Good afternoon and welcome back to the touchline on Y25 for my name is Maxwell Waseke. This point in time we hosting the legend former cricket international Maurice Odumbe. He played cricket at the big stage of course playing against the heavyweight nations like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and right now we're talking about the state of Kenyan sports legends in the wake of what former Kenyan national team tactician Benjamin Aimba is going through with regards to his suffering of cerebral malaria and we've seen how social media users and even general public have come to his rescue raising funds that is supposed to be his medical bill. Of course good to see you. Maurice man long time but have you been? I've been very well thank you for having me Maxwell. When was the last time you were here? It's been a while. It has been a while. We are more than two years if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. How is outside there? It's not easy. You know sportsmen like myself when there's no sports you know as we all know we are actually suffering a lot and I hope something is done very very soon otherwise at this rate I think I don't know what sportsmen and sportsmen are going to do to be honest with this stuff. So you're directly trying to appeal to the president to reopen up? Well I am indeed because people are suffering and I don't know who his advice are but if only he could put his ear on the ground he will know that people are not happy people are not happy at all. You and Benja might have met during this international events during your playing time and even during your coaching times I don't know. How well do you know Benja you followed what is going through? I have followed what is going through and to say the least it is shocking you know for somebody of that stature Benjamina okay to be going out there and appealing for medical aid and I don't think he's alone even I am probably not even probably I am in the same category and many others and I'm not ashamed to say that you know because it's not been easy for me every it's a well documented case right and for somebody like Ayimba Benjamina and I thought actually he will not have those kind of problems and when I read that I was like this is not on this is not right okay there's no way you know can you think about it in America or in England a former sportsman or sportswoman appealing for medical aid you know it can happen like that these are people we are people who have given a lot for this country you know we are not expecting anything on a silver platter but it should not reach to that level he's a very good friend of mine I've spent many many hours with him many days if I even travel together when went for the common of games in Malaysia okay I spent a lot of time with him so somebody who's very close to me I might not talk to him on a daily basis but he's somebody I know pretty well. How well do you think former sportsmen are supposed to be used incorporated into the current setup of you know federations and even sporting associations and even at the government level? You know not disrespect to the people running sports or who are administrators in different respective administrations but if you ask me former sportsmen and sportswomen are not being used the way they're supposed to be used right and not disrespect to Nick Mendoza because I believe you know he should have had a sporting background even if it was a little bit especially football right when we have people like Dr. JJ Moziga who in my opinion if he was the chairman nobody will ask him anything he's been there he's done it all okay and and the way he appears you know he's he appears the part but if you look at how some of us one day you're in the next day you're out you know there's no security in your job whether you send a contract or not it's never honored you know and and this kind of treatment has to stop you know we we should have a policy where and I was happy to see Kayange I've been given a job at Nok okay and I'm sure you'll do a lot of good things there but others also deserve to be you know placed somewhere where they can make a big difference sometimes when I when I go through places like Kamukunji where they've held so many famous political rallies just a stone throw away there's a ground which is slanting like this and I'm wondering all these councilors we've had all these mcs mayors governors nobody can just send bulldozers and level that field for this young man to play football honestly and you've mentioned about a critical point especially in in Iceland's part of the county we've had you know a man nation of talents especially boxing but those town halls are very shambolic they are looking in bad state totally do you think that has also contributed immensely to the downfall of the sport a lot we saw what happened to Sleiman Bilali former boxing player you know I was reading that on Facebook the other day Bilali Waweru and I'm wondering and I will not even go into details of I've even moved around itself Bilali until even doler Ruben doler who helped him at that point but and people seem to laugh about it you know I had about Deniso Lee that man has done a lot for this country you know we should be rolling the red carpet for him asante sana on a ledge for what you've done for us but here we are we are we are throwing daggers at him you know it's like people are rejoicing for his downfall it should not be the case the guy did what he could you know we should let him be okay this is the time when somebody is down you know where is that hand where is that uplifting hand you know to tell him that you are not alone we are with you you know so there is so much that is being overlooked when it comes to former sportsmen and women in this country which is not right and if I may add something we need people in authority who can make decisions for the betterment of the future generation okay if I was given a chance today to be to be given a position where I can change the face of sports in this country I would love that because as you said uh the kids in this land if you are if they're not motivated and that's where the talent is coming from yes I've never heard of a heavyweight box are coming from lovington you know for example you know when you are people like Demo Shumundi where are these people you know these are people in their days will probably have even put Muhammad Ali down who knows but we need to give these people a chance not everybody will be a lawyer not everybody will be sitting in front of a camera like you right but that's very true yeah exactly but those boys you know we just need to give them nice facilities and let's groom them and we'll have millionaires you know we can't overlook this talent out there in this lands we can't someone watching is called William Mutuku is watching from Langatis asking ask Moris the legend himself to tell us about his journey from high to low and now to the stylish comeback to where he is right now uh to be I think for inspiration purposes well I don't do you have enough time yes so the thing is okay um you know it takes a lot of discipline to be actually to be able to reach to the level that I think I reached at that point that's very true right and and and there's some things that happen that somebody cannot control like for example when the international cricket conference came after me and there's this misconception that I was banned for much fixing it was never much fixing Maxwell it was inappropriate conduct yes meaning I was friends with a bad man you know it's like you know you're here you cannot be friends with patny for example yes because of his reputation yes but you know patny has nothing to do with kpc you know that but that's the story for another day but he takes discipline and also listening to your seniors because what I've realized nowadays they call them the millennials okay well yeah so here they don't want to listen okay and they they know it all so you know you have to listen to your seniors and another thing dedication you must be dedicated in whatever it is that you're doing okay there are no half measures and when even you're talented when you're God given that's when you even walk harder right and also when it comes to the lows you don't want to go there you don't want to wish even your worst enemy to to be down especially when they've been up there okay because at times I'll tell you my food never rains until I think something is wrong with it yeah because the people who you thought maybe why you're friends and along there you become bothersome okay ah we are tattoo sumbu and attack anini but sometimes you just want to hear a familiar voice it's not that it's something that you want necessarily but that's that's human nature and I've come to accept that there are some things that you can control and some things that you cannot control like when we're playing they used to bring psychologists to us and they will ask us you are going to play against people like Sachin Tendulkar Brian Lara what are you going to think about you cannot think what Lara will think or what's a chain will think but I can't because it's such a milestone exactly but I can control what I'm thinking I cannot control the weather so I should not worry about the weather that's an uncontrollable so try and control things that are within your grasp things that are manageable you know it's it's fine to think big there's nothing but they have to be attainable goals right and always taking one day at a time step by step and one will get there in your own objectives assessment do you think the former legends for Kenyan sports are appreciated at home even from fans themselves because like there's this player who is featuring in South African League initially he was in Zambian League Anthony Akumu and even yes where he's playing for Zesco United whenever he's on the streets he's celebrated and that's a Kenya playing straight overseas and like you people more specifically yourself you are on the streets but even Kenyans themselves they don't recognize you but they will recognize when he visits Kenya I don't know to be honest with you you know and sometimes it amazes me how people can fight over Arsenal and Liverpool and okay fine it's it's all good it's all lovely to support a team you know to be a fanatic or I support Liverpool okay but I will not say maze to the washing down team young come on we will beat you yeah those guys the moment we turn on the telly we are putting money into the bank accounts right yet we are overlooking what we have here so I don't know whether it's a Kenyan thing you know it's it's been baffling to me how we can worship foreign heroes and we cannot worship our own here you know at times way back I met Paul Tangat at the airport probably was waiting for somebody and such a humble guy and people were passing him and I'm like do they know who this guy is you know those kind of things I am more respected out there than I am respected back home but reason why I have no idea I don't know why we don't appreciate our sportsmen and sportswomen even when they have the millions still okay we are not giving them the the respect that they deserve they don't they don't want people kneeling in front of them no far from me you know they just to appreciate them that they are doing something for the country that is all right and the rest will follow and also we need to appreciate them we need to also give them something you know some countries a team just wins a small event they're giving apartments they're giving I don't know what and those kind of things we don't we are not even giving a nowadays finer here they are giving Wilberus but the thing is you know they should be appreciated you know what is a hundred million to the government to give people apartments for