Welcome back to EA FC 24 Everton Korea mode, me and Ned, trying to steer the blues away from the rocky waters of possible relegation. We won our last game, we've won a good decision, we're terrible at defending, I think that's clear. Anyone who's watched this series so far will know we are absolutely woeful at defending. And what game do you want when you're woeful at defending? Liverpool and Anfield. It's the game you want. Confidence, Baz? Yeah, we're going to Anfield, we're terrible at defending, let's see what we're going to do with the team. We can get a draw here. We can get a draw here. Confidence, Barry? That. Yeah, but who's next to the striker? Like Harrison or the striker? No, we'll have the Corry. We'll have the Corry next to the striker. Right, shall we put Paterson right wing back then, instead of Coleman? Yeah. So what we'll do, we'll go with Calvert-Lewin, and doosh, let's go sit it. I think that looks good. Okay, let's do it. Oh, I'm nervous.  Right. Anfield. That's tough, that's tough as test yet. Let's just get through the first 15 minutes.  Don't go chasing the ball, just make sure we've got... Cos once a few minutes passes, I feel we'll be completely silent. Okay, just let them have it there. The Corry needs a drop in. Can't be. That's okay there, it's all right. Keep it there, keep them there. Ty ag, you've got to go back. That's all right, that's all right. Keep it, keep it. Ends out. No, no, no. All right, we'll play. Pats, play. The ball, ten. Get on it. Needed that one from Dom, there was no run. I'ma do get back. Don't shout it off, it's a great tackle. That was well done. Go on then, go on then. Don't chase and cone at it for a Monday. Okay, that's it, make sure we sit there. Just make sure there's bodies behind the ball. That's okay, just make sure there's bodies behind the ball, that's it. Quick play, Nunes. It's a lovely play. Dicard them open. How do you stop that? How do you stop that? And down with Nunes. How do you stop stuff like that? They're just sharp, they're just popping. By the time we react, they've...  Off the line. And again. Off the line. Everton. Tryna hang on. Just get a body in the way. It's through. He couldn't clear the lines. And the fear is there. They're just too good. I'm running. I'm making a line call. I'm on a break here. Don't lose the ball. A line call. It's put the cross in there.  Don't be looking at the gap. No, Nunes. It's three. This could get ugly. This could get 10. I think we've gone too negative. It's a bit late now, innit? Back heel. Pickford with another shave. Well done. Just hit it out. Clear it. It's all we can hope for. They've got five players just sitting with this little batter in us. Well done. You can't beat them. You can't beat them. I'm just trying to move inside. I know. And that's from you, trying to take a man on the halfway line. They're too good. I'm off to try and show you. You mess out again. I don't take it. Well done. Go. To take a ball should have been out again. Move, man. It's nothing to do with. You've got to tell me where you're playing a ball, mate, because otherwise it's just you playing. I can see them goals like that. This is well too hard. Oh, it's true. Passed it earlier. Corner ball. Oh, it's not even a corner. It wasn't a corner. You're just well either out for some reason. Give and go. And again. Lovely. I'm done with me. Go on. It's such. Oh, from Ghana. Don't see that, lad. Jesus. We had to put a tackle in, didn't we? The body came on. I said Dan Newman next to, or Beto next to Calvert-Lewin.  Yeah, it's terrible. McNeill midfield. All right.  There's people in the box. Committed. Well done. And again, that's it. It's a brilliant goal. It's a brilliant goal. They're just too good. Macquarie. Go, just travel with it, come on. Beto's in, play him. It's Beto. Oh, unlucky. Look for better. He's just nearly killed by McNeill. He can't do that. That's happening there. Well done. I'm going past yet. Well done. I need a runner. Oh, that's a terrible ball, Brad. Beto's the runner. It would have been 3v1. It was that McNeill. I mean, what's all that about. AI's having us off. Out. Oh, lovely. Go on, Beto, lad. How's it with you? Do something. McNeill. Edit someone. Better play though. Nice. You're away. I'm away. I'm on side. I'm on it. Or a run. Look at it. Oh, lovely. Beto. I meant it to Dom. Get out. Don't stay in. That's a swipe. Stay with the runner. Yes. That was away. It's the flick. Great turn. Play me, Dom. Play for the run. I don't know what other bleeding run you wanted. I was running towards the goal. Right wing. It's Richard. Dom, pull the line. Go, Beto. Oh, lovely. Oh, Beto. It's a good cross. No one there. Go on, Pat. You're offside. Oh, now I'm not. There's the pass. It's it's it's it. Dom. Yes! Go on with the game. You can stick your six where we don't want to see them. The comeback is on. Dom, not a profile lad. Not a profile. The six down. Get the ball lad. Wasting time. Come on, we can get a couple back here. Seven, nine, also needed to do. It was sustained from the ball. Go on. Go on. Go on. Go on. Beto's arriving.  That's the corner. That should have been a goal. Yeah! Well done, Ben. Yeah. Oh, great feet. Tom's got it.   That's it. We're getting bad. What are you doing? This is the reason. 7-2. Think you're the fans. If you get beat. Enjoy it. But enjoy it with a bit of bloody. A bit of decorum. Second half, 2-2. We've got a point on the second half. I mean, that's a shocking result, isn't it? Get off the pitch! Get off the pitch! You know you've won. You've saved your win. Don't celebrate, go straight down the tunnel. Leg it. You don't need to go straight down the tunnel, apparently. There you go. We were absolutely... Absolutely. Look at him. We were a disgrace.  You can see that the most goals in the league. I'm not surprised. You've also scored though. Let's have a look. We've scored 18. I don't think... Liverpool would have only scored. Liverpool would have only scored 13 before that. OK.  At least we've got a nice easy one next week. I'm going to mess them away. There you go. A massacre at Amfield. I mean... There's not nearly much more to say. We can't defend that has been established. Back to the training ground for us. Ned, might have to have some kind of electric shock therapy treatment too. You can't dribble just past the ball. I don't know how we get that to sink in. I don't know. I need to know what I'm doing earlier. All so. Just standing in front of shots. You'd like diving or you'd try to go in front of them. That is it. Keep your comments as kind as you can. That was an absolute shambles from us. Back to the drawing board. Westam away next time. Make sure you join us. Hit the like button. Subscribe. Give us your advice in the comments section below. And we will see you later. Give us advice. Change your team.


Scotland is witnessing one of the biggest strikes seeking equal pay for women in the recent history of the United Kingdom. Thousands of women working in schools and home care sectors have embarked on a two-day strike backed by two major unions, GMP and Unison. Campaigners argue that the city council's workforce pay and benefits review scheme that was introduced in 2006 led to women workers in school catering and home care services receiving up to three pounds an hour less than salaries in male-dominated jobs. The provision for a three-year payment protection for men who lost out on bonuses as a result of the changes was not extended to women. The scheme qualifies staff contracted for more than 37 hours for extra payments. Women who comprise 70% of the council workforce work for less than 35 hours and hence continue to remain ineligible. Women working in school administration, learning support, nurseries, home care, cleaning and catering, organised picket lines and marches to protest against the discriminatory attitude of the Glasgow City Council. I'm out here to stand up for all the women in Glasgow who have been underpaid and robbed for 12 years by the City Council. It says Glasgow City Council robbed the poor to feed the rich fat cats. Despite the highest court in Scotland, the Court of Sessions, ruling in 2017 that the city space system was discriminatory towards women, the City Council refused to end the gender pay gap. The local administration has spent more than 2.5 million pounds to contest the equal pay claims by female workers over the past 10 years. The Glasgow strike has evoked memories of the great 1910 strike for minimum wages by women workers of small chain manufacturing units in the cradley heat area in the West Midlands. In 1910, women's rights campaigner Mary MacArthur organised the women workers under the banner of the National Federation of Women Workers for a 10-day strike that ended on October 22, forcing the employers to pay the women a minimum wage. The 1910 movement gave rise to the famous song Rouse Ye Women that talked about the conditions of sweated labour, low paying, heavy work and celebrated united action through the trade unions.  Taking inspiration from the 1910 strike, Glasgow's women workers are determined to end the pay injustice.


