From Sand Hill Road in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, presenting the People First Network, insights from entrepreneurs and tech leaders. Hello everyone, I'm John Furrier, the co-host of theCUBE, founder of SiliconANGLE Media. We are here at Sand Hill Road at Mayfield for the 50th anniversary celebration and content series called The People First Network. This is a co-developed program where we're going to bring thought leaders, inspirational entrepreneurs and tech executives to talk about their experience and their journey around a People First society. This is the focus of entrepreneurship these days. I'm here at Navin Chhada, who's the managing director of Mayfield. Navin, you were kicking off the program. Tell us why the program, why People First Network, is this a cultural thing? Is this part of a program? What's the rationale? What's the message? Yeah, first of all, I want to thank John, you and your team and theCUBE for co-hosting the People First Network with us. It's been a real delight working with you. Shifting to People First, Mayfield has had a long standing philosophy that people build companies and it's not the other way around. We believe in betting on great people because even if their initial idea doesn't pan out, they'll quickly pivot to find the right market opportunity. Similarly, we believe when the times get tough, it's our responsibility to stand behind people. And the purpose of this People First Network is, people like me were extremely lucky to have mentors along the way when I was an entrepreneur and now as a venture capitalist who are helping me achieve my dreams and Mayfield and me want to give back to other entrepreneurs by bringing in people who are luminaries in their own fields to share their learnings with other entrepreneurs. This is a really great opportunity and I want to thank you guys for helping us put this together with you guys. It's a great co-creation. The observation that we're seeing in Silicon Valley and certainly in talking to some of the guests we've already interviewed and they'll be coming up on the program is the spirit of community and the culture of innovation is around the ecosystem of Silicon Valley. This has been the bedrock of Silicon Valley, Mayfield, one of the earliest, if not the first handful of venture firms hanging around Stanford, doing entrepreneurship. This is a people culture in Silicon Valley and this is now going global. So great opportunity. What can we expect to see from some of the interviews? What are you looking for and what's the hope? Yeah, so I think what you're going to see from the interviews is we are trying to bring around 20 plus people and there'll be many Johns on the interview besides you. So there'll be John Chambers, ex-chairman and CEO of Cisco. There'll be John Zimmer, president and co-founder of Lyft and they also will be John Hennessy who will be our first interview with him from Stanford University and jokes apart, there'll be like 20 plus other people who will be part of this network. So I think what you're going to see is goings always don't go great. There's a lot of learnings that happen when things don't work out and our hope is when these luminaries from their professions share their learnings, the entrepreneurs will benefit from it. As we all know, being an entrepreneur is hard but sometimes and many times actually it's also a lonely road and our belief is and I strongly personally also believe in it that great entrepreneurs believe in continuous learning and are continuously adapting themselves to succeed. So our hope is this people first network serves as a learning opportunity from entrepreneurs to learn from great leaders. You said a few things I really admire about Mayfield and I want to get your reaction so I think this is fundamental for society. Building durable companies is about the long game and because people fail and people succeed but they always move on. They move on to another opportunity. They move on to another pursuit and this pay it forward culture has been a key thing for Silicon Valley. It absolutely has been. What's the inspiration behind it from your perspective? You mentioned your experiences. Tell us a story and an experience you've had. Yeah, so I would say, first of all right since we strongly believe people make products and products don't make people we believe venture capital and entrepreneurship is about like running a marathon. It's not a sprint. So if you take a long term view have a strong vision and mission which is supported with great beliefs and values you can do wonders and our whole aim not only as Mayfield but other venture capitalists is to build iconic companies which are built to last, which beyond creating jobs and economic wealth can give back to the society and make the world a better place to work, live and play. You know one of the things that we are passionate about at theCUBE and on SiliconANGLE Media is standing by our community because people do move around and I think one of the things that is key in venture capital now than ever before is not looking for the quick hit. It's standing by your companies in good times and in bad because this is about people and you don't know how things might turn out, how a company might end up in a different place. We've heard some of your entrepreneurs talk about that that the outcome was not how they envisioned it when they started. This is a key mindset for innovation. It absolutely is right. Like let's look at a few examples. One of our most successful companies is Left. When we backed it at series A it was called ZimRight. They weren't doing what they were doing but the company had a strong vision and mission of changing the way people transport and given that they were A plus people as I mentioned earlier, that initial idea wasn't going to be a massive opportunity. They quickly pivoted to go after the right market opportunity and hence again and again like to me it's all about the people. Navigating those boards is sometimes challenging and we hope that this content will help people, inspire people, help them discover their passion, discover people that they might want to work with. Really appreciate your support and thank you for contributing your network and your brand and your team in supporting our mission. It's been an absolute pleasure and we hope the viewers and especially entrepreneurs can learn from the journeys of many iconic people who have built great things in their careers. We're here at San Jose Hill Road, Mayfield's venture capital headquarters in Sunning and Silicon Valley, California. Stanford, California, Palo Alto, California. All one big melting pot of innovation. We're John Hennessey who's the Stanford president emeritus. Also the director of the Knight Hennessey Scholarship. Thanks for joining me today for this conversation. Delighted to be here John. So I want to get your thoughts on the history of the Valley. Obviously Mayfield celebrating their 50th anniversary and Mayfield was one of those early venture capital firms that kind of hung around the barber shop looking for a haircut. Stanford University was that place. Early on this was the innovation spark that created the Valley. A lot of other early VCs as well, but not that many in the early days. And now 50 years later, so much has changed. What's your thoughts on the arc of entrepreneurship around Stanford, around Silicon Valley? Well, you're right. It's been an explosive force. I mean, I think there were a few companies out here on San Hill Road at that time. Not nearly the number of venture firms there are today. But I think the biggest change has been the kinds of technologies we build. You know, in those days we build technologies that were primarily for other engineers or perhaps they were tandem computers being built for business interests. Now we build technologies that change people's lives every single day. And the impact on the world is so much larger than it was. And these companies have grown incredibly fast. I mean, you look at the growth rate. We had the stars of the earlier compared to the Googles and Facebooks of today. It's small growth rates. So those are big changes. I'm excited to talk with you because you're one of the only people that I can think of that has seen so many different waves of innovation. You've been involved in many of them yourselves, the founder of MIPS, one co-founders of MIPS and the chairman of the board of Alphabet, which is Google, Google's holding company, the large holdings they have. And just Stanford in general has been, you know, now with Cal, kind of the catalyst for a lot of the change. And what's interesting is, you know, the Yulet Packards, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, that durable company view of how to build a company and the people that are involved. It's really still a central part of it, certainly happening faster, differently. When you look at the waves of innovation, is there anything that you could look at and say, hey, this is the consistent pattern that we see emerging of these waves? Is it a classic formula of engineers getting together, trying to solve problems? Is it the Stanford dropout PhD program? Is there a playbook? Is there a pattern that you see in entrepreneurship over the years? You know, I think there are these waves that are often induced by big technology changes, right? The beginning of the personal computer, the beginning of the internet, the worldwide web, social media, the other observation is that it's very hard to predict what the next one will be. If it was easier to predict, there would be one big company rather than lots of companies riding each one of these waves. The other thing I think that's fascinating about them is these waves don't create just one company. They create a whole new microcosm of companies around that technology, which exploited and bring it to the people and change people's logic. And the other thing that is interesting about that point is that even the failures have DNA. So you see people, a big venture-back company, I think Go is a great example. You think about those kinds of companies, the early work on mobile computing, early work on processors that you were involved in MIPS, they become successful and or may or may not have the outcomes, but the people move on to other companies to either start companies. This is a nice flywheel. This is one of the things that Silicon Valley has enjoyed over the years. Yeah, and just look at the history of risk technology that I was involved in. We initially thought it would take over the general-purpose computing industry. And I think Intel responded in an incredible way and eventually reduced the advantage. Now here we are 30 years later and 95, 98% of the processors in the world are risk because of the rise of mobile, Internet of Things, dramatically changing where the processors were. They're not on the desktop anymore. They're scattered around in very different ways. It's interesting, I was having a conversation with Andy Kessler. He used to be an analyst back at the time for Morgan Stanley, then became an investor. And he was talking about with me the DRAM days when the Japanese were dumping DRAMs. And then that was low-margin business. And then