The Know Show – are we even remotely ready for extreme weather?

Welcome to the Know Show. There’s a lot going on in the world right now, which makes it hard to stay on top of what’s important. That’s what this show is all about. Our programme includes a quick 10-minute trip through the main news, and after that, we go a bit deeper. 

This week we’ll focus on UK politics and how it’s been covered in the media, as well as the adaptation plans (or lack there-of) being put in place to counter the extreme weather events pummelling countries across the world, something expected to get worse into the future. 

This week, we are joined by Eugene Seah. He’s the mindset speaker, an abundance life coach, and a treasure in our world. We are looking forward to hearing from him and discussing the top issues with Eugene. 

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Transcript

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Welcome to the no show. My name is Andrea Edwards. My name is Joe Augustine and in the middle of this this time around, yeah, my name is Tim Wade, I'm at the end of which means I need to say something about the show. But I won't say a lot, because a lot of you have been following us for quite a while. We are the no show where we cover the news news that matters to keep you informed so that this weekend, you can have a fantastic conversation at whatever dinner party table, you end up with, informed with what's been going on across the media, not just the media that is served to you usually, but across a wide gamut of opinion, which gives you a broader depth and insights into issues that matter. So we're going to talk about that today. We also have a special guest, are we going to do a 10 minutes first or do I guess first? What do you think? Yes, first. All right, let's introduce our guest, his name is a Eugene cm. And he meets lots of organisations in different parts of the world, he is the say yes to abundance guy, which, which really just tells you a little bit about his mindset about how he feels that there is something for all of us, if we just see the opportunities and reach into them, he is got his fingers in lots of pies. He is a serial entrepreneur, where he, he has a lot of people, you know, he makes friends with you, you gotta be careful when he makes friends with you, then you end up buying insurance from him, you end up doing amazing events, this is what's happened to me. And then you you know, then you then you end up, you know, sharing this the stage with him as he's presenting amazing stuff to corporates and and thought leaders. So he's this multi talented fellow. We're very pleased to have him on the show. Welcome, Eugene. Thank you. Yeah, I noticed that there's a piece of news. And recently there's a pattern. I noticed there's a pattern across Singapore news. I'm based in Singapore, by the way, in case you're wondering, and you can see HDB flat behind me, just to show us Singapore. Yeah. And recently, there's this disbarred lawyer called Samuel shell, he went viral for the wrong reasons, because he started physically abusing his colleague, who is a young woman, secretary, and in this case has been going on and on. And I noticed that in recent years, a lot of Singaporeans, I can only comment on Singaporeans I don't want to talk about people that are not related to it is to be very verbally and physically abusive to, to their colleagues, even to strangers. And you know, Singapore for some time, we had to wear a face mask. And even you have all these people and Richard saying that a please. gentle reminder, please wear face masks, and these people were being abused as well. They were saying like, Yo my own business, or I'm sovereign, you cannot touch me, or I have my own rights as a Singapore citizen. So my, obviously I can't really conclude to say like, oh, this is because I'm not God, or enjoy anything. But my observation is, I believe that a lot of people are very stressed, very stressed in Singapore. And in fact, the Ministry of Health and the Institute of Mental Health have been releasing a lot of statistics in recent months that mental health has gone down and Singapore. You know, there's a lot of people who are burnt out. They are studying to see both psychologist and psychiatrist and being a life coach, a certified life coach. I've been seeing a lot of people who was telling me they are burnt out down there wondering whether should and should show the letter and quit a perfectly good job. No, because they said they're overworked. They said, Yeah, bosses are toxic. So all these things are somewhat like unrelated because it's in companies. There's lawyer, there is a stranger. I think we need to address a crackle yet. Yes. So two things one thing one thing is one thing is I've never heard a response to a lovely introduction quite like that. What Secondly, there's there's a weird crackling as you talk now. Now. Now you almost sound like you're possibly moving over to the dark side. There's there's a crackling in your microphone. It's only when you speak that we're getting that crackle. But before we it's an interesting topic that you're talking about, but I think absolutely before we before we go into that because mental health is a big issue. And one of the things about mental health is this feeling of uncertainty. And part of feeling of uncertainty is not really knowing what's going on and and having an appreciation of it one of the one of the things about the no show is to be able to give people a little bit more idea about what's going on in a broader sense of of the place and at the same time. Give them information to make an informed decision. It may create some uncertainty in some areas, but at least you're getting multiple perspectives. And one of the things we do at the beginning of the of the no show, is this quickfire 1010 minutes or so. Well, the top 10 articles it's catched or caught catch two, that's a new word caught. Andrew is in North Korea. correct pronunciation was captured. Captured in the right a. Eugene, did you want to finish the point with and then we'll we'll go over to Andrea for her top 10. Yeah, so I just want to say whoever is watching this. Number one, potentially you are the one abusing their colleagues. Please stop it. viewership just gotten down to 3000? Yep. If you're not the one, you know, if you're the one being abused, so I shouting things that you know, like, putting you on the forehead. Now, please, please report it is not acceptable. And please speak to any of us, you know, we're always happy to talk to you about your life. Okay, I'm gonna just jump in here and suggest something usually maybe what we can do is in the next few moments, if you'll disconnect from this, and then reconnect, we'll see how it sound sound. If you got some headphones that might help. Oh, yeah. That's okay. Basically, just use your phone. It just got out of sync with us. That's all. But yeah, let's get back. Let's get back to be the format of the show. Make sure that we're on track. And for those of you who are watching or listening for the first time, what Tim did just now is it's a classic move in the speaking world where we tried to bring everything back on track. So Mike, right now, let's talk about the news. Alright, so the first 10 So the just boil hashtag, just stop or check them out. If you haven't already, if you don't know about just stop Well, I don't know what you're doing. But anyway, they're they're in action and getting a lot of criticism for what they're doing. But what they're, what they're reacting to, is absolute sheer terror for the future. And it's because of all the crazy extreme weather events that are going on around the world, which we're going to talk about later. So just just to give you a flavour for some of the things that are going on in the world you may not have heard of, including the one I've just gone through in Phuket where it was a massive flooding event but in Nigeria, 600 people are dead 2 million people have been affected by the West flooding in more than a decade and more than 200,000 homes have been completely or partially damaged. In Mexico at least three people have died after a powerful hurricane. Because heavy rains flash flooding and lead landslides in western Mexico. We have a state of emergency after floodwaters have swamped entire neighbourhoods in Chad's capital city. One quarter of the city is underwater, and more than 50,000 people have been forced from their homes. Mount Kilimanjaro is on fire. 768 million people in the world are currently underfed, it's nearly as seven of the world's population. And after the recent floods in Australia, which I was also in the middle of. They're expecting millions in crop losses in New South Wales because of the floods. And this will add to the risk of food shortages, price hikes, and of course, a global famine which is predicted to really escalate within the next three years. And yet people are up in arms over people's throwing soup onto plexiglass, which was protecting a Van Gogh painting. The good news is that no one seemed to mind when they painted tufton Street which is 55 tufton Street which is in London, and this is where the right right wing think tanks working out our future. You can think of them as least least trusses mates. Alright, in moving on. Kanye West otherwise known as ye is out to person non grata. Have you guys you guys must have heard that this week. Right Tim? You look like you're surprised. Yes, anything he does doesn't really surprise me. Surprising. He's been held in such high esteem all this time, but okay, yeah, exactly. No one wants