GRANDMAJANIS'S POEMS AND STORIES This is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The Raggedy Man by James Whitcombe Reilly Recording by Janice Greene, Hemingway, South Carolina Oh, the Raggedy Man, he works for Pa, and he's the goodest man ever you saw. He comes to our house every day and waters the horses and feeds them hay.  And then, if our hired girl says he can, he milks the cow for Elizabethan. Ain't he an awful good Raggedy Man? Why, the Raggedy Man, he is so good, he splits the kindling and chops the wood, and then he spades in our garden, too, and does most things that boys can't do. He clums to clean up in our big tree and shook an apple down for me, and another and two for Elizabethan, and another and two for the Raggedy Man. Ain't he an awful kind Raggedy Man? And the Raggedy Man, one time, say he picked roast rambos from a orchard tree, and Adam all is roastin' hot, and it's so, too, cause a corn crib got a fire one time and all burned down on the smoot farm about four miles from town. On the smoot farm, yes, and the hired hand that worked there, and then, is the Raggedy Man. Ain't he the beatin'est Raggedy Man? Raggedy, Raggedy, Raggedy Man.  I driv'd him once way down our lane, and he got scared when it meant to rain, and lest rear'd up and squealed and run, Bert and I away.  Whoa, yo, run away, Raggedy Man. Raggedy, Raggedy, Raggedy Man. And the Raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes and tells him if I be good sometimes, knows about giants and griffins and elves, and the squijakum squeeze that swallows their selves, and white by the pump in our pasture lot, he showed me the hole that the wunxes got. That lives way deep in the ground, and can turn into me, or Elizabeth Ann, or Ma, or Pa, or the Raggedy Man. Ain't he a funny old Raggedy Man? Raggedy, Raggedy, Raggedy Man.  He's an old bear shooter, Raggedy Man. Raggedy, Raggedy, Raggedy Man.  And then, if we all won't cry for sure, the Raggedy Man, he'll come and explore the castle halls, and steal the gold, and steal us, too, and grab and hold, and pack us off to his old cave. And hey, mouse the cave, oh, the Raggedy Man. Raggedy, Raggedy, Raggedy Man. The Raggedy Man one time when he was making a little bow and hurry for me says, when you're big like your paw is, are you going to keep a fine store like his, and be a rich merchant, and wear fine clothes? Or what are you going to be, goodness knows, and any laugh at Elizabeth Ann? And I says, be going to be a Raggedy Man. I'm just going to be a nice Raggedy Man. Raggedy, Raggedy, Raggedy Man. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Worm by Ralph Virgingren, read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina.  They like the worms just as much as I like bread and milk and apple pie. And once, when I was very young, I put a worm right on my tongue. I didn't like the taste a bit, and so I didn't swallow it. But oh, it makes my mother squirm because she thinks I ate that worm. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head, and I see him jump before me when I jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow, not at all like proper children, which is always very slow, for he sometimes shoots up taller like an India rubber ball, and he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, and can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward, you can see. I'd think shame to stick to mercy as that shadow sticks to me. One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found a shining dew on every buttercup, but my lazy little shadow, like an errant sleepyhead, had stayed at home behind me, and was fast asleep in bed. End of Poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina. Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsie, Mopsie, Cottontail, and Peter. They lived with their mother in a sandbank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree. Now my dear, said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden. Your father had an accident there. He was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor. Now run along and don't get into mischief. I am going out. Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the bakers. She bought a loaf of brown bread and five current buns. Flopsie, Mopsie, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries. But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden and squeezed under the gate. First he ate some lettuces and some French beans, and then he ate some radishes, and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley. But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor? Mr. McGregor was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out, Stop! Seeth! Peter was most dreadfully frightened. He rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate. He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes. After losing them he ran on four legs and went faster, so that I think he might have gotten away altogether, if he had not, unfortunately, run into a gooseberry net and got caught by the large buttons on his jacket. It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new. Peter gave himself up for lost and shed big tears, but his sobs were overheard by some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great excitement and implored him to exert himself. Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of Peter, but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him, and rushed into the tool shed and jumped into a can. It would have been a beautiful thing to hide in if it had not had so much water in it. Mr. McGregor was quite sure that Peter was somewhere in the tool shed, perhaps hidden underneath the flower pot. He began to turn them over carefully, looking under each. Presently Peter sneezed. Mr. McGregor was after him in no time, and tried to put his foot upon Peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting three plants. The window was too small for Mr. McGregor, and he was tired of running after Peter. He went back to his work. Peter sat down to rest. He was out of breath and trembling with fright, and he had not the least idea of which way to go. Also he was very damp with sitting in that can. After a time he began to wonder about, going lippity, lippity, not very fast, and looking all around.  An old mouse was running in and out over this stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family in the wood. Peter asked her the way to the gate, but she had such a large pee in her mouth that she could not answer. She only shook her head at him. Peter began to cry. Then he tried to find his way straight across the garden, but he became more and more puzzled. Presently he came to a pond where Mr. McGregor filled his water cans. A white cat was staring at some goldfish. She sat very, very still, but now and then the tip of her tail twitched, as if it were alive. Peter thought it best to go away without speaking to her. He had heard about cats from his cousin, Little Benjamin Bunny. He went back towards the tool shed, but suddenly, quite close to him, he heard the noise of a hole. Scritch, scratch, scratch, scratch. Peter scuttered underneath the bushes, but presently, as nothing happened, he came out and climbed upon a wheelbarrow and peeped over. The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions. His back was turned towards Peter, and beyond him was the gate. Peter got down very quietly off the wheelbarrow, and started running as fast as he could go along a straight walk behind some black current bushes. Mr. McGregor caught sight of him at the corner, but Peter did not care. He slipped underneath the gate and was safe at last in the wood outside the garden. Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scarecrow to frighten the black birds. Peter never stopped running or looked behind him until he got home to the big fir tree.  His mother was busy cooking. She wondered what he had done with his clothes. It was the second little jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in a fortnight. I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed and made some chamomile tea, and she gave a dose of it to Peter. One tablespoon full to be taken at bedtime. But flopsie, mobsie, and cottontail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper. This recording is in the public domain. The Duel, The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field. Red for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina. The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat side by side on the table sat. To us half past twelve, and what do you think? Not one nor to other had slept a wink. The old Dutch clock on the Chinese plate appeared to know as sure as fate there was going to be a terrible spat. I wasn't there. I simply state what was told to me by the Chinese plate. The Gingham Dog went, bow, wow, wow, and the Calico Cat replied, meow. The air was littered an hour or so with bits of gingham and calico, while the old Dutch clock in the chimney place up with its hands before its face, for it always dreaded a family row. Now mind I'm only telling you what the old Dutch clock declares is true. The Chinese plate looked very blue and wailed, oh dear, what shall we do? But the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat wallowed this way and tumbled that, employing every tooth and claw in the awfulest way you ever saw. And oh how the Gingham and Calico flew. Don't fancy I exaggerate. I got my news from the Chinese plate. Next morning, where the two had sat, they found no trace of dog or cat, and some folks sink into this day that burglar stole that pair away. But the truth about the cat and pup is this, they ate each other up. Now what do you really think of that? The old Dutch clock, it told me so, and that is how I came to know. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. I'm Nobody Who Are You, by Emily Dickinson. Read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina. I'm Nobody Who Are You. Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us. Don't tell, they'd advertise you know. How dreary to be somebody. How public, like a frog, to tell your name the live long June to an admiring bog. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. CANT, by Edgar Guest. Read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina.  On it is many a strong spirit broken, and with it many a good purpose dies. It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning, and robs us of courage we need through the day. It rings in our ears like a timely scent warning, and laughs when we falter and fall by the way. CANT is the father of feeble endeavor, the parent of terror and half-hearted work. It weakens the efforts of artisans clever, and makes of the toiler an indolent shirk. It poisons the soul of the man with a vision, it stifles in infancy many a plan. It greets honest toiling with open derision, and mocks at the hopes and the dreams of a man. CANT is a word none should speak without blushing.  Ambition and courage it daily is crushing. It blights a man's purpose and shortens his aim.  Refuse it the lodgement it seeks in your brain.  CANT is a word that is foe to ambition, an enemy ambushed to shatter your will. Its prey is forever the man with a mission, and bows but to courage, and patience and skill. Hate it with hatred that's deep and undying, for once it is welcome to a break any man. Whatever the goal you are seeking keep trying, and answer this demon by saying, I can. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Things That Haven't Been Done Before by Edgar Guest Read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina The Things That Haven't Been Done Before those are the things to try. Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of the far-flung sky, and his heart was bold and his face was strong as he ventured in dangers new, and he paid no heed to the jeering's wrong, or the fears of the doubting crew. The many will follow the beaten track with guideposts on the way. They live and have lived for ages back with a chart for every day. Someone has told them it's safe to go on the road he has traveled o'er, and all that they ever strive to know are the things that were known before. A few strike out without map or chart where never a man has been. From the beaten paths they draw apart to see what no man has seen. There are deeds they hunger alone to do, though battered and bruised and sore, they blaze the path for the many who do nothing not done before. The things that haven't been done before are the tasks worthwhile today. Are you one of the flock that follows, or are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail at the jeers of a doubting crew, or dare you, whether you win or fail, strike out for a goal that's new? End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Hemingway, South Carolina And all about was mine, I said, the little sparrows overhead, the little minnows, too. This was the world, and I was king. For me the bees came by to sing. For me the swallows flew. I played there were no deeper seas, nor any wider plains than these, nor other kings than me.   Alas, and as my home I neared, how very big my nurse appeared, how great and cool the rooms. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. Read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina. The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might. He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright, and this was odd because it was the middle of the night. The moon was shining sockily because she thought the sun had got no business to be there after the day was done. It's very rude of him, she said, to come and spoil the fun. The sea was wet as wet could be. The sands were dry as dry. You could not see a cloud because no cloud was in the sky. No birds were flying overhead. There were no birds to fly. The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking close at hand. They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand. If this were only cleared away, they said it would be grand. If seven maids with seven mops wept it for half a year, do you suppose, the Walrus said, that they could get it clear? I doubt it, said the Carpenter, and shed a bitter tear. A washer's come and walk with us, the Walrus did beseech. A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the briny beach. We cannot do with more than four to give a hand to each. The eldest oyster looked at him, but never a word, he said. The eldest oyster winked his eye, and shook his heavy head, meaning to say he did not choose to leave the oyster bed. Out four young oysters hurried up, all eager for the treat. Their coats were brushed, their faces washed, their shoes were clean and neat, and this was odd because, you know, they hadn't any feet. Four other oysters followed them, and yet another four, and thick and fast they came at last, and more and more and more, all hopping through the frothy waves and scrambling to the shore. The Walrus and the Carpenter walked on a mile or so, and then they rested on a rock. They were conveniently low, and all the little oysters stood and waited in a row. The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. But wait a bit! The oysters cried before we have our chat. For some of us are out of breath, and all of us are fat. No hurry, said the Carpenter. They thanked him much for that. A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, is what we chiefly need. Pepper and vinegar, besides, are very good indeed. Now, if you're ready, oysters dear, we can begin to feed. But not on us, the oysters cry, turning a little blue. After such kindness, that would be a dismal thing to do. The night is fine, the Walrus said. Do you admire the view? It was so kind of you to come, and you are very nice. The Carpenter said nothing, but cut us another slice. I wish you were not quite so deaf. I've had to ask you twice. It seems a shame, the Walrus said, to play them such a trick, after we've brought them out so far and made them trot so quick. The Carpenter said nothing but, the butter spread too thick. I weep for you, the Walrus said. I deeply sympathize. With sobs and tears he sorted out those of the largest size, holding his pocket handkerchief before his streaming eyes. A oysters said the Carpenter, you've had a pleasant run. Shall we be trotting home again? But answer came there none. And this was scarcely odd, because they'd eaten every one. End of poem This poem is in the public domain. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear Read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green, Hemingway, South Carolina The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note. The owl looked up to the stars above and sang to a small guitar.    Oh, let us be married too long we have tarried, but what shall we do for a ring? They sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the bong-tree grows. And there in a wood a piggy-wig stood with a ring on the end of his nose, his nose, his nose, with a ring on the end of his nose. Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shelling your ring? Said the piggy, I will. So they took it away and were married next day by the turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mints and slices of quints which they ate with a runcible spoon. And hand in hand on the edge of the sand they danced by the light of the moon. The moon, the moon, they danced by the light of the moon. End of poem This recording is in the public domain. There was once a velveteen rabbit and in the beginning he was really splendid.  His coat was spotted brown and white. He had real thread whiskers and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning when he sat wedged in the top of the boy s stocking with a sprig of holly between his paws the effect was charming. There were other things in the stocking nuts and oranges and a toy engine and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse. But the rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the boy loved him and then aunts and uncles came to dinner and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the velveteen rabbit was forgotten. For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy and being only made of velveteen some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior and looked down upon everyone else.  The model boat who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything for he didn't know that real rabbits existed. He thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself and he understood that sawdust was quite out of date and should never be mentioned in modern circles. Even Timothy the jointed wooden lion who was made by the disabled soldiers and should have had broader views put on ears and pretended he was connected with government. Between them all the poor little rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace and the only person who was kind to him at all was the skin horse. The skin horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrived to boast and swagger and by and by break their mainsprings and pass away and he knew that they were only toys and would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful and only those play things that are old and wise and experienced like the skin horse understand all about it. What is real? asked the rabbit one day when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender before Nana came to tidy the room.  Real isn't how you are made said the skin horse. It's a thing that happens to you when a child loves you for a long, long time not just to play with but really loves you then you become real. Does it hurt? asked the rabbit. Sometimes said the skin horse for he was always truthful. When you were real you don't mind being hurt. Does it happen all at once like being wound up? he asked. Or bit by bit. It doesn't happen all at once said the skin horse. You become it takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be carefully capped.   I suppose you were real said the rabbit and then he wished he had not said it for he thought the skin horse might be sensitive but the skin horse only smiled. The boy's uncle made me real he said that was a great many years ago but once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always. The rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called real happened to him. He longed to become real to know what it felt like and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these uncomfortable things happening to him. There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the place things lying about and sometimes for no reason whatever she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in the cupboards. She called this tidying up and the play things all hated it especially the tin ones. The rabbit didn't mind it so much for wherever he was thrown he came down soft. One evening when the boy was going to bed he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime so she simply looked about her and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open she made a swoop. Here she said take your old bunny he'll do to sleep with you and she dragged the rabbit out by one ear and put him into the boy's arms. That night and for many nights after the velveteen rabbit slept in the boy's bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable for the boy hugged him very tight and sometimes he rolled over on him and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the rabbit could scarcely breathe and he missed two those long moonlit hours in the nursery when all the house was silent and his talks with the skin horse but very soon he grew to like it for the boy used to talk to him and made nice tunnels for him under the bed clothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in and they had splendid games together in whispers when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night light burning on the mantelpiece and when the boy dropped off to sleep the rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream with the boy's hands clasped close round him all night long and so time went on and the little rabbit was very happy so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier and his tail coming unsewn and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the boy had kissed him spring came and they had long days in the garden for wherever the boy went the rabbit went too he had rides in the wheelbarrow and picnics on the grass and lovely fairy huts built for him under the raspberry canes behind the flower border and once when the boy was called away suddenly to go out to tea the rabbit was left on the lawn until long after dusk and Nana had to come and look for him with the candle because the boy couldn't go to sleep unless he was there he was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the boy had made for him in the flower bed and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with the corner of her apron you must have your old bunny she said fancy all that fuss for a toy the boy sat up in bed and stretched out his hands give me my bunny he said you mustn't say that he isn't a toy he's real when the little rabbit heard that he was happy for he knew that what the skin horse had said was true at last the nursery magic had happened to him and he was a toy no longer he was real the boy himself had said it that night he