Intel said, hey, no problem. We'll let go of the DRAM business when they created Pentium and then the microprocessor, right? That spawned a whole other wave. So you see the global economy today. You see China, you see people manufacturing, things at very low cost. Apple does work out there. What's your view and reaction to the global landscape? Because certainly things are changed a bit, but it seems to be some of the same. What's your thoughts on the global landscape and the impact of entrepreneurs? It certainly is global. I mean, I think in two ways. First of all, supply chains have become completely global. Look at how many companies in the valley rely on TSMC as their primary source is silicon. It's a giant engine for the valley. But we also see increasingly, even in young companies, a kind of global distributed engineering scheme where they'll have a group in Taiwan or in China or in India that'll be doing part of the engineering work. And they're basically outsourcing some of that and balancing their costs and bringing in other talent that might be very hard to hire right now in the valley or very expensive in the valley. And I think that's exciting to see. The future Silicon Valley is interesting because you have a lot of the fast pace. It seems like ventures have shrink down in terms of the acceleration of the classic building block of how to get a company started. You get some funding. Engineers build a product. They get a prototype. They get it out. Now it seems to be condensed. You see valuations of about a billion dollars. Can Silicon Valley survive the current pace given the real estate prices and some of the transportation challenges? What's your view on the future of Silicon Valley? Well, my view is there is no place like the valley. The interaction between great universities, Stanford and Cal, UCSF, if you're interested in biomedical innovation and the companies makes it just a microcosm of innovation and excellence. It's challenge is if it doesn't solve its problems on housing and transportation, it will eventually cause a second Silicon Valley to rise and challenge it. And I think that's really up to us to solve. And I think we're going to have to, the great leaders, the great companies in the valley are going to have to take a leadership role working with the local governments to solve that problem. On the Silicon Valley vision of replicating it, I've seen many people try other regions, try over the years and over the past 20 years. My observation is they kind of get it right on paper but kind of fail in the execution. It's complicated, but it's nuanced in a lot of ways. But now we're seeing with remote working and the future of work changing a little bit differently and all kinds of new signals from blockchain to you name it remote work. That it might be a perfect storm now to actually have a formula left to replicate Silicon Valley. If you were advising folks to say, hey, if you want to replicate Silicon Valley, what would be your advice to people? Well, you got to start with the weather. Always a challenge to replicate that. But then the other pieces, right? Some great universities, an ecosystem that supports risk-taking and smart failure.  You come here. So you go to startup companies, sort of fails. There's 10 other companies you can get a job with. So there's a sense of this is a really exciting place to be, that kind of innovation. Creating that, replicating that ecosystem, I think, and getting all the pieces together is going to be the challenge. And I think the area that does that will have a chance at building something that could eventually be a real contestant for the second Silicon Valley. I think the ecosystem and community is the key word. And community, absolutely. So I'll get your thoughts on your journey. So take us through your journey. MIPS co-founder, life at Stanford. Now with the Knights Scholarship program that you're involved in, the Knight Hennessey Scholarship, what lessons have you learned from each kind of big sequence of your life? I'll see it in the startup days. Take us through some of the learnings, whether it's the scar tissue or success. Well, no, the time I spent starting MIPS, and I took a leave for about 18 months full-time from the university, but I stayed involved after that on a part-time basis. But that 18 months was an intensive learning experience because I was an engineer. I knew a lot about the technology we're building. I didn't know anything about starting a company. And I had to go through all kinds of things, determining who to hire for CEO, whether or not the CEO would be able to scale with the company. We had to do a layoff when we almost ran out of cash. And that was a grueling experience, but I learned how to get through that. And that was a lesson when I came back to start a return to the university to really use those lessons from the Valley. They were invaluable. I also became a much better teacher because here I had actually built something in industry and after all, most of our students are going to build things. They're not going to become future academics. So I went back and re-engaged with the university and started taking on a variety of leadership roles there, which was a wonderful experience. I never thought I'd be university president, not in a million years, what I've told you that was. And it wasn't my goal. It was sort of the proverbial frog in the pot of water and the temperature keeps going up and then you're cooking before you know it. Well, one of the things you did I thought was interesting during your time in the 90s as the head of the computer science department is a lot of that Stanford innovation started to come out with the internet.  Tell us some of the stories there. I mean, Yahoo was a server under the desk and the web exploded. It was a server under the desk. In fact, Dave and Jerry's office was in a trailer and you go into their room and they'd have pizza boxes and Coke cans stacked around because Yahoo use was exploding and they were trying to build this portal out to serve this growing community of users. And their machine was called Aki Bono because they were both big sumo wrestling fans. And then eventually the university had to say you guys need to move this off campus because it's generating three quarters of the internet traffic of the university and we can't afford it. So they moved off campus and of course figured out how to use advertising as a modernization model. And that changed a lot of things on the internet because that made it possible for Google to come along years later, redo search in a way that lots of us thought there's nothing left to do in search. There's just not a lot there. But Larry and Sergey came up with a much better search algorithm. Talk about the culture that you guys fostered there because this is I think is notable in my mind as well as some of the things I want to get into about the interdisciplinary. But at that time you guys fostered a culture of creating and taking things out and there was an investment group of folks around Stanford. Was it a policy? Was it more laid back? I mean, take us through some of the cultural issues. It was a notion of what really matters in the world. How do you get impact? Because in the end, that's what the university really wants to do.  And that was a vision that a lot of us had dating back to Yulet Packard of course, but Jim Clark at Silicon Graphics, the Cisco work, MIPS, and then of course Yahoo and Google years later. So that was something that was supported by both the leadership of the university. And that made it much easier for people to go out and take their work and take it out to the world. Well, thank you for doing that because I think the impact has been amazing and it's transcended a lot of society. Today you've seen some challenges now with society. So now we have our own problems now. So the impact has been massive, but now lives are being changed. You're seeing technology better lives. This is changing the educational systems, also changing how people are doing work. Talk about your current role right now with the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. What is that structured like and how are you shaping that? What's the vision? Well, our vision, I became concerned as I was getting ready to leave the president's office that we as a human society were failing to develop the kinds of leaders that we needed. And it seemed to me it was true in government. It was true in the corporate world. It was even true in some parts of the nonprofit world. And we needed to step back and say, how do we generate a new community of young leaders who are going to go out, determined to do the right thing, who see their role as service to society and they are success aligned with the success of others. So we put together a small program. We put together a vision of this. I got support from the trustees. I went to ask my good friend Phil Knight to talk to him about it. And I said, Phil, I have this great idea. I explained it to him. He said, that's terrific. So I said, Phil, I need $400 million. So a month later he said, yes. And we were off and running. Now we've got 50 truly extraordinary scholars from around the world, 21 different birth countries. Really some of them have already started nonprofits that are making a big difference in their home communities. Others will do it in the future. And what are some of the things they're working on? How did you guys roll this out? Because obviously getting the funding is key, but now you got to execute. What are some of the things that you went through? How did you recruit? How did you deploy? How did you get it up and running? So we recruited by going out to universities around the world and meeting with them and of course using social media as well. If you want to get 21 year and 22 year olds to apply, go to social media. So that gave us a feed on some students. And then we thought a lot. Our goal is to educate people who'll be leaders in all walks of life. So we have MBAs. We have MDs. We have PhDs. We have JDs. So broadly, a broad cohort of people build a community, build a community that will last far beyond their time at Stanford. So they have a connection to a community of like-minded individuals long after they graduate. And then try to build their leadership skills, bring in people who they can meet with and hear from. George Schultz is coming in on Thursday night to talk about his journey through government service in four different cabinet positions and how did he address some of the challenges that he encountered. Build up their speaking skills and their ability to collaborate with others. And hopefully these are great people. We just hope to push their trajectory a little higher. One thing I want to ask you is that when Steve Jobs gave his commencement speech at Stanford, which is up on YouTube, he's got zillions, zillions of views before he passed away, that has become kind of a famous call to arms for a lot of young people. A lot of parents, I have four kids and the question always comes up, how do I get into Stanford? But the question I want to ask you is more of as you have the program and you look for these future leaders, what advice would you give? Because we're seeing a