Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a Jumbo case of 2022 Tops Chrome Baseball. This is a pick your team, 13. And we're adding those silver pack per box situation here. All cards, chip, a lot of great stuff. There's the case, fresh case. And good luck to everyone here. Thanks to everybody for getting in on it. If you had a little rooftop next to you name, that means you won that spot, that team in the team random. If you have TC Jumbo next to you, that means you won that team random spot in a team random filler. Russell with the triple last bottom mojo got the angels, Padres and Rangers before we pulled the remaining teams out for that random. Looks like Yankees looking like they're gonna go down O2 in the series here. They're down to their last out. They're down 3-2 or 2-3. Josh Donaldson trying to keep this game alive. There's five autographs per box on average. I heard that in my head. I heard that broadcaster's voice in my head. The Yankees lose. Johnson's a Red Sox guys. I don't think he really cares too much about the Yankees. 3-1 to Josh Donaldson. Will he keep this game alive? All right, and all card ships, so if I happen to miss like a parallel or a variation or something like that, don't worry, it'll get to you. Ooh, the low strike called. The count is full. 3-2 to count, two outs, top of the ninth. Yankees down by one. Josh Donaldson trying to keep game two alive. Ooh, it's a walk. All right, Jumbo box one. Now who's up? We've got a Shane Bieber, Purple Speckle, 140 out of 2.99 for Gregory and Cleveland. Behind Joe Ryan is a Jordan Alvarez. It's pretty good. Goes to the Astros, Keith, looks like Matt Carpenter. Is gonna try to keep the game alive. And there's our first autograph in the first box. That's Yoni Hernandez, Blue Lava, little color match there. And that's for Russell and the Rangers, one of his Last Bot Mojo teams. Last Bot Mojo, Russell, 70% of the time, hits 100% of the time. 19 out of 150. Got a Ryan Zimmerman and a Chris Bryant here. Uh-oh, Carpenter's already down 0-2. There's Nicoladolo. Gold. Autograph, 38 out of 50. That's for Cincinnati, that'll be for John. Aaron Ashby, Aqua. Ooh. They call it a strike? I think so, yeah, that's that. 35 out of 199, Aaron Ashby. So the Brew Crew, that'll be for Gary and we got Wander Franco for the Rays. That's gonna be for Jeremy. Behind Gouriel is Jesse Winker. He's a winker. That goes to John and the Red Legs. So Astros win 3-2, taking a 2-0 lead in the seven-game series, 1-27, 9-2-50. The series now goes back to New York, I believe, so. Right, 2-3-2? And there's Alfonso Reves. So that's only four autographs, did I miss an auto? It does, it is on average, so let me just double check. Sometimes the ink can be a little thin, it's hard to spot. Aha, Zach Thompson is your fifth auto. And that is for Stephen in the Marlins. Suppose our sorting and chipping team would have found this, but we'll do an autograph recap at the end as well. I need to switch up channels here. The sports equinox, a lot going on. All right, so the baseball game is over. I'm gonna switch things over to the MLS playoff game, the Western Converning semi-final between LAFC, the upstarts of Los Angeles and my club, LA Galaxy. They're already down a goal in the 35th minute. My Lakers down by four against the Clippers, I think they're approaching halftime. Sports equinox, a lot going on. Another jumbo box. We got a blue wave, Kevin Gosman, 60S75, a little color match with the Blue Jays. Derek, and there's a Taiwan Walker autograph for the Metropolitan's. That's Carl with the extra spot that he won in the team random, and that turned into the Mets and this turns into a Taiwan Walker 243 out of 499. Autograph, there's a Max Fried, Magenta Speckle, 151 out of 350 for the Braves, that'll be for Michael and the Braves, and we got Jake Cousins. Autograph for Gary and the Brew Crew. All right, Lakers going to the half. Oh, almost the half, 0.7 seconds up. We're tied, 56-56 with the Clippers. Now it's officially halftime. There's Tyler Gilbert, rookie autograph for Jonathan and the Diamondbacks. There you go, Jonathan. And then we got a Romy Gonzalez, rookie autograph for the White Sox, that'll be for Joe Christian in the White Sox, Josiah Gray, Gansby Swanson and Freddie Peralta, Purple Speckle autograph. That's for Gary and the Brewers. Nice, won that spot in the filler, 141 out of 299. The Sonny Gray will go to the Reds, that'll be for John. All right. Another five in the books, another one coming up. L.A. Galaxy down a goal in the semi-final match here. They could pull one back before, equalize it before the half, but there's still NFL stuff happening. Oh, I guess some scoring on it after a few Thursdays without too much scoring. Got a lot of points here. Cardinals 42, St. 24, and they have the ball. Three interception day for Andy Dalton, but also three touchdowns. I wonder what the record is for the most touchdowns and interceptions in a single game. And I wonder if that record is held by Andy Dalton's teammate, James Winston, in his famous 30-30 year. What was it, 30 touchdowns and 30 interceptions? Maybe a little bit over 30, but still a pretty impressive feat. There's Trey Mancini, Aqua Wave Autograph, Orioles, Carl with the O's, 61 out of 199. There's Michael Brantley, Aqua Wave 142 out of 199. That's for Keith and the Astros. And that's a goal for the Galaxy, nice. And there's Keeber Ruiz, using a big part of the canvas there. I like it. Mark with the Nationals, former Dodger prospect. Let's see that goal. Correct, so you have to build display for the local food pantry. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for food, I don't know if the FDA would approve the vet commons as a food source. If it was, we'd gladly donate. There's Andrew McCutchen, 133 out of 350. And there's Jake Berger. That'll be for Joe Christian and the White Sox. And behind Luis Garcia is a Joe Barlow, Blue Lava Auto, Rangers. And it goes to Russell. 