Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much. I thank the member for Shosa Mr. Speaker. But Mr. Speaker he is... I agree with him Mr. Speaker. And that's the new politics we wanted. This is why we gave him and his leader an allocation under the CDP. That's why Mr. Speaker that's why we give them allocation under the education assistance grant Mr. Speaker. That's why we gave him an assistance Mr. Speaker. Because of the new politics Mr. Speaker. Because he will recall that we sat here. I was there. And the member for Labry was there. We were there. Six of us. One, two, three, four, five, six. And we pleaded. Please. Give us a name for CDP. That's what they did. Pull back in the chair. No you didn't laugh. No. Because one day... And I'm telling you further. You don't know what they said. When I feel like they say you cry in, you just start to cry. That's the new politics. We mean for that you cry in. You just start to cry. That's the politics. That's the politics. So you must look at both sides. That's the politics. You know the poise Mr. Speaker. In whose community? Not in mine. Not in mine? No. The birds are going to be promoted by you. The member for Viva itself. As if for property rights. No Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you know. I remember Mr. Speaker. The member for Viva itself. One day. And I give this and ignored this story Mr. Speaker. To show the measure of the man and how we deal with our politics. One day we have a discussion about a certain politician. And some people in the group wanted to go heavy and hard. On things that were factual but were not nice. And the member for Viva itself said you're not going there. You are not going there. You are not going there. You are not going there. There is no incident. Somebody wrote me a letter. About a brother-in-law. I go so far. I have a letter. I have a letter. That letter was so damning. Signed, seen and delivered. Not artificial intelligence. I refuse to use that letter. Refuse up to this day. It's not even in my book. Up to this day Mr. Speaker. I refuse to use it. I refuse to use that letter. In politics Mr. Speaker. You've never, never heard me attack any civil servant by name in politics. Never. Never have you attacked any man's child, his wife, his spouse. Never Mr. Speaker. I have never come in this honorable house. Or anywhere in the political platform. And all those who say that they know the history. Ask them to pull out the issue books. And hear Philip J.P.A. ever talk about anybody's wife, child or relative on the political platform. I analyze politicians, the individuals. Sometimes I get rough and tough. That's the nature of the game. That's the nature of the game. But I never get personal. Never go into your private life. Never. I've never go into your private life. The first thing they do Mr. Speaker. Is attack my daughter. The first thing. Attack her. In the most nasty and untrue form. Mr. Speaker. Till I tell her to pull out. The first thing they do Mr. Speaker. The first thing they do Mr. Speaker. The first thing they do Mr. Speaker. The members must not play it one cup. And it's not surrogate. The people themselves. Non political aspirants. People want to run seats. They want to do it. Some will run and some will try to run. Some will run and some will try to run. Some will run and some will try to run. So Mr. Speaker I agree with him. There are many politicians. And that is why we started. You must look at how we started a yaptum. We started it. Everybody has to be at us. Do this, do that. We said no let us have committees to look into the matter before we condemn anybody. Think about it.نا municipal cheese tell us how we approach our politics. We had a committee for CentertonUril. We had a committee for hero international airport.  We had a committee, a study into the Sufer Development Foundation and one into the Chonkomten Dam and one into the Roddieby Road. The results have not been revealed and St. Julius Hospital. So, we didn't let's go ahead and cast to get people. We didn't do that because we didn't spread rumors and in UNDO and just got it. We treated the leader of the division with dignity and with respect. We allowed him to change office. We allowed him to change office. Yes, we allowed him. With the officers, that was for that member of view. Cassius Norfers, member of view for the Sufer and the member for Miku Norfers. It wasn't good for him. It was too close to Monditor. So, we allowed him to change office. We allowed him to change office. Yes, we didn't get involved in that kind of pertinence. We allowed him security, driver. When I was in a position for me to get a driver, you know that. You know the amount of discussion and confusion, you know that. You don't know that at the time. You don't remember that, but I know that. I want to see you maybe after the match. Where we go? The amount of confusion it was. In the match, you know the amount. In fact, let's not go there. Let's not go there. Let's talk about the things that you can do me. When I was not putting. No, let's not go there. Let's not go there. Tell me the speaker. Thank you very much. And I ask that the resolution be passed by John Powers.


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Okay, welcome everyone to this evening's conversation. We're very proud to present this evening to you on this important topic. My name is Dan, I'm the Director of Development Program with the Bedford Playhouse. I'm going to introduce you to our moderator and panelists in a second. First, a couple of very quick housekeeping things. For those of you who are not familiar yet with Zoom in this self-quarantining world, there is a Q&A option if you are on your computer. It's at the bottom of your screen. There's a Q&A button for you to ask questions at any point. Please feel free to type in your questions and they will get answered at the end when we do the Q&A session. If you're on your iPad, I believe that's actually on the top of your screen, but you should be able to find it. There's also a poll feature. Alan will talk about that in a minute. That has some poll questions, but we'll let her introduce that. If you enjoy this evening and find it interesting and worthwhile, we're very proud again as Bedford Playhouse to be able to present these types of programs to you while we're all operating virtually. So on behalf of the Playhouse and on Bedford 2020, all of your support is much appreciated. If you're so inclined, please consider visiting our websites, our respective websites, and perhaps making a contribution to help us keep going while our doors are shut and we're all sitting in front of computers and trying to do as much as we can remotely. So that being said, without any further ado, I want to introduce Alan Calvis, who is going to start our program off. Alan, it's all yours. Hello. Thank you everybody for joining us. My lighting's not so good. I am happy to continue our film series with the Bedford Playhouse with a discussion about a film, Just Eat It, which maybe some of you watched, but if you didn't, that's okay. And we have some fabulous panelists from our community here tonight who really do a lot of good with food waste. So first, let me introduce myself. I'm Alan Calvis. I'm the program director at Bedford 2020. At Bedford 2020, the mission is to lead a community-wide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect our natural resources. We're currently promoting a new food scrap recycling pilot program and more about that later, but part of that effort is also to bring awareness around the problem of food waste. Composting is just one solution. And as you probably saw on the film, there's a lot of other places where food waste is a problem and it needs to be addressed. Let me, so if you didn't see the film, it's about a couple who ate only food that otherwise would have been wasted for six months. And what they found was there actually was a lot of food to eat because a lot of food goes to waste. That's perfectly good and edible, which is very frustrating. I want to share my screen with you. Oops, let's see. Okay, I mean, so I want to share this graphic with you that touches on some of the things that were said in the movie, 40% of all food produced in the US is wasted. That is $161 billion of uneaten food at retailers, restaurants and homes annually. And per capita, this accounts for $1,500 per year for a family of four, so an incredible waste. And also you may have seen in the movie this food recovery hierarchy, which is great because it shows that what we really need to do is stop wasting food much higher up on this upside down pyramid at the source, especially in our own kitchens in our own shopping habits and in a lot of planning in business and restaurants and retailers. And then the second down is we could feed hungry people with a lot of the food that gets wasted. And as you can see composting is a little bit further down. So we do want to see a reduction in food waste before we get to composting it. But we have two panelists here today who are right up at the top here at the source reduction and feed hungry people. Part of the pyramid so let me introduce them to you. We have Leslie Lampert, who's a food waste reduction guru and creator of the scrappy chef chef series, and the proprietor of the ladle of love. Martha Elder, who's a food rescue advocate and executive director at second chance foods nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing unsold unserved and aesthetically imperfect food and distributing it in the community to reduce food waste and to reduce food insecurity. So Martha and Leslie are going to come on to our screen. Thank you for being here. We're going to start by just hearing from each of them first, telling us a little more about what they do. So Martha, why don't you go ahead and start tell us about second chance foods. Thanks Ellen.  And yes, the second chance food is a comprehensive food rescue organization we've been around for four years. We're based up in Putnam County. We started by rescuing food from grocers and farms and directly distributing that food and trees and soup and very quickly came to realize that there was a real need for processing food. And so we started a kitchen program where we're actually cooking some of the food that we recover into meals. And at this point we're producing just many, many hundreds of meals every week, as well as doing the direct distribution work still. And serving people in Putnam County and the surrounding areas. Yep, so we serve a lot of the food pantries from Southern Duchess all throughout Putnam County and into Northern Westchester as well. Last year we recovered 149,000 pounds of food. It was a huge increase over 2018 and I'm sure 2020 will be even more than that. Thanks. And hi Leslie, nice to see you. Hi Ellen. Hi Martha. Leslie. So tell us a little bit about what you do. I will waste no time in telling you that I am the proprietor of Ladle of Love, which has been in Westchester for the last 17 years. And from day one we were committed to making sure that we sourced food responsibly, so that means not only where we source it but how much we source and how we buy. And at no time has there been really any waste because when I had Cafe of Love, what many of you don't know is that no waste is called specials. So whenever there's extra food or food and inventory that hasn't been utilized one off, those kinds of foods are transformed into specials. At Ladle of Love for many, many years, being in the soup business and the prepared food business, there is zero waste for us. And I want to start by saying that there are three ways that we can stop wasting food. And one is to love ugly food. So even though what we call center of the plate in the restaurant business where you want the perfect tomato and you want the perfect look on a peach, the reality is many of those foods and fruits and vegetables become more profoundly high sweeter and riper and when they get ugly, they get better for soups and stews and sauces and whatnot. I want to talk also about how we buy food, how we store food, because storing food is the most important thing. And two years ago I started a series called The Scrappy Chef and I think many of the people who are listening today, watching today actually, I've done many demonstrations over the last couple of years and I joked that for many years, Sundays in my family would be Scrappy Sunday. I'd go to both my daughters and my son, they're working moms, and I would go to their home, their apartments on Sundays, and we would just pull everything out of the refrigerator and make the most delicious, helpful meals.  