lot of people saying, hey, you know, people build their resume. They say what they think people want to hear to get into a school. You know, Steve Jobs points and follow your passion. Don't live other people's dogma. These are some of the themes that he shared during that famous commencement speech in Stanford. Your advice for the next generation leaders, how should they develop their skills? What are some of the things that they can acquire? Steve Jobs was famous to say in interviews, what have you built? Tell me something that you've built. It's kind of a qualifying question. So this brings up the question of how should young people develop? How should they think about not just applying and getting in, but being a candidate for some of these programs? Well, I think the first thing is you really want to challenge yourself. You really want to engage your intellectual passions. Find something you really like to do. Find something that you're also good at. Because that's the thing that'll get you out of bed on weekends early and you'll go do it. I mean, if you asked me about my career and asked me about my number one hobby for most of my career, it was my career. I loved being a professor. I loved research. I loved teaching. That made it very easy to do it with energy and excitement and passion. You know, there's a great quote in Steve Jobs' commencement speech where he says, I look in the mirror every morning and if too many days in a row I find out I don't like what I'm going to do that day, it's time for a change. Well, I think it's that commitment to something. It's that belief in something that's bigger than yourself. That's about a journey that you're going to go on with others in that leadership role. I want to get your thoughts on the future for young people and society and business. It's very people-centric. Now you're seeing a lot of the younger generation look for mission-driven ventures. They want to make a difference. But there's a lot of skills out there that are not yet born yet. There's jobs that haven't been invented yet who handle autonomous vehicles. What's the policy? These are societal technology questions. What are some of the things that you see that are important to focus on for some of these new skills? There's a million new cybersecurity jobs open. For instance, I think there's thousands and thousands of openings for people that don't have those skills. Well, I think we're going to need two different types of people. The traditional techno experts that we've always had but we're also going to need people that have a deep understanding of technology but are deeply committed to understanding its impact on people. One of the problems we're going to have with the rise of artificial intelligence is we're going to have job displacements. In the long term, I'm a believer that the number of opportunities created will exceed those that get destroyed. But there'll be a lot of jobs that are de-skilled or actually eliminated. How are we going to help educate that cohort of people and minimize the disruption of this technology because that disruption is really people's lives that you're playing with? It's interesting, the old expression of ATMs will kill the bank branch but yet now there's more bank branches than ever before. I think you're right on that. I think there'll be new opportunities. Entrepreneurship certainly has changed and I want to get your thoughts and this is the number one question I get from young entrepreneurs is how should I raise money? How should I leverage my investors and my board as you build your early foundational successes whether you're an engineer or a team? Putting that E team together. The entrepreneurial team is critical and that's just not people around the table of the venture. Corrects the support service providers and advisors and board of directors. How should they leverage their investors and board? How should they leverage that resource and not make it contentious, make it positive? Make it positive, right? So the best boards are collaborative with the management team. They work together to try to move the company forward. With so many angels now investing in these young companies there's an opportunity to bring in experience from somebody who's already had a successful entrepreneurial venture and looking for really deciding who do you want your investor to be? And it's not just about who gives you the highest valuation. It's also about who'll be there when things get tough when the cash squeeze occurs and you're about to run out of money and you're really in a difficult situation. Who'll help you build out the rest of your management team? Lots of young entrepreneurs they're excited about their technology. They don't have any management experience. They need help. They need help building that team and finding the right people for the company to be successful. I want to get your thoughts on Mayfield, the 50th anniversary. Obviously they've been around longer than me. I'm going to be 53 this year. I remember when I first pitched Yogan de Gaulle in 1990. He said my first venture, he passed. But Mayfield's been around for a while. I mean, Mayfield was the name of the town around here. And it has a lot of history. How do you see the relationship with the ventures and Stanford evolving? Are they still solid? They're doing well. Has it evolved? There's a new programs going on. I see much more integration. What's the future of venture? Well, I think that the university is still a source of many ideas. Obviously the notion of entrepreneurship has spread much more broadly than the university. And lots of creative startups are spun out of existing companies or a group of young entrepreneurs that were in Google or Facebook early and now decide they want to go do their own thing. And that certainly happens. But I think that ongoing innovation cycle is still alive. It's still dependent on the venture community and their experience having built companies, particularly when you're talking about new, first-time entrepreneurs who really don't have a lot of depth. My final question I want to ask you is obviously one related to my pure to my heart is computer science. I got my degree in the 80s during the systems revolution. Fun time, lots changed. Women in computer science, the surface area of what computer science is. It was interesting. There was a story in Bloomberg that was debunked but people were debating that the super micros being hacked by a chip right in the system. And most people don't even know what computer architecture. I was like, hey, no, that's a, the drivers might be able to inject malware. So you need computer architecture, a book you've written on academically to programming. So the range of computer science has changed. The diversity has changed. What's your thoughts on the current computer science curriculums, the global programs? Where's it going and what's your perspective on that? So I think computer science has changed dramatically. When I was a graduate student, you could arguably take a full set of breath courses across the discipline. Maybe only one course in AI or one course in database if you were a hardware or systems person, but you could do everything. I could go to basically any PhD defense and understand what was going on. No more, the field has just exploded and the impact. I mean, you have people who do biocomputation, for example, and you have to understand a lot of biology in order to understand how computer science applies to that. So that's the excitement. The excitement of having computer science had this broad impact. The other thing that's exciting is to see more women, more people of color coming into the field, really injecting new energy and new perspective into the field. And I think that that will stand the discipline well in the future. And open source has been growing. I mean, if you think about what it's like now to write software, all this goodness coming in with open source is just over the top, more goodness. I think today, even a young undergraduate writing in Python, using all these open libraries could write more code in two weeks than I could have written in a year when I was a graduate student. If we were 21 together sitting here, you and I, when we're today, we're 21 years old, what would we do? What would you do? Well, I think the opportunity created by the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence is just unrivaled. This is a technology which we have invested in for 50 or 60 years that was disappointing us for 50 or 60 years in terms of not meeting its projections and then all of a sudden turning point. It was a radical breakthrough. And we're still at the very beginning of that radical breakthrough. So I think it's going to be a really exciting time. Diane Greene had a great quote at her last Google Cloud conference. It's like, butter you. Everything's great with it. AI is the future. Yeah, it's great with it. And of course, it can be overstated, but I think there really is a fundamental breakthrough in terms of how we use the technology. Driven, of course, by the amount of data available for training these neural networks and far more computational resources than we ever thought we'd have. John, it's been a great pleasure. Thanks for spending the time with us here for our People First interview. Appreciate it. It's been a pleasure, John. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. We are here in Sand Hill Road for the People First program. Thanks for watching.


We also have a proclamation for declaring August 21st or August 2021 as American Muslim Appreciation Awareness Month. Yes, in August the Council signed a proclamation declaring August 2021 as American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month and now we have the privilege of presenting it. After I read the proclamation, Munir Safi and the Muslim community of the East Bay and Spojme Nasseri with the Council on American Islamic Relations for the San Francisco Bay Area will accept the proclamation and share some comments. So whereas, enriched by the diversity of its residents, the City of Pleasanton takes pride in supporting individual religious freedoms for all and is strengthened by the contributions made by the many diverse religious and cultural traditions of its residents, including those who practice Islam. And whereas, Alameda County is home to over 90,000 Muslims who make innumerable contributions to the cultural, political and economic fabric and well-being of our city, county, state and nation. And whereas, with the COVID-19 outbreak forcing the temporary closure of Muslim nonprofits, community centers, mosques and other establishments, local mosques and Muslim community organizations provided online programming and outdoor services, and whereas, mosques and local Muslim organizations such as the Muslim Community Center of the East Bay and the Islamic Center of Zahra stepped into help the entire community during the pandemic by donating funds, distributing food and sewing masks for frontline workers, as well as educating their congregations about social distancing guidelines to keep the community safe. And whereas, though the Islamic practice of Sakat, local Muslim organizations help give back to the community by providing grocery deliveries and financial assistance to local families, organizing quarterly blood drives, food drives and backpack drives for school children, as well as many other charitable activities serving individuals and families throughout the community, and now, therefore it be resolved, the Pleasant and City Council does hereby proclaim August 2021 as American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month to acknowledge the rich history and contributions of American Muslims in our community and may it have a lasting positive impact for our city, state and nation. At this time, I would like to introduce Munir and Sposhmae with the Muslim Community Center of the East Bay to say a few words. Good evening. This is Munir Asafi. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you so much for honoring our state's designation of August being Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month. This is the sixth year this designation has happened in California, and the hundreds of Muslim families in Pleasanton and the nearly 15,000 Muslims in the Tri-Valley, we truly appreciate the Pleasant City Council presenting this proclamation. So I'm representing Pleasanton's Muslim Community Center, the MCC. The MCC is a vibrant regional mosque and a community center. We've been on West Suspecies Boulevard for the past 11 years, and I'm joined today by colleagues and congregations from the Islamic Center of Zahra, also in Pleasanton, who are watching along. So American Muslims, we've lived and contributed to our community since our country's founding, and in the last decade and a half, the impact of Islamophobia has been real. But despite the uncertainties, we continue our blood drives, our voting drives, highway cleanups, our thrice weekly food distribution. We have an open door policy at our Friday services. We serve as a Red Cross disaster site, host ESL classes with the City of Pleasanton, interfaith events, open houses. We're also a green mosque and a special needs-friendly mosque. So as you can hear, we're just part and parcel of our community, and I can tell you that this recognition makes a world of difference for your Pleasanton constituent to our Muslim. So again, on behalf of Pleasanton and Tri Valley residents who are Muslim, we thank you for this proclamation and this recognition. Thank you. All right. Thank you for all you do. That's a long list. And I have seen the food distribution line, and it's been considerable. So thank you. Council Member Arkin, is there anything else? Suppose me. Is she? She's joining right now. OK. Terrific. Good evening, Mayor Brown and Vice Mayor Julie Testa and esteemed council members. My name is Sposh Minaseri. I am an immigration attorney in Pleasanton over by Stonerage Mall. I'm also an Afghan American and a Muslim American who has lived in Pleasanton for the last almost 12 years. My children went through school and went through Foothill and they took a lot of pride in the rescue mission that was going on for Phillip and grateful for the community support. What I wanted to touch on was, say, first and foremost, as Munir mentioned, the state of California has designated August as a Muslim appreciation for the last six years. And we're grateful for the city of Pleasanton in this proclamation. There are thousands of Muslim Americans in the Tri Valley by the numbers of 15,000. And there are hundreds of Muslim Americans and Afghan Americans living right here in the heart of Pleasanton. Again, MCC has been in the forefront of being progressive and in providing the services that our community needs. What I wanted to touch on was also as an Afghan American, we are seeing the devastation in the catastrophe happening. Regardless of our political views, I keep it as a humanitarian perspective in terms of the evacuees and the humanitarian crisis. I have been on the forefront along with many of my colleagues, immigration attorneys working day and night to provide these services and legal services for evacuating Afghan Americans, lawful permanent residents and those who are in need of being evacuated. One of the things I wanted to mention is along with myself and in many other community members, not only are we seeing what's on the forefront of the situation in Afghanistan, but we're living a day and night. For myself, for the last two weeks, day and night, I've been up trying to evacuate Afghans out of Afghanistan, those allies who have served and supported our government. One of the things I just wanted to touch on, again, to say sincere gratitude for the proclamation this evening, but also that although these refugees right now seem to be far away, they are going to be coming into our communities in the coming months in the Alameda County and maybe Sacramento area. The MCC has been in the forefront of supporting these refugees in many ways. They're working in conjunction with International Rescue Committee, as well as the Jewish Community Center in Walnut Creek, which are the resettlement agencies. So I'm proud to be a resident of Pleasanton, to be a parishioner of the MCC and to know that our community as a whole is contributing in a meaningful way that is making not only our community a better place, but the world as a whole. So I thank you again for your time in allowing us this opportunity and for making this proclamation in six years in a row. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, Linnear and Sposhmi.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another WW Weekly Meal Prep. I cannot wait to share my recipes with you. I'm going to be making a recipe for breakfast. Super excited, I'm gonna show you a new fun kitchen gadget and then we're gonna make a delicious, easy summertime lunch and we are going to make a summertime dessert that is perfect for all of your upcoming get-togethers and barbecues throughout summer. So if you wanna see what I am prepping for the week, all WW friendly, all absolutely positively delicious, then all you have to do is stay tuned. For breakfast this week, I'm gonna be making mini breakfast waffle sandwiches. I am so incredibly excited for these. It sounds delicious. I'm gonna pair my breakfast sandwich with some fruit. So let me show you what you need to make the sandwich. So first the waffle and then we'll talk about the ingredient. So first you're going to need a waffle maker. So this is the adorable mini waffle maker. This is the Dash brand. Look at how cute this is. I bought this on Amazon. I wanna say it was less than $10. I will link it down in my description box below. But this thing is so cute. It makes the perfect breakfast sandwich size waffle. So you'll need a little mini waffle maker. You'll need some protein powder and you definitely wanna high quality protein powder. In my opinion, the best on the market is the Devotion Angel Food Cake. This protein powder is so delicious. There is zero aftertaste, zero chalky flavor. It is so good. It is excellent in waffles, fabulous in protein shakes. It really is just in my opinion, the best of the best when it comes to protein powder. It is only one smart point per scoop. So extremely low and absolutely delicious. You can use my code here on the screen to save you 10%. All you have to do is click the link down in the description box at the checkout screen and enter my code and voila, you have 10% off your order at Devotion Nutrition. Love this protein powder. You're also going to need some pancake mix. You can use Kodiak cakes, but I'm gonna use Birchbenders and this is the protein pancake mix. This I think makes the best breakfast sandwiches. I like it better than the Kodiak, so I'm gonna use that. I believe this is in my Amazon store as well. You'll need some seltzer water. That's the trick of the trade to make your waffles nice and fluffy. And then you're going to also need some egg whites. So that's everything to make our delicious mini waffles. And then for filling, I'm going to do some scrambled eggs and in my scrambled eggs, I'm going to add some Jimmy Dean fully cooked turkey sausage crumbles. I'm gonna mix that in with my eggs.  And then I'm also going to top it with one smart point of avocado. These are the frozen avocado chunks that I purchased at Costco. I love these because I can never eat avocado fast enough and this makes it so easy where it never ever goes bad. So that's gonna be the topping of my breakfast sandwich. So let's get started making these little mini waffles.  This is from Mudhustler because my waffle maker is mini. I didn't think that it would, I thought it would be too much to do the whole recipe in the mini waffle maker. So I went ahead and halved it. So I have half of a scoop of the devotion nutrition Angel food cake protein powder. I have one eighth of a cup of the Birchbender's protein pancake mix. I have one egg white and I have a quarter cup of seltzer water. Now I don't know that I'm gonna use it all. I'm just gonna go ahead and add a little bit and stir this. Since I did have the recipe, I'm not sure exactly how much liquid I'm going to need. So it looks like a quarter cup is going to be just pretty darn close to the right amount of liquid. Just shy of a quarter cup if you're gonna go ahead and have the recipe. So I'll put the original recipe down below and then I'll let you know what modifications I made in order to halve it. But there is my mix and it's ready to go into my mini waffle maker.  I just used this avocado oil spray. Then we are going to pop it open and we're going to put in about half of our mix only because we wanna save the other half for one more waffle to make our breakfast sandwich. Also by cutting the recipe in half, it also allows us to have the points of the original waffle since we are adding all of that really good filling into our waffle as well our eggs and avocado. All right, so go ahead and add in your filling, close your waffle maker and then the light will go off when it is ready to go. Once your light goes off, your waffle is ready. Look at that perfect little waffle, so cute. So I went ahead and grabbed out a plate. I'm just gonna put them all on the plate. So we're gonna give it another quick spray and then we're gonna add the other half of our mix. You probably, now that I'm thinking about it, using the entire quarter cup of seltzer water is probably better only because your mix won't be as thick as mine and it'll probably be a little bit easier to put it onto the waffle maker. So the next one I am gonna go ahead and do the entire quarter cup of seltzer water.  