70% of the time, 100% of the time. Last one, Mojo, 142 out of 150. Next little color match, matching up with the team. Should be one more auto in here somewhere. On average, Bobby Dalbeck, Trout, Gallo. And there it is, a Stuart Fairchild for Jonathan Kent and the Diamond Becks. And the Dalbeck also goes to you, Jonathan. The photo negative parallel. Next box, TC, what's going on, Tyler?  That's a good question. I mean, if I'm spending the rest of my life out there, I'd rather have it be Mars. Space station, we've been there, we've done that. It's cool. Feels like it's a little cramped on a space station. It's not like it's a four seasons. So I feel like spending the rest of my days on Mars seems to be a little more exciting. Is it? Something's gonna be falling back down to Earth in a few years. Just have to wait for Trump Mars. Is this still building hotels? Maybe golf courses, could be a Trump golf course out there. Next jumbo box. Maybe the space station is, are they replacing the space station? Something's being gonna eventually fall into Earth after it's used. Something else will go in its place. LAFC Galaxy game, players are getting a little chippy. There's Wander Franco and behind him a Cutter Crawford for Jonathan and the Boston Red Sox. Eight out of 25, Orange Wave Autograph. I don't know if our millionaire's gonna be hanging out on Mars? I don't think so. I think if anything it'll be scientists and geologists. I mean, I suppose they could be millionaires too, but they'll gotta try to make that spot hospital before they even try to make any money off of it. There's Zach Lothar for the Orioles, that's for Carl. Oh, the flights. Yeah, but no, but TC was talking about whether I would live on a space station or if I'd go to Mars. Not just space flights, yeah, space flights I suppose just for a millionaire. You can just go up for a second and come back down I guess. There's Rand Lau to 399, Magenta. Did you know there's a spacecraft cemetery in the South Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand where NASA and other countries purposely crash their old satellites and spacecraft? Huh. They only use that region, I'm sure they use other areas too. They don't always fall in the exact same spot. There's Hans Krause, or do they transport it there and then dump it there? It's an uninhabitable, wait, so is it like an island? Or is it just, are they sinking these to the bottom of the sea? There is Kyle Muller. Michael Osia, Braves. 34 out of 250. Wait, so it's an island in the middle of the ocean? There's Lance Lynn, 267 out of 299. Purple speckle. And there is Nick Fortes, our fifth autograph. Spacecraft Cemetery. Known more form of the South Pacific Ocean, uninhabited area is the region in the South of New Zealand where spacecraft that have reached these ones are routinely crashed. Huh. That's interesting, I did not realize that. There's roughly centered on Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. I have heard of that. I didn't realize that's where they crashed them. So like the bottom of the ocean, there's just a bunch of crashed spacecraft there, old satellites and stuff. Is that confirmed Ray? Adam's saying Christian McCaffrey to the Niners. Is that just wishful thinking or is that a confirmed report? There's also reason where they crash all chat jokes, yeah. That's mostly Rex, right? Mostly Rex's jokes, the bottom of that ocean. I'm curious if there's islands there. It says uninhabited makes it seem like there's islands there, but not inhabited. Otherwise, just the middle of the ocean. Just the middle of the ocean is always uninhabitable. But there must be like some small island spots there. Wow. Andy Dalton making things interesting. Four touchdowns, three interceptions. Now they're within what, a couple scores? For the few minutes left? This ain't going to be timeouts, though. Yeah, that's what Rex said. I have heard of that spot. Races loaded. It's exactly what Rex was saying. Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, the location farthest from land. Oh, okay. There is the source. Adam Schefter reporting it four minutes ago. Stunner, Panthers are trading Pro Bowl, running back Christian McCaffrey to the Niners in exchange for draft picks. McCaffrey returns to the Bay Area where he attended Stanford. Wow, that's pretty impressive. There's Mike Yostrzemski, purple, 200 out of 250. Shots fired from Mike Tower. Mike Tower saying, so Christian McCaffrey was sent to Point Nemo. Shots fired against the Niners. Glen Otto, Glen Otto Otto. Aqua wave autograph for the Rangers. That'll be for Russell. 63 out of 199. Just in time to play the Chiefs. Like, what do they say? Thursday, you think that's enough time for him to get in there? Ah, so there are little islands out there. Hence why they say it's uninhabitable. There's Rodolfo Castro for the Pirates. That'll be for Carl and the Buccos. Just do a Christian McCaffrey will just run Halfback Dive, the default play in Madden. I suppose he's the sort of player where you're gonna be like, here, here's the ball. Protections to your right go that way and you'll figure it out. I suppose he's good enough to do that. There's Framel Reyes, 361 to 399. I mean, that's a wildcat run right. Just go, figure it out. Framel Reyes for the Guardians. That'll be for Gregory. And a Brandon Woodruff. Another brewer for Gary. 336 out of 499, Refractor Autograph. That's a huge move for the Niners. That definitely adds a credible running threat, a pass-caching threat, multi-threats. That way, I guess you don't rely on like Garoppolo or in the future, Trey Lance having to throw the ball too often. He's just gotta stay healthy. He is, yeah. Adam Schefterman definitely pointed that out. I totally forgot about that. It was Trey Mancini. Carl Orioles. Yeah, McCaffrey returns to the Bay Area where he attended Stanford. Odell Beckham Jr., a strong candidate for the Chiefs. That would be pretty exciting for the Chiefs. Got Gold Wave, Jackson-Coarr, 49 out of 50. That'll be for Carl and the Royals. I