Hey everyone welcome back to a special edition of prod news we have Nintendo's financial report in and that's literally all this episode about we're not talking about any other gaming news today because this is the story of the day of the evening of the yesterday of the in the middle of the night Nintendo does their thing because they are in Japan and I've got all these notes so we're gonna break this down into three stories the first one being Nintendo switch sales the actual system itself so the Nintendo switch is sold 79 let me see here 79.89 million units also in addition to that they sold 11.57 million units last quarter now last quarter encompasses essentially the entire holiday season it's October November and December now this is the highest sales quarter in switch history but it's also higher than the Nintendo Wii that's right it has outsold any quarter the Nintendo Wii has ever done in fact if this was a Nintendo DS this would be the third best selling quarter in Nintendo DS history pretty interesting there right now here's another fun fact as of the end of last quarter December 31st 2020 the switch launch aligned which means running in the exact same path as the Wii from when it launched to a very similar date the switch is officially ahead of the Nintendo Wii that's right it is on pace to outsell what the Wii sold in the same timeframe in fact it's actually likely going to outsell the Game Boy which sold 118 million units that is a lot of Nintendo switches out there whether it's switchlight whether it's OG switch you know what the deal Leo is there now we have the next story which is a whole bunch of million seller updates with Nintendo switch software and some initial thoughts on that but before I get into that hey look I know right at the time of making this video we have not announced the winner of the PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X or Nintendo Switch giveaway that will be coming later today in a live stream happening at noon CST if you're watching this after the fact and the winners already been announced and if you're curious go back and look at that however I do want to announce we have our new giveaway for the month of February starting because it is the first it is the month of love around here and to show you guys some additional love I'm gonna be giving away two copies of Super Mario 3d world plus Bowser's Fury however this time around I'm not going to wait till the end of the month to do it we are going to give the giveaway now and we're gonna end it on the 11th and announce the winner or really ended on the 10th and announce the winners on the 11th so they can actually get the game before launch what does that mean we're gonna do for the rest of the month well stay tuned because obviously we will launch a second giveaway after we finish that one to end out February as we get into Valentine's Day hence the the red shirt around here alright let me get back into some love mode here because I'm gonna look at the paper for this because we have a lot of software sales to talk about here so first up the best-selling game on Switch today is still Mario Kart 8 deluxe it sold well it's cumulative sales I guess are at 33.41 million but it is not the only 30 million seller oh you know a game we're talking about right we're talking about animal crossing new horizons it is now at 31.18 million it actually outsold it about two and a half times you know the sales of Mario Kart 8 deluxe during that same period so it's highly likely by the end of this fiscal year if not the first quarter of next fiscal year that animal crossing new horizons will probably be the best-selling switch game today now what's interesting here is if you combine sales of the Wii U original release of Mario Kart 8 and sales of Mario Kart 8 deluxe technically Mario Kart 8 on the whole is the best-selling Mario Kart game of all time think about that for a moment wow remember we're talking Mario Kart Wii with my card a DS I'll sold all of that wow I just Mario Kart 9 needs to get here man I don't even know what word of the sale stop for that one all right next up we have Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with the third spot selling 22.85 million we have Breath of the Wild has officially joined the 20 million seller list at 21.45 million essentially sold a million and a half last quarter Pokemon Sword and Shield has also joined the 20 million seller list that is at the number four spot we five spot sorry at 20.35 million Super Mario Odyssey is at the number six spot with 20.23 million also joining that 20 million sellers list Super Mario Party is at number seven there with 13.82 million at number eight we have Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Eevee at 13 million on the dot at number nine we have Splatoon 2 at 11.9 million at number 10 and this rounds out the top 10 but we got more beyond that we have new Super Mario Bros. U deluxe at 9.82 million so that's likely gonna cross 10 million here if it hasn't already Luigi's Mansion 3 is at 9.13 million and again it's highly likely to become another 10 million seller here in the next few months let's see next up we have Ring Fit Adventure yes Ring Fit Adventure that I just started playing baby let me tell you it's a real workout my arms are sore attack this that when you take that ring con and you're pushing it over your head like this to beat the boss and then like you're you know not doing the ab guard thing and then you're sitting here and you're pulling let me tell you works out the arms works out the abs the glutes everything is feeling oh hot fire it's a real thing man it might it might be better than we fit ever was in my opinion Ring Fit Adventure sold 8.68 million cumulative sales holy crap ring fits gonna be a 10 million plus seller oh here we go next up is Super Mario 3d all-stars sold 8.32 million it's sold an additional 3 million yeah it's probably hitting over 10 by the end of March so temporary release but over 10 million maybe Nintendo is on to something I don't know next up we have Super Mario Maker 2 at 6.91 million we have Paper Mario the origami King at 3.05 million Hyrule Warriors age of calamity at 2.84 million now we actually know the sales are at 3.5 million but it is published by Koei Tecmo in in Japan it's published by Nintendo everywhere else this is just Nintendo's side of the publishing sales because these are just Nintendo sales so we know it's at 3.5 million so we know it's actually a head of Paper Mario the origami King but that's just the overseas sales next up is Clubhouse Games 55 world worldwide classics that released last year 2.62 million Pikmin 3 Deluxe at 1.94 million interesting as I've seen stories that Pikmin 3 Deluxe is not like the best selling Pikmin game of all time so take that for what you will Pikmin 3 Deluxe is peak Pikmin popularity pretty cool Pikmin for me a model Pikmin for now all right moving on we have a zero-way chronicles definitive edition at 1.48 million a re-release outselling the original release yes and then we have Mario Kart live home circuit is officially a million seller and is a lot of fun we did a video on that it was great now this is when we get into the juicy part see the sales figures are all great Nintendo record profit levels there were five billion in profits like Nintendo just killing it last quarter but there you see there's more here there's more because we have the switch pro to talk about now Nintendo was asked in the Q&A session after the meeting directly hey what's up with a new model of switch in fact the exact question was this is according to Takahashi Machizuki who was present at the meeting new model this year Nintendo responded not planning to make an announcement anytime soon as we have Mario version in February and the monster hunter version in March so hey we have these two other switches coming we have nothing to announce nothing anytime soon notably when Nintendo's chief was asked this same question at the last fiscal meeting here's what he said we have we are not planning to release a new model in 2020 but today it was just not anytime soon he didn't say not in 2021 not anytime soon take that for what you will what a soon mean I don't know what's also interesting is this graph yeah David Gibson put this up he is an analyst he put this up on Twitter and what's interesting about this is this is Nintendo's de-stocking list so it's a little bit difficult to understand but essentially you see how the bars are really really low towards the right which include like the last five quarters of Nintendo production so I have some notes on this after getting some advice from other people who understand the de-stocking of this inventory more involved in manufacturing what this means is that Nintendo is de-stocking inventory switch to record low levels Nintendo's purposely reducing inventory levels of switch aka they're just making less switches right now today than at any point in switches life when demand is supposedly at its highest while COVID can be stated to play a role it has naturally this actually started happening in late 2019 and even after Nintendo built a new factory outside Japan it never really bounced back Nintendo is technically because you can go online easily and go into some stores and pick up a switch here and there they're actually successfully fulfilling demand at the moment but they're purposely only releasing enough switches for that demand they're not over stocking and exceeding it like they have done since three months after release so normally they exceed the stock and keep switches on store shelves they're not doing that they're not doing it on purpose so in other words Nintendo is choosing to not keep inventory levels higher despite having presently the production capability at this exact moment to do so why this happens notably every single time a new product is getting ready to launch and the public just doesn't pay attention to it because manufacturing lines are being split between the current switches and the future product in other words Nintendo is just doing what Nintendo does baby deny deny deny until they announce so switch pro 2021 I'm just saying the rumors have been percolating Nintendo's de-stocking switches purpose to keep inventory levels super low which is typically done when the manufacturing lines are split because they're making a new product I'm just just saying it's all lining up we know Nintendo actually has publicly known contracts with new display partners we know they built a new factory you know it is an actual factory they built it and a Samsung facility I'm just saying there's some stuff going on here that's adding up that has nothing to do with rumor mongers so here we go baby 2021 is shaping up to be quite the year obviously we know we got Super Mario 3 world plus Bowser's Fury later this month pretty hype that Bowser's Fury mode looks legit as hell if you ask me and then you know there's a little thing called monster hunter eyes arriving oh horrible that new Pokemon snap and this is just the games we know are coming this year there's going to be many many more alright folks I am defender of a dance from the intended problem and you guys for tuning into this little special episode of primaries and don't worry I didn't forget how we end well what's the tradition oh right