him anymore. Even sketches a CT score to the amount of the building schools closed down. He is no longer a billionaire. And this is all of course following his terrible anti semitic comments and the the way that this has been addressed and responded to is absolutely appropriate because we know where that can go. Even his wax statue in Madame Tussauds has been removed. So all I could think was truly couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Tim, well yes, I tell us a little bit more about his can mention a little bit more about him being escorted out of sketches. What was the deal with that? It ended up on announced because there are obviously a former sponsor added as is the big one the big announcement this week but yeah, he turned up on announced and they escorted him out of the building. So Oh, yeah, well, more people have been escorted out of buildings. Let me just go into China News very, very quickly. So we saw China's five yearly communist Communist Party, Congress a wrap up. Last weekend, President ceding beings called position in the country's leadership and an unusual third term in power is well has been secured. There's a great piece in the BBC worth a read, titled sieging beings party is just getting started. It kind of tracks the history of him and his rise, and also what's been going on, almost since Chairman Mao's time through to now and some sort of directional changes. There, there is, I must say, though, when I read it, I don't know about you, Andrea, but when I read that one, I could read it with two different lenses, which is a really interesting idea. One lens was there was a bit of a history and historical stuff, but there was a lens, there was a wording and a framing of it. That was that it could have been written in another way that was a lot more celebratory. So we got to perhaps keep those things in mind sometimes, when we're reading these sorts of articles as to, you know, where they're coming from, and what's the agenda behind that particular article. But at the same time, there was a lot of moments that, you know, we've heard about over the years from from China, where the brutal, brutal crackdowns on stuff, but, you know, there was a piece there, that was it was talking about corruption was getting out of control at one point, and for a leader to come in and stamp that out. And, you know, 1000s of people were thrown in jail and, or removed from positions of authority to bring it back on track to it's sort of a more the idea of a more squeaky clean leadership group, you would say, in any country, if you didn't just mention the word China, but you know, the leaders come in, worked on stamping out corruption, remove people that seem to be involved, to try and create and course correct their country's decision, the direction, you would have to say that that would have been a good thing to take control of corruption once and for all in a in a powerful way. And and then if there's, if there's party leadership in fighting, based on trying to regain power from the purpose of of pocketing stuff, then that for yourself or your party, then that would also suggest, let's remove those that opposition in one sense, and we've seen evidences of success of that in small island nations that seem to be very well run. And so the SEC, so again, it's like, what's the correct approach? And what's what's the thing, but it's a really interesting read as well. Speaking of so you're talking about Kanye West being as good. So you want to say something? Yeah, I was just gonna say in time, there's another magazine, which another article, which talks about China's green future, and how they're basically going to rebuild back from the COVID times with complete Green Revolution and basically dominate the world. And I thought that was a really, really fascinating insight. So I know a lot of them Western media rhetoric is anti China yet, but if we're if we're not open to listening to what China is actually doing, I think we're missing a really big and important part of the story that's going well, but I have to agree with Yeah, I have to agree with you. I mean, we got to, we got to balance it a little bit, the way that we're looking at it. But if we're all looking at the debacle that's happening in the UK, the mess in the USA, the madmen running Australia, and you know, and these sorts of organisations, organisations, these sorts of challenges everywhere, then who's doing it right? And who's, who's going, well, maybe we shouldn't have the same system as them. If that's where it's going to ultimately end up, maybe we need to look at something else. So I don't want to I don't want to go, you know, I mean, all I'm doing is standing back as a powerless observer is how I see it. I'm not making any, you should do this, or you should do that comment at all. I'm just saying. It's interesting to observe, and I come from a psychology background and people observation, all that sort of stuff. So, okay, anyway, that's a great piece that worth a read just with different lenses on as well. You were talking about Kanye West being escorted out of sketches? Well, we had who Jintao, the ex President of China being escorted out of a China Party Congress. And when you read that, you think, Oh, my goodness, you know, now it's sort of a coup against the the older leadership and the older regime. But when you actually read the article as well, you know, we nobody knows why he was escorted out. It wasn't a tussle. He sort of escorted out. He seemed to be sort of nodding and saying something to to President C and as a result. He gets up and heads off with some assistance, and maybe that assistance because he's either elderly gentleman in his late 70s was to stop him Falling over because he wasn't feeling well. That was the that was the thing that was coming out. So we don't nobody knows what happened. But when you read the headline, you go, ooh, gee, this is a thing. And it may be a thing. It may be but so we don't know but he was he was placed sitting next to the current Premier and as a result, he wouldn't have been placed there if he wasn't of important significance. So unless that was a you know, a visual thing to say he's out and there's only one person left you know, anyway. Oh, Musk buying Twitter again. So maybe it's are you buying Twitter the price goes up say No, I don't think so. The price tanks and then buy it at a lower price. Maybe that's a good idea. No, no, no, we actually one of the original price. Well, Oh, you did? Okay. Great. Yeah. So yeah, he was he was gonna get stuck in court for a while and he thought it's probably cheaper just to buy it. Anyway, so a few shenanigans going on from arriving to Twitter's HQ with a sink to threatening to lay off 75% of staff which some commentators have said, probably delighted the bank is giving him some money, but at the same time if bankers are involved at all, but Yeah, apparently Facebook and Google are lapping those employees up. So have you ever looked at look at that Tech Crunch article in Australia we saw so so we turned from from Twitter to diamonds from Musk's money to diamonds in Australia. But these are the this is the netball team called the diamonds who have pushed back on a mining magnate, Gina Rinehart and she committed $15 million lifeline to the diamonds, they were 7 million in debt. These numbers seem very small when you just talked about Elon Musk mind Twitter, mind you. But no, they should just write a letter to him go and can you help us out man? And he probably go ego is some loose change from a pocket. But anyway, the reason for their pushback her father land, I mean, this is a fairly, really just a horrible situation, really. They were pushing back because some of their their world champion players are of indigenous origin. And the sponsors father, Lang Hancock, who was the founder of Hancock prospecting, and Gina's father suggested a plan. At one point that would kill off troublesome indigenous people in Australia, when they weren't assimilating correctly with the, you know, with society, they were trying to hold on to their own culture and rejecting Australian society way back at that time, so many have strong opinions. When I say way back at that time, it was only a few decades ago. And many have strong opinions that the team shouldn't have pushed back in that way. They basically they didn't want to wear the logo, because he had said, Well, here's what he said, those of us that have been assimilated into society and are earning a good living and earning wages amongst the civilised areas that have been accepted into society and accept society and can handle a society I'd leave them well alone. He said, the ones who are no good to themselves and can't accept things, the half castes. And this is where most of the trouble comes. He said I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed them breed themselves out in the future, and that would solve the problem. Yeah, so the diamonds of Jena. So all that happened then is that, I mean, that's old news that he said that. What the diamond asked, though, is that Gina distanced herself from those comments. And she didn't. She didn't say I disagree with those comments, or Yeah, wish he hadn't said those comments, or he said those comments and I can't do anything about it. She didn't dismiss herself from it. And as a result, there's been this well, we don't know where, you know, we want to, we want to reject this. This is dirty money to us. Yeah. You know, there was another story in Perth this week, a young boy called Cassius but 15, I think, who was beaten to death. One of the train