on partnering with small holders, strategies for food security, and to lead this, Sean DeClean, Vice President of NGARA International is here. Thank you, Sean. How are you? I had heard a lot about Sean DeClean, but I hadn't met him until I had a September, and the world's leading supplier of middle-of-war is extremely impressive. He's deeply involved as a leader in the growth and trade corridors in Southern Africa and in collaborations to promote agricultural investment through entities like the Africa Progress Panel and the World Economic Forum, which is a new vision of agriculture, which is meeting here this week. Please welcome Sean DeClean and his panel. The last time I stood in front of an audience was as Ambassador Quinn was saying at the African Green Revolution Forum in Ghana, which was the first time that Africa had held an event of this scale of nature to look at the whole role of farming and how that could be developed in Africa. So this is a different place, flying over. This was my first time that I had been to Des Moines, so flying over, the plane coming into Des Moines, and you're looking at all this perfect, neatly arranged agriculture was very different to the flight into Ghana. But it's still, I think the synergies and the harmonies between these two events are very powerful and I was very honoured to have the opportunity to be involved here. So joining me on stage are leaders from diverse backgrounds, from the corporate sector, from government, from international organisations, and a farm leader in her own right. And it's fizzing to have this diversity on stage as we discuss partnering on strategies for food security, which at this point in time is of critical importance, particularly as we look at volatility in the global food price and the people that will be most impacted if that has a negative impact will be small holder farmers often in sort of remote parts of the world. Myself, I lived in Malawi for six years and in Africa for 12 years, so this is something I'm very familiar with. Gabriella Cruz is from an 800 hectare family crop and livestock farm. Isabella Cruz and Sister's Farm, which has been in the family for over 100 years. Miss Cruz is the president of the Portuguese Association for Soil Conservation and represented Portuguese farmers at the European Union Commission for eight years. She participated in this week's Global Farmer to Farmer Round Table and yesterday was announced as the winner of the 2010 Clayton Reward for advancing trade and technology for global farmers. Jose Fernandez is the US Assistant Secretary for States, who many of you know has been in the role for I think nine months now, is that right, for Economic Energy and Business Affairs, who oversees State Department's efforts on international trade and investment finance, security, but probably most importantly for this discussion on development of agriculture. And his bureau is very involved in the Future Initiative, which we've heard quite a bit about over the last couple of days and seems to be really gaining momentum. Mr Fernandez himself has legal experience that includes three decades of practice in Latin America, Europe and Africa as economies in those regions have evolved. So if we could just warmly welcome Mr Fernandez. And then until last month, Matt Kistler was the Senior Vice President of Sustainability for Walmart, leading the company's Global Sustainability Strategy and engaging the company's 100,000 suppliers and more than two million associates worldwide towards these goals. He's now the Vice President of Marketing, so has big shoes to step into, but he's a tall guy, so I think he'll do fine. As he continues to work on the company's linkages with diverse food producers throughout the entire value chain. Then Robert Singler, who many of you know, is the Director-General of ERI, the International Rice Research Institute, which is part of one of the flagship centres of CTAIR, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, which this year is marking its 50th anniversary for taking cutting-edge agricultural research and improved crop and production technologies through to the farm, at all levels internationally. A plant specialist in his own right with experience in the Congo and the Burundi, he's also worked and led programs with CTAIR-Ciat in Colombia prior to leading ERI, which as many of you know, is headquartered in the Philippines. Small holders achieve something significant in terms of food security. This is something that we've been engaged for a long time now, but I think particularly since 2008 there has been a renewed focus on what this means, to engage literally billions of small holder farmers around the world into and bring them comprehensively into the value chain. Has required us to, in many ways, from where I stand, coming from the private sector side of things, is probably an unprecedented level of fine solutions to these partnerships that will engage small holder farmers and take that to scale at a much more significant level. So we're seeing new kinds of partnership models, we're seeing alliances being developed, we're seeing much more engagement between governments, international organisations in the private sector, farmers, both medium, small to large scale farmers and civil society. So just very quickly, we're going to do this in the form of a sort of discussion. I'm not going to ask people to give 10 minute speeches, so just very quickly, I mean, from your representative perspectives, if maybe I could just ask you just in one or two minutes just to say what is it that's changed from the previous decades and how are we going to continue that change in terms of the way we do farming, the way we partner? Well, hello to everybody. I would like to thank the organisation for this formal dialogue and truth about trade and technology association that was invited to be here and share my experience. From my experience with farming, so I've been managing the farm for 20 years and I was brought on a farm so I could see what my parents were doing. The partnership between various associations, farmers, enterprises, research institutes are very important and they are so important that I can give an example of what we did and are doing in my country. At one point we were allowed to grow sugar beet in Portugal. We didn't know the crop, we had no idea to grow it and we were on the hands of the company who bought our produce from our farms. What we did with the association of sugar beet producers was we did an experimental association between the industry and the farmers in order that we could select the best varieties and the best adapted varieties of sugar beet for the country. And it was so successful that in two years we doubled our production. Sometimes I feel a bit sub-feared to say that it's two years because many people might not know why is that. The thing is the industry was pushing us some old varieties. They were wanting. They were not the best performance. So we could bring the experience of Spanish and Italian farmers and the adoption and adaptation of the varieties to our country was much quicker because we had other countries experience with those varieties because they had the same climate and soil conditions. So in two years we started at a very low level. We were doing 35 tons per hectare and in two years we reached what the Spanish and Italians were doing which is 70 tons. That's why it would be so quick. But we had a partnership like this one. Very exciting. I'm going to come back to this but I'm just going to do a quick thing because I think these kinds of examples are very impressive and what's exciting there is also the interaction. This wasn't just done in Portugal as an association with the research institutes and the industry but you were also looking at this from a cross-country perspective as well and sharing that knowledge. But let me ask Matt, I mean Walmart I'm sure you would say they've changed a lot in the last decade what are some of the ways in which you've seen that change significantly? Well first of all, we appreciate the opportunity to be here today. We had our own kind of sustainable agriculture meeting today as well but in the broadest sense, we've been on a journey now in sustainability for about five years and certainly opportunities that we have as a corporation have a true difference. To better serve the more than 200 million people who come through our doors every week is amazing and something we think is a true responsibility that we have as a corporation. We have three basic sustainability goals that we have as a company now integrated globally into every area of the company and those three broad goals are to be supplied 100% by real energy to create zero waste and to sell products that sustain people and the environment Today, we made nine new goals as a corporation that our CEO announced globally. We had about a thousand people in our conference room in Bentonville, Arkansas. We were also webcast into our 15 countries where we have operations and certainly a lot of external media also witnessed our event this morning. We made several. Is the World Food Prize a good company when they webcast the World Food Prize? Absolutely. But we made several commitments today and I'm very pleased that we made nine new commitments around sustainable agriculture and one of those is to source a billion dollars worth of agricultural merchandise from a million small and medium sized farmers globally. But we also backed it up with providing training to more than a million farmers from which we buy from now in many countries including the United States, directly from. And so those are just two of the goals that were made today that I think not only show our commitment but as a corporation, I hope people are starting to realize that sustainability for Walmart, sustainability as a business strategy is a good one. And certainly the value we're seeing not only is financial but obviously too has tremendous environmental and social benefits as well. Just follow on. And listening to this, you're seeing two different sides of the private sector. The small farm, it's not a small farm that you're on, Gabrielle, but you're not on the Iowa scale of farming and then from a Walmart perspective. But from a research institute, this has been something you've probably been wanting to see for a long time happen. Absolutely. I think when we look at your question of what has changed, I think the first thing that comes to my mind is what has not changed. And that is that we still have the vast majority of the world's rice being supplied by very small farmers. We have 200 million rice farms in Asia alone. Now