who she truly is and, you know, directly to the core. I've watched how she interacts and enjoys her family. That's amazing. And how she carries herself with strength and grace. I admire the powerful support system that she and her husband share. And, you know, he stands firmly beside her and behind her both, and allows her to just be her natural self in any endeavor she undertakes. So when I saw her step forward, Zhivago, in this race, I knew this is not just about politics. It's about purpose. Denalee, she can tell you this herself. She says that God has been so good to her.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: Ian.
[00:59:45] Speaker B: Ian. God has been. I was on the phone with her so long on Saturday, and she feels that this is her call to give back on a greater scale. She's tired of just talk, and she's ready for action. Because Southern Shores deserves a representative who doesn't just promise to show up, but one who's already shown up. And her vision is clear. She wants to empower the people economically, remove unnecessary boundaries, holding families back, and create real opportunities for growth and independence. She believes in the next generation, in raising up young entrepreneurs, thinkers and leaders. She's encouraging all young people, all to embrace education and innovation, including tools like artificial intelligence, so they're not left behind in this rapidly growing field. And she promises that progress and opportunity will be for all. But she wants to let you know that it's not something that's given. Responsibility comes along with that. And interacting with young people, she reminds them all the time, respect yourself, respect your community, and keep your surroundings clean. All of this is the building blocks for a successful person. So this is why she's making this final plea to the residents of Southern Shore to join forces with her and give her the support she needs to make that much needed difference.
So if you are a constituent of Southern Shores and you believe and deserve more, that you deserve more. And if you believe that your family deserves better, and also if you are living Southern Shores and you say, you know what?
Let's raise up fellow constituents and get together and get our full potential, let's reach our full potential. The choice is clear. And Denley says, come along, stand alongside with her. And she promised to give you the full representation that you guys have been wanting and needing. And that's overdue. If you want to learn more about her and her vision, you can check out her Facebook page, Denley Penn Mackie. Or you can contact her constituency office at 8232-939823-22982, 2939. That's dentally penned. Mackey. Wonderful person. I've known her for such a long time. Great person. And she's just, she's out there just doing a thing, shaking hands and kissing babies. You know about that Chivago line.
Trivago, you there?
[01:02:08] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Yeah, but. Yeah, I used to, I. But I used to shake the people down and kiss the babies. Them for real though. I mean I wasn't trying to be no politician, you know.
[01:02:17] Speaker B: I don't want you kissing hands and shaking babies because you get locked up.
[01:02:21] Speaker A: Not only that, that's. That's just nasty, man.
[01:02:31] Speaker B: Hey, Chicago, Little General, man, what you saying but Little General, you know, Little General, you don't be a Nassau like that, man, you know.
[01:02:36] Speaker A: But yes man, I know. We don't know where they located.
[01:02:40] Speaker B: Let me see it is.
[01:02:41] Speaker A: You know, you guys, I could find it if I on the road. Don't give me ask me no street.
[01:02:45] Speaker B: You can open up the gps.
A Little General is a convenience store that's been around for many years. It's a staple in the in Nassau. Like I said, they're located east street south. They get the best prices on everything you need for your baby, like baby food and washing detergent for your newborns. They got top brands like Huggies and Pampers to keep your little one dry and comfortable. If you need some snacks for school or even for yourself to take to work, you got to go to Little General. They got the best prices on chips and drinks and lunchables. Plus you'll also save big on Capri Suns, Gatorade and Vitamol. Keep your house clean with disinfectants, washing powder and top of the line bleach. And when it comes to meats, nobody beat Little General prices. They got the freshest chicken leg, quarters, wings, turkey portions, lamb chop, pork chop and steak. They also have an extensive line of hair and beauty supplies to keep you looking and smelling real good.
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[email protected] they got a mobile app that you can add your, your stuff to your cart and do your checkout and you can do pickup in store and you family island customers, you guys are not left out. They deliver to the boat twice a week. So you have 24 hour shopping online and you can get your stuff delivered to the boat. Doesn't get any easier than that, man. Go to Little General. I love them. That's Damien down there. He's doing a wonderful job. And they just are rocking and rolling.