Martha, I know you understand that because they're not exact recipes. They're understanding what foods can go with what other foods, you know, taking that, and never ending white rice from the Chinese takeout and transforming that with other, you know, slimy carrots that you wash off and ugly, bruised, rusty greens that are perfectly yummy and delicious when you marry them together and learning how to use those foods in what, you know, a recipe or transformation is really three quarters of the battle here.   So, and storing food is a big part of how not to waste food, storing it buying properly, and getting to the place composting is great but let's get, let's get ahead of composting, and let's not have so much to compost. Thanks. Martha, do you have anything to add to the tips to stop wasting food. So, like Leslie said, I don't use recipes a lot I think if people can learn techniques at home. That's a really good thing. Learn how to make a really good soup stock, and it's so easy then to make a really good soup with whatever's in your fridge. Roasting is a key trick for making things taste really good.   And I really invite you when the food is already in your house. Don't even look at the date on it, because the dates that they put on products are so often really meaningless.  And, and to that point, to build on what Martha was saying, please understand that those expiration dates, many of them are not designed. They're not controlled by the agriculture industry, they're controlled by the people, the manufacturers. So when you say many things when they say best buy, I mean, for instance, yogurt, there's kind of no expiration for yogurt, and, and things that are pickled, they get better as they ferment. And also don't throw out your pickle juice guys, use your pickle juice and make the best vinaigrette ever, or take your cucumbers that are looking a little funky slice them up and put them in the bottle of pickle juice and voila, you making your own pickles and you already have a hostage pickling liquid. So to Martha's point, you look in your fridge and you say, what do I have to work with, and then you start thinking about how to put those things together and that's what we're, you know, hopefully tonight going to help you guys do if you have questions. Great. Great. So we do have some questions so I'll read some of them to get our conversation going. Joe is saying he's interested in rescuing food from supermarkets for distribution to those in need is that something that is happening with second chance foods or with any of the other food rescue organizations and in this area. Yep, it's happening a lot already.  There's also county harvest, which covers southern Westchester County and the food bank feeding Westchester also does recovery work at grocery stores. And, you know, still doesn't hurt to if you have a short, excuse me if you have a store that you shop at regularly to talk to a store manager and to ask, are you working with a food rescue I really don't want to see food going to waste when our neighbors are hungry.  Well, sometimes yes, unfortunately. Yeah, sometimes you would. If someone were to ask a grocery store manager, are you working with like a food rescue organization and they say no, what can we do, you know, to sort of get make that happen. We do have a letter on the second chance foods website that can be shared with stores. You know, sometimes stores will say well there's liability involved and you know that letter explains how they are protected by federal and state legislation. There's something called the Good Samaritan law. Exactly. Yeah. So there's a lot of misconceptions out there about oh you know I could get sued and actually the law has been around since 1996 and it's never had to be used because nobody's ever been sued. Another question, Martha, what do you think are the reasons for the increase in food recovery over the past couple of years. First of all, I just think there's so much more awareness of the issue of food waste.  Really, no issue that I can think of where they're more inextricably linked and you know, thankfully people are becoming more concerned about the environment and food waste is a huge environmental issue. And then, you know, COVID-19 just the food insecurity is all over the news right now, because it is increasing just exponentially. And it's people who have never been to food pantries before. So, you know, both of those issues are really the forefront right now, humanitarian and environmental. Is it more challenging because of the pandemic to do food rescue now recovery now, or is it still a good, there's a lot of available. Yeah, there is still a lot of food to rescue, especially because you know, second chance foods was really found out of a desire to improve the quality of food available at food pantries. Over 90% of what we rescue is in the form of fresh produce and the pandemic kit and everybody wanted to buy food that was in a can or a box or frozen and so there was a lot of fresh produce that was being donated. It's coming back to a bit more normal at this point, but you know, it was actually even more initially. Great. Another question for Leslie. Can you wash off slimy vegetables other than carrots and how do we know which can be rescued, you know, peppers cucumbers. So, as long as things are being stored in the refrigerator. They're, they're, they're largely safe, and just wash them off.  And, but, but certain things that are mushy like tomatoes, the, the mushy or the more sugar and they're fabulous for soups and stews and sauces and, you know, even lettuces just cut off the parts that are really soft and gooey. But when it comes to just a little bit slick. Just, just rinse it off, and then dry it well. And that's the other thing. Store them better. So if you store your produce better, it will last longer. And if it lasts longer, then you'll get more meals out of it also. And the other thing is, you know, don't be afraid to blend things. I have back in the day, you know, my mom may she rest in peace, she was the best cook in the world and if she was following a recipe, and she didn't have something she, you know, throw out the whole recipe but if you don't have this, use that and use what you like. And just, again, ugly food is not bad food. Ugly food just means that it's largely overripe. Tracy is asking, is there a place we can find inspiration or guidance as neither of your fans of recipes? Well, a recipe is a foundation. You know, it's an architectural blueprint. So I am a fan of a recipe as a starting point. But I, you know, I want everybody to understand that there's not a recipe police out there. So if you are following a recipe and it calls for zucchini, but you don't have zucchini, but you have, I don't know, red peppers or yellow squash or anything else that is in your kale or whatever it is that's in there, just use it and then you'll develop your own recipe. But that's what we, Martha and I mean by transformation is that use what you have and it might, it's not going to be the same flavor profile but so what? It'll be a different yummy flavor profile and you might even find you like that one better and it becomes yours. So start with a recipe and I'm sure Martha and I both happy to help with that. Start with a recipe but don't get married to a recipe. Are there any, well I guess next Monday night Leslie is going to be back doing a little more of some pantry dives. So maybe Tracy can bring some of the items from her fridge and bring the question to you. Do these things go together or how do you know what definitely doesn't go together? Yeah. You know, most surprisingly many things that you might not think match up together do. And again, you know, cooking is about the layering of flavors and textures. And to that point, you know, recipes are just a starting point. And so for instance, one of the things, and I know Martha's going to agree with this because I see what she does and I think you do an amazing job, Martha. If you have a little bit of quinoa and a little bit of rice and a little bit of barley and a little bit of pharaoh, just put them all together.  Even if all their cooking times are different, you can just them all to cook together. Okay. Yes.  And I promise you that the end result, you know, it's a symphony. They're all different instruments. And then, you know, you're the conductor, you put all of them together. And at the end, there's a mollusk that was found. Awesome. Pink is asking, Martha, if a store doesn't rescue their food, how do we connect you with the store? So, I mean, it would probably be up to the store to contact us to express their interest in working with us. And they can do that through our website, your phone numbers on there, emails on there, contact submission, all of it's there on our website, secondchancefoods.org. Okay. And we're going to have a newsletter that goes out tomorrow or the next day with, with all the, any resources that have been mentioned. So the website will be on that follow up email so people can, can know, check it out, see that letter and know how to contact you. And maybe, maybe Ellen, what we should do here, this is just, you know, off the cuff is maybe we should start, you know, with everybody who's listening and then beyond, if they, if people go to certain grocery stores and they see that there's a food waste problem in the, in the bin in the back, maybe we start a whole, a chain of where these are taking place and then we can start as a community talking to those places. Yeah, good idea. Great idea. Emil is saying why don't they offer more food in smaller packages. This might be for Leslie with the sourcing responsibly to minimize the risk of going bad before being used up for example it's hard to find a quart of organic milk. It is. Okay. I think that, you know, there's two, there's two ways of thinking.  I think there are a lot of things that come in smaller packages but you just have to ask your grocer where I don't you know where you shop and or even the manufacturers and the distributors, but I think that if you buy, you know, I'm not suggesting you go shopping because that's a wasteful waste of your time and gas and energy also, but try and buy in the amounts that you'll need say for the week, and then when you're done and you have the surplus.  