Guardian Radio Today - August 7 2025

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Streaming on guardiantalkradio.com and the Guardian Radio app, Nassau, Bahamas. [00:00:10] Speaker B: The views and opinions of the hosts. [00:00:12] Speaker A: And guests are their own and do. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Not necessarily reflect the views of the. [00:00:17] Speaker A: Management and staff of Guardian Radio. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. This is Guardian Radio today here at 96.9 FM right here in sunny Nassau, Bahamas. I'm your host for the day, Garth Rosebarrow have been asked to sit in today Friday and Monday. So I'll be spending some time with you. And it's always a privilege to be hand of the living. I do hope and pray that everyone has had a great week so far and that you are exactly where the good Lord would have you to be today. I woke up this morning with a smile on my face because, you know, I've truly been trying to understand why as a child, I myself was so mischievous all through elementary school. And, you know, I went to Queen's College from grades one to four, went to St. Thomas more from five to six, went to St. Augustine's College from seven to 12, and because of a mischievous transcript, I had to go back to RM Bailey for one year so that I could have a transcript that could be read for me to enter into college. And I just wondered to myself, where did mischief begin for a young man whose mother loved him so dearly? And so I had to recall the first time I ever got a spanking. It wasn't even a spanking. It was actually, and the beating was with one of those sticks that's in the baby crib. I remember that stick very well because I was four years old. I attended a school at that time, no longer in existence. Busy Bee, which is right across the road from now established SC McPherson. It used to also be the site for Bertha's ribs, I think at one point. But I recall because we had just built the addition onto the back of the school. And this is 54, 52 years ago, by the way, 52 years ago that this took place. And this particular day, all of our luncheons was put on a table. And every time she called us for lunch, we would go to the table and find our lunch tins and we'll eat our lunch. It just so happened that my lunch tin was one of those Snoopy lunch tins, you know, had Snoopy all over it, little cartoon caricatures. And I just grabbed the first Snoopy tin I saw because I know I was the only person that had a Snoopy lunch tin. I did not know that Junior also got a Snoopy lunch tin, but I just grabbed the lunch tin, it was a bit lighter than usual, but I grabbed it anyhow. And in that lunch tin was a hot dog sandwich. It was an apple and there was a juice. It was a moth's apple juice. And I called my good friend, he's still alive and well, Christopher Adderley. And I said, chris, you know you want to share my lunch? And Chris said, oh, yeah. So we sat and we began eating this lunch. And Junior's there crying. And everybody wondered why Junior was crying. And he goes to Aunt Nettie, her name was Aunt Nettie. And Aunt Nettie was looking for Junior's lunch tin. She finally saw us sitting there eating this lunch tin. This lunch, sorry, out of the tin. And she said, you all stole Junior's lunch. I says, no, I didn't. This is my lunch tin and this is my lunch. She says, oh, you want to be rude? And of course, that's when the stick was applied to both Christopher Adderley and myself. I cried from 12:15 thereabout until my mother came for me at 5:30, nonstop crying. I knew how to cry because I've never felt such pain and anguish in my lifetime. I was in so much pain. I could tell you that on that day, Blue Hill Road, that Christopher Adderley's father, Mr. Harold Adderley, had a Maverick. That was his car. Sky blue or baby blue Maverick hard top with white vinyl on the top of it. And he came and he picked up Chris first and left me there crying. My mother showed up in a taxi. It used to be a Mercedes Benz. Visit again. 325111 or something like that. Meter Taxi called. She came in one of those taxis and why is my son crying? And she said, because he stole Junior's lunch. That Junior ate my lunch when I found out that he did. And I cried the length of time because in my lunch tin I had the apple juice in my lunch tin. I had the apple in my lunch tin. I had the hot dog in my lunch tin. I had the fruit cocktail in my lunch tin. I had grapes in my lunch tin. It was fully loaded. I had no reason to want to steal Junior's lunch. It was just a misunderstanding. But for this innocent misunderstanding, corporal punishment was applied to my body temple. And I cried from the pain, the stick. And I cried from the pain of watching Junior eat my lunch. And even though Aunt Nettie tried to offer me the apricot and the mango Gerber baby food to try the pizzas, I remember that too. Those are small little bottles of baby food. I Could care less. The pain was too much. And so I smiled at that. To say, you know, our innocence, people still deem that we are guilty. Where did the mischief come from? In my life, I then went to Queens College, grade one. I'd never forget the teacher's name. It was in 1975, Ms. Mango. And she was from England, from Britain. And, you know, back then, the fashion was the mini dress. Kermit used to have this mini dress. And her form of punishment was not that of a stick. Her form of punishment was that when you were naughty, you sat under her desk. Well, I found out that one of my favorite places in grade one was under her desk. Because I was a young, curious young man. And even though as older men were still somewhat curious as to what happens under the desk, I realized that what we oftentimes deem punishment can sometimes be understood to be a delight for those who we feel that we are punishing. When we look at men in the Bahamas Correctional center, we believe in our minds as free individuals on a daily basis that those men are being punished. But little do we know. Some of those men feel as if they have nowhere else to go. And the most love they've ever felt was behind those bars in a cell with four or five other men. And they can tell their stories and they can show off their bravado, and they can show that, you know what? I have an intelligence that is greater than yours. And who could steal the best, who could do whatever the best. This is comradeship for them. They're having a camporee in Fox Hill that's also a possibility because we see it as punishment. And we ask the question, why do so many of them go back to be incarcerated? I just thought about that this morning when I woke up because I wanted to understand who I really was. And I now have come to the reality that in life, people will accuse you of all sorts and manner as to your character and who you are. But whether you are under the desk, whether you are in a cell in Fox Hill, whether you are busy bee and a stick is being applied. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Deep. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Within you, only you are responsible for the resolve that makes you the great person that you are today. You can be no better as a person until you yourself understand that I stand for truth. I stand for honesty. I stand to be upright. I stand for righteousness. And even when you see me doing that which is the best for many, and you look at me as if I am actually performing the worst, I have to inform you, today really matter. Once you have the confidence that Your heart is pure and your intention is right. We're going to have a good time today, folks. We want to talk about the right things today. But I really want to dive into a political conversation, if I may. And I want to talk about. [00:10:47] Speaker B: The. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Root of all evil, you call it. Let's talk about money, the love of money. Let's talk about money and politics. That's what we want to talk about today. Why are we so bent out of shape politically? Why do we have our favorite teams? Why do we have our biases? Why do we have our likes and dislikes? And for those of you who have tuned into my show on Sundays, remark, we touched a little bit on this. I think last Sunday we spoke about entitlement and had a very good conversation. But you know how we jam on Sundays, 5 to 6:30. We like to get down in it. And so for this hour, 12 to 2, we want to get down in it today. And let's talk the truth. Let's speak the truth. What is it really all about? Is it a PLP, F&M third party thing or is this a me thing? I want you to think about that and I want you to be honest with yourself as you think about it. I want to throw these numbers out really quickly. Then I'm going to ask Herman to take us to a break. Those numbers are 323-623-2325-431632-54259. 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I I see texts already coming in today and I just want you all to understand that I am Garth Roseborough and I sit here at Guardian Radio. People will have their views of myself, my views of other people that work here. But I just want to speak about Guardian Radio for what it really is, an entity that has been established guardian from 1844, which is a very long time. And I just want to give you the assurance that all of the staff that has come through Guardian Radio have been vetted and appreciated. These are people who have a talent and a skill set that stands out from the wider community. They had been welcomed here to the Guardian Radio as family. There may be some understandings that we individually are not aware of, but this I do know. If you look at most of the people, if not all, that have been associated with Guardian Radio 96.9 FM or with the Guardian newspaper and you look at them today, if God has not taken them home, like my good friend Finance O Roll, who was a great writer, loved her to death, loved her dearly, and others, even though they may no longer be here with us, look at where God above continues to open doors, continues to open windows, continues to take them to higher heights wherever he would have them to be placed. And so as to whatever happens to any one of us, we know that God is in control. We know that God is going to place us where he needs us most. And you can move unless sometimes you root it up. You can't move unless sometimes someone encourages along the way or gives you some greater opportunity. It's just the way life works. It's a dynamic life. And you know, for you people out there who are listeners and you find your favorite shows, what amazes me that when you find your favorite host and your favorite show, that these people