It's top of the hour. Welcome everyone to the UX Functional Update. We'll just go ahead and get started. First, we have a lot of new people coming in to GitLab. So here's the list of the UX team. Tori, oops, I'm sorry about that. Tori, Sarah, Chris, Dmitri, Pedro, Hazel and of course myself. If you're ever in an issue and you have questions for UX or you think UX should be involved, feel free to add any one of us in those issues and we'll take a look for you. First, we're gonna go over the improvements being made in 10. First up, uniquely GitLab icons. The UX team is continually working to better define GitLab's unique personality. When you look at any screen, you should know immediately that this is GitLab. Iconography is a powerful visual cue to the user and is a great way for us to reflect our particular sense of style. Hazel has worked her magic and designed a whole new set of GitLab icons. These icons are being displayed using SVG Sprites and eventually we'll completely replace Font Awesome. We're starting with system icons and general icons and then moving on within probably the next two releases we should have replaced all of Font Awesome icons completely. Next up, we had a lot of feedback from users that the expanded sidebar on smaller screens was confusing. It overlapped the content and it felt like a bug because you weren't actually able to interact with that content. To fix this problem, we added a shadow, the same that we use for modals. Yeah, same that we use for modals to the sidebar when the contextual sidebar is expanded on smaller screens. If user clicks the page content, the sidebar will collapse. If you expand the screen to a size where the expanded sidebar fits, the shadow will disappear. We also had a lot of requests to change or the option to change navigation color palette. It was one of the bigger requests that we had from users both in the feedback issue on the blog and hacker news, pretty much across the board. Previous versions of GitLab that allowed users to customize the navigation sidebar with a color theme. It was a popular feature and many people actually used it to differentiate between their different GitLab instances. So the change to our new navigation, we had an opportunity to bring it back. Our default palette is still an indigo one based on the GitLab identity, but we now allow users to choose from a variety of themes under profile settings. The plan is to add more as we go along, but this is kind of our starter kit for the navigation color palette. So we also wanted to enable CI CD for all projects. That way everyone can enjoy the benefits of common best practices such as CI tests, code quality, review apps, so on and so forth. To accomplish this, we have implemented an implied GitLab CI YAML file where all projects which have CI CD enabled will use the implied configuration, even if they don't have one themselves. The implied configuration cannot be controlled or changed by anyone and it's rendered at instance level. If someone wants to customize it, the exact same file will be available also as a template. Can be applied to the project and then modified. The first iteration will not enable this configuration by default, but will make it easy to discover with a banner when convenient and enable it using a project setting. So we also improved share locking features for subgroups. When a parent group has a lock on sharing the project with other groups, this restriction now also applies to the subgroups. So you're able to apply a lock to a subgroup even if the parent does not have a lock. The subgroup is able to have a lock applied to it. Oh, I think I've worked that twice. I already said that. However, the subgroup will not be allowed to release a lock applied at the parent group level. So you're not in danger of undoing something at the parent level at the subgroup level. We updated the copy as well for more clarity and moved the option to the next two, the visibility permissions to make it more apparent and easily discoverable. We also made some improvements to issue boards. In issue boards, a list represents a label and all the issues in that list contain that label. The title of the list is the label itself, but in our previous design, the title was not styled to look like a label. Additionally, the label itself never appeared in the list. So it could be confusing to users whether or not that list correlated to a label or it just contained a mix of issues. It was very confusing. And the new design, the list title is displayed using the label style we use in the search box. The list title indicates it's a label, but it's not expected to be clickable. We've also added the label of the list back to the issue cards. For example, in this UX label list, UX label is visible as other labels in the card. This reinforces our purposeful label list design and the fact that Backwog and Dunn are two special lists that are not backed by labels. And group level issue boards. Group level issue boards are being implemented to help facilitate a stronger team-centered, product-centered approach to collaboration. In the group navigation, we have a new tab under issues called boards. It's analogous to the project level and a group board is the same in design as a project board. You can create, edit, delete multiple boards, edit the name of the board and associate a native group milestone with the board. There's a search bar in the board that can filter by author, assignee, native group milestone, not any project milestone, group label, not any project label and wait. Only issues in immediate child projects of the group are available in the group board. Only group labels of this group are available in this board. Project labels are not displayed in the cards and they are not displayed in the sidebar either. And this is a really, really nice, nice one. I'm very happy about this. Make projects and features visibility settings less confusing. So the view project settings was really confusing and not UX friendly at all. So Tori worked some magic and made some unbelievable improvements here. We're using a toggle now to indicate the enabled and disabled make it a lot more clear when you change the settings what is actually happening. The features were arranged into a logical order and we made project visibility visually distinct from the other features. We moved allow users to request access to the top under project visibility and only show it if it's public or internal. We changed the placeholder text for disabled features to enable features to choose access level. And we keep the green background that fades when changing project visibility. Moved access levels next to the feature toggle so you don't have to scan across the page to see the level related to each feature. And the container registry in LFS is now placed under repository and always visible like the other features related to repository. Also updated copy for private, internal and public help text to make it more clear exactly what that means. All right. So these are some other issues that we're currently work in progress or they have the UX ready label. It's kind of an overview. There's a total of 120 open issues in CE and EE where UX work is complete but don't already have a release milestone assigned to them. So one is multiple assignees for merge requests something that I would really love to have. Can I just let that in there? Now that we have multiple assignees for issues we wanna carry that through to merge requests as well. So here we propose to change the cannot merge icon from that heavy red to a lighter orange. It's also proposed that we should order the current assignees starting with those people that can merge in order to improve scannability. So this is sitting there. UX ready just needs to be assigned. We're also continuing to employ, I almost said employ to improve our empty states. So here we have an empty state for the geo feature in the admin panel, which right now is just a red banner that goes across the page. So the empty state obviously shows a much nicer visual explanation of what that feature is and how to get the feature. Exactly Pedro. So nice eye candy, right? And we also have these two as well for both projects and snippets. So there are three empty states that are UX ready. We just need to schedule those to get those into GitLab. Auto-generated issues made from unresolved merge request discussions. So when you create auto-generated issues from unresolved merge request discussions, that's a mouthful. We include the text follow-up from title. The user has the option to change the text but if they don't, we end up with a list that can be really hard to scan. Everything looks the same. So it makes it difficult to sort through different issues. We propose here that adding the first part of the first line of the discussion to that issue title in order to help differentiate between different issues created. The characters of both portions would be limited to around 50 characters so that they don't get too long. I think I featured this one last time. I'm gonna feature it again. It's still UX ready. So recently or a couple of releases ago, we removed the resize option for resizing comment boxes because of a performance issue and because we already auto-resize that form. However, when you edit a comment, the form does not auto-resize and there's no way to auto-resize the box yourself. It can be really frustrating. In this example that I give, there's a lot more content but this is as much as I can see and I have to scroll down in order to edit what I wanna edit. So we propose auto-resizing the edit form to allow the user to see the full message when editing with a max height of 500, which is the same as the current. There's another tiny change that I think could be really, really good is the inconsistent to-do counter when to-do counter is zero. And I believe Clement found this one. The to-do counter is inconsistent when displaying a zero count. Sometimes the counter badge shows a zero and other times it does not display at all. We propose that the counter badge should never ever appear when the count is zero. It draws attention to it for no reason and the addition of the counter badge once there is something will reinforced its importance rather than having it there all the time or inconsistently when there's a zero. Any questions? Comments? Yeah, I know Bob. I don't know, you'll have to ask Clement because he found it. He added a zero somehow. All right, if there's no questions, going once, going twice. Shout outs, real quick. We just wanna put some, so shout outs out there. Special thanks to everyone that always helps the UX team. But here's just some people that have helped over the past release. And I do wanna give a special shout out to Luke who's been working really hard on the marketing side with a homepage redesign and putting together pattern library for the marketing side. And he's reached out to us quite a bit and asked for our input and collaboration and we just appreciate that so much. It's been a delight working with him. So thank you, Luke, we really appreciate it. And if that's it, I'll let everyone go. I'll see you on the team call. Bye everybody.