stations somewhere in somewhere around Perth, Western Australia. I haven't seen all the full details. But that's created a real real spark because the way Aboriginals are treated in Australia continues to be appalling. And we need to remember that but the people who were criticising the diamonds for taking this stance, that's the thing I found really interesting, like, you know, like that, they have no right to sort of have a have a moral sort of stance. You know, I found that really, really fascinating. It's been it's an interesting story to have a look at. Yeah, and what it is interesting, because you've seen a lot of, you know, taking the knee over in America, and then all of this is sort of going very much global. And what's what's really nice is that people feel they have a voice now. Oh, that's nice. And what's not nice is, is a lot of people are voicing their opinion when they should probably Shut up. And that is, this is just the vitriol coming online about, you know, that that attacks people for, for saying these things. So it's a very brave thing to say because you basically jeopardising yourself and your whole team and the sport in a sense, but it's about values actually in the end, and it's about, it's about being true to and having an integrity of self. The thing is Gina Gina Reinhardt could, from an integrity of self perspective, argue exactly the same point. You know, I'm entitled to have my opinion and everything else as well. So but the problem the problem is, you know, I don't think anyone would agree with what her dad said. And, and I, it just seems, it just seems a convoluted mess. So there's, there's a positive that people are feeling the freedom to be able to speak up and be heard. And I guess that's the positive take out of it at this point. It's an interesting one to see what happens. Yeah, Joe, do you want to get stuck into what's going on in the financial markets a lot of fun? Well, I'm gonna try and do it in a special time. And then that was supposed to do it in. And this is a lot of is based on this on this article in the Wall Street Journal about the trouble that the world is facing right now. Now, for those of you who are participating in the market, looking at the market, like today, this past week, you're gonna go like, I don't understand what people mean by this bad news in the market. It looks like a fantastic week, it's been going up and up and up the markets going up. What What can they be that's wrong with the market right now. It's a it's a very convoluted story, all of its connected together. Liz truss, has a role to play in this big story as well. And it is about how the world's financial markets are really all tied together. And thinking about how to help everyone understand what's going on. Okay, just let's, let's imagine the world as what you see on the screen right now. So there's Andrea, myself, and then there's Eugene, and then there's Tim, the world actually runs on that, you know, there is there is less actual money, then there is money in the world. That sounds like a very confusing sort of thing. But basically, Andrea can lend me $10, I can have these$10 borrowed from Andrea and I can loan out $9 to Eugene, and Eugene can decide that he wants to rent to give out $8 And something cents of $8. And just three less than $9. To Tim. And that's what the financial market has kind of agreed amongst itself, it's kind of a debt a lending, it's a lending ratio that we're all out to have, we can't we can lend out this amount of the money that comes in. So that creates a multiplier in the world, and it creates money as well. Now, the second, the second thing that comes along with that is, of course, then where does all this come from? Where do I get this initial money to sort of lend everybody else? Well, you can do that by sort of having the government issue that as well. And so a lot of other companies actually get that and abide that, that is from the government. And if you think about the government, we're talking about the government in terms of the US, the US government, the debt is secure, because if I borrow a million dollars from the, from the US government, I am gonna get a US I'm gonna get that million dollars bank, because, you know, they not only, you know, I guess have control of it, they literally print the money. So in terms of a secured debt, and solely in US dollars, that seems like a really good idea. But when you think about the thing itself, that is being owed us dollars being used in a different way to try and create others other things, and that's much printing a bit right now is that the US dollar itself has become less valuable, and therefore has become a little less stable. So if you imagine this whole relationship right now, so Andrea has lent me money. And I've lent Eugene money and Tim's borrowed money from Eugene, everybody in this in this kind of relationship right now is owed the money, but the money itself may be declining in value, as well. So now there's a kind of strain on all the relationships that we have, because you know, you will meet 10 bucks, you'll give me 10 bucks, but by the time I get 10 bucks, it's not going to be really worth 10 bucks, and that's kind of a bit of a stretch. And then there's the interest rate as well, that goes along with that. Now, to try and control the inflation in the world. One of the big things they do is they try and change the, the the rate of interest, right? And that changes this relationship between all of us as well. So how much interest will I pay on the debt? Now all this is going to influence the rest of the world as well because to two buy stocks to do to invest in businesses to create new things, I generally need to borrow money, I'm gonna get it from somewhere and I'm gonna get it at a certain price, the interest rate and the interest rates are going up, it's putting pressure on that. So there's going to be a kind of downward pressure, the higher the interest rate, the downward pressure is going to stop us from from growing our economy. The problem right now is the world is going in a way where inflation is going so high, that the big tool that they have the big break that they have, which is interest rates is being brought up at a rate that's never been done before. It's really, really going up very fast. And this is also affecting these relationships that we all have hear about who owes money to who to what and all that. And that's making a very tenuous situation. Now, that is the background of what's happening. And if you try to imagine the world starting today, again, as in this particular point, and you said to me, Well, you know, Andrea, would you lend your money? Or you know, Eugene, would you? Would I lend Eugene money? And then Eugene, would you lend him money today? Under the current circumstances, under the kind of risks that we have right now, we might go? No, I don't think that's a really good idea. I don't feel so inclined to do it. But the loans already exist because of circumstances that were much better before. So we have a kind of really stressful situation right now, where I have lent you money and borrowed money on much better terms and under much better circumstances. But the weather's gotten much worse. And that's the background. So it's very unstable in that area. Now, so who do I have to pay back? Well, you're in more than the economy. And actually, the way the way the economy would work is you might lend money back to Andrea, and you might lend money back to me, you might, you might have investments. So it's the way the world works. And it's the way the bigger world works without the world understanding sometimes right now, in all that is stuff like stock markets, like equities and stuff, like when people are trying to make money for themselves. Now, you can climb a mountain in any weather. But you can climb mountains, in situations where it's relatively safe. If something goes wrong, a rescue can happen. All the different things can happen. Right? Right now what's happening. And what you see in the markets is basically this you have you have a lot of enthusiastic market climate market participants or mountain climbers who know that there's some opportunity to make money, there's some kind of stuff that's going on, the price is going up, I'm going to jump in there. But they're doing it in a very bad weather. So if something were to happen right now, in the circumstances around it, the whole thing can collapse a lot easier than before. Now, it's much better, of course, than it used to be in 2007 2008. Because we have got certain things in place. We've learned to be more resilient with we've done a lot of things. But at the same time, we are having not one of the most volatile situations that we've ever faced as in like, the markets are going up and pulling down harder pulling up and pulling down harder. And the nature of that is that the the levers of control can only move in such a speed or pace that can you know, we only know the results of it three months later, we don't we don't see it in the moment. And as you drive it. So imagine driving a car where you steer now and you only know three months later that you have steered correctly. I mean, that's that's really kind of how this is moving. So the the problems are moving this fast. But the steering is a nice and slow steer, and we're going to try and go like, Okay, this is going to work. So that's where we are right now. It's a risky time to get into the markets, people who are going in right now taking big bets are either going to be very, very successful, because they took a big bet when when it was really, really