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Hey, the upset of the football world cup so far, though, has got to be Cape Verde holding Spain to a nil all draw. Because if you if you know your football, you know that Spain are the favourites here. And Cape Verde very much not. Cape Verde is a very small place. It's got about half a million population, and it's ranked 64th in the world. So the fact that they managed to do that is is quite remarkable. So well done them on that one. Sounds like it was the goalie who who did all the hard work there. 425. Now, Simeon Brown today has removed the leadership of the medical council. So it's chairperson Rach uh Dr. Rochelle Love and Deputy Chairperson Simon Watt, who's a barrister in Wellington, were both up for reappointment. And they they had absolutely enough time left in there, because I think they had a cap of nine years or something like that. And there was more than more than enough time for them to be able to serve a second term. But he's declined to reappoint them, which seems to be unprecedented. The reason he's done this, don't cry for them for one second, because the reason he's done this is that they've become ideologically obsessed and a bit weird. Um apparently, ACT has been Act reckons that doctors have been complaining to them about the medical council, that the medical council was working on guidance that would require doctors to develop knowledge of colonial histories and talked of historical and ongoing colonization and blah, blah, blah. Now, absolutely fine. You know, if you want to, if that if this is your jam and you want to get into the staff, and because you're entitled to, you're entitled to go absolutely nutso on colonization theory if you want to. That's not the job of the medical council, is it? So medical counsel is supposed to ensure that doctors are fit to practice incompetent. Like what I want them to do is just be sure that that doctor, when he says, Oh, I'm about to cut you open, have a look at your call platter, that he knows what he I don't care personally that he knows anything about colonization, just want him to know what's going on in the body. That's their job. Got a bit got a bit weird about it. But the medical council, I I know a guy um who used to be on the medical council, and I don't really have his permission to tell his story, so I'm gonna I'm gonna talk slightly vaguely here. But um, he he he was alarmed by what he saw going on in there when he was there. They got a bit funny about the COVID stuff. Um, at the time that COVID was playing out, not at all happy to hear alternative alternative reckons on what and of course now, five years, six years down the track, we know that they're old. Are absolutely some of the alternative reckons have been borne out. People do have vaccine injuries. They did get weird little things going on with their hearts. Bunch of people had problems after getting the jab, but at the time medical council wouldn't hear it, and we're actually quite disparaging about people who were talking about it.