something well done you know it will not take much we lost to Bangladesh in 1990 yes eight not common ICC trophy in in Malaysia just before the olympics commoner games those people they were all giving houses just for beating Kenya can you imagine and it was not even a world cup and they were giving houses no you can't compare those people to Kenya sportsmen and sportsmen we can't just rely on athletes runners there's so many sprinters in west probably you'll have been a sprinter who knows but we have to give them the opportunities people talk about swimming we have so many great swimmers out here yeah so many now I've been reading about this this sprinter 100 meters doing 10 point something yes Mako Tienofadu Nando Muñala you know but if these people are giving proper training proper facilities they'll be able to compete I don't believe it's the Americans and the Jamaicans who can only run 100 meters and 200 meters no they talk about two at the front we have so many people ride black mambas without gears so you give them they can also become there you go David Kinja is here to mentor the upcoming talents especially those who are passionate about cycling there you go is it the one just undone for is now done with swimming we don't have proper replacements for him yet there are plenty of untapped potential you've said it of course you can be part of the program and join the conversation what do you think about the state of Kenyan legends of course a few insights coming in through Pakini Muñala also known as Jogoyal Rambi saying that you know the government it should create a kitty for the sports legends so that you know they don't start begging for handouts and assistants whenever they are stranded and of course he's congratulating his son Militha Lei David for scoring 391 marks and he wants to become a lawyer and join Mako High School thank you for your insight Pakini Muñala Arunu do you think that can be implemented locally creation of a sports kitty for legends of course all we have to do is find out what other countries are doing it's as simple as that you mean we can't copy you know it's something like a pension fund where every month excuse me you know you go and you collect your check it can be done there is enough money you know if we can just seal those loopholes where the money that is supposed to do the right thing doesn't disappear then i think we are like what has happened to stadia construction you remember some point Kenya missing out on hosting chan tournament because we were not ready facility wise this is it we also lost an under 19 cricket world cup here because we were not ready you know those kind of things you know how many jobs would we have created so something has to be done because there's no point of looking at those trophies you know and you know talking of trophies why is congestion you know so you will be looking at all those trophies those bells they will not put food on your table all right we don't want to be driven in massidious bands and v8s and all that no you know just as long as you know you have your food you know everybody is comfortable you know that's all they are asking for you know they're not asking for anything big in india all those guys who play cricket for india they collect their checks every end of the month it's an appreciation it's it's it's not easy at some point you are in charge of the national team as batting coach what happened are you still are you still serving that's docket or things went the way they went just tell us about that okay that from the batting coach that made me the head coach and i went to dubai i think uh since they made me a coach i'm the only one who has actually won a trophy when i went to rwanda you know they brought great names from great country roger hopper you name it yes you know so we went to rwanda one went to dubai and when we came back um i was dropped as the coach so up to now i don't know the reason why and they never cited the reason it was not official it was not professional nothing like that they just told me sorry mate we are not traveling to to was it dubai dubai we had come from dubai yes i think katar yeah you're not coming to katar thank you very much and that was it my assistant became the coach they brought a school teacher from south africa to be also a coach you know because the muzungu was very good in taking pictures so he's more experienced than mori so don't buy us play three wallcups you know yeah so but a school teacher because he's muzungu you know salavi mori see you see you around so since then and then corona of course so nothing has happened ever since so as we speak right now there's a cricket normalization committee led by retired judge joice alwuch who is now in charge after i think the error of tenure of ja kijan muhammed they came to an end and see us for sports doctor mi na muhammed formed a category committee to steer you know cricket kenya to at the level do you think about it you know to be honest with you if you ask me even this stirring committee you know they have to come with a structure whereby anybody who's been involved who has held office before in cricket kenya and arabi province should not buy for positions i think we should just have a clean slate and the people going to court they should withdraw all those court cases because sports is not supposed to be played in the court not at all there is a tribunal this is yeah because if you look at cricket we seems to be playing the game in the courts you know the corridors of courts you know one day an interim committee is set up by them by the cabinet secretary you know within a month you hear people have ran to the courts then you hear there is a tribunal people have gone to the tribunal we don't need that you know people are suffering i i i need to be involved in cricket because that's that's what i know right then it's only needs to be involved in football right benjamin needs to be involved in rugby you know we are not the kind of people that should just be dismissed that likely you know we we need to be used somewhere and used properly while the normalization committee as i said let's just hope they do a good job because we are losing funding from the icc yes you know we used to bring in almost a million pounds a year now we are down to probably 250 000 pounds see and also the sponsorship because nobody wants to touch anything that is always in the courts so let's hope the normalization committee but i have faith in them i think just this lady i i'll watch she's she's a steady person she's you know she's with it and i hear this vikram in there so i think i think these are these are people with you know proper upstanding so they will do a good job and i'm sure they want to see the game pick up and go everyone we speak to especially legends in these respective uh fields of you know uh sporting disciplines may it rugby athletics cricket they say that you know the standards have drastically dwindled i don't know talked to us about uh cricket during your time and what we're witnessing right now to be honest with you sponsors dwindled in this country immensely and it will take time for us to get to where we were you know if we don't clean our house if we don't get things in order sorry countries like china already preparing olympians eight years down the road not this one not tokyo they already looking at is it 2026 yes they're already looking at that when we're still looking at 2020 tokyo that's it's here that's almost gone but what about 2026 who's going to replace this guy is we're going to to be competing in three four months time you know we have to think ahead and we need to and outside the box and outside the box and we need to to have people who mean well for sports you know we don't want people will be going to for for joy rides to tokyo and you know they will be there despite this corona thing they will still that they'll still get those certificates traveling whatever they will get them you know at the expense of people who are deserving so we need to to get our house in order whoever is the cabinet secretary you know those trips that you have somebody a clerk in the ministry going for a trip with a girlfriend they will be better off taking a former sportsman or woman to travel with the team they will learn more than these people are going on holidays like what happened in free and even the 2018 world cup where we saw a group of parliamentarians going for benchmarking mission but whenever they come back we never see that input yeah there's never a report there's never reports yeah this is it you know those are the kind of things we need to cut tail we we need to get rid of those kind of things honestly because there's so many deserving people and i don't think politicians or because you're connected somewhere that you need to make that trip they should get people who are deserving to go there and we we need to get things running properly and if you ask me about football i will go original you know i will because when zoe is playing with sofa parka what crowd are you going to get but if you have kisumu county playing maybe tika united county you know you will get a crowd and there'll be more sponsorship and we need to start having these day night games as well because during the day it's not easy moris if you happen to meet president uhuru kenyatta today and you have your few minutes to talk to him what will be your message for him my message will be mr president look into matters sports because that's that's a that's an area where it can employ so many so many youth in this country and there's so much talent just make sure they have the facilities they have everything they don't like anything so that even after hitting the gym bag they don't go and find you and me and they give us one you know kayo no you know let them come from training knowing that they have food they have a little bit of money in the pocket and that's about it or just to make me be in charge of making sports growing this country i'd like to see sports growing this country just to be given that position you handle this guys of those areas and the grounds that have been grabbed should be brought back the argument the local sporting administrators and managers have heard they have attributed to for their failure to give you know former legends positions and recognize them in management dockets is because they say they don't have you know manager will know how you say you don't need to be a sportsman you you so the wanda university degree from me to tell them how to organize a tournament honestly what is there to do i'm not going there to be an accountant i'm going to give knowledge okay fine this player this coach why are they called technical directors no you can't start giving a technical director you start doing accounts you know it's not on so there are positions for this kind of people you know it's not we want to take from from the chairman to the cleaning lady no you know just positions that suits us that is all yeah and also i can also learn through the job yes this is it most people learn on the job now this this is it you know serena williams started playing tennis at the age of 16 and she has a degree when did she go to school because there's there's that flexibility where where she can study when she's free so give people that opportunity give them that chance let them be playing sports but at the same time they get to be studying where where do you think we heading sports wise is is the path progressive or otherwise i like to be optimistic okay i'm a very optimistic optimizing person i like to think that the future is bright i can see the light at the end of the tunnel okay it's just that you know it can go on like this you know because guys like us as much as we are down we will not allow it because we've