So, come out to your point, you know, try and buy as much as you can I don't know the answer about the milk situation, but try and buy tighter than usual. And you're right grocery stores are usually very responsive if you tell them that you would like them to carry something they usually try to get it for you. Right, Olivia is saying is there a law are asking, is there a law in New York requiring supermarkets to donate edible food that would ordinarily be thrown out. Martha, do you have an answer. So, there's a lot I think it's come into effect already but it's they have to be wasting like some huge huge amount in order to fall into that under that law like, I don't know, 2000 pound 10,000 pounds a week or you know some really humongous number. So not currently. But I do feel like that's coming down the pike that you know it's what people want. And you know one of the things that I was thoughtful about after I watched just eat it was the next that you know part two of just eat it should be that we start watch dogging. You know that that big, that big dumpster in the back at the end remember with all of the hummus remember that. You know, somebody needs to report that. So when that happens, it isn't just, it isn't just a windfall. It's also something that needs to be managed. And so their conversations have to start happening with that. So that to me the follow up is what happens, you know, there, there needs to be a policing situation about that kind of waste, when you find it. Um, Carolyn's asking, do you have any general grocery shopping tips that help reduce food waste. Um, I think it's really smart to start with thinking about what you do want to eat that week and meals that you do want to plan for. So you can start with that and in my household for, you know, when my kids were little, I, I made the list based on meals that I wanted to make and generally I was making them on Saturdays and Sundays because I've always worked full time. And to that point, you know, whatever you make, make more of and then freeze it so you have these, you know, favorite meals in your freezer. Um, and speaking of that, frozen vegetables are awesome frozen fruit. I mean, I just kind of came to this party recently because I've always been a fresh fruit and vegetable person. But, you know, berries that have been frozen at their height of picking are just berries and you put them in your freezer and then you take them when you need them. And for instance, you know, making a berry crisp. It's awesome. And if you have the fresh berries, you add them all together. But um, but be contemplative about some frozen things because they are really a great product. And then I would, I would, I would shop thinking about meals meal planning. Um, Nikki asks, is there any organization working with Costco? Once I saw them remove a huge box of bananas from the shelf because they were slightly brown in spots. Well, first, I want to talk about brown bananas.  That is a fact. You can Google it all right now. So the more brown spots, the more nutritious they are. Um, and I also just want to say one more thing when you're making your favorite, speaking of bananas, when you're making your favorite banana recipe, double the bananas that whatever the bananas recipe says, double them if you have more and it comes out really like pudding-ish. Um, but what was the question? Well, if anyone's going after Costco for food waste. Yeah, I think Costco does work with whoever their local food rescue organization is. I think the issue with Costco is it's a separate organization that goes in and does a sampling. And that that organization doesn't work with the food rescues that food ends up getting wasted. But the bananas are pulling off the shelf. They're donating those. Um, and also you can freeze bananas guys, you know this, right? Take them out of their skins and freeze them. And then, um, what we do in my world among the many things is just throw them in the Vitamix and it makes like a just a banana ice cream with just bananas frozen. Blender. Vitamix blender. Georgia says, do you think if the supermarkets did not have standards for how produce is supposed to look, then our mindset for buying food would be different. And also there was that culture of abundance, those pictures, you know, in the film of just how we need to see so much food in the produce department. Um, I mean, I think with this pandemic we for the first time probably in a lot of our lives we're seeing some empty shelves or some things missing and it's just so different from what we're used to. But how do we change that mindset of, you know, that food has to look perfect and there has to be tons of it. And that's exactly it Ellen, we need just such a cultural mind shift about that every store I could walk in on any day will have everything that I want in abundant quantities. Because that's just not reality. You know, strawberries are not supposed to be available in New York in January, you know, there only are because of our cultural expectations around, you know, having everything available all the time anywhere we want it. And we really just need a shift around that. And the shift, you know, we eat with our eyes and of course we all know that when we're eating as a family and we're creating, you know, special meals or whether we're going out to restaurants our expectation is that we're going to see food presented beautifully. That's totally doable, even with fruits vegetables and and other produce that doesn't start out pretty. So, I think to your point Martha, there has to be a cultural shift in the education of how we look at what about you know where we're such a country of abundance and and availability. And we're having a big lesson in how to still eat well without that situation taking place. Right, there was the farmer at the farmers market who said if he only left one, I forget what kind of food it was that no one would buy it, you know, even though it was perfectly good. They would think there was something wrong with it if there was only one. But you know it's so funny because I have done this series where I will first show do the reverse I'll show the final result of the recipe which is beautiful yummy and you know to taste it, and it looks great. And then I show all the ugly, ugly produce that was used to make it. And it's shocking to people. So, you know, it's kind of again, it is about education, it's about knowledge, it's about shifting the perspective and the perception of what our food should look like and remember, you know, a lot of these foods they they all start out like that. It's just that as they ripen, you know, like flowers in a bed. I mean, the tulips aren't going to be upright the whole time but they they have beauty at every sort of stage of of their life. So it is it is a rethinking. And I think that that's why we're here now why we're talking about this. It's a it's a reeducation. Yeah. Andy is asking, adding the age cucumber to the pickle jar is a great idea. Is there a place to find other examples of ways to use older food. Next Monday night. 730 on zoom.  I usually make mine because it's really easy, but it blend them. If you have a little bit of this one and a little bit of that one and this kind of vinaigrette and that, you know, blend them all.  And then you have a whole new, a whole new cell dressing instead of, you know, a tablespoon at the bottom, which drives me crazy. Don't throw us that tablespoon. There are lots of other tricks like that. And I mean, same thing like with sauerkraut is another example. I always use the sauerkraut juice for flavoring other things. It has an acidic quality. It has that pickling quality. A lot of times I'll make coleslaw. And if I have sauerkraut leftover, I use the sauerkraut juice as part of the that sort of mayonnaise the vase that you make coleslaw out of. Alexis says in Ireland, there's a food app called food cloud which matches places that have access access food like supermarkets and hotels with food banks. Is there anything like that here in this area Martha. Yeah, so we don't use an app but there are some food rescue organizations that do food rescue us covers Fairfield County Connecticut they have an app. They have a feed HV covers some parts of the Hudson Valley and they have an app. Yeah, so it is a technology that's used locally. Lauren is asking how can sign up. How can someone sign up to help with food rescue at supermarkets. Well you could come to our website again second chance moves that org and send us a message that you'd like to volunteer. Karen is saying Leslie, do you have a favorite trick for utilizing older food in one's fridge like your cucumber pickle one or any other oh this is kind of what Andy asked before. Next Monday night Karen you'll get lots more of that. Those great ideas. Alexa has shared the food cloud website on the on the Q&A here. And says I buy my fruits and veggies from misfit market which rescues from farms I love getting the boxes surprises each week and it makes me cook with what comes to me, rather than buying to a super going to a supermarket and buying more than I need so that's a great tip to misfit market.  They, you know, it's nature and we wanted it's there like people we want everybody to look different and act different and it's you know still have the qualities of delicious food. I think we have to change our minds about a what beauty is and be what delicious is so you know these are these are conversations that have to happen they're not just it's not just a one recipe. It's really having knowledge about what what not to listen to about labeling and I'm sorry but I'm saying it out loud. And have you this misfit markets. I mean you said that you don't have any food waste in your business because you use it all. You know if you can't use it in one dish you make it into a soup or something. What do you think about this model of this. I think they ship you this misfit market.  I think it's amazing and and to that point, you know for years. When I actually when I had the restaurant cafe of love, we did business with a lot of the local farms, and at the end of the season. Or even during the season when they had a bumper crop of something that they couldn't sell or again things were bruised. I mean you can't imagine how much corn is thrown out and how many zucchini or throat thrown out in the herbs. We would we would have an off price menu for them, you know sale for that and we had the benefit of getting all of this fabulous food produce. It wasn't going to waste I mean you can't imagine how much waste there is at the farms. So I love the idea of the misfit program there's a number of those programs and I think it's I think it's terrific. And great you know I say for you know in my in the series for this crappy chef it saves the planet time and money. So it's not just it's everything. Sandy says how can we connect the produce discarded by growers to the households in need that are in urban slash suburban areas food pantry lines are longer than ever and they could probably use the discards right now. So I think we may go ahead. No I know that feeding Westchester I'm involved in feeding Westchester of course that's you know for the food insecure population, and I know that they work with a lot of farms that that that have these programs. And so what I say to everybody is, Yay, be an advocate, take it on, you know, let's, again, Ellen let's put some of these programs, you know, in action here for at bed for 2020. And tonight you know we're finding out what people want to do and so let's let's have them do it. Yeah. Yeah, second chance foods does rescue from farms. We have a gleaning program so that we can actually go on to the farms and into their fields and take out their excess or their seconds of food that they feel is not marketable. So yeah that that effort is happening, even in our area. And is that something people can volunteer to help with the cleaning. Yep, yep we use volunteers for that as well. So that'll start up kind of June, July probably. Great. And actually, you know, there's nothing wrong with going to you know wherever your local farmers market is and where you shop, ask them, ask them volunteer talk to them start the conversation. This all happens by talking. And now, especially during this quarantine and pandemic, you know, environment, everything should talk about everything because that's how ideas get action. Deborah asks, do you have any specific tips for food storage to maximize fridge slash pantry life. I do Martha you do you want to start. So, Oh my gosh, a few things. So like if you bring when you bring your berries home, don't wash them right away. If you don't, your lettuces I actually I do like to wash my lettuces and you know get them really dry in a salad spinner and put them in a bag and they last for a long time that way. I just want to say to like actually just prepping my vegetables when I get home from the market just helps me use them much more readily if it's all set to go and I'm tired after a long day at work with the green beans are all washed and snapped and ready to cook. Much more likely to use them while they're still fresh. The freezer is your friend for sure. If you see things, you know, getting close to any to get used up but you can't use them right away.  