in terms of what has been changing, I think this is extremely exciting from a research institute perspective. And that is we're seeing farmers having access to tools of communication unlike they've ever had before. We've heard a number of speakers over the last couple of days repeatedly bring up the prevalence of cell phone technology. And I think that means of communication is something that will completely revolutionize smallholder production at a global level. We look at, we've heard a lot about seed production and how new seeds can revolutionize production systems around the world. Jeff Riggs mentioned some of our flood tolerant rice that's going out. But I think we have an opportunity now to see the whole way that rice farming and by extension other smallholder agriculture is being managed to be changed. We see today a technology that we're rolling out that will allow farmers to get real time information about what is the best fertilizer to apply on their fields at what time and what formulations. It's only a small step to then see how that with that information they can have access to credit. And again credit coming through a cell phone. That access to credit will crack one of the most difficult nuts in development that we've had in developing countries over the past decade. Going beyond that the crop modeling, geographic information systems that are coming together that can be used in a real time way allow us to begin to imagine a crop insurance program that would allow farmers to participate in the credit markets in a way that would give them a level of power in decision making that they haven't enjoyed before. And of course participating in markets in a way that they have not traditionally been able to participate. That is empowering them with the price information that Mr. Page talked about. So I think that some of you look at how things are changing for smallholders around the world. I think we're on the tip of a revolution that we're just beginning to appreciate.   I mean, the U.S. is also, in its own way, taking a very strong leadership state from a government perspective. And that's been very powerful to watch over the last sort of 12 to 18 months. And so what do you see as the challenges and, you know, the successes that need to be emulated going forward in this whole framework of partnership for smallholder farmers to achieve the sort of scale levels we're talking about. Thank you. And thanks for having me here. Food security is the reason I left the corporate wall to, and I'm very glad to be here. And we're very proud of the steps that we're taking to try and deal with the food security issue. By no means is it a silver bullet, but I think to answer your question, I think there may be four or five differences in what's been done before with what we're doing now. And first of all, focus on the scale. The numbers that countries are pledging to fight food insecurity are unprecedented in the fact that, we're very proud of the fact that the U.S. has pledged to be and a half billion dollars over the next three years and that the rest of the world has pledged 18 billion plus. So that's the scale. This is one important aspect of the future and our strategy that the whole innovation, how we're using technology, how we're trying to leverage partnerships, the fact that it's comprehensive. We're not simply focusing on putting seats on the ground, but we're looking at things such as infrastructure, working on markets, including using cell phone technology, looking at gender issues. The fact that in Africa 70 plus percent of work is on the land. There are women, but they, in many places, cannot own the land. Also, how do you deal with the title issues in these countries? Technology, including ag biotech. All of these are, it's a comprehensive way of addressing the problem. And it's also another part of the strategy, I would say also, is that we're really making sure that the countries are invested in the strategy. They have to be country owned. They have to own it. And that means that some of the steps that we're taking may take a little bit more time to actually be implemented, because one of the things we want to make sure of is that they're owned by the government, that they are partners in this enterprise. And lastly, I think at least from the U.S. side, another different type of, I suppose, is the fact that we're not trying to do everything for everyone we're focusing on. At this point, 20 countries, countries that we believe, we believe would make the most difference, more countries that have taken steps already to take advantage of the help that we can provide, countries like Iran and others in Africa, in Asia, as well as in Latin America. So, I mean, coming back to a point that was made earlier, and I'm going to ask both Robert and Gabriella this, one of the things that struck me in listening to your story just on that sugar beet one, for example, is that there was a very strong link between the research component of it and the industry driving this. And then the link, so you've got a link between the private sector and the industry in that sense, the research and then the farmer and the farmers that you represented. I mean, for both of you, this is a critical link, as I see it, this link between research and the market, between making sure that that link is developed. Is that something that you're seeing growing or that you need to see more emphasis in developing these kinds of partnerships? Well, those kinds of partnerships are very important, especially in my country, because research is getting less and less and more things done. We're facing an enormous crisis and the government is giving very little money to the public research. So what we are trying to do is mainly between the industries and the farmers, our suppliers, and we applied some of the programs which are funded by the European Union and those fund fundamentally the experimentation that the research of some other countries have done. So we don't have much research in our country. What we are trying to do is profiting from the research from other countries to have the same conditions as us, like Spain, Italy, and the United States. In some, like in Austria for example, we tend to use the example and the practices of the United States and South America. But unfortunately now we cannot rely on the Portuguese research. What we can do is tell the market or the industries, we want to do what you want us to do, but we need the support of some institutes abroad, some farmers abroad, and the companies who supply the impulse for us. You see much more virtual partnerships in that sense. This isn't a traditional partnership done in Portugal, developed with Portuguese associations. You're looking much more at a virtual, international type partnership with a very local, specific, tangible result. But from your side, what do you see? Well, I think we've just heard an extremely important point being made and that is the decline of public sector research. We've heard a mantra over the last 20 years or so that the private sector can do everything, but the private sector can do an awful lot. But one of the things that it's not particularly good at is a lot of the innovative research that is pre-competitive. It actually goes out to creating a platform upon which new technologies, new products are built. I think we have to keep in mind that without a vibrant public sector research dimension to our whole overall food security strategy, over the long run we're going to run into trouble. The whole party here at the University of Minnesota has done some outstanding work that's shown that a reduction, a dramatic reduction in public sector research will show up as a drying up pipeline after only about 15 years. So you can have a short-term cut in public spending and research and not see the consequences of that for a decade or more, which is a very dangerous scenario when you put that sort of thing Now I think, now having said that, there is a very important role for the private sector. This is someone who's spent his entire life in the public sector. I'm seeing more and more that there is going to be a much more positive contribution by the private sector in its relationship with the public sector. I think there is a much more mature relationship that allows us now to enter into the kinds of partnerships that were unthinkable 10 or 15 years ago. So Jose Fernandez, I'm going to come back to this point pre-competitive because I come from the private sector, we compete on all levels. I also come from the private sector, I've only been in office for nine months so I feel you're competing. So this notion of pre-competitive where you're seeing companies come together in a more collective alliance around research in the way that Robert is describing this. I mean, there's also a challenge there, I would imagine, for the US government about how it supports the private sector. And traditionally for a lot of the international donors and agencies around the world, there's been a difficulty of having this broader alliance which involves the private sector and in that. But is it possible to have these kinds of pre-competitive dynamic publishers that then, you know, later lead to more market competition issues later on? I think it's critical. I think you have to have them. In fact, one of the things that we're trying to do, one of the reasons why I'm here is I'm trying to find ways to create alliances with the private sector. Because at the end of the day, this cannot be a charitable enterprise. It's got to be a confluence of development and dollar development and profit. That's the only way that I believe we can make something that will be lasting. And so what we're trying to do is to find ways to work with the private sector, to find ways to interest companies to go into some of these markets, to go into Africa, to go to some of these countries. And what I'm seeing so far is actually quite encouraging. I've seen a lot of responses that I've gotten in other industries that would say, well, we're really not interested in going into this part of Africa because there's not much of a market there. Well, the fact of the matter is that at least what I'm hearing from many companies is that, yes, they welcome a partnership, a collaboration with the U.S., with universities, with civil society to try and open some of these markets. And in fact, many of them are already looking at ways to do so. I'm encouraged and I frankly believe it's the only way that this thing's going to work. This is not going to be led. It can be facilitated and maybe galvanized by government, but it cannot be done by government.