was almost too happy to sleep and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst and into his boot-button eyes that had long ago lost their polish there came a look of wisdom and beauty so that even Nana noticed it next morning when she picked him up and said I declare if that old bunny hasn't got quite a knowing expression that was a wonderful summer near the house where they lived there was a wood and in the long june evening the boy liked to go there after tea to play he took the velveteen rabbit with him and before he wandered off to pick flowers or play at brigands among the trees he always made the rabbit a little nest somewhere among the bracken where he would be quite cozy for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked bunny to be comfortable one evening while the rabbit was lying there alone watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him they were rabbits like himself but quite furry and brand new they must have been very well made for their seams didn't show at all and they changed shape in a queer way when they moved one minute they were long and thin and the next minute fat and bunchy instead of always staying the same like he did their feet padded softly on the ground and they crept quite close to him twitching their noses while the rabbit steered hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up but he couldn't see it they were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether they stared at him and the little rabbit stared back and all the time their noses twitched why don't you get up and play with us one of them asked I don't feel like it said the rabbit for he didn't want to explain that he had no clockwork oh said the furry rabbit it's as easy as anything and he gave a big hop sideways and stood on his hind legs I don't believe you can he said I can said the little rabbit I can jump higher than anything he meant when the boy threw him but of course he didn't want to say so can you hop on your hind legs ask the furry rabbit that was a dreadful question for the velveteen rabbit had no hind legs at all the back of him was made all in one piece like a pin cushion he sat still in the bracken and hoped that the other rabbits wouldn't notice I don't want to he said again but the wild rabbits have very sharp eyes and this one stretched out its neck and looked he hasn't got any hind legs he called out fancy a rabbit without any hind legs and he began to laugh I have cried the little rabbit I have got hind legs I am sitting on them then stretch them out and show me like this said the wild rabbit and he began to whirl around and dance till the little rabbit got quite dizzy I don't like dancing he said I'd rather sit still but all the while he was longing to dance for a funny new tickly feeling ran through him and he felt he would give anything in the world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did the strange rabbit stopped dancing and came quite close he came so close this time that his long whiskers brushed the velveteen rabbit's ear and then he wrinkled his nose suddenly and flattened his ears and jumped backward he doesn't smell right he exclaimed he isn't a rabbit at all he isn't real I am real said the little rabbit I am real the boy said so and he nearly began to cry just then there was a sound of footsteps and the boy ran past near them and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared come back and play with me called the little rabbit oh do come back I know I am real but there was no answer only the little ants ran to and fro and the bracken swayed gently where the two strangers had passed the velveteen rabbit was all alone oh dear he thought why did they run away like that why couldn't they stop and talk to me for a long time he lay very still watching the bracken and hoping that they would come back but they never returned and presently the sun sank lower and the little white moths fluttered out and the boy came and carried him home weeks passed and the little rabbit grew very old and shabby but the boy loved him just as much he loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off and the pink lining to his ears turned gray and his brown spots faded he even began to lose his shape and he scarcely looked like a rabbit anymore except to the boy to him he was always beautiful and that was all that the little rabbit cared about he didn't mind how he looked to other people because the nursery magic had made him real and when you are real shabbiness doesn't matter and then one day the boy was ill his face grew very flushed and he talked in his sleep and his little body was so hot that it burned the rabbit when he held him close strange people came and went in the nursery and the light burned all night and through it all the little velveteen rabbit lay there hidden from sight under the bed clothes and he never stirred for he was afraid that if they found him someone might take him away and he knew that the boy needed him it was a long weary time for the boy was too ill to play and the little rabbit found it rather dull with nothing to do all day long but he snuggled down patiently and looked forward to the time when the boy should be well again and they would go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket like they used to all sorts of delightful things he planned and while the boy lay half asleep he crept up close to the pillow and whispered them in his ear and presently the fever turned and the boy got better he was able to sit up in bed and look at picture books while the little rabbit cuddled close at his side and one day they let him get up and dress it was a bright sunny morning and the window stood wide open they had carried the boy out onto the balcony wrapped in a shawl and the little rabbit leg tangled up among the bedclothes thinking the boy was going to the seaside tomorrow everything was arranged and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders they talked about it all while the little rabbit lay under the bedclothes with just his head peeping out and listened the room was to be disinfected and all the books and toys that the boy had played with in bed must be burned her raw thought the little rabbit tomorrow we shall go to the seaside for the boy had often talked of the seaside and he wanted very much to see the big waves coming in and the tiny crabs and the sandcastles just then Nana caught sight of him how about his old bunny she asked that said the doctor why it's a massive scarlet fever germs burn it at once what nonsense get him a new one he mustn't have that anymore and so the little rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture books and a lot of rubbish and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl house that was a fine place to make a bonfire only the gardener was too busy just then to attend to it he had the potatoes to dig and the green peas to gather but next morning he promised to come quite early and burn the whole lot that night the boy slept in a different bedroom and he had a new bunny to sleep with him it was a splendid bunny all white plush with real glass eyes but the boy was too excited to care very much about it for tomorrow he was going to the seaside and that in itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else and while the boy was asleep dreaming of the seaside the little rabbit lay among the old picture books in the corner behind the fowl house and he felt very lonely the sack had been left untied and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the opening and look out he was shivering a little for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from a hugging that it was no longer any protection to him nearby he could see the thicket of raspberry canes growing tall and close like a tropical jungle in whose shadow he had played with the boy on bygone mornings he thought of those long sunlit hours in the garden how happy they were and a great sadness came over him he seemed to see them all pass before him each more beautiful than the other the fairy huts in the flower bed the quiet evenings in the wood when he lay in the bracken and the little ants ran over his paws the wonderful day when he first knew that he was real he thought of the skin horse so wise and gentle and all that he had told him of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become real if it all ended like this and a tear a real tear trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground and then a strange thing happened for where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground a mysterious flower not at all like any that grew in the garden it had slender green leaves the color of emeralds and in the center of the leaves a blossom like a golden cup it was so beautiful that the little rabbit forgot to cry and just lay there watching it and presently the blossom opened and out of it there stepped a fairy she was quite the loveliest fairy in the whole world her dress was of pearl and dew drops and there were flowers round her neck and in her hair and her face was like the most perfect flower of all and she came close to the little rabbit and gathered him up in her arms and kissed him on his velveteen nose that was all damp from crying little rabbit she said don't you know who I am the rabbit looked up at her and it seemed to him that he had seen her face before but he couldn't think where I am the nursery magic fairy, she said I take care of all the placings that the children have loved when they are old and worn out and the children don't need them anymore then I come and take them away with me and turn them into real wasn't I real before, asked the little rabbit you were real to the boy, the fairy said because he loved you now you shall be real to every one and she held the little rabbit close in her arms and flew with him into the wood it was light now for the moon had risen all the forest was beautiful and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver in the open glade between the tree trunks the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass but when they saw the fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her I've brought you a new playfellow, the fairy said you must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in rabbit land for he is going to live with you forever and ever and she kissed the little rabbit again and put him down on the grass run and play little rabbit, she said but the little rabbit sat quite still for a moment and never moved for when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly remembered about his hind legs and he didn't want them to see that he was made all in one piece he did not know that when the fairy kissed him that last time she had changed him all together and he might have sat there a long time too shy to move if just then something hadn't tickled his nose and before he thought what he was doing he lifted his hind toe to scratch it and he found that he actually had hind legs instead of dingy velveteen he had brown fur soft and shiny his ears twitched by themselves and his whiskers were so long that they brushed the grass he gave one leap and the joy of using those hind legs was so great that he went springing about the turf on them jumping sideways and whirling around as the others did and he grew so excited that when at last he did stop to look for the fairy she had gone he was a real rabbit at last at home with the other rabbits autumn passed and winter and in the spring when the days grew warm and sunny the boy went out to play in the wood behind the house and while he was playing two rabbits crept out from the bracken and peeped at him one of them was brown all over but the other had strange markings under