know the Rams are still trying to bring him back, but I don't know if the, I don't know if the Caps, I don't know how all that cap stuff works, but I don't know if the cap stuff is gonna work out. There's Ronzi Contreras, another pirate autograph for Carl. Second of the box, fifth auto. I wonder what the Super Bowl odds will be for the Niners. Now, yeah, Chad. Adam broke the news about five, 10 minutes ago. Wondering how the, I wish someone would have checked the Super Bowl odds, someone will make that report. It'll be like, Super Bowl odds have changed for this to that, McCaffrey on the Niners. There's gonna be an exciting finish in this football game or no, minute left. Let's see, so the Niners are three and three. The Rams are three and three. The Seahawks are three and three. Looks like the Cardinals are gonna improve to three and four unless something wild happens in the last minute of this game. Does that, does that separate the Niners from the rest of the pack? It's got to, right? If Chris from McCaffrey can say a healthy, he's got to. Rams are just looking out of sorts. Seahawks are three and three. Not sure if they're quite gonna make it to the end threatening for a playoff spot. Cardinals, I don't know, I suppose with Deandre Hawkins back, that could be a difference maker for the Cardinals. Deandre Hawkins, that apparently has not skipped a beat. 10 receptions, 103 yards. No touchdowns, but that changes the Cardinals team. There's like a crazy stat where Kyler Murray, without Deandre Hawkins has, his stats are down significantly and wins are down as well. But with Deandre Hawkins, his stats are quite different. They're a lot better. So he really does rely on Deandre Hawkins. There's a Ronzie Contreras rookie autograph for the Pirates. Carl with the Pirates. Got a blue John Means, he's fired up right there. Means business. That's for Carl and the Orioles. And we got a Tyler McGill autograph. 214 out of 4, 99. That's for Carl and the Met, that's the free spot. Looks like Cardinals recover. That is that. A lot of points in this 30s and a half football game. Zach Lothar on 11 to 3, 99, and Ryan Vellat. I feel like there were not a lot of points for many 30s and a half football games, so I guess this one makes out for it. I was on the Saints plus two and a half, but the interceptions definitely from Andy Dalton definitely did not help pick sixes. We got Helio Ramos rookie autograph. Yeah, Spartan was asking, do you think they get rid of Baker Mayfield?  Couple years maybe? I mean, Panthers just fired the coach and like a coordinator, maybe an offense or defensive coordinator. They just traded away Baker Mayfield. They traded Robbie Anderson who wasn't happy there. Not that he's of Christian McCaffrey quality, but still, they moved him and I think they only just acquired him a couple years ago. So, I mean, maybe at this point, why not just Clean House? There's Griffin Jacks 144 to 299, Purple Speckle, and that Purple Speckle autograph will go to the twins. That'll be for John in Minnesota. Two more boxes to go. So Panthers got three draft picks for next year and another pick in a later year.  Who needs a Baker Mayfield? Not sure on Baker's contract, I don't think he was traded from the Browns. He's on IR, he's gonna miss a few weeks. I mean, why not just Sam Darnold's on IR, Matt Corral's on IR, Fisher McCaffrey's gone. You may as well just trade everybody at this point, except for like, I just throw PJ Walker out there, having him just running around and just thinking around a little bit. You know, at this point, let's move DJ Moore. Some teams that would probably, would like a DJ Moore. You know, move Chuba Hover. You know, a depth running back for a lot of teams. Move LaVisca Chanel. You know, move, I don't know, some defensive guys. Move Shaq Thompson. You know, move JC Horne. I know they just got it. Move JC Horne. Move Ryan Burns. You know, move all those guys, just stack up, stock up on draft picks. You know, use that as draft capital tank and then get one of those big quarterback names out of college that are supposed to be right? Who are the big college quarterback names? There's that Ohio State guy. CJ Stroud, I think. Alabama guy. Young, Bryce Young. You know, USC has got a decent quarterback. UCLA has got a good quarterback. I don't know if UCLA quarterback's gonna go top five, but I mean, you may as well, because at this point, you trade Christian McCaffrey. That's demoralizing for the team, definitely for the fan base. And then, I mean, and then at this point, you may as well just say, all right, listen, we're tanking, we're rebuilding.  Yeah, Matt Corral, I just mentioned Jilo, is on IR. So I don't know if they could really give him, I don't know when he comes back, but I suppose I could take a look at him when he comes back off the IR. So, Wanderfranco rookie refractor. Reyes, that's for Jeremy. Baker Mayfield traded to the pass for a conditional fifth round pick. There's Oliver Ortega, that's for the Halos, that's gonna be for Russell. Another one of his last spot mojo teams hitting. I think all three have gotten something? No, Padres needs something. We've got Nick Casianos, Blue Wave, to 75. And Alfonso Rivas, rookie autograph for the Cubs, that's gonna be for Adam Cupperman and the Cubbies. 34 to 499. Wait, I don't know, Jason, did you hear the news? Yeah, I did. Chris McCaffrey to the nine. It's a lot of picks, bro. It's a lot of picks. We're an injured problem running back. Drew Ellis, rookie autograph for Jonathan. I was just talking to Nick about it. I was like, I have to remember it in both of my leagues that I've been stashing him since I drafted him, like late in the picks.  And I was literally about to drop him this week because I have so many Eagles that are out. And it looks like, yeah, you should keep him now. He'll get some playing time now. Let's see what we get. You did pretty well after that, bro. But might as well trade him, too. Joey Gallo Green, 17 out of 99. Jake Berger, Lindor. And we got Mason Jar Thompson. I feel like that would have been his nickname if he was playing in the 1920s. Old Mason Jar Thompson. Mason Jar Thompson into the lineup. 