Hello, welcome to theCUBE Conversation. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE here in Palo Alto, California. We're here with some SiliconANGLE and CUBE news. We have some funding announcement. Christine Yen, the CEO of honeycomb.io. CUBE alumni, great to see you again. Big news. Thanks for coming on here for this CUBE conversation and SiliconANGLE news. It's great to be back. Thanks for having me, John. So we just posted a story this morning. You guys had released a $50 million series D funding. Congratulations. It's a real big milestone in this market where there's a large percentage of people having a hard time raising money, yet early stage seed with the AI surge is booming. Cloud Native is booming. This is a tale of two cultural shifts of entrepreneurship and growth. And it's a leveling out. It's almost like, I won't call it a purge because that's like a little bit too over the top, but you're seeing a transition. This is where we're starting to see markers. So I really want to get into it. So before we get into that conversation that CUBECon coming up in Amsterdam, let's talk about the funding. Give us the news. How much did you raise? Give us the numbers. Who's in? Any new investors? Same investors? And what are you going to use the money for? Yeah. We're raising the series D, $50 million. Really excited to have, frankly, all existing investors back. This round was led by Headline, participated in by Scale Venture Partners, Insight Partners, as well as Long-Times Reporters, Storm Ventures and Industry. We are so excited to be able to raise this round and announce this round. This was a preemptive round, really driven by the level of interest and observability really hitting new heights last year between Gartner's Magic Quadrant, naming us as a leader and our O'Reilly book being released, Observability Engineering. It really feels like observability has finally moved from this buzzword that folks are curious about to a real established movement and that people are hungry for help understanding. Open Telemetry, of course, is a huge part of that. Last year, I think it became news that Open Telemetry was officially the second most active project as part of the CNCF. We've seen that at Kubecons and so we're really excited about the one coming up in Amsterdam. And the momentum around that project, again, it's just really testament to the level of interest and excitement around observability as a new way of understanding the more complex systems we keep building today. And we'll have them on, certainly at the Kube will be in Amsterdam as well. Maybe to every Kube gone there is. The bin, I didn't go last year, I had a little bit of a COVID problem, but that's gone. But I want to get into what you said. We talked before you came on camera about cloud native growth and this obviously series D is validation, obviously. But you have more future plans for the company. I'm sure there's probably growth in product, go to market, sales, growth. But the macro, I get that, but before we get into the specifics, there seems to be an underlying growth around how cloud, and we're calling it super cloud in our conversations, has created this whole effect where you can build a cloud company on top of the capex that Amazon, Azure have built. So you have all the capex players who have built billions of dollars in infrastructure. And you sit on top of that, that seems to be this cloud native sweet spot right now where you can have the benefits of cloud, but now build scalable platforms where you need the new cloud native observability. You need containers as a service. You need Kubernetes. This seems to be a trend. What's your take on this? Because you're in the middle of it. It seems like a new operating system is going to sit on top of the cloud for companies that don't even need to spend any capex. You know, I think the truth of the world that we're in is that every cycle, there's this paradigm shift in how we build software. Sometimes it is because there's a new technology that drags along a bunch of changes in how we need to deploy or how we need to structure our logic. Sometimes it's driven by social practices. New practices like platform engineering or SRE are changing how the humans building the software want to interact with the other humans. And along with that drives it to change in technology. And this is the beauty of tech, right? The world is just changing so quickly. The tools that we're using in building that future change quickly. And as far as observability is concerned, the tools that we then need to make sense of these new systems that we've built need to similarly keep up. And the CNCF has really been focused on this and absurdly is on the rise. And is that because of developer uptake or just the need for metrics instrumentation? Where's the growth coming from? Is it gaps? Is this evolution? Where's the tailwind? What's the big tailwind for you guys and observability? I think that a lot of this current excitement around open telemetry, I think it was rooted in the rise of tracing. Distributed tracing is a way of capturing telemetry from your software systems that is able to show relationships and connections in a way that is so much more important in these days where we have these complex distributed systems, whether it's across containers or microservices or clouds or serverless functions. All of these things play into needing in a more expressive data format to reflect what your logic is doing. And where open telemetry and honeycomb really shine is saying, hey, let's take the old data patterns that worked in our old simpler world and maybe set them aside and consider this new world, this new way of describing what the heck our code is doing and why it's not doing what we expect. That's the core problem. And that's why this problem that Honeycomb solves is never going to go away. The code that we think that we're writing is never exactly the code that is executing out there in front of our customers. And engineering teams are always going to need to figure out be able to close that loop. And you got to roll your eyes too when you see all the AI code being generated. It's only going to create more noise.  No, no, it's not the way it has to work. This is a huge issue around software supply chain. These are huge issues. So productivity aside, I mean, I could be more productive putting crappy code in the system with AI, but this is a new dynamic. What's your take on this? Just anecdotally, as this new wave hits with AI, not to go on a tangent, but you mentioned new code coming in. Very relevant. Honestly, AIOps, as a phrase, has been part of this world for years. And I think that like some of this AI generated code and some of the hype around it, the trap is always in believing that robots can do the work for you. AI is a tool. It is something that can augment your humans, can make them more powerful. And we are certainly, I won't give away anything that we're not ready to share yet, but I'll say that our interest is absolutely in how we can leverage some of these new technologies to build mega suits around your humans. Not robots. We're not trying to promise that we can do your work better than your engineers. But we thought we could make your engineers more productive, more insightful, more able to use these superpowers to get back to what the humans are really good at, which is being creative and solving problems. Yeah, I mean, AI should make good coders great and great coders exceptional. This is where, this is a human loop. They talk about the human loop. This is huge. This is back in the old, is there AI for AI management? I'm looking forward to talking more and it sounds like you've got some stuff going on there, which we'll try to get out of you in another interview, but stay on the news here, because I love some of the stories you guys are talking about in the press and our story. You guys have this approach around three pillars, logs, metrics and tracing. And you talk about socio-technical systems. Could you define that? What is socio-technical systems mean? Happy to. It is the acknowledgement that despite the focus on the technology that we're all using, ultimately the systems that we're building are a blend of the technologies that we use and the process, culture and humans necessary to build them. When we look at self-reengineering practices, so many of them, some misguided folks will say, oh, we just need to buy this new technology and all of our problems will be solved. And the truth is you can buy the technology, but you won't realize the value until you really start to think about how will my humans use this? How do I do the change management? How do I make sure that my practices are aligned with the technology investments I'm making, whether how you're architecting your software or the tools you're using to make sense of them? We think the two sides are irrevocably tied together. And that's why so much of our focus is, like I said, around making our customers' human teams be great through technology, never replacing or making promises we don't think we can do. I think people could go to the knee-jerk reaction.  There's a lot of work that's been done over the years. I mean, AI has been a great discipline. I remember in the 80s, when I was getting my degree, AI principles were all, it was no compute. You had to build models. It was so hard to get into the game. I think what I like about cloud native and cloud is you can get into the game, quick build value and grow it. And I think when automation starts the conversation, you got to think about things like automatic instrumentation and observability, monitoring, all these things. This is a core part of your thesis for your company. Automating, instrumentation and observability for all. What's the next phase of growth for you guys with this investment? What are you guys going to focus on? What's next? Obviously open source is growing beautifully. We're seeing that continue to be the bedrock.  We'll get that later. But for you guys, what's the future look like with the investment? Yeah, I think the things that we haven't already talked about include geo expansion. Right now we are heavily, many of our customers are in the US. We have some folks in EMEA and some folks in APAC, but we really want to have built a better solution to support the global software teams that we know are out there. I think what we're also really interested in is thinking about the entire development ecosystem. Ultimately, what does observability promise and Honeycomb really sell? We sell the truth about what your code is doing when you're not watching it. Well, who needs that? Well, it's going to be every other software tool out there that promises to make a change about what's going on in production. We have, today we have something like a hundred integrations already with partners like AWS and LaunchDarkly and CircleCI. But I think that there's a lot more there that we haven't, we've only begun to scratch the surface up. So, I'm very impressed with your, I'm impressed with the success. I remember our conversation in 2018, we were like speaking a whole nother language, but it was still the same game. Observability cloud native. Last time we spoke on theCUBE. Give an update on Honeycomb. What's the culture like for the company? I'll see success validate with this $50 million series D in this market. Huge congratulations on that. What are you guys doing for culture? What's it like to work there? Put a plug in for the company for people watching. I, my co-founder and I started Honeycomb after having been in Silicon Valley for years and having seen a lot of startups build really great products but lose their way. And so when we started the company, one of the things we committed to absolutely was being as thoughtful about building the company and the humans as much as the technology in the business. A couple of ways this manifested, in even in the boom times of a couple of years ago, when it feels like every company was very proud of doing things like forexing their headcount in a year or six-axing their headcount. I actually remember RVP engineering raising her hand and saying, hey, we cannot onboard more folks than two X growth. That's gonna be our bottleneck. We need to do this to retain our culture and our processes. And so that is where we will pause. And coming into 23, this means that we have been able to not have to turn to layoffs. We've been able to continue to be very thoughtful about how we grow and build our teams. And we actually published in our blog post around this raise that we earned a number of awards through comparably and Great Place to Work on how strongly our team feels about being a part of the Honeycomb team. Thank you for asking about that. I really take my hat off for you. Congratulations, that's a great culture. Being cool and relevant is great. And having a durable business that adds value and you maintain the growth wave, ride that growth wave. It's great success. And again, we've been following you guys for a while. And again, congratulations. And I'm so glad that you could come on theCUBE and share the news, Kristine. And good luck. We'll see you at KubeCon. And certainly, if not Amsterdam, we'll see you in Chicago. Awesome. Thanks so much. Looking forward to it. Kristine and co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb.io, Cube alumni, real player in the industry, making the right moves in a market that is going with the huge waves in cloud native. The AI trend is going to surge right into it. It's the confluence of the whole cloud. Next, Jan's here. Secure, we got you covered. I'm John Furrier, your host. Thanks for watching.