Welcome. This is Jenkins documentation office hours. It is the 11th. Oh, sorry. It's the 12th of January in Asia topics for today. Contributor summit, Google summer of code version documentation for Jenkins.io. Sponsor attributions and integrating Docker compose into Jenkins documentation and maybe we'll get to a demo of that one before we're done with today. So contributor summit, we're pleased to have 20 plus individuals confirmed to attend four or five board members so we don't have confirmation from Kosuke but every other board member will be there. And really thrilled with it. The agenda is being assembled. We've got lots of cool topics that will be presented and looking forward to more. So it's going to be a great time. Sounds good. Then G so Google summer of code 2024 preparation has started. I have an open action item I flagged it in another office hours. Oh and in advocacy earlier today. The get plugin authentication. Idea is non viable. But the documentation back end extension indexer is still very viable. It just needs a prototype from me to assure that it's a really reasonable thing to do. And then we can put it as a as a project idea. Oh cool. So, and we've had last year we had a documentation improvement project the year before we had a documentation improvement project, each of them doing coding work so very nice. Very nice. And we will meet on January 24 of 2024 in an online meetup for meant for contributors. So, so this will be an introduction for potential contributors. This is how you get involved with the Jenkins project. Here's how you submit a project idea. Here's how you create a good plan, etc. Oh, and I see. And you're doing a blog for the call for mentors to we've got a call for mentors blog post and it was posted. I think it was posted back in December. Yeah, December 5. Okay, are we are you using is part of that the argument why companies need to contribute. It's in their best interest to contribute. No, but this is going for the right this is just give your time to help help these new contributors to open source. It's not doing a why would companies care it's rather just a give give to open source. Right. All right, and then the next topic was version documentation and here. The crucial thing is that we can report issues with current content. Well, bond it the creator of the of the project is taking exams. And then early February 2024. Bundy will return to the project and resolve open issues that we found, etc. Meanwhile, and the infrastructure team are preparing to deploy the prototype at docs.jankins.io. Well, yeah, it's it's we're I'm very pleased with it. Now, I'm sure there is more. There are more challenges hiding with it. You know, there always are. Right. Kevin's Kevin's done a good review of it. I've got more reviewing to do, but Vandy is has made great progress and is willing to keep working to make that progress. So very pleased. Any questions on the version documentation site. Um, so what will be your policy? Will it be like if you have something that works one way in release X and completely different in the release? Why? What will it be the content with that? Will you just freeze the doc for release X and it's up there as a version? Or will there be any attempt to put version information across releases or are you going to keep the releases pure? So intent the intent right now is to keep the releases pure if only because it's a lot easier to maintain that way. So what what we see if you look at the at the get documentation, for instance, if we look at get scm.com here when we look at their documentation site. In their reference manual, we can see, for instance, that up here, here's their pick list.  Right. It's and so when we look back, you'll find all sorts of sort of glaring. Oh, here was this error long ago and those errors don't get corrected. They just stay there. Now we'll be using a branch per version. So each version will be on its own branch. So we could conceptually go back and correct things in a in a particular version, but I doubt we will. I'm thinking of the other direction in a new release. Will you preserve anything from the previous release or two? Oh, I think we'll preserve. We'll preserve everything. So so what what at least my mental model is just exactly what what the get project does here. What they do is they said they take the preceding versions documentation is the base for the next versions. Right. So every correction you made in N minus one is available in N. Right. I'm saying what about something that's different between release and and N minus one? Will you purge the material for N from N plus one? So, okay, let's let's let me give a very specific example. There's a here's one that may be may may be along the line of what you're thinking someday in the future, we will remove blue ocean from Jenkins will deprecate. Yes. All right. So there's a there's an example right so blue ocean someday in the future and it may be 12 months and maybe 18 months and maybe 24 months but someday in the future. Blue ocean is deprecated and its documentation content at some long term support release will be deleted from that versions pages and probably replaced by the thing that is taking the place of blue ocean in this case probably pipeline graph viewer. Okay. So, so today we see let's see today we see go ahead what was your question go go finish what you're saying and then. Well, so here's here's the example documentation for me it we look here and we see blue ocean and this entire section exists today in the version documentation so getting started creating a pipeline etc it's all there. Yeah, I recognize the bell yes, and when when that day comes in the future. I would expect this will be replaced by a chapter that still actually probably will will create a redirect from blue ocean to the next thing hearing you. Oh, you're not hearing me. I can see you. Oh, weird. Huh. So I'm not sure there you're back. Oh, okay. Good. Interesting. I wonder what happened. Oh, who knows. Yeah, so, so the when the day comes that blue ocean is removed from let's say it's removed from the plug in setup with or from the setup wizard in Jenkins. Uh huh. At that removal then for that LTS version, the blue ocean chapter will be gone. Well, a redirect will be created that redirects from blue this blue ocean page and from each of these pages to probably a single page that says blue ocean has been removed and then a link to and here's the new thing. Right. That makes sense. That's big and gross. You know, something with a big thing stays but an argument is renamed or is removed or something like that. So that's a that's an exceedingly rare thing but let's let's look at an example of that here what we're going to do is let's look for Remoting just changed one of its arguments. Okay, and there what you see here is a pointer to the library to the repository on GitHub. So the it takes us to the authoritative. There's another page here on this and not that one. Now I got to find it because I was just reading and in fact edited this page. Maybe it's Jenkins Remoting. There we go this page. Okay, so here if there were some mention in here of the command line arguments there isn't but hypothetically if there were, then I would expect in this page for the version that's associated with 2.426.2 the current and the shipping version it would show here's the here's the deprecated argument and that deprecation is well here you go. Here's the deprecated argument deprecation message and a link to the announcement of it. Okay, yeah, that's good. It is it's hard to do those things. That's what I go back in my head about it. Because the problem of course is that users often have hybrid environments and they look at one set of docs they don't look at all of them so just curious what you were doing about that. Okay, go on. Great. So, I think that covered all the topics I wanted to touch on version documentation any other questions there. Nope, looks wonderful. Okay, next piece then was sponsor attributions. And this one what we've had is a request from one of our big sponsors JFrog saying hey could you please add an attribution for us to the downloads page and attributions are a good thing. And we like those we want to be sure that our donors know how grateful we are for them and so we've got a whole whole section at the bottom of our page here for for donors and a way to say thank you to those donors. Right. I still like I'm wondering like you a couple of meetings ago you went through what they all did. I'd love it if there was a pop up for each one that said you know, they provide servers for us for this or right. You know. And I think I think that their employees are on our board or whatever. Right. And that's a, that's a that's sort of the direction we're going is to get become much more detailed about what this, what is in this very simple section because even at this horizontal thing here. There are very different levels of commitment between the various groups that are on this page. So, open source, the Oregon State University open source lab pretty much hosts our mirror, the roots of our mirrors, and, and that's more of a mirroring thing, whereas cloud bees provides an enormous bunch of people, and almost 100 over $100,000 a year in cloud that their their distribution is enormous. CD foundation likewise has provided in years past over $100,000. Great. And it's just interesting I mean it puts, because we've all seen this, the messy pages of here's all our logos. And it means that you know it puts a little, I don't know human face to it or something. Great. Right. And you're absolutely correct. So we want, we want certainly want to make it richer in terms of, okay, these two are mirror providers but this one and this one are actually monitoring providers. And here's one that hosts all of our prototype websites. These folks donate a mainframe that we use for testing. The way gives them an incentive if they want to start donating more. Maybe they're now giving a mainframe and then next year they say well you can, we'll give you two people for 50% of their time or so, you know. Right. Exactly. It's that kind of, we want to be sure. It's sort of like the, what your contributor highlight to is that it puts a story to it. Exactly. And in the company story, for instance with DigitalOcean we'll be creating a blog post that talks to people about how we use DigitalOcean's resources. And how we make that work smoothly for users of the Jenkins systems. Oh, nice. Yeah. Good. Good work. So any other questions on the sponsor attributions? Nope. All right. Next one that is integrating Docker compose into the Jenkins documentation and here, the story is really about how much easier it is to make, to go through this tutorial thanks to all the work that Bruno Verrachten has done in his, let's look at it. You've got to see it just to get a comparison of how much easier it is. So the thing that he has improved is on the tutorials page, this getting this build a Java app with Maven. And so if we, if we look here at the, here are his instructions to. The sample repository. Okay. Those are the same everywhere in the start your Jenkins instance section. Here's the new section. Notice the length. It's got three, three bullet items. And that's it. Three bullet items and a paragraph or two. Yep. Let's look at the old one to get some hint of what it takes to start Jenkins in that old one. I remember that. It is a horror. All right. So it's a horror if everything goes smoothly. Exactly. It's only horrible if everything goes smoothly. It's a total disaster. If anything goes wrong. Right. And there's so many places. I mean, so you're dealing with all these different operating systems and environments. There's so many things that can. Exactly. So, okay, we, we just, let's just talk about Linux and Mac OS scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. And that's probably easier than Windows to do. Right. And now Windows scroll, scroll, scroll. Okay. And now how do you, okay, it's that complicated in terms of what do you do. And Bruno has simplified it to start your Jenkins instance with this one command right here. You clone this. And then where is the of this docker compose up minus D Maven. Boom. Why is that command buried in a sentence rather than. Yeah, I think, I think that's a good point is just looking to find it. We need to put that on its own line, make it big and bold item to use, you know, after cloning run this colon and then. Well, and the other benefit of doing that is then we can put this one should also have a copy item, a copy line or a copy icon. And this one could have a copy like icon as well. Right. So that the user knows copy this, paste it, you're going. Right. So, yes, it is. Bruno's done a great job with it. And that's all the topics that I had for today. Anything else from you, Meg? No, not at all. All right. Well, thanks very much. 8 minutes. Good work.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports card. Drip in four boxes of 2022 or 2023. Can you score a football hobby for Jacob? So good luck here, Jake. No vet base is going to ship out of this, Jake. All your inserts, rookies, numbered stuff, and autos will. No vet base. We'll just go right through that. A Zach Evans, blue to 100, your rookies. Those will all ship. So you're going to get probably at least one of every single guy in each box. Score a card of Henry Tou Tou. That is a Marvin Jones junior auto for the Jags. I believe he's back in Detroit now. That's where he was, well, not started, but that was his first major contract with them. Roquan Smith's scorecard. That is a Jaden Reed rookie auto. Nice one for the Packers. Congrats on that, Jake. Nice to 50. CJ Stroud on the hot rookies. Gold foil, again, the numberings on the back for that one. 30 of 50 is Russell Gage, blue to 100 for the Bucks. Two more autos, I believe, four per box. Eli Manning, that is green, one of five. Nice one there, congrats. Jake, I haven't seen Jake or Mayfield in a while. Two scorecards in this. Roshan Johnson, Sam Hubbard. There's Jordan Addison Redemption for the Vikings. Congrats on that, Jake. Nice one there. Scoose, scoose, scoose. There's not a binky in sight. No, hair is disheveled. There's Dante Forman for the Panthers. Michael Wilson, rookie auto for the Cardinals. What'd you say? This guy's just niz. Yep, I don't know if the thing is faster. Is it? Yeah. Like when you play as a ranked one? Yeah, it makes sense, though. Scorecard, Chris Jones, and base. So this will, this will not. Box two, that is Zach Martin, scorecard, and base. Tommy Townsend, Hunter Mojo, one of 50 for the Chiefs. That is going to be 250 points. Not random to the all at the end, because this is a first. It is a Dak Prescott, blue to 100. Scorecard, Patrick Sartan, Tyjay Spears, 250. That guy? Carbridge. We got to set up the time to play him live. How many people are watching? This guy stinks, Robert Woods.  