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The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Hi, and welcome again to another episode of Long Live La Familia, the soap opera that speaks to your heart as well as your stomach. My name is Keri Bachman, and I'm your host for the series. Today we'll be watching the episode entitled No More Chicharrones, and this episode again focuses on our family, the Sierra family. We have grandpa, Johnny, grandma Juanita, and their six children. In this episode, we're going to be looking at Samuel in particular. He's their middle son. Samuel lives with Adela, his wife, and their young son Chewy. All three of them live together with the grandparents in a multi-generational household. So that's kind of unique. This is an episode that makes me think about my lifestyle every time that I see it. What Samuel does is he goes to the doctor and he realizes that he has a health problem. He tries to figure out how to tell his family about it, and what kinds of changes that's going to mean for him and his daily lifestyle. So I think you'll find it very provocative and interesting. As we do with our other episodes, we'll be watching this one in three separate segments. That gives us a chance to get back together and talk and look to think about things and how they relate to our own lives, because that's really what we're trying to do with these episodes, make some changes that will affect our health in a positive way. So the first thing that we're going to do here, if you can grab some paper and a pencil or pen like I've got here, I'm going to ask you as you watch the first segment to think to yourself, what is it that we do that makes us have a healthy lifestyle? And that can be a whole range of different things. I'm hoping you'll come up with some really exciting examples. Let's go ahead and take a look at the first segment. And well, Dilea Diosa to Tio Frank is going with Angelitos. I need you to why do you have to go and you might love you if you wanted to get so many things that wrong you wouldn't want to do.  Like me. How are you? Just here. You know, Dad, I sure miss working on the farm with you. I know. Those times when you worked with me at work, it was a good time. Oh, that's great. You feel like working with the body. So, what did the doctor tell you today? I don't want to worry, Adela, Mom. But the doctor said I was at risk for heart problems. What? Heart problems? Yes. I almost threw myself out of the chain. I started to think about Tio Frank and how young he died. Don't compare yourself with Tio. The reunions with my brother Frank didn't work anymore. You know he didn't take care of himself. He was always reckless with his eating and his drinking. Nothing like you. Your habits are much more healthy. The doctor told me I should take care of what I eat.  Well, the doctor knows his stuff, less fat, and more exercise is good for everyone. Well, maybe. You can tell the girls what the doctor said while we eat. Oh, that won't be easy. I don't like to bring bad news. I know. Hello, son. How's the Nintendo master? Go. Are you deaf? I don't think so. My dear son, I love to see him with your dad. Those two have so much in common. Yes, they both love videos in chile verde. Se ve que traen hambre. A ver si nos alcanza la comida. Hola, vieja. Everything looks so delicious. Including your wife. ¿Dónde está mi beso, viejo? Last time, I need to wash my hands. Excuses. ¿Y qué te dijo la doctora, mijo? She said everything was just fine, right? No más tengo que cuidar lo que como. What do you mean? She wants you on a diet or something? ¿Ya no puedes comer chicharones o qué? Will you have to give up your chips in south or two? She didn't say I had to give up anything. Tampoco exageres. No me dijo nada más. Entonces, ¿ya no va a haber enchiladas para mijo? No más chile con eso. But those are his favorite foods. Entonces, ¿qué va a comer? Chewing, it's time for dinner. Mijo, ¿vente a comer? Welcome back. Some will has really had quite a day, hasn't he? It seems as if that doctor's visit really upset him quite a lot. Let's take a look at our lists here and compare them to some well's life. When I put together, oh, about six different things I think that make for a healthy life. Eating right, having a supportive family and friends, physical activity, job security and fulfillment, a spiritual life and physical safety. Now, we think some well's life looks pretty grim right now, but he actually has some of these things going for him. He's got job security. He's got a supportive family. I'm sure no matter how difficult your life is, you've got good things going for you too. So take a minute here as I'm washing my hands to think about what some of those things are. And just at the bottom of your page, write down what some three of the positive things are going for you in the area of health. For me, for example, as a nutritionist, I eat pretty well. I exercise. And I actually sleep pretty well too. I didn't have that on the list before, but that's one thing that's helpful. We want to, as we make any recipe, make sure that we're washing our hands because all of our table and equipment is clean because it's really important both for younger kids and also for our older family members. Okay. So what we're going to be making today is a salad dressing. You may say, why are we making salad dressing? I can buy salad dressing in the store. But actually, salad dressing, if you make it yourself at home, is really a lot cheaper. It's a lot tastier, and mainly it's a lot healthier too. What we're going to be doing today is using the two main ingredients in any salad dressing, some type of acid, which here we have apple cider vinegar, which has a nice sweet taste, and some type of oil. We're using olive oil, which, because of its strong flavor, we can actually use less of it than in a normal salad dressing. So I'm going to measure in here two tablespoons of olive oil. And that's not very much for the amount of dressing that we're going to be making. You'll see here in a second, compared to the amount of vinegar, a lot of times in a dressing, you use more oil than you do vinegar, but here we're using double the amount of vinegar compared to the amount of oil that we're using. And then, of course, this isn't really everything that's in a salad dressing. We're going to have to add some spices and some other flavors, and we'll do that after the next segment. Okay. Let's go ahead and get ready to watch the second segment, and there are a couple things I want you to pay attention to as we're looking at it. Pay special attention to the foods that the family is eating as they're sitting together at the dinner table and also to how grandpa's day, as he describes it, differs from some well's day. We'll take a look at that and then come back together and finish up our dressing. Thank you for the food. I thank you for my family. And in the name of your son, Jesus. Amen. Amen. And what exactly did the doctor tell you? Diabetes? Diabetes? Dad, you're not going to die, are you?  I don't ever want you to die, dad. I know, son. I'll just have to eat more of this rabbit food. Pass me the ranch.  I don't ever want you to die, dad. I know, son. Pass me the ranch. Samuel, I've always eaten un poco de todo, and I'm healthy. See? I have something of everything here. Abuelita, I learned about all this nutrition stuff in school. El libro que usamos nos explica la pirámide de todo eso. Dad, maybe if I show you my health book, then you won't die. Chui, espérate. Samuel, te veras que tiene miedo que te vayas a morir pronto. This preoccupation with death isn't natural. I didn't realize that a simple doctor's appointment would have such an effect on everyone. Lo único que la doctora hizo fue darme un consejito. Ay, hombre, I'll talk to Chui later. Después de cenar, nos vamos al campo a caminar, y yo te ayudo a explicarle a Chui de la vida. A walk would feel good, dad. But aren't you tired after a long day in the field? Yo no hecho nada todo el día, pero estoy seguro que tú trabajaste mucho. What did you do today, dad? What did I do today? Well, I had an early breakfast. Desayuné temprano. Then I walked to the new field to see how the plants are doing. Me fui caminando a un sembradillo nuevo para ver cómo iban las plantas. I stopped to see Pedro and had some coffee. Pasé a ver a Pedro y me tomé un cafecito. From there I went to the canal and got everything ready for tomorrow's irrigation. De allí me fui al canal y preparé todo para la irrigación de mañana. I came home and had lunch with Juanita and Adela. Regresé a casa y comí con Juanita y Adela. Then we watched los ricos también lloran. Vimos los ricos también lloran. In the afternoon, I worked on a presents for the family every year. Trabajé en los regalos para la reunión familia. I came in for some iced tea and some fruit. Me metía a la casa y tomé un telado con poquita fruta. Then I went to work in the garden. And what did you do? ¿Y tú qué hiciste? Well, I was running late. So I had to race to work. Y ahí va tarde. Así que me tuve que ir cogiendo al trabajo. I had three donuts and some coffee when I got to the office. Me comí tres donuts con un café cuando llegué a la oficina. Then I went to a long meeting so I had to work through lunch to get my paperwork done. Me fui a una junta muy larga. Así que tuve que trabajar la hora de comida para alcanzar a ser mi papaleo. At some point, I ran down and bought two relleno burritos and a coke from the burrito lady. Le compré dos burritos de chile relleno y una coca la señora de los burritos. Then I sat at my desk and sorted. Me senté en mi escritorio a separar las cartas. I had a candy bar and another coke during break time. And felt like it was two days before five o'clock came around. Me comí un chocolate con una coca a la hora del break. Sentía que nunca llegarían las cinco de la tarde. Samuel, de hoy en adelante tendrás que decir adiós a la señora de los burritos. Yeah, and no more fast food for you. We'll have to start packing you a lunch and no more snacks. Voy a tener que llevarme mi propia comida. Y no comer, ¿entra comidas? Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. See there? Here's the pyramid. Ah, gracias, mijo. A ver, ¿qué dices? It's a picture. It's from your brother. Es mi tío Ricardo. A ver. Looks like it's from Ruedoso when they made that movie. Ah, sí, la película de vaqueros con due diamond fillers. Maybe they will bring some movie stars to the family reunion. Eddie, Vecca y Zolin, ya no vienen mucho a Nuevo México. Ojalá que vengan a la reunión. Let's think for a second. How did Grandpa's day compare to Samuel's? In almost all respects it looks like Samuel's day was much less healthy. Think of Grandpa. He ate small, balanced meals with his friends and with his family while Samuel was running around eating a lot of fat and sugar and really stressed out by himself while he was eating. Another difference is Grandpa's job, being a farmer, is not an easy one but he didn't seem to let it get him down. Whereas Samuel, working at the post office, was so stressed out the entire day. And also Grandpa got more physical activity than Samuel did sitting at his desk. Now think for a second. Does your typical day look more like Grandpa's or like Samuel's? Well, I have a drawing here. This is kind of a fun thing to do if you get a chance and your kids enjoy it too. Kind of draw out from the morning all the way through your day until you go to bed at night exactly what happens during your day. And this is a way that you can kind of see what the positives are, what the negatives are and things that you might want to improve. So think for a second. What are two or three things you might like to improve about your daily lifestyle? Now for me, I already eat well and I get a fair amount of exercise but you know I go to work and I tend to sit at my desk all day answering phone calls, working on the computer and I very rarely even get up and take a break. So I'm going to try to make that a goal for myself over the next couple of weeks. So find another piece of paper and what I've done here is I've gone ahead and written my goal down and it is to take a 15-minute walk break three times a week at work. Now that sounds pretty specific and that's not going to be applicable to you probably but for me it's helpful. I don't have to try to do it every single day because I know that wouldn't happen. But if I know that I can do it three times a week for just 15 minutes, that's doable something I can achieve and then build on the success and decide on another goal once that has been achieved. So go ahead and think a little bit about your goal and I'll be finishing our salad dressing as you're doing that. We're going to be adding what I had mentioned before is really important which are the things that add flavor to our dressing. And first off you can see here I've got some green onions, got a fair number of them and then what you're going to do once you've got them all chopped up is go ahead and just plop them straight into your jar. This is one of those one dish recipes I guess you could say. And now what we're going to be doing is adding a little bit of salt and a lot of people add more salt probably than they need to to things and that's one thing if you cook a lot you can adjust things and over time you don't need to use as much. So I'm going to put in just a quarter of a teaspoon here. Some people might have put in more than that but this is a good amount for me. Our mystery ingredient which I mentioned before, that's going to be fruit jam and it can be any type of conserves other than jelly which is really too thick for this purpose. What we're going to do is we'll scoop out half a cup worth but you can use whatever kind of jam you would like. Strawberry is one of my favorites for this recipe but if you think about dressings that you can buy at the store or get from a fancy restaurant they have raspberry dressings, apricot dressings, all kinds of things. And we're going to go ahead and put that right in here in with everything else. The color is just going to be beautiful. Okay. Now we've got some ingredients that we're going to use with our molcajete which as many of you probably used this at home already, it's a mortar and pestle and it's kind of a lava rock and what you can do is use it for grinding. We've got three things we're going to put into here. First we'll do the dry ingredient which is, as you can see, some peppercorns. I'm just going to use a few because a lot of people don't like too much pepper but just kind of mash them up as fine or as coarse as you want them, dump them into your hand and then put them straight in here. We do those first because they're dry. Now we're going to go for some garlic and if you're like me, you like a lot of garlic. So you can just kind of put the whole clove in here, kind of leave it in one piece like this so that when we put it into the dressing we can get it out later and somebody doesn't get a surprise of a whole bunch of garlic in their salad. Now the last thing and this is one of my favorite ingredients. This is called ginger root and ginger root we're familiar with because we see it in ginger pot, ginger snaps and ginger bread for example. Let me use a knob off of this one here. You're going to use a good size amount because we're not going to actually mash it all up into small pieces. We're going to take this huge amount and put it straight into here. It looks like a lot but because it's pretty much whole still it's not going to add that much flavor. Okay, so we've got everything. Let's just check that we've got everything into our dressing. We do and we just put the lid on and shake and it's pretty thick so if you'd like you can add a little bit of water to thin it out. That's really just preference on your part. We've got some other dressing I made yesterday out of some blackberry jam so you can kind of see look at that beautiful color as well. This is thinner because I added some more liquid so you can really thin it out if you'd like to. In the store you'd be really lucky to find any dressings that are like this for any price and just look how easy it was for us to make it here. Now how does this actually relate to the Sierra family? Well think for a second about what they were eating at the dinner table. Some well thought I've got to eat rabbit food and so he asked for the ranch dressing and they passed it to him and he poured on gobs and gobs of ranch dressing. Now if you were to make a dressing, a simple dressing like this at home and spoon out dressing actually into the bowl of salad and dress it yourself before you serve it to your family so it will distribute a lot more easily and then you won't be eating as much dressing either so there's going to be a gain in calories and a health gain as well.  We noticed a little bit in this last segment of the video that some well's family is trying to help him out but they're not really sure how to do that the best way. They think that the thing that they need to do is tell him, oh, you have to eat all of these special diet foods and the rest of us are going to continue on with our lifestyle. If you make dressings like this and have things that change for your entire family, it's really a better approach because then your family member who's trying to make some changes doesn't feel left out. So let's keep that in mind as we're watching the third segment and think specifically about Chewy or some well's son. We've seen him a little bit in these earlier segments. We want to think about how his lifestyle is developing and what habits he's going to carry on into adulthood. Mom, can I go play some Nintendo now? ¿Por qué no vamos mejor con tu papá a regalar el huerto? Ah, that's a good idea, Dad. Chewy, you played Nintendo every night this week. After we water, the three of us can go for a walk. No puedes jugar Nintendo todo el día. Una caminadita nos hace bien a todos. Oh, Grandpa, a mí no me gusta a caminar. May I be excused? ¿Tienes permiso? Tienes permiso, yo. Ah. Viego, no te preocupes por lo que te dijo la doctora. Vamos a comprarte comida especial la dieta.  Esa margarina sin grasa no está tan mal, ¿eh? Eh, but I like butter. A ocuparme por la grasa. I don't know the first thing about eating right. We can even set up a separate area in the fridge and cover just for your food. ¿Ves un lugar especial tras tu comida especial? I'll just move the junk food so it won't tempt you. Mijo, I can make you diet gel pretty served. Ya hacen halidinas y azúcar en muchísimos sabores. You don't have to stress yourself, Mijo. Ay, perfecto. It sounds just great. There's got to be more to life than fake margarine. Comida de conejo. You and I will work on a menu and shopping is just for you. No te preocupes. No vas a tener ningún problema después que comiences tu dieta nueva. It's not a very happy ending to our story, is it? Some will's family is trying to help out, but really he's ending up being feeling really deprived. Let's think for a second about the goal that you've set and how your family and friends can help you achieve it. In my case, what I'm going to do is talk to my coworkers at work because some of them might like to join me on my break and walk outside and even if they don't want to join me, they won't expect to see me at my desk all day. So that's something important, too. Now, as we were watching the last segment, I went ahead and got our salad put together here. We've got some mixed greens. You remember the darker greens are healthier for you generally than the lighter lettuce. And then I've got some cauliflower in here, some broccoli, those raw vegetables. Mmm, they're delicious. And look at this right here, apricot. You might say, fruit in a salad? Well, we've already got fruit in our salad dressing and these apricots are actually right off a neighbor's tree and I encourage you when at all possible, try to use local produce because number one, we're supporting our local growers and number two, it tastes so delicious and it's often a lot cheaper and healthier for us, too. So we've got our salad here and as I mentioned, I add a little bit of water just to thin the dressing down. I'm going to toss it with a little bit of dressing. That's one tablespoon of dressing we're using, two tablespoons. And I'll put a third, but that's probably even more than we need and this is certainly enough salad to serve two people. And two tablespoons is a normal serving size for dressing. So actually, we've got less dressing on this than you normally would on a salad. Okay. Hope you try the dressing at home sometime with your own family and you can, like, invent and put in any kind of spices, use any kind of jam. It works great. I'm afraid we're out of time for today, so until next time, I hope that you have some good luck with the health goal that you've set for yourselves and long live our families.


