Welcome to hard talk with me, Zeyn Abedawi, from the World Economic Forum in Davos. My guest is humanitarian, activist and Hollywood actor, Forrest Whitaker. He's probably best known for his Oscar-winning role 10 years ago as the Ugandan dictator EDR mean in The Last King of Scotland, and he's remained deeply involved with Uganda through his work with the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, which helps young people living in communities affected by violence across several continents. He's also a special envoy for UNESCO and a member of the UN's advocacy group on sustainable development goals, but can celebrity activists like him be real agents for change? Forrest Whitaker, welcome to hard talk. It's great to be here with you. Now, in your acting career, you've been a very, very versatile actor, mainstream popular films like Rogue One, The Star Wars Story, and also the great debaters back in 2007 about black students striving for equality. Do you like to act in any genre of films? I'm trying to continue to grow as a person, so each character is an opportunity for me to understand a different part of myself, a different part of humanity, and so what happens is that I don't necessarily repeat the same roles because I'm continuing to search to understand and deepen who I am as a person, an artist. Do you believe that film can really create a dialogue and help bring about change because you're a very committed social activist, and for instance you've been in rather gritty roles. You played a gay character in Preta Porter, and also in two of your films as director which are waiting to exhale and hope floats. You dealt with issues such as divorce, abandonment, adultery, that kind of thing. I mean, I think that we hope that film can lend a lens or a mirror to our inner thoughts and our inner understandings. I think that I've done a number of films. We have other production company, and we do produce films. A lot of the films are with first time filmmakers, unique individual voices. We did one a few years ago called Fruitvale Station with Ryan Coogler that Nina Yang did with me. That film was dealing with Oscar Grant and his being murdered in the Bart station in San Francisco. Whereas I've done comedies where I've introduced like Linda Mendoza, she did something called Chasing Poppy. That was her first film, but just supporting these new voices and supporting her as a filmmaker and as a female filmmaker. But do you think that your films can act as a catalyst to generate debate and perhaps to bring about change in mindsets? Certainly, I think that as the film I was talking about was put out at the conclusion of the trials that were going on with Trayvon Martin. I think the films that we did before, we did a film on Vietnamese refugees that created a new dialogue with the director named Tim Buie about what had happened when they were here in the United States during that time. I think a lot of the films, even the Butler as an artist, as an actor, met you delve into the dialogue of race and understanding and the movement or the growth of the entire country. I think it was just a dialogue about what had happened during the country's time and what it was reaching for, the sort of sense of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. You won numerous accolades awards, including Oscar for Best Actor for your portrayal, as EDR Mean, the Ugandan dictator in the last king of Scotland. Is that a film you're proud of? Yes, I gained a lot from that film as an artist and as a person. I had to do so much research to try to understand this particular character. I had never been to the African continent up until that point. That was an opening for me. I had been charged with the notion that I was from there. I needed to understand what it felt like in some ways to actually be African, not African American. That was a challenge. The challenge of understanding the historical relevance of what was going on with him during that time and all the countries in that region and the attacks that were going to him, the colonialism. All these things were opportunities for me to continue to grow, to learn a new language. I was working on Keith Swahili so I could actually speak in the film in that language and be able to improvise a little bit in the language. I had to learn musical instruments because that was one of his things. It was like a party in a box accordion that he was playing, but it allowed him to create a party wherever he went. There were certain qualities of his personality that were interesting. Very taxing role. You had to put on 50 pounds, didn't you, to take the role on? Something like that. You must have been eating a lot of forest in the run-up to that. During that time, I just kept eating. As an African American going to the content of Africa for the first time for the film, about 2005-2006 roughly, what did you feel like when you first landed in Africa? Did you feel like a sense of that you'd come home? Did you have any kind of affinity? I acquired a deeper feeling of that. Tomorrow I was opening myself to understanding things. At first you get a general feeling of the air and the place and the people. There's very generous. The Ugandans were very generous to me that I met. But then something happens as you start to eat