a bad time to do it. Or they're going to be wiped out because you know, the weather is bad. And then something happens, you can't be rescued. So I hope I've given some kind of an indication of what the what the world economy is doing now, at least what the markets are doing right now. And why the white why interest rates are such a big deal to the rest of the world because we basically owe each other money. And at some point, we're going to have to try and figure out how to how to how to how to call in our debts. And it's a very comfortable time. So that's that's my kind of overview. A quick 10 seconds on Facebook. You know, Facebook has gone down almost I think 70 6060 70% since since the start of the year, I think it was when all Metaverse was launched. And so some people are very gleeful and Zuckerberg has now you know, in terms of his personal work as well has gone down by a by a similar amount. And most of it's been blamed on the idea of a very expensive bet on the metaverse mine. They were they spent 46 billion trying to buy back their stock Last year at 330, something like that. And now Now it's 100. And it was like, Okay, maybe we shouldn't have done that. Well, the financials of that are hot again, complicated, because if they would do it now, everything's a wage, why wouldn't you just do it now because it'd be much cheaper and all that kind of stuff. But they wouldn't have had the cash as well to do the kind of move their head back then. So it's, that's that's that's to be argued. But the thing that I want to just say about the metaverse is, there was a time when someone said Facebook was a bad idea. And there is a time right now where the better Metaverse has been called a bad idea. And I think it's all about timing, you know? So we'll see, we'll just move we'll have to see. So don't don't call it yet. And in the end, like I said, it's all coming down. It all comes down to price. People like climbing Even in bad weather. Yeah, I think they must get hit by Facebook. Oh, God, please stop that. Facebook? Yeah, please don't any and he's talking about with Twitter, he's talking about sort of creating it like a WeChat sort of sort of model where you do everything there. And I think one of the reasons Facebook had so many different brands is because the Western consumer doesn't like the concept of being just, you know, in debt to one person, you know, so but I don't know. So we've gone way over time. So I reckon we should get into the theme. But just before we do I want to give you Jane a chance, just to finish on in because what he was talking about mental health. In Singapore, I definitely, it's a global issue. And I think you know what you were saying, you know, please stop, I think what we've got to start to recognise, you know, self awareness is so important right now, right? When you when you are reacting negatively to people in your community. And that's not sort of the person that you are, and it's maybe even a little bit disturbing that you are doing that, I'd really, really sort of encourage people to say, what what is it that I'm what that I'm really, really unhappy about? And often it's because you're sitting in a place of fear and uncertainty, because the world is escalating out of control. And it feels like that right now. And I think so, rather than projecting that onto other people and, and making poisoning all of society, we need to really start to look at ourselves and what's going on inside us and addressing it with ourselves first because if we don't, we were we're part of this dystopia that's being formed. So that's all I wanted to add to what you just said you joined. But did you want to finish that? I guess what? I'm not here to like judge or anything. I wonder myself remind myself that a lot of times, I may be feeling stress, but I don't have to take it out on people find healthy ways to de stress like like, go for a walk with Tim. I don't have a laugh with Joel. And invite Andrea to speak and all platforms. I don't think things like that will always make me happy. Yeah. Am I allowed to share certain piece of news? Sure. Yeah. Just super quick. Okay. I just bought a new home. That's the news. Yeah. So Singapore, right, Singapore, home prices jump, more than expected. And this doesn't seem like a new concept. They're everywhere else. The prices have dropped, you know, in every other country. So somehow, by some strange vehicle, and this one is to reiterate what Joe said earlier about this strange thing called money. How come in Singapore, everyone I meet is struggling, right. Some have lost their job. Some have reduced their income as a speaker or coach, but, but somehow the private home prices are rising, like when we're buying these private homes, who, where did the money come from? And one of the answer is people who came to Singapore, from from Hong Kong, from Indonesia, from China and so on and so forth against people coming because once upon a time, I was a Singaporean, going to Hong Kong and staying there. But I just want to say that it is very artificial. Because the price is going up in price that Singaporeans are doing well. But actually, most Singaporeans are not doing well. Thankfully, thankfully, like what Tim said earlier, I am doing well. I'm very grateful for that. And that's why I bought my own private home recently. But I feel that it is very unhealthy right now that young couples a lot of people cannot afford even a normal public housing in Singapore. HDB is very popular, but even HDB's now are going for 1 million Singapore dollars and above is very, very scary. And one last piece of data. Yesterday Yesterday, the government announced that currently Singaporeans are spending 20% of our monthly income on mortgage as compared to 17% Just a few months ago, so all these statistics are very, very scary. Just to reiterate what Joe? Yeah, I'll jump in with The three very quick other elements Andrea, and then we'll get stuck into the theme very, very, super quick. So there was a, there was a some other news to look at was for German companies, they're all 125 years plus were declared insolvent within a 24 hour period. And so they basically they couldn't pay their debt among, with with costs going up. There was a sweet manufacturer, there was a car component supplier from a fabrics perspective, textile components to automotive industry, a German soap company. And so, these these organisations, you know, over 100 years old been running and supporting people, you know, that that car component company, 6000 people employed so, it really is affecting people in a lot of places. There's a big story in Australia about Australian Parliament reap trial have been abandoned over juror misconduct. Andrea, if you want to throw in on that one, but there's, if you follow Andrew is we can read it, he's got links to those particular pieces in that which is a very serious, very serious case in this this one, this one is a real big deal. And there's a very light hearted one, and we didn't want to say anything about that or move on. Yeah. Okay, so the I gotta say, I love the Philippines. One. It's such a cool. So there's a story of the BBC about Philippines students, students were told to wear anti headwear that would stop them from, you know, it'd be very obvious that they could not look to the side to cheat from the person next to them is paper. So they all went. They all went home. And they created these ridiculous. There's ridiculous. The old photos in the article, you got to check it out. It's really really funny. They're just the level of imagination when girls wearing lollipops all around the head. And the has a big Manila card saying Manila Philippine they're saying, you know, lollipops for sale for $1. Other people have got, you know, toilet rolls attached to their glasses so that they can only see straight ahead people's head where the people coming in motorcycle helmets. Others have just created, like put a bag paper bag over their head with two eyes cut out of them. There's a whole bunch of stuff it just go and have a look. It'll give you a chuckle. Yeah. All right. So moving on. So we're going to talk about trust and Sunak. And what the crazy stuff that's going on out here in the UK. And I just thought it's been a really interesting thing for me, not just from the news. And it's also from the social media perspective, because of course, the Indian diaspora is absolutely elated that one of their own is now a prime minister of another country. And I actually think it could potentially become a bit of a poison chalice for the community because he's, I think, got the hardest job in the world right now. But the theme today is, are we even remotely ready for extreme weather? So I published a blog called the humility of four extreme weather events in four months, which I experienced with my family across three continents. And it's been a very, it's been a very reflective time for me, because when you look at the fury of nature, you know that we have absolutely no ability to control what's coming. Anyway, one, one thing that's really good is a couple of days after I published my blog, the United Nations have basically said key warming thresholds slipping from sight. And basically, the conclusion is that there is no credible pathway to 1.5 degrees global warming, and going beyond will see dangerous impacts for all of us everywhere. Well, anyone who's been paying attention now that 1.5 has been out of sight for a very, very long time. But now it's official, right? But this report, analyses the gap between the rhetoric and the reality. And here's this, how's this for a