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If you deposit $100 worth of cryptocurrency, you'll be able to earn up to $250 in cryptocurrency. So don't miss out on that amazing opportunity. But enough talking, let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back, Germans. Here we are on my rival hit account. I'm sitting at $62,412 and 83 cents, 89 cents on the week. Well, only month of July had a pretty bad month. I'm down 7.24% down $4,869 and 42 cents. So yes, we are down, but over on the year, we're still up a lot 14%. So you guys already know what I do when the market is pulling back. I buy the dip. I'm buying stocks that are great, that are actually on sale. When it has a pullback, then I anticipate them recovering soon in the near future over the next year. So giving me a greater profit in the shorter time to turn around from the negatives to the profits. But we're going to go ahead and look at the dividends that paid me out this month. OK, here we go. We're going to just fly through them right quick. I'm going to give you guys every single one since I got paid out 14 times, I'm just going to have to run through every single one. The first dividend that paid me out on July 1st was Coca-Cola. Take a simple K.O., they pay me out. I own four shares of Coca-Cola. They pay me out 42 cents per share. And so that's a total of $1.68 from Coca-Cola. Now, you guys know Coca-Cola is a dividend aristocrat. That means they have been increasing their dividend payments every single year for the last 50 years. So that's why I love investing into Coca-Cola. If you guys are looking for a great stable company, Coca-Cola might be the way to go. The second company that paid me out is NVIDIA, which I'm going to start buying a lot more shares of because they just had a stock split of 41 stocks split for every one share that you own of NVIDIA. You ended up getting four in NVIDIA over the last year. Has just been killing it. They're up 84 percent and over the last five years they're up 1,000 percent. So that's why they had a stock split because their price was getting so high. But at the time, my own 0.3 shares worth of NVIDIA, paying out 16 cents per share. And now, so I got paid out five cents from NVIDIA. The next company that paid me out is ADT. I think I got a free ADT stock from someone signing up using my link and I did receive dividends from it. Pay me out four cents from just one share of ADT. So I got paid out three times on the very first day of July. I got three checks. The second time on July 2nd, I got paid out from VOO. Took a sum of VOO. It is a Vanguard ETF, very safe, stable company. Tracks the top 500 companies in America. I own one share. They paid out $1.33. And I got paid out a total of $0.35. Now, this is one boring ETF. But if you look over the last year, they're up 34 percent. Over the last year, they're up 102 percent. They're not going to shoot up super high in one year. And they're not going to shoot down super low in one year. Unless, of course, it's a pandemic. But besides that, I'm up already 50 percent just from owning one share. So if you if you are scared of the stock market and you're looking for a good ETF to invest into, I invest into VOO. I can't tell you what to invest into, but I invest into VOO. The fifth company that paid me out is a gaming company. Ticket symbol, H-E-R-O Hero. I own eight shares of Hero, paying out two cents per share. And they pay me out 20 cents. And this is a quarterly paying dividend stocks. Quarterly paying dividend stocks mean they pay me out four times a year every three months. The next one that pay me out is AG&C. I got paid out $13 and 44 cents on a total of 112 shares. AG&C is a real estate read. Real estate read usually pays out higher dividends than other companies. Let's take a quick look at AG&C. Right here on AG&C, I am up 10 percent and I have a dividend yield of 9.07 percent. They have a very high dividend yield. All the other companies have a dividend yield around maybe one percent, half a percent or maximum. They might have one around like two, two point three percent. But real estate reads, they are required to pay out a large portion of their profits back to their investors. So that's why they usually have higher dividends. And AG&C is a monthly paying dividend stock. That means I receive these payments every single month. I've received more. I've received more in dividends than I have in return. So I'm up a lot more than one hundred and sixty six dollars because I've been invested into them much longer than a year now. So that was AG&C. I'm going to start showing you guys the dividend percentage. The next one is ticker symbol. Oh, this is also a real estate read. I got paid out two dollars and thirty six cents. If we take a look at ticker symbol, really to income, this is known as the monthly paying dividend stock. They pay out their dividends every single month and they have a pretty sweet dividend yield of four percent. It's not as high. It's not as high as AG&C. But four percent dividend is a little bit safe. They mean they have more money in their capital to grow the company even more, other than giving all of their money back to their investors. Guys, so ticker symbol is a pretty sweet company to invest into to look for a monthly dividend income. The next company that paid me out is IPR. Can't talk about them if you want to know what they do.  I need this you to revenue my own one point five shares pay me out two dollars and nineteen cents. But we look at the growth over the year. You guys could probably already tell what market they're in. If not, like I said, go look it up. They're up one hundred percent in a year. I'm up one hundred twenty five percent and they have a dividend yield of two point three nine percent. So that was IPR. The next one that paid me out is PSEC. PSEC is a monthly paying dividend stock on 11 shares. Pay me out six cents per share. So I got sixty six six from PSEC. And if we take a look at PSEC, they have a dividend yield of eight point eight nine percent. Once again, I have a pretty sweet dividend yield. This is also a monthly paying dividend stock. We'll stay read the next one is GE. I believe I receive GE as a free stock from someone signing up. Pay me out one cents. So I receive one since from GE, General Electrics, and they have a dividend yield of zero point three one percent. The next stock that paid me out is GPS gap on gap. Has been doing extremely well ever since that collaboration with Kanye West. I own ten shares paid out twelve cents per share. I got a dollar and twenty five cents from gap. Gap is up one hundred and seventeen percent on year. Once again, once they announced the collaboration with Kanye West, their stock has been shooting up. I am up one hundred and fourteen percent on gap. If you guys been following my channel for a while, you're probably up on a lot of stocks. Let's say if I if I tell you guys I was buying these 15 stocks, you'll probably be up on 12 of them and down on three of them. Or you might be up depending on when you got in. You might be up on ten of them and down on five of them. But hey, that ratio right there is insane, guys. So if you want to keep up with China, make sure that you go down, hit that subscribe button, hit that thumbs up button and hit that notification bill. It helps out this channel more than you can even imagine, guys. But yeah, I've been buying gap probably a year ago when I when I told you guys. But yeah, Gap has a dividend yield of point eight three percent. The next company after Gap is NRZ. NRZ pay me out on 200 shares of NRZ to pay out 20 cents per share. And they have paid me out $40. This is a quarterly paying dividend stock NRZ. I am down 16 percent. But I believe I have made maybe not yet. I have not made $400 yet in dividends from NRZ, but they have a dividend yield of six point six six percent. So I own 200 shares of NRZ. Even though I was up not too long ago, when it was up to like $11 and 30 cents, I was up. But you know, we still got some time to recover from the pandemic. Once they get back up to around $17, I'm going to be making a lot of money from NRZ. So I'm just going to let that be a slow recovery and continue to dollar cost average in over time. This is also a real estate read. So that's NRZ. The next one is P.E.Y. Got paid out on the 30th P.E.Y. is a ETF. It's a high dividend yield ETF on one hundred and five shares of P.E.Y. paying out six cents per share. So I got paid out $6.85 on P.E.Y. This is a quarterly paying dividend stock or it's a monthly paying dividend stock on P.E.Y. has been doing extremely well over the last year up 38 percent. I'm up 24 percent on P.E.Y. And I have a dividend yield of 4.11 percent. So P.E.Y. has been doing an amazing job for me. And the last stock that paid me out is S.P.H.D. a monthly paying dividend stock. I own 30 shares of S.P.H.D. This is kind of the ETF dividend stock that a lot of beginners start to invest into. And they pay out 11 cents per share. I got paid out $3.42. If we look at S.P.H.D. I'm up 8 percent. And I have a dividend yield of 4.15 percent, guys. So with these 14 companies paying me out in the month of July, I received a total of $73.50. Making this the largest month ever I've ever made in dividends, guys. And it's such an amazing job to just wake up and see that I've been receiving checks from different companies. And I could even see I got AT&T coming up again, paying me out $12 in August, AGMC paying me out $13 in August. So it's sitting enough for next month to be just as successful as this month. So I'm going to continue to reinvest those dividends right back into those stocks so that the following month I'll make even more from that. That is called the compound interest effect or the snowball effect.   But eventually, once you start picking up more snowballs and more snow off the ground, it could eventually boom. Boo, those are straight over a car, guys. So that's the snowball effect.  And that is that I'm going to start buying at least. So a lot of my money has been going to dividend stocks over the last couple of months. But now I'm going to start buying at least one share of Tesla. Now, that's going to be the same guys. Tesla is not a dividend stock, so it's going to affect how much dividends I'm going to start to receive every single month. It's going to stay sideways for a little bit since I'm only reinvesting my dividend payments back into it other than $600 a week into these stocks. So I'm going to try to pick up at least $600 worth of Tesla every single week. Tesla has been treating me well. I'm up 69% on Tesla on 14 shares. And I eventually want to get to 100 shares of Tesla in the future because I'm a big believer of Tesla. And also I do have a pre-ordered in on their truck, the Cybertruck. So I am going to be a big user of their products. And if I'm if I believe in a company so much as to buy their trucks, I need to at least own 100 shares of that company. So if I buy one share every single week, it'll take me a little over a year and a half, almost two full years to get 100 shares of Tesla. But I'm going to try to knock that out and also try to find little ways to pick up some dividend stocks here and there. So dividend investing might not be as exciting in the near future. But once I get 100 shares of Tesla, we're going to be doing. We're going to collect premiums on Tesla since they don't have since they don't have dividends and the way I'm going to collect premiums, I'm going to own 100 shares and maybe we're going to change it over to sell call and we could select the strike price of over $700. And we could be and we could be receiving, let's say the $700 strike. We could be receiving $1,075 every single week from Tesla once we get 100 shares and that'd be better than any dividend stock that I could think of. But it's going to take me a very long time to a very long time to get 100 shares of Tesla. And there we go. Dreamers that are the 14 stocks that paid me out. Let me know down in the comment section. So should I just go ahead and keep investing into the same dividend companies that I've been investing to? Or is it smart for me to go ahead and pick up a great growth company like Tesla, even though they do skyrocket up and they do skyrocket down. They have major pullbacks. Is it smart for me to change over to investing into a good blue chip company that has a lot of growth potential that looking back five to 10 years from now, I really really wish I would have invested into Tesla. Let me know down in the comment section, guys. And as always, let me know down in the comment section, how many companies paid you out this month? If only one paid you out, put one in 14, 20, 30 companies paid you out this month. Go ahead, put that you don't have to say how much you made. I know a lot of you guys make a lot more than me. And there's some guys out there that is making just 12 cents this month. Just like I was when we all started off. So just go ahead and let me know how many companies paid you out in the month of July. But don't forget to pick up your two free stocks by clicking in the link down in the description and signing up for Weeble and deposit your $100 other than that. I'm Zeke, bring you to dream green show and I'm out. Peace.