the food, you're resting on the sides of a road, riding motorcycles through the streets. I tried to experience as much as I could to help me understand how to project this in a truthful way. You were quoted in the New York magazine in 2006 saying EDR Mean was responsible for major atrocities, but he also reshaped opportunities for people in his country. He was a person who was colonised and he stood up to colonialism, and he was demonised for many things, but partly for standing up. Sounds like you perhaps somewhat admired him. I didn't admire the atrocities that he did as far as the many deaths. Although if you examine the historical reference, you'll see that the person behind him committed more murders than the person before him committed more murders. So it doesn't make his right. It's just curious as to why he was so focused on doing that time. I think certainly he was trying to bring a sort of sense of nationalism. He kicked out the West, which was unusual for someone who was from the continent. Did he kick out the West because he kicked out a lot of Ugandans of Asian origin who lived for many years? More than that, it's not a question of trying to act like he's some form of a hero. It's a question of just looking at the references and seeing the different things that affected the people and changed their sense of identity, and he did have some influence on changing their identity. You said in general about empathising with characters that once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy? Does that apply to somebody like E.D. Armin who, as you say, committed many atrocities, extrajudicial killings, we believe that estimates between 100,000 to 300,000 people killed, the nepotism, the corruption and all the rest of it. Does it apply to him? In some ways I guess he very strongly because at first you look at what is projected of him and you have to try to go to the source of what would make him become that. What would make him commit 300,000 murders? What would allow him to do some of the atrocities that occur? You're asking for understanding, though, for somebody who was a very brutal dictator? I'm not asking for understanding for him. I'm looking for humanity in who he is. I think we have to look at humanity. We have to be able to stand in each other's shoes and understand that the way we behave is based on the different structures or things that happen to us as we grew up in our lives. So my philosophy as an artist is I look at every character and I try to understand them. I go to their core. I start pulling away the different experiences of their lives. Pulling away the different pains and understandings until I get to the bottom. And at the bottom of it I believe we are all connected in some way. At the bottom there's just a flame that is connected to everybody. And then you put those things back up on top of that character, that person, and that forms him. And then you can see a person who did atrocities who did horrible things, but you do try to go for understanding. Look at the perceptions that that film raised about Africa. I want to tell you what a Black British writer and film critic Vanessa Waters wrote in The Guardian. She said the fact that Armin killed many of his people.  Africa is presented as a place of violence and superstition ruled by fear. How far do you believe that's true and if so does it worry you? I mean I think that certainly because the content is really diverse and so there's all different types of stories and many of those stories need to be told. From different ways of life, different types of characters who make up that continent. But I think that if you look at historically like this particular character and what he did in his life and the things that happened, then you have to deal with the truth of what that is. It doesn't mean because I think this movie was somewhat about colonialization and what colonization did. And I think that was looking at painting that picture of that he was created. He was a soldier who was famous for fighting with the Mao-Maus and they took him. He wasn't choosing to be a president. They took him and said, here's this opportunity here.  We will use you as a puppet to deal with Armin's. But unfortunately for them he chose not to take that down. It doesn't play into the negative stereotypes of Africa which is the point that Vanessa Waters is making. Do you accept that there's a kernel of truth in that? I can say that does it play into that? I think that it plays in this particular story. I think it's trying to stay pretty true to what was occurring during that time. The things you were talking about, when you were referencing Idi Amin, you said all kinds of atrocities. You had no sympathy for him. You were discussing all these things and asking me how I could have any feeling about him. That was your point of view. So I'm saying that yes, that that may exist. And I think yes, more stories need to be told to deal with the African diaspora and to deal with the African continent that show the uplifting stories. They show the lies, the joys and all things like that. That's one of many stories. It's just one of many stories. One other aspect, just to finish on that film, that's interesting. So there's Idi Amin, this big figure in Africa ruled between 1971 to 79 