have so much Things to say. But you failed to call 302-2300 to ask how you could sponsor a show. You're so interested in everybody around here and what happens and how people make their money and how people manage themselves. But if you really love Guardian Radio 96.9 FM, you really love what we do, you love the type of programming from morning until late at night, be a part of the sponsorship team, man. You know, if you really care, put your money where your love is. You know, the preachers do it every weekend, you know, so I don't know why this is any different. The message here is very clear. We're trying to build a nation and it's not an easy task. We all make our contributions and as the Bible says, he goes ahead and he sows the seed. The next man he comes and he waters and the next man he comes and he reaps the harvest and the next man got to go market it and sell. It's just the way life works. And so I just want to say to everyone that has worked here that everyone that is now working here and everyone who plans to work here and for those of you who are new listeners and those of you are old listeners, that love has to remain in our hearts for each other to we got to support each other no matter what. We have one Bahamas and one message to the world that this is the greatest country in the world. And so I want to leave that right there. I know you're not getting the answer that you want, but I think Eddie Minnesota had a song. You got to sometimes mind your own business. I don't know what the business is. I can't tell you. But all I can tell you is that I'm glad that you are alive and well. And I'm alive and well. I got bad news yesterday. I should have been in the presence of my co host on Sunday, Darwin Russell. Today he had committed to be here and he lost his brother in law yesterday morning. And that was tragic news for Russell. And so he's not able to join me today, tomorrow or Monday. And you know, he's a great asset to my show. Remark. We have a great time on Sundays, 5 to 6:30. And I'm just saying to each one of you, none of us, none of us, not any one of us is here forever. I don't know how best to tell you but one day you're breathing, the next day you're laying in a box. It's just the way it is. One day you're the CEO and the Next day you're retired. That's just the way it is. You know how life works. And so I heard a social media comment from someone I'm sure many of you have heard of before, and his voice note this morning, you know, he happens to be my cousin, he said, man, some of these people got to go, they got to retire. They've been here too long. You know, they've been here since Jesus was around. And he said one was the, was the bell man and the other one must see was, was, was. What do you say? [00:19:20] Speaker B: Was? [00:19:20] Speaker A: Chauffeur or whatever. But he's running on telling some people just got to go. So that's what life is all about. From. I was young. There were some people I wanted to go to when I was in School in St. Augustine's College. Let me, let me say this before I really start the show and I'm not wanting to ramble on to today, but I'm going to let you talk today, but I was in St. Augustine's College. And I could say this firmly to you today that I appreciate this man with everything that I have in my body. But at the time, I hated his guts so much. Oh, God, I hated this man. As a young man praying. I would go home every night and pray to Jesus. I say, dear Jesus, please kill my teacher. Just, just, just get rid of him. Mr. Benedict Dorset. Get rid of Mr. Dorsett. That miserable little wretch. Please, God, I don't want to do my homework. I tired of going to detention. For God's sake, please, if you could just remove him from the oid for me, I'll be so. Listen, man, I didn't want to go to detention and I want this man to die. I want this man to be obliterated from the face of the lake because I didn't want to do my homework and I didn't want to go to detention. That's the nature of people. People want to waste to you because they don't want to do what they supposed to do. So when I saw Mr. Dosset some years later, I was out west by a little ice cream shop there. And he looked over at me and he said, garth Roseborough. I say, yes, sir, Mr. Dawson, how are you? He didn't respond. He's well, he's good. He didn't say none of those things to me. Mr. Dawson looked at me and said, you still living? I say, this little wretch, this little brute, I, I mean, you know, I was thinking different words, but I try to be nice on the radio, right. I try not to cuss. And I said, this is a cold brother. I say, yes, sir, I'm still living and I'm doing well. I said, I've been to college, I've been to university, I'm back home trying to make my contribution. He didn't hug me, he didn't embrace me, he didn't shake my hand and say, congratulations, young man. He just simply looked at me and said, that's good to know. So I never really got any warmth, love or return for Mr. Dorset, but I know deep in his heart he must have been somewhat proud to say, well, my God, I hope I made a contribution to that young man's life. Mr. Clifford Ramming was my house moderator for Bernard House. And Mr. Ramming used to put me in detention every day from grade 7 to grade 11. Every day, every day I'm in detention. Clifford Ramming. How is it that after all, I should say Mr. Clifford ramming respectfully, because he's still my senior, but he's my friend now, he says he's my friend. As a matter of fact, he says I'm one of his best friends. And I said, how amazing is that that the man who you disliked in school for putting you in detention and punishing you, that today he is your best friend? What I'm trying to draw out of you all today as you ask these questions is it doesn't matter what you see today. The universe has enough positive energy, it has so much love, it has so much to offer that all you have to do is do your part, be an upright individual and live. Do the best that you could every day. And you will find out that those who you thought were against you, God will show you down the road that it was because of them that you are where you are when you see the call coming in. When I was a pastor and they. And they got rid of me, I was bitter, I was angry, I knew I was right and they were wrong. But I could not be here today on Guardian Radio, 96.9 FM, today to talk to you if they had not sent me on my way. Sometimes you just got to go. You just got to go and. And leave the land from which you are the land of earth and go to a land that I'm going to place you forward to and I'm going to bless you. I'm going to bless your children. I'm going to bless you like the sand of the sea, the stars of heaven, God got something in store for you. So while you're looking at another man saying oh, I wonder what's going on over there. You need to focus on what God has in store for you and go where God has sent you. Call you on the line. Go ahead. [00:23:45] Speaker B: Yes, sir. How you doing, sir? [00:23:47] Speaker A: I don't want to preach today. I want to really get to what I want to talk about but these people, these people caused me to preach. [00:23:52] Speaker B: No, no, no, you just minister to me because I was thinking I got to move on one of these family island. But you just ministered to me. I, I was wondering if I would coming on the show today. [00:24:04] Speaker A: The name of this show is the Guardian Today, sir. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Guardian today. Okay, yeah, Cyber that. [00:24:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:10] Speaker B: I am the gentleman that called in at one time and they called me a false prophet because of what I said. I spoke something about God. But you made a statement earlier. I I won't get made a statement earlier and said that. How is it that today you are in that position as to where you've been? Let me tell you where that is. It's in the Bible. It says God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemy, anoint your head with oil, your cup will run over and surely goodness and mercy follow you all the days of your life. That's in the Bible, my brother. [00:24:41] Speaker A: That was a quote that I gave about a week ago at this very same time. [00:24:46] Speaker B: Yeah, all I could say I. I want to get off this radio but I made a statement about David and Goliath had to do with the F and M and Pip. I was called a false prophet. Be careful, be careful how you speak about God's anointing. Touch not God's anointing. Do his prophet no harm. God bless you. [00:25:05] Speaker A: Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Caller, got a text here. Good day. Garth in 242. Thank you for that sobering monologue. So on point. Consider everything is okay when we are benefiting but grossly wrong when not. This came to mind while listening to I'm seeing L00. I don't know what that is for but try to justify or deflect from self during the electronic battle. Maybe you can help me some more with that. Trying to wrap my mind around the last paragraph there. But yeah folks, this is where we're at and so today politically speaking and I'm going to find a call again. Let me give those numbers out quickly before I do start. 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Anywhere from the family of violence, 300-5720 or you can text in at 422-4796. Could anyone today call and share with me, just share with me. What do they believe the role of a politician is? I just want to know what their role is is and then I want to know. Once you have defined that role to me, I want you to define for me where you feel you fit in that equation. Let me take this caller real quick before we delve into that. Go ahead, caller. Go ahead, caller. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Hey, God. [00:26:47] Speaker A: Hey, my brother. [00:26:47] Speaker B: How you doing, my friend? [00:26:49] Speaker A: Right here. Trying to live and be happy always. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Who our friends are, then our back is against the wall, but God is always there. No. Who will fight for us? Who will celebrate us going? Who will stand with us? I leave that alone. Not a rule of a politician is to let to do ledger rules and regulations to better the country. There are a lot of people and you can't really blame the people because the members of parliament began doing it now it is a hip thing now. Buying school buy for your children, buying, giving you groceries for your family, paying your life bill, cleaning up your yard. That is not the role of a member of Parliament. The member of Parliament rule is to go into the House of Assembly and make sure that the country is being run right. [00:28:05] Speaker A: Okay. You want to leave that there. Thank you. So. [00:28:08] Speaker B: No, I want you to answer me. [00:28:11] Speaker A: I want you to, I want. [00:28:13] Speaker B: You was aspiring to be a politician at one time. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Let me, let me address the first thing you said in terms of friendship. Number one. The first lesson learned in business is there's no friends in business. There's only opportunity and lost opportunity. Right. So that's a very sensitive subject. But a true friend is like a brother. And you'll always be there for your brother's conversation. But when doing business, of course there are rules, regulations and understandings. And like I said, I'm not getting into anyone's particular situation. That's. [00:28:45] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no, that's why I talked. [00:28:47] Speaker A: In terms of the politician. Let me tell you what I'm, what I'm drawing at because you're a very intelligent gentleman, right? [00:28:53] Speaker B: Yes, sir. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Okay, good. Before one even decides that this is a road they want to travel, I want to apply to a political entity and I want to aspire to be nominated and then I want to engage the community to stand with me and to elect me for the House of Assembly. You with me so far? [00:29:21] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead. [00:29:22] Speaker A: The people that actually feel as if this is now the time that I need to make this Move. Right. We don't know their financial background. We don't know their community involved. Most of these people, we've never seen them in our life. You don't see them in the newspaper. You don't see them on the news. [00:29:41] Speaker B: AI don't even know that. [00:29:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. You cannot find them nowhere on Google, you know, these people pop up out the dark, huh? And they say they want to be a politician. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Now we got a process where we say we got to vet these candidates. How many of these people you vetting are actually eligible to be a politician? That's why some of them. Some of them don't ever reveal who they are and what they got. [00:30:05] Speaker B: But God. Let me ask you this question. Do. What do you think about debates? If you want to come and run in Bamboo Town, you and the sitting member of parliament and Bamboo have a debate. The people in Bamboo Town has. Can ask you questions. You know, why you, why you choose Bamboo Town? Who sent you here? Or this is what you pick. Why you come here. You know, you don't think we in Bamboo Town that will give us a better clearance on if we should support you or stick with the Member of Parliament. [00:30:40] Speaker A: Could I take a shortcut? Could I take a shortcut? [00:30:43] Speaker B: Go ahead. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Here's a shortcut for you. Maybe I am at the point and this is why people say, oh, he must see plp. Oh, he must be fnm. Oh, he third party. And I keep saying to people, my name is Garth Roseborough. Listen to me carefully. At this point in my life, just turned 56, I could care less what you say to me when you're vying for a nomination. I'm not even listening to you. And I'll tell you why. Very few exceptions to the rule. But let me say this to you. It doesn't matter what your economic background was. It doesn't matter what your community affiliation was. You are vying for the House of Assembly. And I want to ask you this question. In responding to you, do you believe in your mind that there is a clear contrast between before you were an MP and now that you are an mp? Talk to me. [00:31:41] Speaker B: A clear contract. [00:31:43] Speaker A: Contrast. [00:31:44] Speaker B: Contrast. [00:31:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:45] Speaker B: No, it. I know some people. I know some people who went in. This is what they said they had before election. Some of them had under $10,000. And now living in a. In the space of five years now living in a house costs more than a half a million dollars. [00:32:11] Speaker A: So there's a very clear contrast salary. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Everybody knows a member of parliament make $28,000 a year. Now, some of them might be cabinet ministers, some of them might be executive chairman, some of them might be different. So you calculate that money in. But now they're living in a half a million dollar house in five years. [00:32:29] Speaker A: So. [00:32:30] Speaker B: So you're telling me women over. [00:32:32] Speaker A: You're telling me that the difference is like black and white. [00:32:37] Speaker B: That's all it is for real. [00:32:38] Speaker A: So there's a very clear contrast. So now that you're talking to me, and you talked to me from bamboo down yesterday, saying to me, hey, man, I'm interested in becoming a member of parliament for Bamboo Town. Do you think Garth Rose brothers are listening to you as to what vision you have for Bamboo Town? I'm talking me now. Talk to me, Tell me God is gonna. You think I can listen to you. [00:32:57] Speaker B: With you one on one and talk? See, there are some people. There are some people in. Let me just use bamboo down because this way I live. [00:33:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:06] Speaker B: In Bamboo Town, you can't talk to the want to really feel the way they feel about you. You really want to know about them. You really can't talk to them. Wrong. A group of people. There are certain people in any constituency, you'll have this type of people. You have to go to them one on one, the member of parliament, talk with them one on one. Don't care each general. [00:33:25] Speaker A: But what you going to tell me? What you going to tell me that. [00:33:29] Speaker B: They want to share with you? [00:33:30] Speaker A: Boss man, listen to me. I trying to say something to you. [00:33:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:35] Speaker A: You want to become a member of parliament, Trying to convince me that you can make situations better for me. That's what you want to do? [00:33:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:44] Speaker A: When you speak to me? [00:33:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:46] Speaker A: I can say this to you again. You think I believe you? [00:33:50] Speaker B: You have some people, when they finish, even if you don't want to believe them, you can believe them. [00:33:54] Speaker A: They can talk good, right? [00:33:57] Speaker B: They can talk. [00:33:57] Speaker A: They can talk. [00:33:58] Speaker B: People that can talk. God. That's why we will talk to you in the sun. And when they tell you it raining, when you finish, you believe it raining. That's why some people get that gift. [00:34:09] Speaker A: That's why Guardian today. Guardian Today, 96.9 FM. Having this conversation. That's why, having this conversation. Because I gotta let y' all know something. We've been talking for how many years? 52 years, still talking. But you ain't seen nothing come from all this good talking. You said the sun shining, but they tell you it raining. So watch this. Watch, watch, listen. [00:34:30] Speaker B: For 52 years, you, you, you haven't seen a politician. Did Something good. [00:34:34] Speaker A: I can get to that. I can get to that. I can get to that. But I won't go through step by step. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Okay, let me. [00:34:44] Speaker A: Okay, let me ask, Let me, let me respond to you then. Let me be respectful. Respond to that. I got another call on the line. [00:34:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:49] Speaker A: Do you believe we are where we should be today based on 52 years of effort? [00:34:53] Speaker B: That's a different question. [00:34:54] Speaker A: Okay, then I tried to get there, but you wouldn't let me. That's what I tried to. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Different question. [00:34:58] Speaker A: That's what I'm trying to tell you. [00:34:59] Speaker B: You should have been just a little. [00:35:00] Speaker A: More ahead, you know, as a fella, I think way down the road they're coming back to meet you back up the street. That's how I work. So listen what I'm saying to you again, you have seen where you start today with $10 and the memorial. You got a thousand hours to become an mp. I just put in that language for you. [00:35:17] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:35:18] Speaker A: And so I want to talk a little bit about that today. And you, you could, you could feel free to call back for. Feel free to call back as we get into this conversation today. But I do appreciate your call. Let me take another call. Okay? [00:35:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I understand. [00:35:29] Speaker A: All right, good. Next caller, go ahead. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Hey, Mr. God. [00:35:34] Speaker A: Hey, man, how you doing? Hello, listening. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah, being a part, being a politician, it's something like, I won't say charity, but you go in there to collect that salary and you have to help the people. Because if I go in the same area, some of the people ain't got it from. Some of the people ain't have that. And like giving the child a school by. If there's nothing wrong with that. You see, you got to go in there for that week. But what happened, most people go in there to enrich themselves. They don't go there with the clay high that I'm going to run in this area. I am going to speed up keeping of this area and I'm going to help who I can help. They can't go in there five years and then come on a millionaire. Yeah, that's what's happening here. You see, you have to go in there and declare conscience. I'm going in your. And I agree. What they paying me, that's what I looking for. All the kickback, all the deal and this and that. You're gonna get nowhere. You have to have some people and the pencil area to put you in. And not only that, Mr. Ruins, they get 150,000, what you call it, fee or something. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Hello, yeah, I'm listening to you. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Yeah, they get $150,000. [00:37:08] Speaker A: Okay. Constituency allowance. [00:37:12] Speaker B: They start, you know, deal and dealing. I, I, I want to be a politician. I, I think a lot of people go in there to fill up their pocket and see what I could get. And at the end of the day they don't represent, they don't do nothing. Then you live in my area and I know you, you struggling and I could, if I can help you get a job, I can help you. But I got in the, I don't pull no deal and take back and no, that ain't happened. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Well, I thank you for your uprightness, my friend. Thank you for the call. Go ahead, next caller please. Go ahead, call her caller. Go ahead, call. Are you there caller? You there? [00:37:53] Speaker B: How you doing my brother? [00:37:54] Speaker A: I'm doing well. [00:37:55] Speaker B: Good, Love this conversation. Gav. This is one of the reasons why you see how all the dots are connected. You know, this is the fundamental reason why you have the Public Disclosure Committee, why these persons who are presenting themselves in politics is supposed to disclose prior to coming into the electoral season so we would know what their assets are, the values that they have and then also the exit when they leave. What are they supposed to have? This is the difficulty we have right now with persons disclosing on a timely manner and within a reasonable manner why they should disclose. The previous caller was onto something there and I know it flew over many persons heads. But we have to be, if we are going to be sincere and honest in our dealings here, especially with these politicians, because I'm one of those who often ask the question, what is it that is repetition? What do you have to offer to the people to bring prosperity first and foremost to the Bahamian people? So far many of them have failed. You know, this declaration is so important that you just, oh well, he's not disclosing whatever. How could you go into parliament or go into power knowing that the annual salary is 28. What? 28,6. I think it is. And if you calculate that for the next four or five years, there's no way you could come close to a million dollars. Okay, let's be very succinct, but yet like the previous caller said, you declared you may have $10,000 in your bank account and in the end of five years you live in a 1.5 billion dollar home or something is totally wrong. And yet the biggest thing with me is I could find the commission of police, I could find anybody, even right down to cabinet, bringing these people up on the rug and Questioning them, bringing them up on charges. Because basically, to be honest, some way somehow you are not supposed to be wheeling and dealing under the table. You are not supposed to be doing any of that stuff. They're getting away with these things. But yet the little pilfering you may do in the food store, whatever, they'll come and pick you up quick, fast and hurry. We have to understand that leadership starts from the top. And with leadership comes responsibility. It comes examples. And if the, if the leaders seem or appear by perception to be corrupt and wicked, then what message are you sending to the lowly person on the road, on the ground, who you're trying to keep on the straight and narrow? You can't steal, you can't kill, you can't do these things. But yet it appears that you are doing this on the top. You know, we have to be. We have to be better guardians and statesmen as it pertains to following the laws. There are rules there. We have to follow the rules. And if you find you can't do it, then don't offer yourself for high office. [00:40:58] Speaker A: I like it. [00:40:59] Speaker B: That's as far as I can get with this conversation. I like it. My call, guys. [00:41:03] Speaker A: Thank you, Jeff. Very good call. Let me take another caller there. Go ahead, caller. If you're on the line, caller, go ahead. You're live. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Caller. [00:41:15] Speaker A: I think I lost that caller. Got a text here says good afternoon, Garth. First of all, has the show Guardian today a replacement for a former show? And secondly, I note with interest in article in the front page of the Tribune. That's the other newspaper. Politics become too hostile. I can't agree more with him. The prime minister can start first with his national chairman and others in his party by asking them to tune down the rhetoric and be more civil, especially during the highly emotive political season. That was a text there. Let me take another text here. This one here, sir. God. I don't know who God appointed or anointed because many who claim so are far from God. That's also true. And are delusional. That's also true. And are battling the human problem of wanting to be significant, important or seen. That is also true. Then use God when it is convenient. Your monologue was great. I hope the I guess as eat meeting politicians were listening. Oh boy, I tell you. Let me see what else you got to say here because you got me laughing here. So they may realize that they are mere flesh and one day they will die, which we all will. Flesh will rotten and be forgotten. That is actually a very Powerful text that's almost a show in and of itself. And you may agree with a portion of it and disagree with others, but this text actually has given much thought to what he is saying, and I can tell that it's coming from their heart. And you know, when we speak about God and delusion, no one is casting you down for believing in God. No one is trying to judge you for your relationship with God. We all live, move, and have our being in this world. We're all trying to find our way to a kingdom. And the truth be told is that we may be significant today, but insignificant. That's just the way the world works. We all try to be significant every day. But what is the reward for significance? The reward for significance is what? Is it money? Is it influence? Is it power? We gotta have a little talk about that. And so I appreciate you Texta. Let me take this call quickly. Go ahead, caller. [00:43:43] Speaker B: Hey, how you doing, my brother? [00:43:45] Speaker A: I'm doing good. Try not to keep you holding on the line too long. [00:43:47] Speaker B: I appreciate that. I thought you were busy vacationing on Mars. [00:43:50] Speaker A: I was. Listen to me, I. I went to Florida, got a car, and that's another show in and of itself. I mean, when you got to buy this car to be. Do not manufacture in the Bahamas and try to bring this car home, the amount of money you got to spend. But I did that, and as soon as I got back, I'm trying to get rid of all of my clients, every last one, because I've not been fishing my boat for six boat that's parked in front of my yard, I, I pulled it out, I got it ready, I paid the mechanic, I'm ready to go fishing and I can't go because I have an obligation to clientele. And so when I was asked to sit here today because I, I'm a guest host on a Sunday, I. I couldn't say no. I gotta be a team player. So I'm sitting here today. Don't. Don't persecute me. It's just what it is, you know, so. But it's good to hear from you. [00:44:36] Speaker B: But see, that is what would make you a great politician. [00:44:39] Speaker A: Oh, Lord. [00:44:41] Speaker B: You, you, you. You were brought up in a way to sacrifice because for the greater good is what I'm trying to say. [00:44:48] Speaker A: I appreciate you and that is what I try to do. [00:44:50] Speaker B: That puts you above just about everybody else I could think of in parliament. But, you know, I was told by a minister some time ago, you need at least a million dollars to really launch a good campaign, one that would probably where you could probably win. You mightn't win, but you. But your chances of winning a greater when you got like maybe $750,000 to just give away. This is the way the system operates now. So that's why we have all these donors who give to these parties large sums of money. And the party ain't gonna tell you where this money coming from because a lot of it may be nefarious money. You see. So look how corrupt the system is from the jump street. So here it is. Now you can tell me now I gotta go in parliament, have to come up with a million dollars to make $100,000 after five years, a little over or if I get a cabinet post I could make about 300 some thousand dollars which ain't nowhere close to my investment in this game. So now I need to look for opportunities. And this is the way the system is. And I don't know when this can change because the government ain't concerned about changing it because people are going to invest in them to get there package moving forward when they win. So I don't know how this can change anytime soon. But the public needs to know that these people are going into politics for the most part. Most of them are going into politics to enrich themselves because the investment they have to come up with first puts them in that position. [00:46:19] Speaker A: That's the point we're going to get to eventually. But yeah, you, we're not saying that all of them are, but this has been the trend, this has been historically what it has presented itself to be. You know, maybe there's nothing wrong with it, but we got to talk about it. [00:46:35] Speaker B: I mean if you could afford the money and you enter service, then you know you're gonna get, you're gonna lose a million dollars to help some people. [00:46:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:43] Speaker B: And that's what a good person like you would do. [00:46:45] Speaker A: Hey, thank you, I appreciate it. Hey folks, we gotta take a quick break and you people who are calling, just hold on just a moment for me. We'll be right back after the break. This is Guardian Radio 96 point streaming on guardiantalkradio.com and the Guardian Radio app, Nassau, Bahamas. When it comes to hearts at Cleveland Clinic, you can't miss a beat. You seek the best care possible, work with the brightest minds and leave no stone unturned to get to the heart of the matter. 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[00:48:09] Speaker B: Tell them when you are hungry and on a tight budget, don't settle. Make the only choice and head on over to Wendy's and grab a big Biggie bag. Choose from a day's single classic or spicy chicken with a junior fry, regular drink and four piece nuggets for only 9.95 fat inclusive. Order one today that is made fresh especially for you when you order it. Wendy's is fast food done right. Certain restrictions apply. [00:48:53] Speaker A: And we're back. We're back right here at Guardian Today, Guardian Radio 96.9 FM and we had a interesting conversation right before the news break and I saw you call her on the line. We didn't have sufficient time to allow you to speak, but you can feel free to call back. And for those of you needing the numbers to call back, Those numbers are 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Anywhere within the Bahamas, 300-5720 or you can text at 422-4796 call or you're on the line. Go ahead. Go ahead, caller. Caller, go ahead. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Hello? [00:49:44] Speaker A: Yes, go ahead, you're on the line. [00:49:45] Speaker B: Yeah. God. So the situation, right, what's that? A guy that's a vast intelligent young man with money. Be a good man for politics. What do you think? [00:49:56] Speaker A: Well, that's a question when it comes to democracy, what is the real true meaning of democracy? The funny thing is I've been having this discussion today, even about politics and money. We're not truly democratic in our own minds. The average person may feel that I am eligible, but you can't be eligible. There is a messianic fever that we have as individuals where we want to believe that we are superior and we all know that we all can be superior. Someone has to be more superior than you are when you feel as if you are the most superior in any which regard that you are the best fit for a job. Then comes divine or a spiritual judgment upon you. And then the text comes to mind that says he that exalts himself will be abased, but he that humbleth himself will be exalted. And so even though a person has money doesn't necessarily mean that they are a good fit. The person who is in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger may actually be that particular individual. We need to be a messiah, but because he's in a stable, we may say, you know, they're not worthy. And so it's a double edged sword. You're asking me today, but I understand your sentiment and I'm not going to battle with you today. I'm going to say, you know what, you may be onto something. [00:51:21] Speaker B: Okay, thank you. [00:51:24] Speaker A: I hope I didn't offend you by the way I answered that. But I'm not trying to be cowardly in my answer because there are so many people who are similar to that individual who may not be a good fit for politics. That's just the way it is. We got some text here. Garth, I think your callers are jumping to conclusions. The notion that someone can't become a millionaire or even achieve significant wealth within five years is unrealistic. At the very least, people build valuable connections and sometimes a single conversational relationship can completely change change their financial trajectory. To assume that these individuals are automatically dipping into public funds is a bit far fetched. I think the taxi here is right, but I don't envious people speaking. We're speaking simply about getting money from out of the public treasury. It's just an amazing thing that people who are fellow citizens prior to politics cannot make those same connections as when they are in politics. And maybe it's also possible and feasible that these people get into politics to make such connections so that within five years time they can become millionaires. And so that's the conversation we're having today, folks. Call her. You on the line. Go ahead. Go ahead caller. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Hello. [00:52:40] Speaker A: Yes, go ahead, you're on the line. [00:52:42] Speaker B: Yes, God, yes. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Good day, good afternoon. Good afternoon, God, good afternoon. [00:52:48] Speaker B: I called your show once before when Harvard was there and I told him that you're a man at my own heart and most of the people would call it in. Don't understand this thing. I go in way back 50 and more years ago when our great grandfathers and grandmothers and grand great and grandfathers and grandmothers and our parents used to farm this land and fish and these were the things what propel us in this country. I Mean to the top. We have nothing in this country to export other than fish and crawfish. But we were doing very well in farming. And all of the leaders of this country fail us in the farming industry. And I'm saying all of the leaders from Sir Lyndon right to today, and they only looking out for the lucre. When the Lord leave a plan, the Lord leave a plan. From the beginning to Revelation, it's easy to follow the plan. He said, if you seek his will and do his will and everything added on to you, there is not one in the country would lead this country follow the plan of the Lord. But our fathers and grandfathers and grandmothers and aunts and uncles and doors. And these leaders failed. The farmers caused them not to teach the younger ones how to farm and develop. They had a thing in Hatchet Bay, the pineapple. They had the lumber, the timber in Andrews. They had the sugar mill and thing in Albaco. They had the citrus and sweet peppers and cucumbers and stuff going on. And they used to ship it out of Abaco and to the United States and the United States send it back here and sell it back to us. This where our leaders fail, man. And they fail because they don't have the Lord on their mind. They don't even read the Bible and understand the way we supposed to go in this life. And I'm sorry for them, you know, I am sorry because the Lord soon to come. I know I hear that from as a little boy. I'm 10 years older than you guys. And we live in the same constituency too. But they, they, they, these, these guys failed miserably. And right now this leader respect him to a point. He need to find the wisdom that the Lord created him with to turn this thing around in order. Because we need another parent, we need a shift. Because these leaders ain't ready. And the Lord will make a difference of them as time go on. That's all I prepared to say right now. But I love when you on the show, you and Howard and Chivago and the last one. [00:56:25] Speaker A: Well, thank you. Thank you for the call, my brother. I gotta run, but. Yeah, we appreciate you too. And it'll be a good thing if, you know, leaders before they are elected, before they become prime minister, while they are campaigning, they're calling on the name of God. Now, I know not everyone here listening believes in God. I'm not trying to offend the atheist, the Buddhist. I'm not trying to offend a Hindu. I'm not trying to offend a Rastafarian. Or any other religion. I'm just simply saying that as we are a Christian led nation, that it's amazing to me that most politicians not all call the name of God so frequently before being elected. And God, God, God, God, God has laid his hand upon me. God has anointed me. God has appointed me. God, God, God. They go to the preacher, they go to the bishop, they go to the Pope, they go to all these people. Oh, God, God, God, God, God. And after they elected, we only hear stories about them sneaking around, what they call it in the nighttime, slipping between sheets and involved in all types of impropriety. We hear these negative stories, but I'm not saying. What he's saying is that if you believe in God before you get in, he brought you through, maybe you should stick with God and he will continue to keep you in the House of Assembly. Because beyond five years, too many of you are going in there. Five years and then you're gone. I know if God put you there for five years, he put you there for five years. But if God is your sustenance, who got you there and you got a mission to fulfill, then that same God you was calling on would be the God that's going to keep you there maybe for 10, 15, 20 years, who knows? But you got to be faithful to that which you first started with. Next call in the line. Go ahead, call. Go ahead. Hello, you're there. [00:58:09] Speaker B: Yes, Mr. Rushborough, good day to you. Good day to you. That last caller, yes, he's very wrong. [00:58:17] Speaker A: Okay. [00:58:17] Speaker B: Our leaders have not failed this nation. [00:58:20] Speaker A: Okay? [00:58:21] Speaker B: It's the journalists who ought to be vocational journalists. The journalists this nation. [00:58:28] Speaker A: Okay, listening. [00:58:30] Speaker B: Because number one, there have been activities, geopolitical activities, and I used to share certain information and I have yet to be interviewed by any one of the journalists. And then you have a group of perpetrators who have created these various pendant politicians, wannabe leaders, aspiring politicians. And then you have the spokesman for the FNM who said he is the owner of the coi and also I. [00:59:05] Speaker A: Think we lose him. I think we lost that caller. Did we lose the caller? Okay, we lost the caller. I know it's for me, when you start talking geopolitics, I understand that we're in a nation of some 400,000 people there about maybe more, maybe a little less. But I know one thing, in the words of CB Moss, who was a former bank manager for Commonwealth Bank. You know, Commonwealth bank is CB and of course his name was CB Moss. So people used to say, oh, that's. That's your bank? And he said, yes, Commonwealth bank is my bank. That's CB Moss, that's my bank. I own that. And I only said it because my mother used to work. I'm not trying to advertise for Commonwealth, by the way. But he said to my mother one day, she was telling him that he was wrong, but she was an assistant manager and he was the manager and he looked at her and says, when the Volkswagen, you know, back then people had Volkswagen Beetles. When little Volkswagen see big country bus come in, little Volkswagen pull on the side of the road, eh? And so sometimes in life you may think people are simply trying to evade or trying to avoid, but it truly know what street you're on. Sometimes you got to realize that sometimes, unless you are prepared to get mashed up, totally annihilated, if you're not prepared for that, you don't fool with that, you just don't do it. And not everybody has the spirit of strength to say, I can deal with this today. This is what made David so great. David says the name I go in is the name of the Lord. But now if you take the same story about the name of the Lord, we go to modern day Israel and Palestine and two of them calling on the same God, the name of the Lord, but people getting what mash up. Now, I don't know how best to tell you, but sometimes you just got to stay in your own lane. That's just the way the world works. I'm sorry if I sound like a soft man, but I'll tell you what I do. I ain't scared of nobody. But if I own your property, I can follow your rules. If I'm in the government road, I can follow the government rules. If, if I in my yacht, unless I got a wall and a gate around it, I got to follow the rules of my community. But God help you if my walls is up and my gate is