Stop, make some good stuff that you can make soup with. Pass it over Leslie. I know, but I also we joke around that we have a vase in our refrigerator and it's kept with a few inches of water and all the herbs going there and that nourishes the herbs, the fresh herbs because it, you know, it obviously waters them from the stems up. So that's part that's number one. And the other thing about food storage is, you know, keep a Ziploc bag in your refrigerator and or your freezer. And when you're cutting celery to, you know, to the point if you're going to to Martha's point if you're going to prep it, take the butter the celery shove it in the Ziploc bag, take the ends of the carrots and, you know, shove it in the bag and keep these are to making to make stocks and soups and bases for sauces, because again, all of that is going to go into the ground which is going to create a greenhouse gas effect which we don't want and let's utilize it. And so if we utilize it in making stocks and making sauces. It will be better for the planet. And it will be better for your household because everything tastes better when you're making, you know, when you're not using those bullion cubes. Don't use those. Great. I just want to ask, is there a bulk buying supermarket in our locale, like we saw in the film. I know, like Whole Foods has their bulk bins. I don't know of a market that's 100% bulk buying in our area. Right, I don't either. I don't know either. Again, I really, really want to stress having conversations with your, the farmers at when you go to the farmers market really start conversations talk about not just what you're going to buy that day talk about what they need to sell talk about what you want to buy, you know, start a real conversation with them that starts before your purchase at on that day at the farmers market. See how you can help them. Pink is asking Leslie, can you talk about how to substitute one thing for the other. Absolutely, but you need to give me a context. Let's see. Pink, do you want to, let's say, I don't know how she could, I don't know how this Q&A thing works so she could put it in but we'll come back to it maybe she'll type it in. Ashley, do you have any tips as asking do you have any tips to make your vegetables crisper longer beyond putting them in the crisper in your fridge, or is that the best solution. Remember, it depends, you know, water content has a big play in how things stay fresh. So for instance, mushrooms. You know, you don't want to, you don't want to put water or mushrooms because they're sponges and they'll absorb it you don't want to touch them until you're ready to use them. A lot of times what I do is I use paper towels and wrap my produce in paper towels without wetting them, and that helps absorb moisture as as it stays in the crisper and that seems to help it last longer. Great. Thomas asked Leslie I noticed that sometimes greens don't endure well even after storing them well. What is the best way to store greens such as spinach different varieties of lettuce for maximum life and how can one use wilted leaves in a recipe or into a puree of some sort. So I love I love blending all greens together and make like a greens pesto. I mean I'm a pesto girl so and when I say pesto. Yes, I love basil, and I like to throw in a handful of basil, but I make pesto is out of just greens also and so I guess it's not really a pesto, but it's a pure aid like a grimoire or a jewelry and then I you freeze them in little quantities and you have them as sauces for pasta and sandwich spreaders and mixing into stews to keep them fresher as I said you want to keep them as dry as possible. As opposed to herbs which you want to keep the stems in water so that they stay hydrated. Fiona is asking what about waste food food waste from schools when schools are in session. Yeah, that's a great question. We do rescue from schools as well I didn't mention that. And then when the schools so suddenly closed for the pandemic two of our local districts did donate to second chance foods and many, many thousands of pounds of milk and yogurt and produce, you know, not all the school districts are doing it yet. You know, again, some of them think there's some kind of liability involved. You know, but as I think more school districts do it and they see that, you know, it's perfectly safe and legal for them to do hopefully more will do it. And is that something else you could volunteer to help with, like picking up food from schools if they say, you know, set it aside. Yeah, once the schools are back in session. Right. And is picking up food from like supermarkets and places something that second chance foods does need help with. I mean, currently no, all of our regular food runs are covered by a regular volunteers and I made a beautiful thing that has come out of this pandemic with people working from home is volunteers with so many people who are wanting to help which is really wonderful. It's just hard to employ all of them. Right. A couple of some read questions here. What do you think about the meal kits that get delivered does this help the problem since you only get the amount of food that you need or is it not the right answer. Leslie shaking her head. I'm really sorry, but number one. You know, they serve a purpose, but it's an, you know, it's a it's a lot of container food. It's a lot of one shot food. And this might sound contradictory, but I do believe we're better off buying a week's worth of food and then figuring out how to put that together. I think there are some other associated issues with the meal kit meal kits for for waste problems. Lauren asks, what is the best way to save bread that's gotten too hard to eat. Oh, Martha and I could have a field day with this right Martha. Yeah, I don't ever buy breadcrumbs, you know, just put those into your food processor and make the breadcrumbs to grow them right in the freezer. Yeah, 100%. And the other thing is, every bread pudding in the whole world, sweet bread pudding, savory bread puddings. We make custards that are not that don't have sugar in them. And so sometimes we do a sausage, egg and cream cheese bread pudding. Sometimes we do a smoked salmon cream cheese bread pudding. There's so many things you can do with bread. And the other thing is that you want to make croutons things. Caesar salads, the most delicious croutons. You want that bread to be a little stiff. You cut a baguette on the bias. You let it dry out.  All kinds of things you can do but don't ever buy breadcrumbs is right. Great. Here's a good question to contemplate. If there were signs and advertisements in supermarkets about how much food we waste daily, do you think people would be more inclined to buy less food? I don't think the supermarkets want you to buy less food. I'm not sure the signs would go up.  What's the solution. I'm going a little faster because we only have a couple minutes left. What's the solution when a group has a catered meeting after this pandemic is over and ends up with leftover wraps or other prepared food is there anywhere for that food to go. You know, especially some of the homeless shelters really appreciate that food depending on where you're located. There's like Janpeak and Peekskills and Christopher Zenup and Garrison. You know, sure plenty of programs done in southern Westchester as well who would take that food. Leslie, is there any type of education effort for chefs to teach them about buying bruised and ugly produce from farmers so they don't need to waste it? I don't know if there's a concrete program but I know that, you know, many of my colleagues and chef restaurants absolutely have relationships with farms and farmers and organizations, particularly in the city, I think they're a little bit ahead of the curve up here. I just, you know, we are among many because we're right at the mouth of the Hudson Valley and all of these one all of the wonderful farms. Many of us in the restaurant business have these relationships with the farms and have been having these off price end of summer relationships for a while. But I don't know of any formal organization here. I think there's one actually out, way out east in Long Island called East End, but check it out. In terms of restaurant sourcing food, I mean, I would assume that the closer your word to having exactly the right amount, the more money you would save. Is there anyone that teaches, you know, businesses how to do that?  So understanding how to buy and this is why, you know, I feel uniquely suited to talk to the home cook about it because it's all about inventory. And that's really what we're talking about what you inventory in your pantry what you inventory in your refrigerator, and that is how successful restaurants model. It's all about what you buy how you buy how much you buy that what you know what the cost is communicating with your sources for what you're what you want to pay and it's all about inventory. So that's the question from I guess we're streaming on Facebook Live as well. Question from Facebook Live. Rosalind says, how do we reduce food waste with meat, which can have issues like salmonella when kept longer. And if it gets up to that date, the sell by date, just stick it in your freezer and use it another time. So I would say. And date everything. So, you know, Martha's 100% right, you wait, you try and use it to the sell by date but if you can't and that is monitored by the agricultural industry. So, if you don't use it within a couple days, then you throw it into the freezer but make sure you date it so that when you when you defrost it, you don't use it past those couple days. Right. Someone had pantry mods and had to get rid of everything. Which is so sad. And just found another moth and it's killing her to have to to throw everything out again. Is there any way to save any of it or does everything have to go with pantry months. Well, obviously anything canned is fine, because it's protected. But if you have pantry mods and they're getting into the food is contaminated so I wouldn't be comfortable with that and, you know, I'm pretty comfortable rescuing most things but, you know, once you avoid getting pantry mods again if you've had them for I think I've heard that when you bring home your grains from the market to put them in the freezer for some period of time, that's how they get into your house in the first places through the food that you're purchasing. So if you put it in the freezer you'll kill anything that's in there and it'll be okay. Okay. All right, we have we still have so many questions. I don't know when Dan's going to cut us off but I just want to look through and see if there's some very different ones. Lauren says that BD provisions has two bulk stores in Connecticut, open through the pandemic. So that is great. Let me see if who's chatting. Oh, Okay. Looking at the Q&A. Let's see. The waste associated with celery trimming for packaging we saw in the film was shocking. How do we go about driving change around that kind of packaging driven waste of fresh farmed food. Same thing with romaine hearts.  