and made quite an impression globally. But what does the film tell us about Hollywood? Because the story is related through the eyes of a young Scottish doctor who goes to Uganda. The veteran film producer Joe Piteralo says in general, the bottom line is that the major studios want assurances that film projects have the potential to attract a significant white audience. So they've got to go through the eyes of a white doctor. I think that has been the case in different times and continues to be that way at certain times. In the case of that, it was based on a book. So it was following that particular book. As a general point though, it's valid. At times it's been extremely valid. I think it continues to be. We're looking at a system where 13% of the leading characters in films, minorities are people of colour. But in reality there's 40% of our population is that. So there's a disparity. And so there's this question of economy. There's a question of why you make what film you make. And sometimes I think the studios themselves have made this assumption that in order to make a film be successful, in order to make the monies that they need to make, they needed to have a white protagonist. I mean I would put you some figures. In 90 years of the history of the Academy Awards, under 15 men and women of colour have received Oscars for Best Actors. And as you know, in 2015-2016, there were no nominations for black or non-white actors. And that made directors like Spike Lee and other people boycott the Oscars. Have you received short shrift in Hollywood, do you think, as a result of your colour? Or are you just one of the success stories who swam against the tide? I think in the first part of your statement, I think certainly there are disparities that have happened with artists who have not been recognised for their work at times. And I think it's still being worked on. It's even being worked on by the Academy to make it more inclusive, to make more people of colour, different people from different cultural backgrounds of different languages come together. For myself, it's difficult because I had a particular reason why I was becoming an artist. At the time when I was becoming an artist, I was using it as a window for me to be able to understand humanity in some way. So even if I had roles, it might not make me satisfied. I might be doing something that everyone would loud and say was great, but maybe it didn't create a great individual journey for me. Now I've had the opportunity to have really interesting journeys in different characters and stuff. Perhaps it's atypical at times and becoming more typical. But I want to ask you about that because one role that you did take was you played a cop in a policeman in the TV series The Shield, and you grew up, you were born in Texas, but you moved to LA when you were four years of age and you lived in a fairly segregated neighbourhood and you talked about how you saw acts of police brutality even against members of your own family and friends and so on and so forth. So then how did you feel about acting the role of a policeman? Again, I think each time it's an opportunity to try to understand more about that situation, understand more about myself, understand more about people. So if I'm playing a police officer, I get the opportunity to walk in their shoes to try to understand their purview and understand that particular person individually. It's not, I can't say it's difficult to play a police officer. Maybe I have certain reactions to police officers personally because of experiences that I've had, maybe put a charge inside of me at times because of things I've seen or because of the way I was brought up. That's still things that I'm working on as a human being. But playing the character was another opportunity to try to understand humanity, and for me that is the goal. That's the goal.  You were stopped and frisked. What does that tell us about race in America today? Certainly, we're looking at all the, talking about Black Lives Matter, talking about what sort of came out of as a statement about against what was happening and occurring inside of many different communities where people of color were being harmed or hurt by state officials or police, and profiling that goes on with them and the stop and frisk movement and stuff. It makes the statement about the nation and how far we still need to go. Certainly, I think a young Black teenager, young Black teenager is like 20 times more likely to be killed than his White counterpart. Certainly, we have things that we need to be working on. You campaigned for Barack Obama in his presidential bid and you said back in 2008, I can feel the tide of change in the country. Did it come? There is still a tide of change. To try to act like we haven't had great progress as a nation and as culturally is not true. I mean, we're coming from a situation where originally we came to the nation as slaves. Now, the head of our country, the president was President Obama. It's a long journey. So to act as if we haven't moved anywhere is a... But he himself said in his final... It doesn't mean we won't have places to go. I think as Martin Luther King was saying, we're owed, it's a promissory note that's been given to us. That promissory note was for life, liberty and