Meat Boy is back. Today we are going to make some carnivore meatballs. I figured you guys have a lot of ground beef on hand.  You know, we're locked inside. You know, maybe we're no longer working our jobs. So this is going to be a way, you know, to spice up, to add flavor, to add nutrient density to a classic meatball recipe.  Everything is up for your own interpretation, but the ingredients I'm using today are based on both nutrient density, quality, you know, they're free of agrochemicals, as well as my past culinary expertise. So let's take a look at the ingredients. So most of the ingredients here are what you would see in a typical meatball. You know, we have the ground beef. This is two pounds of 80-20 grass-fed ground beef. We have this on Frankie's pre-range meat. I have two eggs here. I actually got the organic omega-3 eggs from the supermarket as, you know, I haven't been eating as many eggs lately, so I have not been ordering them from a local farm. Ideally, you get soy-free corn-free eggs from a local farm. You're going to be paying, you know, six, seven, eight dollars a dozen, but it's definitely worth it. We have Parmesan cheese. And the reason I have it graded in this container is because I went over this girl's place to make carbonara and I had to pick up some stuff at Whole Foods. But normally I would just use like a chunk of raw Parmesan and I would just grate it over whatever I'm making. We have some grana padano on Frankie's pre-range meat, which is pretty much the same thing. Of course, we have our salt and pepper. I'm going to add some fish sauce. That's going to add some more umami. Just a bit of savory flavor, some more seasoning to the meatballs. You don't really have to add this. I wouldn't say it's necessary. And of course, we have the Italian seasoning. Now, this is actually all-purpose seasoning, but all-purpose seasoning pretty much has the same ingredients as Italian seasoning. So, you know, get some organic Italian seasoning, organic all-purpose seasoning. If you don't want to add this, if you're really, really short carnivore, you don't have to, but this is what's going to make the difference. This is going to add that classic typical flavor. If you're not as strict on your diet, what I would do is, you know, dice up some organic onions, some garlic and parsley and put that in here instead of this Italian seasoning. And one thing I like to add that people don't usually add is butter. I'm going to add a couple tablespoons of butter to the actual meatballs just to add that really delicious butter flavor.  So, you know, if you really do want to add that to the meatballs, just use the highest quality breadcrumbs you can find, you know, unless you're nuts and you're making your own, you know, pork rinds from pasture raised pork. There might be one guy on the planet doing that. So we're basically going to combine all this stuff together. I'm going to add the pepper to the eggs. A lot of pepper because, you know, we're seasoning two pounds of meat. I'm not going to add too much salt. Just a little pinch because this stuff is really salty. So I'm going to do, and maybe, yeah, two tablespoons of the fish sauce. Italian seasoning, I'm actually going to do quite a bit. That's more like two tablespoons. We'll go with about three tablespoons of Italian seasoning. Just mix it into the eggs. How's you're giving these eggs to your kids for breakfast? Daddy, why is my omelette brown? If you do decide to add breadcrumbs to your meatballs, you could also do like a cup, a cup and a half of raw milk. That'd be really tasty and add some even more nutrition to these. So we got the eggs in with the seasoning. Now I'm going to use all of this Parmesan. Normally you'd use about half of a cup. And I think that's just what I have here. Yeah, this is about half a cup of cheese. Maybe even three-quarters of a cup. So you can use Pecorino Romano. Parmesan, I like a little more of the Pecorino Romano's really salty, a little more barnyard-y. And this is my little secret, as I said. You get a really high-quality butter. This is a French butter. I bought this one because it was on sale. You normally I would use raw butter from a local farm. So we'll do maybe, you know, that's about three tablespoons of butter. You don't want to put too much butter in this because it's just going to render out and melt. And, you know, these might fall apart in the pan if you put too much. But the butter was at room temperature, so I can mix it in really easily. Now you don't want to, you don't really want to melt it because if you melt the butter you'll separate, you know, the milk proteins from the fats. And if it's cold it's going to be, you know, hard to incorporate. You know, it would be bomb if you made like tartar meatballs with butter in them. Oh my god. Like, like just take like a bowl of meat like this. Put some raw butter inside and bite it. Oh my god. That would taste better than the cooked meatballs. But I'm making these for my sister. So if any of you raw tarts watching, there's your raw tart recipe. You know I love you guys. It's okay. It's okay to be a raw tart. Now we're just going to make meatballs, you know, depending on what type of recipe you're doing. We'll dictate the size. I'm going to do, you know, moderate-sized stuff. This mix smells so good I wanted to try a raw. That's really, really good. Really tasty. You could actually add a bit more salt to that. They're not seasoned enough but it will be fun because we can just add more salt later.  I mean, I guess these are pretty big and I'm going to bake these in the oven. Mainly because pan-searing these, you know, it's a lot more work. It's a pain. A lot more of the fat renders out and, you know, I can just take the temperature in the oven. So when the internal of these meatballs is about like 127, 128 degrees, they're going to be done. I get a nice even cook in the oven. I don't have a huge greasy mess and then we can just put our sauce, our toppings on them afterwards. So we're going to throw these in the oven at 350.  Temperature doesn't really matter of the oven. What you want to do is take the temperature of the meatballs. I'll actually show you guys my probe thermometer today. Usually I use an instant read thermometer but this is a pretty nifty tool too. So here I have a Therm Pro. I don't remember how much this was. I think it was $20 or $30. I don't usually use this myself. I got it for my family.  It doesn't really want to stay. But that should be fine. So now all we have to do is wait till the internal temp, which is 66 right now on the left, is at 127. So this will go up and up and up. Maybe it'll take, you know, 15-20 minutes. All right, so our timer just hit 127. The meatballs look half-melted. So since Frankie Boy was extra lazy today, he did not put the meatballs on an oven rack. Ideally if you do have an oven rack, you will avoid the greasy mess and the accumulated moisture on the bottom of the pan. But they still look pretty good. Depending on your dietary restrictions, as well as what you have on hand, we'll dictate what you'd like to top this with. Of course, you know, you could have it plain and that would still be delicious. Here I have some fat that was on the top of the last bone broth I made. And it's very flavorful. It's very tasty. So I'm going to top my meatballs with a little bit of this. You can get some organic tomato sauce from the supermarket. You could put, you know, a little bit of bone broth on this. I need sauce that you'd like. You know, since we took this to 127, this should be a perfect medium rare in the middle. About, yeah, you guys see how the inside is still even a little red. That's even a little bit undercooked. But it looks really good. So let's give these taste. That's really flammin'. Guys, you will not get bored of this. Oh my god. Since we took it to that perfect temperature, doesn't really need breadcrumbs, doesn't need anything to add texture. Make this for your kids. They'll love it. Oh my god. The Italian seasoning plus the parm. Nothing really stands out too much. Very balanced, very complex, very well-seasoned. Guys, the Rummy taste is good, but this is way better. This is really good. So I hope you guys try this. I'm sure my sister's gonna love these for dinner over the next few days. If you guys would like to support me, just, you know, drop a like on the video. Leave Frankie Boy a comment down below. There's also a bunch of stuff you can check out in the description including Frankie's free-range meat. Thanks for joining me guys. Enjoy your Saturday. We're gonna do the live stream later at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Frank to Fano. I'll link that in the description.