But the waste is, you know, it's criminal and there's so many. It's all about make, you know, packaging it and presenting it so that the consumer feels they're getting something pretty. But in fact, I'm much happier getting the whole celery. First of all, everybody here's a tip. When you get your celery, you know, I've been doing, we've been making a lot of food for frontliners at the hospitals. And one of my favorite salads is I take an entire bunch of celery. Don't trim it. I love the celery leaves. They taste delicious. Just chop it all up really fine. It's crunchy. And then, you know, cucumbers and everything crunchy, red peppers, no lettuce. I mean, I love lettuce too, but this is a crunchy salad. Don't, you know, the things that we've been taught to discard like the feathery leaves of the fennel and the little celery leaves, they're precious. They're fabulous. And when you start incorporating them into your recipes and your salads, you're going to say, why didn't I know this? Why didn't I do this? I don't know the answer to how to, you know, I think this is, again, a conversation that we're opening up and we've been talking about for a couple years now, more than a couple years of how to shift the mentality of the consumer, which then will shift the mentality of the distributor.  Great. All right, there's a couple of tips here use cloth towers instead of paper towels when you wrap your greens. Oh, to answer the milk question. You can freeze your milk when you can't drink all of it. And for mushroom storage, keep mushrooms in a paper bag in the fridge, so they don't get slimy. They only dry out and you can reconstitute them in soup even after month so some nice tips from our audience. So I think I think we got the bulk of the questions answered. Thank you so much. That was really interesting. We covered a lot of things and we're looking forward to next week. I have I have a couple of slides to show. Let's see. There it is. And don't forget the poll Ellen there's also the poll. Yeah, I don't we don't have to do the poll. But I do want to show you, whoops, those were the poll. We do have a compost curbside compost coming to the town of Bedford sign up started today and the first 75 people who want to get curbside pickup of their food scraps. We'll get it. And are one of the first 75 you can you can do this for one year for $15 or less so it'll be subsidized by a grant if you get in the program. The first year so that is curbside pickup Leslie is back next to Monday the scrappy chef via zoom and will give us more tips and tricks to avoid going to the dreaded grocery store. I just hate doing these days. I think everyone else does too. And use up what we have in our fridge. I also have another film coming with the Bedford Playhouse in June, the story of plastic. And we're working on getting some really great experts to come talk to the solutions. And this is a really interesting film. I just watched it and so we will offer a link where you can see it for free and then join us portion on June 8. This Wednesday we have a very cool lunch and learn session at noon. It's the enroads climate simulation simulator that helps us understand kind of what needs to happen to keep the global average temperature below where it needs to be so that climate changes and happening at the rate that it's happening. And on Thursday we have our dig ins which are every Thursday from five to 530 their short fun interactive and they focus on healthy yards and sustainable food and we're talking about how to get rid of the invasive species in your yard. How to identify them get rid of them and what to replace them with so thank you for joining us and thank you to the Bedford Playhouse and the Wheaton Foundation for being our partners in the environmental film series. Please, please during this time consider supporting Bedford Playhouse for all that they're doing for our community and of course Bedford 2020 as well. So Dan, do you have anything else to say. One of the thing is if anybody's interested if you go to our homepage bedfordplayhouse.org we have a lot of virtual programming. And you can check out there's all kinds of different stuff there's some streaming films. We have some interactive Q&As. There's next month's story of plastic which will be up very soon. So something to keep everybody busy while we're getting through these times together. Great. Thank you, Leslie and Martha that was fantastic. We really appreciate you spending time. Great. Thank you. It's been great to be here. Okay. Good night everybody. Love you guys. Take care. Stay safe and nourished everybody. You too. Amen to that. Okay. Good night. All right. Thanks, Dan. Bye. Bye guys. I wanted to read the, okay.


Hey everyone welcome to another episode of prime comments I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz the everything here at Nintendo Prime and let's just hop right into what you guys had to say this week Untempered link on our Breath of the Wild trailer analysis, which by the way that video was created by Mr. Daniel from NACHG Films He creates videos for our channel once in a great mile about every other month or so Untempered link had this to say trying to find that iconic shot of Hyrule field from the original reveal Was one of the first things I look for after exiting the Great Plateau Like the video said it is a shame It was changed because I had that image cemented into my brain after having it as my wallpaper for years but the main game was so good, I wasn't disappointed for long and And I agree I wasn't disappointed for long either with the game That iconic shot it sucks. It doesn't actually exist in the game just for How long we sat with that image in our brains? It was a good two and a half years Or even full two years just sitting there as the primary image for what Breath of the Wild ultimately was and While aspects of that are obviously there are death mountains still in there some of the peaks and stuff We found that out in the analysis We can't get an exact location shot anymore because well that exact location has been overtaken by different types of terrain And doesn't really exist in that perfect shot things were moved around which is expected in development I wish that iconic shot was available in the game and It almost makes me wish Nintendo didn't give us an iconic shot in the first place But either way Breath of the Wild obviously turned out to still be excellent and right now it's currently my number one favorite game of all time So thank you for your comment GameStop restocked Nintendo switches this past week all at the exact same time I think every store had at least five units over like 4,400 stores and it wasn't just game stops toys are us and best buy and Walmart and pretty much every major retail location that carries switches Got stock in this past. We can get significant stock And Phillip Stafford had this to say on that video Frankly, I think scumbag GameStop had these all along and Nintendo told them to stop their horse Crap And it's been proven lately that GameStop has been holding back on selling switches and NES classics And it's publicly been shown like it was made Nintendo Ram their boot up made GameStop's booties And then he went on to say because I replied to him and essentially said well Nintendo Can't really make GameStop do anything once they are sold their units that's that's really it Nintendo just cares about the sell-through and Phillip Stephan wanted to say Nintendo Prime. Did you not even read? It doesn't effin matter if Nintendo sold a billion switches to retailers and were paid for such Selling hardware is never about making money off the hardware itself. Although Nintendo does make some it's not about that It's about getting as many systems in people's homes in order to sell software I don't know if Nintendo jam their foot up scumbag GameStop's booty or not, but make no mistake It's in Nintendo's best interest to do so if you don't think GameStop holding back stock isn't damaging to the industry and Especially Nintendo you should really shut your channel down because you don't know jack about the gaming industry There's a reason ship numbers aren't all that important. It's sold units that matter now A lot of anger there. I understand That obviously for us as consumers the ship numbers matter For software creators the ship numbers matters and Nintendo the software creators So obviously the ship numbers matter as much as the sales numbers matter What then we have to think about here and some of your comments are actually factually incorrect You know you say it's never about making money off the hardware You actually look at Nintendo's financial reports over the past 20 years You'll see that outside of a brief period with the 3ds and Wii U Nintendo has always made money on their hardware. In fact, they have made Significant money on their hardware. So while PlayStation might sell for a loss or at cost or Xbox might sell for a loss or X At cost that's not really what Nintendo does Nintendo sells for profit So it's not just about you know getting software sales for Nintendo Hardware sales make up a huge percentage of their net income every single year and it's the number one reason when people talk about how Nintendo should get out of the games industry and they should become third-party Multi-platform they're forgetting the large chunk of revenue that Nintendo gets from hardware as it is and that doesn't even get into the Royalty fees that third parties and indie companies that Nintendo makes money off of the sales of their games as well Not just the sales of their own games now Ship does matter does it matter as much as sold through? No, but it matters because Regardless of GameStop holding back stock, which I think all of us think is scummy and bad for the industry and they do this with everything So whatever and I don't think they held back stock for this restock per se they hold back stock You know a hundred two hundred five hundred units or whatever the case may be so they can continue to sell their expensive bundles and keep those Always in stock online this restock wasn't about holding back stock because all retailers got a bunch unless there's like this big global Conspiracy that every single retailer needed a whole back stock so they could all have stock at once Chances are Nintendo just got a lot more units out there to fulfill their orders sold through matters because That's obviously the total sales number of the unit, but the shipped unit matters as well because While it's true shipping units doesn't mean those units sold through then the Nintendo switch has been selling out so Retailers have been consistently ordering more units and paying for them and pre-paying for them and getting units shipped to them It's a good sign when units are being shipped because Nintendo is making money off the retailers already because they prepay upfront for the units And the demand is still there for Nintendo to continue to ship units So while we don't always get exact sales figures updates very often sold through because even Nintendo might not be aware of If GameStop sold through all their stock if Walmart sold through all their stock All Nintendo knows is that those retailers keep ordering shipments from them and it's not just in the United States It's worldwide so if retailers are continuing to order shipments and