happiness. We have not achieved that. So until we truly achieve that, then we haven't become the America that we say we want to be. We are not living up to our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence. We're not living in that. But he didn't do very well on race, did he? Even in his final speech as President Barack Obama said, after my election there was talk of a post-racial America. Such a vision, however, well-intended was never realistic for race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. The fact that there was this first African American president didn't really change things on the ground, did it? And in that sense he failed, he failed. No, I don't think he failed in that respect. I think he moved forward in conversation, he moved forward in understanding. It changes the psyche of the nation and the psyche of in some ways the world. Like I say, we're working on making those things stronger. You know what I mean?  So Donald Trump, of course, in the White House and 88% of African Americans who voted in the presidential election voted for Hillary Clinton, only 8% of them voted for Donald Trump. Does that worry you then that he's not going to be a president for all Americans, in particular African Americans? I mean, that certainly remains to be seen.  You're optimistic about that? Optimistic? I can't be optimistic based on some of the statements that have been made. I'm just... What statements worry you in particular? Well, there's a lot of statements. There are loads, yeah. So there's concerns, but then we have to come to the table and try to find some common ground and hopefully push forward the agenda. It doesn't look good, though, does it? I mean, he's taken a swipe at what he's called liberal Hollywood and we saw the attack he made on Meryl Streep after she criticised him at the Golden Globes Awards. So he doesn't like liberal Hollywood. Is that going to include you, isn't it? It won't stop me from doing the work in the manner that I've been doing it for years and continuing to try to strive forward. I don't... I'm hopeful that we will be able to be a nation that's united. Right now we've been a nation that's polarized and before that we had a lot of questions and there's not a lot of... I think there's a lot of people who are doubting that we're going to move forward, you know, but in a positive way. They have to try to push it forward and if it doesn't happen, then the people themselves have to stand up and speak. If it doesn't happen, if they're not being respected, not being treated well, their needs are not being met, then they have to stand up whether that's in protest, movements, marches, however, to make their voices be heard. What is more important to you, your work as an actor or as a humanitarian activist? I mean, my work is, you know, humanitarian work is particularly important to me. But I'm always trying and striving to understand humanity and make sure that I see myself in others. And if I see myself in someone else and they're struggling and suffering, then I'd like to take up that mantle to try to heal that. Your peace and development initiative works a great deal with young people affected by violence, in particular young people, children who were forced to work to fight as child soldiers, which of course we've seen in Uganda as well as other parts of the world. But how can you fix that aspect of a much, much bigger problem by just addressing this one thing? And are you having much success with child soldiers? I don't address it just by dealing with child soldiers. I've been working with child soldiers. There's 250,000 child soldiers in the world. I started working initially in Uganda with child soldiers. We started working in the South Sudan on our youth peacemaker network to deal with peace and reconciliation and development. So we've been training youth in that way. We started first in Zhongli State because we thought maybe the conflict might happen there. We wanted to help stabilize the country if it did. And it did happen and that was the place where the conflicts happened. But the use that we had trained all activists like a sort of early warning system to help each other get to safety. So that was very powerful and that's what they did and continued it. What I meant is developing these countries is such a huge, huge problem. You can help the young people, but where are the jobs for them? Even if you get them in education, quality education, there's no gainful employment for them and so on. It must make you feel very frustrated that despite your huge efforts, you still sometimes see that there isn't as much change on the ground as you would like. Certainly, when you deal with this situation like in South Sudan where people are being... The Civil War has been going on for a long time. There's 50,000 deaths. 2.9 million people displaced. 