figure? Right? They find that new efforts to cut carbon would see global emissions fall by that less than 1% by 2030. When According to the scientists, reductions of 45%, are needed to keep 1.5 in place. So that's a massive difference. But the other side of the room and the one of the authors of the report said we had our chance to make incremental changes. But that time is over that time. It's actually in the 1980s 1990s. She said only a root and branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster. But on the other side in the report is the commentary that saying governments are failing to prepare for the impacts of higher temperatures. And this is what I was talking about in my blog. So in the UK, there's a committee saying that the government needs to get a grip on the risk of critical infrastructure, or the risk to critical infrastructure posed by a warming climate. And the comments are the thing I find most disturbing is the lack of evidence that anyone in government is focusing on how all the impacts can come together, creating cascading crises. There are no simply no ministers with focused responsibility for making sure that our infrastructure is resilient to extreme weather and the other effects of climate change. So having gone through for events myself and being watching the media as I do, and listening to what's being said by prime ministers and presidents and leaders of countries, one of the just give you an example. So the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, he was in Tasmania after the recent flooding. And someone asked if they will increase the height of the dam wall, which they say is responsible for the flood in that town. And he said something along the lines, we will look into it, the costs will go into the billions, blah, blah, blah, I would like to rewrite his response to that statement, and then I'll hand it over to you guys. This is what Anthony Albanese and other leaders of countries should be saying. We are reviewing the entire nation's infrastructure, from roads, to dams, trains, to homes, farms, energy and more, we are going to work out what we need to do to keep Australians safe for the next 50 years and beyond. We are doing this assessment based on the climate scientists who are advising our government and our whole country must come together to do what we need to do to ensure we do not experience mass suffering in our country, we have many challenges ahead, including relocating communities who can no longer stay where they are, this is going to be a hard time for all of us that our greatest chances of success is coming together and doing this together. So that's what I think the leaders of countries should be saying. But they are not doing even the smallest amount to get ready. Like just one of the things that I witnessed here in Phuket they got ready after a couple of years of drought, they got ready to deal with drought by putting in all these pipes and all these new reservoirs, and it's been amazing to watch it, but then they're not ready for the floods. You know, so the drainage needs to be so and we need to have both sides factored in, and we're reacting to what's happening, rather than planning for what is expected. And, you know, it's it's been a very humbling process to be a witness to this. So you guys. Well, I mean, I have my glib, my glib answer to things really, basically, we need we need to just call a true strength in terms of the world. And the truths that I'm thinking about is okay, let's, let's just do one thing. Is that, okay, yeah, we don't have enough resources to solve all these things out, because we're busy with other stuff. The true should be let's not be busy with other stuff, right? Let's stop, let's stop being busy with other stuff. Let's put the entire military on hold for three years and apply military engineers resources budgets, into trying to shore up the world versus its common enemy, which is, ironically itself. But you know, that's, that's, that's the kind of thinking that would make sense. But that's the problem with the world, the world doesn't do things that make sense. People continue smoking, you know, able bodied people like myself, don't go jogging. You know, it's we don't do the things that we really need to do. And sometimes we do need the forceful hand, I think to make that happen. So the thing, and this is about the today coming full circle back to China, again, as I think it is a country that is heading in the right direction at a greater speed than any other country right now. It is actually and let's not say too loudly, it's China. You know, they they're the ones who have a green plan that is moving forward. They don't have people who are saying We don't like the green plan, because those people are being kinda like swept aside and say, Well, I'm sorry, this the big plan right now this, this is what we're doing today. You know, I mean, China's doing, arguably, arguably, both things at the same time, they're working on the military as well as the green plan. But you know, it does require some forceful action and action that can either be without choice, or you need to do some real galvanization to make everybody make the right choice. And that's, that's the big challenge that we have. So you know, China is leading the way. It's really interesting, like, so yes, like, if we're going to get to a point where it's going to be forced on us. And then God knows what's going to happen, right. But but there is a there is a consensus brewing in the world, I feel, especially in the EU. and the EU is making all sorts of big statements. But there is a consensus that is building, it's just not building fast enough. So in part in the regions like Asia, that, that we need to do this, we're going to do it if you don't agree with us, we don't care. We're doing it anyway. That's great, because you know, 60, or 2% of the world's population is here. That if that's how it needs to go, because the education isn't there in this region, the the conversation isn't there in the same way that it's happening in, in in Europe, in America. I mean, it's still too political right. But but more and more people are waking up, but I think we can build consensus, but we need to do it rapidly now and it's happening you It is happening, I can feel it happening, I can see it happening. But it needs to happen faster. I think, I think the, your, your your idea about how, you know, Phuket they were they're ready, they were investing in drought protection to a degree. And they weren't investing in floods. And if you look at the way that the world reacts to things, and communities react to things, and importantly, voters react to things, they vote, based on what they can see, and what's affecting them now. And they're not necessarily voting on what's going to impact them in the future. Otherwise, Eugene wouldn't have so much trouble trying to get people to buy retirement plans. So the so the, so the, because they vote, they're focusing on what they need now, not what they need, then. And the and if you look at the fact that they're building that, that drought protection two years into a drought, and not knowing that a flood is coming, or planning for the flood is coming is a really good indicator of that when you look at what the world does, with this whole slow moving ship of, of climate action. It's it's the same thing that they're dealing with what they're seeing now. And, but the pandemic is proof that they can scramble and react reasonably quickly, even though in the first few months of the pandemic, we're like, what are people doing Come on, do something. But when when it sort of came to a head, it all kind of happened really, really quickly. Although, I still say it was like Independence Day, where the world was just saying, let's hope America comes up with a vaccine soon. And eventually they did and profited from it. So but don't, don't you think that's the thing that they're looking at what they can see, and the reacting to what they can see. And then I think that what science is saying it's coming, but yeah, China, you can have big data. Yeah, no question, you know, and probably listening to the climate scientists and they've been hammered this year. They've been hammered for years. But they've been really hammered this year with the 70 day drought, the worst drought, drought ever seen in the world, right. The entire infrastructure has been buckled, you know, the, the investment, you know, that they need to make to get their country back and able to produce, but if they can produce in a good way where they focus on getting rid of the Christmas bauble factories and the crap factories that are producing, produce single use plastics, because governments all over the world is banning single use plastics. So they'll turn them into solar factories and Evie factories. And that's what you know, that's the sort of thinking that they're talking about. But, you know, we've got to think, you know, it's the, if we need to experience climate change before we act, you know, that and we are basically everyone is experiencing climate change now, to some extent, right. But there comes a point where we're going to have to experience too much before we act, and then it's too late to act. You know, and that precipice is so close now. You know, many people, the Doom is that I follow that they think we're beyond it. I think we can, but we need to, we need to be all in now. And politicians need to be, we all need to be speaking a different language. But politicians need to be speaking a different language, and they need to be speaking to a different audience