Steve, I wonder firstly, what do you make of the comments more widely from Connor Cody there?

I mean, we all know Connor's got a few opinions.

He loves the podcast and viewing these opinions, but I agree with some of the points he's made and I feel some of the points he's way off to the point where it's like, you know, the energy's changed.

I think the energy's changed because the players have left and that should have happened a long time ago.

You've got players at the club that were on massive money and we all know they're on massive money and you can't get them and you can't fault the player for that.

you know, they're sitting on big contracts and, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it's a job to them and they're saying, well, pay us up, give us some money and I'll leave.

You give us the contract so you can't really blame the player for that to a certain extent.

Does that just eke all the way down and just drip into the changer? Is that how that kind of thing happens?

Um, Steve, perhaps would you just like to give us a quick overview of what it is and, and what it's trying to do?

Yeah, sure.

Um, so RUMA Companion Animal and Equine, um, stands for the Responsible Use of Medicines Alliance, um, in companion ani- animal and equine and, and there is a, um, a, a sister organization, um, in the agricultural world, which is RUMA Agriculture.

Um, and they, uh, over the last few years have been focusing very much on antimicrobial usage, um, and set up a targets task force.

And they've been able to show and demonstrate some real reductions, um, in, in antibiotic use.

Um, and one of the reasons that we kind of first came together in, in, in the first place back in 2021 we formed, um, was that we kind of recognized there was loads of really good work going on in the companion animal and equine space, um, but no real way of, of kinda demonstrating some of the progress that had been made.

Yeah

... um, we worked on in the, in the early days.

Former Havoc defenseman Steve Howard.

I remember I got in a fight when I was in the OJ and my general manager came down.

Back then, if you got in a fight in the OJ, you got kicked out of the game.

I'll never forget this.

My grandmother had traveled with my parents to watch me play.

I was playing in Durham, Ontario, which is three and a half, four hours from Flint.

So you got to cross the border in Sarnia and you got to go kind of straight north up by Owen Sound.

And I think that was the first game of the season that year, too, in

How does he achieve this balance in terms of making sure that those young players are given that chance, but also having those senior guys who might feel that the shirt's theirs and getting everyone fit in the right way?

Do you know what? When he said that, I was like, yeah, yeah.

And then he said the senior players, they're expecting to just have the shirt and that.

I don't think there was any team I ever went in to and I expected to play for the shirt.

I expected them to give me the shirt.

I had to earn the shirt.

And I think that's the sort of mentality I think the club's got to get back.

Yeah, I guess with that in mind as well, that the likelihood of Leicester's team, it probably could and probably should be look a little bit different by the time the season kicks off in terms of the players that will be at the disposal of Russell Martin?

Mm-hmm

... we wanted to add that so we could handle it with a smaller, lighter tractor.

We pull it with a 4040 John Deere, old John Deere, and it handles it at six, seven mile an hour, half RPM, .6 liters-

Is this scalable? Can you, can you make this thing bigger? Uh, you know.

There are bigger units, um, but as far as this one goes, it's lots big for us.

You can do, like, 25 acres an hour easy.

Um, we ran it over 300 acres of corn, 300 acres of beans.

We'd do a lot more if we had more manpower, but, uh-

Mm-hmm

... we wanted to add that so we could handle it with a smaller, lighter tractor.

We pull it with a 4040 John Deere, old John Deere, and it handles it at six, seven mile an hour, half RPM, .6 liters-

Is this scalable? Can you, can you make this thing bigger, uh, you know?

There are bigger units, um, but as far as this one goes, it's lots big for us.

You can do like 25 acres an hour easy.

Um, we run it over 300 acres of corn, 300 acres of beans.

We, we could do a lot more if we had more manpower, but, uh-

What does that energy transition strategy look like for you? And also, what does war in the Middle East mean for the energy transition?

I, I think it's a stark reminder that energy security's critically important, and we've seen this before.

You know, if you've been doing sustainability and climate a long time, we've had these moments when we've had stark reminders energy security is critical, and affordable energy is an absolute base for societies there.

And we've seen the acceleration in investments into partic- and also consumer behavior, driving increased EV sales.

That will spur things forwards.

There was a great article written just a few months ago called Electro States and Petro States.

And the electro states which aren't rich in fossil resources, their future is very clearly renewable energy based, deep electrification.

So again, to Steve's examples of the an, an over-investment and then what's left is the high quality new entrants, it's those new entrants where the exciting stuff will happen in the future, and those are the ones that are realizing sustainability related opportunity.

Uh, look, Steve, would you have expected by now some sort of update from the club on the manager situation?

Um, you know, I always come on here, Jack, you know, with you and all and, and, and, and be honest.

And I would...

I, I, I honestly think yes, they should have.

Because, you know, y- you're going into this, you're going into this important season in League One, and you know you have to bounce straight back, simple as that.

You know, you've got players leaving.

You know, there's, there's rumors of, of players that, you know, obviously the younger lads going and things like that, and then you haven't got a manager.

Here's your new boss," how much of a difference would that have made?

Could capitalism, which many believe has led us to the climate crisis we're in today, also be the thing that helps us out of it? In this talk, sustainability investor Steve Howard flips the lens to capitalism itself and wonders, can profit-driven systems help to scale climate solutions at the speed we need? Steve says yes, but only if we dare to change the rules.

How can capitalism help solve climate change? I'm Steve Howard.

I'm Vice Chair of Sustainability at global investment firm Temasek.

I've been wrestling with this question for about three decades.

I was formerly, I was Chief Sustainability Officer at Ikea.

I've helped set up several climate change organizations, WE Mean Business Coalition, The Climate Group, and recently Tilt Collective, and I've come to con-conclusions that there are some real hard truths.

The first hard truth: every business is a machine.

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