2.9 million people displaced. A million are refugees and two internally displaced. The United Nations is saying that 5 million people don't have enough food and are in need of humanitarian assistance. That's nearly half the population. Are we to not try to move things forward and help the equation because of those atrocities? Of course you help. I'm saying that what we've done is worked with the youth, training them in that area. Those youth have went out into the community and trained others in those areas. In our space, as you say, it is a really difficult situation, but they have managed to be able to help during the situation as peace builders and as peace mediators. One of our youths went to get the army to move out of a school in order to bring his children back inside. He was able to accomplish that. He was affected as a member of Parliament. A lot of these different things are going on. All these development projects that they're still doing, even during this time, of really major atrocities and different difficulties are going on. A lot of worries about South Sudan, as you say. You have met President Salveqir of South Sudan and also his erstwhile deputy, Riyak Masha, who now leads the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in opposition, the main rebel leader. The rival between them is so personal. There are those who argue that there will be no peace in South Sudan until both men are no longer on the scene acting politically. I think that recently, I think it was in December, they started a dialogue for reconciliation in the country and I'm hoping that it will be inclusive, this national dialogue, and that everyone will be included and they'll be able to move through it otherwise there are a lot of players who are trying to help people find common ground to be able to deal with the situation. Is there any other situation of this magnitude? Can activists like you really be agents for change? I mean, I think that we all can be agents of change if we decide to stand up for certain things. Certainly I've been working in this area. We have thousands of views in the protection of civilian camp that we work with, 3,000 I believe at the moment. We are about to do into a refugee camp where we'll be working with about 10,000 people. Certainly we're dealing with the situation, building community learning centres across that state and stuff, in Eastern Equatorious State. So certain things are happening and during this time of difficulty, during this time of really painful recognitions. Forrest Whitaker, thank you very much indeed for coming on hard talk. Thank you.


What's going on you guys? It's your boy Lloyd here with the single guy channel. I have a very special guest here today I've been following this guy for a long time. Mr. Dave Ferrata, what is going on guys? It is good to be on. When I heard Lloyd was in Mexico City I hit him up like, bro, we got to make some approaches. So that's what we did today. That's exactly what we did So in this video, we're basically be breaking down the different approaches that we did. Our Spanish is not that good But the language of love is universal So in this video we're going to show you some approaches that went well and some that didn't go so well So let's get right into the video All right, so this one was freaking painful. I Talked right to talk to her on the phone. It was my first approach. My Spanish was awful. I was stumbling over my words a lot What did you think about it Dave? I mean the first approach to the day is always tough, right? A lot of times you get rejected You know, you're not really feeling it yet Sometimes you need that rejection to really just get your mindset, right? You're like, all right I'm approaching girls today.   Yeah, but at the same time, too If you notice she gave me a test. She was like, are you actually looking for the Starbucks? Of course I'm not looking for the Starbucks. Yeah, you have the opportunity to tell her no I was just wanted to talk to you.   Exactly So All right, so what did you think of that David? So the first thing that sticks out to me was that I focus too much talking about the dog versus being direct And bro, I don't know anything about dogs really, especially like like these different breeds and stuff I talked to her because I thought she was cute and I should have said that instead of kind of caught myself in Just no man's land of talking about dog breeds while she was in the middle of playing fetch It just didn't really make sense. Yeah, I remember filming this actually and um, you know I actually thought it was going really well when you were talking to her I remember her body language. She actually if you watch in the video She checks him out right before they start talking and so even though it maybe felt like it wasn't going too well Like the girl was into him.  That's what I should have done. Yeah, exactly But again, even though all of that stuff was like could have been improved I mean the girl was still into you and I just think if you had stayed in there for a little bit longer Would have been good. Should I actually get with it, bro? Yeah, exactly I have a video for you. I'm looking for the starbucks Okay, you live here? Oh, okay It's just the United States and I'm here for a few months to do business. Where are you going? To the office Oh, okay Okay, okay Okay All right, so this girl was actually like really really shy. I remember when I stopped her she was like A little bit a little bit disjointed I think some things I could have done better for sure was When I first walked up to her I had that whole starbucks line And like that just didn't seem like it gelled with what I was trying to say and I think I should have just gone directly Like