his fur as though long ago he had been spotted and the spot still showed through and about his little soft nose and his round black eyes there was something familiar so that the boy thought to himself why he looks just like my old bunny that was lost when I had scarlet fever but he never knew that it really was his own bunny come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real end of story this recording is in the public domain the kind old man by James Whitcomb Riley read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina the kind old man the mild old man who smiled on the boys at play dreaming for chance of his own glad use when he was as blithe and gay and the larger urchin tossed a ball and the lesser held the bat so the kindly old man's eyes were blurred he could even notice that but suddenly he was shocked to hear words I dare not write and he hastened in his kindly way to curb them as he might and he said, you naughty boy with a ball for shame and then you boy with a bat quack him over the head if he calls you that again the kind old man the mild old man who gazed on the boys at play dreaming for chance of his own wild youth when he was as tough as they end of poem this recording is in the public domain only a dad by Edgar Guest read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina only a dad was a tired face coming home from the daily race bringing little of gold or fame to show how well he has played the game but glad in his heart that his own rejoice to see him come and to hear his voice only a dad was a brute of four one of ten million men or more plodding along in the daily strife bearing the whips and the scorns of life with never a whimper of pain or hate for the sake of those who at home await only a dad neither rich nor proud merely one of the surging crowd toiling, striving from day to day facing whatever may come his way silent whenever the harsh condemn and bearing it all for the love of them only a dad but he gives his all to smooth the way for his children small doing with courage stern and grim the deeds that his father did for him this is the line that for him I pin only a dad but the best of men end of poem this recording is in the public domain what a baby costs by Edgar Guest read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina how much do babies cost said he the other night upon my knee and then I said they cost a lot a lot of watching by a cot a lot of sleepless hours and care a lot of heartache and despair a lot of fear and trying dread and sometimes many tears are shed in payment for our baby small but every one is worth it all for babies people have to pay a heavy price from day to day there is no way to get one cheap why sometimes when they're fast asleep you have to get up in the night and go and see that they're all right but what they cost in constant care and worry does not have compare with what they bring of joy and bliss you'd pay much more for just a kiss who buys a baby has to pay a portion of the bill each day he has to give his time and thought until the little one he's bought he has to stand a lot of pain inside his heart and not complain and pay with lonely days and sad for all the happy hours he's had all this a baby costs and yet his smile is worth it all you bet end of poem this recording is in the public domain the wind by Robert Louis Stevenson read from LibriVox.org by Janice Green South Carolina I saw you toss the kites on high and blow the birds about the sky and all around I heard you pass like lady's skirts across the grass a wind blowing all day long a wind that sings so loud a song I saw the different things you did but always you yourself you hid I felt you push I heard you call I could not see yourself at all a wind a blowing all day long a wind that sings so loud a song oh you that are so strong and cold oh blower are you young or old are you a beast a field and tree or just a stronger child a wind a blowing all day long a wind that sings so loud a song end of poem this recording is in the public domain at the seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson read from LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway South Carolina when I was down beside the sea a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore my holes were hollow like a cup in every hole the sea came up till it could hold no more end of poem this recording is in the public domain Winkin, Blinkin and Nod by Eugene Field read from LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway South Carolina Winkin, Blinkin and Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew where are you going and what do you wish the old moon asked the three we have come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea nets of silver and gold have we said Winkin, Blinkin and Nod the old moon laughed and sang a song as they rocked in the wooden shoe and the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew the little stars were the herring fish that lived in the beautiful sea now cast your nets wherever you wish never feared are we so cried the stars to the fishermen three Winkin, Blinkin and Nod all night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam then down from the skies came the wooden shoe bringing the fisherman home twas all so pretty a sail it seemed as if it could not be and some folks thought twas a dream they dreamed of sailing that beautiful sea but I shall name you the fisherman three Winkin, Blinkin and Nod Winkin and Blinkin are two little eyes and Nod is a little head and the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle bed so shut your eyes and your mother sings of wonderful sights that be and you shall see the beautiful things as you rock in the misty sea where the old shoe rocked the fisherman three Winkin, Blinkin and Nod end of poem this recording is in the public domain bed in summer by Robert Louis Stevenson red for LibriVox.org by Janice Green South Carolina in winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candlelight in summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day I have to go to bed and see the birds still hopping on the tree or hear the grown-up people's feet still going past me in the street and does it not seem hard to you when all the sky is clear and blue and I should like so much to play to have to go to bed by day end of poem this recording is in the public domain my bed is a boat by Robert Louis Stevenson red for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina my bed is like a little boat nurse helps me in when I embark she girds me in my sailors coat and starts me in the dark at night I go on board and say good night to all my friends on shore I shut my eyes and sail away and see and hear no more and sometimes things to bed I take as prudent sailors have to do perhaps a slice of wedding cake perhaps a toy or two all night across the dark we steer but when the day returns at last safe in my room beside the pier I find my vessel fast end of poem this recording is in the public domain Little Orphan Annie by James Whitcombe Riley red for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina inscribed with all faith and affection to all the little children the happy ones and sad ones the sober and the silent ones the boisterous and the glad ones the good ones yes the good ones too and all the lovely bad ones Little Orphan Annie's come to our house to stay and wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away and shoe the chickens off the porch and dust the hearth and sweep and make the fire and bake the bread and earn her board and keep and all us other children and all us other children when the supper things is done we set around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun a listening to the witch tales that Annie tells about and the goblins that get ya if you don't watch out once there was a little boy wouldn't say his prayers and when he went to bed at night away upstairs his mammy heard him holler and when they tear the kivers down he wasn't there at all and they seeked him in the rafter room and cubby-hole and press and seeked him up the chimney flew and everywhere as I guess but all they ever found was this his pants and roundabout and the goblins will get ya if you don't watch out and one time a little girl at all is laughing grin and make fun of everyone in all her blood and kin and once when they was company and old folks was there she mocked them and shocked them and said she didn't care and just as she kicked her heels and turned to run and hide there was two great big black things astanding by her side and they snatched her through the ceiling for she knowed what she's about and the goblins will get ya if you don't watch out a little orphan Danny says when the blaze is blue and the lamp wicks sputters and the wind goes woo and you hear the crickets quit and the moon is gray and the lightning bugs in do is all squinched away you better mind your parents and your teachers fond and dear and churri stomach loves you and dry the orphans and heaps of poor and needy ones that clusters all about or the goblins will get ya if you don't watch out end of poem this recording is in the public domain the creation by James Weldon Johnson read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina and God stepped out on space and he looked around and said I'm lonely I'll make me a world and as far as the eye of God could see darkness covered everything blacker than a hundred midnight down in a cypress swamp then God smiled and the light broke and the darkness rolled up on one side and the light stood shining on the other and God said that's good then God reached out and took the light in his hands and God rolled the light around in his hands until he made the sun and he set that sun ablazing in the heavens and the light that was left from making the sun God gathered it up in a shining ball and flung it against the darkness spangling the night with the moon and stars then down between the darkness and the light he hurled the world and God said that's good then God himself stepped down and the sun was on his right hand and the moon was on his left the stars were clustered about his head and the earth was under his feet and God walked and where he trod his footsteps hollowed the valleys out and bulged the mountains up and he stopped and looked and saw that the earth was hot and barren so God stepped over to the edge of the world and he spat out the seven seas he batted his eyes and the lightnings flashed he clapped his hands and the thunders rolled and the waters above the earth came down the cooling waters came down then the green grass sprouted and the little red flowers blossomed the pine tree pointed his finger to the sky and the oak spread out his arms the lakes cuddled down in the hollows of the ground and the rivers ran down to the sea and God smiled again and the rainbow appeared and curled itself around his shoulder then God raised his arm and he waved his hand over the sea and over the land and he said bring forth bring forth and quicker than God could drop his hand fishes and fowls and beasts and birds swam the rivers and the seas roamed the forest and the woods and split the air with their wings and God said that's good then God walked around and God looked around and he had made he looked at his son and he looked at his moon and he looked at his little stars he looked on his world with all its living things and God said I'm lonely still then God sat down on the side of a hill where he could think by a deep wide river he sat down with his head in his hands God thought and thought till he thought I'll make me a man up from the bed of the river God scooped a clay and by the bank of the river he