closed and my door is locked and I upstairs and you come up in there. Let me tell you who the God Roseboro. Let me tell you who the prime minister is of my house, God Roseborough. Let me tell you who the cabinet minister is in my house, God Roseboro. Let me tell you the MP is in my house, God Roseboro. Let me tell you the police is God Roseboro and the defense God Roseboro. And the treasury is God Roseboro. That's my house now I got three of them. And if you come in there without proper permission, they got some businesses around here with making plenty of money these days. If you pick up the garden today. They got a little section. They're full of them type of people. You can join them. This how it works. So know your own lane, follow the rules and have a great Bahamian day. That's how we live down here. We ain't got no army, we ain't got no military. We ain't got no Scud missile. All we got is our mouth. And we like to talk so much. But the minute I get due in, you look and find somebody else and replace me. That's how this country works. So if you aren't prepared to get do in, shut your mouth. And if you want to have something to say, bring your money. I guarantee you, you're sponsoring. You bring plenty money. We could talk with you all day long. That's how it works. Next caller, please. [01:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's God who was born. Now, I thought it was God who a little while ago. [01:02:47] Speaker A: Well, you can call me whatever you want. You know how I go when I did, I would have. I go into homestone. I tell them put one crown shell on the bottom of my foot and drop me to the bottom and tongue of the ocean. That's why I buy me. [01:02:58] Speaker B: I was wondering how you tell my cousin in seconds. In a matter of seconds. I understand. No, you and you and bamboo down. You and Kennedy club no use more than bamboo down. You vote in the bamboo down. You don't live in bamboo. Me and black in the car or bamboo town. Okay, that's my visit. All right now, right now from another mother talking about this. Now, you know you called me from last week for me to discuss me, get my opinion on that and everything. And you know what I told you, you know, you know God, you and you all come from sock. You know you're smart, graduated from here. [01:03:43] Speaker A: I was dumb in sock. I was 1.56 GBA. [01:03:46] Speaker B: You know that was bad besides all that, I know I'd be smart now. Yeah, use a smart. You speak out of the box. You think deep. You have a lot of experience. Yeah, like your month money will make it. I could be 56 next month. [01:04:01] Speaker A: So you have a lot of experience. [01:04:02] Speaker B: In this politics run. You're being around bang. So you know time. You know what we need, you know, the people in need, you know the fault is. You know the fault of the country is. So like I say, you will make an excellent candidate the runner in bamboo Darma. And to be successful and to be the mp. Well, you didn't tell me you would probably run it from even if you're running independent or whatever. But you didn't get one vote. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Oh, Lord. [01:04:30] Speaker B: You know, use my bread and back, you know, we go. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Well, I appreciate your confidence today, my brother. We'll get together later. Next caller, please. Go ahead. [01:04:40] Speaker B: Hey, guys. Very pleasant. [01:04:41] Speaker A: Good afternoon, sir. Oh, man, it's good to hear your voice. For you sound diplomatic, man. [01:04:45] Speaker B: It's an absolute pleasure. Listen, Gav, I have a question. Right. And I heard a talk show host on your station when it's mentioned the five year millionaire cycle, people act like these individuals don't live in our communities that way. Enable string barrier or wherever it is that you live. This is small place. [01:05:04] Speaker A: Yes. [01:05:05] Speaker B: So if after five months in office, 12 months in office, like a previous caller would have said, you move from a $240,000 house and all of a sudden it's 2 million, we know your salary. That's the whole thing. What we don't know because of no teeth in the freedom of information is where the money come from. So I have a proposal. If this miracle happens when you enter the House of Assembly or the Senate and you become a millionaire after 5 years, give every Bahamian citizen a 5 year term, let's not even have elections, and then let all of us live. Well, what do you think? How's that sound? [01:05:48] Speaker A: Boy, that sounds like some type of panology where you want to bring utopia to everybody. But I appreciate your call, my brother. We got to talk off the air. Next caller, please. Next caller. Go ahead. Caller. You there? [01:06:04] Speaker B: Good afternoon. [01:06:05] Speaker A: Good afternoon. [01:06:07] Speaker B: Good afternoon, Mr. Rossborough. I must. [01:06:09] Speaker A: But I know the voice. I know I know you. [01:06:11] Speaker B: What's going on, my brother on the radio. [01:06:14] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [01:06:14] Speaker B: Am. I notice you have been elevated. I mean, by way on the website. [01:06:22] Speaker A: And I'm happy that they have seen. [01:06:24] Speaker B: It fit to feature you prominently. You do an excellent job. [01:06:29] Speaker A: Well, I have my show on Sunday. It's 5 to 6:30. [01:06:32] Speaker B: Nevertheless. Yeah, yeah, indeed. But I know that the Sunday show is also featured on the website. [01:06:37] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah, man. [01:06:39] Speaker B: I'm happy that that is being done. [01:06:40] Speaker A: We have great conversations on Sunday. [01:06:42] Speaker B: Yes, sir, I do know. Remark. [01:06:44] Speaker A: Yes, sir. Yes, sir, all the way. Well, I appreciate you, man, and keep on working hard. Love your family. And listen, keep. Keep doing your part as a man, a real man. [01:06:53] Speaker B: Yeah, man. I love the way you talk about staying in your lane, you know? [01:06:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what we do. [01:06:59] Speaker B: If in your yard and you know, you go by the rules. [01:07:03] Speaker A: If I can. If I can inspire someone to do the right thing today, that's All I need to do today. That's it. [01:07:07] Speaker B: Yes, yes, sir. [01:07:09] Speaker A: Yes, sir, I appreciate you. Next caller, please. Go ahead, caller. [01:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah, good afternoon. God. [01:07:14] Speaker A: Hey, my brother. [01:07:16] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I was listening to your monologue and I liked it. I was hoping the politicians and the haughty was listening to it, you know, because for me, I'm not dwelling into their psyche, but I don't think they think of it as an end because the pompous and the contempt that they display, it makes one question, you know, your monologue, because I don't think they think it's an end and then they see it around the bend. And so, you know, the last caller who spoke about the call before the last one, I love what you're saying. I also love what the lady was saying. I really would have loved to hear what she had to finish say. [01:07:49] Speaker A: Yeah, she had an angle as a. [01:07:51] Speaker B: Relationship, who was to blame. Right. You know, I can't blame the politicians because they are only five year magicians. Right. I'm sickened by the fact that a lot of people are imbecilic. So the last call I highlighted that this is a small community, we know one another. You know, I calling you from like Vicky, I buy a house in life, right? Yeah, in life, Vicky now. And I don't want no one to ask me where I get the money from. All right? So that's what I'm saying, oh, why are you there? [01:08:16] Speaker A: Oh, why are you there? [01:08:17] Speaker B: I didn't hear you. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Or why are you living life with geek? I got you. [01:08:20] Speaker B: But what I'm saying is if, if that's related to what the call is saying, somebody comes into parliament and within five years they'll be able to build this and accomplish this and accomplish that. So maybe so in some rare instances, somebody might have died, might have left them some money, they might have won the lottery and however they got it. But the idea is documentation. So in Trinidad and be supposed to be hiding them in financial and whatever we believe in the human construct bs, right. You realize that they have an accountability. So you were able, you're supposed to give an account for how you got this money. So that's what I'm saying. So even if it's the guy with the picky ear and he riding the Lexus and whatever, he got this money and then you, you, you, you, you have to document where you get this money from. So it's no different with a politician. So the fact that the gentleman said we are small in the community and, and then we, we are able to see these elevations. Right. You know, I don't play hate on anybody. I didn't even have time for nobody. I was having a conversation with somebody and he was saying this and that and he government contract. I tell him I don't want it. But I mean, a lot of people are living off the government, you know, and which is us and which is the taxpayers? I pay a lot of taxes and so I'm not impressed with people who live off of the government. I, I just really can't be God, that's just the way it is. I'm not singing for a supper. So as it relates to sponsoring a show, if you sponsor a show, would they still censor what you have to say? Because I'm really against status quo narratives and concepts, you know, like I, I don't know who's God appointed or God anointed. Okay, right. But the battle of significance seems to be a character of many, many, many people. And politicians, but they don't understand that one day they will wither up. [01:09:55] Speaker A: That's correct. [01:09:56] Speaker B: And the flesh will rotten and be forgotten. [01:09:57] Speaker A: That is correct. [01:09:58] Speaker B: So we must live and act accordingly whilst we here. [01:10:01] Speaker A: That's correct. [01:10:02] Speaker B: See what I'm saying, God? [01:10:03] Speaker A: That is correct. [01:10:04] Speaker B: I don't buy into politics as being all, all and then status quo narratives that any people about anything. That's dictatorship for me. It's, it's contempt for us. You know, I, I, I'm just sicken the human journey. And then people who don't conform to normal narratives and they just speak, they have you as this tinfoil hat person. And that's why we can't get anyone. Let me remind you, God, that Benito Mussolini was a journalist. And journalists carry a lot of power. [01:10:31] Speaker A: Plenty power, influence. [01:10:33] Speaker B: Bless him, God give them. [01:10:34] Speaker A: Oh, man, I love it, man, I love it. And that is correct. I just love talking to you people. It is what it is. We all have our conceptions and our misconceptions. We all have what we like, what we dislike. We are people that we hold in high esteem. And other people, we just figure you ain't no good. This is what makes the world dynamic. This is what makes the world go round. But what matters most though, is as we journey through each day and you go home at night, your conscience is clear, your heart is pure, and you wish well to all mankind. It could never be just about me. As they say in the Cub Scouts, a Cub Scout always does his best, thinks of others before himself, and does a good deed every day. I've lived by that motto My entire life. And last but not least, be prepared. We'll be right back. Is your business ready for the next big step? More inventory, new equipment, a larger space. At Fidelity, we offer commercial loans tailored to suit your business's needs. Inquire today. [01:11:57] Speaker B: Call 356-7764. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Fidelity. We're good for you. Wait, you know what going down tomorrow? Nobody what happening? [01:12:11] Speaker B: Joe bringing these knives to school. [01:12:13] Speaker A: He could do Junior in. [01:12:15] Speaker B: He fool with Joe. [01:12:15] Speaker A: Girl, that's sick. And you know Junior don't bog down for nothing. So means you got a big fight tomorrow. So whose side you want? Side? I trying to stay in school, not Simpson. [01:12:23] Speaker B: Pen. [01:12:23] Speaker A: We gotta tell somebody about this fight. [01:12:25] Speaker B: Tell somebody? I ain't no snitch. I mean cool, you know. [01:12:28] Speaker A: Wait, if you so cool, then you need to stay in school and stay out of the fight. [01:12:31] Speaker B: Yeah, but if I don't hang on Joe's side, him and he boys coming for me next. [01:12:34] Speaker A: All right, so we definitely gotta tell somebody. We gotta prevent the fight. [01:12:37] Speaker B: What I say? I don't want nobody call me snitch. [01:12:41] Speaker A: We could just call Crime Stoppers. You could report what you know and nobody gotta know it's you. All you gotta do to is call them or you them through the crack crime Bahamas are and nobody can know it's you. [01:12:50] Speaker B: Then the police come looking for me for more info. And when they finish with them, show. [01:12:53] Speaker A: Them coming looking for me. Uh, when you call Crime St. The call go directly to Miami and they don't ask nothing about you. Then you can get the pin from them and they could claim a reward later using that same pen. Plus everything scrambled so nobody can read what you saying. Call 328-8477 from Nassau or 242-300-8477 from the family Islands. [01:13:11] Speaker B: When you are hungry and on a tight budget, don't settle. Make the only choice and head on over to Wendy's and grab a Biggie bag. Choose from a day's single classic or spicy chicken with a junior fry, regular drink and four piece nuggets for only 9.95 fat exclusive. Order one today that is made fresh especially for you when you order it. Wendy's is fast food. Done right. Certain restrictions apply. [01:13:39] Speaker A: This is Guardian Radio 96 fresh news, smart talk all day. And we're back. We're back. This is Guardian talk radio. Today on 96.9 FM. We're having a very wonderful. It's a wonderful conversation and you may call it opinionated. And everyone has a right to their opinion. I will do my best to allow you to call in and to voice your opinion, because your voice is important to the universe. You are here for a reason. And whenever that spirit within you wants to exhale and make a verbal contribution, I want you to feel confident that they're conjured. On Guardian Radio, 96.9 FM, we have just a little bit more to go. So if you do plan on calling, you can call in as quickly as you could. I will try to take as many calls as possible. My text phone is lit right up with texts, and so I'm going to try to get to you the texts. I'm not going to avoid your texts today. If I can, I will get to them as quickly as possible, but let me throw Those numbers out quickly. 32-3623-232543-16325, 4259. Anywhere in the Bahamas. 300-5720. Or you can text at 4 2. Texas says Bahamians must move beyond polite request and begin demanding full enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act. It was passed, but deliberately left toothless by successive governments. Until we apply sustained pressure across, political power will continue to operate in secrecy, making deals with foreign entities that may benefit a few while risking the future of the many. We give them five years of guaranteed employment, luxury and status. They owe us transparency. The government's failure to prioritize this isn't just disappointing, it's dangerous. Informed citizens are empowered citizens. Our silence enables the shadows. And as our grandparents taught us, where there's smoke, there's fire. It's time to stop inhaling the fumes and demand the truth clearly, fully. And now. Well, I don't know how many entities are prepared to do that, government wise, but you said it. It says yes, God, that's the way to go. You're jamming. Mm. Thank you. Excellent talk show today, Garth. You are well onto every point today. We need to build a better boy. You're talking in sign language on me and poor God. I would just say a better country. Or there wasn't. This wasn't what generational thing in your family, Someone. I wasn't. She was more than. Okay. You call her name there, boy. We got to talk off the air. We just got to talk off that. Yeah, okay. This other person says you are absolutely right about some politicians. They talk a God talk before they are elected and after they are there. They seems to live for the devil. Their lies make promises and give persons a run around. God will deal with the ones that do this. Okay? Very strong Statement there. But you know, I guess people are a bit promises that are being given and not getting a proper response. The bigger issue this other Texas says is politicians who made millions of shady deals after the end of their five year term are not investigated. And when they are, their party supporters are outraged. The other person mentions that they don't think people in the numbers industry should be allowed to get into politics because once they got in, they closed the door behind them. That is another opinion there. This person asked why this talking man so much you're paying to call Guardian Radio? So I guess somebody was trying to call in and didn't get through yet. I have a call on the line. Caller, go ahead. [01:18:28] Speaker B: Hello, Mr. Gar. [01:18:29] Speaker A: Hey, how you doing? [01:18:30] Speaker B: Really? I hear you talking about life, the part of life the whole day it not promised us a bed of rose. [01:18:38] Speaker A: That's correct. [01:18:40] Speaker B: In our life you can have some roses. [01:18:43] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [01:18:44] Speaker B: And then in our life you can have some thunder. And you're going to have some lightning. [01:18:50] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [01:18:50] Speaker B: But what do you do when the lightning and the thunder come? Mm, you gotta look to the hills. [01:18:59] Speaker A: Yes. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Because there's only him one could help you. When the lightning, the thunder come. [01:19:04] Speaker A: My word. [01:19:05] Speaker B: You understand me? [01:19:06] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [01:19:07] Speaker B: And there I learned when people throw rocks at you, let them fall. Don't go and pick those rock up. [01:19:16] Speaker A: You know something? I just pick up the rock. You know why I want you to throw all the rock at me? You know why? I can put that in my semen and build one house. [01:19:25] Speaker B: Okay. [01:19:26] Speaker A: That's what I do. [01:19:27] Speaker B: I was going to say that's what. [01:19:29] Speaker A: I like to do. Listen, when I said that to you. Listen to me carefully. People don't think I'm a thief if I drive it on the side of the road. If I drive it in the road, I look it on the side. I always take a while, I glance on the side because I gotta look at what's on the road. People may be there, but guess what? If I see a block sitting on the side of the road that going in the back of my car. You know why? Because a block is $3, okay? And I can build something with that. If I see a stone on the side of the road that I could use to fill in my yard or build a little rock wall, I carry in that this is how I live. If I see piece of 2 by 4, 2 by 6, 2 by 8, 4 by 4, 6 by 6. Especially election time when you all then take them, sign on and leave on the side of the road, guess what God be doing the day after the election. I look very last homage. All day I try to carry them lumber home. This is what I do. But I don't need to like that. But go ahead. [01:20:20] Speaker B: Okay. My point is that even though you don't pick up the rock, you gotta remember there's a source. Source said he will fight your battle. [01:20:32] Speaker A: Yes. [01:20:33] Speaker B: Thank you, Mr. Forest. [01:20:34] Speaker A: Thank you so much, my friend. Beautiful call. Do I have another call on the line? Another call on the line. Okay, here we go. Another text. Hey, guys. Question. Do you think the government will remove the tracking number from the ballot card for the general elections as was recommended by the international observers who were observing the last election? We should free and fair if they know how we voted. That's an interesting text there. Another person here says. Let me see what they're saying here. Good afternoon. God. First of all, when this one talked about Guardian radio and the previous show. So I'm going to let that slide. So as we look at our show today, we're looking at the politician. We're looking at money. Whether you come into politics with money or without money, I don't think it should really make a difference. It goes back to the heart. But my situation is one where you and I both can agree today that whether you are a part of the governing party or the royal opposition or any other entity, that you know that once a person becomes a politician, once you have been vetted and nominated and you vote, you and I already know what's next. Don't act like you don't know. Would you know is that yesterday, as my deceased guardian, Stuart Ingram used to say, yesterday you were begging me for a job. You came to my door, you came into the house, you sat down and you spent time with me. You eat my bad taste in food. You drink from a dirty glass. You didn't care I had 10 pound cake in the yard. You made your way there to say, you know what? I need you to give me that vote. I need this job as an mp. What manner of man or what man of woman is this who's willing to do all of these things, just become an mp? I can give that person a chance if he's a loyal supporter of plp. Any PLP coming your yard, you give them support. If you're a loyal supporter, F m any FM company yard, I can support them. If it's a third party person, I don't want to see no P of you. I don't see no F of them. I. I just vote for my third party. That's the way it works. But they willing to do all these things don't care who the person is to get that vote from you. Now you vote for these people. They come there and they broke down cube and they little broke down note you got, you got one hubcap on, on the front right wheel and the other, the other wheels I mean got no hubcap on it. These same people, huh? But you know the next day after they then sworn in and they wearing the dovetail coat and they, they dress would make them look like Princess Diana. You know what's going to happen next. We got to talk about this. You know what I'm saying? Let's chop that up when we get back. [01:23:53] Speaker B: For fast, reliable and impactful printing services, look no further. Let Printmasters bring your masterpiece to life. 