hey, you know, I stopped you I saw you and just wanted to keep talking to you And so I did say that at some point, but it just felt a little awkward the way I led into it Yeah, it's probably better to lead with that going into it. So she knows they are this guy thinks I'm sexy. He wants to talk to me That's why he's here But you still did a good job of at least doing it later in the interaction, which is better than nothing And you also did a really good job of stopping her Which from that from that position of you having to kind of like run up from behind here and stop her That's never easy bro. So kudos for that. Yeah, and the truth is the girl ended up being really really into me So, um, you know I texted her later. She responded and so maybe we'll figure something out for this week But for that, you know, it just goes to show you that no interaction is going to be perfect You're going to mess up a lot of things, but sometimes you can still be successful Sometimes you're just going to be the normal dude going up there just having a normal conversation and going for the number And sometimes that's all you're going to do Okay He is me fuerte I All right, Dave. So what'd you think? All right, man So the first thing that sticks out to me is that I injected way too early Even though we kind of had a good quick interaction I probably should have stuck with it and kept standing there after she went to her car and she might have came back and Yeah, I think you know you actually did pretty good You know when you walked up you were self-amused like I remember watching this actually I remember when you said respect though I was just like I remember cracking up, but I watched that. Um, but yeah, I thought it was actually pretty good It just seemed like you left it early Yeah, and the story actually isn't over because what happened next bro Because actually what ended up happening was that uh, he walked to the car and I saw the girl and I kind of had a Feeling she was going to go back to him and that's exactly what happened She walked right back to Dave um walked up to him and actually asked him out She wanted to get a drink with him right then Yeah, man It took me by surprise because I thought the interaction was over All of a sudden I get a top of my shoulder and she asked me out. I'm like, what the hell's going on here Yeah, exactly that goes to show man Like a lot of these girls that we were talking to sometimes they were liking us and we self-consciously You think that oh i'm messing up right now. She doesn't like me I think the bottom line here is man You want to stop looking for reasons to leave the interaction and start looking for reasons to stay And that's going to make interaction so much more strong Let's go to the Instagram Okay Well in this interaction, I actually thought it went pretty decently The way I was talking I was more assertive I was more secure in my words The one thing I wish I would have done better was that when she offered to give me your Instagram I jumped on that a little too quickly and I wish I would have gotten a phone number instead Yeah, that being said you did do a really good job keeping the conversation going while you were getting while while you're exchanging info A lot of times it's awkward silence when that's happening and it just it makes it weird for both of you Another good thing you did was you went direct right from the start Which like you didn't wait to the middle.  Yeah, I actually think I did a better on this one Like I went in with 100 as opposed to like maybe 98 or you know much less from the other one Yeah, it's about that commitment And the other thing I did too that I actually liked was I kept talking to her after she gave me your Instagram You know made sure it kept the conversation going talked about the different areas that we could possibly hang out in And that's really going to make sure that this number is not a flake If you guys haven't seen our first video about approaching girls in Mexico City You can check it out right here If you're looking for more approach videos and you've seen both of these already check out Dave's playlist right here Dave, thank you so much for joining me. Sure, man. That's a good time guys If you're looking for quality content about dating relationships and also becoming the man that you always should be Check out Dave's channel. Thanks a lot you guys. Good luck out there


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I apologize Jeff Gladney for the Vikings Justin Perry 30 out of 75 Leroy Butler Green Bay Packers Christopher Gerard 42 out of 50 and AJ Dylan Jersey and auto by the way, I totally overstated the amount of time that this break is gonna take So I built myself in a cushion apparently Narc, I don't know if I'm gonna be doing too many hit drafts tonight just because we're starting so late But I'll try to DM people and if it doesn't work out It'll I'll probably come in tomorrow early 20 out of 150 Green Bay Packers Christopher Gerard. What'd that one stick to the one in front of it? What are you doing there? Is it magnetized?  