116 out of 150. Goes to Mark and the Nats. We got a Whitmerefield Relic. That'll be for the Royals. Carl with Kansas City. 34 out of 99. And there's our fifth autograph of the box, Brian Della Cruz. That's Steven with the Marlins. All right, final box coming up. Spartans reporting that the new Call of Duty is coming out. Might see Kyler Murray. Production fall off a little bit. According to Spotrack or Spotrack, I don't know how you say it. That site opens up. Looks like everyone's going to that site. 504 Gateway Timeout. Let's go to overthecap.com. I think he's an unrestricted free agent after this season. So maybe they'll just kind of ride it out and then just sort of tank, start over, get a new quarterback or something. Gotta start the rebuild, find a new coach, figure all that out. Luke Voight. Yankees. That'll be for Carl and the Bronx bombers. Yankees down 0-2 in the ALCS. Going back home to New York. Figure things out there along with that guy. Galaxy tied at one. Let's take a peek at the Lakers game. Lakers down by 15. The third question is not good for the Lakers. Did you hear that? I can't, that's ridiculous. 17-nothing run. Did it blow it up? Trade LeBron. They couldn't, but there's Reed Detmerz. 321 out of 350. Trade Westbrook, trade the picks, get Miles Turner, get Buddy Heald on this team. F the picks, get Kyrie next summer. And there you go, that's a much better looking team than what I'm seeing right now. There's Witt Merrifield, Aqua Wave, and another Wanderfranco refractor. Can't be. Yeah, you can't do that. That's not a playoff team. Cool, Witt Merrifield is going to the Royals. That'll be for Carl, and another refractor, Wanderfranco. That goes to Jeremy Port and the Reyes. One that's, that team random spot in a different filler, then got randomized to the Reyes. That's a nice little parlay there. All right, let's switch back to a more competitive matchup here, MLS game. With more bigger implications, just the Western Conference semi-finals. Everyone's excited about the MLS Western Conference finals, right? Lakers playing for Victor Wenbanyama, they're acting like it. There's Matt Veerling, rookie auto for the Phillies, that'll be for Mark, Ben Simmons. I mean, that would be a lateral move. That's like, Lakers need shooting, Terry. That's the problem. I don't think Ben Simmons is gonna offer shooting for the Lakers. Buddy Heald will at least, Buddy Heald will at least provide some shooting. Thought the Galaxy was a WNBA team. You're thinking of the Sparks, the LA Sparks, or our WNBA team. There's Yoni Hernandez. Oh, you were kidding. I thought you were serious, Terry. I was like, that's a bad take. Ben Simmons. That's for the Rangers, another one for Russell. Another Ranger for Russ. I'm all for it, Mike Tower. One, two, three, four, should be one more auto in here. We'll do a recap. And it's Tyler McGill, Wanderfranco Hyper, and a Riley Adams to close things out. Nice little finish there. So Blue Lava, Riley Adams, Mark L with the Nets. That's 113 out of 150. The Tyler McGill, 32 out of 150. That's for the Mets, that's for Carl. And the Wanderfranco Hyper Parallel for Jeremy and the Rays. All those parallels add up. Wish we would have saw him more in the playoffs, but maybe next year for the Rays. Now, Silver Packs. This is where those short prints are hiding. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One per box. I vaguely remember the movie, Battle for LA with the Aliens. Was it Aliens versus Predator, or was it called Battle for LA? The Lakers, well, we don't have a promotion relegation system, Mike Tower, so it's hard for the Lakers to be relegated anywhere, but I don't think they're gonna finish in a relegation spot if that existed. His bentim is really that bad, or is it the teams that he was on? The teams that he's on are quite good, actually. The Sixers are good, and the Nets are pretty good. So it's really Ben Simmons, and I think it's, at this point, the talent is there. But he's just not making it happen. No short prints, no, no short prints, but those cards will ship as well. All right, a little recap. Not too shabby. Thanks everyone for knocking this break out. I appreciate it. Got some more baseball in the store. Jaspeascasebreaks.com, some new releases tomorrow. Check it out, Jaspeascasebreaks.com. And remember, we may only stream what, eight, nine, 10 hours a day, sometimes more on a new release Wednesday, but the website is open 24 hours a day. You can always check there and get your spots on Jaspeascasebreaks.com. Thanks everybody, I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


welcome to S jugairangi day thank you it's nice to have you around i think S jugairangi has become one of my favorite countries in african nice nice i'm really having a good time because when i was coming everyone was telling me not to come they are coming and i'm meeting nice people beautiful people i'm telling me welcome to our beautiful country a country of slim, dark and tall i'm not slim and he just confirmed that Dinkers are really tall I can't wait to do a video on the tallest women's on earth being the Dinka people that's impressive but I mean the food is almost done do you guys have Uber boats in here because I unfortunately we don't but we do have our local taxi service that you can order online wow it's called Shiluana Shiluana it's owned by it's owned by a South Sudanese it was built in South Sudan that's amazing yeah I mean it's relatively very cheap quite efficient actually this guy is really feeling the gap amazing but do you know the person because I always tell positive stories about Africa I actually do know the person you know him? oh really? he's always in his office always in his office amazing I mean I don't know if he is willing to speak to me because I would love to tell his story