And what I like about them too, if you speak Creole, they got people down there too inside to, to help you out and interpret and do everything. So they're taking care of everything down there. Little General. Now they are not open up on Saturday. I know that. So open up Monday through Friday and they close early on Friday, not open up on Saturday, but they're back there on Sunday. So go check out a Little General and get those great prices on all your meats and everything you need. SHSS Electrical. I just been there yesterday trying to do some renovations and everything like that. And my electrician needed some wires. He said he was going someplace.
[01:05:07] Speaker A: You, Ian, you always doing renovation, man.
[01:05:10] Speaker B: This, this mansion, it's an ongoing processor.
It's an on. I have some. Now I do have some solar lights that I also got from them, but then I also have some lights that need wiring and. And the contractor was there and he said, Mr. Thomas, this is that and that. And I said, oh, Lord, how much does it cost me? He dummies going someplace because he going, boy, you go come up. I said, not a thing like it. You going to SHSs Electrical. He said, SHS Electrical. He said, and they used to be on Maki Street. I said, yeah, but they're no longer there. There's still the Storr family. And the Storr family is synonymous with electrical supplies. So if you want to save money, just like me and thousands of other Bahamians, you want to go to SHSS Electrical. Let me give you the phone number really quick before, before I even start talking about them. 8273150 or you can dial 821-3150, 8273150 or 8213150 SHSS Electrical. They've got high quality circuit breakers to keep your home safe. They got durable wiring and cables to power any project. You can find reliable tools and fittings for every electrical task you need. Plus they got a huge selection of switches and outlets and lighting to brighten up any space. You want to stop by SHSS Electrical on Chesapeake Road and find all the electrical upgrades you need. You will find incredible selection of lights for indoor and outdoor, plus ceiling fans for those brands like Hunter, ideal for your home business or church or your Airbnb. So you pastors out there, you've been calling me, you. I want you to go down to shss. You're going to get a great deal down there. You can get those 2 by 4 LED flat panel lights for 77 bucks. I got that in my kitchen. You get the two by two LED flat panel lights. I got them in my bathroom. You just pay $42.90. And those four foot universal LED bulbs now on sale for $6.60. You can save on dust to dawn LED floodlights with bulbs now just $22 and square D main. You like them, right?
[01:07:04] Speaker A: Oh, I love them.
[01:07:05] Speaker B: You know why? You know why I like them?
You save money.
[01:07:08] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah, man. And then also, you don't have to be tuning in to cut the light on, off, outside, on, even. It does the do.
[01:07:16] Speaker B: That's my Chicago line, y'.
[01:07:18] Speaker H: All.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: That's exactly why I have it. Because you don't have to keep turning the lights on even if you out to dinner or you someplace. The lights just come on automatically or so that's dust to dawn. If you have it on motion, that means when someone walk in your yard, bang. The whole yard is illuminated.
[01:07:36] Speaker A: Or if you have it in a hallway, as I do, going downstairs automatically comes on while you're going down the stairs.
[01:07:44] Speaker B: You are absolutely right. You know, one of my cousins have it like that. I was supposed to get mine change over like you are you absolutely. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, listen to Zhivago here. He is absolutely wonderful when it comes to home decor.
[01:07:56] Speaker A: So I ain't trying to do plenty work in my house, Ian. I try to make it easy and
[01:08:00] Speaker B: smart and save money. Don't forget that part.
[01:08:03] Speaker A: Unsaved money. Unsaved money.