kneeled him down and there the great God Almighty who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky who flung the stars to the most far corner of the night who rounded the earth in the middle of his hand this great God like a mammy bending over her baby kneeled down in the dust toiling over a lump of clay till he shaped it in his own image then into it he blew the breath of life and man became a living soul Amen End of poem This recording is in the public domain Psalm 139 Read for LibriVox.org by Janice Green Hemingway, South Carolina To the Chief Musician a Psalm of David O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising Thou understandest my thought Thou are off Thou compassest my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways For there is not a word in my tongue but lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it all together Thou hast beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high I cannot attain unto it Whither shall I go and whither shall I flee from thy presence If I send up into heaven Thou art there If I make my bed in hell Behold, Thou art there If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea Even there thy hand shall lead me and thy right hand shall hold me If I say Surely the darkness shall cover me Even the night shall be light about me Yea, the darkness hideeth not from thee but the night shineth as the day The darkness and the light are both alike to thee For Thou hast possessed my reins Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God How great is the sum of them If I should count them they are more in number than the sand When I awake I am still with thee Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men for they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies Search me, O God and know my heart Try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting


What's up everyone?  Here we go fun mixer best of luck. Thanks so much for hopping in we're gonna start here with the soccer All right Good luck Mohamed future stars refractor grabbing birch a little bit We've got Aqua wave of Cadillare 175 of 199 club Bruce Here we go Mohamed in chat, too. All right fun mixer here for you Refractor Mason mounts Chelsea I did We've got refractor of the Mara de Maria PSG I'm healthy Maria Rookie for hey, we've got mini diamond rookie Niko Gonzalez for Barcelona 88 out of 250 the mini diamond. So tiktok Lincoln bio if you'd like to hop in what do we have coming up here rookie gotty refractor for Barcelona? We've got gold chasing glory of manual look a telly for you Ventus That is awesome. That is not numbered That's such a beautiful looking car There you go, congrats on that one Mohamed chasing glory. It's like a gold wave Rookie speckle of Omar Richards for bio Munich see a Phil photo man city Gold star ball He likes we've got pink mini diamond of Chessia for you Ventus 45 a 175 All right solid first half there still looking for our auto Gold lava future stars of Jude Bellingham refractor Neymar David a Kenneth Taylor future star refractor in Zamaa We've got green and purple and gold of a Hovich for you Ventus Not numbered on this one out of yummy future star refractor Smash that like button says Carl chasing glory refractor Mason Mount Appreciate it. If you're not subscribed to our YouTube channel be sure to do so click that alert button to Griezmann We've got feel Hernandez on the refractor auto for AC Milan on nice Hernandez on the refractor auto there for you Mohamed on and rookie refractor of Branganza Portugal refractor of Ocampos and last pack of the soccer here Along the future stars of Kamminga for Real Madrid. All right, they'll do it for soccer We're gonna go ahead and do bow and chrome baseball in next Here we go Let's have on Carl and Vaughn you guys will like this so I post a delin man I posted a picture on my Instagram story in a grateful dad Jersey and I don't know. I don't know who but something one of blaze Jordan shades of greatness One of our one of our followers I Got green Joey Weimer first for the brewers that is 16 of 99 on the green first Delic Jersey, man Kirby purple 174 250 Wow Mohamed Wow like the number eight overall prospecting baseball Wow on the purple to 250 We will mad this one for you what it is kind of nice looking autograph to yeah Davis de Jesus Out of this is like the second box of Bowman that I've ripped the first one we pulled the vicaro auto That's crazy out of the two boxes O'Neil cruise rookie base Refractor shades of greatness Valesquez last place Yeah, send me that Got purple shimmer Ricardo Cabrera for the Reds 46 out of 250 Jordan Walker Anthony Volpe Andrew Painter Rodriguez Jackson Churrio Marcelo Meyer Ellie De La Cruz Trout's Hernandez shades of greatness if you're watching on tiktok Be sure to click the link and buy us where you can hop in doing some personals until 3 p.m. Eastern actor of Jorge Valera We have a Bowman Chrome prospect auto redemption of Ricardo Cabrera for the Reds Redemption for your second hit there Mohamed Rivera's Wreckley Forge Smith Marcelo Meyer. We've got fuchsia Manny Machado. That one is 117 of 2.99 Morbell Self run Came to the league of Jorge Valera and Last pack here for you James Altman Acunha and Blaze Jordan. I'll do it for Bowman Let's go ahead and do f1 f1 hobby All right, Super Bowl mixer is done. It is posting at 3 p.m. Eastern 400 box mixer. Do not Miss that 3 p.m. Eastern. We're just gonna be posting that so about two hours Two hours All right, here we go. Good luck Mohamed Ferrari refractor. Hi, so thanks for checking us out Hope you're having a great day Alphatari refractor and we've got Seidel on the purple that is 14 of 399 from McLaren Refractor speed dimmins Leclerc mixer is bonkers says forest Staffin We've got here ghastly refractor refractor Max Verstappen driver of the day for the US We've got purple and green Yuki Sonoda Ghastly and Yuki Mercedes refractor we've got here ghastly on the mini diamond for Alphatari nine out of two ninety nine weeks from today cited staff and Speed demons Lewis Hamilton pink coming up here Alphatari pink Sebastian Vettel for Aston Martin four out of 75 refractor of Lance Stroll Refractor of Vettel and Stroll Mercedes refractor Hope everyone's having a great Saturday. How many fun plans for the weekend? Haas refractor anything anyone doing anything fun? We're making some Super Bowl predictions earlier. We've got checkered flag Fernando Alonso and Yuki on the speed demons I'm predicting eagles and Bangles, what do y'all think refractor mix shoe mocker? What do y'all think? Hamilton Marcus Armstrong refractor Got a tier one. Awesome. John. I will add you to the queue. Thank you very much and Leclerc and signs alright I'll do it for F1. Let me write this order number down real quick John there shouldn't be any numbers in your order number there shouldn't be any numbers Or I'm sorry any any letters there should not be any letters in your order number Let's see up next. Let's rip Let's go with the optic basketball Optic basketball Niners to make it says playoff the eagles are good. Yeah, I don't know frock purties ready for a Super Bowl Not too sure. I Think it would be a better game to watch the Eagles make it than the Niners whether they play the chiefs or the bangles honestly You're saying that then he wants the Niners to make it better auto out of the first pack here Wow to 99 dominators auto Nikola Yokic There you go, Mohammed. Very nice About to be three years in a row NBA MVP very nice. It will mag that one for you all stars to white Howard. There we go That looks more right John one three Eight start to the box. Yeah Well, it's Highland reigning rookie hollow Kyle Kuzma. I would say he's a dominator Would you say that you could just a dominator? I would say so Brandon Boston jr. And we've got lime green of Chris stops for zincus 86 of 149 Tatum MVP For it's the Celtics lose to the Lakers tonight. I will never say Tatum The group chat ever again Orange coming up miles McBride orange Jimmy buckets for the heat 151 of 199 Revene rating threes quite Thompson But that's me right now That's literally me right now hope says he's not winning it this year. He's like outside top five in the running Jared Butler stargazing I mean, he's not outside the top number three, but I've got Brandon Boston jr. On the orange for the Clippers 133 of 199 Walker Josh Christopher Treyway Yeah, I'll pick I like off it. So he's got a clean design Doesn't change too too much each year Robinson Earl the honest Thompson hollow Colin Sexton So quick lose too many easy games with zero defense. That's Tyson Moses moody hollow dominators Joellen B. Yeah Which five ahead of Tatum?  I Agree with you Vaughn Obviously Tatum in top five. Yes Davion Mitchell Julius Randall Coral heart and hollow raider rookie of Trey man thunder Evan Mobley base raider rookie and these are even starting in the all-star game now ending with a red here Red raider rookie of Jonathan Kumminga nice one. They're 72 of 99 Very nice way to end that box for you Mohamed Sick all right these cards over Do-do-do mosaic basketball time Here we go. Let's see a stained glass now. Let's see one of the test. I Always want to say tessellations. That's football Translucent that's a good point for us. That's a good point All right, here we go Mohamed Shengun on the mosaic red Donovan Mitchell Paul rising stars mosaic of John Moran Sorry, Williams moody and Kristi art. They gave you Of course, I agree with you. I agree with you. I'm just I'm just an indeed hater because I'm a Celtics fan But Tyson says Yannis Steph the okay, it's Luca and indeed Steph you put Steph ahead of Tatum this year That's insane Harris Silver red Jay Crowder Kate Cunningham introductions Jalen Green on the rookie base and Evan Mowley rookie base Five players better in my opinion Luca Kawhi LeBron Curry and John And John I mean John's been balling this year. He just doesn't have that great of Drew holiday mosaic red bones Highland rookie nice You got a ruble bear skirmasters Sumo Keon Johnson silver Yokech Now I'm red cam reddish now. I feel like Sam and people get on him about like Great round the third Isaiah Todd. This isn't nearly as bad as poor Sam and his Ravens Yeah, why please like every third game got Spencer din witty We have whites mosaic rookie of Miles McBride. There you go. Nice hit. I love the white mosaic eight of 25 on that one It's white mosaic rookie. I also like basketball for mosaic a lot. Yeah kind of a Mitchell montage mosaic job They just like Basketball player shots like they fit in the middle of the car really well Saying a hundred percent stuff. Did you see him play last night? For instance not stop The the the warriors are the 10 seed in the West silver rookie Joshua primo red cow kuzma Dude, we literally get it. We call this Mohammed. Let's go. Let's see who it is. Where is it? the short print Tessellation no translucent see stop it. You're messing with me translucent case hit here for you, Mohammed Chris Paul little CP3 action I'm gonna see it. That's a little piece of dust at the top or if that's part of the card that's coming down Yeah, it's just a little piece of Dust there good card is not damaged. All right. Nice hit Mohammed.  Oh, of course with the basketball Oh He sent 50 basketballs Who it was Sam breaking a couple nights ago. I saw him send them tacos. I don't even know how that works I don't either the silver Damien Lillard. We got 75th anniversary of Clint Capella for the Hawks We have why rising stars of Tyler hero. It's the first white mosaic. I've seen this. This is nasty You said you pulled it you guys pull the Kade one of these Oh Mowbley Wow I like that the white of the background on that is nasty Thomas Scotty Barnes debut Don't share those basketballs with Blake until the softest compete the magic shots fired City Bay Terence man. We've got blue Ben Simmons for the Nets 43 out of 99 Or has heard the rising stars Getty rookie comminga and curry he really does Magic best 13 But we got a redemption here set that down poor Zinka silver red Dennis Schroeder Jamal Murray We've got straight fire Josh Getty. Oh look at his face in that. He's like I saw in there tremor for the third Josh Christopher Paul George.  