I mean definitely I'm sure he will alright since you're taking me there is it possible for us to use this own cap to go there? yeah for sure I mean can you tell me the name of the app so that I can download it it's called Shiluana Shiluana ana sounds like a name of ana ana in Arabic means me me so basically the translation is take me Shiluana can I just say this take me to meet the CEO behind this amazing app yeah definitely I'm sure he will thank you and it's a pleasure meeting you you are one of the people that are changing the narrative of South Sudan I heard that Uber doesn't exist yet and you are the man behind Shiluana how true is that? first of all welcome to South Sudan thank you I'm happy you are with us here my name is Dhudmoyak Uber is there is it but we have Shiluana Shiluana I mean I want to know what really inspired Shiluana ok Shiluana it was just the idea we are going because we don't have like Uber we don't have any taxi application so I came up with the idea Shiluana actually it was a reaction from the people who I was with them in one of the IT conference in India then they will start asking me what the service you have like they will ask you the service you have in your country yes what taxi application do you have unfortunately at that time I don't have a five in South Sudan and I don't have even a single taxi application in the South Sudan so I say let me come back and do it wow but are you an IT person or you just decided to pay someone to do it for you ok I have super genius experience I have been working in Saudi Arabia Sudan, Emirates, Syria before the Christ and finally I came back to South Sudan were you born here I was born in Khartoum so you speak Arabic I speak Arabic very well very well so like you were born in Khartoum and what happened did you leave Khartoum to anywhere I studied primary school in Khartoum high school in Khartoum then I went to Egypt I came back to Khartoum I worked for two years and I got an opportunity outside which country did you go to first of all I went to Emirates I worked there then people who actually own the company they have another brand in Saudi Arabia so again they shifted me to Saudi Arabia for sometime then again to Syria and again I came back I want to know here what brought you back to South Sudan because you are not born here but you know you are from here what brought you back after independence from Sudan the country was just new fresh and there is a lot of opportunities in South Sudan for me as a professional in IT I know there is a lot of opportunities related to my faith let me come start my own business yes I will struggle but I am sure I will make some difference so your main goal is to make a difference in South Sudan I mean how long have you been back since how long I back in 2012 after independence so you are just waiting for the country to drive before you come back was Shilu your first ever no actually when I came back I joined the central bank central bank of South Sudan central bank of South Sudan now you are working on no I resigned when you came back to South Sudan you are working for no when I came back to South Sudan I was I created a company for IT then there is the central bank for me a job then I went there I worked for them for some time but I find myself outside there I can do more than inside so I resigned and I created my own business wow and since you created your own business do you think it's worth it yes now in term of money not yet but I believe what had the percent after 2 years it would be different plus it's worth it because I created like 60 something jobs for young for this for me something is very good wow like you mean that you created over 60 jobs for young people so now we have 64 jobs drivers, operators networking, database marketing that's impressive so the CEO of Shilu Ana told me that he's actually happy because he has been able to employ 64 people after quitting his job to create his own taxi booking app and I just want to know if he's happy at the drivers also happy working for him are you happy working for Shilu Ana of course I got two drivers in the car one at the park and another one in here are you happy working for him very very happy really and like people of Juba like the service yes they like it very much for price for taxi wow that's impressive so like you go everywhere in Juba right everywhere in Juba so let's say I come from Ghana I arrive at the airport of Juba and I want a request for Shilu Ana will I be able to get one instantly amazing man tell us something about Shilu Ana I mean how it all started did you have your own cars that time okay when I start I think to start Shilu Ana actually 90% from the people they do not support me they say no this idea will not work why because of the internet we have a very bad internet at that time now simple at that time we have a very bad internet plus the idea is new for the people plus those who have cars in the market they charge very high and for our Chinese so it will not make sense for them to join us because they will lose but I say okay it's fine at that time it's our own cars then time after time they will see this one is better then they will join we started with two cars my car and my wife car amazing your wife actually supported you actually my partner your wife is a partner how many cars do you have now now 17 cars that's impressive and where do we see Shilu Ana in the next 5 years in the next 5 years I see myself not even 5 years I wish according to our plan 3 years we will not work only in Juba without other cities like wow Malacan and so on so which means in 5 years time we see Shilu Ana in Ghana I hope so I hope so I know in 5 years we see Shilu Ana in Ghana so please let's put it on the map in Nigeria all over Africa all of us will be using Shilu Ana I hope so that would be very very interesting let me know what are some of the difficulties you face when establishing this whole business in South Sudan first of all the taxes the