[01:08:04] Speaker B: So like Chevalo Lang says, you want the dusted on LED floodlights with the bulbs. Those are $22. Remember square D main, breaker meter combos, you can get them in 8 space and 16 circuit surface mount starting at 150 to 200amps. That price starts at a low $350. Once again, for those who are not aware, SHSS Electrical is on Chesapeake Road in the former Minute Muffler building. So if you are in the market for the best prices on square D products, switches, combos, breakers, breaker panels, electrical wires and media cans, or the LED bulbs in all sizes and styles, not to mention an extensive selection of decorative ceiling fans and light fixtures, you want to visit SHSS Electrical on Chesapeake Road. And remember, once again, you spend over $50, you receive a 10% discount. And my clients, again, boy, I love it. Days, everyone taking care of them, they also ship to the family island. That's SHSS Electrical. Phone number 827-315-08273150 or 821-315-0821-3150.
[01:09:05] Speaker A: All right, we gotta take. We gotta take a break. Ian, we can take a break. And I know you got some more clients to deal with, but we take a break. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to Z Live. I'm Chaga Lang, your host. We're here with Ian Thomas of Direct Market.
[01:09:16] Speaker B: You know how we do this, man.
[01:09:18] Speaker A: Yes, sir. After this break.
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[01:10:35] Speaker D: Five years of pop rule. Are you better off today while you work? They've spent millions on taxpayer funded trips, a government funded luxury car and handed out hundreds of millions in no bid contracts. But for the rest of us, gas and groceries through the roof, VAT on bread basket items. Health care that is broken, unaffordable and out of reach.
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[01:12:14] Speaker C: I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid to take a stand Take a stand Everybody, everybody come take my, come take my we'll walk this road together through the storm, whatever Weather, cold, the warm Let me know that you're not alone.
[01:12:39] Speaker A: Welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen to be live. I'm survival and your host. So glad that you could join us here today on Guardian Radio 96.9 FM where we are for a few more moments with the great Ian Thomas of Direct Marketers. Man. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian, you still there?
[01:12:55] Speaker B: Yeah, my night right here, man. I was just talking to the producer.
[01:12:58] Speaker A: All right, you better talk them people in business.
[01:13:02] Speaker B: Message just came in. Denley Penn says she's listening to you or her and her, she's listening to us, her and her whole team. They said they always, always find time even though they're on the ground doing what they have to do. They always take time out to listen to you whenever it's possible. And she says you're doing a great job and keep it up. You're doing a wonderful job. And I, I, I echo thank, I echo those, those same sentiments, man. I, you, you, you just. I man listen, I love the show. I love that show.
[01:13:30] Speaker A: Even when I man, we, we try to do what we could do. We tried to.
[01:13:34] Speaker B: So informative, so informative. Hey, listen here man. Pre Mix Precision Mix Pre Mix Precision Mix Concrete Ltd. That's what any name it premix Precision Mix Concrete Co. Ltd. That's ran by Terry Camp. You know, Terry Camp is.
Like I said, I love my clients and they love me too.
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[01:16:25] Speaker A: And also because they know we don't endorse foolishness now, you know, you know that. Yeah.
[01:16:29] Speaker B: You don't even know Jokey death.
No funny guy thing.
Hey, listen here, ladies and gentlemen, I got to get out here, but I just got to tell you about this right now. People been calling me right now while I'm on the radio. They said, ian, you still got the bully pill? I said, of course, man. They said, I need that bully pill, Chivago so much. People been calling every time I come off this station. And like I said before, you thinking it's a joke. I have a lot of pastors, a lot of people in church calling me for the bully pill. You know why? They know the importance of keeping their relationship together. They know the importance.
[01:17:00] Speaker A: You know. You know, I was going to tell you, somebody texted me much, much earlier, said the only reason why you came on the show is to increase the population of Obama.
[01:17:08] Speaker B: Shall I work for nib?
[01:17:11] Speaker A: That's what they told me.
[01:17:12] Speaker B: Hey, listen, your man, you want to have a wonderful relationship with your partner, you got to get the bully pill. It's all natural. You know, those are the things which you take would get you sweating and your heart and everything like that. And you say, oh, Lord, I know what I take this thing. Take the bully pill. It's all natural. It's so if you're dealing with diabetes or hypertension, it won't interfere. You take one pill, it's really a capsule, so it's not really a pill you take. You take one capsule, swallow it, you drink. Half an hour later, you're ready to go. I keep on talking about you guys who might be dating someone 5, 10, 15 years younger. Don't make a fool of yourself. I used to be around my female friends. They just laugh at. Man, you stay right there. You know, I can't say certain things on the radio, but my boy. Hey, how was it? Mom, Boy, look, your boy.