I'm going to need 10 total because I need two waffles per day for my sandwich. So close it up, when the light goes off, it's ready to go. Here are our waffles. Look at how adorable these are. They are literally the perfect size for a breakfast sandwich. So we're gonna use two per day. So now we're gonna do our egg and sausage mixture. Get that cooked up and then we will add a slice of cheese and beg up our avocado and we are good to go. So let's get started on our eggs. So now let's get started on our eggs. So I'm gonna do two eggs per day. I did go ahead and weigh out a little over one cup. So about one and an eighth cup of the turkey sausage crumbles. This entire bowl is only five smart points. So it will be one point of sausage per day. So I'm gonna crack 10 eggs, whisk in some sausage and we'll get our eggs cooking. We're gonna do a scrambled egg and then we're just going to cook them one by one in my little microwave egg cooker. I'll show that to you, it's so awesome. And then it'll be the perfect shape and size for our waffle sandwiches. Eggs, we're gonna use my handy microwave egg cooker. This thing is awesome. You can crack a whole egg in there or put in scrambled eggs. So really easy, I found this at Ross. So I'm gonna go ahead and spray it with a little bit of nonstick cooking spray. I'm going to add about a third cup or so of my egg and sausage mixture. I just want to make sure that I have enough for all five days. And then I'm going to add in a little bit of onion salt. And I'm also going to grind in a little bit of fresh pepper. And then we're literally gonna put this in the microwave for just about one minute. And it comes out with a perfectly cooked egg. And there is your perfectly cooked egg. So I'm just going to repeat this for all five eggs. I'll set this one aside, allow it to cool. And then we'll be ready to assemble our breakfast sandwiches. Easy peasy, easiest cleanup ever with this little egg cooker as well. Once your eggs are cooked, we're ready to assemble our sandwiches. So you're going to take one half of your mini waffle. We're going to add one of our egg pieces. We're also going to add one slice of our Yarosberg Swiss cheese. I love this cheese. It is a full slice. None of that thin stuff for one smart point. We're going to place that on top. And then we're going to top it with the other half of our waffle and look at this thick, delicious breakfast sandwich. We're going to put that into our meal prep container. I did weigh out one smart point worth of my frozen avocado. So I'm just going to put that in one of these handy dandy little to go cups. I love these things. And then I'm just going to place that in my meal prep container with my sandwich. So that is it for that. Then I'm going to bag up some fruit. We'll put this in the other side here and then I'll show you the completed breakfast. So I've went ahead and added a bag of blueberries. I'm going to have some blueberries with some days and some strawberries with others. I've got my breakfast sandwich, my avocado. So the waffle itself is two smart points. The cheese is one and the eggs is one because of the turkey sausage crumbles. So the sandwich itself is only four smart points. That's it, you guys, for that huge breakfast sandwich. And then this here is one smart point of avocado to add some healthy fat. So this is a five smart point breakfast. It is full of protein because we have egg, sausage, cheese, and we use the Birchbenders protein mix. So what a fantastic satisfying filling breakfast for only five smart points.  I'm going to be making a dill potato salad. You can have a real potato salad on WW and a lot of it for low smart points.  So I have some chicken breast tenders. I will, as per the usual, cut out the gross white thing in the tenders. I literally hate that thing. So I just go ahead and I cut it out. These I really like, they're organic, they're not made with the rib meat, no antibiotics, no hormones, really, really good chicken. So I'm going to go ahead and cut out the white thing, get the chicken marinating while we make the salad and I'm going to marinate it in this G Hughes sugar-free lemon herb marinade. I have never tried this. I'm so incredibly excited. You can have one tablespoon of the marinade for 10 calories and zero smart points. There's no sugar. There's nothing in this marinade that constitutes points. So my chicken will actually be zero. I did find this marinade on netrition.com. Go down to the description box, click the link. It'll directly take you to netrition and you can find this marinade. I am really excited to try this. So go ahead and leave me a comment below if you want to know how it is because by the time you see this video, I would have tried the marinade. So chicken will be marinating in that while we put together the salad. So for the dill potato salad, you're going to need two pounds of small potatoes. This is actually two pounds, six ounces. So I'll just weigh out six ounces and set those aside. But I have two bags here of the private selection, petite medley, tri-colored potatoes, red, white and purple. You'll need some fresh dill, scallions, of course some salt and pepper, apple cider vinegar, non-fat Greek yogurt and light mayo. So first let's get our chicken marinating, then we'll get started on our potato salad. I went ahead and trimmed all of my chicken tenders, got all the white things out. This, you guys, smells amazing. So I'm going to just dump some into my chicken, about a half of a cup or so. As you know, marinade doesn't, you don't need all of the marinade. A lot of it is left in the bag. That still leaves me over half of the bottle. I'm going to give this a good squish and throw this in the fridge while we make our potato salad. The first thing we need to get started for our potato salad is we need to get our potatoes boiling. So I went ahead and removed six ounces. So this is exactly two pounds of the baby potatoes. I'm going to let these come to a boil, pop a lid on them and we're going to cook them for 10 to 15 minutes until we can pierce them with a fork. And then we're going to add a little bit of apple cider vinegar. And in the meantime, we'll dice up our dill and our scallions, measure out our mayo and our yogurt. While our potatoes are coming to a boil, I've measured out one half of a cup of light mayo, one half of a cup of nonfat Greek yogurt on my food scale. I'm going to dice up my scallions and my dill and then we'll be ready to start assembling our potato salad. While our potatoes are cooking, we're going to mix together the dressing of our potato salad. We're going to go ahead and pop that into the fridge to cool while our potatoes are finishing. So what I have here is one half of a cup of light mayo. So we'll add that. Make sure you use a big enough bowl to accommodate your potatoes once they're done cooking as well. Also half of a cup of nonfat Greek yogurt. And it's nice to do a mix of mayo and yogurt because you can't taste the yogurt but it gives you that little added extra creaminess to your recipe. So definitely love having the option of adding in the Greek yogurt. Also we have two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. We have our cut up scallion. And I have some extra over here on my cutting board that I'll add. And we have our cut up dill.  So I'm gonna go ahead and add those. And then we're just going to give this a good mix until everything is nice and combined. And then we're gonna go ahead and put this into the refrigerator. It'll cool while our potatoes continue to cook.  Sorry guys, you're gonna go ahead and drain those. We're gonna add an additional two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to our potatoes. We're gonna give that kind of a good shake here in our colander. And we're just gonna let these cool and then we're ready to put together our salad. Once your potatoes are cool enough that you can actually touch them and cut them up, we're gonna cut them into bite-sized pieces and add them directly here to our mixture that's been in the refrigerator. We'll stir it together and we are going to have an amazing potato salad. Once you get your potatoes cut up, we're just gonna go ahead and mix this together. So I cut some of them into quarters and some of the other potatoes I just cut in two halves. So just kind of a mixture of textures and sizes in our potato salad, but this looks amazing. So I'm gonna go ahead and get this all mixed together. We are gonna go ahead and add in some salt and pepper as well, just for some added extra deliciousness. So some salt and some pepper. Give that a good stir, get everything nice and combined. And then we're ready to get our chicken tenderloins thrown into the air fryer. That'll give this a little bit of time to cool and then we'll put together our lunches for the week. But look at how yummy this looks. Next we're gonna get our chicken ready to go into the air fryer. So I have the oven style, so I have my tray here. I'm gonna spray it with some non-stick cooking spray. I always do that over parchment to not make such a mess. And then I've got my marinated tenderloins. Look at those, yum. So I'm just gonna lay those out here on my trays. I don't know if I'll need more than one because I do have quite a few tenderloins. And then we'll get ready to put these into our air fryer. But they smell really good with that lemony marinade, yum. So we're just gonna pop those onto our tray. If you have the drawer style air fryer, you can go ahead and just throw these into the drawer as many as will fit. I should be able to cook all of these out once though in my oven air fryer. You can also cook these in a pan or in the oven. So you don't have to have an air fryer to recreate this recipe. I was able to fit them all on one tray. So I'm gonna put this in my air fryer at about 400 degrees. I'll flip them midway and then I'll be back to show you our completed lunch. We'll put together our meal prep, but I'm super stoked for this week's lunches. I just pulled my chicken tenders out of the air fryer. Look at how amazing these look. So I'm gonna get these divided into my meal prep containers. I'm gonna set one serving aside for today. For lunch and I'm gonna show you exactly what I'm bringing for lunches this week, including the potato salad and a fruit and a sweet treat. And I'll give you the smart points. So here is my completed lunch meal prep. So let me show you exactly what I'm taking for lunches this week. So this is one eighth of the dill potato salad recipe. You guys, this potato salad is amazing. The dill is so delicious. That apple cider vinegar gives it just the perfect tang with the sweetness of the scallion. Absolutely, positively delicious. You can have about a third, three quarters of a cup, which is one eighth. So you can see here that I've divided out five heaping three quarter cup servings. And over here I have what's left. So my husband will eat that up, I'm sure. So one eighth of the dill potato salad is only four smart points. What a bargain for potato salad. I also have my tenderloins that I just pulled out of the air fryer. I have about two large tenderloins per day. So I have those divided as well. Those are zero smart points because that marinade is zero. We didn't use enough to count any points. I also have some leftover red apples. So I'm gonna be bringing those for at least three days. As you know, the other two days will be camping. So I'll probably grab a watermelon or a cantaloupe or something fun to take camping. And then for dessert, I'm having this. Like the angels are coming down right now because these are so good. This is the peanut nougat cluster. This is the sweet nothing, 35 calories, one smart point you guys, one. So this is the size of the chocolate. So I mean, it's a decent size chocolate for one smart point. It just cures that after meal craving, and you can't beat one smart point for a delicious chocolate. Absolutely positively amazing. I purchased these off of proteinwise.com. Again, there is a $10 discount, $10 off your first order. Click the link down in the description box at checkout and are my code. It'll take $10 off. These are my very favorite thing in the whole world that I've purchased off of their website. I have every single flavor. I love, love, love them. But this week I decided to take the peanut nougat cluster. So this is one smart point. So my entire lunch, including dessert, is five smart points. This recipe, you have to, have to try. You have to get the sweet nothings. You just have to do it. For desserts this week, we are going to be making a summer favorite. We are going to be making mini mojito cake. So these are individual serving, pre-portioned out, best way to go so you don't overindulge. So let me show you what is in the WW Mojito cake. So first you're going to need some zero, no flavor, carbonated water, so I'm just gonna use seltzer water, sugar-free vanilla, cake mix, vanilla, yellow, whatever you can find.  