Nintendo is continuing to have to ship more and more out And they aren't able to fulfill the orders right that's been really the issue When we talk about stock shortage of switch is Nintendo hasn't been able to fulfill the orders that they order these units They could they could sell Nintendo can't fulfill the order people can't buy it on shelves, etc So Nintendo is catching up with the orders. So Shipped units does matter not as much as sold through But it does matter to Nintendo's bottom line because as long as you know companies are continuing to Want Nintendo to ship more units Nintendo is gonna make more money that makes sense on the business side of things So yes, Nintendo does make money on the unit shipped and yes It is up to the retailers to decide how they would like to distribute those units and you could say that's right or wrong But they're also taking the risk of pre-paying for units that they don't know are going to sell So I think what GameStop did is scummy I think it might be a little scummy that Amazon potentially held back switch stock for their Trucks that were traveling around the United States and having NES classic units available and switch units available, but ultimately Because they took the risk in pre-paying for the units And you know the risk for them is that they buy a unit it doesn't sell they have to discount it later And they lose money on that unit it's Almost understandable that retailers are gonna do what they feel like they need to do to maximize the profits of the systems They already paid for as scummy as that might be and obviously Nintendo's part of that problem in that they weren't able to fulfill the full orders for the switch causing a shortage So now that the orders are starting to be fulfilled and we're seeing more and more switch units out there I mean it is Sunday right now and I literally was at GameStop Just last night on a Saturday and I saw switch units in stock So they have more and more switches out there They're catching up to the demand and this is ultimately good for everything as we're shutting my channel down You know I don't know how much GameStop only makes stock is damaging to the whole industry as I said It's more so Nintendo just needs to fulfill the orders But yeah, shit numbers are important Nintendo does make a profit I remember Nintendo does not operate like like Sony and Xbox do they make huge profit margins off their systems always have outside of the slack past generation and Probably always will because Nintendo doesn't believe in selling systems for a loss to get an install base And they shouldn't because this is like their biggest revenue Anyways moving on to the next thing we had a leak from the MPD that showed the Nintendo switchers on top And when the MPD came out it confirmed the Nintendo switchers on top And that's what two and two was the number one selling game of last month even out selling the Crash Bandicoot insane trilogy for the PlayStation 4 and OV Warrior had this to say Nintendo should over the course of a few years figure out a way to get all or at least most of the 3ds games to work on the switch To that I say I think that's a nice idea. I don't think it's realistic, and I don't think it's realistic because 3ds game cartridges don't work natively on the switch So no matter how much they modify and update the only way to be able to get those 3ds games to work on the switch without releasing like collection packs would be digital downloads and The switch only has 32 gigs of internal memory. I know it's completely expandable. Now you're gonna tell people Hey, you can have your full 3ds backwards Compatibility but you have to rebuy all the games digitally and then you have to buy an SD card and it's just kind of a mess I don't think Nintendo is gonna deal with I don't think the switch is ever gonna be backwards compatible with 3ds games I think it's more likely like five six years down the road for switch to to have Some sort of virtual console version of 3ds games But yeah, both platforms are still selling and Nintendo is not gonna make 3ds games work with switch make it's a cool idea I just don't think it's an approach. Nintendo is willing to take anytime soon I'm moving on there was a new arms character announces this week and tail exe Went out to retranslate the tweet that I quoted. I used Google translate at the time This person apparently knows some native Japanese. So I got the quotes up on the screen. I'm gonna read him off as president I recorded a fighter who's been the talk of the town lately during summer vacation It looks like she slash he or has his or her own costume and arms I couldn't really tell but it looked like he said she slash he had some sort of fighting style in which he slash He could change his her body and she slash he broke one of the cameras Should I write it up and I'll write up an explanation? Yes And then they went on to say, you know, if I need some translation analysis help with the things really Japanese No, the hell and I give my contact email and I believe they did actually contact me I haven't gotten back to you yet tail I apologize been very busy But when I do have some Japanese work I will certainly try to get you involved as quickly as I can so I don't have to delay my videos But thank you for that translation and that's really all I could say right now is I thank you Because I don't readily have a translator available all the time and it's good to have that information correct It doesn't vary too much from what I said, but it adds some additional context. So yeah, thanks I love I love me get comments like that Uh This past week we recorded and produced prime family episode one which included my six-year-old daughter Plain Splatoon 2 for the first time and also my four-year-old son watching us and Oh, man. Who picked out this comment? So Muher Eloise had this to say your fat. I'm fat. I Don't deny it. I'm not pretending that I'm losing weight that I'm not losing I'm not pretending that I am The most in-shape guy in the world. I'm a hell of a lot more athletic than I Appear let's put it that way and I don't know how long I'm gonna keep that athleticism, especially at my current weight But yeah, I am fat. I don't think anyone should be proud of the fact. They're fat and These comments don't bother me so much because I've accepted who I am I am trying to do some things on the side to work on it. It's hard And I make no excuses. Yes, I have three kids and I have all these other reasons not, you know That's not excuse for me not to eat better not to to drink more water in fact. I'll take a drink right now and Just in general These comments don't bother me, but Yeah, I don't know what else people what kind of reaction people like to say am I angry about it I'm not proud of it, but I mean I am I am fat. I've been fat for a while Might continue to be fat for a while, but we'll see I'm working on it Moving on I put up a video this week talking about if the switch should replace the 3ds and Sage Roy had this to say. Yeah, sure Nintendo should drop their biggest money maker and focus on making games for a console That's always short in stock. Why can't the two systems coexist like the Nintendo 64 and the Game Boy the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance the we and the DS on another note quit begging for every game to come into a system that just learned how to walk So obviously I can't say much about the situation short in stock opposite this past week There's more and more stock. There's even more stock available today. That's great. I whatever I can't do anything about the stock situation But the reason the reason the systems I'm not gonna say they can't coexist. I'm saying they shouldn't coexist my stance is that Nintendo has never been in a spot where they focus all of their game development on a single platform They've always split it across two platforms and that made sense at the time when you had a system that was underneath your TV And one you take with you, but here's the thing the switch is both There is not a lot of tangible things the 3ds brings to the table that the switch can't also do while having its own Additional features now obviously, you know, you can't dock a 3ds unless you buy a modded version But you know you have 3d screens it's got the dual screen thing That's something the switch doesn't do but a lot of the uses of the touchscreen and the dual screen stuff aren't things that can't be done On a single screen in fact, we've seen phone games that have done many similar things that the dual screen stuff for the 3ds And DS line has done and the glasses free 3d is cool I'm not gonna sit here and tell you it's not cool and if you really really love that feature No switch does not replace that so I get it But I think for a while it'll exist as Nintendo starts to cut prices of 3ds Cuz the 2ds XL prices down and they start to focus it more on a younger generation where this is the system you buy for your kids to Introduce them to Nintendo before they upgrade to the switch and I think that's a logical play for Nintendo, but In general, I want Nintendo's best foot moving forward on the switch Not just because I own one bit because I think it's best for the company if you look at I'm gonna bring up PlayStation Because they've been the most consistently successful company in the video game industry Since they came in even more consistently successful than Nintendo at least on the home console side And you know PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 have all been wildly successful systems and That's because Sony is so focused on one platform now They did have the PSP which sold 80 million and that's fantastic They did have the PS Vita But you notice how quickly they dropped out of the PS Vita race and stopped trying to compete with the 3ds Now wasn't just because they were getting spanked It's because their stuff just wasn't selling and PlayStation is at their best when they focus all of their efforts on a single platform And we've never seen Nintendo do that and now they have a platform that is portable and for your TV It only makes sense now for Nintendo to dive into that now for some people who commented about They should keep doing as long as the 3ds is making more money than the switch or making money 3ds is gonna make money as long as Nintendo continues to sell it, but The switch has already outsold the 3ds so far this fiscal year It hasn't sold as much software as the 3ds But it also doesn't have as much software available for it yet again a problem Let's help alleviate it if Nintendo focused all of their efforts on switch and obviously focusing all their efforts on switch What do you eliminate a lot of the concerns people might have for game gaps? and now that Nintendo's Primary handheld, you know IP out there Pokemon is having a full RPG coming to the switch We're starting to model of excuses for them not to do this and for people who feel this way I actually pose this question to you. Why do you want Nintendo to not? Focus will solely on the switch. Is it because you don't have one? Is it because you don't plan to get one and you just want to rock your 3ds? Is it because you don't have the money? I you know, I'm actually curious what the reasons could be because a lot of things You know just like when the 3ds came out You could maybe couldn't afford it that you'd wait a few years and pick it up same with the switch And more software on the switch makes it a more enticing platform 3ds has had a good run. It's not like I'm throwing the 3ds in the trash It's had a good run as a ton of good games and it's a huge library already So yeah, I think it's time for the switch to take over Moving on We had switch bend gate come up again, and