[01:17:56] Speaker A: I was carrying on so bad.
[01:17:57] Speaker B: Hey, Ian, boy. Okay, I don't be playing, but what girls say play, Ian. That boy so dead.
Listen, don't be a laughingstock. You get yourself together, you're going to have yourself a wonderful time with your partner. You're going to have a nice, strong erection you don't want to hear words like flaccid. You don't want to hear words like impotent. You want to have a nice, nice, nice erection. When the time comes to you can spend with that person that you care about, hopefully it's your wife. But if it's whatever you're dealing with, then that's good. But get yourself the bully pill. It's all natural. It's $55 for five pills. And, and you give us a call, you can get it delivered. Also very. It's, it's, it's, it's anonymous. No one needs to know anything that you can get delivered. Delivery is $5. Get yourself the bully pill. 55.
[01:18:41] Speaker A: How, how it can be anonymous? You telling everybody but you selling the bully pill. People coming to you every time somebody see you with somebody, they can think, yeah, getting the bully pill.
[01:18:50] Speaker B: No, man, we have all kinds of things, man. Chicago, man.
You will say, hey, can I have a blood pressure monitor with a side of the bully pillow?
[01:18:57] Speaker A: Okay, okay, okay.
[01:18:58] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
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Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:22:13] Speaker A: So. So Ian finished, right?
[01:22:14] Speaker B: So I finished. And the last thing you got to get your DNA testing. This is me. I'm gonna get out of the door because I'm looking at my clock. You need a paternity test. Get yourself call DNA direct at 3265. Find out if someone's your mom, your dad, your brother, your sister, your grandparent, or your grandchildren. Talk to Me?
[01:22:30] Speaker A: You ain't cutting me off that easy. I was going to tell you people. You all know what Ian did today?
[01:22:34] Speaker B: Tell me.
[01:22:35] Speaker A: Ian show. Ian showed me a picture of the bins. Yes, I show you.
[01:22:43] Speaker B: You know how people I want to show you. I say, see your bins right here. The bins was like that. They have Chago name on them.
[01:22:50] Speaker A: You could not tell the people how to reach you.
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[01:23:22] Speaker A: Thank you very much, brother Ian Thomas of the Rec. I know we can see you soon. We can hear from you soon.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to take a break. Our final break, and then we'll come back. I got so many of your whatsapps to. I mean your text messages to read. We'll be back after this final break.
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[01:26:36] Speaker A: Welcome back. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to Z Live. I'm Shivago Lang, your host. So glad you could join us for these remaining moments of the show. You know the text to earlier asked me my definition of success, pointing out that many people think that owning things, having things, having money, is success.
The truth is. The truth is there's no single definition of success. And success in many ways can be personal, it can be communal, meaning what the community regards as success. And then there is what we might talk about as absolute success, right?
So for me, if you have a personal ambition, if you have a thing that you want to and you achieve it, and you don't care how you achieve it, just that you achieve it. So if you want to be a millionaire, a billionaire, if you want to have lots of nice things, if you want to have a big fancy job, or if you want to be popular and you don't care how you do that and that for you, you achieve your personal success because you set out to do a thing, you didn't mind how you got it done, legally, illegally, ethically, unethically, morally, immorally, didn't matter, you got it done, then that is success in that narrow personal way. Just like a personal conviction is personal to yourself, so success then becomes personal to yourself. So you could walk around and say, I must be a successful person because I achieved what I set out to do. It didn't matter how I got it.