taxes actually is the one make everything difficult plus for us as a taxi company the fuel every day is increasing and for me I cannot increase our rate every day also it's not good so sometimes we keep our rate as it is but the market is increasing not the big problem we price the inflation of course because for us in South Sudan 90% of our thing we imported from outside so we need dollar and we are operating using pound so when I go to the plant market to buy dollar the price has gone up tell me do you think that it's time for all the South Sudanese who got displays because of the war went to different African countries some of them even went as far as Europe America do you think it's time for them to come back and help to fill up this beautiful country actually there is people out there they are still waiting for the right time which one is the right time for them they say this now is not the right time for this kind of business when I start people tell me this is not the right time for your business but I'm sure everyone who thinks we want to do something in this country let them come the time is right just if you have to do the right thing but if you are waiting for the right time then you will never make anything do you think there are more opportunities in this country there are still a lot of opportunities in my field a lot of opportunities is still fresh country just come grab your opportunity if it happens if you have a chance to change something in Africa or that thing if I have a chance to change the way our politicians think it's the more important if they change it Africa will go very fast I just want to say thank you so much but let us know where can we find Shilohana Shilohana now in the whole Duba city if you have the apps only just request the nearest car will just arriving like 5 to 10 minutes thank you so much for talking to me and hope to see all of Africa and even the entire world thank you so much for having me and I appreciate your time


Hey everybody this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking today with Andrew. Hello. Hi. How are you going? I'm doing well here and congratulations on the new MVP. It's always fun to, besides I just met you a few months ago at an event down in your country and to be able to now congratulate you on getting your MVP. So it's a big deal. So congrats. Yeah, it's an honor. Well for folks that don't know you Andrew, who are you, where are you, and what do you do? Yeah, so I'm Andrew O'Young. I am based in Adelaide in South Australia. So I am a consultant, just pretty broad title, but yeah I've done a fair amount of work through one work, so Microsoft 365, moving through things like SharePoint and Teams and then touching the Azure and then moving on to the Power Platforms and nowadays I'm focusing a bit more on Power Platform, little bit of dynamics, which is scary at times. But aside from that I do run a user group here instead of the Adelaide Microsoft IT Pro community, a bit of a mouthful, but yeah we cover across many of the topics and services through Microsoft so anything from Teams to Intune and all that jazz, we try to run that monthly with some guest speakers and I also try to keep a blog up-to-date with random announcements and changes and sometimes some of my woes and successes, so yeah. Well that's, I think you may have answered the question we were talking before we started recording about, so you're an Intune MVP, you're added on and obviously I know you from M365 World, I mean the rest of the collaboration stack and so well somebody who does the bulk of their work in the modern workplace space become an Intune MVP, but if you're running a user group that is IT Pro, that's traditionally, that's like the Intune crowd right there and that labels. Yeah, well yeah, but the focus of the work starts shifting from emails and all that towards more device management and security, so I guess yeah the last 12 to 24 months has been a lot of just everything, so I guess Intune is one of those things I ended up taking command of because there wasn't as many people doing it at the time, so but yeah the user group, I think it was originally like an SCCM or some data center related group and there's interest in rebrands and changes and the co-host, you'd have a few Intune related topics throughout the year, so I guess the MVP team thought that's more Intune gear, but yeah by heart I'm still very M365. Well and again I said that's something that's interesting, I mean Microsoft, they move the buckets around every once in a while, but you're like I write a lot about, I talk about collaboration, productivity and AI and stuff that I've been doing for years and years and you know the, and so it's great that they've, it's become a major category, they're pushing for people to come AI, so there's you see increasingly MVPs that suddenly become a dual and they're even you know people that have three areas of focus, so three separate awards because they're doing so much in in those categories, so it shifts around, it moves around, there's opportunity to, it's like it's like going to MVP summit, it's almost like you know going to a university and you're like which electives do I want to take, so I can I can go to my SharePoint sessions or I can go over here to these Azure sessions and and so whatever you know you want to kind of build contact, contacts around and build your network around, you can go to those sessions, so that's that's a nice, Microsoft has really opened up with that for MVPs, once you're in in an area you can expand your footprint. So I'm gonna spy too. Yeah well so what was your, what was your path to becoming an MVP, like what was the process, what did that look like for you? Yeah so let's let's jump back, was it almost seven years now, so I attended my first Microsoft Ignite in person, it was the last one that was that big in Australia, so it was in the Gold Coast in 2017, yeah I didn't really know what to expect, I had a friend say hey you