People just don't know. Wilson, you don't know about it. Oh, yeah. Skymore, scorecard. Scorecard, Isaiah Hodgins, wide receiver one in New York right now. Amon Ross, St. Brown. Nice auto there for the Lions. God, I forgot to say this guy's name. Equanimous, St. Brown to 100. Amon Ross, brother. Nice. Traylon Burke, second year auto for the Titans. Traylon. Big ol' stinker tonight. There's Kenny McIntosh. There's Travis Etn Jr. 250 for the Jags. Had this Josh Allen and base. So yes and no. Boxed base. Good luck here again, Jake. Jeffrey after, then Trenton, then Chang and then Drew. That's it right now. I don't know where we're going to be after those personals are cleared. As we get closer, we'll know if we're 100% sold out or not. To 100 is Aaron Donald. Huge release day tomorrow. Flawless football, everybody. Get it, dude. So pumped. He's so much fun, dude. It's going to be insane. Jaden Reed, scorecard. That is a Robert Woods, Bobby Tree's auto for the Titans. Robert Woods. Charles Woodson. BJ O'Jillery. Let's go into the Cardinals. Yeah, I remember that. Because it was the 10 case there first, right? Yeah. There's no daytime. Joey Bosa. Blue to 35, at least on the main channel. I'm so ready, Jimmy.  Play some golf, dude. Joe Thomas to 35. Lee Ferry has none of the swing timing thing on. No. Doesn't look like it. Dallas Goddard, that is to 100. Okay, a new PC for editing. I'll go up new PC probably now. Barry Sanders. Roshan Johnson, base auto for the Bears. Do you ever have a question about that? In this place, the person to ask? Donnie. Well, yes, Donnie and Chris. Chris knows a ton about that stuff. He built his own PC. When we play video games with him, he's on PC. That's why whenever we play Fortnite, all of our opponents are so good. They're all PC players. John Dodson. He's too good. Quentin Johnson, base rookie auto. Nice one there, Chargers. Yeah, it's been on it for a minute.  There's Kendra Miller. I think I talked to that. I want to take down bots. Yeah, dude, I want hundreds of bots. I actually want a bot lobby. I don't want to play against real people if I don't have to. Most real people are much better than I am. There's a Justin Herbert scorecard. Unless we're talking cod, dude. In my prime cod days, I played... Which one was it? Cold War, I think was the last one. I played a lot of in college. Because me and my five roommates, and we all had the game, so we played a lobby of six of us. Dude, we were to wreck people, and then we would just start yelling at them in chat, dude. It was awesome. In game chat, we would just, oh my god, we were to eviscerate people if they were talking trash. It was awesome. I know Pew Pew, it's probably still crying. Yeah, get out. Jack Thompson. That was so funny. That was great. Luke Musgrave, Rookie Auto, nice one, Packers. Who's this? I'm just trying to play four in here. Pew Pew. You don't care. Not our problem. Sterling Shepherd. What's your mom? He came in another game. That's so funny, dude. Cole Comet, blue to 35 for the Bears. And here's... What is this? Aaron Jones, scorecard. I still don't know who it was. That is Patch Mahomes, scorecard, nice one there. Dream editing and rendering. That is a Lane Johnson, blue to 35. Andrew Wiley Auto, for the Commanders, some O-line love. Nice, Showtime, A.J. Brown, on the case hit. Holographic, these are cool. I like these. Showtime. That is Jaden Hazelwood, to 100. There's Donna McNabb. That's Jalen Carter, nice one there on the Rookie Auto for the Eagles. Jalen Carter. Levante Smith, blue to 100 for the Eagles. Cedric Tillman, nice one there for the Browns. Congrats, Cleveland. A.T. Perry, scorecard and base. That'll do it for your break there. Jake, thanks again for the support buddy here and in group breaks. Get him right out to my friends.


Hey everybody today, I have a very special CRT in my repair shop, and it's definitely one of the rarest I've ever seen. This is the Bang & Olufsen MX5000 and I went through and did pretty much a complete restoration on this television set but this video you're about to watch is quite lengthy. So to try and help out I do have everything separated below into chapters that way if you want to skip around and see certain things you can do that. And also if you do enjoy this video, please do me a favor and hit the like button so that this can expand the reach and help out with the algorithm. And without any more introduction, let's check out the Bang & Olufsen MX5000 television. All right, we're gonna take a quick look here at this amazing rare CRT it is in my shop this week. And this is the B & O or Bang & Olufsen CRT this particular one is the it says MX5000. It is an extremely rare television as I said especially here in the United States. Now if you're in Europe you'll find these or Japan you may find some of these pretty pretty easily but over here in the United States there's not really a lot of these. And supposedly this particular branded or version of this television is NTSC. I just wanted you to see the front. Here's a first look. It definitely has this glass coating over what is a shadow mask tube under there. So you could tell it's curved on all edges, but it has this amazing piece of glass over the top of that. Just an incredibly beautiful sleek design here. I want to give you a look at the back of this television and first let's take a look at this label. The label says we have 1989 for a manufacturer date and not a whole lot more of not a whole lot of other information. A lot of inputs over here for RF and then down here we have S-Video some audio-video inputs for composite and then there's some power connections to input speakers. And this one has a stand that goes with it, but the stand is not here. There's also these are just external devices that you could easily connect with this set like a VCR and things. But this particular one supposedly has this RGB input over this SCART input. I've not tested this so we're going to see what happens when I plug it up to this Super Nintendo. Let's look here at our remote. Now this remote is one of the heaviest remotes I've ever felt. Really heavy. What do you think Cole? Cole's still trying to figure it all out. Anyway, heavy-duty remote. We do have power going to this so I'm going to flip around put this light behind the set Let's just see if I can get this to actually power on. Oh, I heard it. It's starting to power on here. There we go. Okay So there's a TV running just in RF mode, I guess. Let's see if we could change it over to an input. Well, see we're getting an image. We're not syncing though. Interesting. I was able to get a signal into this set. Believe it or not, full color proving that it is NTSC. I don't know how to get rid of that set TV clock. We're going to take a look at the manuals here and see if we find anything. But the only way I could get this to work is going basically to RF and I'm in RF mode. It looks really good for RF, but there's no way you can make any adjustments on a set based on RF. So hopefully we can figure out a way to get better a better signal into it. Let's just take a look at something that will look good. Again, I don't know how if I can clear that. We are getting a picture though. Set clock is so annoying. It's a very, I mean, it's not an easy remote. It doesn't really tell you anything. It's just dumb. Let's set clock. Wonderful. Let's do it. And you see I don't even know how to go down. There's not like a down arrow on this that works. You press down. It doesn't do anything.  Of course. Why not? Let's press over. And then what? You have to press play. Who cares? Okay. Now if I get out of this, I press a menu. We'll even get out. There we go. We got rid of the clock. We just let it sit there. I think it's 2 a.m. on 2020. Gosh, this thing's awesome. Thankfully I had to work this and get RGB going. I bet it looks awesome. All right. This B&O needs to be serviced and that's going to start by removing the back. So I've got it ready here. I'm going to take you around the backside and we're going to show you how to get it open. It's pretty simple from the manual. It says there's four screws, one practically in each corner. And the fun thing about these screws is their Phillips head. But they don't actually pull all the way out. The screws don't. So they stay with the back of the shell, I believe. Just seems like a nice little touch from B&O. So again, this is the back of this beautiful CRT. It should slip right off. I'll pull it off and show you what it looks like underneath there. And we'll get off this back shell here and try to see if we can service the inside of this set. All right. The back came right off. And first things you'll notice is our extra large tube back here. And it's not very deep. It's actually quite short and stumpy for a 26 inch, 28 inch tube. Look at this. It's made by Hitachi. And our model number is a66abu39x. And then we have our deflection yoke right here. Our neck board, which will be one of the boards I'll be pulling and servicing for a cap kit and definitely fresh solder. We'll get some fresh solder on this board. And then we will, oh yeah, look at that. So you get some corrosion up here already on this board. Definitely something we should have, you know, be considering. Look at that. Corrosion building up on this board. Definitely need some fresh solder on there. And below that is a resistor board pretty much. There's a couple caps in there. Probably needs to be recapped. Same thing with this input card right here. And wow, basically all this stuff's going to need to come out. We go to RF tuner right here and the main board down in there. That's the one too that needs to be addressed. There's boards back here. And more and more boards. Some more boards over here with some large filter capacitors on them. So this is going to be a pretty lengthy job. We'll have to pull this entire chassis out and service the board. So that's what I'm going to try to start doing is get ready, set up for that. Something else that's interesting. Check out these tubes coming out of the speakers back here against the back of the tube with some nice cushion. That's an interesting design for the sound and subwoofers. And then our flyback cable. Check it out. The anode actually goes up around the tube up here and comes right back here instead of the normal way where it would just be hanging out here and going into the tube. So let's see what I can do to get some of these boards out. And one of our first steps is going to be to remove this tuner. So I need to disconnect this RF cable right here. And then there's a quick disconnect. This RF cable and then we can remove this block and get it out of the way. And it was held in with two screws. So these boards all slide out in one piece. You just have to make sure that you slide out like this board on the side, this transformer. And then all this is coming I'm going to disconnect the cables down here for the degausing coil. And then I've disconnected the yoke deflection yoke cable right here. And then let's see this cable was actually tucked around under behind the speaker tube and connected right down in there. So I'll reconnect that later. But I have to make sure I disconnect all these over here that are going into here. And then it looks like there's one more. Yep, that's coming up and connected here. So I need to disconnect this cable, all these, because those connect around to the front side and then into all this. And I really keep it all together and pull it out at once. So I'm going to do that. We'll also keep the neck board with it, pull it off. The only thing we will need to do is we'll set up and discharge this tube in a second. And I've almost got this guy completely pulled. You can tell I've got the neck board here of it. There's one set of cables that just does not want to come out without me disconnecting them all. There's three connections down here. One connection up here. And this is bundled together. And it loops around through here. And I don't want to just snip all these zip ties, but I'm going to snip some of them so I can get that cluster of cables out. Because one of them goes into the front of the CRT in there, this red. And so we're going to get this one out of the way, because everything else is out of the way. Actually, this needs to be disconnected. That's the degausing cable. Well, the chassis is ready to completely remove now. I did have to remove a couple of these zip ties just to get that one cable loose. And I wound up removing the anode cap here. You could see it's just two pieces. I was able to pinch the back of this cup together and just pull it out like that. So I've not technically discharged the tube. Of course that I could just ground that against any old metal. And it's grounded. I believe that there has to be a resistor in this thing. But I've not technically, whoop, no, I'm just kidding. I'm not going to stick my finger in it. There still could be a charge there. I don't know. I'm not messing with that area right now. So I'm just going to leave it. I'm going to get this board, actually all these boards out, and take them to the shop. And here's one last look at this tube area before I really get in here and clean it. And it's just this very large tube. You'll also notice again how narrow the tube neck is here. That's one of the more narrow designs for the 1980s. And then down in here is where our boards sit into place. And obviously this all needs to be cleaned out. The only board left there is the manual power button board over there in the front of the television. And here are all the circuit boards from inside the television set. This right here is our main board with our flyback transformer right there. And we've also got our geometry and deflection is taking place on this board. And it also appears parts of the power supply is on this board and then connected over here to this board back here. So you have that two board combo, which makes up, you know, a majority of the things there. Here's some standby power board broken out here with this massive transformer that is inside the set. That is a massive transformer that's comparable to more like an arcade machine. And then under here, now this has already been broken out somewhat, but this board normally has 100 cables