My name is Andrea with Foodimentary Adventures in Food.  On our channel, you'll find simple and tasty dinners using everyday ingredients. So for dinner tonight, Howard grilled some country-style pork ribs that I picked up on clearance. The other week from Tom Thumb, I did a haul video, and I'll make sure to link that in the description box. This is what I use to marinate the pork-style ribs. I keep calling them pork steaks. And I did marinate these overnight. So I threw away the packaging already, so that's why I am showing you the picture on my iPad. And it's actually pretty good. Howard and I really liked this marinade a lot. With it, we are having some corn on the cob that Howard threw on the grill as well. And then I just made a rice pilaf. I had some fresh spinach in the fridge that I wanted to use, so I just sauteed some spinach and then added the spinach to the prepared rice pilaf. And then I also added some shredded Parmesan cheese as well, so I'll try to get a little bit closer. But anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight, and we will see you all next time. So Howard and I had a late lunch today, and neither one of us are super hungry. So in my freezer, I had this traditional British-style cod fish and chips from Aldi. I think I got this probably in April around Lent. And everyone said it's a pretty big portion, and two people could eat off of it. And so they were right. This is the perfect amount of dinner for us tonight. And it is, I'm sure you probably can't tell exactly on camera, but it's a pretty sizable portion of fish and the fries or chips. So quick and easy dinner tonight, and we will see you all next time. So for dinner tonight, we are having yakisoba noodles. I have made this several times on our channel before. I do have a video showing how I make my noodles, but this is the noodle mix that I use today. It comes with three individual packages of the noodles along with a seasoning base. And the seasoning base is dry. Kind of like ramen noodle seasoning base. So that's what it looks like. To it, I added some vegetables that I needed to use up that were in my fridge. So I added some fresh mushrooms, excuse me, I added some coleslaw mix. I also had some chicken that I added and green onions as well. Then I just stir fried it up. It's a quick and easy meal. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight, and we will see you all next time. So I am trying out a new recipe for dinner tonight, and I'll make sure to leave the recipe in the description box. It is a slow cooker meal, of course. And so what I've done is just dropped in some defrosted hash browns. The recipe calls for kielbasa, but I have smoked sausage. So that is what I'm using, and you're supposed to cut it up into small, bite-sized pizzas, which I've done. You're supposed to add some milk and melted butter. Great thing about this recipe is you literally just dump everything in. Some melted butter and calls for an onion. I'm using frozen onions because I just don't feel like chopping up any onions. And some cream of chicken soup. And the meat is pretty salty, so I probably won't add any additional salt. But I am going to add some onion powder and garlic powder. Here's my garlic powder, and I'm just going to give this a good stir. And then I'm going to cover and cook it on high. It says for three hours. Oh, you know what? I forgot the cheese. Hold on. Y'all, I almost forgot the cheese for my cheesy chicken bake. So I'm adding in cheddar. The recipe calls for a, like, cheddar colby mix again, just using what I've got. I'm going to add the majority of the cheese in. I'm going to mix it up, and then I'm going to add the rest of that cheese on top. And then I'm going to cover and let it cook for about three hours. Okay, here's dinner. And I did let this cook for three hours, and good thing I checked it when I did because it did stick to the inside of my crock pot, even though I did grease it. Let me show you. So you can see that it stuck, and some of the meat got really dark. Howard and I tasted it, and it doesn't taste really burnt, but just be forewarned that it does stick a lot. I probably could have used less cheese because it did also produce a lot of oil or fat. And as you can see, I skimmed it off and put it in a bowl to the side. But it does taste good. It does have a good flavor. With it, I am serving some green beans. I added way too much bacon, as you can see, but that'll just make it even better. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight, and we will see y'all next time. Hey, guys. So today is our five-year wedding anniversary, and Howard and I went out for Chinese food. So we are having hot and sour soup. It's a large bowl, and we're splitting that, crunchy noodles. And then Howard got, what are these? Just steamed dumplings? Steamed dumplings. Howard got steamed dumplings, and then this is dipping sauce. I got fried wontons, and then I wanted to try an egg roll, so that's on the side, and then there is the sauce that goes with that. So when our food comes out, I will bring you guys back. Okay, so our main meal just came. We still got appetizers on the table, but Howard got shredded pork with garlic sauce. And then I got Mongolian beef, and then here is our rice. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight, and we will see y'all next time.


easier if we had discovered this, and this is not your knowledge before we discovered it, but maybe the superstitious spirits of what people have and being exploited wouldn't exist today. But I'm also inspired by the fact that some critics want to call a fork-bearer or anything, and I'm determined that we're going to continue to pinch reader-reactor, because I think that is the added future of this form of energy. So I'm grateful to all of you, and other various groups and organizations that you represent, declared China syndrome, right, I think I like that. The President has a presentation. Mr. President, on behalf of New York, with the use of nuclear power for peace of purposes in this country, many, many, many customers in the majority of our states, we wish to present you our nuclear power agenda, which is discussion delivered earlier to the White House, which lists some of the items which we think must become involved in a national nuclear policy for the AIDS. And we commend it to you. We appreciate this opportunity to deliver it to you as a symbol. Your words, initially, of your personal support for nuclear power, your personal commitment to the French River Reactor, mean more than anything we could ever do, but we assure you that we're going to redouble our efforts to do our part, communicate with the public, and to work in partnership with government and labor in the scientific community. So I thank you very much. And this includes women for me. Mr. President, I'm very pleased, yes, I made the statement on October 8, 1981, about the Liberia Reactor. I had to, I just can't resist, I had to tell you one little incident, but when I was doing the General Elections Theater on television, it used to know all the GV plants. They took me to Hanford, Washington when they, when to one place where they put white gums on us and felt boots on and so forth.   Well, one of four dials, but one dial would need continued clicking. And it was getting up to where the dial was read, and that was on my left hand. The manager of the plant looking over my shoulder said, it happens all the time. He said, I think nothing of it is the radium dial on your wristwatch. It was 200 miles away when I discovered I don't have a radium. I think I'd better go over here so you can continue business meeting here. Thank you. We also want to convey the personal best push. Also, the call that I made, as I was told, is truly expressing to you from Ertig Holt, who was in Vienna, a slum of Channel 13, helped the rule for people in California, just moving into a new house. And I thank Bernie Meiss and the president of Mones, Steve Stemmuss, the executive vice president charge of public relations, excellent. These are people in addition to those who are here who were part of our committee. And Fay Canan, who's president of the Motion Picture Academy as you know, has agreed to join our group on August 15th when she completes her tenure of office. All of us, I speak for each and every man here, are very delighted that we're able to serve the government on a voluntary basis. We expect to do a gilab and every man knows that much is expected of us and hope to posture this in such a way that after we step down, or aside, or whatever happens, there'll be a contending ongoing relationship and committee that can handle duties and supplement the work the USIA is doing now. I think that's great. I think it's wonderful, anyway. You know, we tend to forget back in what I call the go-getter, probably what an effect our pictures had on the impact on the whole world, just not from the stories and so forth that we talked about, but I remember having people from firms like Sears Robot and so forth tell me that after a picture, maybe with a certain garment or sweater or something of that kind would be shown that they would have to order, that they watched American pictures that played in the foreign countries and based their orders on that because they knew there would be a demand for these things, that this influence that they kind of would have had a great influence on. You have bothered a long enough, you know. And I know that you're ordered. You mean that possibly bedtime preponsors could have done that. They're doing some air brushing on that. Mr. President, I know you're in big skids, but I thought you ought to know that what they are doing is you recognize you're a terrible concern in the industry today. Most pictures, tapes, records of this piracy is depriving them of billions of dollars. They are entrusting to us, with the safeguards that we are prescribing, and until they learn different, they will give us the benefit of the doubt of contributing to us for a utilization of high-nation curtain on different posts around the world, motion pictures, as well as motion picture actors and others. As you know, particularly in third world or rather behind the iron curtain, this is a way we used to meet people that are easily followed up with. So they're making a very substantial contribution. It's worth literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. And so I'm in the best voluntary spirit of the year, so you know, probably, I think they're coming through this phase. Well, I think that's great. That's wonderful. Charlie? Thank you so much. Thank you for helping him. He's doing a job there. One more thing. There's an Al Snider who is with us. He's a man that satellites your speeches and is working with this group, and he's doing an outstanding job here. I can't, I just have to tell you a diplomatic talk here. I just had a conversation with a young congressman, and I think he needs developing. And I mean, in the best sense that we should make much of him, he was with the delegation that recently went to the Soviet Union, and with all of the efforts to be diplomatic and everything, he just told them that he thought their policy stunk. Later, one of them who could speak some English said to him, he said, I suppose everything smells sweet in your country, and he said, no, not everything. He said, I represent Kentucky. He said, we're famous for horses. He said, of course, if you have horses, there is another substance you also have. And he said, as a matter of fact, it's very much like what you've been giving to us for. That's great. That's great. Very good. I'm going to nurse him. Well, thank you all. Thank you so much. Thank you. He looks as if you're holding something up. No, I'm just climbing, and that's all I can do. Sit up there, it might be a little easier to... I don't think it's gone that badly, Mr. President. I think in the debates, in the arguments that we've had, I think we've done the better. My problem is that even the best German Geneva, that doesn't mean that that's Moscow. Moscow is the best. I know, sorry.