That is beauty That's so cool. There you go Balraj Very nice Clyde Edward Gilaire Jumbo Relic for the Chiefs and John McCall 19 out of 100 Kyle Duggar For the Patriots, I totally overestimated that length of this break totally 137 out of 150 over by a long shot Oh, you thought it was gonna take longer. Well, I all I did was I was like, okay 12 boxes give myself this amount of time. I think I gave myself an hour and 15 minutes You thought it was gonna be an hour? I think I put like an hour I know, I know It's probably like 40. Loyer Malloy Actually, yeah, I think it's about 30 Patriots, Caryn Steele So I got my I built myself some time in 34 out of 100 Back-to-back Pats and AJ Dillon Packers Christopher Gerard last spot mojo 9 out of 99 Jared Goff for the Rams Patrick Cologne 59 out of 100 Mitchell Trabisky For the Bears Mitch Biscuits Steve Wright 5 out of 10 nice Short real little number there AJ Eponessa for the Bills Andrew Sanker Eruption Relic Levisca Chanel Jr for the Jaguars Chris parent and that's numbered 30 out of 75 Randy Moss Relic for the Vikings Justin Perry 9 out of 90. I saw that uh, Justin Jefferson's on pace to break his franchise rookie record for yards Pretty impressive Jeff Okuta Detroit Lions Corey DeRal And somebody asked for Bears. How about Cole Comet? Three color patch and two colored on the other and Otto 40 out of 50 for the Bears Steve Wright Aaron Rodgers Packers Christopher Gerard Claven Cheson for the Jaguars Chris parent That Aaron Rodgers is 48 out of 50 Claven Cheson 54 out of 75 This card looks so good AJ Dillon Packers Christopher Gerard last spot mojo No clue DeAndre Swift, I mean his values are are low now jack unfortunately because of the injury Uh 63 out of 75 for the Lions. So I wouldn't even Like if that was my card, I wouldn't even think about value right now van Jefferson For the Rams Patrick Cologne 41 out of 75 rookie Otto there for you mojo Dante Hall Kansas City Chiefs John McCall One out of 25 It's Aurora sets crazy And Is this a third one out of the six five boxes so far AJ Dillon Green Bay Packers Christopher Gerard Dual relic and Otto 19 out of 99 It is isn't it? That's a third AJ Dillon we fit Teddy Bridgewater Isn't it they are aren't they? 64 out of 75 For the Panthers Matt Medlin Nice Narick. I think I thought you told me about that the other night Leonard Fornette Jacksonville Jaguars Chris parent 30 out of 100 Anthony McFarland Jr Pittsburgh Steelers Calvin Michael Jumbo relic for the Vikings Justin Jefferson Going Justin Perry That's I honestly until you just said that right now. I didn't click in my head that it was either Chicago Bears again Cole Comet Steve Wright This one is numbered four out of 75 Saw one of these earlier lightning strike Otto Edgeron James Edge Indianapolis Colts Jerry Bennington I like this set 83 out of 100 and silver ink A little bit odd looking when you write on but Jake from Buffalo Bills feel like he told an audible with that 66 out of 150. I don't think that's what Panini wanted him to sign with Buffalo Bills Andrew Sanker Those are the first six boxes Isn't that cool looking Mojo? I really like the look of that set No case hit in the front half Let's find it in this half We got a redemption in this one. I got an itch on the inside of my eye trying to Suffice the scratching by just Squeezing really really hard when I close my eyes It's not working If I move my eyes back and forth really really quick will that do it? anybody know Any I'm not even gonna try to say it If I'm gonna sound like a dummy and people are gonna be like It looks like it, but I didn't think he was that dumb uh Naric probably not I would uh I would usually not take if a card is encased and it comes encased honestly, I I typically advise against Cutting it out of the encase and grading it same thing with um Unless you really really really want to thicker cards like that too also Uh can sometimes Have edge issues Not even from handling just from production We got another redemption there so But yeah, like redemptions when you get them sealed with like the seal from whatever company it may be Let's say like panini in this case since we have two redemptions coming up foreshadowing um If it's got the seal on the on there honestly Unless you're like Dead set on having all your cards graded and it's a personal collection type thing I honestly You're probably better off just not ever having it Touched or anything like that because then it's never been in circulation Once you break that seal Cut that encased card seal open. Who knows what's happened to it after that got cut out, you know Thanks, dude Was it starting to come out? Was it starting to come out?  It's kind of cool Just saw a little peek at it. It's cool box seven Tommy Stevens New Orleans Saints jimmy crenwell 14 out of 100. This is what I was looking at Ezekiel Elliott super nova die cut. That is super cool looking Dallas Cowboys Christopher freeze Down year for them and for him 21 out of 35 like that a lot a little oil slick look behind there I think uh things will pick back up for them next year. Not even a cowboy's fan. Miles sanders Philadelphia Eagles Christopher Gerard Isn't that cool logo? I think that's so uh, that's the first one I've seen Out of that first case. We didn't hit any of those trifecta coal comet bears Steve Wright 32 out of 100 Keyshawn von triple relic Tampa Bay Buccaneers Matt Johnston 35 out of 100 We got more bears for you Jalen Johnson Chicago Bears Steve Wright 22 out of 150 Justin Herbert A little