This is the way to do it. This is the way to do it. This is the way to do it. The myth that the youth are leaders of tomorrow is nothing but a myth. However, in 2022 elections, we just showed that the youth are ripe, we are ready, and we are taking it home. Honourable Vill of the Ambo, an independent candidate of Kobura Ward, has more to tell us. Moshi Miwa, I would love to congratulate you for the seat. How does it feel? Tombe, how do you feel taking the seat? First, I want to thank you guys for calling me. Secondly, it feels good. It feels good to be the leader of Kobura Ward, and being that it comes to the responsibility. I feel so obligated to serve, so I have to work hard for my people. That is how I feel. That is how you feel. So, are you always a leader even in your childhood? I've always loved leadership positions, because I feel that you are the change you want to see. You don't have to wait for somebody else, because you can wait for somebody to lead you, but then the person you wait for to lead you will lead you to a different direction. So, I feel if I can do something, let me go for it. So, back then, in primary, when I was in Hoke Primary School, that is in Naivasha, I was a prefect at some level. From primary, I went to high school, Maranda High School. Maranda High School, I was a prefect, from 2 till from 4. I was a prefect. Then I went to Moore University. In Moore University, I realized that we had a lot of challenges, and being the person that I am, I don't want to see challenges, and if I see challenges, I want to be the person to correct them. So, I went there, and having seen all the challenges students were facing, I went for the leadership role. So, there I was elected as the student leader, I was the secretary general of Moore University Student Organization. That's nice. After that, I came home. I started farming, and the farming in Kobura, what I realized that it is the economic activity that most people are doing there. And if I wanted to empower these people, that is the first point I have to touch. So, empowering these people at times, you can't empower when you don't have anything to support them with. So, I went for this position, because I realized that is the point where I can bring change. That is when I decided to come for the Kobura Worksheet, because I wanted to address the challenges that are there. Yes. And did you feel like it was a risk you were taking joining the Kenyan politics? Yeah, it is a risk, because in politics, you can win, you can lose. But with me, I've never looked at, I always see things on the positive side. Yeah, that is when I decided to go for it, because I believed if somebody else can do it, I also can do it. Yeah, that is what pushed me forward. I marvel at the fact that you won using an independent ticket against one supported by a big party. So, that you have to have what it takes. Tell us more about it. I was in ODIM. I was one of the candidates during the nominations. But the results that came were not something that okay, it was not something that I expected. But something strange happened, because you realize these people, they had so much hope in me. They told me that you are not leaving this thing here.  So, it meant these people had the trust and all their hopes were here. So, because people vote, you don't have parties that vote, you have people who vote. So, because they told me, we will be with you to the last point. And after the elections, I can say that it was true. They were with me. They worked with me all through. On that note, this is a journey of faith. This is a good decision. Go for it. From that point, I realized being that people showed that they were in this, they guided me a lot. Because immediately after nominations, okay, I went home. Home was full. Home was full. One thing that came out from that is that these people, they wanted to own everything. They were like sending a message. They told me, if it is resources that it has, we are willing to sponsor your campaigns.  People who don't have resources, but the little that they have, they want to invest in their campaigns. It happened that immediately, them talking there, they agreed. In fact, they fouled some vehicle and hired some public address system and told me, Zunguka Ward Museum are telling people that you are still in the race. So, you know, them doing that, it showed that they are going to be with me. So that is something that, okay, they were my mentors. As much as I have other mentors from other places, some politicians and yeah, but largely everything came from the people. This is, it was a people's thing. I noticed you were going door-to-door.  How did that experience, how was that experience? Being that Kubura Ward is big, it was challenging because for one the resources you have, you must have resources, you must have a strong team. So, I tried my best to have that strong team and initially I was campaigning using my motorbike. I was campaigning using my motorbike. You organize for meetings and if people are set, you go. But the challenge was the resources now. Because the Kenyan system, okay, we have believed that we should be electing people with money. But for my case, I didn't have that money. Because all the money I had maybe after college everything I invested in agriculture.  So I was campaigning largely on faith. I had to sell my vision strongly. So walking door-to-door, something that I had to ensure was that these people getting the message because that was key in a campaign without resources. You have to inspire people now. Let them believe that you are the solution. So being that I was part of them and I've lived there for some time and I know the challenges being that I'm a farmer in Kobura, I knew all the challenges people are facing. So selling my agenda was not that difficult because I was with the people always and I understood every challenges they had. So walking door-to-door, the only challenge we had was resources because at times you organize for a meeting of 50 people and you end up meeting 600 to 1000 people. So you have to rethink. But I always tried my best to talk to them and tell them that I don't have much, but the little help just accept it. So it was a campaign of faith. And what would you say motivated your supporters, where and when they were mine and where and when they would stop again? Okay in politics, okay let me say Kobura word. You know people come during campaigns, people come from Nairobi, people come from other places to come and campaign there. But being that these people they were seeing me always. With some blue overall, I'm going to sell my tomatoes in town. So they identified with me like I was one of them. All the Piki-Piki guys they identified with me. Because some of the farmers when I look at now, I ended up looking for markets for them. Because personally, okay I did something in my college, I did business stuff. So looking for a market is not an issue for me. So having that market known as some other farmer and a sumukana after market with good prices, we look at other farmers, their products, so that at least I look at you. So this inspired most of them. And they felt that like I was one of them. So that is why most of them would easily interact with me and identify with me. And did you ever have this challenge where what he's not a politician, he doesn't have that language. How did you navigate such? What came out is that most of them were seeing me as a young man. In fact, I ended up using what they were saying to my advantage. So it was a brand saying that some people are thinking that it will thwart my ambitions. But it ended up building me. Because that kid is a young man who identified with youths. That kid is a young man who identified with his mother. Because they want to do it, or they want to show how these people are employed. So my mother and my youths supported me fully. Because I know that that guy is experiencing. Because most people say they are not employmenters in an issue. Going back, at least every home, somebody, some youth so they felt the pain. And we can clear these campaigns fully. So that is the challenge we are going to face. In fact, some competitors Yeah, so being that that was there, I had to have a strong agenda that can overcome all that. So I'm sure we branded our team well so that anything you could do, what you want to do are different things. And in this farming, what kind of farming were you involved in? Let me tell you what I learned in farming.  They want direction from you. So I had to be a good example. Fun enough, I can gain in farming, I'm a farmer, it's something I love. So I went to open field farming. But then I had a lot of challenges there. So every cent I saved. From that point, I ended up at least a bit higher. So that if that can give me more money compared to open field farming. And at least it's like I gave people direction. They saw something in me. I want to change my area. And most people, they come visiting and I share this how you do it. Come to open field, I was doing some tomatoes. Three months you're harvesting, but it's called greenhouse. Your tomato, I harvest for around six months. So that is there's some difference there. So they saw something there. So agriculture, nipenda, it's something that I'll always advise people to do. So when I found a tomato farming, at some point I did watermelon farming. So in my greenhouse, I have onions. Speaking of resources, you had little or no resources. But in the Kenyan political campaigns, you know, handouts in those in a power corwinging. And so how did you navigate that being a you? I think as youths, the society already, it has moved to some direction. If you have that strong agenda, you realize that you'll get following. People will not like vote you because of the amount of money you give them. Because for my case, my opponents, nearly everybody had money. But I also use that, okay, it's just strategy because I use that to my advantage. Because most people, we are at the same level. People don't have that money. A few individuals have money, some extra cash to use in politics. So I use that to my advantage. So whenever I go to campaign, I tell people like, I don't have money. What I have is a strong agenda that will move your, move a ward to another step. So they vote that. So if somebody else came with cash, there was something in Lua. It was called Yucco Jamuna. I told them, you guys go Yucco Jamuna, but come back and vote here. So that is what happened.  So it's just having a strong agenda. And people will not see you as a youth or somebody old or something else. They'll just stick to that agenda. If somebody asks them, they'll just say, he wants to do this, this and that. That is nice strategic management. And so you being a youth, what do you think has changed the perspectives of the youth in terms of politics? Because Gitanbo youths want to say, but let me say vote. I'm saying politics because of such and such reasons.  What do you think the perspective is? I think youths have started to realize that they can also lead. Because you are always told that we are the leaders of tomorrow. Tomorrow is here. You can't wait for tomorrow. You get all you're still waiting for tomorrow. This is the right age to start taking these positions. Because if you look at the, okay, most politicians, even the veteran politicians now, they started when they were youths. So this is the right time for any youth. Don't wait for somebody or wait for at some point, you'll get money to use in politics. Just have a strong agenda and go. So I'm trying to imagine here you are a young person having your agenda. And here is a big name that has the money, has the political language, but you still took that seat. How did that make you feel as a youth? Okay, I was not surprised. I was not surprised because the effort that we put in the campaigns, we were like around 60% sure that we are going to win. Because we had meetings always. From morning eight, I was meeting people till date. Like I was not resting. Like if somebody went to look for me at home, I was not there. I was in the field looking for votes. I was looking for farmers. I was looking for women groups. I was looking for youth groups. So I think in the last minute, I had like mapped my word and I knew this location, I'm going to get around 70%. This location, I'm going to get around 80%. So in our strategies, that is how we planned it. And it came out exactly that. So having that strong strategy, we were sure that we are going to win. Because we addressed some challenges people are having. And we know after addressing some challenges, you realize that people will vote you. Because they want somebody who can solve their problems. And that is how we campaigned. The problems that we were about, we could solve, we solved them. Some of them that maybe required a lot of resources and required somebody to be in a position. We told people, this, we are going to do it after office. So we were sure we are going to win. And now that you're the MC, let's get to the crack of it. What plans do you have for Kobura? Looking at Kisumu County, Kobura Ward is strategically placed. Because after politics, you realize that at least now people are investing in Kisumu. So Kisumu is expanding. And