that they're still talking to the boomer generation, they're still speaking that language, there's a younger generation coming up, who are terrified. There's another article in this weekend reads eco anxiety around the world is off the charts. You know, and it's the inaction that creates the Eco anxiety. It's not just facing up to it. It's also understanding what we're not doing. And if you're not protecting the infrastructure, you know, in the UK, 30 years, I haven't updated their water infrastructure. And here we are with floods, right? Roads buckling in the heat, why train train? Lines buckling in the heat? Why haven't they been upgraded in the right sort of, into the right sort of metal to cope with warmer temperatures? We're not even doing the basics. And so we're just constantly getting slammed, and then going, alright, we've got to do something about that. Well, what is what does this look like in 50 years time? What do we need to do? You know, the one of the comments I wrote was about Pakistan, they've got 33 More glacial lakes ready to break. So you'd suggest that the majority of the country is at risk of being flooded from these glacial lakes? So do they rebuild? Or do they say, where are these glaciers gonna break? Because they're gonna break? Because we're gonna get to 2.8? Do they need to migrate the entire country down south where there's land? Do they need to leave Pakistan? You know, are we even quite getting close to that point, you know, and that's the sort of stuff that's coming at us, and we're not thinking about it. So the funds, go ahead. Now the challenge that we have is that we are very very poor at buying the future. I mean, your jeans yours as as you know, someone who's who meets this kind of challenge every day when when his clients don't think about the future and you can think about it this way, the future churn is inevitable, whether for yourself or your family, you may not be around for it, but it's certainly coming. And if you think about financial futures as a way to look at things, you know, it is really something that is it's a, it's a tsunami that's coming for people that the financial, you know, calamities that are coming our way, right. And those are going to be very personal, you know, it's going to be it's, I'm going to feel that a lot more than you think collectively. And in terms of in terms of the imagination, if I'm, if I'm going to find that the the weather, that's how it's going terrible, it's all gone, it's all done to to the shit. We in our minds have this thing that go okay, but we will survive this. And I think one of the things that is difficult about this is that the truth is probably going to be somewhere along those lines, the more resourceful people are going to make it through the worst times that we have to come on the other side. And the pity is that there's an opportunity to not have to have that happen. We don't need to go there. But you know, the thing is, the resourceful will make it through to the other side. And hopefully, we'll have the lessons of it. It's like the people viewing I think that the first tool was, you know, because you could see things escalating, you could see things that were gonna go in a certain way, but they kind of had to go that way. Before we kind of said, yeah, that was a bad idea. You know, it's really one of those crazy things. But we are fundamentally stupid teenagers, as an organism, we have ideas, we want to try stuff out, and we go like, you know, this is okay, they don't know what I'm talking about. Doesn't feel real. I can see this for myself right now. But it really is going to be that and I I really think that the biggest thing that I can do right now for my kids, is to turn them into the most resilient, most resourceful people that they can they can be, because that's what's gonna get them through this. Because I, if you look at the number of things that we are supposed to get, right, right, and and when Tim is talking about the pandemic, that told me we can't do the climate thing easily. Because if there was something that was clearly something we all had to do together, and bring our heads together and had a common enemy and had a common result in mind. It was the pandemic, and we still haven't got it done as in like, if you think if you think that it's over, no, it's not, it's not over, we've just come to the point where you're like, Alright, now there's a pandemic around us. We're living with this. So that's, that's, that's kind of the situation. That's the that's the climate change position right there, then, yeah, change. We couldn't do anything about it. Yeah, it happens. Yeah, we just gotta live with it. Everyone, I want to ask you, Jane, for his opinion, because he's new to our conversation around climate. And, you know, you know, I agree with what you guys are saying, you, James, you want to jump in? Sure. First of all, I want to confess that I always take plastic bags from supermarkets. In Singapore, you know, having stayed in Singapore, Andrea for some time, you know, Singapore is very late in the game. A lot of people are very concerned about other things, you know, that there's always 101 things more important than climate change, sustainability. And then Tesla came in and went out, right? Elon was so angry, the government is just talking about electric cars. But actually, in the end, they don't really support it when it comes down to the final screws and bolts. So I so I want to say that I'm part of the problem. I was I was part of a problem about meeting you, Andrea, that awaken some subconscious part of me that wants to be more green. And now, I consciously look at like, what can I do? More of that can help the environment? I know, I'm probably only doing 0.1%. I can do a lot more like some some friends say, why don't we put a solar solar panel in your new home and all that. So such conversations rarely heard of last time? Yeah. But now among my friends, more and more so. So that's my, that small little value add to this conversation? Yeah, no, I I definitely respect that. I think this idea that Singapore is behind. I think that you've got a government that is so far ahead in the conversation. And Lisa Young long has been a leading voice in the climate conversation for a very long time and he gets world leaders sitting at his feet listening to what he's got to say. So your leaders are definitely out there speaking the right words, but I think but I think that they're also protecting the Singaporean community a little bit too much from the reality and And you know what, don't worry, I will take care of it for you. Right, which is very much what you felt during the pandemic as well. Right? And, but it is an all in, we need a billion people changing the way they do, you know, buying less clothes, eating, you know, reducing their meat consumption, if not getting rid of it going vegan if they can, you don't replace your car with the Navy, you just you just start catching public transport because you've got the infrastructure in Singapore, there's no excuse, right? All that sort of stuff, you know. And, you know, I think I'm seeing the rising awareness, I think there's been a lot of great work that's been done, you know, events like green is the New Black Stephanie Dixon, you know, really brought the conversation home. And, you know, there's a lot of people who really, really do care about it, but we need to, we almost need Singaporeans to say we're going to care about it now. Because you guys can influence the rest of Asia. And change that mindset, I think you can have a big contribution. That's why I encourage my friends in Asia to really speak up about it. Because people don't want to listen to a white face. They don't I think, I think I don't miss. I think Singapore has been pretty good though. I'm possibly gonna disagree with Eugene a little bit on this one, I thought back in what 2019 I think I did a prison, I referenced leasing lungs, National Day Parade was speech, I think it was the rally the rally speech where he was talking about how Singapore needs to look at climate change. And, you know, we're looking at this big wall that we're going to build underwater and investigating the dikes in the Netherlands and how to do something similar to protect Singapore from rising sea levels, even though some of the infrastructure is built that into play from a flooding perspective. And everything else then, very recently, in this past week, they talked about, they had they had said sometime in the latter half of the century, they would look at sort of being carbon neutral. And now they've just come out last week and said, you know, 2050 It'll be will be carbon it will be net zero. And, and then they also reduced some target. So to make it sorry, they they increase the target they reduce the timeframe as to when they were going to get stuff done. There's a whole lot of talk and movement at the moment around electrifying the transport system in Singapore and every bus stop I'm at has got a big billboard somewhere saying take the bus, take the bus and I've been you know, when I walked past a newspaper stands, it's there's there's on front page stuff every so often more frequently than any other newspapers than a country's newspapers that I see. There is talk of climate action that's been taken from a climate perspective. I do I think Singapore's position is one of exporting authoritative knowledge and how to, I think their position is if we can lead in this we can go out there and be involved in the teaching and consulting and sending our our leaders to organisations that create a lot of jobs