Oh well this doesn't look like freedom. Looks like quite the opposite actually. Something's wrong. Oh no. What on earth is going on? If this even is earth of course. I mean earth is part of a lot of dark scary rules. Stop! Oh blimey. Hello darkness. My name's Matt Smith. Sorry I do go on a bit, don't I? It's something called a good character trait. Silence! Thank you. I would offer you the chance to ask the millions of questions that are flowing through your head. But with you I feel like this dimension would turn to ash by the time you've finished a cacchus sentence. Oh well that's rude, probably true, grunted, but still rude. Different dimension you say. Allow me to cut right to the chase.  However your friends will not know you. You will have to rebuild your friendships from scratch. Well that's not too bad. Well though, Cacchus is only just coming around in all these brilliant unique memorable memories. This red bow tie will have you as the established friend that you are. But your dark past must be relived. No! Not that. You will be glazed back seconds after Motha's revenge has come to a close. Yes that one! Right well I have just a splendid time. Love the collection. Keep it growing. I think you can reach a hundred by the end of the year with this attitude. Now! You excuse me. What? What are you doing? This usually fixes my problems. Stop it. Just stop it. Fine but only because I've ran out of juice both in this and this. There is one more option. What? But only ever wore three colours. The blue, the red and the purple. Get that thing away from me. Are you sticking with your decision? No doubt. Mr. Smith. Matthew, slow in the seal as the old saying goes. How do you best hide a secret? By dangling it right in front of the unknowns.


What's up everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie here from Layton Sports Guards and I am ripping new release. We've got 2022-23, Penini Donneress, basketball hobby, five bucks, break number 11, pick your team. We've got Adam E. Clippers, Alexandra, CT Wolves, Andrew P. Heat, Brian P. Bucks, Chrissy Sons, Hy-E-W with the Cavs and Jazz, Huang J. Hawks, Huyn-Min Y. Grizzlies, Jason W. Bowles, John Y. Blazers, John B. Nuggets, Jose V. Rockets, Josh would be Lakers, Justin C. Pelicans, Kyle S. with the Hornets. Good luck. We've got Lay H. Closing us out with the Wizards and Ix and Sixers. Thank you again. Lersak Y. Spurs, Lee-Wan Y. Pistons, Patrick G. Nets, Peter G. Magic, Phong N. Warrior, Sean M. Kings, SHW with the Pacers, Stephen W. Raptors, Vaughn B. Celtics, Victor F. Mavs, and Wing C with the Thunder. Alright, best of luck everyone. Here we go. Again, five to go on the next one. That's going to be the last break with spots left for the daytime. Press Proof, John Collins. We've got Sixers, 2199, PJ Tucker, Wilkins, Curry Marbles, Unleashed Giannis, Crunchtime Zion, Brookies, Rollins, Eason, Kiehl's, Jalen Williams, and Jane and Hardy. We have for the Kings, a Keegan Murray Red to 49. There you go, Kings. Very nice. Keegan Murray, 14 of 49. There you go. We'll mag that one for you. Denny of Dia Press Proof. Got Danny Green, 2199, Grizzlies, Weber, Ant-Man Marbles, Jimmy Bucket's, Crunchtime, Brookies, Brown, Branham, Williams, McGowan's, and Diabaté. Press Proof, Cade's second year. We've got Robert Williams, a third red to 99. Celtics, Elijah-Wan, Lebron Marbles, Unleashed Tatum, Trey Young, Rockies, Sochin, Coloco, Mathurin, Taitai, and Ben Kerrow. Press Proof by Donovitch. We've got Blazers, Basketball to 75. Demi and Lillard. Nice, Dan. Hill, Unleashed, Cade, Crunch, Kawhi, Marbles, Yolkich, Braun, Martin, Griffin, Liddell, and Dang, Radarookie. Press Proof for Zingas, Press Proof Grant Hill, Unleashed, Lillard, Production Line Tatum, Rookie of Christy, Sharp, Watson, Chet, and Blake Wesley. Got Kelly Ubre Jr., Hornets to 149, Johnson, Yolkich. We've got Marbles, Tatum, Daniels, Nembar, Jabari Smith Jr., Moore Jr., and Traverse. Jada McDaniels, Press Proof. We've got IT, Gold, 10 of 10. That's sick. There you go, Pistons. Who wears short shorts? IT wears short shorts. Lee Kwon, Y. Pistons. That's sick. That's really cool. And the base right behind it. Unleashed, Steph Curry. Got Terry Radarookie, Mobley, Jalen Duren, Chandler, and Johnny Davis. Green Press Proof. We've got Jada McDaniels, T-Wolves to 199, Paul Pierce, Marbles, Lamello, Crunchtime Tatum, Caleb Houston, Keegan Murray, Jovich, Walker and Walker Kester, Bridges. Got A.I. on the diamond. Throwback. Donchich, Marbles, Radarookies, Bochamp, Williams, Lariva, Jalen Williams, and Egbagi. Last box. Leak Beasley. Unleashed, Press Proof, Cade. Nice one there. We've got Unleashed, Jalen Green, Lamello, Crunchtime, Bradley Beale. Radarookie, Jaden Ivy, Baldwin Jr., Lofton, Roddy, and Minot. It's a good point there, Brian. Box two. Box two. I need to find some mittens or something. My hands are freezing. It is so cold in here. It is never this cold in here. It's gonna be hard to break like that. For real. I need to go put some gloves on. Everyone always wants to wear gloves anyways. Fortigo, Netsnick Sixers Wizards. That's like instant sweat when you wear those gloves. Press Proof, France. Got D. Book on the production line diamond. Dominique, Curry, Yannis, Williams, Rollins, Eason, Kiehl's, Williams, and Jaden Hardy. Yeah, we did heat up with that bank arrow a little bit. I didn't notice how cold my hands were then, huh? We've got a nice one here for the heat. Nicola Jovic, 299. There we go, heats. John Wall Press Proof. We got a McGowan's Gold Rated Rookie. There you go, Hordets. Second Gold Rated Rookie of the day. Nice one there. There goes Charlotte. There is not a mellow, but it's a Gold Rated Rookie. Congrats on that one, Kyle. There you go. Sick. Yeah, yeah, we pulled a bit of Gold. At least one, almost one in every break. Maybe every other. Ant-Man, Jimmy Butler, Mellow. We've got Brown, Branham, McGowan's, Williams, and Diabate. There you go. Yeah, Mellow's got a different, couple different inserts. Ewing Press Proof, Olajuwon, Marvel's LeBron, Tatum, Young, Sochin, Coloco, Mathurin, Taitai, and Bancaro. Press Proof, John Wall. Got D'Angelo Russell to 199. Grant Hill, Unleashed Cade, Crunchtime Kawhi, Marvel's Yolkich, Braun, Martin, Griffin, Liddell, and Bank. Reddish Press Proof, SGA. We've got a Coloco to 149, Raptors. Production line Tatum, Rookie is Christie, Sharp, Watson, Shet, and Wesley. Production line Press Proof of LeBron James, Magic Johnson. Got Marvel's Jason Tatum. Daniels Nembard, Jabari Smith Jr., Moore, and Traverse. What's up, Smack? How's it going? Boby, Martin, Press Proof, Cam Reddish. We've got LeBron on the Diamond Unleashed. Nice one there. IT, Curry Unleashed. Rookies of Terry, Mobley, Durin, Chandler, and Davis. Yeah, very