should definitely go and yeah try to try to get this red party of mine, that doesn't even mean, so so I got there, so the pre-event day it was like I don't expect going get given you a fancy backpack which you know season wear and tear now, but yeah they introduced us to a handful of MVPs and I was like oh what do these guys do and yeah just getting introduced and discovering what they kind of do and their own jobs and for the community, the tech community itself and it was like this is pretty cool and then as the event progressed it was very eye-opening, I met more and more MVPs and just other tech enthusiasts and we got along pretty well, took some selfies, yeah I met this guy called Dux and I'm sure everyone knows Dux by now if you've attended any of these events and it was like this guy's really cool, maybe like him and kind of just yeah from then on it was a what do I need to do to kind of be a you know one of these people, so I spoke to a couple of the more local based Australian MVPs and it's like what did you do and how do I get there and I did mention something about user groups or meetups which I was like what, so then I came back after the event to Adelaide and started looking and there were a couple, so the one I'm running or co-running now is one of the ones I joined at the time, so slowly I said oh well yeah let me let me do something for this community and I'll join in and do some stuff so they brought me on and started doing some new news feeds at the start of the sessions and then Adam Fowler who was one of the hosts at the time, he got the job at Microsoft so he relinquished his MPV title and he didn't have the capacity to run the group anymore so that you know he promoted me to an actual co-host so yeah I've been running that alongside Brett Moffitt and we've been trying to keep that as consistent as possible so a lot of that is just you know more news and announcements and changes occasionally I'll do a session on something that might be interesting, leading up to that as well I did a couple of presentations and I started the blocking process as well after attending at night, probably about a year after I'd say, which is roughly when I started you know doing contributions to user groups so yeah kind of hand in hand and then the I guess the sessions were kind of recorded and then the unprecedented times happened and we went to a online only situation because you know it was good and bad I mean yeah be more people because you know it's online everyone it's got time right and there's more more to do there's more opportunities to speak and that that kind of stuff I mean that that was a real positive but yeah yeah but a lot of camera off mic off so it's just talking to a screen really which is still you know it happens and you know I'd rather be a crowd because there have been a couple of sessions where the room's been empty so it's a bit a little bit soul crushing but you're still you're still there doing your thing right you gotta do what you do, we'll switch around and afford that. Yeah no it's funny I always talked about so long time ago 30 years ago I was had a band I was the lead singer for it we did a couple shows where we some gigs where you know we got like the minimal charge then we earned a little off of anybody that came in and we a couple times we found ourselves with you know the the bar emptied out people were outside smoking and there was nobody in the room and we we had to continue playing and we just decided yeah we're gonna play for ourselves kind of kind of things and sometimes that's what it feels like with the you know just the pure online like there's no interaction depending on the technology you're using and it's different different tools different times you know it's sometimes when you're presenting and you it's great to have a second person there who can see if there's questions that are coming through through the Q&A module or within the chat or something and doing that but it's it's frustrating it's hard to do that I've done some live audiences where there was no comment there was no feedback and I just thought wow I I tanked this thing there was nothing and then I got strong numbers on feedback like but I definitely prefer the the in-person you know having that interaction I would much rather have an an hour of content and then get through 20 30 minutes of that because of the different questions and maybe take it in a different direction if that's what you know the audience is looking for if we could have a really you know in-depth conversation down one path of of that of my planned content I look at that as much more of a success than hey in 60 minutes I got through 60 minutes of slides and and demos I mean it's just I'd rather have the interaction yeah um yeah anyway yeah it's not the events that in conferences you go to like when you're an attendee like you see now they control the room and the other how do you audience reacts to things but if you there's no one there that's really it's really hard yeah yeah well it can be yeah again it's it's uh and it's not like everything has to go well it's even even when I've had you know presentations or sections of a presentation where I haven't you know it's something that's newer I don't feel like I have many of the answers that I know people are going to ask about that and sometimes you just it's good just to collect like that's a great question and let's let me follow up let me go and find those things out or I don't know or is anybody else know here so there's ways of presenting that where again you don't have to know everything about you know 100 of the products that you're talking about but share what you know and capture the questions and and so I iterate on some of some of the sessions that I do regularly it's might have the same title but it's different each time because I'm adding to it I'm making changes to it every single time yeah I want to hear one of the recent events we're just at um like a runny joke where