going into it. And it goes and slips under this board in that compartment right there. And this is mostly the tuning from the RF tuning and other controls. I'm imagining we're getting in our picture control chips over here in our jungle chip probably. So this board is going under there. But this has a ton of capacitors on it. And that's just a couple of the boards because if we keep going, we have this board that's in there. We have our neck board right here. And then we have this cluster of boards, which is like a daughter neck board up here also input, or I'm sorry, attached to the input board right here. And then there's a third board behind all of that that has more things on it. And then finally, it all climaxes with this battery down here, which I'm going to have to do something about because this super lithium Maxwell battery, this can explode or leak, and then cause massive amounts of damage to the boards that sit under it. Because this sits right in this position normally, right here. And all that battery acid would then leak down to this board, which is the tuner and control board underneath sitting in there. So that would happen where that would battery will eventually leak out behind there onto this board and cause all kinds of problems. All right, everybody's check this out. I did a live stream not too long ago where I highlighted these the manuals for the B&O MX5000 CRT. So if you want to see more about that, there will be links to that stream in the description. I also did a stream where I went through all the board servicing where I looked at pictures of every board that was serviced. I go through and talk about how each was serviced and what I found servicing each of those boards because there's a lot of bad capacitors and just old parts inside this TV set. So if you're interested in either of those two expanded topics on this B&O, please check out the links in the description. Now let's get back to the restoration. Now here's the bundle of all our circuit boards that have now been serviced. I went ahead and reconnected everything based on the photographs I took before I serviced, but I also was able to reference this amazing B&O manual that had the wiring diagram right here so I could verify everything that was plugged in correctly and there are so many plugs on this television. It's pretty vital to make sure that everything is plugged in in the right spot. Now 95% of these cables are labeled, but there are a few that are not or the labeling has worn off. But as you can see everything's been finished. We've got all the boards have differing level of service done, but most of them have some level of capacitor replacement and others have been completely recapped like our main board and our neck board and our power boards. And also we've had to had to reflow solder on a lot of boards. So just a lot of normal servicing done to this TV, but now it's time to put this in the back of the tube and the back of the TV and test it out and hopefully everything will be all right. I do still have to connect my tuner up there and a couple other cables, but for most part everything here is done. I consulted the wiring diagram fully and reassembled the TV. I got all the boards connected in here and they're all properly checked out and everything. You just see how much better things look in here. It's all been cleaned out and everything's kind of ready for a good test run. And you just got to again make sure everything's connected in here properly. I've gone through and done all that and also one thing that I didn't mention before, but there's a lot of ground loops on this TV. And so you have to make sure that your ground loops are solid, especially on an older set like this just to make sure it's going to function properly. So everything went well and our servicing of the boards because the CRT has now been running for about an hour. Looks really good. Especially considering I'm still only able to figure out how to use composite video back here. And that's what I'm inputting through. I've been trying to use the decoder, the video inputs, and I can't get anything to switch over. The remote is just insane and driving me crazy. But everything else is working good. All right. So look this TV set after it was finished up and ran through some tests. I started to run some strange issues. First off, the picture would just randomly kind of not turn on. Basically, I do a power cycle and the image would kind of disappear. And then I could still tell the tube was turning on and honestly 90% of the CRT was functioning properly. But it did have an issue there where I was not getting an image consistently. After that happened, I spent some time again reviewing all the work I had done. And I actually went in and recapped the input board and reflowed sonar init completely. And again, if you want to hear more about all the interior work done on these boards, check out the live stream where I go through the boards individually and talk about all this. And I do talk a little bit more about this issue that I ran into. But ultimately, I was able to figure it out by just turning up the screen voltage on the back of the flyback on the set. And what had happened is after it had been restored and started running, it actually caused the G2 voltage to seem to want to drop down to a point where you weren't actually getting a visual picture on the tube, even though everything else was functioning as it should. Another issue with this television is the remote control. If you don't find a remote control for this set, it's very difficult to navigate through. And a lot of things you won't even be able to change. I'm sure you could probably use a universal remote, but there's a lot of weird things that B&O did with this TV set. And the remote was definitely one of those oddball things. And another thing is you can tell from this video there were a total of eight circuit boards inside this CRT. All those circuit boards at this point needed to be serviced. This television was produced in 1989, and really the reason it never made it big in the United States marketplace had a lot to do with durability and obviously the complexity of this television. And as parts would break down, it would cause failure on these sets. Not a lot of places could properly work on them. And ultimately the B&O television set failed in the United States marketplace. But if you do find one of these, they are relic. They're very rare. You may find somebody that's still interested in trying to get them restored, but they are a lot of work. However, I can't deny they look amazing. The look of them is really cool and really clean, especially the architectural design. I didn't even mention this, but there actually is a kickstand at the front of this television where you can kick the CRT up a little bit and back. And so that's a really cool design feature. Just a lot of really cool look aesthetics to this television. But it is going to be a lot of maintenance on a set like this. And you're going to need to maintain all your peripherals that you're using with it that are B&O materials too, to get the full proper experience. But I must admit it's a pretty damn cool experience, right? If you have it working. At the end of the day, I was able to get this one working.  I was already over budget and over time. And I had already agreed with the client to basically take all that time on myself and cover the costs to that extra time. So I really wasn't able to get a lot of extra footage. I did get a little bit of footage of RGB with some SNES on there that eventually did function out. And so I'll show you a little bit of that footage here. But otherwise, the restoration went fine. This CRT is going back to its owner. And I'm not really sure if I'll ever do another B&O MX5000 or MX Anything restoration. I really don't know. This was a completely new experience for me. It was definitely challenging. And I think it would be a super expensive restoration for me to do again. It's just so much work in there and so many, so many more things to consider in a job like this, as opposed to just a normal set that you might find that you can get, you know, an equal picture quality from a normal set that is 27 inches, even an RCA or something if you RGB mod the thing. So anyway, that's my final thoughts on the B&O MX5000. I appreciate all you for watching all this video. If you enjoyed it, please again, do me that favor of hitting the like button. If you need more help or have any interest of joining our CRT community and even maybe getting some repair advice or hey, even a restoration of your own, do check out my Patreon page. 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I mean, it always feel good to see guys that's been hurt. That's been, you know, you see him around the building, see him in the training and working really hard to get back. It's definitely good to see him out there. I know Buzz will be coming back this week, so I'm definitely happy for him. I know he's battled, you know, his injuries and stuff like that. But like I said, we kind of knew that we had a tough stretch of the schedule there, whereas though we knew we're gonna have some guys out and we was gonna get guys back later in the year. So it's been good. We've been able to string some wins together with some of our key players out. So hopefully we'll, you know, get some new ammunition out there.   How excited are you to be able to finally get a game in that high school? I'm really excited. I actually played there in 2017. On Thursday night game, we got beat pretty bad, but it's always good to go up there and play, you know, the Golden Black. Got a lot of respect for Ben Roffensberger, Mike Tomlin. He said some pretty good things about me. I actually texted to my dad. It was pretty funny because I was kind of joking with him because down at the senior bowl, you know, Mike Tomlin was down there and I'm like, oh, it's Mike Tomlin. And they didn't even want to meet with me. They didn't meet. I didn't say they didn't want to, but they didn't meet with me. And I was kind of upset about that, but it is what it is. But I got a lot of respect for everything they have with their tradition. The Pittsburgh Steelers, and like you said, man, it's going to be a really good game.   Yeah, I mean, honestly, just being real with you guys, we understand that this challenge is going to be a lot different than the one we just had in Jacksonville. They had some really great receivers from Johnson, who, you know, we battled some drops last year, but he's playing like a number one receiver. Claypool is a deep threat. Washington is a deep threat. And they're tight in 88. Man, he's a really good red zone threat. I think he's tied first for tight ends and touchdowns. So they have a lot of firepower out there. We know Ben Robsburger is not the Ben Robsburger from 10 years ago, but he still is great enough to run at office for the line of scrimmage and still put up points and can't forget about Najee Harris. He's a really good rookie. He runs really hard, runs behind his pads. So it's going to be a huge challenge for us this weekend trying to stop those guys. And you kind of touched on it there, but did it make you feel good when you saw what time was set about yesterday after maybe experience you had with the senior bowl? No, it really does, honestly. Yeah, I don't. I remember when I went to the Pro Bowl my second year, Pittsburgh was actually our coaches on the AFC side as well. So I had a chance to chop it on them as well. But it feels good, man. You know, you're talking about wanting to get respect from your peers and things like that. But when a coach can speak highly of you, it feels real good, a guy that I was watching when I was a little kid and he was winning Super Bowl. So it definitely feels good. This is probably one of those special places that kind of charges you up a little bit more when you go up there and play. I wouldn't say it charges me up any more or less, but I do understand the environment, the atmosphere. You know, you're going to see the terrible tiles up there. It's kind of nostalgic for me because, like I said, I grew up watching them. And I've always been a huge fan of their defense and Trapola Malo and James Harrison and all those guys. So it's going to be a little, I wouldn't say special to me, but to know I'm playing in the stadium that has a lot of history and tradition that is definitely going to feel well. Did you ever have an OG like that still just battling to the bitter end like he's been doing? Could be his last year. How much respect do you have for that?  So you get to go up against a Hall of Famer. You want to bring your A game. You want it to be where it's though at the end of the game, Bronzeberg comes up to you and say, hey man, I respect your game and things like that. So like I said, I have a ton of respect for him.  I mean, a lot of screens, a lot of catch and run situations. And he's still, you know, going vertical on the outside cause he has some really good receivers. So like I said, he can run at the office to a tee cause he's been in that office and that's for so long, ton of respect for him. Did you ever own the terrible towel or have any coaches up in your room as a kid? I did, but my dad bought me a Troll, Paula Malo jersey and I was in high school. He was like my favorite player, obviously on that team for sure. I've watched film on him since I've been in the league, watched film on him when I was in college. The most instinctual football player I've ever seen in my life.   But I didn't have a terrible towel. I wish I could have, honestly, if I had an opportunity to get one in high school, I would have bought one for sure. There's a lot of teams sitting at the top of the AFC with that nine and four record now. You're going to only control, you can control for the next few weeks. What's it going to take for one of those teams to separate themselves? It can take a game, it can take two games. Obviously we know Indianapolis, they're a really good team and they're seven and six. And you know where they're coming?  It's just like a horse phrase. We kind of talk about this every year towards, you know, this is kind of that time. I think in golf, they call it a moving day or something like that where, you know, it's a three, four week stretch where, you know, the brackets or whatever can be looking like this and in three, four weeks can look totally different. So we have to go out there, just handle our business and go win football games so we can worry about, we control our own destiny. That's how I take it.