invested we invested a lot in our respective games just to let it go down like that because there's there's light at the end of the tunnel and i'm sure it's not bad it's you know it can be salvaged it's it's it's not too late it's not too late the event that kenya plays bangladesh right now what do you think will be the score line because during your heydays it was like you know a titanic clash you know heavyweights looking once against each other and like in case the same happens today it will be a one-sided affair very very one-sided i in fact there we don't want to play as they will probably send their under 16 to play kenya now like those days they're not interested they've they've grown big time they've grown big time we can't touch them and they were below us we were below us we were to get test before bangladesh but now we can't touch them how was the experience playing against you know those crickets you know heavyweight nations oh it's it's something else it's you know because here you are you know playing the australians you know this this is their best you know this is a first world country and remember you are just a kid from gara here park road used to play with us ogoro right and you're playing us guys it's it's it's a good challenge you see and that is where now you also have to show what you're made of you have to be mentally tough you have to show them yes you may come from the first world you may have all the facilities but from kenya small nation will still give you a run for your money and that is how it's all about confidence david versus golyak it's the belief yeah believe back yourself trust yourself that you can do it you can deliver see we need to give this encouragement to the youngsters believe in yourself but at the moment the way things are i don't think they believe in themselves i don't think that the the the future is bright because at times i'll be honest with you maxel i look at these kids who are 18 17 smoking marihuana drinking and i'm like with these kids ever reached 30 you know what what is our life expectancy now as it dropped to what 50 so you better be careful ha ha ha so what's your message to the upcoming sportsmen the young talents outside there who are coming up and uh your words of advice your cancel to be disciplined right uh believe in yourself listen to your elders don't do what you are not supposed to do and above all be trustworthy you know be trustworthy just be a person who people can rely on be that messiah be that person the one to go to you know but have the discipline very very important without discipline you may be talented you may have all the money in the world but you must have discipline sure all those other things will come the good life the enjoyment they will never run away they will always be there but discipline people don't get to the top by luck it is because of discipline because personally you've seen it all you've played at the big stage you've enjoyed life absolutely i've seen life i've gone down there trying to make you know as i said life is a constant struggle it's it's it's never over just because i have a few shillings here doesn't mean everything is rose you know it's a constant battle and every day we learn new things we become better if we want to or we become worse so the choice is normally ours and as they say choice is off consequences how is the progress of your recovery path i am very good i'm i'm happy i'm dry i'm still alive um i don't know some people might say i've lost weight have i lost weight or do i look fit you look fit i look fit but some people might say i've lost weight but under the circumstances even if i've lost weight i won't be surprised there's a lot going on you know and hundreds and hundreds of millions of people over the world things are not the same yes sure things are not the same but we just have to hang in there as much as it's tough but i think some of the measures here can be relaxed a bit so that people can at least earn a bit otherwise otherwise at this rate i don't know it it can be bad you know it it's it's a good thing we in africa know those Arab countries otherwise would have been having sleepless nights at the state house now as we wind up less digress a little bit and talk about you know safari rally safo the last time it happened in kenya was in 2002 i know you were there you were very active you watched the proceedings and now it's coming back kenya has been reinstated to fia world rally championship calendar it will be happening this year in june to july actually in july and of course it will be getting flagged off at kaisab to naibash and a lot has been put in place it's all systems go what's your expectation like i just hope it will be like in the 70s 80s and probably it was epic back then oh it was brilliant it was brilliant you know i just used to sit by the road and see the cars just speed by you know it was amazing and i just hope it will bring back that a low at that enjoyment yes that man you know you see those cars moving but heavy machines heavy machines at terrific speed and i admire that that's why i admire people like louis amilton you know you just can never come fly no i like that and i think that's before the kufo milawani are behind laser amilton of course of course he's been doing very well i think there's another one tomorrow yes yes yes this is like grand prix to me yeah so you know those kind of things and you know we need to start bringing those sporting calendars true you know we need those you know we need to have these certain months we know we'll be having rabbi we'll be having football you know so that our schedule our calendar is packed look at wembley dawn you have this you have that why can't people make money when you have all those in a calendar year you are content you know maybe even once a year we say new zealand will be coming true that's the calendar well spoken indeed of course now that's your camera talk to the nation what's your parting shot to the entire country to the entire sporting fraternity and even to the cricket family all i can say is that fellow sportsmen and sportswomen it's tough it's tough all of us and i just pray that things will change very soon we are hurting and we are hurting a lot and i just hope president uhuru kenyata if you're watching or if you hear about this please i'm appealing to you come to our aid vijana wana umia and they have a lot of faith and trust and abilities in your work please say dear and not only that guys kenyans let's rally behind each other it's it's tough you know let's just be one it's very important you know when when when the chips are low you know this is when now you say i'm your brother i'm going to give you that helping hand let's give each other helping hand it won't cost much indeed excellent way to wind up the interview the legend himself mori so dumbe former cricket international manu played at the big stage joining us this particular afternoon to give his insights on the state of kenyan legends and of course rallying for oneness amongst kenyans in the wake of corona virus pandemic and hoping that president uhuru kenyata will leave to the kafiu and if possible open up sporting activities so that they can resume and kenyans especially those who are passionate about sports can continue earning their livelihoods from that it's been an honor having you thank you for coming through all the very best champ thank you very much this is the touch line on why too far for my name is max alwasiku we'll be taking a short break but the show is still on until three o'clock


Good morning, everyone. My name is Mark Clampine. I am president and CEO of United Potato Growers of America. And I want to thank Andy Robinson and the folks there at NDSU for having me this morning as part of the podcast series there in the Red River Valley. Well, like everything, we would certainly all like to be together in person. We will make the most of this. So what I want to do this morning is give you a quick overview of the 2021 potato market. We'll do that by taking a look at the varietal supply and price history and the trends in those varieties and take a look at a market outlook with some Red River Valley information included in that. So first of all, just like I always do, we'll start off with the yellow potato category. It's kind of the star, so to speak, of the fresh potato world, certainly in terms of growth rate. And we'll see that here in just a minute. This slide is a look at the 10-year history of fresh yellow potato shipments out of the valley there. You can see going back to 2011, the valley was well below 100,000 hundred weight shipped. And just in 10 years time, what we're now projecting to be 862,000 hundred weight shipped out of the valley there. That's more than a 10-fold increase just in that 10 years time. So a pretty incredible growth rate. A lot of that coming just in the last four years. Now last year certainly was a bit of a more down year compared to the years around it, but as all the growers there in the valley are certainly well aware. Some of that was driven by Mother Nature and the horrendous conditions that you had at harvest time. And so that certainly drove a lot of losses and drove this number down. So we'll see that being even more pronounced in the red shipments out of the valley in a minute when we look at that. So switching now to the overall US fresh yellow shipments, you can see that the trend line is similar to what it was for the Red River Valley. Certainly not quite the exponential growth that the valley had, but pretty consistent and incredible growth rate for yellow potato shipments in the fresh market. You can see back in the early 2010s, we were running between five and six million hundred weight. That growth continued all the way through to where we're now projecting over 10 million hundred weight shipped in the US for yellow potatoes for the first time ever. 10 million seven hundred and forty seven thousand to be exact. Of course, you see that little dip that we looked at the same for the for the valley there from last year. There are a few other areas that were also down a little bit. But again, we picked right up where we left off and that growth rate has continued as it had for the previous eight or nine years. This slide shows the actual yellow potato shipments in the US to date. And then going forward from this point in time, the projected shipments for the remainder of this pack here, the blue bars to the left here, those are the actual weekly shipments and the orange bars to the right are the projected weekly shipments for the rest of this pack here. You'll also notice across the bottom here we've also installed the actual Canadian numbers and the projected Canadian numbers going forward. That's that little small greenish bars on the bottom just to give you kind of a context of how much of this Canada accounts for. Again, the dash line is the last year's shipment numbers and the background is the three year average shipment. So you can see most of the year we've been just like on the previous slide, we've been shipping well above the pace of both last year and the three year average going forward. It's something similar. We're not going to quite hit last year's numbers. This was the spike due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. And so the retail potato sales just went crazy for a while for about a four to five week period here. So we won't hit those bars, but certainly yellow shipments will remain strong for the remainder of the year. Taking a look at the Red River Valley yellow shipments, you'll see something similar, very heavy shipments in the early part of the year. And going forward, we will start to more closely match the three year average. And again, staying a little bit below last year's number, especially