where Kobura Ward is, if you look at it, you realize that most factories have started to be operational in that area. I want to empower my people so that we don't just sell land because people are coming to buy land. I don't want them to be squatters. So I have to empower them economically. And the main economic activity there is that everybody, nearly everybody is a farmer there. So that farming, I want to ensure that rice farming that is there, we take it to another level. Like Muya rice, we want Kobura rice to have some name. So that at least if you go to the supermarket, you get Kobura rice on the shelves. So that we compete with Muya rice. Competing with Muya rice will give these people, will empower them. Because we realize that their rice will be sold at higher prices. And that will reflect in everything that they are doing even at home. Because empowering them will at least empower everybody in the village. So I want to empower them using agriculture. And the factories that are coming will negotiate with them so that at least people from my ward get opportunities. Because we have a big number of youths. We have a big number of women that don't have employment. So that is what I want to create through agriculture and the factories that are there. And promote education also. So these are some of the things that I know if I do for my people, my word will be a good word. You there's one agenda you had about planning to upgrade an early childhood development education with a fully funded feeding program for the children. Can you speak more about that? If you want a society to grow, you have to invest in education. And because if somebody realize the kind of thinking that these personas are thinking that can grow people. So we have to empower people. And empowering people, I have to invest in ECD because that is where I should focus on. So that these people get good education, they get resources, they get good classrooms that will encourage learning. After that, I have to empower the learners. At least Yeah, that is what I want to do so that the parents of their parents don't get that to struggle. So I believe doing that, people will love education. And that is what I want so that we get a maximum from my word going to school. We have seen these agendas that politicians give out to the community before being elected but after they've been elected, they be themselves on a journey, you know, and our tactic will associate with the community. What plans do you have to put for the community to put you in check so that you can attain these agendas? We have a team from all corners of Kubura. That team, their work is to tell me what is happening. All the challenges that are there so that I don't lose touch with my voters. Another thing, the challenges are also interact with the voters because I'm not the kind of person that after being voted in, you go away. So I'll interact with people. I'll visit people from all corners so that I know the challenges, I address the challenges. And in my agenda, if there's something that I know will delay, I'll just go to the people and tell them we planned this together. And at this point, we might have some delays. Even the voters, the electorates, there are people who listen. If you tell them this can't happen now, but we can do this, they'll listen. But I'll try my best to ensure that we do everything that we promised. We do at least 80% if we can do 100 so that they see something different from other leaderships. And being that I'm a young man and I still have dreams, I'll be with the people to the last minute because they are the same people that will elect me in other positions. So I have to be with them. You have to experience the challenges together and address them together. Yes. And now as a whole, you as a young person, are there any plans for the young people in your community and your generation as well? For the young people, me included, the plans I have for them, I'll empower them, just empowering them. Because you realize that they are in groups. You realize that they have some common agenda that they are pushing at their own levels. I'll get in that so that if there's a way I can help them, go up and help them. Because they are resources we can get for them. And that is what I want to do so that I empower them. After five years, I can say that I met this group and they were doing this. And at least now they are in level three. That is what will make me happy. And all the groups, I have their contacts. All the women groups have their contacts. It is a matter of going back to them and discussing things with them. Everything that we can do together, we will do. So that is the plan I have. So that we don't have people who are not empowered. Because after you've empowered somebody, you realize that that same person can empower somebody else. That is so nice. So in the long run, what can you tell the youth and someone out there looking at you like, you're 29 now and you're MCA, not a minute cup of coffee. What can you tell them as a last word to engage and defend against? There's nothing that is not achievable. As long as you stay true to your course, you stay focused, there's nothing you can't achieve. It's only that people believe that you must have this and that. But there's a power within. If you unleash that power within you, you realize that you can get to places. It's only that we've always believed that I can't do this because of this. That because of this part is a part you should do away with. And you realize that you can achieve anything. Because for me, my case, I was working against so many odds. First, I was an independent candidate against strong parties. Secondly, I'm a youth. Resources is an issue to some youths. It was an issue to me too. I'm all that. If I looked at that, seeing a fika, I'm a fika. But I knew all that was there. But I said, we are going forward. So the idea is, go forward. Because at some point in my compensary, I realized some people joined. Because I saw the vision is a strong vision. People started joining Munginana, let me support you today. Munginana, I support you tomorrow through the last minute. So just stay focused. If you believe you can do it, you can. I am motivated by your story and the fact that many of you, there is power in me. I am challenged. As you have seen and heard, there is a power in you. You just have to stay focused. There is a mountain. There's big something that you cannot come across. No. And Ambele, you will get the supporters. You will get the motivators. You will get the mentors. Just believe in yourself. Now song Ambele. 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You're listening to the ECB podcast, bringing you insights into the world of economics and central banking. My name is Katie Ranger. The key word for the past two years has been uncertainty. During that time, the pandemic has changed the way we live and work. It's affected our economy and also our banks. And although the economy is recovering and banks have played a crucial role in limiting the economic fallout of the pandemic, new variants and supply chain bottlenecks pose challenges. In this episode, we're looking at how banks are faring in this challenging environment. I'm joined today by two guests, Supervisory Board Chair Andrea Enria and Vice Chair Frank Elderson. Welcome to the ECB podcast. Great to have you here today. Thank you, Katie. Now Andrea, I'll turn to you first. Every year, we assess the risks that banks face and we check how equipped they are to manage them. And this is all done in what we call the supervisory review and evaluation process, or SHREP for short. Some of the questions we ask in that are, does the bank have enough funds to support losses? Does it have a sustainable business strategy? And more recently, we've been asking things like, are banks taking the steps needed to deal with current challenges, such as the pandemic shock? Now Andrea, you and Frank just presented our findings from last year's assessment in a press conference. Could you summarize those findings for our listeners and explain a bit how satisfied you are about how European banks are doing? Yes, the picture which is emerging from our review is a positive one, surely more positive than we feared only one year ago. Banks maintain the strong capital, which means high funds to absorb losses. And this is important because this is what determines the ability of the banks to lend to the real economy, to households, to small businesses, to corporates. And indeed, loans kept flowing to the economy throughout the year, also thanks to the strength that banks demonstrated. Banks also came out to be more profitable than the year before, which is good because also profits are a defense from losses, from risks, and they have continued improving the quality of their assets. So that's all positive. Every year we give scores to banks. They run a report, let's say, and we maintain the scores broadly unchanged, which with respect to the expectations and the fears we had one year ago is a good news. Still, we have addressed banks a number of qualitative recommendations because we also identify shortcomings that we want them to fix, especially in the way in which they manage risks in their internal governance. And we expect remediation of these findings in the coming months, actually. We should not be complacent. We need a strong and efficient banking sector to support the recovery from the pandemic and to also help the digital and green transformation of our economies. OK, so overall it's good news for our banks. And well, if banks are doing well, then it's also good news for their customers. Now, I've already mentioned that we run this supervisory process every year. And if we go back a bit to 2021, our assessment then was very much shaped by the pandemic and how it was impacting our economy. And as part of our response to the crisis, we focused our assessment then very specifically on ensuring that banks could face that pandemic shock. If we fast forward to today, our latest assessments are the one that you just presented the findings of. This marks a kind of return to normality. Now, Frank, what exactly does that mean, a return to normality? And to what extent is this return to normality a positive sign that the crisis phase is over? Well, thank you, Katie. I think you actually explained it very well. This is a positive sign. But at the same time, I would say it is not a sign for us to relax. Actually, supervisors should never relax. I think that our task is to always be on the lookout for risks, even if the sky is becoming bluer and if the sun is becoming shiny, maybe especially then. So indeed, looking back what we did last year, the first year of the pandemic, we felt that what we needed to do is to really focus on the pandemic-related risks. Also to give banks operational relief, if you like, so that we really would just focus on those things that were top of their minds and top of our minds. And indeed, during 2021, we were able to return to what we then call a fully-fledged assessment. And that is, I think, indeed, an overall good sign. Now, as you mentioned already in your introduction, the economic outlook has improved. But, and here comes the supervisor, there are still uncertainties. It could be that the economy is going to be performing more strongly than we expect. That could, for example, be if the pandemic continues to evade and if households become even more confident, start spending more. But at the same time, as we all know, reading the newspapers, there are geopolitical tensions. And it could also be that the still-ongoing supply bottlenecks might continue to be in place longer than we are currently anticipating. So faced with all these uncertainties, what we are doing is carefully look at the quality of the assets of banks' books. And, you know, after all, it could be that the full impact of the crisis on companies, on people, on bankruptcy, on jobs, that that full impact might manifest itself with some delay. So yes, all in all, I think that, you know, when the pandemic hit us, had we known at that time that we would have been in the situation where we are today, we would have immediately signed off to that. But being where we stand today, we should not be complacent. Okay, so banks are doing well overall, even though the economy hasn't fully recovered yet, but they're not completely out of the woods. Now, I want to shift focus a little bit and look to the future, because indeed part of our job as a supervisor is to look ahead and to identify the risks that are emerging for banks. And what we do is then we take those risks that we've identified and we base the priorities for our supervision on them. And this is all what guides our work for the next two years, each cycle. I want to look first at one very important one of those risks, and that's credit risk. And this has been a big topic in our work with banks already during the pandemic. And credit risk is all about measuring how likely it is that people fail to pay back the money that they owe to banks, and also about seeing how prepared banks are to manage those losses. Now it goes without saying that the support measures put in place during the pandemic by governments, by central banks