But then the community has a sense of what success is. Maybe the community thinks someone who earns a great deal of income, who has a great deal of things, someone who is respectable, someone who can be regarded as lawful and so forth. And the community has a definition. And then maybe somebody has success by that definition. Maybe you could have personal failures, but in terms of the community's view of you by your reputation. Because remember, reputation is what people think of me, even while my integrity or otherwise a character might be really what I am and true. So reputationally speaking, you can be successful in a community. And so lots of people who have high positions, who may achieve political power, people who may have wealth and own businesses and so forth, can be regarded as successful by a community.
And then there is absolute success. Now for me, right, belonging to the Judeo Christian faith, as I do, having a philosophy of life predicated, founded on the scriptures. For me, success is when God can say of you, well done, my, thy, well done, thou good and faithful servant, that servant, that's for me, you may be in the Buddhist faith, you may be in the Muslim faith, you. And there might be something you regard in that faith as absolute success. That's fine. For me, absolute success is, well done, thou good and faithful service servant. Not because you have been perfect, but because you have set your heart on the things that God has set his heart on. And you have tried and have been faithful to trying to live up to that failing as you do, repenting when you do, asking for forgiveness when you do, but still recognizing that the genuine standard in your life is to comply with the spirit and intent of God for humanity. And that, to me, is absolute success. Okay?
Whether you achieve it or not, well, that's up to God. All right, we got some, some, some. Okay, we gotta call us on the line. Go ahead, caller, we're listening to you.
[01:30:25] Speaker G: Good afternoon. Real quickly, so you can get to your text.
[01:30:27] Speaker A: Mr. Lang, I've been told that the
[01:30:29] Speaker G: legislation responds to regularization for tax purposes,
[01:30:33] Speaker A: but you keep saying legalize.
Sorry, the legislate. No, my brother. My brother.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Gambling in Commonwealth of the Bahamas by numbers was illegal. If you were caught, you'd be prosecuted in the criminal sense.
It was legalized. It was regularized, not legalized. No, it was legalized.
[01:30:59] Speaker G: Yeah. Okay.
[01:30:59] Speaker F: Thanks for coming.
[01:31:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it was legalized. I don't want you to. Don't do that. It was legalized. Anyone who participated in numbers back in the day, if you were caught under commissioner police, Greenslade did do a raid on somebody. Why would you do a raid on somebody for a unregulated something?
No, it was illegal.
Right. And so the idea was to regulate it. You needed to legalize it, and it was so, therefore legalized. So don't let's do that. We have another call on the line. Go ahead, caller. We're listening to you.
[01:31:38] Speaker G: Good afternoon. How are you?
[01:31:40] Speaker A: Good, man, how you?
[01:31:41] Speaker G: I'm doing okay, thank you. It'll be very interesting if the media would turn their attention and find out from all of the leaders from the various parties, buy in for government this general election. If they are going to allow status quo to remain as it relates to the eight licensees who operate in the gaming industry, or if they're going to open up the industry and allow for persons to other person, other behemoths to participate in the industry, I think that would be a very telling factor. Going into the general election.
And also as it relates to the national lottery things, there was so much Discussion already in the public domain. I certainly supported national lottery of the polling.
The polling under the Christie administration. Right. Because it wasn't a referendum. Right.
And I believe that. Well, let me not say. I believe I was a part of a committee at the time that was charged with and getting persons viewpoints and we had polled about a thousand persons, which is what led in large part behind the scenes to antagonizing through the question being added to that polling as it relates to the national Lottery. I was bewildered as to why we didn't move in that direction. And time and history will reflect even up to present. I'm ending right here. Up to present.
One of the leading gaming operators in the country being Mr. Flowers, Craig Flowers. He's on record on numerous occasions, including on Guardian Radio, Beard, stating that, yes, the numbers industry can coexist with a national lottery in the country. The government of the Bahamas. And on your talking about with regards to the mega rallies, Machiavago, I want that because Christy, at Chivago we haven't had mega rallies. Not even close. Last mega rally we had was when Christie was on the.