during those four to five weeks of the pandemic onset. But certainly with those extremely heavy shipments in the early part of the year, the shipments will come a little bit more back in line with the three year average. But again, very, very positive situation in the yellow potato market for the shipment numbers and for growers going forward in this year. So just to kind of sum up the yellow potato data, the average 10 year annual growth rate in yellow category is plus 8% per year. That's that slide I showed at the outset of this. And that's a pretty, pretty incredible growth rate when you look at it over a 10 year span, especially when you compare that to two reds and russets. So we'll look at here in a minute. And then you look at last year, the growth rate versus last year was over 13%. So again, last year was a little bit of a dip, but certainly continued growth in this category. And with that supply side increase, we've also seen the demand increase in that equation. And so when you use the bail price as a proxy for a grower return, the 10, 5 pound bail price, it's up in that 16 to 18, maybe even a little bit higher dollar range. And we've talked about this before and the fact that the one difference or one of the differences in the yellow category is that there's no single geographic region that dominates the yellow market like there is in reds where it's the red river valley. And in russets where it's certainly Idaho. These are the three largest players California mostly Kern County, Idaho, San Luis Valley there in Colorado, but, but none of these are are probably more than 10 or 12% of market share and there's a number of other geographic regions right in that same category, including the red river valley. So we've always kind of asked this question, we asked it again last year with that one year growth pause is are we nearing that plateau, where the demand and supply side equation become more in balance. And you start to lose some of that positivity and the return side of the equation. And this year would suggest that with the supply increase we've seen a corresponding demand increase that we haven't quite got there yet but it is always something that we want to keep an eye on because we won't don't want to kind of tip over the back edge of that so to speak and start losing grower return. So let's switch to the red potato category. And I'll start out here, just like we did with the yellow category taking a look at the fresh red potato shipments out of the red river valley you can see the 10 year history here, and kind of keep this this overall trend in and we switch over and look at the total US but you can also see a few dips certainly in the Red River Valley shipments some of that is driven by by acreage certainly over the last few years but also as the growers there are fully fully aware is the Red River Valley is more susceptible than really any other area to mother nature due to the fact that fresh potatoes are mostly grown on dry land there in the valley and so some of these were certainly mother nature throwing curveballs at the valley there but you do see this year bouncing back just slightly over over last year back up to a little over 1.9 million hundred way projected shipments out of the valley that's certainly down from from the peak years back in the mid 2010s but it is up slightly from last year you might think that would be more with the devastation at harvest that you experienced in 2019 but actually the flip side happened this year where there was too dry of conditions in the valley and there was some certainly some losses of acreage there mostly around Grand Forks and South there a little bit because of too dry of conditions and not having the ground condition for harvest. So taking a look at the overall US fresh red potato shipments for the last 10 years you can see that that trend is somewhat similar to what the valleys chart looked like in terms of the kind of the general trend line but going back to the early 2010s and then into the mid 2010s where we kind of hit the peak in fresh red potato shipments in the US a little bit of a plateau and then dropping off here in the last few years this year we're projecting just under 12.5 million hundred weight total shift in the US that's of course up from last year but again bear in mind last year was a bit of a down years a lot of that being driven by what happened there in the valley. So looking at the overall red potato shipments for this year you can see again just like in yellows the blue bars to the left are our actual shipments to date and orange bars going forward are projected shipments. So we've gone along here somewhat above last year's numbers but more or less kind of on the three year average and going forward taking out this big spike again for the beginning of the COVID pandemic where we saw that rush on retail the same thing happened with red potatoes. Other than that we're going to probably track somewhat similar to last year's numbers but bear in mind you as you can see in this chart most of those bars are well below the three year average so again reflecting that overall lower number from from two or three years ago. And in the valley specifically you can see the shipment patterns for this year so far shipping certainly above last year's numbers in a lot of weeks but certainly well below the three year average line and going forward for a number of weeks to come here in the near future. We're expecting to be well below not only three year average the last year's numbers when we saw that spike at the onset of the again the onset of the pandemic where the big rush happened to retail for fresh potatoes which also included red potatoes. Then in kind of the April timeframe we start to get a little bit above last year's as the shipments are going to be spread out a little further towards the end of this year but again still well below those three year average numbers that you see here. Kind of summing up the red potato supply data that average 10 year growth rate is actually turned slightly negative it's now negative 0.9%. The major 2020 shifts in the crop the Red River Valley there as you saw with the numbers is going to be up about 5%. Big Lake and Central Minnesota there they had a big crop and they were up substantially 30% over the previous year Colorado and Wisconsin up 18 and 20% respectively. The other major red players Idaho Florida the Skagit Valley there Northwest Washington and Texas were essentially flat to last year in terms of shipment volumes. Canada for their 2020 crop imports to the US we expect them to be down 20% in total by the end of this year. They're not quite at that level now but we don't expect that shipping pace of really all of their fresh potatoes coming down to to to maintain as it did for the early part of this crop year so overall we expect them to be down 20%. And in terms of pricing the red price has really been what I would suggest to be more stable than it has in previous time frames and by that I mean less affected by supply shifts really than ever before. Some of that we certainly attribute to the utilization of market information provided by by our organization as well as the grower collaboration that our organization facilitates. So we really see some positives from that and being reflected in the stability of that that red pricing and again using that bail price as a proxy for return. It's probably right now in that $13 or so range for for a 10 five pound bail switching gears again to Russet potatoes just to finish this out and I won't spend much time here because it's of less importance to the valley. This is the 10 year shipment chart for the total US for fresh Russet potatoes and you can see that the trend line here would certainly be in a downward direction from 10 years ago although you could say that the last three years have been somewhat stable. Yet we are going to only for the second time ever ship below 70 million hundred weight in the US for Russets at just below 69.9 million hundred weight. And with that I will close out you can see our information there on the screen and I'll just thank you all again for having me this morning everyone have a great day.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS re-invent Executive Summit 2020 sponsored by Accenture and AWS. Welcome everyone to theCUBE virtual and our coverage of the Accenture Executive Summit which is part of AWS re-invent 2020. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight. Today we are talking about the green cloud and joining me is Kishore Durg. He is Accenture Senior Managing Director, Cloud First Global Services Lead. Thank you so much for coming on the show Kishore. Nice to meet you, Rebecca. Great to have you. So I want to start by asking you what it is that we mean when we say green cloud. We know the sustainability is a business imperative. So many organizations around the world are committing to responsible innovation, lowering carbon emissions, but what does it mean when they talk about cloud from a sustainability perspective? I think it's about responsible innovation. Green cloud is a thoughtful cloud first approach that helps boost your profits and benefit the clients by helping reduce carbon emissions. Think about it this way. And you have a large number of data centers and each of these data centers are increasing by 14% every year. And this double digit growth comes with a price, Rebecca. What we are seeing is these global data centers consume a lot of power and the consumption is nearly equivalent to the consumption of a country like Spain. So the magnitude of the problem that is out there and how do we pursue a green approach? If you look at just our Accenture Analysis in terms of the migrations to public cloud, we have seen that we can reduce that by 59 million tons of CO2 per year. And with just the 5.9% reduction in total emissions and equates this to 22 million cars of the road and the magnitude of reduction can go a long way in meeting climate change commitments, particularly for data sensitive businesses. Wow, that's incredible. The numbers that you're putting forward are absolutely mind blowing. So how does it work? Is it a simple cloud migration? So when companies begin their cloud journey and then they confront with them a lot of questions, the decision to make in this particular element sustainable in their solution and benefits they drive and they have to make wise choices and they will gain unprecedented level of innovation leading to both a greener planet as well as a greener balance sheet, I would say. So effectively it's all about ambition, greater the ambition, greater the reduction in carbon emissions. So from a cloud migration perspective, we look at it as a simple solution with approaches and sustainability benefits that vary based on things. It's about selecting the right cloud provider, a very carbon thoughtful provider and the first step towards a sustainable cloud journey. And here we're looking at cloud operators, obviously they have different corporate commitments towards sustainability and that determines how they plan, how they build their data centers, how they power and the consumptions that operate there and how they retire their data centers. Then the next element that you wanna do is how do you build your ambition? For some of the companies, an average on-prem drives about 65% energy reduction and carbon emission reduction of about 84%, which is kind of okay and good, I would say, but then if you could go up to 98% by configuring applications to the cloud, that is significant benefit for the world and obviously it's a greener cloud that we're talking about. And then the question is how far can you go? And obviously the companies have to unlock greater financial, societal and environmental benefits and Accenture