such as ourselves were essential to keep the economy afloat. But they have made it harder to see what risks look below the surface, both for the banks and for us as a supervisor. So Andrea, how are banks doing on the credit risk front? Well, your spot on, Katie, the strong support measures have clouded our visibility on the real credit risk that banks are facing. In several member states there were moratorium payments introduced so banks cannot use the regularity of payments as an indicator of the great quality of their borrowers. And that's essentially a payment holiday, isn't it? Yeah, it's a payment holiday basically, a suspension of payments for a certain period of time. So it's clear that we immediately throughout the year, throughout 2021 we pushed the banks to start developing new indicators and to start looking through the measures to look at the real ability of their customers to repay when the measures, the support measures would have been withdrawn. So that has been the greatest focus of our effort on credit risk. So that's really a new thing that banks have had to do. It's a completely new scenario for them. Yeah, absolutely. Well, actually it's partially a new scenario. They don't have the indicators they usually rely on but they should have the credit risk controls in place to identify early and manage early customers that are unable to pay. So we made a review process which was explicitly targeted on the ability of the banks to control the quality of their customers. And there is where let's say the outcome was not as satisfactory as we would have liked. We had I think in 70% of the cases the banks were addressed specific measures because we identified shortcomings. We addressed the letters to banks setting out our expectations. We asked them to self-assess themselves against these expectations and then we gave them some homework to fix the problems that we had identified. And there's a whole lot of work that we have done and we expect the bank to do to remediate these shortcomings. So that's I would say the most important focus of our effort in this year. This also means that for instance when I mentioned to you that we kept the overall scores unchanged but there are some areas in which the scores deteriorated and one of these areas is great risk indeed exactly because of these qualitative findings. So we will follow up with the banks on the individual recommendations that we made and we will make sure that they improve their processes. Okay, let's stay with these challenges that banks are facing. Frank, there's another very big risk on the horizon, the climate crisis, and some would even say that well it's not on the horizon it's already very much with us in the here and now. But what's important for our conversation today is that we've actually identified risks stemming from climate change as one of our priorities for the next two years for our supervision in the next two years. How exactly will this translate into the everyday work of our supervisors? I suppose what I'm saying is how will they concretely incorporate climate risks into their supervision of banks? Well, 2022 is indeed a very important year in our supervision of climate related and environmental risk and I add that environmental risk because it is broader than just climate. It's also about by the firstly laws for example. Now the first thing that I would maybe like to explain a little bit is that we are going to be conducting a climate stress test and there we are going to be seeing how well-prepared banks are to really deal with the shocks that climate risk might and will most probably cause. Now that is easily said a climate related stress test but we have actually never done that. It's a first for us but also for the banks it's also a learning exercise for the banks but also for ourselves. But what I always add is that we and they better learn fast because as you know risks have the nasty habit of not waiting to manifest themselves until we are perfectly prepared. They are out there and climate related risks as you said very clearly they are not waiting, they are there. The droughts, the floods, the fires, the wildfires, they are there. So that is one thing, the climate stress test. Second there will be also this year a what we call a thematic review meaning that our supervisors will be looking deeper into how banks are incorporating climate risks into their corporate governance, into their risk management, into their strategy. So really going into what you might maybe call the DNA of the bank. It's also going to be done not just by a central team but by the joint supervisory teams or the teams that really do the supervision. On a daily basis. On a daily basis. There is even going to be onsite on this as well so people going into the banks and really challenging them. Because really as I said we see climate related risk, environmental risk as one of the main challenges for banks and therefore also for us as supervisors for the years to come. Banks have been making progress. So we challenged them last year on the basis of expectations. We sent them letters. We asked for action plans. So there has been progress. But the pace is still way too slow. So all of us have to step out our game and then maybe to end here. Both this climate related stress test and the thematic review as well as these onsites. All that will feed in the findings will feed in this annual SHRAP process. So climate risks and the broader environmental risks that you've mentioned. This year is really going to be a big year for them in terms of supervision and I'm sure it will continue in the years to come as well. The way I put it is we have been preparing. Awareness has been created. We have issued our expectations more than a year ago. This is the year where the rubber hits the road. Now another challenge that banks are facing although it must be said that they've been trying to tackle this one for some years is the sustainability of their business models. There are a few gaps that are key to making the way banks work sustainable for the future. One in particular is low profitability and one way that you can tackle this or banks can tackle this is through the digital transformation. Frank, can you explain a bit how this all fits together? Talking about banks' business models maybe the first thing to say is it's not for us to define their business models. We are not at the steering wheel. We are the supervisor. But we do need to push banks to make sure that the business that they do today is sustainable and prepares them for the future. Why is that a challenge? One of the challenges is that as I think you and Andrea have already mentioned is the low profitability of banks. This has been around since long before we had the pandemic. One area where we are focusing on is the digitalization of banks. In today's world this is of course a key aspect. It's important that banks speed up that process dealing with the challenges both by the pandemic but also because customer preferences are changing. This is challenging because not all customers when we speak to banks they also meet all their customers that are afraid of this but by and large people are expecting to be able to in a modern way communicate with their banks. And of course there are competitors. Fintechs, the big techs entering the space as well. So more needs to be done by the banks digitizing their operations and also in that way and this will enhance profitability reducing costs. By being digital the marginal cost of an extra client of course is very low. So this is a way that banks can work to further recover from the pandemic. So I would say it is a good time to further invest in digital but it is also high time to do so. It's really interesting. So the digital push that we've kind of seen gain ground during the pandemic is not just a way for banks to kind of be more attuned to their customers needs and wants but it's also a way for them to be more efficient and also more profitable. Now the last priority I want to touch on today is actually also linked to how banks are run and that's their internal governance. Now in our assessment we also look at a bank's organizational structure, the people who run it and all the checks and balances that they have in place to ensure sound governance. Our latest findings have shown that internal governance is still a weak spot for banks and it's actually the area in which we made the highest number of recommendations. A lot of these had to do with banks' management bodies and indeed one topic that we've actually discussed here on the podcast with yourself Frank in relation to banks' management bodies is diversity. Now Andrea, I'm curious to know what role diversity can play in terms of internal governance, banks' internal governance. In my experience as a supervisor I've always seen banks failing or risking to fail when there were shortcomings in their internal governance. Either a dominant CEO that nobody there to challenge or a group think in a group of people very homogeneous in their thinking and pushing the bank in the same direction and eventually in these cases it's very easy to see that the banks can maybe do a lot of profit for some times and then crash against the wall because there is no internal checks and balances. This is very important. Having checks and balances internally at all levels, at the board level but also throughout the ladder. Of course the commercial people will push this or that business will try to find more customers to make more profit but you need to have a good balance with what we call the second line of defense. So the risk managers, the compliance officers don't check that they are not taking excessive risks or that they are not following improper conducts in managing their customers. So this is very important and having diversity at all levels is indeed essential. We are thinking of diversity in different dimensions. Gender diversity is a very important one of course and we have stressed this more and more in our processes, in our rep processes we've already seen some years but it's also differences in terms of age, provenance, in terms of professional background skills. For instance, we have been saying and Frank very strongly emphasized that climate change is very important having experts in this area in your board could be important. Digitalization, I mean it's important also there to help people that understand. So we showed last year I think in one of our survey that the banks that had IT experts in their boards were also the banks that had the lowest level of cyberattacks. So they had strongest defense because they had people understanding the issue up there in the board. So diversity is an important issue across all these dimensions. Banks need to devote more attention to that some areas, gender for instance they are in several member states also required to set targets and where they are not required by regulations they should set targets themselves and try to achieve them and we have seen that the progress has been pretty disappointing honestly even both when there were external targets and when the banks set the targets themselves. So we will continue using our supervisor review process to put pressure on banks that are a very important topic. You mentioned that this is the area where we have the highest number of recommendations these years actually it's not the first year that this is the case. It's pretty disappointing to see that you raise many recommendations and sometimes the recommendations of this year are the same that were there last year and they have not been remediated. So I think that we need also to find ways to raise the temperature that are not following up to our recommendations. Now, before we wrap up we always ask our guests if they have what we call a hot tip linked to the topic we are discussing today. What would you like to share with our listeners? Well, thank you Kitty. I am reading a book right now from Robert Schiller no Nobel laureate it's called Narrative Economics and I found it interesting because it focuses on those narratives that become viral that everybody believes them and even if there are facts there are plain truths that disprove them they keep running. Now all we told you today on our rep process tells us that the fact that banks are well capitalized has enabled banks to support the economy and avoid the pandemic that became mixed with the financial crisis that would have been a disaster for us all but still there is this narrative going on that if you are asking banks to maintain more capital they will not lend into the economy. This will damage growth. This will damage job opportunities. We are going now into a new legislative cycle in which international standards are to be implemented there is a lot of law being saying that if we tighten capital requirements this will be bad for the economy bad for growth. Well it's indeed according to this narrative it's a viral message that unfortunately still has success but it's not really well grounded so that was my tip today. Well thank you to both of you so much for joining the conversation today and sharing your and also your book recommendations. Thank you very much. Thank you Katie. 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