What's going on everybody got Kyle and Shawn here relating sports cards and we are ripping this is 2023 tops chrome MLS 12 box case number one Looks like we had Shane with the timbers down to Jerry F with Atlanta United Can always find those results on our website guys. Good luck. Good luck. See what we got first or new release today MLS chrome See some messy see some supers Like everybody let's go. I couldn't do a tour is on the covered Orlando City Sean's a big Orlando City guys. Oh No, he's wearing dolphin stuff there. He's letting them know. Yeah. Good luck guys tops chrome MLS I believe we're falling the next one. There was one spot a second ago Thinking it might have came in. Yep. Lance grabbed it Lance closed us out on the next MLS Thank you guys. So we're starting to work now on Bowman draft. We got the choice case and one jumbo Oh, so one so one never mind. I lied Lance got the second to last spot Still one in the next one. So if anybody wants to grab it Good luck guys see what we got That's a lot of color already. There's a flashback to 99 Steven Gerrard. That's kind of sick for the galaxy Green lava good player there former Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard and Otto is gonna be no well buck to 50 start us off for the New England Revolution Nice gold Otto good start. I think that was Shane with New England It was mr. Shane got the gold of pitch prodigies Otto both up Costa I Like the look of these cars not bad. Yeah, I know he doesn't he doesn't there's a Diego Rubio refractor Tolkien Yeah, he he dipped on us. He didn't like Orlando. I guess There's a Dane St. Clair to 125 that would be for Minnesota United I don't believe he has autos just color and a short print case myth I don't believe there's any messy autos in here There's a Ted Kudipitro for DC United Yeah, they're nice. They're solid man. They Good feel to him as well. There's a Raul Rui Diaz on these city strikers. Those are sick. It's a really cool-looking car there It's prodigies Lindsay Yeah, I think so case. I think that's I think that's about right there's a rookie Kevin O'Toole I thought maybe they would add one in but um, they would have they would have announced it for sure It would have been it would have been a big chase and everything so mostly looking for his color to 199 we got a Demir Crelak for Ray. I'll Salt Lake the color looks really good on these. I like this chrome design Yeah, so the messy SP and this one is the let's go short print Jeremy Ebo B say It's a let's go short print. They haven't in um, they haven't in baseball. They have it in the Boma Chrome U Yeah, it's a different it's a different short print than the the goat one from the from the original That would be yeah, there's Walker Zimmerman to 199 blue wave for Nashville Team USA player. There's a derby diamonds. That's Jose Sufwentes for LAFC. That's a sick-looking car I like that. Let me get some of those going and a shirt and security Might be a short print there on the I think it is for the Chicago fire It's how he's looking. I think that might be a short print close up There's a speckle Sergei Goma for New York Red Bulls Placios It's another diamond dirt or derby diamonds Sergei Goma New York Red Bulls and a flashbacks the 199 David Villa like those flashbacks to they got some of the Some of the more expensive MLS players over time There's a rookie David Ayala Portland timbers not numbered Rike There's a Kucho Kucho for Columbus refractor city strikers Diego Rubio Colorado Derby diamonds John Tolkien New York Red Bulls Appreciate everybody grabbing up spots today even since I came in you guys have grabbed a ton. That's awesome There's a blue mini diamond Steven Gerard second one there. Nice one LAFC Gerard to 199 Walker Zimmerman refractor and there's a yellow mini diamond That's gonna be Mateus bogus to 50 on the rookie there. Nice one. Um, LAFC the gold mini diamond How'd you say that last name Sean? bogus Yeah, boguses bogus bogus bogus. There's a Douglas Costa the galaxy Leon Flatch Flatch got some names here box to already guys box to good luck Potentially case that I wouldn't be surprised honestly if they get some more some more big names. That's a decent enough chase There is two ninety-nine. It's gonna be rookie Owen Wolfe. It's from their color match for Austin Austin FC There's a Ricky Plee. It's gonna be Derby diamonds Hector Herrera The Andre Yadlin rookie Nicholas. Yeah, Cheney for St. Louis Roman Burkle St. Louis again. He Martin grabbed a spot and peony first off the line football We got that on sale already guys to 99 is a Minder Garcia for Minnesota to 99 on the Green Laval rookie Garcia Owen Wolfe to 99 as well. That's sick with color in the Derby diamonds It was a really nice with color Wolf there so Derby diamonds Ricky Puyg Sean to get you a promo code magic wood pizza yesterday. No, no it is today. Actually it was today. It was orange Say orange rookie Diego Luna nice one there to 25. That's the actor who played a and or 25 their rookie for Ray. I'll Salt Lake Nice one there rookie orange really really clean-looking card there Diego Luna Pretty sure that's an actor And refractor is Victor one Yama. Hey, this is a there's a air current Erkan Kara to 199 blue wave rookie for Orlando City. I see Spencer's on MLS guy Eric Etzion for Atlanta Flashback lamp are there's a flashback to David Villa for New York City FC Bastion swine Sager Paxton Pompeo suckers just boring Yeah, the win Yama. There's a Teenage teenage hot bae or hot a bae for a dynamo to 199. His name is Teenage and Kai Wayne Wagner hi Wagner. I was not expecting that. I was reading. I was like, that says Teenage There's a Derby diamonds Kate Cole. I really like those Derby diamond cards. They're sick insert strikers Kucho Charles Heal new egg new England revolution Fuentes mission. We got any darts coming up here. I think you said they started in a couple days, right? Or tomorrow or something restarting is a Lucho a coast stuff for Cincinnati to 125 Lava Yeah, I think it was the holiday. I guess I don't know. There's a Paul ariola Wayne Rooney flashbacks My roommate Mitchell actually got a dartboard for Christmas. He's putting it up yesterday He's putting it up yesterday to 199. We got a Richie La Desma. Oh, it's already went on today Okay, I thought you were saying that it was a they were off a couple days, but Must have went in today. I gotcha. I gotcha. There's a rookie Thomas Williams They have a let's go short print chain Let's go. It's the they have it in baseball or Yeah, they have it in baseball They have it in soccer a couple of the different sockers and then they had it in a bowman chrome you as well But let's go short print. It's like there's future stars as well Those are actually harder to hit than in baseball about one in 120 packs It says on the future stars and they also have a short print called The tops chrome layers that looks wild. So I'll get that short Looks like a freaking like movie poster or something Yeah, so they got a few short prints in this one. I think it's Thomas closing us out on the next one. Thomas Thomas Keep on moving here. See a big color right? He saw a nice orange rookie. Let's keep it going man. See a red super Yeah, I don't know Mitch. I'll probably get a few throws in for sure rookie to 199 Minder Garcia I think he's putting it up in our there's a messy our first base He's messy there for insert Yeah, I'll probably get some I get some throws in for sure. I think he's putting in our um Right in our dining room. So I'll get a couple throws at it. Kai Wagner there Billy Union Yeah, I might be a couple might be a couple holes in the drywall or whatever, but We got to do gotta do what we got to do There's a yellow Richie Larea former Orlando City player or actually gold to 50 the Vancouver Richie Larea Hello there Mitchell I would smoke you in there Spencer is a Debbie diamonds darling to Nagby Yeah, I've been feeling Sean's got a nice little dark game Venteke. How we doing today Jace? There's a green ladder 99 Jordy Alba nice on their answer Messi's teammate came over with him Alba and Busquets both came over with them. There's a Talisman go and auto is gonna be Owen Wolf another one for um Austin FC to 99 Rookie Otto Owen Wolf Austin back to back Owen Wolf smoke you left-handed we would both like the flow Sean, let's go Mitchell 125 Sebastian Druzey, I love that dude Spencer goes for John and then Spencer goes for Mitchell and then Mitchell goes for John There's a George Morris refractor. I love it. Love the fire Freddie a do flashback that's sick. Do they have that? I know they have a couple of the legends here I've been liking what I've seen so far Sergey Goma for the New York Red Bulls to 199 blue wave Hope they have a caca for Orlando City. There's a Derby diamonds Julio Kyle Smith There's a Pitch Prodigies to 199 Thor O Farson. That'll be for Houston Blue mini diamond. Thank you Richard taking the spot in the mega dual case. That is down to I believe six now Magnote refractor. We've six to go on the mega dual case. That's awesome guys There's a speckle Cameron Harper Wayne Rooney throwback It's a Shackmore refractor Flashbacks Janino. There's a Kaikomara I'm still light it up for the Columbus crew seven to go in these second bowman draft and Choice and jumbo mixer guys George's Jaco Maccas I said that right Sean nailed it Jaco Maccas Sean at the Coompo There's a Derby diamonds Matus Klisch and a 199 rookie Patrick Schulte Columbus Hey, you guys Spencer Yeah, a lot of these guys a lot of these guys either younger or they're at the end of their crew like Benteke was a He was a European guy for a long time. It's a 99. We got Nico Lidero Nico Lidero nice one there for the Sound is Refractor Chicharito Alrighty guys three down box number four Johnny gonna bust through some tables at the Bill's tailgate.  So I'm not break through the plastic tables.  