I realize people hate that name But basically switches bending either due to physical abuse heat manufacturing issues Whatever the case may be and we talked about this many months ago And it was brought up again because Kotaku found out that people in Japan are seeing it happen and people as recently as like last week We're reporting on their switches being bent And what's interesting about this is that oh man People who ever put down these comments for me was really hate me this week So bro. Hello had this to say stop copying review tech USA you PC looking, but Man So let me address this And I think a later comment here might might have something to do with this as well Review tech USA does a very similar thing to I do they talk about they have news They give their opinions on the news and they talk about gaming their throw up still images or gameplay or what have you They're not always on camera. Sometimes they're on camera. Sometimes they're not on camera Rich is a guy that I actually respect on YouTube. I don't think he's perfect. I think he's made mistakes in the past he has a Way of delivering stuff that I don't necessarily agree with like when he does some of his Insulting kind of voices I'm not really into that, but I obviously see his content and yes I saw his video, you know in this case on switch Bengi as well as like two or three other videos before my video even went up and I don't really I guess In this industry of YouTube you're going to see multiple youtubers report on the same thing Because we have different audiences while there is audience crossover, you know Obviously, I watch a bunch of different channels that are reported on it So I'm crossed over with their art with those different channels and with their audiences a lot of times There's not crossover as well and we have plenty of people who follow our channel who don't even know who review tech USA is or if They do they don't like him and they don't follow his channel I always see he's been way more successful at this than I have and he's been at it for a lot more years than I have but yeah, I I mean We have a very similar style to what we do in terms of how we deliver it, but I mean He his channel and several others are kind of an inspiration for me on my channel I'm not gonna shy away from that fact I don't really view it as copying because like he he covers. I mean his name of his channel review tech He covers tech. He's a tech enthusiast video games are obviously a big part of tech. He covers a lot of video game stories I'm just Nintendo. I just talk about Nintendo and plus I do get on camera And I do have a video podcast and I do do things and I want to be on camera more often Once I have the money to afford the proper technology, but you know, we has the technology But yeah, I you know, it's cool if you don't like seeing the video pop up twice in different feeds I can't tell you then the don't follow him or stop following us or don't follow anyone else I think this is just the nature of the way things work I mean I used to work at Zelda Informer and we would report report on a piece of news Was reported on but Nintendo everything go to Nintendo IGN Kotaku and GameSpot GameStop Whatever so many different places, but yeah, I don't really have an issue with with rich or anyone else And I doubt they have an issue with me But yeah, obviously we all take inspiration from each other Hopefully you feel like my thoughts on things are at least my own because they are they're not based on anybody else's thoughts moving on Our least viewed video this week was about Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon And I'm not sure why it was the least viewed, but it was the one that brought up some of the most interesting discussion points for me and Isolex responded by saying this video is more just your opinion and not news and Again, this gets back to me talking about what my channel does. Yes, I report on news. Yes I have discussion videos. Yes, I have top 10s. Yes, I do live streams Yes, I do a lot of stuff I even knew product reviews and maybe eventually game reviews Once I get up to a point where I'm confident enough that I can edit footage together and not worry about copyright strikes. That's all great, but The important part in all of this is that I view This channel as not being your IGNs or your game explains or your switch force or all these other channels That might just give you a quick one minute to 90 second video that just says here's the news do with it what you want and I think it's important that those channels in those avenues exists. I think it's important in print media I think it's important in video media and there's even people like Spawn wave they'll do like a daily news recap of the news from the previous day And they'll hit on some topics and sometimes he'll discuss his opinion on it Sometimes they'll just deliver the news and that's fine. Those outlets are perfect for what they do That's not what we do at Nintendo Prime We present you the news and then I create a discussion off of the news because to me this channel's Main objective is to bring Nintendo fans together to have honest Conversations about whatever topics we happen to be talking about in this case. I was talking about Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon I led with the news. I reported it. That is the primary reason to check it out I didn't say come here to see my opinions on Pokemon. I said come here to see this news They got the news and if you didn't want anything else, you could just stop watching the video after the first few minutes And you're good. You got the news. You're done. You're informed. Great. I'm glad I was able to inform you But I also like to build a conversation off that which means whatever comes to my mind as I'm going over that news I'm going to talk about and in this case It was about my love or lack of love of the Pokemon series and why and I understand some people Didn't agree with my reasons as to why and that's fine My reasons are my own like why I don't enjoy something is very very personal and as I explained I reported on it because Pokemon is a big deal and I'm going to be pulling Pokemon on switch and making tons of videos about Me playing Pokemon and switch so I know that I'm literally a couple years away from just Pokemon going crazy And like I have you know my favorite Pokemon is back there Charizard. I I love Pokemon Like it's not like I dislike it. I fell out of love with the gaming series I actually still love the anime and I just I'm having a hard time getting back in and yes I said maybe it's too complex and all this other stuff but maybe I When I finally sit down and give Pokemon a real chance again Strip away all my biases against why I fell out of love with it ages ago and give it a try from a fresh Perspective maybe I'll find I love all the new mechanics. I might I really might but right now I can't get my mind wrapped around even giving these mechanics a chance like the idea that you hatch Pokemon Just hurts my brain not because it's difficult to understand because I just don't I never viewed that as part of Pokemon So again, I will get over it someday and I am at our channel again It's a lot of my opinion because that's what it's an opinion channel. Let's just call it what it is We have news we have discussions, but everything's opinion-based so moving on we introduced a brand new occupant of time glitch this week and It's crazy 19 years later that happened and the legend 34 had this to say too long of a video without explaining the point and I think that's more so to do with the title of the video where I said This new occupant of time glitch is game changing and I might have jumped the gun by saying game changing because the impact of this Glitch isn't fully known. So when people were expecting me to go into deeper Explanation as to why it's game changing and what in what ways in the speedrunning community is it game changing? I couldn't give you those details because they don't exist yet just in my brain Thinking as someone who's played a lot of opening of time and watched a lot of Zelda speedruns and covered a lot of Zelda speedruns over the year I can think of ways and Experimentations with being able to use any item whether you're a child or adult and how it might impact speedruns that allow for glitches Obviously glitch those speedruns This is irrelevant for what for speedruns that allow for glitches not any percent because you're gonna skip everything anyways but just like glitch-less like like 100% runs that allow for glitches or all dungeon runs that allow for glitches or you know Whatever the kid whatever type of run there's like 11 different speedrun categories for ocarina of time And I feel like this could potentially impact four or five of those and for those runs I think it will be game changing But how exactly it's game changing can't be known yet because speedrunners are still taking this glitch dissecting it and perfecting it and trying to see In what ways it could help shave time if it shaves time at all and it's gonna take a lot of experimenting and Hundreds and hundreds of hours of practice before we see how game changing this is and maybe it turns out that the glitch Isn't worth it. You know, isn't worth the time it takes to pull it off since you have to do do it for every single item and That's fine. I understand that but We have to sit back and think that I think the potential for it to be game changing is there So I apologize that the title was me was a bit misleading I should have said potentially game changing and potentially game changing in that it could speed up getting through dungeons I could make certain bosses and enemies easier because you can use items across like the cocurie Sword does like the same damage as the map or the cocurie sword the Deku sticks do the same amount of damage as the master sword and all that stuff. So Again, I apologize if it wasn't informational enough. The information really isn't out there yet And I probably should have framed that in context with what I was talking about with the glitch So I apologize I wasn't as straightforward as I should have been and the title probably should have been a slightly different Sense we don't know how game changing it is yet. I just in my brain. I just kept thinking man This is gonna be huge Yeah, so Moving on So we end of the week with our top 10 critically acclaimed Nintendo games It's not really our top 10. It's top the top 10 according to Metacritic and Game rankings kind of smashed together and figuring out what are the best rated games critically of all time And Sierra Dobson had this to say love the video But I think some background music would make it flow better and the voice you use when you transition to the next game and Number is kind of funny lol, but I love your videos. Keep it up Finally a positive comment. Oh, it's good. There's plenty of positive comments this week I wanted to end on a positive note with this comment here. I I think you are correct I do need to start thinking about adding background music to a lot of these videos that are Long and just have me talking and it might be something I feel like I need to even add to this video So you're correct. That's a very good criticism. Very good constructive one. Thank you so much I will try my best to find fitting music that goes along with my voice as for, you know, finding it funny the way I don't know that just kind of happened on this one. I'm like number nine Skyward Sword I don't even know where that voice comes from I just I was reading my script and as I'm voicing and I'm like it just felt like This like epic deep number 10. I don't really get where it comes from I have a lot of crazy voices that happen like that sometimes And you they really only come out when I'm reading scripts. I used to fun fact I used to be like a actor kind of I used to be in like school musicals and plays and all this stuff Even after I got a high school. I was in a couple local plays in our town and logarithms I was the scarecrow in the whiz.  