has this cloud-based circular operations and sustainable products and services that we bring into play. So it's a very thoughtful, broader approach that we're bringing in terms of just a simple concept of cloud migration, Rebecca. So we know that in the COVID era, shifting to the cloud has really become a business imperative. How is Accenture working with its clients at a time when all of this movement has been accelerated? How do you partner and what is your approach in terms of helping them with their migrations? Yeah, I mean, let me talk a little bit about the pandemic and the crisis that is there today. And if you really look at that in terms of how we've partnered with a lot of our clients in terms of the cloud-first approach, I'll give you a couple of examples. We've worked with Rolls-Royce, McLaren, DHL and others as part of the Ventlator UK Challenge Consortium. Again, to coordinate production of medical ventilators urgently needed for the UK Health Service. Many of these firms have taken similar initiatives in terms of, you know, from perfume manufacturers hand sanitizers and to hand sanitizers and again, leading fashion labels making PPA. And again, at the UN General Assembly, we launched the end-to-end integration guide that helps company essentially to have a sustainable development goals. And that's how we're partnering at a very large scale. And if you really look at how we work with our clients and what is the Accenture's role there, you know, from in terms of our clients, you know, there are multiple steps that we look at. One is about planning, building, deploying and managing an optimal green cloud solution. And Accenture has this concept of helping clients with a platform to kind of achieve that goal. And here, we are having a platform called Minav which has a module called Green Cloud Advisor. And this is the capability that helps you provide optimal green cloud, you know, a business case and obviously a blueprint for each of our clients. And right from the start in terms of how do we complete cloud migration recommendation to an improved solution accuracy to obviously bringing in the end-to-end perspective, you know, with this Green Cloud Advisor capability we're helping our clients capture what we call as a carbon footprint for existing data centers and provide, I would say the current cloud CO2 emission score that, you know, obviously helps them with carbon credits that can further their green agenda. So essentially, this is about recommending a green index score, reducing carbon footprint for migration, migrating for greener cloud. And if you really look at how Accenture itself is practicing what we preach, 95% of our applications are in the cloud and this migration has helped us to lead to about $40.5 million in benefit. And in the third year and another 3 million annualized costs that are saved through right-sizing service consumption. So it's a very broad umbrella and a footprint in terms of how we engage societally with the UN or our clients and what is it that we exactly bring to our clients in solving a specific problem? Accenture is walking the walk, as you say. Yes. So that is that we practice what we preach and that is something that we take it to heart. We want to have a responsible business and we want to practice it and we want to advise our clients around that. You are your own use case and so they know they can take your advice. So talk a little bit about the global, the cooperation that's needed. We know that conquering this pandemic is going to take a coordinated global effort and talk a little bit about the great reset initiative. First of all, what is that? Why don't we start there and then we can delve into it a little bit more. Okay, so before we get to how we are cooperating, the great reset initiative is about improving the state of the world and it's about a group of global stakeholders cooperating to simultaneously manage the direct consequences of their COVID-19 crisis and in spirit of this cooperation that we're seeing during COVID-19, which will obviously either to post pandemic to tackle the world's pressing issues, as I say, we're encouraging companies to realize a combined potential of technology and sustainable impact to use enterprise solutions to address with urgency and scale and obviously multiple challenges that are facing our world. One of the ways that we're encouraging companies to reach their greenest cloud with Accenture's cloud for strategy is to build a solid foundation that is resilient and would pivot through faster to the current as well as future times. Now, when you think of cloud as the foundation that drives the digital transformation, it's about scale, speed, streamlining your operations and obviously reducing costs. And as these businesses sees the construct of cloud first, they must remain obviously responsible and trusted. Now, think about this as part of our analysis that profitability can coexist with responsible and sustainable practices. Let's say that all the data centers migrated from on-prem to cloud-based, we estimate that would reduce carbon emissions globally by 60 million tons per year. And think about it this way, right? The easier metric would be taking out 22 million cars off the road. The other examples that we've seen right in terms of the NHS work that we're doing in UK to build a Microsoft team-based integration and the platform we rolled out for 1.2 million NHS users.  So this work that we did with NHS is something that we are collaborating with a lot of tools and powering businesses on our mission. Well, you're vividly describing the business case for sustainability. What do you see as the future of cloud when thinking about it through this lens of sustainability? And also going back to what you were talking about in terms of how you are helping, you're fostering cooperation within these organizations. Yeah, that's a very good question of it. So if you look at today, right? Businesses are obviously environmentally aware and they are expanding at first to decrease power consumption, carbon emissions. And they want to run a sustainable operational efficiency across all elements of their business. And this is an increasing trend and there is that option of energy efficient infrastructure in the global market. And this trend is the cloud first thinking and with the right cloud migration that we've been discussing is about unlocking new opportunity like clean energy transitions. Enable by cloud-based geographic analysis, material waste reductions and better data insights. And this is something that will drive with obviously faster analytics platform that is out there. Now the sustainability is actually the future of business which is companies that are historically different the financial security or agility benefits to cloud. Now sustainability becomes an imperative for them. And our own experience, Accenture's experience with cloud migrations we have seen 30 to 40% total cost of ownership savings and it's driving a greater workload flexibility, better service server utilization and obviously more energy efficient public clouds that cost obviously that drive a lot of these enterprise own data centers. So in our view, what we are seeing is that this sustainable cloud position helps companies to drive a lot of the goals in addition to their financial and other goals. So what should organizations who are watching this interview and saying, hey, I need to know more what do you recommend to them and where should they go to get more information on green cloud? You know, if you're a business leader and you're thinking about which cloud provider is good how should applications be modernized to meet our day-to-day needs, which cloud driven innovations should be priorities, you know that's why Accenture formed the cloud first organization and essentially to provide the full stack of cloud services to help our clients become a cloud first business. You know, it's all about accelerating the digital transformation, innovating faster, creating differentiated and sustainable value for our clients and we are powering it up 70,000 cloud professionals, $3 billion investment and bringing together unmatched depth and breadth of cloud services for our clients in terms of cloud solutions and obviously the ecosystem partnership that we have that we are seeing today and the assets that help our clients realize their goals and again to do reach out to us we can help them determine obviously an optimal sustainable cloud first solution that meets the business needs and green unprecedented levels of innovation. Our experience will be your advantage and now more than ever Rebecca. So just closing us out here do you have any advice for these companies who are navigating a great deal of uncertainty? What do you think the next 12 to 24 months what do you think that should be on the minds of CIOs as they go forward? So as CIOs are thinking about rapidly leveraging cloud migrating to cloud, one of the elements that we want them to be thoughtful about is can they do that with unprecedented level of innovation but also build a greener planet and a greener balance sheet? If we can achieve this balance and kind of have a world which is greener I think the world will win and we all along with Accenture and our clients will win. That's what I would say, Rebecca. That is an optimistic outlook and I will take it. Thank you so much CIO for coming on the show. Thank you so much. That was Accenture's Keyshore Dirk. I'm Rebecca Knight. Stay tuned for more of the CUBE virtuals coverage of the Accenture Executive Summit.


Hello everybody, I'm Lisa from Germany. This week I did my TEFL examination and I can recommend to you the ITTT TEFL. Because before I did it, I was doing a lot of research and I was checking a lot of websites and I was also worried, is it maybe too difficult for me? Does it take too long? Do I have enough time? Is it too expensive? And after doing some research, I decided for ITTT because it has quite good reviews. And after finishing the test, I can say I'm pretty satisfied. I've learned some stuff about how to structure my lessons. I learned a lot of activities which I will use next month when I go back to China and whenever you have time, you can do a little bit. You can do a whole lecture. You can do three units if you want. It's totally up to you. How long you will take and they give you like more than 180 days to complete the whole course. So you have a lot of time and actually I'm really satisfied with it.