So let's get started on our mini mojito cakes. So to get started on our cake, in my bowl, I went ahead and added my box of sugar-free yellow cake mix. To that, we are going to add one third cup of unsweetened applesauce, and this is the oil replacement in our recipe. We're also going to add three egg whites, and we're going to add one quarter cup of water, one cup of bubbly water, so seltzer water, carbonated water. And then I went ahead and cut up three mint leaves and zest two teaspoons worth of lime. So we're gonna go ahead and add all of that. And then lastly, we are going to put in one teaspoon of rum extract. Now, you guys can use a regular rum. You would just have to count the points for it. I'm gonna go ahead and go with the extract and not have to worry about the point. So because I use the extract is why we added the one quarter cup of water. So I'm gonna put in one teaspoon of the rum extract, and then with our handheld mixer, we're going to mix this together. And you wanna just mix until everything is nice and incorporated together. Once you've mixed your ingredients for just about 30 seconds, go ahead and remove your mixer. Here's where we're gonna grab our cake pan. So I'm actually using the silicone mini-bunt cake molds. I bought these off of Amazon. I will link them down in my description box below. They're so cute. All of the little bunt cakes are different shapes. It's so cute. So I'm going to make sure that I get enough little bunt cakes to make the smart points reasonable. So we're gonna go ahead and grab a scoop, and we're gonna scoop our mixture into our molds. So we're ready to fill our molds. You do not have to spray these with non-stick cooking spray. These are awesome. I am going to be using my large scoop. This I also have in my Amazon store. It comes in a set of three or four, and it's under $10, reasonable, reasonable. So I'm gonna use that. My goal is I'd like to get at least 10 bunt cakes, and you're gonna wanna be careful. You wanna kinda scoop around the little guy if you can, the little knob here. I'm gonna shoot for 10 bunt cakes. I may try to get 12. We'll see how much batter I have, and then we're gonna get these into the oven, and we're gonna have adorable mini mojito cakes. 12 mini bunt cakes, and I still have batter left. So I may throw a couple more in. We'll see kinda how these ones turn out. So 350 degrees until cooked through. While our cakes are cooking, we're gonna go ahead and make our glaze. So what you'll need is one cup of water. This is if you are using rum extract. If you're using real rum, you only need one half of a cup of water. I'm also going to add in a little bit more of my rum extract. So I'm gonna do a little over a teaspoon of that. I decided to do Stevie on the Rot as my sugar because it's zero points, and Truvia, it would add an additional 10 points. And this is literally just the glaze. So I decided to save the points and go with Stevie in the raw. And then also we need one half of a cup of light butter.   Just pulled all 12 of our mojito cakes out of the oven. The batter made 14 cakes total. So that is what I'm going to count the points from. However, I decided not to make two additional cakes. I just want to add and toss the batter, but you can make two additional little butt cakes. So I'm gonna let these cool for about 15 minutes, and then we will add our glaze and I will give you the smart points. But these smell so good. So I just removed my miniature mojito cakes from the tray. And these are the only five that didn't come out looking like this. So here's my recommendation, a little trial and error. This is kind of a good thing. Make sure that you spray your silicone mold first. I think they would have come out a lot better, but that's okay, they're just for me and my husband. So no big deal. But the ones that came out look so good and delicious. So here I have my glaze. So I'm just gonna give it a quick kind of mix up. And then I'm just gonna pour a little glaze into each of my little cakes. And that should give it that nice little sweet sugary buttery flavor. And I'll even do the not so pretty cakes as well. We're just gonna drag it across. So there you go. I'm gonna let this kind of soak in. I'll put together a plate and kind of show you the nice looking cakes. I mean, they all taste the same, right? So here's our little miniature mojito cake. So the ones that turned out, they're so delicious, the lime, the rum. Absolutely delicious. You can garnish it with some mint leaves, some zested lime, some whipped cream, some caramel sauce, you name it. But it is absolutely delicious. And I think it is such a great individual pre-portioned serving. And you can have this entire little miniature bunk cake for only three smart points. That's it. Three points. And that's just for the cake mix. You didn't use enough of the glaze to count for any butter. So it is a three smart point delicious dessert. So spray your tin guys and it will come out perfect. So what a great idea for a summer barbecue or get together. Here's what I'm gonna be bringing for snacks this week and along with me for camping because that will help me stay on track. I'll probably give you guys a quick glimpse into what I'm packing for camping as well to stay on track. So let me first show you what I'm doing this week for the three days that I do work. So I'm going to be taking a one point. This is the Trader Joe's Light Mozzarella Cheese Stick. One smart point, great source of protein, really helps keep me full and satisfied when I want some cheese. I also love these. These are so delicious. This is from the Finnables brand from Fiber Gourmet. This is the same company that makes the pasta that I love and makes the finnable cheese it knockoffs. These are so good. These are the cinnamon and sugar. These are only three smart points for this bag. So it's a nice mix of the crunch and the sweet. So these I purchased off of netrition.com. There is a link down in the description box. Click that. It will take you directly to netrition and you can check out all of the awesome, awesome products that they have available that are WW friendly. Also from my protein wise snack haul, another fantastic website down in the description box. If you click my link and enter my code, I'll put it here on the screen.  So you can get $10 of snacks for free. So some of the snacks that I picked up from protein wise, these cookie bites are so good. These are the honey almond three smart points per pack. They have 12 grams of protein and four grams of fiber in a cookie and they are delicious. These are three smart points and these are gluten free. Also, I love the past the peas. These are delicious. These have six grams of protein and only three sugars per bag. This is the maple bacon. These are delicious as well. Three smart points, non-GMO protein past the peas. These are also gluten free. These are amazing. So check out proteinwise.com. Use my link and discount code for $10 off and there's a link below for netrition as well. Of course, I'm gonna be taking my tried and true trusty built bar as my morning snack. I am in love with the cinnamon, you guys. It's so good, I love it. I know it's controversial, I love the cinnamon but I've got raspberry orange cinnamon, lemon and vanilla. So that is one built bar per day. I probably will take one for Saturday as well since we'll be traveling back from camping but I'll show you guys that in a different video. But I love the cinnamon, you can by the way order a full box of the cinnamon. So go to builtbar.com, use my code here on the screen save 10% and free shipping three smart point candy bar literally loaded with protein 15 grams of protein. My camera is struggling to focus guys. The struggle is real. But there you have it, the built bar, this is the raspberry, there we go. 15 grams of protein, six grams of fiber, four sugar, four fat.  So order yourself some built bars. I'm also going to take a two good yogurt. I really like this yogurt, two grams of natural sugar, no added sugar, three carbs. I really like the vanilla and I love to top it with my Julian bakery pro granola. I love this granola so much. This is the vanilla cinnamon cluster, paleo and keto, gluten-free, grain-free, nothing artificial, no GMO, no preservatives, soy-free and this particular one has prebiotics and probiotics. I'll top my granola with about a tablespoon and it is zero points. So it gives that nice added crunch to my yogurt. You can have one half of a cup of the pro granola for two smart points. Have it with almond milk, top it your yogurt, have it by itself, it is literally so good and what other granola on the market has two points. So you can use my code here on the screen to save yourself 10% and get free shipping. Make sure you click the link in the description box and then you have to enter my discount code at checkout. You have to click the link to get the discount. So there you have it, the pro granola, definitely, definitely try it. Several flavors, espresso, chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla and then the vanilla cinnamon cluster. So I have some of the best snacks on the planet that I'm taking with me this week. Thank you for joining me on another weekly WW meal prep. I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the fun recipes that I shared with you. Seriously, everything is a must make recipe. That cake, that potato salad, those waffle sandwiches. If you are interested in the mini dash waffle maker, I do have it linked down in my Amazon store below. It comes in quite a few colors. I love the cute little teal one. You guys have to get one. It makes it so easy to make the perfect size low point breakfast. So again, I hope you enjoyed this week's meal prep. If you're new to my channel, I would like to extend a huge, warm welcome. Welcome to the family. Make sure that you subscribe, hit that little bell. That way you'll get notified every single time that I upload. I do upload videos every day of the week, for the most part. There's one that pops up every single day. So you don't wanna miss out. Give this one a thumbs up, comment down below. Let me know what you thought of this week's meal prep and of course, are you gonna try these recipes because you will not be disappointed and I'll see you guys all in the next one. Bye.