You get a Happen as we're going at it. It's a Noel book a buck on the refractor out of there for New England mr. Shane Christian rolled on Seattle is a green to 99 rookie of Sebastian Ferrera Houston He would be in a sling. That's probably true. Yeah He'll show their injury on that one Derby diamonds F-Rain Alvarez The darts I would smoke Just so you know City strikers Mikhail or a down the brakes and tables Mindergar see our fractor see what's that Josh? Jason Well that thing away can't lose your most reliable top of that's fair to 125 got John Tolkien for the Red Bulls And we don't need we don't need any injuries for care No tailgating related injuries. There's a Derby diamonds Lucho Acosta and so one ninety nine gonna be Darren Yappy Just like Jake's dog. Yeah, they're in yappy there for the Rapids to one ninety nine Those are your second team. Oh, Jase Just gone the trash list there to 99 got Deandre Yedlin American for insert that right there might get you on what would make you pick such a Refractor rookie a goma flashbacks of Christo Stoichkopf. There's a Miles Robinson 125 Blava Yes, I got a nightmare about Jim Kelly Shonda's Shonda's not like Jim Kelly Dre read Who's the big Brent Smith There's a spackle rookie Michael Ray tally I don't want all of them all well Then when we go to the games in the stadium, they'd be all Bill's fans there Yeah, there's a gold pitch progenies. That'll be steep a buke for the LAFC. He's won their pitch progenies gold It's a nice color so far Clint Dempsey flashbacks like that brain and Vasquez Yes, not bad looking for a jersey Got a flashbacks the one ninety nine germane Defoe flashbacks there for Toronto Yeah, I guess you like the one Matt has the At the green and the one they just wore last one ninety nine Bender Garcia. Yes, Tyree Koeh one right the Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like those say Lucho Acosta insert Run for a Lionsville Super Bowl that would be pretty fun So 75 this one's gonna be Johnny Russell on the green time him I mean to 75 interesting Sporting KC Jason's Jason's hunting that trash list today. I don't I don't hate it Can knock it derby diamonds Sebastian Blanco and Thorolp arson Box five good luck here guys next one is full Jays, please It is this dashing trash show and Contra bands here now. We're ready to go. All right now. We're ready to go mr. Will Don't be my be no old Frenchie up French Greg and Sean take on Miami Good Lord, there's a nice. That's gonna be Sebastian Blanco to 75 on the derby diamonds. They're sick. I like those of color Green to 75 stormy alphabet though Say Aiden Morris Columbus crew Jordi Alba I'm on super We're not rookie Kevin O'Toole from New York City and flashbacks in 99 Steven Gerrard third number Gerrard sick Nice one there lafc Like the Steven Gerrard was in here Edelman Darling to Nagby Heard about that Shane Lane was saying that when I came in here earlier got it done. It's a $199 Albert Rusnack Gotcha Jays You're driving home. Have a good safe drive home. There's Daniel Edelman to 99 Green Lava New York Red Bulls There is a lot of color in these boxes. I'm digging it digging it Magnote couple two-meter refractors. So I'll stop giving you some There's a blue to 199 Jonathan Lewis rapids flashbacks Fracture corner Ronan Sebastian Blanco keep thinking it's Thursday. I keep thinking there's a football game on later There's a messy short print the strikers insert Nice one there. Sorry not a short print, but I insert insert messy for insert need some color. It's a messy color here Who's a Anderson Julio? There's a Jesus Ferrara nice one there Golda 50 one of the better American strikers there we go FC Dallas That'll work. They're very nice one on the Jesus Ferrara Who's got Dallas? That is gonna be Chad There are America's best striker there to 50 gold mini diamond It's the second one Spencer the tops paper had him, but I only had him on a short print. There's a Chicago fire Bastion swine stager. It only had him on a short print. So it's like one every couple of boxes got one This is the first one with his full base 225 Cesar Rajo for Orlando City Aqua lava. So this is the first one that has like full base. Oh, here's a gold Mark Anthony K and rookie gold auto is going to be Dylan Barreiro for the New England Revolution. That is Shane With the New England Revolution you go, Mr. Shane not bad so far not bad at all so far Thank you Floyd taking a mega dual case spot Leave that one's down to five or so three three to go in the mega dual case awesome as an NC first off the line and a definitive case If you're richer taking one as well and Justin taking one. So yeah, three to go three just came in Wolf say pitch priorities one ninety nine. No, I'll buck for New England Revolution Shane in the revolution are all over this There's a Matisse Clitch Yeah, yeah, I like those pitch priorities because they get the colors going that's red There's a red rookie herring Neville. That'll be a rookie for enter Miami Didn't find a messy. We got a red rookie nice one there answer That is gonna be David B. Really nice one there Harvey Neville Harvey Neville two of five. That is a British name right there yet from Manchester Nice one there on the true red rookie very good right there. I just want answer Jaylin Neil on the rookie come on you gotta let him be It's been a rough last few days Yeah, Sean was uh going down chimneys and stuff I mean it's reindeer out Been busy That's all right. I can wake up at like noon and still be on and so It happens Tired of getting carried by Shane Yeah, that's it. That is how it goes man that guy skydiving man. There's the auto It's gonna be Thomas Williams out of there for Orlando city go Lions on the rookie refractor auto Boy skydiving knock it. He's getting a little better, man. He's getting a little better There's a refractor Brian. Oh, hey, I've never seen Brian spelt like that It's an extra. Hey So 199 we got James Sands in New York City These cards are beautiful man.  All right, New York Metro stars to 199 we're at the You look that one up. I think that might have turned in New York Red Bulls Me look that one up real quick guys the New York Metro stars see if that one turned the Red Bulls or if we had The random that one I didn't realize there was any of those in there Yeah, I think they turned into the Red Bulls. Yeah, it looks like they turned into Red Bull So that'll go to New York Red Bulls on those Metro stars There was a number Mitch Mitchell that was a number to 199 I forget exactly who it was, but there was one reading an article here. I don't know. Maybe they didn't Yeah, they are the Red Bull. They are the Red Bull. All right So any of those New York Metro stars throwbacks are the Red Bull. I Think it's the opposite. So I think they run out of money and somebody else buys them There's a rookie Owen Wolf. I think it's the exact opposite. I think they ran out of money in the Red Bull Company came in and bought them out There's a gold rookie to 50. No, well buck that'll go to the revolution. Mr. Shane true gold rookie to 50 Yeah, I'll keep it. I'll keep an eye out for you on Mitchell. They're Halston rookie refractor I do remember seeing one, but don't think an auto yet, but Keep on looking here Sir Joe Busquets got 80 Morris to 199 for the Columbus crew Wiley Honestly, Shane is getting a lot of cards here for sure. Flashback is Tim Howard The secretary defense there that's gonna be honey muctar and short print is gonna be future stars Michael Baldizmo Baldizmo for the quakes. These are a bit harder to hit than in baseball. These are one in every 120 packs Nice one there every couple of boxes Miguel Perez rookie for st. Louis and to 199 Hector Herrera Yeah Mexican National Star strikers Kevin O'Toole rookie a George's kutzias and A green prodigies to 99 that's gonna be Ted coup de petro for DC green lava Thank you, Jacob taking a spot in our mixer Aaron taking two spots in mega dual case or sorry. Those are two different mega dual cases One spot each. Thank you, sir and Brian grabbing a couple in our mixers here pick your teams the blue jays So I work you to 125 Obed Vargas for Seattle. Daryl Torres pitch prodigies crime cremeshi That's fair shame. Take it where we can get it man Ain't nothing wrong with eating. There's a brain in Vasquez since 90 gold to 50 another true gold That's when their FC Cincinnati Jase Russell row derby diamonds And I'll do it for box six Box number seven Steve young tell me to gamble responsibly Stevie hunt. Yeah, let's get a super. Yes. It's the number one Jason. This is number one Got a green lava to 99 Steven servata for the Red Bull green lava Number two is full. So we're gonna go in right after this right around six They're deshy. There is a swedersky to one ninety-nine Swedersky Walker Zimmerman for Nashville Petro Flashbacks refractors Frank Lampart Chicharito and green to 99 Diego Fagundes for LA Galaxy La Galaxy I'm all super super messy Super messy. There's a pitch for us one nine nine steep a buke for LA FC Shaqiri Rookie refractor Roman Salantano to one ninety-nine Gaston Brugman These names are awesome 99 believe all that look at Sean space every time I say a fun one What Daniel Saloi so Saloi Joseph Martinez Thor olfarsen and green to 99 is gonna be Brendan correct for Austin FC The messy regular refractor is selling for a hundred. Oh my goodness. Let's go J blazing Let's see a big one then There's a rookie Air Cancara number to gold the 50 there for Orlando City Alliance Said messy refractors going for a hundred already We need some color. We see one base so far. There's a 25 jowl Klaus If a refractor Let's go There's also let's go after I say that's a 90 now we got Otto Cade Cole nice one there um quakes a good young player for the San Jose earthquakes Cade Cole the 99. Yeah, it's not bad. I mean one messy We got a personal piece It's a good question. I think we do. I think it was like a hundred Yep, they're at 90 89 99 for a personal am I to there's a messy One messy refractor. There's another messy money on the box and everything else is proper. Yeah, I'm gonna have to Where's the shot? Sean's like, yeah, don't be telling people Yeah There's a gold nice one there for Orlando City Thor Halson True gold to 50 some of these uh Some of these inserts and stuff look awesome color. There's a couple players also that this is their first ever autos and stuff like that Yeah, pitch prodigies Cesar Orojo Yeah, most of the Orlando City team is Wilkes because they just weren't in the last set like most of the players Yeah, I know tj 125 call ariola Is he yeah, I wish uh, torres was in I don't think he is his son Is a huge Oh nice, there's a Darren yappy. Just like uh, jake's dog. Yeah, Darren yappy for the rapids Sean yaps the yappies a yappy dog All right guys box eight Keep it going here next one sold out baseball after that sold out mega dual case has three to go Mega dual case has three to go. That is it. Yeah spots were flying. Yeah Yeah, even since I came in they didn't fly Good bit of uh football spots as well guys. We want to get some football going. I'll be the end of the night tonight Do some football Gotcha Gee There's a 125 marco and gulo for sentinine on the lava Six to go now in bowman, um jumbo mixer. It's a jumbo and a case of choice Flashbacks ashley coal for la galaxy. I want to see a nice flashback. I'll let me say christian bateke to 199 Got some good names on there Rookie Owen wolf Austin fc Thank you james taken two mosaic choice spots and two prism spots We do a prism first off the line coming out next week already listed guys. Um, hey Zeus Ferrara Team usa Guys are interested in some prism looking for cj looking for brice flashbacks pierlo. It's really good, uh Good chase there for a prism First off the line coming. There's a patrick schulte to 99 green lava Columbus crew I wonder what the superfractor messy about the pool is going to cost Let's get out if it's a hundred for a refractor That would be red another red It is flashbacks auto risto stochkov nice one there for a chicago fire That is a sick one there on the throwback. Um legend auto There we go. Chicago. That is six stochkov That is really nice three of five on the legend auto. I just said I wanted to pull a legends auto We got a red to five Nice one there chicago stochkov Very nice Who has chicago that's gonna be david b. There we go david Very nice one there my man Risto stochkov those legends are six a fuentes See if we can get some more Is talus magno that'll be to 99 on the aqua there for new york city reminds me of the fleer set The sky box seredun chiciri alan velasco on the uh speckle Oh buck for arrow There's a kai kamara. That'll be another short print. What is this? This is thick And we got a oh purlers noelle buck orange to 25 Shane again with new york city I hadn't even seen these purlers that is a thick one there on the rookie to 25 What is this I don't even see it on the checklist One in 240 packs nice one there. It's orange to 25 as well. There we go. Shane.  