We'll mag that one for you too. Wow. All right, let's go ahead and do a mosaic football We're gonna pull a kaboom out of the absolute we're gonna pull a tessellation out of this one I've been saying tessellation all day. So we got a full one All right. Yeah, there's your rookie says Carl. Very true All right, here we go Dotson rookie Vonte Wyatt Trayvon Walker rookie base. We got blue Joey Bosa second blue bossa that we pulled seven of 79 silver Joe Nameth Zach Wilson in it to win it silver of simian rice You know, I have not opened the box of absolute yet. So that'd be something briskermelton We've got blue auto of jacquan brisker for the Bears the Bears 83 of 99 Junior Gates mosaic red Deontay Johnson blue chips Drake London not on the track What about Pierre strong Yo Pierre you won't come on here Carson strong Ferguson mosaic rookie of Traylin Burks on the debut silver Tyler Aligier CD lamb. No good. I said it good. That's uh-huh. No, yeah Straight fire Tom Brady. That's a cool one Brian Robinson junior Lewis sign we've got John Mechie the third mosaic red Antoine Winfield junior LA and Zach Wilson montage silver Kirk the Q You refresh see what it's looking like here for you Desmond Ritter debut Take one Thornton. We've got a Donovan McNabb on the red auto Love to scambles soup commercials with his mom. Those are the best Nice McNabb again. These reds are not numbered. That's cool though. Nice autograph Homids on a streak man. Yeah mosaic la visca chanel silver war and moon crystal lava introductions There's one two three four people in queue right now So I probably say about 45 minute queue Kirk about 45 minutes right now Kind of walker again if you're watching on tiktok be sure to check out our website link in the bio George Pickens Ricky debut Devon Lloyd Xavier McKinney. We've got purple for the Jags a Christian Kirk Christian Kirk that is six out of 49 purple mosaic Dan Marino and swagger of Josh Allen No, but now you got help Yeah, that's a really good point for us very valid point Hamilton Mathias They've got Kyle juice check silver nausea Metamastry and mosaic blue chips rookie Trayvon Walker. Is that a straight? No, it was not Yeah, I just want to show it. That was not a gold. No Montsauce Garner debut Naylor, Sam Howe. We've got mosaic rookie of Grey Glitch Red Carson strong rookie blue chips John Dotson and center stage Kurt Warner It's kind of miscut right there. You kind of see whatever card was next to it on that Drake London debut Collar Bailey zappy on the rookie base got David Montgomery mosaic silver Tom Brady MVP Derek Henry and Tom Brady silver at Stairmasters Last pack of mosaic that we're gonna end here with absolute Yeah That is true Daxon Hill sauce gardener rookie. We've got mosaic AJ Brown Red de hop little color match there for Zona Stairmasters Tom Brady and blue center stage color match here drew blood. So 73 of 99 matches that Jersey there the sharp looking card. All right Ending this personal Muhammad with absolute. Come on Kaboom We're three autos in two memorabilia cards. First box is absolute God JK Dobbins Dalton Schultz rookie to 275 of Tyler Allege here algae Now we've got Steelers Calvin Austin the third on the triple relic auto 292 of 399 Steelers Let's do it and orange last call to 75 color match Evan McPherson. Um, these are Personals DJ. These are personals. Our link is in the bio if you'd like to hop in Rip until 3 p.m. Easter and Tyree kill Michael Thomas Got tools of the trade dual relic to 199 Jalen wall and Colts rookie auto to 199 Jalani woods The most looks kind of like Justin Fields autograph, doesn't it? In red to 100 Jair Alexander.  Wow three and five Johan Dodson the Duke Wilson football patch. That is nasty. 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Behind me, I have the Sunstream Evolve 20 Fire and Fruits Sauna. This is a really good sauna. So it comes with this remote and I can change the colors. And they do have that good Cedar Smelt, which I love. Hey, it's Alex here from AlexFurgus.com. Behind me, I have the Sunstream Evolve 20 Fire and Fruits Sauna. This is a two man sauna and I've been using it for the last three months now. So in this video, I'm going to do a comprehensive review of this sauna. I'm going to share my insights and feedback and experiences from the sauna. Also, you're going to look at some of the features of the sauna such as the materials used, wavelength submitted, we're going to look at price, warranty, accessories. Yeah, it's going to be everything. Um, if you'd prefer to read, head over to AlexFurgus.com. As I have written the comprehensive article reviewing the sauna, including lots of photos and a lot more details. So I'll put a link to that below. Otherwise, be sure to hang around for the next 10 minutes or so as we take a good look at this rather unheard of, not that common sauna. And, um, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you do watch this video, you'll be pleasantly surprised because you may find another sauna to add to your potential shopping list. All right. So first things first, let's have a look at the sauna. It is the Evolve 20, which means it is a two man sauna. I'm sorry. I can't get a bit of camera angle. I'm a little bit cramped for space here because of the clear light sauna, but hopefully you can get a pretty good look at what the loud is like. Um, you can see the panels inside come up to about shoulder height. If we open up the sauna inside, you can see there's actually a massive heater on the front, which is very rare for, um, fire, fire and fruit sauna companies. Usually they have nothing and if they do, it'll be a thin sauna, uh, thin infrared panel. So that's cool. There are also panels on the floor, which is great. And then on the back of the sea. So you have a full 360 degree, uh, heater panel placement, which is great. The sauna itself is made out of basewood. So this sauna, the Evolve 20 has a full glass front. So it has a glass door and obviously the heater panel here is, is grayed out, but then you'll, you also have these two sheets of glass on the side here. So it actually looks really cool. Um, from a distance, unfortunately, it's very hard for me to get a shot.   And, uh, a little holder for it, and that simply hangs on the wooden frame, uh, like so. And the idea is you put some of your favorite essential oils in there and, um, that will burn off with the heat and help. The cool thing is these, uh, seats back supports. I don't know what they're called. Back rest. Yeah, back rest. Comes with two of them. They both look the same. Just to show this to, uh, they are cedar wood. So that's slightly different color to the base wood here. And they do have, um, they good cedar smell, which I love. So I have one against that wall, one against the back, and then I can sit and then I can sit in there with my feet up and I'm not coming into contact with any of the panels. Uh, next is this cup holder. And again, some of these, like I said, some of these things you might be like, oh, you know, it's the gimmicky or not, or it's not worth much. But I don't want to see, um, this is very, very useful. Now, um, the idea is it comes with some screws and you just screw it in wherever you want. And then once it's in place, you can rest your cup and all your drink bottle in like so. The towel, uh, Sunstream Infrared Saunas towel, which is cool. I mean, they didn't have to do that. Um, and it's not going to be the difference between buying this, this sauna or not, but it is a nice little add-on and it will definitely come in handy. A sauna hat also labeled with the Sunstream sauna logo. And it also comes with a brush, which you can use to help with blood flow when you're in the sauna. So all of that is included in the price, which I think is, is, is awesome. I mean, there's a lot of value there.  Um, so big, big thumbs up, double thumbs up there for, um, Sunstream Saunas on that front. One of the first things I want to talk about is the materials used in the sauna. So the sauna is made up of 100% basewood, buswood, basewood. I'm not too sure how you pronounce it, but that's what it's made with. Now, um, why do I mention 100%? Well, some other saunas, including very popular well-named premium, uh, infrared saunas claim to use 100% or exclusive seed or whatever timber it is. But then when you have a look on the, on the roof or internal, um, walls, you actually find they use, uh, plywood and, uh, synthetic processed woods, which can, um, often do contain VOCs, formaldehyde and other potential toxins. Now this sauna, Sunstream, they only use basewood or base, buswood, I don't know how to pronounce it, which is great. And I've got up on the ceiling. I'll show you soon. There is basewood panels at the top underneath on the side, all these safety rails, all safe quality toxin-free timber, which is great. Um, the only thing that's not basewood is the becarus, which I'll show, uh, soon. And I think that, that made I have seen it. So that's fine. Now, why is this an issue? Well, why could this be an issue? If you're sitting inside a sauna, chances are you're doing it for health, right? You purchase a sauna for the health benefits. You use the sauna for health benefits, which is great. Now, saunas get hot. If the materials inside were there, it is plastics or timbers or these process timbers like, um, plywood and particle board. The glues, the chemicals that I've used, they'll use to make these materials can off gas. So if you're sitting in a confined space with a door shut and you're heating it, these materials can off gas pretty much putting out these chemicals into the air. And now, of course, you're sitting in this room for this box for 20, 30, 40 minutes. You're going to breathe these chemicals in and absorb them. And I've written an article on how toxins can literally cause you to gain fat and the link to all sorts of health issues. I'll put a link to that in the show notes below. You can go to elixirist.com for more. So it's great knowing that the sauna is made 100% from natural wood, but not only natural wood, it's made from base wood. But if you hit to the wood database website, which is a really great website, by the way, they'll talk about, uh, they look at allergy and toxicity levels of various woods. Now out of all the common, um, sauna woods, so you have Cedar, you have base wood, you have Hemlock, um, there's a few others out there. This base wood actually comes out as the best. It is perpetually free of any, um, allergens and there are no toxicity issues. Now, Sunstream have used a glue. I forget the name. It's in my blog at elixirist.com, but this glue is a food grade glue. It's been approved by the FDA for use and, um, food grade products. All right, let's take a quick look up top to see what's on the top of the sauna. As you can see there, it is the same base wood material, quick comparison to the clear light sauna I have over here. And you can see it's made out of particle board. All right, so now I want to talk about the EMF levels emitted from this Sunstream sauna. Now, if you go to the Sunstream website, Sunstream.com or infraredsaunas.co.nz for those that are in New Zealand or Australia, you will see that the manufacturer states that their saunas are virtually