bit of two colors there. You can see right where the stitching is. There's a little bit of color right there and auto five out of 25 Bolt bro mojo last spot mojo Christopher Gerard chargers That's good, right? I feel like that's good That's cool. Yellow matching the team colors. There's nothing not to love about that card right there Congrats Chris. Thanks for taking a shot, man This is what I do Our case hits up next Jalen Johnson Chicago Bears I just peeked at it and saw the name 56 out of 75 Chicago Bears Steve Wright Okay, this actually looks way cooler in person than I thought it would Aaron Rodgers color blasts Green Bay Packers Christopher Gerard also one of his last spot mojo spots about the Packers crushing that Damn Okay, that does actually look really cool in person I was I'm not gonna lie. I was like the white ones better and blah blah blah This looks this looks great. There you go First one of the day Very cool Noah Igbenagany Dolphins John Denene Rub it for good luck AJ Dillon look at this patch Green Bay Packers again last spot mojo Christopher Gerard 36 out of 50. I don't know how you get a patch like that and have it be numbered out of 50, but there you go Ross Blacklock Otto for the Houston Texans Aaron Monzo Joe's saying no more Packers. It's their box. I guess George Kittle Jersey and Otto For the 49ers Victor Zamora nice matrix 16 out of 25 Nice box here. This is a lazy Otto. This one's not cd lamb Dallas Cowboys Christopher freeze Dual relic and Otto 17 out of 150 Nice cd James Proche For the Baltimore Ravens Joe Howard 8 out of 75 Noah Igbenagany for the Dolphins and John Denene 37 out of 100 Tom Brady Patriots edition Karen Steele You okay? Oh, look at the patches on this Keyshawn Vaughn Tampa Bay Buccaneers Matt Johnston two colors three colors Who knows how many colors around that one? Two out of ten That's pretty cd lamb jumbo relic For the Cowboys Christopher freeze Five out of 75 Antonio Gibson For Washington and Marc Major 28 out of 75 And our redemption rookie jersey autos electric etch green. I don't know what green is out of card 210 B R N Ayuk Yep. Ayuk Brandon Ayuk San Francisco 49ers Victor Zamora Who's uh, why can't I think of the name? Who's the guy from the Sun Devils that's on That's on the Cardinals What's his name? Anybody remember? Somebody reminded me the other day I got mad because I totally forgot. I was like Jonathan Taylor Indianapolis Colts Jerry beddington 18 out of 25 wide receiver Troy Aikman tunnel vision die cut Dallas Cowboys Christopher freeze 13 out of 15 Willie Gay jr. For the Kansas City Chiefs John McCall Jared stittum four-color relic New England Patriots Karen steel At what point do the Patriots let him just play for the rest of the year seven out of ten on that nice low number They're eliminated from the playoffs down officially You're not going to resign cam newton Let let jared stittum play laundry tag daniel jones Giants barrage to car Like legitimately how to do the laundry Do not dry clean. Do not bleach Two out of ten That'll go nicely with the uh sake one from earlier, too Jay heart jordan love More love for the green bay packers Christopher jr.  Okay, this one. I like even more. That's pretty cool That's a case it non-numbered case it Nick bosa 49ers victor's amora. Isn't that cool one? That's pretty fancy Don't tell anybody about that stuff. I want to buy justin herbert version of those jaylin regor trifecta philadelphia eagles christopher gerard last spot mojo spot again 81 out of 100 tyree cleveland For the denver broncos Eric ainge Two out of 10 another lightning strike michael vitt For the atlanta falcons and cori de ral 32 out of 50 jerry judy silver ink auto nice orange patch there denver broncos eric ainge 51 out of 99. So i mean did they give them the option of using a silver ink auto? Doesn't look so great. I don't know Maybe it's supposed to match with that Juan, I don't know what's going on with teddy out. Um, as far as I know, I'm still on here tomorrow so I'm We're we're trying to figure out what's going to happen. So erin donald Eight out of 50 for the rams I'm sure you guys will know as soon as I do as well Mitch travisky chicago bears steve right 60 out of 75 julian edelman for the patriots caron steel Yeah, as of right now, I'm here tomorrow I'm planning on coming in early to try to help out over on instagram since we were done with teddy today cam makers trifecta to 100 for the rams and patrick cologne I thought there's a dotto two colored patch and patch patent manning indianapolis colts jerry bennington four out of 25 That's pretty nice Two more autos and we'll wrap it up Zach moss rookie auto buffalo bills andrew sanker 10 out of 10 It will andrew It will And our redemption Final hit of the break rookie jersey auto ink or electric etch orange card 239 g a b r i e l gabriel davis for the buffalo bills and bills mafia That's going to andrew sanker No, he's out sick today just So buffalo bills andrew sanker Last hit of the break and that'll do it for us guys Very nice case More in store Yeah, definitely came through at the end, huh? There you go That was 2020 panini obsidian football 12 box case break pick your team number one from jaspercasebrakes.com. I'm sean jaspercasebrakes.com. Thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time