Hey, everybody Shaber 1000 here as you can see we're heading back into the forest Looking for Camping spot Hopefully ours is open And I'll be back with you in just a second Stick around guys cue the intro. I'm here. I'm not set up yet all the way. I did process some firewood I saved you from that Just chopped some stuff up got it ready. I Got something cool. I'm going to do for supper tonight Not my hammock. I'm just going to have to put it on the ground because you know it is also ground, baby I'm gonna put it right in here tomorrow night monkeys coming out So we're gonna there's a root here. So we're gonna set the tent up like right here Sorry about the wind and then that way, you know the truck will be right here and And you know she can go out and then when she's done for the night I'll back it in for and hook the tent up to it But so I'm gonna just put my ground baby probably right here right in here, I think because That's a good thing about that thing if you can't find the right trees Which would have been flying from this tree to that tree, but then I'm kind of taking up two spots And I didn't want to do that so The good thing about that night cat Is I can put it in trees or in this situation and there was a lot of people up in that area. So In this situation, it's great because I can just use it as a ground baby So I'm just gonna walk around here and make sure you know, I don't get here like that room. There's a roof right there Again sorry for the wind but So yeah, I Think I'll set it up right here Let me there you get I'll set it up right there all time laps you brought a couple different tripod I Did bring a tarp a tarp and two trekking poles But I have nothing put a ridge line up so but that's all right. It's not gonna rain or anything so But yeah, I'll put it up. I think right here. I don't know Maybe I Might just put it up right here Yeah, I think I'll just put it up right here. This looks nice Yeah, because we usually set our tent up right here When we camp here, so I think I'll just set it up right there. Let me get you set up for time laps and Yeah We'll get that set up and then we'll start on the fire so Cool I'm gonna make something with that. It's pretty cool. So anyway Yeah, I haven't done it in a while So let me get you set up with the other camera on this tripod the $400 tripod that I bought for five bucks I am missing a foot, but that's okay. That's tungsten there But that's all right, so I'll get you set up on this one I did bring my selfie stick which turns into a tripod, but it's real windy. So Yeah, no big deal and we might take a walk before we start to fire We'll take a walk up through here. See what's happening All right, stick around. Hey Brian check this out. I got my camera my mic system and an extra battery Right in there waterproof. That's waterproof anyway, but you get the idea. That's pretty cool Thanks again, Brian. Thanks Marla. Yes guys. I don't think I'm going to put the rainfly on it It's not supposed to rain tonight Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna put that I'm gonna pass on the rainfly And that way I'll be nice and cool in there If it does start raining It goes on real fast. It's not a big deal. So Go ahead and put my Put my air Air pad in there my air mattress air pad. I was right the first time And then we'll uh, we'll go from there. All right, so Make sure you're back down.  I said a cot. She said one of those camping cots So we'll turn around. Let's go check So we ended up buying it on the way out here 15 bucks. It's got two little rips in it, but I can sell them or hatch them This should this should do all right because Because I can blow this up with my mouth at no time. That's not pushing the thing Yeah, this came from team. I don't know what she gave for it. Okay. It's blowing it up All right, I'll speed you up so you don't have to listen to this try with my mouth this thing I don't know about that thing It's a lot better. I'm just gonna put this inside my sleeping bag. There we go Now I do have an inflatable pillow in there, but where do I put that pump? But it does have a light on it and it is rechargeable so I probably bumped my head on that but There's a light for me Oh, and I did bring a blanket in case I had to be in case I got to put it up in there, which I like better, but This I was going to lay down underneath everything because I don't have an under quilt But I'm just going to use it for a pillow tonight And I think we'll be good to go I mean if I really had to in a big hurry It's not for me, but I'll pick it up I could just throw my tarp on top of it, but I think we'll be all right Okay guys, so let's just take a little walk up through here I don't know what the mic is sounding like the camera. It's kind of maxing out, but on the On the receiver. It's staying right where it should be. So I'm not sure Still, you know learning curve. I got I got the the dead cat on it so And we got somebody walking up on us. I'll just turn you around to face me for a minute Walking around here. I'll show you some of the campsite up here So All right, I'll turn you back around now. There we go. Excuse me. I thought about Putting my hammock right here on this tree I think that would have been a great idea Hang it right underneath that. Monk asked me. She said you want to do that and I'm like, well I kind of did but Since we're back there. I thought, you know, if somebody comes in through the night and takes that spot You know, then we're looking for another spot. So And we're out here in the open now This is the way you come in.  We're back We're up here again. Sorry if you can hear the wind, but it's very very windy We're having gusts up to 25 And 30 in this area Sustained winds from 5 to 10 so looks like They're making a bigger back in here I see where they've cut a tree down but I like this back in here Wow This is nice Yeah, this is really cool This would be like Giving on a beach here Check it out. This is neat Oh man, they're gonna get me an e-bike I'm not supposed to walk far I'm not like real far per se, but farther than what I'm supposed to walk Wow, yeah That's pretty cool back in here Now I've been over in that section straight ahead before I think I I think I filmed that once but Yeah, I've been over and way over in there Nice to I mean you could put a hammock up in there. No problem I don't know if somebody's had a fire there Yeah, I'm guessing they did Sometimes they do control burns in places like this, but that kind of looked like a fire Someone had a fire there There's a blue marking on that tree over there. So this is part of a trail Yeah, see how the bottom of this tree is burnt And the bottom of that one's burnt Probably controlled burn So this this must be part of the blue trail That I didn't know existed So if you take this blue trail It'll take you over to Our other campsite On the river Yeah, this is This is really cool So I don't know if you're allowed to camp back in here, but I don't see why you wouldn't be Should be coming up to the water about where them pine trees are kind of turned in the camera to see if uh See if I got a set right to where It still stays straight and I'm not sure if I do or not, but Yeah Yeah, people's been hiking and I see a lot of boot prints through here Yeah, there's the swamp straight ahead about a hundred yards but Last time I was clear over there Yeah, this tree Yeah This tree didn't make it Work off right there Let's see Yeah, there's the swamp So if I walk around the swamp I'll get back to our campsite I think that's what I'm going to do Yeah Maybe if it doesn't get too thick if I don't Run into a hog and have to climb a damn tree That hasn't happened to me yet, but God, well, but it has happened to people Just not not me Yeah, I'm just going to keep walking around here till I get back to the campsite if I see anything interesting or Or something happens like getting chased up a tree by a hog I'll try to kick you back on real quick But anyway See you back at camp and we'll start a fire. Just wanted to take you on a little walk so Show you some of the the woods here and uh Meet you back there. This is beautiful in here The campgrounds not ours, but are right over there Or to right over here because I just seen the top of the portapotty over there throughout clearing but I was looking at these two trees right here That one and that one That's perfect for a hammock setup Oh, yeah Look at this. This is nice Nothing but wilderness Oh, this would be so cool The our campsites back over and straight there but I think we're going to come out here Yeah Look at this That monkey dropped me off right there and I like right back in here.  I just got another call So, yeah, I can get I get pretty good service Uh If I'm sitting down in the chair by the fire pit I get four bars And if I stand up And stand over like by Where the My bivvy tent is I actually get 5g So, you know Maybe I'll do a live stream tonight There's our Camp site right straight through there. Yeah, that's pretty cool Yeah That's awesome I'll have to remember that on my next solo Huh Cool All right guys Let's get a fire going Okay guys again. Sorry for the wind Really don't like building a fire in this much wind Um I could probably just use my stove Won't be the same though All right, here we go. I just got some dryer land here pulled it out of the dryer. It's a little while ago You're recording Like I said, I I did all this fire prepping earlier Another good thing about having a phone with me. I can watch some youtube videos tonight Watch your guys's videos and sorry for the wind Catching pretty quick with that wind Let's got some colds down in there. Let's try this again I probably could take my time and blow that into a flame, but there we go But why waste my energy when I can just do that I see they changed the fire pit here. Remember it used to be all bent up not now We've got a better one I mean it worked for us I don't know if there's any burning bands on tonight or not I don't see anybody else having a fire, but then again It is pretty hot, but still we got the wind. It's not bad I mean I did start sweating quite a bit walking, but I always do so All right, I'm gonna get this going And then once it's going I'll kick you back on and we'll prepare our supper because it is 5 30 so I'm getting kind of hungry. I didn't eat lunch today So let me get this going Okay guys, so Got some bread here and I got some ham And some cheese I forgot mayonnaise But that's okay We're just gonna make Out of these little pie irons. We're just gonna make some hot pockets I didn't bring any oil or grease or anything. So Hopefully they turned out all right So I'm gonna make some ham and cheese Kind of like a hot pocket Hear the air boats over there the other side on here These are just pie irons. You make little pies.  So I just use this plastic here So let's put this on the fire And let's let it cook. Okay. Now. I'm just gonna Kind of set. I wonder if that's hot enough to I want to bump you guys Yeah, I'm just gonna do like that I'll bring you back when this is done. I'll let it cook for a few minutes on one side And then I'll flip it over and do the other side. I'll just do that a few times And then uh, then we'll try it out. What is that? I don't have my glasses on but I've got these at Walmart. They're kind of flimsy, but what I like about them Which I never did do and I should have So there's a little bit of rust on the outside of that one but um You can unscrew these handles And you can oil these up And stick them in the fire or or throw them in the uh oven and you can season them So maybe we've got air boats. We got airplanes All right guys, I'll be back with you I think I hear the cheese melting in there or something sizzling Let's bring it out here and check it out Like I like I said, I can take my knife Cut the burnt edges off what that does it it's supposed to do that on purpose So that way if you're making pies or something it seals it off So you have a nice little pocket pie I did find me a little cutting board. I forgot I had in my in my pack. So Oh Looks nice. Let's see Okay Oh, that's nice and toasted All right This this I could have used a little bit more, but I think it's going to be all right Nice and hot man. That smells good All right, let me let this cool down a little bit. I'm going to put a couple more on more on a couple more on the fire And then Then we'll try it out and see what it tastes like. Okay. Let's see what it looks like Oh, yeah that cheese is melted fine All right, let's give this a shot. I did let it cool down a little bit You can taste the smoke When I opened it up to check it the smoke gets in there That is awesome So you guys yeah, you should try that We made pies with them before little apple pies and stuff, but um I think what I I'll make for monkey sometime because tomorrow I'm going to build a big hot fire and let it get nice the coals nice and Ready and we're going through a couple racks of ribs right on that fire, but You can also put tomato sauce in there and some Whatever meat you want.  