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea. The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific war. Here as another public service is the tale of the war in the Pacific, and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Music Canada on the Pacific. On that steamer. It's impossible. You've got to get me on it. Don't slam your fist on this counter. Who's got a better right? I've been traveling for this Hudson's Bay Company since before you was born. There is room for another man on that steamer. Well, you've got to find room for me. Every one of these men is trying to get passage on that steamer to Langley, and I tell you there's no more space. There's room for me on the top deck somewhere. Gold or no gold, I can't get you on it, and that's all there is to it. That steamer isn't going to pull out a Victoria without me. I'll see Finlayson. Finlayson can't help you any more than I can. Well, I'll see Finlayson. You won't go. Go ahead and see Finlayson. Go ahead. Who is it? It's Grinnick, Mr. Finlayson. Who? Grinnick. Grinnick is perfect. All right, I'll let you in. Look, Mr. Finlayson, you've got to help me get on that steamer to Langley. You're no prospect, Grinnick.  And what have I made out of it? After all the years I've trapped for you in the Hudson's Bay Company, what have I got? Nothing. Mr. Finlayson, you've got to help me get across this straight to Langley. Gold hunters have come here before, Grinnick. But every man in Victoria here is leaving for the gold fields up the Fraser. They've gone gold-crazy. Yeah, and men are coming in every day from the outside. There's a whole tent city growing up outside the stockade. Are you going to be led by the nose by those two Yankee prospects? They must have found some dust. They probably did, a little. And they took it down to San Francisco and did a lot of talking about it. And now just because a mob follows them back up here, why are you... They think they're going to find gold, Mr. Finlayson. They're standing in line, waiting to buy grub at the trading store. They're loading canoes and dugouts and pack horses to go up the river. And they're paying cash for everything they can lay their hands on. But what can they get? The blacksmith has been hounded for picks and shovels and iron ladles. They bought him out. Victoria simply isn't stuck to outfit this mob. But the ones that get up the Fraser River first are going to get the gold. And you've got to help me get on that team at Langley. Hey, Finlayson. We demand that you charter another steamer to get us across the straight to the mainland. Quiet, quiet. We want to get over to the mainland and we're going to get there. Quiet, quiet. We want a steamer, Finlayson. Quiet, how can I get you a steamer? There isn't another one in Victoria. Get one for us.  Yes, I've been a seamen all me days. And I'm through with it now. I'm going up to Fraser River. I can't help you. Hosmer, Hosmer. Yeah? Clear these men out of my office. I'm going with them. Yeah? Oh, for me too, I've quit.  What do you know about prospect? I know as much as the rest of them. And all we want to you, Finlayson, is above. Well, I haven't got one.  Why don't you build yourself a raft? That's a good idea. My father was in Victoria when that happened. Back in 1858. Not much more than a boy he was. Then a month another ship came in with nearly a thousand gold seekers. After that, boats and ships came in every few days, bringing from a hundred to a thousand men each. Victoria grew from a trading post to a wild frontier town. Gold seekers flocked in from every direction. They crossed over the mainland and pushed up into the Fraser River country. Hey, look at that, Monty. The rocks broke off, eh? Yes. The old rock trail sit down into the river. We can't go any further. Yeah, we've got to get through.  And the only way we can steal over these rocks without slipping and going down into that river is better put it. Now get a mover now. Get moving. Some scrambled along the walls of the river. Some dragged pack animals as far as they could and then abandoned them. Some fought their way up the river in Canoes when they could go no farther. They cashed the canoes in trees or hid them under the moor. They pushed through the wilderness, blazing trees so they could find a way back. Icy winds and snow swept through the mountains. Many fought on until disaster struck them. Some were lost in avalanches of snow, never to be found again. Some pushed on, making camp wherever they could. How much farther do we have to go, Montee? You should have stayed aboard your ship, sailor. If we can't find no gold, it's better that we go back. Others have found it, sailor.   Well, I'm not going back. But we're running out of food. There's deer and caribou tracks all around us. Throw some water under campfire, sailor. What's going on? Which way are we going now? There's another creek on the other side of that ridge down there. See it? That's a long way. I've seen it to be gravel on both sides of it. Select the fire, sailor. We're moving. All right.  They slogged over the ridge, over the rugged ridge, and down into the gravel of the valley. They dug into the gravel and spread it out on the palms of their hands and let it run through their fingers. Look at that. Look at that. There's little pebbles. That's gold. Gold? Give them a wash and pun. Give them a wash and pun. Give it to me. Yeah, yeah. Here. Hey, love me. Really, gal? Hold your tongue. Look. Look at. Look at the gold. Gold, really?  Look at. Look at. British Columbia. Victoria became the capital. And 13 years later, in 1871, British Columbia joined the Dominion of Canada. This was the beginning. Yes, Captain George Vancouver had taken possession of Vancouver Island three quarters of a century before and Captain Cook had landed on the island years before that. But it was the Fringe River Gold rice that was the birth of Canada on the Pacific. We're a new country out here, a young and strong and promising country. People used to think of us as the back yard to Eastern North America. They forgot we look out over a great ocean. Now many changes have taken place across the Pacific. Great things are happening. The Pacific's battleground. China, the sleeping giant, is rousing. Russia is becoming a power in the Pacific. We're no longer a back yard. We become a front porch looking over the Pacific. One day we may even become the front door to the east itself. This is the Port of Vancouver in British Columbia. Check out below there. Watch it. All right, take it away. Take it away. Hatch number one has failed. We're ready for hatch two. All right, setting down hatch one. Open hatch two. Great activity here. Say, Foreman, what are you loading here? Weat. Swing that blow around. Vancouver here is the world's chief brain port. Foreman, where does this cargo wheat bounce? This cargo? In England. Wouldn't it be cheaper to freight it over land to the east and then ship it across? No, sir. This wheat comes from as far east as Saskatchewan. And still is cheaper to ship it through Vancouver here than it is through the east. All the way down the west coast here and through the Panama Canal? Yes, a matter of fact, we can ship British Columbia lumber from here through the Panama Canal up the Atlantic coast and down the St. Lawrence to Hamilton, Ontario in competition with the lumber cutting Ontario itself. Do you think then that Vancouver may become as important as the big eastern Canadian city? Vancouver here is Canada's third city in size now. And on the way to becoming its leading port, we're already competing with the east for the middle country between them and us. That's important. Take my word for it, Mr. someday Vancouver is going to be the capital of the whole western Canadian empire. Number two hatches already. Excuse me, I've got to get back to work. Vancouver is a great city today. A city of 306,000 people. Yet it's only 58 years old. It came into being when the Canadian Pacific Railroad was built across Canada from Montreal to the Pacific coast. Many people didn't see the value of building that railroad out here. There's no sense to it. There's only 10,000 white people in all British Columbia. Build a railroad across the mountains for them? How do you know a railroad can be built across those mountains? It'll take years if a railroad can be built as long as it has. A railway leading to nowhere. A man named William Van Horn took over the job of building the railroad. At Winnipeg, he started climbing up the clock. We'll need all of it. Coming in so fast, we haven't got a place for it. Grails from England and Germany. Lambo from Minnesota and Rattportage. Stone from Stonewall. Ties from the forests around here. I'm going to build 500 miles of railway this week. My pundits for the season isn't long enough. Before you get organized, you're wasting my time. We'll be laying back across the prairie before. 5,000 men and 1,700 teams worked like mad on the prairie that summer. The days were too short. So Van Horn put on night gang, working by the light of land. Come on, man. Come on, man. Get it going. Bring that paper over here. Go to cross the prairies. In the mountains, they had the real trouble.  Down there. Mr. Van Horn, I doubt we'll ever be able to put this railroad through here. We've got to put it through. Well, I've built railroads all my days, but I've never seen anything so dangerous and difficult. Every foot of it through solid rock and hard pan. Up through gorges and along narrow ledges like this one. Across mountains, Torrance. I don't know, Mr. Van Horn. The government gave Van Horn 10 years to build the railroad Montreal to the Pacific. He built it in five. Those that drove the last bike were a third round the world. United the nine provinces of Canada since we're nations. And beyond the seas, men saw that a new day had come. China and Japan. The highway of steel to the defense of the nation. This train reached the Pacific from the east in 1885. And where the railroad came to the Pacific, Vancouver was born. And with it, Canada on the Pacific was born. The world became aware of our great mountains, rivers, lakes, of our resources, our western coastline. But it was the completion of the Panama Canal that built up our country here and changed us from the back country of the east to an almost independent region. I look at Vancouver here. Here's a shipping executive. Tell me how important is the Panama Canal to us in western Canada? Well, it's been the making of it. Because of the canal, we can ship a great many products to Europe and the eastern markets that without the canal could never leave the west here. And not only that, the canal has enabled us to ship out experts that the matter, of course, used to go eastward by rail and late to ports on the Atlantic. That's been a big factor It's turned Vancouver from a provincial town into a metropolis. It's made western Canada a rising young... As Vancouver and western Canada grew, people from many lands came here, Sikhs from India, Chinese, Japanese, many Japanese. As far back as 1907 there were riots over the Japanese in Vancouver. Back in 1922 we began controlling Japanese fishermen by licensing them. Long before the war in the Pacific broke