It's still something I enjoy and sometimes that comes out in my voice work out the channel Yeah, and I wanted to mention something sitting here this whole time. This is a Ceramic metal. I'm not 100. I know it's steel on the inside This is a new piece of merchandise here at Nintendo Prime. It's got our new logo with the Nintendo Prime red and blue I wanted to mention that we now have these available for anyone who wants them I can't remember the exact pricing, but you can find the details for it down in the description below I have a link to free to be able to purchase it and as always it's another way to support Nintendo Prime You purchase this mug and it helps support us here. I get a small percentage and you get a product So that's I think it's a pretty sweet deal Ma'am, I also want to give a shout out to Ricardo graphics He didn't design the bomb that was actually designed by someone an old friend of mine named Trey from the Zeldin former days But he added the flames to it and the Nintendo Prime stuff on it He made it what I few is a printable version of itself. He HD'd the logo and I want to give a shout out to him because he did this all for free, but he's a professional at least I He looks like a professional to me. Let's put it that way He has done several professional work before so if you're someone out there that's looking for a professional logo kind of work or something Why don't you check them out? I'll have a link down to his YouTube stuff and his Facebook and wherever whatever other content information he gave if you would like to Contact him for work for your channel or other things. 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Hi, my name is Ty Davis and today I'm going to be walking you through how to do Agile Project Management at GitLab. This is something that we define as part of our manage and plan stages, as part of the 10 stages that we have as the DevOps lifecycle. It is a great starting point for organizations looking to plan out the Agile projects that their teams will be approaching and tying that to your SCM and tying that to your CICD and your security as part of that DevOps end to end. So what we're going to do is we're going to take a look at this mock organization, healthcare provider incorporated. They've broken down their organization into value streams or into specialty areas with groups or with subgroups. You can see that here with online experience, hospital, laboratory, pharmacy, specialist primary care and then they have PLMO management as a project and this is where they're going to do a lot of their high level Epic boards and moving those from in progress to done and directly correlating those with issues and subepics and these value streams or specialty groups. When we take a look at how hierarchy works instead of GitLab, in this particular case we have these groups that I just mentioned and then underneath them that we have large Agile teams and intake, patient records, staff scheduling, billing. We're going to be looking at billing and the four project levels underneath billing which we'd consider these either Scrum or Kanban teams that make up the larger Agile team of billing. These projects are where your repositories are going to exist. This is where your issue boards are going to exist and seeing progress that's done with those specific projects. You have the ability at the billing subgroup level to see everything that's happening with these projects. It rolls up to billing and the same thing will happen at a roll up to hospital and then that can roll up the highest level to healthcare provider incorporated where leadership or execs have visibility into the organization as a whole and progress that's being made with all of the different areas and groups. Before we dive into that project, we're going to look at the issue or sorry, the EPICS. EPICS are going to be rolled up again to this very high parent-to-ancestor level. When we're at this high portfolio level, we're probably going to be looking at just maybe a strategic theme that's going to be broken down into our larger EPICS and then broken down into a feature into an issue. So we as leadership, we looked at this. We've seen that this is the five important areas for us that we want to improve upon. Maybe if we look at improve overall ARP since we'll be talking billing, I can see that there's a sub EPICS directly correlated with that. Maybe this is a larger EPIC or maybe this is actually just a feature. In this case, it's a feature that accept all major methods of payment. I have that traceability. If I were to go into that feature or sub EPICS, I can see that there's another feature correlated with it right here and I can see all the issues that are directly correlated with this sub EPICS that I've defined. So it has that great traceability of showing that hierarchy of EPICS to sub EPICS to issues, keeping that correlation amongst themselves and giving that leadership or that exacter or maybe a director VP visibility into what is specifically associated with a sub EPICS. Going back here to health care provider, this is where we're going to start. I mentioned we're going to get into billing and this is where I'm going to go into patient billing here. I am going to head over to the board view. You can see that I landed right on the repository there. And this is where we're going to start doing our backlog grooming. We're going to do our sprint planning or release planning. In this case, I am doing scrum. So I have some sprint setup. This is looking at the current sprint, but I want to do sprint planning. I'm going to go over to that board view that I've set up using what we define and milestones, which is where we define our sprints. Milestones and GitLab is a time box. We'll look at that. Actually, I'll just show you that right now. You can see over here in milestones, I've defined sprint one through five. You could define releases if you wanted, like a 12.0, 12.1. If you're doing more of a con bond approach, but milestones. This is where we do time boxing and we define our sprints. And then you could take those sprints, bring over to your sprint planning board, give them each a lane, and this is where we can start doing our dragging and dropping, assigning issues to that sprint. In this case, I'm in sprint two. Let's say we're already currently in sprint one. So that's ongoing and we're planning for the next one or maybe we are. We are just completing sprint one and beginning sprint two. So I've moved issues over to sprint two. They're now assigned to that sprint. I'm going to go to current sprint. Let's just say, for instance, now we are in sprint two and dev team, we see all the issues that have been assigned to sprint team or sprint two and this is actually filtered by sprint two so I can see everything specific that is only associated with sprint two. So drag and drop these issues over. Maybe it's me tie the developer. I'm coming in here. I say, OK, I want to work on that issue. I'm going to assign it to myself. It's now in progress. The same can be done for other issues. You know, maybe Dan is going to take this one. We'll see here. DT is going to take this one and then Mark is going to take this one. So now we are in our current sprint. We're working on these. We've came in here, self organized. So these are the issues that we're working on and we're moving forward. Those we have scope labels inside of GitLab. This is how you can build out your workflows. Let's say I move my from in progress to review. We can see that that status reviews label has now taken ownership and remove the end progress. So this gives us very easy ability to filter if you want to see if anything's in a specific a core layer with specific tag. If I'm a scrum master or a product owner and I want to have visibility in the team board, I can take a look here. I could see what's assigned to Dan and Ty and Dave. And then just make sure that there's no bottlenecks. If there's any struggle somewhere where where something's not moving through, I can we could try to help alleviate and hope in those areas diving into specific issue. Now, let's see how the structure is built out with an issue. I can see on the right side here, we have the epic that it's tied to who's assigned to the milestone that it's part of. You can add specific time tracking in here. If you want to add some hours to give it a due date, labels that's associated with that add any other labels. Maybe you're doing safe. It's part of an agile release train. And then the weight you can add in here, whether you're doing maybe a favorite nacho scale or or card deck of cards, however you do that, you can add that weight in here. And then you have a few other options on the right. You can give it a title description and then you can have a specific task. Maybe we need some more minute to dues that will make this issue or user story move along. And those tasks can be defined in the description. We'll have a related merge request. So I can see I've already opened one up here. And if I want to just create a new merge request, I can do that here. This is a very big piece of GitLab because no other tool out there has a direct correlation with agile project management and their merge pull request. So their their their SEM and agile project management. Most everything else is just an integration. Maybe you're integrating another tool with GitLab to have that kind of benefit. And so what you have the ability to do is use GitLab to create a merge request and that dev can go in there. They can check out their branch. They can use their IDE. They can use our Web IDE that's built in. This is very beneficial on the business side. A lot of people at GitLab from HR to marketing actually use our own tool and use this built in Web IDE to make changes on the company site merge request. We're not going to get into this. We could do that in different demo, but great collaboration area. Let's say that we we did run a pipeline and we close that pipeline out or sorry, close that pipeline. Apologies. So we run we check out our branch. We make our changes. We commit and push that and then the pipeline passes. Then we can merge that to master and that's going to close out that issue. So we can see that it's closed out to it's going to close issue. Sixteen and that's going to help us as we progress through agile and I don't have to make any extra effort as a developer to go in and move my issue from and review to done. It's going to do that automatically. And then I can continue on to the next issue. I want to take a look at, you know, if we need to see how burned down is going. We can see this is actual release that we have at GitLab. It could take a look by issue weight or issues. It gives us great visibility into progress as part of that sprint or that release. Over here is showing you how many issues are closed and open. It's a great spot to track that progress of teams. So summarizing, you know, what what we've, you know, for agile project management and there's a lot more we can get into. But it is a great starting point and planning out what teams need to do, how you're going about microservices or applications and planning for those. And directly tying that to SCM, directly tying that to your CICD. All in one application makes it very, very easy inside of GitLab to do. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We're more than happy to help. Thank you for joining.