Those are clean You go Shane So aqua to 125 georgio at ciolini lafc 2 to 199 dillon berrero rookie there for the revolution He really is the uh revolutioner all over this case. There's benji karmeshi to 199 there for the uh Into miami Douglas coast though. We got say another short print. I think Maybe not just a refractor and that'll be christian benteche there for dc united number to 50 Base pearl of messy on ebay for a thousand goodness gracious Shaq more and there's messy third base messy for uh insert go box nine guys. Let's keep it. Oh man. It's been a fun case two reds a uh orange short print Keep it going. There's a gold rookie miguel perez st. louis gold mini diamond Go st. louis refractor sebastian blanco Say jordan morris speckle and that is a daniel saloit to 99 aqua on the insert Yeah, right. He is everywhere. Noelle buck. There's a ted koo de petro dc He is everywhere Carlos veila and rike It's 199. We got a ryan galt for vancouver. It's 199 a julian caranza Philly for forces right philly. Yeah Oh philly I believe so, yeah It's prodigies I didn't realize he was Solved the schedule uh when he buzzed the last week. I was like, oh geez we're in zone senior That's all me steep a buke uh, let me see no We got it for the the case is at 9 9 p.m. Eastern 9 p.m. Eastern noah Speaking of that case we have 15 to go in it 15 to go in it guys cubs white socks reds guardians Rockies ashows dodgers marlins brewers twins mats yankies A's mariners and the rangers for a definitive case later. Yeah, that's 9 p.m. Eastern time 9 p.m. Eastern time for that one. It's 199 richie lorrea for vancouver There's all that yappy And yappy dog. It's gonna be lucho acosta On the diamond green to 99 is gonna be air can cara go lions on the orlando city green auto Cara to 99 flashbacks clint dem see refractor and green to 99 jose sifwentes lafc pitch prodigies refractor um matko millevich Millievich Two reds. We gotta get a super here It's 199. We got leo choux sale sounders Thank you. Um, thank you. Josh taking a spot in flawless collegiate later Thank you. George taking a mega dual case spot. I think two to go on that one Ruto taking one in um the bowman mixer Oh, awesome. And john taking a mega dual case. I think we have one to go on mega dual One to go on mega dual case nevermind sold out nevermind Nevermind. Jeremy Ebobise Hey, there we go, Dave Take we'll take what we can get my man. There's not bad there for the pirates McCutcheon nice, uh game used we're in on that. What was that martinez? And peguero auto very nice box number 10. I'm all messy Give us some color give us some color messy jay and lame must have heated this room up a little bit There's a pitch prize to 199 sebastian ferreira The dynamo must have been hidden Hubas They're not the most common, but they do have julio, um Julio ichiro have a dual auto ichiro and uh shohei They have some good stuff on the checklist for sure. There's a short print tiago amada And orange the 25 that one's gonna be frederico bernadashi. There you go. Um michel with toronto fc Nice one there on the uh diamond derby's That is sick. This is really good with color nice bernadashi Hey, what's up, puka? What is going on my man? That's crazy. Jay. Those are moving because you get out chinie What up, lakua? The messies are uh messies are hitting puka Um christian batecche brennan craig probably the yankees they are the most expensive but That's probably why because they do hit quite a bit and uh definitive and stuff like that There's pitch prize is the 199 and nico, uh saccaris Astros hit pretty good in definitive. Um A couple different players in there. Metz. Metz usually have a good bit of rookies and then um a bunch of veterans Yeah, the most common I would say between the ones left is probably metz yankees Um Metz yankees dodgers astros maybe one of those couple There's a refractor gyro torres Obviously, it's very possible that a certain team would not be in the case though 199 we got billy sharp galaxy No puka. We are full for tonight my man. We are full for tonight. I am over full actually We uh got a little bit backed up over the over the holiday and then Um, don't have personals just tonight. So the sands out of town would usually have just personals on a wednesday, but Not tonight. So I'm gonna be full tonight Get cold the dodgers Definitely freddy freeman in there Uh, ooh super fracter. No it is jonathan louis on these super fracter for the colorado rapids There we go who has colorado We did find a super. I think that's a um combo that is david b david b has the uh super fracter and this uh storage got Get that in a mag for you sir one of one on the um jonathan louis Very nice one there. We'll mag that for you david Oh and wolf there is some nice nice really nice color in here man. I am impressed with this product. I'm I'm a fan. I'd be like lame. I might have to grab a box It's only 80 bucks. Not not terrible. There's a rookie car.  Um, if you do go completely hitless and here's the uh, here's the checklist No, if you want to check it there, you can see who the uh Dodgers have and stuff all the teams left You just control f it Find it at the bottom. They have individual team lists. So if you just search Dodgers There's an orange be able to find everyone that they got. Um, victor one yama and orange is the 25 mender garcia We go another combo spot orange to 25 on the rookie auto. That one is minnesota. Mr. Daniel L Nice one there mender garcia on the rookie auto orange clean clean colors, man Hey, what's up mark? Oh, it's rainy edwardsville today. Oh man Rainy edwardsville. It's 125. We got jason russell wrote That's not my favorite variation of edwardsville the rainy Say greenton 99 rookie or sorry to 75th or halson Orlando city second one of those number No supers. Yeah, I had one uh, brian gutierrez I have one super back in the day and then I sold it. I don't have any right now. Uh, it was 45, I believe There's a greenton 99 alan palito 45 I believe and we have one more tomorrow as well Start the day tomorrow with one Derek etian and brian gutierrez. Alrighty guys two more Two more boxes. Good luck here box 11 Yeah, let me link that for you guys. There's one more tomorrow um It's got 24 to go if you guys want to check it out. It'll be 5 p.m. Tomorrow Do another tops chrome case. We've got one more coming right after this That'll be for tomorrow A bunch of spots to left Hello sakaala There's a demir krelak to 125 aqua. Yeah, they're not bad. It's only I think 90 bucks for a whole whole box like personal style Here's the 199 charles heel revolution 125 uh useni buddha Or vancouver or sorry, that's quakes and a messy There's our base messy Diego rubio sebastian ferrera Yeah, no, it's a it's a big checklist for sure. There's some crazy stuff in there, man Some crazy stuff in there It's one of my favorites for sure Charles heel Freaking sam the other night hit the mike trout no tani duel a logo man.  That's what I was saying. I guess we'll find out with the next one. We'll get a little uh I will be say we'll get a little bit of a uh A test of it to see where we're at owen wolf refractor and that'll be a auto effraying alvarez the 50 on the true gold auto It's one there l a galaxy you'll have to find out the next one if it was a It's a hot case or something 199 edward. Um, loin There is definitely a lot of color in these though definitely Panayuto Yeah, did it shan too Shamba passed out. That was crazy. That card was nuts.  I really like that card for sporting casey It's sporting casey. Those are awesome, man purlers There's a speckle rookie. That one is uh long way. You gotta give that one a try You gotta give that one a try There's a dega rubio. That's a long one Assuming the uh, the age of silent Try to spell your name in first grade. Yeah, green in 99. We got ted coup de petro for dc Steve a buke Get one of the black autos out of 10. Oh boy Klaus is that a messy out of your talking about j. Blazin? Did I miss that in the checklist? It's 199 fecundo torres It's Orlando city's best player on the blue wave Yeah, I think the I think the numbered one might have thrown off the number a little bit, uh Since there was a numbered one. There's a russell row derby diamonds That might have thrown it off the 1 and 240. Good luck here See that's 20 packs per box. So One of 240 be a whole case one per case Um, if you want to buy a personal it goes like that, but if we also have group breaks So this break there's 32 or 30 people in it or 25. I think with combos There's 25 people in it and then um each person bought a spot I did a random beforehand and then they get all of the cards for a certain team That's the group break style. Um, if you want to buy a box on its own You can buy it on my personal section of the website and then um And then you get everything from that box rookie to 99 patrick schulte So we do have a couple different ways you can break But our website's latensportscards.com if you want to check out what we got There's a ricky puig diamonds Okay, I got you. I got you. There's an orange. It's gonna be jazzy's artists. Nice one there austin austin fc to 25 the former team usa striker Nice jazzy channel two is calling my name tomorrow night channel one's calling my name tomorrow night. That's the issue Oh and wolf refractor got every every channel calling my name this week We do need uh, we do need to get some personals knocked out though. That's for sure Do need to get some personals knocked out There's a hector herrera and that'll be demir krillach to 50 there on the goal reels salt lake 225th or a fulsen old farson for uh, houston rookie christian fletcher Lothar mouth house I'm good, man. I'm uh I'm getting some uh, some breaks done to 199. Well buck new england revolution A normal schedule. Let's just Just in here more Just in here more tonight now. We've got an auto matai akhen boney for um dc unite Rich projie's green autumn. Yeah, right. I think we're gonna go under uh under 100 for the uh the numbered It's 199. Shakiri. Do you have a lot of uh a lot of numbered here? So Not wrong though, shane. This will be quite a uh quite a recap Another case next to speckle rower eds We should have been grabbing spas today too, man. Y'all are elitin them Elitin them today green lava 99 we've got steven servata for um redbull rookie mender garcia minnesota So 99 Diego fagundes la galaxy A few more packs. I don't want to watch this game the first time I don't know. I can't look it up, but I'm like So 199 erin long lafc. Just keep thinking I had a dig touchdown And it never came and denis um boonga On the back they forgot about him. They have forgotten about him last few weeks All righty guys that will do it that will do it for our first case of mls chrome Number one do a quick hit recap here guys, and then we'll be on to case two See what we got that was a lot of color, man. That was really nice So we had our once a 99 fagundes servata schulte de petro smith polito Cifuentes alba ferreira ledero garcia johnny russell Gerard edelman fagundes again servata again brand craig schulte de petro Magno gerard Um to 99 we have owen wolf and sebastian blanco to 75.  We had laraya ferreira buck cara um the 50 thorhalsen benteke Perez vazquez krillach The buke jazzy zardis luna and inferna dashi all to uh, oh my god. What the heck? What's going on? I think just turned on out of nowhere 25 perlers. No a buck and daniel soloi dude that light turned on out of nowhere. What the heck? You gotta turn that down. Give me one second guys. Geez Blinding me How did that happen? Do you guys see my face light up there? What the heck was that? The ghost strikes again. You're not wrong jayce. You're not wrong. Unfortunately, thomas williams work your refractor noel buck to 99 at um akiboni cara koa wolf wolf to 50 noel buck borero um f-frame rodriguez and a 25 mender garcia We had some big ones here. We had jonathan louis on the super fracter 101 colorado rapids we had to five risto stoichkopf On the flashbacks true red auto really nice one there for the fire And we had um harvey neville true red auto or true red uh rookie for enter miami Alrighty there guys that'll do it for tops chrome case one get case two going here in just a moment