and value and everything else for Singapore as a leader in this particular space. I think I think that's there but I think there's also a he said it in that in that particular rally speech they referenced he said you know, we need to get great at this so that we can tell other people what to do with their hands on a heart going with doing it. I think Elon situation happened I think when the first Tesla was bought there was still attacks on the on like a petrol tech and something on the car. And that was the that was the problem because they hadn't quite thought of that but I think comfortdelgro has which is the big taxi company and transport mover company got the contract to put in all the electric vehicle units around Singapore and you know right next to me for therefore it's a private company Blue SG where we can go and take electric vehicles and zooper zip about I think there's been movement towards that I think there's maybe maybe Eugene what would maybe it's a maybe there's an apathy from the consumer to a degree because we trust the government will do something here and and so we don't so when they tell us to do it then we'll do it and it needs to date to be a bit more synergistic of we need to do it let's do it when you tell us to do it we'll do it and and but would you do it faster please? You know, yes plastic bags has been one of the the the bugbears whether it's the Double bagging for me that always gets me is like you don't need to double back. You know, the back of the bottom of the bag might fall out I think okay, well if you're going to do a bag, do a proper bag but the Double bagging and I you know, plastic bags are the rubbish bags that go down the chute. So so there's a They're not just throwing away while they are thrown away, but thrown away, instead of buying another bag to put all the bags in you using the bag that you have to put the trash in and throw it out. So I don't know, there's that, I reckon. Honestly, I still think plastic bags is trying to take for the big environmental problem, which is small, small peanuts to the big deal. Because the big problem the biggest area is in the giant industries. And, and if we can shift the needle there, we got a chance if we're playing with with with, you know, ear cotton buds and, and plastic bags, and all we're doing is pushing the problem onto the consumer who who makes a small effort to think we're doing something while everybody else goes on their merry way pumping crap into the environment. Yeah, but you know, that's one of the arguments that I sort of struggled with this idea that don't blame the consumer blaming the top 100 polluters don't blame the type financial polluters blame the top 10 finances, you know, all of us are part of this solution, every single one of us, right. So, you know, I did a fashion industry climate coverage last week, and, you know, just the, the amount of waste in the fashion industry, Australia has just done a black banning all single use plastics, and they're starting in New South Wales. And it seems like bags, plates, cutlery and air cleaners, right. But if you really want to do a waste, single use plastic thing, you've got to look at anything in a plastic bottle. Because you know, when I'm down at the beach, picking up all the crap, the vast majority of what's on the beach and looks disgusting. And there was one video that came through one of the towns in Africa that's been flooded. It's just this sea of plastic bottles just floating through this town. Right. So you know, the waste crisis is, is such a massive issue. It's so big, it's, it's almost overwhelming. So we've got to address that, that's that three month sabbatical, we all take as well, let's clean it up, let's sort it out. But the 100 industries that pollute this world are creating products that we buy. So if we really want to make a change, we're going to massively reduce our consumption massively, every single one of us, you know, and we're not reducing our consumption, we're buying more and more and more, and we're not emotionally connected to anything we buy. So, you know, you know, when you put a dress on, you should feel a connection with the dress, you know, this is the feedback and I think that's such a, it's called kinetic emotions, right? I think that's a really, we, we have no emotional connection to the destruction that we create in our everyday lives. You know, we like I can't accept a plastic bottle, I can't accept a plastic bag, I feel sick. When I see people with balloons on social media, I'm like, please stop using balloons. Because because I can't have a balloon anymore. You know, I can't, you know, and I and what we need is billion people who feel that way, who feel this connection to earth and, and don't want to contribute to the wastes in the world. And that's we're not there by a longshot. And that concerns me it's a dead end moment. But I, I think the issue is always about connection, right? Is that what what, what is what I'm doing right now? What I'm feeling what I'm actually what I'm what I'm contributing, right? How does it connect? And the thing that happens for most most things is that we are disconnected from the actual final thing by enough steps, so that we don't realise we're doing that. I mean, me consumption is it's a great story, right? But how many of us would consume meat if we actually had the meat the, the animal that we were going to kill, I mean, they just just one of those things that could kind of happen in war. When when when they when they do the statistics, and they find out about it, you know, weapons that are issued in war and fired, have seldom met their target. Because it's not easy for one human being to aim on another human being and pull the trigger. It's just one of those things that we are not, we're not really made to do. And a lot of times what happens is we've got this layers and layers and layers that separate us from the thing that we do and the impact of what we do so that we don't really feel that at all. So there's no connection. So the sense that you've got about your clothes and everything else, it's something that is again, because it is far removed. It really is something where you don't think about the total impact. When we're talking about Singapore awhile ago, and I realised what what really happens in Singapore is that we have a we have a pilot and passenger sort of arrangement. You know that the pilot takes care of a lot of the things that happens to get us there and whatever it is Is anything if you if you think about what a pilot's job is to do like during an actual emergency, pilots go through a lot of training to make sure that when there's an emergency people on board don't feel that there is a terrible emergency, they work very hard to make sure that there is calm, and there is an ability to do things in an orderly fashion. And that is really the big challenge. We have simultaneously an emergency that should have us scurrying around and being completely panicked, where mental wellness should be at an all time low, because there's such a horrible thing that's happening to us all collectively. And yet, at the same time, we have to have the mental wherewithal of calmness that says, Nothing is going on. We have to be on the Titanic, seeing the iceberg coming, knowing that we can't avoid that the iceberg and we have to plan what we're gonna do with the lifeboats. I mean, that's, that's really where we are. And we're having to do that. And there's a bunch of people who know that all that's happening, and they've got a plan. That's really where we are. And and the challenge, like, you know, you think about most most emergency the most situations, right? The death tolls that come out of, of weapon when there's when there's a bomb of fire, whatever it is, is usually not from the fire itself. It's the reaction that we have. And that's where that's, that's that's the conundrum that we have right now. There isn't, there isn't enough in terms of a lifeboat plan right now. Because if you look at if you look at the world, and as you as you've seen it, you know that okay, it's coming. Where's everybody gonna go? If we tried to contemplate that today, it just, it's an impossibility. We cannot figure that out right now. And it will make us crazy to try and solve it, because it's unsolvable. But it's something that we can deal with. And that's, that's the real challenge. The challenge is that okay, we've got this huge problem coming. We see it, a bunch of people see it, and how do you say enough to the people, you know, come on to the tannoy on the tannoy who says that, on the radio, on a plane and go, ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing experiencing some turbulence with advise you to please put on your seat belts. And in the meantime, you're losing fuel and heading towards the ground? Yeah, I can definitely guarantee you that it does drive you a little bit crazy when you try and work it out. She's been because there is no, there's no answer. You know, if I knew the answer, our family would have packed up and move to that place this year. You know, honestly, that's because I know that it's so much closer than everyone thinks it is. And the other thing is, you don't want to be a passenger in this. You really don't you want to get ready, like you know, the minimum should be planning around gardens. Like even if you're in HDB flat, you should have community gardens downstairs, because the Bible famine that's going to start to build from this year, after all the crop losses this year, farmers aren't going to plant next year because they know we're gonna have