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This is heading towards the west and you know the sun goes down in the west so we got to hurry and ride to catch that golden sun over Bahama land. This is Guardian Talk Radio today. Guardian Radio 96.9 FM right here in Nassau, Bahamas. We Are glad that you tuned in today. And I still got a number of texts here that I, I want to get through today, but I got a call at the line. Caller, I'm going to let you go ahead. Go ahead, caller. [01:26:26] Speaker B: Hey, what's going on? [01:26:27] Speaker A: This guy here, they say Pearly. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I stronger than. Listen to me. Pearly said he was a sock. But what purley didn't know, they named a whole room after me. Attack. All right, the room was room 63. It was called detention. And my name was Detention Daddy. And I am the charter member, the first member of what they call the chain guy and the chain guy. We had to pick up rocks off the track after school because they figured our head was so hard. But the truth be told is Leviticus utterly loved me. He loved how I performed in the drama club and I was a nice guy. I just, I just like the pretty girls at Zach. I just, I just love them. They're some pretty girls and I like the pool and I had some pretty teachers. So I don't know how to expect a young man who almost about to get out of control to pay attention. I didn't care about no school. I just wanted to. I just like girls. But go ahead. [01:27:22] Speaker B: You know, I, I could relate to you and, and, and school, you know, achievement and academic achievement in school because I went to St. Johnson. [01:27:30] Speaker A: Oh, Lord, you know. Oh, the Giants. Oh, Lord. Them Giants. Oh, Lord. Yes. Well, I used to play soccer and I used to beat y' all all the time. Big Red Machine. [01:27:43] Speaker B: Hutchinson Johnson. That's a QC name. [01:27:45] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah, man, good days. [01:27:47] Speaker B: But you know when we, when we talk about the Freedom of information, right? You know, earlier I said to the guys that Freedom of Information act is a low hanging fruit. Do you agree? [01:28:03] Speaker A: It's supposed to be. [01:28:04] Speaker B: It is. Because. Yeah, definitely. Because it doesn't take much to do. [01:28:08] Speaker A: Okay, so. [01:28:09] Speaker B: So, so if you're looking for freedom of information, the PSB north and M will bring it. [01:28:14] Speaker A: You want me? You want me. [01:28:15] Speaker B: You know what I mean? [01:28:15] Speaker A: You want me fix it for you. You really want me to fix that for you? [01:28:20] Speaker B: Another body, you got to do it. Another government. Got it. [01:28:22] Speaker A: No, you and I, you and I, we could talk. We could talk with this off the air. But you and I, I can fight you. I can fight you. I could battle with you. [01:28:29] Speaker B: We could war the man. [01:28:33] Speaker A: The man had the whole garden. But the woman wanted the Freedom of Information Act. [01:28:38] Speaker B: Right? [01:28:38] Speaker A: You see where we yesterday. But anyway, go ahead on your next point, right? [01:28:42] Speaker B: See the thing, what we need to be dealing with is just, you know, we got these, what you call it, a, A neoliberal government, right, Rather than a progressive liberal government. [01:28:57] Speaker A: That's how you see it. Nobody can fight you. [01:29:00] Speaker B: They call themselves progressive liberals, but they neoliberal. You know, they Taterizing our Bahamas, Tatarizing our economy, see and see. And as the education we need. We need this education from. But he refused to do it. I don't know why. I mean, I don't know, you know, what's going on with that. But that's the man who needs to explain what neoliberalism is. [01:29:24] Speaker A: Well, his show coming up next. You better talk to him. You can't talk to God. But that. [01:29:29] Speaker B: In other words, what you call it? We privatize all of our, what you call it? Public assets. We didn't even have a public bus. [01:29:42] Speaker A: Oh, no, no, no. You're hitting a nerve with me because, you know, that's somebody looking into, you know, something that I, I have a passion for and I'm probably going to share that by Monday. This whole public transport system thing, I want to jump on that on Monday. Y' all gonna, y', all, y' all gonna want to crucify me Monday, but I off on Tuesday. So as long as I can get out of the studio by 2 o', clock, I know I can live to see the following Thursday. [01:30:02] Speaker B: Let me, let me give you the gist for this, man. [01:30:04] Speaker A: Okay, Go ahead. [01:30:04] Speaker B: The, the neoliberals, right, they both keeping the wages low. That benefits them. You understand what I'm saying? But, but, but to keep the wages. But keep the wages. The wages is low. I mean, whatever the wages are, you need the Kingsian government, you understand what's gonna, so what's gonna take the load off the, the employee. [01:30:27] Speaker A: Well, let me fix it for you. [01:30:29] Speaker B: I can fix it for you for transportation, for medical, for, for utilities. [01:30:35] Speaker A: I agree. [01:30:35] Speaker B: You understand me? [01:30:36] Speaker A: I understand what you're trying to say. [01:30:37] Speaker B: I believe the system don't even allow them to do land, to do land reform. [01:30:42] Speaker A: So you're talking the system. And the system has been in the possession of both sides of the divide. So we're not going to put anything as any one party. [01:30:49] Speaker B: Why they don't want to do the line reform. They do a study doing this is a little bit of social service. And you know, I mean, you understand, I'm saying, so these are the things we need to be dealing with. Need to give them a mandate. They don't have a mandate because what. [01:31:04] Speaker A: They offer, I Appreciate your call. I can fix that right now before we go, because I got to wrap this up, but I appreciate your call. Okay, here we go. Let me, let me, let me. Boy, these texts keep coming. My goodness. Okay, let me, let me see if I can fix this for you. Let me read these texts for you. So then I could cut that line off. Most of us, but not all, have lost the desire to till the soil because humanity has been slowly engineered, snared into a hedonistic lifestyle. We go into air conditioned food stores. We have been pacified and duped by technology to point of no return. God is on the back burner. Until humanity suffers catastrophic events. We use God as a convenience for our spiritual well being. That's a text, boy. As I go to the next text, I'm trying to get to this point. Here is where we are before the break. I said to you on the other side of the break, I got, you know that the little note they had with the one little plastic cap, hubcap cover, that's what it was driving yesterday. You'd already know that after they come from the swearing ceremony, they can get themselves one of them nice territories or one of them nice Explorers or whatever, nice Toyotas or whatever, nice Lexus. And they can have a driver that come with the territory, huh? You then know they can be wearing the best suits. You then know that they could be eating four meats. You then know they going from 96 pound weight to 260 pounds. All of a sudden they fighting roly poly. You that know these things, you then know they never had a sweetheart in their life because they do ugly. But now they got 3, 4, 5, 6 Sweetheart, man, you got to know these things. I say all of them. I say all of them. I say everybody guilty. But you got to know when you aspire to be a politician, that the things I mentioned. Now some of these things got to touch you. Oh, you can change. You ain't changing with Jesus. You're gonna change for self. Because self is about to have a new image. And image, as they say, is everything. I had to take a breath on that. Does that stun you? Does that stun you? You notice, you know the prime minister got to travel. You already know we got to pay for him to travel for his class or on what type of jet he won't go on. You know these things. I'm gonna live good. You don't know these things. You know you can see the MP no more because MP got time to take care of those 7,000 people when was the last time you look out for 7,000 people? How many has any one of us ever looked out for 7,000 people? Jesus fed 5,000 with two fish. And with that, two fish and five loaf. And when he was finished, he had to go and rest on the other side. You can't even feed 5,000 or. But 7,000. Ain't no miracles here, folks. We got to change our system. We got to change our approach. We got to change our understanding. And only then, once we all take the blame, including Garth Maynard, Rose Barrow. I got to take some blame. That we can hold politicians accountable for our taxpayers. Money, money, money, money. See you again tomorrow, same time, same place. It was a pleasure being. [01:35:13] Speaker B: Some people, I love them more. Got to have it. I really need it. How many things have I heard you say.