out, we were having trouble with the Japanese. Well, if you ask me, there are more Japanese here than there has a right to be. Yes, they're coming in illegally. And since the outbreak of the war in China they're getting more and more arrogant. I say boycott the Japanese. Make it so tough for them, they'll move out. I say that we demand to Japan. Yes. They machine gun the British ambassador to China. How long are we going to put up with them? They're no good for Canada. Well, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police registered the Japanese in British Columbia some 24,000 of them. An investigation was made and they reported that there was no evidence of subversive activities but a number of Japanese were arrested, just the same. Tension ran pretty high after Pearl Harbor and five days later. Sure, they closed all the Japanese language schools and tied up the 1,100 Japanese fishing boats and stopped the Japanese newspapers, but they left the Japanese right down there in the waterfront in full view of our ship traffic, didn't they? Yes, and what about those Japanese farmers around our airport? Yes, and all those Japanese up in the Fraser River Valley, around every one of our big power transmission lines. I say get them out of here. I'm not every last man and woman of Kailash. There were suggestions that the Japanese be moved inland into other provinces, but some of the other provinces wanted them no more than we did. Things were happening fast. Hong Kong was captured. Singapore fell. There were wild rumors about the next Japanese move. Then, on February 18th, the city council, Vancouver, and did you see this in the paper? The city council passed a resolution to remove all Japanese from Vancouver. Oh, by heaven. If the government in Ottawa won't move them out, we will. That's what we should have done in the first place. Nine days later, the government in Ottawa took action. All Japanese were to be restricted and evacuated. They were moved inland. And there's a great question if they'll ever be permitted to move to British Columbia again. Or even to stay in the other provinces where they are now. Most of us out here have made up our minds to send them back to Japan when the war is over. But now our big jobs help win the war. Today, Northwest Canada is playing an important part in the war in the Pacific. We're the link between the heart of the North American continent and the powerful military base of Alaska. Pacific Northwest Alaska, West and Canada and the Northwest in part of the United States is all one strategic area. And the first wartime development out here was the Northwest Staging Room. Sounds like that's it now, sir. I can hear it, but I can't see it. There it is. There it is, sir. See it? It's got big transport. Oh, yes. Yes. You suppose they had trouble finding the airport here at Whitehorse? Well, I hardly think so, sir. After all the time we've been working to get this airport ready. It's been a big job, hasn't it, Muggins? Yes, sir, it has. Not only getting this one ready, but building all those other fields between Whitehorse here and Edmonton. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Big transport they're coming in. Well, it's the first official tour of inspection. All the big wigs. Yes. This is going to be a great air route someday, this Northwest Staging Route. Maybe someday, Muggins, you're going to be proud that you helped build it. Well, I'd like to come in for a landing. Yes. Let's go over to the terminal. Well, how was the trip, Colonel? What would you say, pilot? We were out of snow-capped mountains with deep gorges and porous land, but the weather was great. Yes. How about the navigational aid? With those radio ranges every 200 miles, it's a sink. Good fields you have here at Whitehorse, and all the others between Edmonton and here are just the same. There's a railway link between Canada and the United States and Alaska. Pray that we don't have to fall back on it. I hope we don't have to, Colonel. If we do, it gives us an airway removed from the Pacific coast and fairly free from the possibility of enemy attacks. And in any case, it gives us an air route for the development of this country out here. Things don't look good in the Pacific, Colonel. Well, pray they don't. Thank heavens we've got them this far. That was in 1941. Three months later, it came to the port, come to the Pacific. Come right to our own doorstep. Alaska had become more important than ever before. We knew it might be attacked. We knew that in defending Alaska, we here in western Canada were defending our own advanced base. We set about expanding our facilities on the northwest station. Every man possible is working on our construction gang. We're enlarging our airport, improving ground and air communication and putting up living accommodations in other buildings. Time was short, and we knew it. If the Japanese should get control of the seas, our northwest staging route would be the only supply route to Alaska. Then arrangements were made to build the Alaska Highway, an inland route to Alaska. With our airway, we helped lay out the highway across mountains where muskeg swarms move far. Cutting crews of the United States Army hewed their way through foot by foot. Behind them came tractors to drag off the trees, moldovers to grade the surface, digging machines to sink drainage ditches, construction crews to build 700 bridges. From Dawson Creek to Fairbanks, Alaska, they built this military artery 1500 miles long in six months. And hardly had to finish it when the first convoy of trucks rolled over. Northwestern Canada up into Alaska, it was not too soon. The Japanese struck a Dutch harbor in the Aleutians, took Kisker, that too. Alaska had become a great forward base. The northwest staging route and the Alaska Highway had become military arteries to the Pacific front. The highway and the staging route which run almost parallel the use of the highway is greatly facilitating the completion and maintenance of the staging route. The Americans have gained control of the eastern Pacific and supplies are now going to Alaska by the sea route and the Juno Cut-Off. The Alaska Highway is being used to service the air bases of the northwest staging route. Air power is growing in northwest Canada. If the development of Canada on the Pacific is the story of the development of transportation the development of shipping building a railroad the development of the northwest staging route the Alaska Highway and now our air power is growing. This is the boundary base field in British Columbia. That young chap there just won his wings. Where are you from last time? I'm from New Zealand sir. I'm here to learn to fly into the British Commonwealth Air Trading Plant, is it? Yes sir. But first I had a five-week preliminary course in mathematics, mechanics and air armaments at another field. Now that you have your wings you'll probably be shipped out pretty soon. Probably, yes sir. But after the war I'm coming back up here. Great opportunity, sir. Yes sir. I've flown over most of this country and I've got an idea that aviation is going to be the big thing up here. It's rugged country of course but there are mines and industries and forests like I've never seen before. This whole country is a natural for air transport and travel and someday I'm coming back up here. For the first time people are looking up here to this great northwest. One of these days now the attention of the whole world will be on the Pacific. The war in Europe will be over and the world trade will shift in this direction. The war has already taught us that this is all one strategic area Canada, the United States and Alaska. And now world observers are looking forward to what lies ahead. Across the Pacific Alaska's on the Great Circle air route from almost everywhere in North America to almost everywhere in Asia. Yes. That's the basis of our post-war planning. The international airlines will go through northwest Canada here. That's right. And that'll mean the development of the Arctic Frontiers of Canada and Soviet Russia. The air transport has already made Asianic Russia a neighbor of ours. It'll make it more so in the post-war world the northwest staging route will become the air highways of the future. And over these routes great transport will bring us some direct contact. I guess we're about ready to take off. Yes, they took on 40 more passengers here. Beautiful airport they have here in Edmonton. That's your first trip over this line? I haven't been up this way much since the close of the Second World War. Most of the airports on this route to Asia are about like this. Commited even the biggest airliners. Yes, the airports in Alaska and Siberia are just about the same. Where are you bound for? From Moscow. Just open an office there. I'm going down to Babe Ting. I'll get over here every few weeks. You do quite a bit of flying over this way too, don't you? Yes. I'm going down to Tokyo and then jump over to New Delhi and up to Lake Baikal for a little vacation. Our development has been more and more in this direction the last few years and I expect to be making this trip every month or so now. And you haven't been over Siberia in the last few years? No, not since the end of the Second World War. And you've got something to see. Great country. Not only Siberia, but this whole country is through here. From here on up to northwest Canada and Alaska. All aboard. Flight 47 for Alaska. Siberia, China and India. All aboard. Come on, let's get aboard. Good morning, gentlemen. Everything all right with you? Yes, everything's fine. How's the weather at Commodore? We don't pay any attention to the weather anymore. Well, see you next trip, Commodore. You bet. I'll be looking for you. One of the officials of this airline, is he? Yes. One of the top executives. New Zealander. They're flying to British Columbia during the Second World War. Said he was coming back after it was over and here he is. Brought western Canada to the doorstep of the world. We've seen it come. We Canadians here on the Pacific. And now we're watching the development of air power. We come a long way in a short time. This year is gone. We've seen the magic of the transformation brought about by the Transcontinental Railroad and by our shipping since the opening of the Panama Canal. But now, our forests and mountains reverberate with the drone of aircraft motors. This is the music of the future for Canada on the Pacific. Through air power, western Canada will be developed and take its place in the great era of the Pacific. Rise ahead. You have been listening to the Pacific Story presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations as a public service to clarify events from the Pacific and to make understandable the cross-currents of life in the Pacific Basin. For a reprint of the Pacific Story program, send 10 cents in Stamford Corn to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. We repeat, for a reprint of the Pacific Story program, send 10 cents in Stamford Corn to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. The story is written and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso. This program came to you from Hollywood. This is the National Broadcasting Company.