true. Got Netmarvel's of Jalen Green on the Press Proof. Nice one there. Pierce, Marvel's of LaMelo Ball. Tatum, Houston, Keegan Murray, Yovitch, Walker, and Walker Kessler. APJ. Got Karis Lavert to 199. Grady, Marvel's of Luca. Rookies, Bochamp, Williams, Lariva, Jalen Williams, and Egbaji. Last pack here. Box two. Come quarter junior. Got Wendell Carter Jr. to 149, Magic. Jalen Green, LaMelo Ball, Bradley Beale, Jaden Ivy Rugby, Baldwin, Lofton, Roddy, and Minot. Three, let's see where we are on number 12. Net's Nick, Sixer's Wizard, still four to go. There is the link again. Those are the last four spots left for the Date Fine Brace, y'all. I appreciate everything getting filled up so far today. Thank you all so much. Got Hawks, Trai Young to 199. Tatum, Young. Got Rookies of Bochamp, Williams, Lariva, Williams, and Egbaji. Press-proof Mowgli. We've got Hardin on the Diamonds on the Craftsmen. Sixer's, Melo, Beale, Rookies of Terry, Mowgli, Durin, Chandler, and Davis. No KJ. I'm off on Fridays. I will be breaking Saturday daytime and Sunday daytime. Got Tony Parker on the Diamonds, Lillard Crunchtime, Dominique Wilkins, Curry Marvels, Rollins, Eason, Kiehl's, Williams, and Hardy. I break Monday nights on Drift, then daytime Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Press-proof Beluca. We've got Obi-Top in the 199 on the Press-proof. Marvels, Tatum. Got Unleashed, Cade, Braun, Martin, Griffin, Liddell, and Deng. We have for the Rockets, a Tarry Eason, Radarookie. You go Rockets. Denny of Dia Press-proof. Bradley Beale on the Basketball to 75, Wizards. Unleashed, Lillard, Tatum, Ant-Man, Marvels, Rookies, Brown, Branham, McGowan's, Williams, and Diabate. Got Baloo to 49, Montemore, Wizards. Trey Young, Braun, Jalen Green, Marvels, Rookies, Houston, Murray, Jovich, Walker, and Walker-Kester. We've got Production Line Press-proof, Trey Young, Giannis, Zion, Johnston, Daniels, Nembar, Jabari Smith Jr., Wendel Moore, and Traverse. Press-proof, Melton. Lasers, Red to 99, Damien Lillard. Nice one there. Kawaii, Yokech. Christie Sharp, Watson, Chet, and Wesley. Tags left in this one. Press-proof, Wendel Carter Jr. Craftsman Press-proof of Steph Curry. Crunchtime, Buckets, Melo. We've got Marvels, LeBron. Sochin, Coloco, Matheran, Taitai, and Ben Carroll. Last pack here. Box three. Press-proof, Ludort. God's Blazers to 149, Jeremy Grant. Marvels, Ulucadanshich, Unleashed, Jalen Green, Jaden Ivey, Baldwin, Lofton, Roddy, and Minot. That'll do it for box three. Come on. Net Sixers Wizards down to three teams left. There is a link. Three teams left, all under 44 bucks. Carousel Verts. Got Carousel Vert to 199. Buckets. Got LeBron Marvels, Rollins, Eson, Kiehl's, Jalen Williams, and a Jaden Hardy rookie. Thank you, Ray. Appreciate it. Good luck with the mix. Press-proof, Jackson. We've got Yanis on the Marvels press-proof. Crunchtime, Tatum. Marvels, Yanis. Sochin, Ray DeRookie, Coloco, Matheran, Taitai, and Ben Carroll. Monte Morse on the blue to 49 wizards. Unleashed, Lamello, Luca. Rookies, we've got Bochamp, Williams, Lariva, Jalen Williams, and Agbaji. Press-proof, D-Wade. Got Unleashed, Tatum, Trey Young, Grady. Rookies, Daniels, Nembar, Jabari Smith Jr., Moore Jr., and Trappers. Clarkson. Trailblazers, Red to 99. This year, Little. Marvels, Luka Donchich. Unleashed, Jalen Green. Rookies, we've got Braun, Martin, Griffin, Ladel, and Deng. Bradley Beall on the basketball to 75 wizards. Lillard Unleashed. Got Anthony Edwards. Marvels, Houston, Keegan Murray, Jovich Walker, and Walker Kessler. Press-proof, Joshua Primo. We've got Clippers to 199. Yabate, Ray DeRookie. Marvels, Hardin, Unleashed, Ant-Man. Our Rookies, we have Jaden Ivy, Baldwin Jr., Lofton Jr., Roddy, and Monat. Magic to 149. Wendell Carter Jr., Yanis, Zion, Terry, Mobley, Jalen Duren, Chandler, and Johnny Davis. Couple packs left in box four here. Press-proof, Frutico Bear. Blazers, we've got Red, Damien Lillard. Lamello, Bradley Beall. Max Christie, Sharp, Watson, Chet, and Wesley. Last pack. We've got Blazers. Rated Rookie Auto to 99. Shade and Sharp. Blazers, Shade and Sharp. That is 70 of 99. Dremont Press-proof. Got Diamond of Katie Unleashed. Steph Curry Unleashed. Marvels, Lamello. Rookies, Kendall Brown, Brandon McGowan's, Williams, and Diabatti. Last box here. Last box, Mojo is right. Let's see, Netsixer's Wizards. That's still all that is left. Netsixer's and Wizards left. There is the link for you. That's Jason Tatum on the Press-proof Craftsman. Trey Young. Marvels, Jalen Green. Houston, Murray Yovitch. Walker and Walker Kessler. Press-proof, Colin Sexton. We've got Unleashed Press-proof. Steph Curry. Crunchtime of Kawhi Leonard. Yolkich Marvels. Christie, Sharp, Watson. Shet Holgram and Blake Wesley. AJ Griffin on the Rated Rookie Auto for the Hawks. Hawks taken home in auto. Press-proof, John Wall. Jalen Williams, Rated Rookie to 149. Thunder. That's a nice one here. Unleashed Lillard. Ant-Man Marvels. Brandon McGowan. Williams and Diabate. Cavs to 199. Evan Mobley. Giannis Unleashed. Zion. Daniels, Nembar, Jabari Smith Jr. Moore and Traverse. Press-proof, Giddy. Got Trey Young on the Diamond Craftsman. Marvels, Tatum. Unleashed, Cade. Ron, Martin, Griffin, Liddell and Deng, Rated Rookie.  Isaac Acoro on the basketball of 75 caps. Lillard, Crunchtime. Steph Curry Marvels. Rookies, Rollins, Eason, Heels, Jalen Williams and Jaden Hardy. Luca Marvels, Carmel Lone. Got Unleashed, Jalen Green. Ivy Rated Rookie. Baldwin, Lofton, Roddy and Minnott. Giannis Press-proof. Got Harrison Barnes to 149. Crunchtime, Lamello. Marvels, Bradley Beale. Rated Rookie. Nice, Matt. Good luck. Thank you for taking those. Jalen Durin and Davis. Best of luck. So that might mean we're down to two. Three, the six are gone. It should just be the Wizards and Nets. Someone else took one of those. Down to two. Down to two. All right. Red to 99. Tyrese Halliburton. Crunchtime, Jimmy Butler. Got LeBron Marvels. Sochin, Coloco, Mathurin, Ty Ty and Palo Bancaro. Last five here, then we'll do a recap. Press-proof K.P.J. Got Jazz, Jordan Clarkson to 199. Jason Tatum, Trey Young. Grady, Garland, Bochamp, Williams, Lariva, Williams and Egbagi Rated Rookie. And that will do it for the break. Give me one second and we will do a recap here. All right. We had the Gold, Bryce McGowan's 9 of 10 on the Gold Rated Rookie Hornets. 10 of 10, Press-proof I.T. Sick one there, Pistons. A.J. Griffin, Rated Rookie Otto Hawks to 99. Sheen and Sharp Rated Rookie Blazers. Tarry Eason, Rated Rookie Rockets. We had to 99 on the Nicola Jovic Rated Rookie Heats. And then Red to 49. Keegan Murray for the Kings. All right. That will do it for number 11. We got number 12, which is the last one of the day coming up shortly. Thanks, everyone.