similar weather patterns, because London has been guaranteed, right? So then they've got another year of not planting, and then by the third year, we're gonna have any, you know, what's the situation really going to be like now if you've got money, and if you're in Singapore, you're probably going to be alright. But for the rest of the world, you know, we got some big, big, big stuff. So paying attention. Really important right now and do what you can. Don't, don't. Don't be shocked when it arrives. And don't be shocked that it arrives a lot sooner than you think it's going to arrive, honestly, but vote for leaders who who've got the message, push your leaders that to be saying the right stuff. You know, if they're not talking about protecting the country that you're in for the next 50 years, if they're not talking about putting the infrastructure in place for that, then they're not paying attention, you know, because, oh, my whole drive and everything that I'm doing is even though it's a hard message to be constantly sharing, and it's hard, it is a hard message to constantly share. I just don't want the people that I love that are in my life across the world. I don't want them to just wake up one day and go oh shit, you know, because that's what will happen if you don't get prepared. So you don't have to turn into a freak is living off the grid or anything like that. But you know, maybe that's what the future is gonna look like so, but if there's no easy answer to where to go, there's none. Like I'd trust me I'm looking. Alright, shall we finish up with what's keeping you distracted? He wants to go first. Okay, well, I will just share that I have come across a TV series that's been on the air for the longest time but I've only just come to know but it's called Qi. It's from the BBC. It's called quite interesting. And it is literally all about facts and, and stories about, you know, the things that we don't do that we think we know a lot about in the world. And it's just delightful to be surprised by how wrong we are about so many things, including things like how the black widow spider really has a very bad reputation and does not deserve. You know, for instance, it's just, it's just a it's just an incredible journey. And what I love about Qi is that it's also it takes a scientific approach to things. And even as a programme that does a lot of research to make sure that all its facts are as correct as they can be when they go to air. They acknowledged that in a few years, there is a rate of decay of facts, which is a concept which I love as like today, but it's right, but we know that there's a 30% chance that in three years it will be wrong. And if you can find it, and you have a way to find it, go and look for the series, the series is called Qi. It was initially hosted by Stephen Fry, an incredible brain we have a man and and now it's it's it's hosted by Sally thoughts. Sandi Toksvig, who is a damn man has made great inroads in the in the UK in terms of entertainment. It's a great show if you want to just feel smarter and dumber at the same time. QI quite interesting. Nice. I like the opposite of IQ. All right. uj. What's keeping you occupied? Apart from buying a new house that is accurate makes me very busy. Yeah, I bet it does. Yeah. Especially solar panelling it now. No, I'm not committed yet. Depends on the CEO in my house, my wife. I, I find it recently, I mean, back to the mental health discussion, right? November, December has been very busy for me. And I'm very grateful to be trusted by the companies. Because usually companies want to make profit number blah. But this time, they say, can you come and shift the mindset of our people. And I'm pleasantly surprised people are willing to spend money on this. Not not wait until people go out there and go and see a counsellor. But quality are still new and fresh. A shift their mindset such that they are ready for the for the any kind of toughness challenges. And as a word I've been spreading called anti fragile, which is basically the opposite of fragile, right? Fragile is easily broken. So anti fragile is not just not easily broken, but actually become stronger due to the stress and challenges. And I myself benefited from it. And I thought okay, I like to be heavily distracted, helping people to be anti fragile. Not me, it's been studies. Yeah, it all comes to a head in two weeks time. So I got what three, I got an eight hour exam on Tuesday, and three big assignments do in by the 11th. One, one well, one do on Wednesday, and two more on the 11th. And then another one few weeks later. So it's it's been all consumed heads down. Is it finished then? Or is it that just having a break until the next session starts? So that's having a break until January? Yeah, no, too. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's semester two of year one. Do you feel that long? All right. So well, one of the things I've watched is this probe, and I don't know if it's new or old or whatever, but it's called American factory. And it's sort of popped up as a recommendation on Netflix. And I thought, Oh, this looks interesting. So basically, this Chinese company has moved into into a rust belt town in America, and set up this factory. I think it's in an old GM building. And the whole community has been absolutely decimated by by the closure of the original factory. And it's really this this sort of concept of bringing a Chinese culture together with an American culture. There's a lot of Chinese speaking where, you know, they've got such fat fingers. They're so slow. And then there's the education sessions on you know, how you can integrate more into into American society and what Americans are like, it's absolutely fascinating. I believe the factory is still going, which is incredible. But the chairman of the factory is obviously a mega wealthy Chinese guy and he's messages. This is this is this is this is an important social sort of experiment that America we can be successful in America and Americans can like us. So it's actually also the bigger political sort of ramifications of succeeding. So absolutely fascinating called American factory. I recommend it. I think it was the very first show that the Obamas produced It was a big production company. So we set out to create all kinds of world changing content. This was the this was the first show they produced, why the guy didn't even know that it just sort of came across my screen. I thought this looks interesting, because because I've operated within cultures for nearly 30 years, and we are all a bit different. And when you go into the middle, the middle of a country, you know, a middle of Australia, middle, middle, China and Middle America. I mean, I've had some experiences in Singapore, where this father told his sons not to play with my boys, because because we were enemies, right? And Anglos are bad. And by the end, by the time these guys moved out of the apartment, because they were living there temporarily, by the time they moved out, they loved us loved our kids, and we kind of changed their world just by interacting with us, right. So I find that sort of side of things, you know, the more we can integrate, the more we can be exposed to each other and our quirky ways. I think, the better we are all off. Yep. We all benefit from it, right? Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for the show. Yeah, there we go. Yes, Eugene. Thanks, Joe. All together, Andrew. Now, right. So I have a great weekend, everyone. So next Friday, I'm going to be doing another climate courage, and we're going to be talking about money. So Joe, maybe you should come and join us for that one. I've got Dr. David Cole and Richard Bissell, Otto back. And Steven and I are going to we're going to be a husband and wife conference, having a conversation. I actually haven't asked them if it's alright yet. But what I want to ask him is, you know, how do you get prepared for the future? You know, what will money have value? You know, if you buy a property, you know, there's a potential that you're going to have a stranded asset, because it might become unlivable and might get flooded, and might be burned down. Right. So what can we do? How can we prepare? What should we be thinking about, you know, all those sort of questions. So I think that's going to be a pretty interesting conversation. So I hope people come and check it out. I miss you guys. I was gonna say one, one thing you should do right now is going again, is to promote Andrea's weekend reads, I think it really we don't do it. We don't do enough of it. Because on this show, we talk about a lot of stuff. But there's so much more that is in there. That you know, I think if you want to form opinions about the world, you have to have the parts with which to make that opinion. And Andrea's reads, definitely we can read are a great source. So do you want to just promote that one more time? Yeah, what was going on right now? Just every Saturday andrew@edmunds.com I put it up there by Saturday night, my time and it's just it's everything I'm reading and watching and listening to and it's very wide. But I think you know, when people are overwhelmed by information, the purpose of this is to say don't be overwhelmed just coming here. It crosses all media, it all topics, you know, you can you can just sort of get to the essence of what's important because I'm good at noticing what's important. You know, that's one of my, one of my skills, right? Doesn't mean I've got it all. I try hard. Anyway, thanks, everyone. Going off now, but thank you, Eugene. awesome to have you here darlin.