free of any EMF and ELF radiation, which is a big claim, especially as saunas are well known to have high EMF readings. I mean, people talk about sitting inside some of these cheap infrared saunas you see on the market and effectively microwaving themselves. And again, if you're buying a sauna to use something in the name of health, you don't want to be sitting inside something that is radiating the body and causing another stress. But in that shell, the manufacturer was correct. There is virtually no EMF or ELF output from the sauna. And I tested that at half an inch from the panels, pretty much assuming I was sitting right next to the panels, which of course is what you do. I tested for microwave, magnetic field, and electric field, and I have this set to very strict building biology standards. And that means every reading will get a green, a yellow or a red green being safe, yellow being, you know, dangerous, red being extremely dangerous. Now, for all three readings, microwave, electric and magnetic, the quantity that stayed in the green zone, which means that this sauna is 100% safe from an EMF and ELF point of view. Next up, let's look at the wavelength. So infrared saunas primarily use what's called far infrared to heat the body to work. That's how they work. All right, these heated panels behind me take electricity and they convert that into far infrared light waves. That far infrared ray penetrates the body causes a therapeutic sweat effect, heats the body tissues and, you know, you get all the good things from infrared saunas as a result. And I've written an article on that as well. So you can go over to AlexFugus.com to check that out. I'll put links to all these articles below. What's happened in the infrared sauna space is that some saunas are coming out now with full spectrum saunas. And these saunas use panels or add on accessories, lights, heaters that also emit near and mid infrared rays. Now there is some science showing that this can be beneficial, but there's also some science showing that the near infrared rays in particular can in fact be damaging when it's emitted in high levels in a high heat environment, which is exactly what you're doing in a sauna.  In fact, I've written article on near infrared, the benefits of near infrared light. However, the benefits are quite particular that around certain wavelengths such as 850 nanometers and exclusively the science looks exclusively at that wavelength, not the spectrum of wavelengths. And again, it doesn't look at heat. So to reap the benefits of near infrared light, I actually use a near infrared panel that uses LEDs instead of carbon or ceramic or incandescent bulbs. And Sunstream, what Sunstream have decided to do, because they've looked at the same research and they'll figure out the same things that I have and they've come to the same conclusion. Fine infrared is very, very powerful for health, healing, sweat, detoxification. Near infrared also has therapeutic benefits, but when you combine the two, there are potential issues. So what they've done is that the evolves on us. What I'm sitting in right now emits a fine infrared rays with a little bit of mid and zero near infrared. Now, some people will see this and think, oh, well, I want the full spectrum sauna because that has more rays, you know, it has the near infrared as well, but they don't see the full picture. They don't see the story with the near infrared issues. But like I said, near infrared rays do have some benefits. So what Sunstream have have developed is a dedicated evolve light therapy light. Now that comes with a panel about Yabek and it uses LED lights and it hangs on the outside of the sauna. So you can use that one of the sauna, the evolve sauna is heating up and then you can get the benefits of near infrared light from a safe LED panel and then you enter the sauna and get the benefits of fire for it. I guess what I'm saying is to get the best results from fire for it near for it, you should separate them. Don't try to combine them. As soon as you try to combine them, the science gets a little bit messy. And you know, when you're spending thousands of dollars, you want to get something that you know is going to be safe and is going to work well. Behind me, you can see the big heater panel on my right. You can see another panel on my left, a third panel. Now in front of me, you also see a big panel, which pretty much goes down to my ankles and comes up to say chest height. That's the 360 degree set up, which is which is pretty cool and it's quite a route to be honest and that infrared sauna market. But there's more below me. You see the panel on the floor. Let's radiate and heat up and then you see the panel on the back of the bench seat. That shining onto the back of my legs. So you're getting exposure from all angles pretty much everything except for head down, which you don't really want. You know top down and I explain why and much more detail in my written review over at AlexFegers.com. So go check that out. Likewise with all the stuff around Wavelengths and AMF, AlexFegers.com. I'll put links to the forward and review over there. So yeah, I highly recommend checking that out if you're serious about buying one of these saunas. But the great thing about this arrangement is you can be sitting in the sauna and you're getting hit from the left, the front, the right behind you and bottom up and click in the back of your legs. And like I said, not many saunas do that even better. As you'll notice that the sauna the heater panels and you go to about shoulder height in front of me, it's about chest height. All right. Another thing to remember is when you when you get in an infrared sauna, you're not trying to heat the air temperature. It's not an environment, ambient air temperature heat that you're looking for. And that's what dry saunas do. All right when you get in and you're like this is hot and you sweat as a result, infrared saunas work differently. You're actually looking to get maximal penetration from the infrared race and you want to get maximum maximum maximum penetrate maximum exposure from these infrared rays onto the body, which is why this whole 360 degree setup is actually really good because if you only had panels on the side and behind you, you're missing out that whole entire front plane. Another thing I should mention about the heater panels in the Suntrim sauna is that they use what's called nano carbon technology. Now a lot of infrared saunas use carbon heaters. Some use ceramic. Some use incandescent halogen, all sorts of technologies based on my experiences with saunas and the research I've done. Carbon heaters are the best. So this is great that I've got this. But the nano carbon heaters are even better. And again, I don't understand like the electrical engineering side of things that's going into it, but I do know as a result their EMF levels are virtually zero and from an output point of view, you sweat a lot. Another cool feature that this sauna has is you can actually remove these wooden protection, protect wooden slap protectors. This removable slap feature comes in handy when you want to clean the bottom sauna panel because I don't know if you can see it, but that's quite good. I haven't cleaned that for two or three sessions. No, I'm not super grubby. I was actually just waiting to show you this review. So I can pull that up, wipe that down after the sauna's cooled down. And you're back to a nice clean panel. All right. Now I want to talk about layout, size and layout. So this is a two man sauna. That means you can fit two people side by side. I mean, you could get three, but it'll be quite squishy. Two man sauna. Now there are benefits of getting a smaller sauna. I know you have anything as long as you think, well, let's get the biggest one that I can afford. But the benefits of getting a smaller, smaller sauna include a smaller price. Obviously, it's much, much cheaper to buy a smaller sauna, less energy to heat. The bigger the sauna, the more heat is and more electricity cost, the more it's going to cost to run. It's quicker to heat up the smaller the sauna by getting within a few minutes. If you want to get into a hot environment, you know, it's going to be a lot faster. And a smaller footprint. You know, maybe you can find on space and you don't have a big garage or a spare room. So don't always rush to to buy in the biggest sauna possible. I mean, sure, it would be nice having a massive one if you can afford it, but most people don't need them. And in fact, I've had my three man sauna for a couple years and I've had this for a few months. And there's only been one or two times when I've had multiple people like myself and someone else in the sauna. I'd say 95% of the time it's just me.  You can just leave it there as a bench. You know, you put your paper on there or a bottle or you can do this. Put it into the corner and stretch out like so. Now, all of a sudden I'm in a two man sauna but I can stretch out. I'm 5'10. What's that? A meter 78 and I can lean it. Lean back in the corner. My legs are straight. I'm relaxed. I also had this back roast behind me for a little bit extra space. You can remove that. So now I want to look at the features of this sauna. So it's a pretty simple. You get in, you turn the mind, you set the temperature and you start sweating. It's not really too much to think about. And the same is true for this sauna. If I show you the control panel, there's rather straight forward. Hit power. Time it comes on. You set how long you want the sauna to run for plus or minus is and then the temperature 65 degrees Celsius being maximum. You can turn the light on which I should have done before. Sorry, makes it a bit easier to see or you can turn it off. And this sauna, the Sunstream sauna also has an intensity setting which is pretty cool. I've never thought about this function in other saunas, but it is rather handy. So you can go 50% intensity, 100% 75. What are the other features in the sauna? Above me, you can see two speakers. These are Kenwood speakers. They're actually really good speakers. A lot of saunas infrared saunas will just use cheap the cheaper speakers they can get. I mean, in all honesty, you're not having a party in the sauna.  