All right I'm gonna make a few more Well, probably one more Because that was like a half a pound But I put some meat on I doubled up on that one. So After that one, I got one cooking right now after that one. I'm gonna make another one. I'll finish eating Then I don't know what we're going to do Uh Maybe we'll do a funny story time then we'll do a scary story time later on tonight. I don't know We just have to see so stick around Uh more video to come Hopefully I don't get attacked or something, but we'll see what happens Monkey also got these for me Taranaki Beef jerky. Mmm. I'm I'm oh no. I've been robbed. This has already been opened. Someone's been eating I'm gonna blame this on monkey Okay, I did it Very good Thanks monk Okay, so I'm gonna do a Kind of a quick story time here Just to kind of kill some time because it is As you can see it's still really daylight it's about 17 minutes till seven so I'm trying out this this cot I thought You know why why carry it back home when you know tomorrow she's going to be bringing out more stuff So I just brought it out. I thought I'm gonna try it out. It is pretty comfortable This pillow I don't know It's better than nothing but um so We was I think it was the first time we camped in this spot here well this Here we're in oak hammock and Uh, this is the only spot we've ever camped in here in oak hammock. So this spot here It's the farthest one. I see a white jeep just pulled in here. So um but It's you know kind of back in its own area. It's nice and shady and So yeah, it's nice back in here. So it was sitting here one night Gamers weren't rolling.  I see yeah, get him in the truck is hit hit chase stuff. He don't care. He don't care if it's a snake Armadillo, it doesn't matter. He'll chase it So I didn't know if it was a hog or a bear, but it wasn't a armadillo Them things do get noisy, but this wasn't I mean you could feel like the stomping So had to be a big old hog or you know a small bear or something but That night because we kept talking about it and She was like, yeah, that's that's pretty scary So I gave I gave her the machete and I had to hatch it just in case a hog would come out I'm not worried about bears.  She said no She said they can't unzip this tent. I was like, oh well that explains it. She said see I'm right. They can't unzip the tank. Can I I said no? They got like five inch claws. They don't need to unzip the tent and she looked at me went Oh And I said beside the truck the truck locks, you know, I mean Sure, you know, they they have known to lift handles and get people's vehicles, but if it's locked You know, she thought well, they can't they don't have thumbs. They can't unzip that tent They got four or five inch claws. They don't need to unzip the tent. This is nylon.   I said you brought food in the tent. That's what started it Yeah Oh my god So Quick story for you. Yeah, I think this will be all right for her And then I think with her pad too I mean she laid on it And with her pad, I think this will be all right because it's easier for her Because it's a little higher than getting straight up off the ground. So Yeah, I think she'd be all right on this thing It's not too bad like I said, if she you know Her air pad just you know, don't pump it up all the way just Her air pad and I think she'd be all right on this on this thing. We'll find out tomorrow though Because she said well Because she kept saying well, what about you? It's for you First of all, this ain't gonna fit in my hammock But I didn't say that But I said why what for you know, I'm good on my on my pad, you know, she said well, you know When you're in the tent because she says when we're together we truck camp Because you know the tent hooks onto the truck now and she still sleeps up in the truck I said yeah, but huh and I said what if you know, we can't like over at the river we can't Pull right up to the campsite anymore. You got to park and then walk over to your campsite Oh, yeah, yeah, then I'll need it in the tent one But yeah, so that's a good story time That girl's so funny to be around. Let me tell you Yeah, I think they're setting up there. I just seen them back up there. So But it's not like they got kids, but at least the kids are out enjoying themselves and not Sitting at home doing this stuff. You know what I mean? So it's good to see them out Kids out enjoying the outdoors and parents taking them to enjoy the outdoors, you know Oh, they're hauling a freaking log out of there. I think they're getting wood You gotta see that I hope they're not gonna lay them right on that So they must just be looking for wood. There's a lot of wood up there where we um Where we was walking at earlier There's a lot of pre-cut wood up in there They could get and use it's fine, but I mean, you know Still fire My fire kind of died down. It got down to coals. They are they're riding that freaking log some people Yeah, they were They were riding that log The kid was on it too While she's pulling that log They were riding on it. Okay, whatever I don't know. There's more forced up that way. You know, I got plenty of wood, but I don't know why what they're going to use to cut that up. I hope they don't have a noisy chainsaw, you know, hope they have an electric or battery powered one But anyway, my fire I threw some stuff on it So it'll catch here in a minute and then I'm gonna go ahead and get them Get them pie irons real hot And let them cool down on their own And then I'll build a fire By that time it should be ready to build a fire Should be dark enough, but yeah, it's uh, it's still we can see where the sun's at But it's you know It's uh Staying daylight a lot longer. So All right guys enough chit chat for now. I'll be back with you. Okay guys, so Just got off the live stream I don't know 20 minutes ago or something So, yeah, uh Just hanging out now Listen to some music. I'm gonna watch a little youtube and um I don't know. It's gonna go for a walk, but My legs are hurting from that walk I took earlier So It almost 7 000 steps just in that walk. That's not counting since I've been here. So Not a lot for some people but for me it is Didn't used to be but I ain't young like he used to be Yes, I'm just sitting here, you know listening to the frogs and the crickets and Well, I don't know if those are crickets. I hear some crickets over there.  It's about 11 minutes till nine Oh boy So, yeah, I'm gonna watch some youtube and uh, so thanks for everyone that joined in the live stream. I appreciate that Wasn't that great of a live stream Pretty good content, but the live stream like I said, I'm you know, so far away from cell phone towers You know, I'm not far from town, but I'm kind of kind of a ways from a cell phone tower. So I'm surprised they got out Glad I did but So anyway, yeah, I'll kick you back on here shortly for you guys It'll be in just a second. But for me, it'll be a little bit I'm just gonna I got a nice fire going 68 degrees so I'm not gonna put any more wood on it probably because you know, that's a hot fire and it's not really cold out It's not even chilly out. It's it's nice. It's beautiful out. So I'll be back with you guys in a minute. So stick around. Okay guys, so I'm in my bivvy And you guys are touching the ceiling right now That's okay So it's 114 am and of course So just I'm not ready for bed yet So I'm watching any youtube.  I don't know I like to google things and just learn about different stuff. So Anyway guys That's gonna do it for day slash night one Excuse me and I'll catch you guys in the morning And uh, I'll kick you on. I'm not gonna make any breakfast or anything. So Just gonna kick you on.  I'll try to kick you back on then But until then good night guys I'll see you in the morning It's about eight o'clock Been up for a little bit. I was just hanging out in my little bivvy over there Yeah, that was That a good night. Uh, when I did get to sleep, I slept really well. So yeah, that's pretty good. Let me uh Little fire going started So yeah, just kind of hanging out Monkey won't be out until later. So Yeah, that's pretty much it Nothing nothing attacked me last night.  I think I think they were armadillos. I could hear them like chattering, you know Kind of do like a possum what a possum and Raccoon does they were kind of chattering They started getting on my nerves after About 20 minutes of that.  So That was pretty cool.  That wasn't too far away. That was just It's right on the other side and then palm fronds there those They were running around chasing each other Probably looking for food or something.   I gotta set the tent up Gotta cook a couple racks of ribs. So I gotta get a fire going because It is afternoon already 1235 and she's just now leaving but uh, so uh Yeah, I just been listening to the stories, you know from youtube Not true stories. They don't tell you they're not true, but you know, they're not true. They're just way outlandish stuff It's kind of like a good movie. You know, it's not true, but you watch it But they were good stories nonetheless, they were really good and creative so I don't mind that I just wish they would you know Because you get to read the comments and people's actually believing this stuff. Wow. I can't believe that That really happened. You know, it didn't you know Someone made that story up or wrote the story, which was a great story Just it never happened. No possible way it could happen but Yeah, so I guess that's going to be this is going to be my outro I let my fire die down.   So you know, like I said, I set up Probably till 3 30 going on four and I was up about 7 30 this morning And uh, but I got I got a couple hours time lapse for you. Um, so You can kind of see what the stars are doing Every once in a while, you'll see like it'll look red. That's probably I figure from the glow of the fire you know Even though I had the camera pointing away from it, you know, it's still I figure that's what that was from. So Yeah, all right guys. Well, thanks for watching My solo camp out. Thanks for you know again for joining me on my little live stream and um Stay tuned for another video I I uh Reserved I reserved this place until Monday just in case because remember last time when we camped a monkey said She got another night. We should stay another night I was like Yeah, so I just went ahead and reserved one anyway just in case she wants to stay another night. I got another night So all right guys again, thanks for watching. I appreciate it. Shea bearer the myth the man alleged. I'm gone for now Sorry, I totally forgot about the second story time last night. I had a pretty good one, but you know, I'll tell it to you at night Uh in the next video, it'll be in the next video. So it'll be camping with monkey Sorry guys. Shea bearer the myth the man alleged. I'm gone for now again. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it Stupid cruise We'll see you in the next one. Have a great weekend. Bye. Bye guys. Take care Hi, buddy Here he comes Hi, buddy Got your uniform on today, huh? Hi, monk You sell them on my west. I know I've seen you Yeah, you used to buy a firewood. Yeah. Oh my it was a nice night. Yeah, you stay up all night Not all night Did you sleep out here? No, I did my outro In the tent and then I couldn't sleep. So I was like, man, it's a nice night. So I just came outside by the fire till I ran out of wood Well, we'll have to get some We was gonna have to get some anyway to cook those ribs Yeah, so I figured we put up the tent That way you could take your stuff home And the people know we're here. So they don't take our spot All right, and then we'll all bring the rest of the other stuff up when we come back All right, okay