Was on the campaign trail seeking to be government again in his country. We, Chris Ingram pull his crowds certainly to Lyndon pull the crowds. But Christie pulled. Listen, Clifford Park.
[01:34:13] Speaker H: Yeah, but.
[01:34:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Anton. No, but Anton. They did not come there to hear Mr. Christie. Mr. Christie was in a time when people was ready to get rid of Ingram.
So they. You cannot tell me people was running to that rally to say. I can't wait to hear from Mr. Christie. You cannot tell me that.
[01:34:33] Speaker G: What. What, what, what. What I would say to you in my. In my party. Chicago.
Yeah. The right Honorable Prime Minister, Mr. Christ in opposition leading up to. Before he even became prime minister. And. And while he was Prime Minister, he was the one leading the charge when those mega rallies.
[01:34:50] Speaker A: I got you. I got you. I got you. I got. I got you. Anton. I got you, brother. Thank you. I got you. I got you. We ain't gotta argue that one. I got you.
This text says.
Yep. Good question from Anton. I think it was an excellent question. Will you open up the thing? Not just, not just numbers. Don't just open up numbers. Listen to me. If you are a young person in the Bahamas, all of these, all of these morals and limitations on licenses is saying to you in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas that you cannot enjoy any opportunity to benefit in those businesses.
That's what they're saying to you.
See, in the early stages when I'm in. Oh, you do this Something, something, something. But this, this, this effort on the part of the government of the Bahamas to keep reserved for people certain things in this country I think is nothing more than a special interest patronage program.
Yemi, special interest patronage program. It's a SIP program.
That's what it is and we need to check it. Competition is how the Bahamian public gets the benefit. Competition is how new entrants with creative ideas get to improve and enhance the thing and give benefit and build well for themselves. It's closing off things to best special interest. This is not for the Bahamas. And the politicians have to stop dancing with the folks hand in hand and doing these things. They don't give them a breaking and give them some time. Open the thing up and let young people in the Bahamas inspire be inspired and motivated to go and do the next thing in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to grow it.
This text says I checked yesterday as and yet I'm told on my moratorium extension. Not surprising, but if PLP wins, you know SABAS will get his way. Says this texter says Christie had advised that consultants told them population too small for successful national lottery. I read that yesterday.
See Anton talking nonsense on the issue of crowds.
The Red Splash crowd was insane. I was there at Montague. So was I. So was I. My point was in that they didn't have big crowds. My point was that people came to hear Pendant, people came to hear Ingram. I can't be convinced that people came in mass to hear Mr. Christy. Ms. Christy, great speaker, but I'm just saying I didn't think so. I'm sure people did come. Some people did, but I don't know if the masses did.
We have a call on the line. Go ahead, caller. We're listening to you, old man. I got one minute. I'm sorry, real quick, like I'm just. My question there is do you think the COI is serious about this election?
And the reason why I'm saying that is literally you're not hearing anything in connection with anything that's offline.
Nothing about, you know, rally. Nothing about yes man. Yes man. On Facebook. The COI. On Facebook, the COI was releasing part two of their 100 day plan, which I thought. Which I found. Which listen, this, which I found curious because you get elected for 1,875 days and if you only have a platform.
Yeah.
[01:38:03] Speaker H: Hello?
[01:38:04] Speaker A: Yeah. If you have a plan for 100 those days, well, that's only like 2%.
Let me tell you why I saying what I saying.
You know, I don't they got to understand that not everybody's online, okay? And there's old bunch of demographics that do not go online.
And if you're not trying to target everyone in the network doing a combination thereof in person as well as behind, and all you're depending on is online.
I know the time. I, I'm, I'm out of time. Thank you for calling. But it takes money to do all those things. It does take money. This Texas. Mr. Z. We did come to hear Perry Christie speak and do the shuffle.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. Thank you very much for joining us today. God's best life. We'll be back with you again tomorrow. You all have a fantastic afternoon. You've been listening to Z Live. I'm Chevagolang, your host.
[01:39:10] Speaker C: At the Cold of War.
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