It's the same spirit that drove the pioneers to California to join with me to welcome the President of the United States of America. Thank you very much. Thank you. There are strange things done at the midnight sun by the men who moiled for gold. I'll stop right there. Well, thank you all very much. And it's a pleasure for me to be with you here this evening in support of an individual who is one of the most hard-working and effective senators on the Hill, Senator Frank Makowski. Frank's a star of the class of 1980. He didn't come to Washington just to have a job. There's a story you knew I'd have a story about a young man who always wanted to work with animals. And then he saw an ad in the paper one day. The zoo was advertising for a worker. And down he went. Well, then he was a little set back when they told him that right then, now if he took the job he was going to have to put on the gorilla suit and be in the gorilla cage because the gorilla died and the new one hadn't arrived yet. But he accepted when they said, and then when that's over and the other gorilla gets here why you will have this regular job. So he got in the cage and in the uniform and got pretty boring just sitting around there. And finally he started doing tricks for the kids and there was a rope and he started swinging from the rope and all those things and he got carried away one day, swung so far he dropped down in the lion's cage. And the lion came roaring at him and he started screaming, help somebody get me out of here. The lion jumped on him and said, shut up, you'll get us both fired. Well, since Frank got to Washington he hasn't been standing in for anyone. Frank's hard work and good judgment are reflected in the fact that he is the first Alaskan and the first member of the class of 1980 to become chairman of a standing committee. And he's the kind of elected official that I'm proud to support. Not just because of what he's done in support of our common ideals, but also for his diligent work on behalf of the people of his state. He's truly a great senator from a great state. Of course, when we got to Washington five years ago, nothing was more important to the people of any state than putting America's economic house in order. And seeing to our country's national defense, I'm not going to repeat the litany of near catastrophic statistics, but it was suffice to say that our country was in trouble. High inflation, economic decline and national uncertainty were the order of the day. One measure of our success is how difficult it is to becoming to remember how bad it was. And no matter how much the situation has improved, it behooves us to remember the individuals who helped us put those bad old days behind us. Senator Frank Murkowski is one of those I'm talking about. Alaskans and all Americans owe him thanks for a job well done. And that, of course, is why I'm here. Recognizing Frank's past contributions is step number one. Step number two is making certain he is re-elected and Republican control of the Senate is maintained. We can never forget that there are those who, even though they were well-intentioned, would drag us back into the morass that we left behind. One of the greatest threats hanging over us, which Frank continues to battle, is protectionism. Trade restrictions could well precipitate a trade war and push the entire Western world into an economic black hole, just like they did in the 1930s when the Smoot-Hawley-Terra Act protected us right into the Great Depression. Frank's been a champion of free and fair trade. He knows we shouldn't be building barriers of our own but tearing down those of our trading partners. We should not lower imports, raise exports. We should seek to increase overall economic activity, not restrict it. And that's the way to progress. Frank Murkowski has provided special leadership in the area of trade. He has met with the prime ministers of the Pacific Rim nations. The future of exports to those nations, especially from Alaska, looks bright. Last year, he urged that we allow the export of cooked inlet oil. And he was successful at that as well. That's good news for America and it's good news for the economy of Alaska. Frank Murkowski is the kind of man who gets things done. Another concern is the continuing inner beltway clamor for higher taxes. I've heard more gloom and doom about Graham Rudman Hollings than on any issue since our original tax cuts. You remember the experts told us that our tax cuts would unleash a new round of inflation and send interest rates back up? Critics were wrong about the tax cuts and they're wrong about Graham Rudman Hollings. Naysayers have been claiming that reducing spending in order to meet the GRH targets will require us to do everything but close down the entire federal government. You know, that's not a bad idea. Seriously, Graham Rudman Hollings is not a threat. That's an opportunity. Perhaps now Republicans and Democrats can get together to maximize the efficiency of government from top to bottom. Absolutely necessary programs can be improved. And those questionable items in the budget, spending commitments that are there only because of political wheeling and dealing, can and should be eliminated. By being responsible now, prudently cutting that which can be cut rather than knocking the legs out from under our economy with a tax increase, we can lay the foundation for an era of prosperity beyond anything the experts thought possible. I'm just as optimistic about meeting the challenges to our national security. How can anyone remember the dire predictions that preceded our installation of perching twos and cruise missiles in Western Europe? It would, we were told, kill any chance for arms control. Similar pessimism has been expressed about our continuing research into a space-based system to protect us from nuclear attack. Well, not only were those negative voices wrong, they were outrageously wrong. The absolute opposite of what was predicted has come to pass. For the first time, we've been hearing proposals from the other side about actually reducing the number of nuclear weapons and about verification of arms agreements. Are they serious? Only time will tell. But each Soviet offer is being examined closely and well-thought-out proposals of our own are being made. Progress is being made and it's happening because we're negotiating from strength. Closing our eyes and hoping for the best has never been an alternative. Where is that more true than in Central America? The naysayers claimed El Salvador couldn't be saved. And that was just when we were arriving here. Military aid to that beleaguered little democracy was almost scuttled. Yet we persevered and today, representative government is flourishing and the communists are on the run. Vital to the security of El Salvador and to all our Central American friends is our continued aid to those fighting to restore democracy in Nicaragua. Here again, the gloom and doomers are shrieking that such aid will lead to the introduction of American troops in Central America. Well, here again, the opposite is true. We have no intention of doing such a thing. But if we do not meet our responsibility now with helping those freedom fighters that are already down there, everything we've accomplished in Central America will be undermined. And in the not too distant future, we could wake up and find a tidal wave of refugees crashing across our southern border. Supporting those fighting to bring democracy to Nicaragua is both morally right and vital to our own security. And I hope all of you in this room will use your influence to impress upon others the magnitude of this decision. Two years ago, I visited Alaska, as you've been told, to meet with His Holiness John Paul II, one of the truly great men of our time. Earlier, he'd been shouted down and ridiculed by the Stalinists in Managua. And incidentally, Frank, during my visit to Fairbanks, you didn't take credit for this. I was listening outside the door. Nancy and I were very appreciative of the hospitality that you extended to us in the use of your new home. I think it is truly heroic for both you and your Nancy that there was that new home ready for you to move in. You hadn't been able to settle in for one night and we got to break it in and stay there. And even though you stayed in the other house and left us in the new one, we truly felt like we were all part of the same family. And in a very real sense, we are. Senator Frank Murkowski and his fellow Republican senators are key players in our efforts to build for our children a free, prosperous, and secure America. And I thank you for being here tonight and for what you're doing by being here to see that Frank is re-elected. I have just one thing to ask of you. You send this man back to Washington, D.C., as the Senator from Alaska. Well, thank you all. And you know I can't resist again because George Bush or George Schultz has just gotten back from a trip to the Eastern countries and he's come back with some of those stories that those people over there are telling among themselves that realizes what the show is what they think about their own government. So I'm going to close by telling one, Frank. He said that one of the stories going around over there is that they went to General Secretary Gorbachev and told him that there was an old woman there in the Kremlin who wouldn't leave unless she could see him. And he said, well, send her in. So she came in. He said, what is it, old mother? Well, she said, I just want to know. One question. Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist? Well, he said, a politician. She said, that explains it. Scientists would have tried it on mice first.