Time later at the Breaker City Hospital, Dan Garrett and Joan Mason are waiting outside one of the private rooms for Professor Meredith. How is he, Professor? Mr. Downes is dead. Dead? Yes. Didn't the poor motor help him? Mr. Downes didn't die from the effect of submersion. He died from the effect of a poisonous bite. Then you think there were two punches on Mr. Downes' leg, like those left by the fangs of a fairly large serpent. No one saw anything in the water. Strange how the effect of that serpent's bite is exactly like the bite of a cobra. The reactions are identical. Could it be a water moccasin? You don't find water moccasins in the ocean. And their venom doesn't work in the same way. It works on the blood. Cobra venom works on the nerve centers. Paralyzes the muscles. Controlling the act of breathing. Could it be a fish? I hardly think so. No. Punches were more like those of a fairly large snake. There aren't any cobras that live in the water, are there? The nearest thing I can think of is a serpent which is found in the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean. But it's never been found in these waters. Hmm. Well, I have found out what I want to know. What are you going to do now? I'm going back to the city to check with my friend-backed friends. He may be able to help on this case. When are you coming back? I'm not sure. Well, I think I'll say a while and see what else I can pick up in this case with my news paper. Okay, but keep away from those two lifeguards. They're bad medicines. So you suspect the two lifeguards are being implicated in these deaths? Yes, I do. I'm convinced of it. But make sure, so sure. All the time I was rowing the boat with the two lifeguards and Mr. Down's back to shore, the stone in the poison detector ring was bright yellow. But perhaps the poison in Mr. Down's body... No. You see, after they took him away, the stone was still yellow. What about the man who tried to abduct Miss Mason and shot Mannegan? Didn't you say he resembled one of the guards? He was one of the lifeguards, but I didn't let on. I recognized him. I didn't want to spoil my chance of getting enough evidence to convict him in this larger case by showing my hand in the case of simple assault. And very wise, very wise. But what are you going to do now? I'm going to put on my blue beetle armor and mask and... Uh, eyelash, right? Hello? Patrolman Dan Garrett? Yes. Yes, he's here. It's for you, Danny. Long distance. Long distance. Probably Joan Mason. Hello? Oh, hello, Professor Meredith. What? Joan Mason has disappeared, but... She hasn't checked out of the hotel? Well, I can't get down there myself, but... I'll see that several of our best men are sent down right away. Thanks for calling. Goodbye. Watch the trouble, Danny. Unless it's someone that kidnapped Joan Mason. Help me with my blue beetle costume, will you, Doc? Why, certainly, Danny. Certainly. Where are you going? I'm driving down to Breaker City. But you just told Professor Meredith you weren't coming down. That's right. Dan Garrett isn't. But the blue beetle is... Certainly pleasanter driving down the moonlight than it was in the rain. There's somebody walking ahead of me in the road. He's got a long stick and a flashlight. Probably been fishing by moonlight. Want a lift? Oh, thanks, mister. Gee, you're going to a masquerade in that costume? Uh, yes. As the blue beetle. Say, I've heard of the blue beetle. You have? What do people say about him? Well, they say he's a crusader against crime. And that he's invulnerable. Probably the truth. Gee, that's swell. Oh, where are you going? Oh, I'm taking a ride in the moonlight. Are you going fishing in the moonlight? No, I'm going home. Oh. I thought that was a fishing rod you had there. No, that's for catching snakes. Here, you see the fork down down there? Oh, yes. Yes, I see it now. What do you do with the snakes? Sell them. Sell them? Mm-hmm. To whom? Oh, a couple of fellas back there in the woods. What do they do with them? Eat them. Eat them? No, folks don't eat rattlesnakes. You mean to say you catch rattlesnakes alive and sell them? Sure. Dead rattlers ain't no good to them, fellas. Hey, if I gave you a dollar, do you think you could lead me to the place where these fellas you mentioned live? Well, sure I can't, but you don't have to pay me a dollar, mister. I'll take you there for nothing. Okay, son, but you'll get the dollar just the same. I'll turn around to the next crossroad and we'll pay a moonlight visit to your rattlesnake buyers. So, Miss Mason, it's very unfortunate for you that you've got as far as you did with your investigation. I'm sure your newspaper will miss your valuable services. What are you going to do with this? Make sure you won't disclose the information you have to anyone. You can't get away with this. Oh, you are in error, Miss Mason. We have gotten away with it, but you're not going to get away with it. We have gotten away with it in the past. We will again. The vacation business has been detoured to Pine Manor Lake. It will still follow that detour after your body is found floating in the ocean, a victim of a poisonous sea serpent. You wouldn't dare. Wouldn't dare? Fred, Joe. Suppose we leave Miss Mason with the Raj all day for a while while we step outside. Her education has been neglected. She has never met a six-foot cobra. No. You can't do that. You can't. Raise the lid of his cage and let him... The Blue Beetle. Yes, the Blue Beetle. He's going to nip harder than your cobra can strike. Open the cage, Joe. Then dive out the window. I've got the Blue Beetle covered with his gun. If you're bullets, you can't injure the Blue Beetle. That's so wise, Guy. Well, how do you like this?  Never telegraph your punches. Back up, you Blue Beetle. No, no, you don't. How do you like this, Blue Beetle? A rattlesnake around your neck.  No snake can fight through this chain armor. Here, I give it back to you.   He'll kill me. He'll kill me. You're yellow on your corner. You murderers. Look out, Blue Beetle.  Get me out of here. I'll paralyze him with my magic ray. There. That'll hold him for a while. Now for the one around your neck, Slavitt.  I'm bitten. I'm poisoned.  I'm poisoned, Slavitt. The law will take care of you in the proper manner. Here, Miss Mason, give me a hand. We'll handcuff these lifeguards to the snakes' cages. They're still unconscious. Now, put these snakes back in their cages. There. You certainly have a powerful punch, Blue Beetle. I need that power. Now, Mr. Slavitt, we'll take care of you. Keep them away from me. Keep the snakes away from me. Here, get in this room here. What are you going to do with this? Don't let them at me. Don't let them at me. Here, get up on this chair and climb up onto those rafters. I can't. Now, I'll just pull the King Cobra's box over here, under you, and open the lid.  I don't think you'll try to escape. Come on, Miss Mason. I'll drop you off at your hotel. You can phone a front-page scoop for your paper. And the hitting will be sea serpent hoax exposed. Murderous racket smashed by the Blue Beetle. But, Danny, how did the lifeguards operate? They couldn't take the Cobra into the water with them. No, they extracted the poison from his poison sacs. Use it in two hypodermic needles taped together. The hypodermic syringes were small and easily concealed in the palm of their hand. But when did they inject the poison into their victim? As they rescued them. If some poor devil was taken with a cramp and called for help, the lifeguards would swim off or roll out to him. Then when they got to him, they'd put their twin needles in him and give him a shot of poison. Those points made a double incision.  What were the rattlesnakes used for? To feed the Cobra's. Professor Meredith told me that. I see. Well, how do you account for the stories of people actually seeing the sea serpent? Oh, they let their imaginations run wild after the lifeguards started the serpent story. I see. And you got your first clue from the poison detector ring I gave you? Yes, Doc. It was your gift to me that really saved the businessmen of Breaker City from ruination. Well, you did a good job, Danny. Yes, but I'm glad it's over. I never liked snakes.  And so another fiendish racket was smashed by the Blue Beetle. What will Dan Garrett's next assignment be? Where will the Blue Beetle strike next in his crusade against the underworld? These questions will be answered in the next episode of The Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted Fox feature appearing in Mystery Men Comics Magazine on sale at your newsstand. The Blue Beetle is on the air twice a week on this same station. Consult the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers. And don't forget to listen in.