You only want sound in a small space, but hey, you want decent sound, right? So this one is this speaker is really good, which is great. I've already mentioned the intensity on the control panel. There's nothing really else to mention on that front. They do have Bluetooth connectivity for the speakers. So that's a simple function of getting your phone out, finding the device syncing and then you play your music or your videos through the speakers. Very easy. You can disable that Bluetooth if you don't want to use it at all, which is great. So it comes with this remote, which has various options and various colors on it. And then above me is the LED unit. So I can turn that on and I can change the colors like so. Now it looks like I am having a party in here, right? Um, and you can even change the brightness. So I can go really bright or I can go quite dull and you can go program settings and it will alternate between colors. You can do all sorts of stuff. Now, I've always thought they're a little bit gimmicky, but I found this actually has its benefits because the light in this sauna is quite bright. Now, I often use my sauna in the evening and I don't know if you know about blue light, blue light and how it impacts melatonin and stuff. I'll put an article below if you want to read more about that. But getting into a bright sauna can be a bit stimulating, right? So you turn the light off, but of course, if it's nighttime, it's quite dark in here. Now this chroma therapy or color therapy unit is actually pretty cool because I can turn it on and set it on like red or amber and I know I'm not suppressing melatonin. It's a nice relaxing color. I often find these things have reasonably high flicker rates. Now I've written out of one flicker everything you need to know about flicker and how light flicker in health. I've tested some in the past and yet the flicker rates are quite high. That can be a stressor to the body can cause, you know, headaches and whatnot. I've never noticed anything with this going on, but you may see on the screen I can see it on my little preview screen here. How there's a light line coming down as soon as I turn that off it will disappear. So that's something to do with the frequency fluctuation of that light. All right, so we're coming to the business end of this review. That means we talk about price. So this Sunstream Evolve 20 two man sauna with ultra low EMF made with non-toxic wood with amazing panel set up 360 degree panel set up that cost just under $4,000 US US dollars. All right, which is pretty good price considering what you're getting because you also get all those accessories. You also get lifetime warranty, which is incredible when you stop and think about it. You know, there's a warranty on this forever, which is amazing. Shipping is dependent dependent on where you live. They have depots in USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. But you may have to pay a shipping fee depending if you're outside the big cities and the big hubs, but there's something you can find out over at Sunstream Saunas.com. So three thousand three thousand nine hundred I think it was for this particular sauna. Now, given that this is something that you know, I'm going to use a couple of times a week, hopefully for a very long time. I mean, if you work it out on a session per use basis, you know, it's very easy to justify that expense. But I guess if you're watching this, you're not you're not thinking should I spend the money on a sauna or not? You're probably coming into this thinking should I buy this brand or that brand or another brand, right? So obviously this isn't a comparison guide. I do have an infrared sauna by a guide video an article so you can check them out if you do want to find out more about Saunas and which one's the best. For you. Otherwise, just leave a comment below or hit over to my site and send me an email. But yeah, that's I guess what you need to know. I think this is good value for what you get, especially when you do compare it to some of the other brands. What are my thoughts with this evolve sauna? Pretty much. I think it's amazing. Like seriously, it's it's really good value. It takes all the boxes from a health point of view. It looks great. It works.  It's incredible how fast you sweat. I haven't had any issues with technical side of things. There was one little humming sound that I had, which I found I think was an issue with my house unit, but that's all being resolved. There was one thing that I don't like and that is how the control unit is inside in the back corner with my clear light sauna. It is on the external. You know, you can access it from outside as well as inside.  Now with this one, I have to walk in, open the door, reach and turn it on. I know it's not a big thing, but I don't know that if I had to be picky, I guess that would be the one little downside, I guess of this sauna. And check out all those articles over at alkswift.com. I'll put links to them all below. This heaps is an infrared sauna by his guide. There's the EMF video for this sauna. There's going to be my head-to-head comparison clear light with the sunscreen. Red light therapy articles, everything. All right. So everything I talked about and I never talked about a lot of stuff. There's my voice. My mouth is going dry. So it has been a long one. I apologize. But that's the end. And if you do have questions, leave them below. Otherwise, head over to alkswift.com. I'm going to sign out. Be sure to give me a thumbs up, subscribe and do all that cool stuff. I really do appreciate it. I promise. And yeah, if you get a sauna, let me know what you think of it. Leave a comment or if you have one. I'm curious. Bye.


on the artist side, like one bit of advice is just take your time while doing these campaigns. It's going to be so much more beneficial. And you'll also learn a lot about your music and where this fits in terms of like the genre spectrums, you know, and also it can open doors in terms of insights as well, you know, could, you know, different fans, you know, you could be like, okay, sweet, I'm actually fitting into a lot of these playlists. Maybe I should start applying for gigs more in this direction, this genre direction than what I was doing before. So, yeah, it's a very beneficial process. It's a lengthy process, but yeah, being objective and doing this research and doing two diligence really pays dividends in the end. Right, right. I can definitely see that, like, paying off after you do all the work, right now you have it, right? You don't have to do that research, you just stay in the bag and continue to create. And I hadn't thought about even thinking about how your gigs and the rest of your branding might change on what you get from the playlist feedback. That's dope. I mean, along those same lines, right, in terms of artist accountability, because I think these are really important subjects. You mentioned bought a playlist and not knowing being able to guarantee a specific number. So it's 2022. I don't like to date interviews or whatever, but it is. And I feel like that message has been out so long yet I still have conversations with artists, whether it's for me to work for them or they're asking for my advice on the decision they're making. And many people still say, well, can you guarantee this or what's going to be my return on ad spend or how much money am I going to make back from getting on these playlists? All right, there's still that mentality.  And you've heard from all these other business conversations outside of music, right, that you should be looking at these types of metrics to make sure it's worth an investment. I get it, right? But that's things everybody pretty much acknowledges like the music industry is a little bit flipped. It's a little bit different, right? So I want to ask you, why do you think, well, no, why can nobody guarantee an amount of streams from a play listing standpoint? And then I want to get a little bit more into just the music industry and how it works from your perspective. But why do they, can you not guarantee streams? I think the simple answer is because they fluctuate. If you have real listeners on your playlists, the process of curating and building a brand and building out these playlists, the way you get these listeners is you really put a comprehensive list that works together of amazing music and selections. However, you've got to get these people coming back. Every time you make an update, there's not just the one-time thing. They're returning customers on the curator side. So there's that human element that just doesn't make it guaranteed in that sense.  And they're saying, I think the main thing around that is because there is data to support estimates and you look at your Spotify for artists and curators do have insights along these lines. But if they're like, okay, pay me $20, I can get you placed on a playlist that's going to guarantee you this, not in the terms of feedback or in terms of a submission, but in terms of pay for placement, which is Payola. This is when the red flags are waived. And this is when, okay, this is all basically a big sale scam. It's just not, it's just something you can guarantee. And like when you start adding up the red flags, it's just, yeah, it's something that it becomes quite obvious what's legitimate and what you can avoid. So yeah, to some it's the human element of it mixed also with the other sort of supporting layers of how the submission process is done, for example, whether it is just paying straight up replacement or paying for feedback from a curator or for a submission. So what do you say to the artists that says, how am I going to get my money back from this playlisting? I would say in terms of money, I think that's not just about playlisting. I think that's the state of streaming platforms and the royalty rates in general. I think there's a bigger issue at hand with regards to that. It's it's, realistically, unless you're able to drive hundreds of thousands to millions of streams of playlisting campaign, which just to put into context is most likely not going to happen, really not going to happen. Yeah, I think putting into context like that, I think you're never going to necessarily make your money back like one for one or be in profit from a playlisting campaign. What playlisting campaigns are is obviously about like marketing and promotion and like finding new fans. And it's about having an objective is the way I like to look at it. So when you're going into a playlisting campaign, you can just look at streams as an objective. But what's the most sort of like, I guess, tangible thing is like seeing your Spotify followers going up, because then that's getting the people within your ecosystem. So when you have your next release, if they start following you, you're going to come up on their release radar. It's also to start to learn about where your music works. It's all about the analytics and insights that are provided through these campaigns. So yeah, it's an investment, obviously, and it's unfortunate that it doesn't tend to be like a one to one or like even a profitable return. But the insights you can gain from playlisting and the knock kind of effect it can have, let's say you do a playlisting campaign, you then hit the right playlist that then sort of starts triggering a load of other playlist ads, you then finding new fans, you then get picked up by the Spotify algorithm, you then get added into the different yeah, the different playlist by Spotify. And then, you know, then you might get picked up by manager or a label because you're in like the fresh finds, for example, I know many artist managers who are in that fresh finds like every week just scouting through and I know many artists who've also been signed because of their songs being in fresh finds. So it's more, again, to sum it up, it's not about the, in my opinion, the sort of return in profits is about what you can get analytics wise, insights wise. And also if you do hit that golden like campaign, like taking the opportunities that sort of come that way and opening the doors that possibly wouldn't have been there if you hadn't conducted the campaign in the first place. Nice. That's a great, great answer to that. It's way better than what I tell people. Just as it makes I really don't go far beyond the fact that like a one to one return early on when you're investing in your music just shouldn't be expected. That's a more of a long term investment before you start to see a return. And once you hit that exponential curve, you have to build up from any type of campaign, multiple types of campaigns, right? It's not even a one off campaign, most likely, that you're going to do. You're not likely not going to do one campaign or even two campaigns before you start seeing money back. It's going to be a combination of campaigns invested over time, some paid, some not paid that deals to audience and gives you a position where you can then monetize, right? So it's pretty much that. But I love especially the insights and the way that you can leverage opportunities that come from playlisting. I like how you broke that down.