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From a place that no one has ever gone live before on YouTube Thanks to Elon Musk and the Starlink There it is right there.  They'll never guess who's up here. Oh, we are connected again. Yeah, we're good There he is Cameron on that shale. Look at the shale. He's pulled off of this pit We're running it. We got 12 minute loads turn around Cameron We're losing some connection here guys. We're in the middle of north main up here in zone two up above Portage Lake I got the Elon mobile behind me as you could see first time running the Starlink and it's connected to a star, I guess so We're getting some love from China main. We're getting some love from just about We got 17 people watching already You guys know who's they're watching from Wisconsin. They're watching from China. Let us a free What are they gonna win a free piece of shale From the North Main Woods I'm gonna yeah, we're reconnected. Sorry about the oh, we got somebody from dammer Scott. I read my neck of the woods But there he is there's brand. He's right. He's been running that machine for a day and a half Right steady hasn't got off yet, but wants to pay is that a moose walking off the road down there No might be Can't quite tell But there he is guys, that's that's the man the myth alleged. Oh got somebody watching in Chicago right now Yeah, I'm gonna let you guys know where we are. We are in if you type in Portage Lake, Maine We are north and west of that in all Alright, we're reconnecting. Sorry about the connection guys But if you know where we were if you Google Portage Lake, Maine, you'll see why The Starlink's not in the best spot right here. I guess we got to move a couple of these trees We've been moving trees pretty steady for the last couple days Brandon come up with Cameron Donnie's working harder than half the people his age right now. That's the truth Yep got somebody watching from Hanover, Pennsylvania We got anybody from down east main watching But this is the only crew I could hire that was foolish enough to come up here They charge $50 for the trip And they said they'd give you a rebate If they didn't do a good enough job So Yeah, the food's been pretty good Yep Boys slept with a lot of females last night Too bad they were mice Holland Oh, are we back guys Buffer and supposed to be for Joe Biden not for Joe Holland. That's hilarious. Wild West Yeah, I think we're back. I think we're back on brando There's Brandon right there the first person who could tell me who that is For my ice fishing videos is going to win a free piece of shale Hand-picked custom shale might be the one piece we just picked out of one of our trailer tires Yeah, but we've been doing good Crushing it. It's it's been pretty warm guys. Um, yeah, they're saying this is a strange fishing video I Bet you he could catch that thing Yeah, it is warm up here guys yesterday was a hot one on he had a little bit of a problem We thought we was going to bring him to the hospital. He wasn't feeling good. I think he got some heat stroke But now he's feeling a lot better stonington main Wild west that down east enough Yeah Ain't him But there's Brandon. There's a moose walking right off the road there. I'll show you where we are guys. We're We are in northern Maine no joke rugged country And we're gonna be building the wilderness camp this trip. We're laying the groundwork. We're doing the earthwork for it So the next time we come up we can start on the floor system But appreciate you guys appreciate all support. Don't know if I'm gonna lose you again Like I said, that's the star link right there every time I say that it disconnects But that's the first time we're using it and I'm not quite in the best spot Oh, they love Brandon's tracker boat It's used wicked had Yeah, ben cluster said the I don't know if you know ben but but uh, he's seen your tracker before yeah He that thing's been rode had put it. She's yeah, she's been put away Yeah, all right guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna end this live here just because I'm sure it's Really frustrating for you guys to watch something that keeps buffering or reconnecting or whatever But if you got anything to say, we'll read the comments. I'm gonna see donny And Cameron in a minute right now you got me and brandon here So if you have any questions or comments for us, I'm gonna get it to these guys no matter what even if we Even if uh, we we get the video. They're saying get a video out


Want to learn about stocks, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the metaverse? Join RichTV.io. Hey guys, how are you doing? This is your boy Rich from RichTV Live. We got big breaking news from Solagenics, SNGX on the NASDAQ. Solagenics, put on your radar, put on your watch list, big breaking news, announced submission of new drug application to the FDA for a hybride in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Huge breaking news exclusively here on RichTV Live. We're gonna break down the news. We're gonna look at the chart. We're gonna break down the opportunity right here, right now. Solagenics announces submission of new drug application to the FDA for a hybride in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Huge, huge breaking news exclusively here on RichTV Live from Solagenics, Inc. On the NASDAQ listed under the symbol SNGX. This is what it looks like here. This is the chart and we're gonna break down the news. I just wanna kinda show you on chart where it looks. You can see currently sitting at 54 cents. It's got a high, I'm just under a dollar and a low in the last year of 38 cents and currently sitting right at 54 at the bottom of the Fibonacci. So lots of room for this to go higher and lots of room for this to extend to those higher zones and get back to those higher levels. So great opportunity as far as I'm concerned for investors at these levels. Now let's get into the news. Big breaking news. Solagenics or the company, a late stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need announced today that is submitted a new drug application, NDA to the United States, US Food and Drug Administration, FDA for Hybride, which is trademarked. And you can see here some of the things they specialize right on their website at solagenics.com. Now this is for synthetic hyporocene in the treatment of early stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma otherwise known as CTCL, a rare cancer an area of unmet medical need affecting over 25,000 patients in the United States. The company estimates the potential worldwide market for Hybride to be in access of 250 million for the treatment of CTCL. So this is huge breaking news and you can find all the information you're looking for right on the company website at solagenics.com. The submission of our NDA is significant milestone for Solagenics positioning us well to fulfill our promise to offer an innovative first in-class therapy to the CTCL community of patients, families and healthcare professionals stated Christopher J. Shaver PhD president and chief executive officer of Solagenics. CTCL is an incredibly difficult to treat orphan disease and remains an area of unmet medical need with a very limited number of safe and effective treatment options. So you can learn more about this and everything we're talking about right on the company website. You can see featured videos and I'm also gonna show you a little bit of information here on the website. You can find their corporate presentation, latest news and resources right here on their website. You wanna look at pipeline and programs, click on pipeline and programs about Solagenics, click on about Solagenics and you can learn everything about the company right on their website. Now further into the news, the clinical results we've generated throughout the development program support the potential for hybrid to serve as an important frontline treatment in the management of this chronic cancer. So a huge, huge focus and area of concern and obviously almost everybody has been touched by cancer and this is a company that's really focusing on solving some huge, huge needs. We look forward to working with the FDA through the review process as the NDA has been granted both FDA orphan drug and fast track designations. We anticipate potential approval in the second half of 2023 as we continue advancing our preparations for US launch which is currently targeted for the first quarter 2024 about cutaneous T cell lymphoma CTCL. So this is obviously a topic of focus. This is huge breaking news and of course we're bringing it to you first. You can learn more about Solagenics right here on their social media. This is their Instagram. This is their Twitter. All of this is found right on their website at the bottom of the page. This is their Facebook and their YouTube. I'd love to get to know companies by following everything they do. You can see their areas of focus here and you can see their partners. And here it is, cutaneous T cell lymphoma. So a little bit more about it.  Unlike most NHLs which generally involve B cell lymphocytes involved in producing antibodies, CTCL is caused by an expansion of malignant T cell lymphoma sites. Normally programmed to mitigate to the skin. These malignant cells migrate to the skin where they form various lesions, typically beginning as patches and may progress to raised tumors. Mortality is related to the stage of CTCL with median survival generally ranging from about 12 years in the early stages to only 2.5 years when the disease has advanced. There's currently no cure for CTCL. Typically CTCL lesions are treated and regressed but usually return either in the same part of the body or in new areas. CTCL constitutes a rare group of NHLs occurring in about 4% of the approximately 700,000 individuals living with the disease. It is estimated based upon review of historic published studies and reports and interpolation of data on the incidence of CTCL that affects over 25,000 individuals in the United States with approximately 3,000 new cases seen annually. So this is a major need and this is what Solagenix is focused on as a major focus right now. And you can see here more information on the website. You can continue to just scroll down and learn all of this information right at Solagenix.com and feel free to learn more there. You can see who they're partnering with and there's an investor section as well for investors within our community that wanna learn more about the company. You wanna learn about their stock data, feature presentations, some quick links right here under investors. Now a little bit about Solagenix. Solagenix is a late stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need. Their specialized biotherapeutics business segment is developing and moving towards commercialization of hybrid SGX-301 or synthetic hyperacine. A novel photodynamic therapy utilizing safe visible light for the treatment of cutaneous T cell lymphoma otherwise known as CTCL. You wanna learn more about the company you can see right here right on their website everything you need to know right at your fingertips. And this is how you can learn about companies. Feel free to contact the company. You can see all their information there and all their socials right at the bottom of the page right on their website. Thank you guys for watching. If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We'd love to bring you the news. We'd love to bring you the analysis and we'd love to bring it to you first. What do you think of this news? What do you think of Solagenics Inc. With this huge news, a huge gap to fill here in the stock seems like everything is falling into place and this is just getting out there. This news is just getting out there. It's just starting to circulate. What do you think of this news? Remember Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes.  This is your host with the most, your boy Rich from Rich TV and I'm out.


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