there's a I will take with that I'll find we'll get back to you and we'll circle back for that yeah yeah thing like that but um I mean yes so that it does mean a lot when you do follow up with those questions after the event um to the people asking them um but yeah speaking of the online times yeah uh got sort of well I reached out to um the team running the M365 May at the time so it was guys in Melbourne so it was Laurie and Megan and Rebecca so they were running um a large show for the whole month of May uh with you know presenters from everywhere really um so we got going on on that so that was that was nice uh and then finally yeah last last year in august at the digital workplace conference in Melbourne got to meet um you know all these MVPs I'd only seen online before uh and yeah one of the guys like Darrell Webster from New Zealand um got a bunch of him and we had to sit down and we talked about the whole MVP process and you know submissions and stuff like that so it was a good um sanity check to make sure that I am on the right track to doing things that would be considered you know worthy of an award so um if there's none I guess it was a bit of advice well that's that's something I you know if you've not already I mean I know I realize you've been an MVP for an entire day day and a half right so yeah yeah uh and so but it's you know just be prepared where people are going to come and start asking those questions and and uh I mean there's a lot of resources that are out there but um but yeah that's that's you know probably the most common thing you know when I was a brand new MVP it was you know the first couple months was you know people saying it's like well what what was the process what was that like what would you recommend I'm interested in finding out more about that and so um yeah it's it's a it's a black box there but there are certainly things that you can do to get yourself organized and to to even think about so yeah what what is a contribution like what am I doing for the community in fact I just had a conversation today I've been doing something uh because I'm mentoring for the last year I completely forgot to add that to my contributions but the fact that I've been doing something for the community on a monthly scheduled basis with results uh and I've not I didn't think of that it was just something that I was doing to help some people and within the community but it's all focused on on this it's all the technology related um and and so I you know even as long as I've been doing it for 12 years now and I need to remember like to capture all of these activities and and add it to those contributions why does that matter for for folks that are MVP because we want to be renewed as an MVP so you it's a reward for what you did the last year but you've got to keep doing stuff to get re-awarded but uh yeah anyway you'll get tons more opportunities so I'm excited for you it's going to be uh a bit of drinking from the fire hose especially all of the NDA calls that you uh just remember you don't have to say yes to everything they're all at 3 3 30 am I don't know how yes yeah well some of them some some of them have the the different times and so they have their their APAC schedule not all of them but uh but yeah um thankfully it used to be with most of those calls if you weren't on it there were no recordings like that that was it but they're getting much better about that now so at least you can watch the recordings yeah but that does hurt when you see the ones that you might be the way in normal contribute to but it's like uh yeah by that time yeah just do some time shifting just spend a couple weeks and just uh yeah sleep during the day and yeah I'm sure we'll work with that yeah yeah well well very cool so um so what are your uh and so we talked a little bit about your focus area stuff but what are what are you excited about what technologies which which products which things are you like most excited about right now what are you writing and talking about god just coming out of Christmas and nothing much um but yeah coming on the tail end of last year everybody's you know flavor of the month was uh it's co-pollates and AI and co-pollate for co-pollates and stuff and co-pollates a little seat um but yeah it's that's pretty cool um there's heaps of like stuff going out there but it's all still very you know gated by you need next number of this and why number of that so until I get some hands on which I imagine we do get access to something yes that you need to look into that they there is an mvp access to co-pilot so for m 365 co-pilot um I just hit up the support team to get access to the Microsoft Teams channels and they did a typo on my youth uh my display name but um I'll show up get back in and uh I'll I'll poke them about that yeah ping that we're done here make sure that you for the person to add you into this uh to add you into the co-pilot um I can give you that name when we wrap I don't want to inundate her with other people reaching out to her that aren't mvps um so I'll talk when the recording stops but uh yeah so that's that's definitely something yeah there's a lot of other perks you know access that you'll get in to get into things so yeah I've been running throughout this morning which is why I was running late to join this yeah um but yeah in terms of like the excitement yeah the anything AI co-pilot is really the flavor of the month um still you know it does rely on having your data and mvp 365 up the scratch and secure and govern and all that so um yeah it's it's full circle right it's no escaping from SharePoint um and I guess yeah I haven't really done heap of in-tune stuff since changing gigs so I might have to swing back and do some more uh updates on that but I'm sure my uh music group contributions will keep that afloat yeah well very cool well uh for folks that want to reach out to you connect with you uh where are you most active in the social platforms yeah um so I'm on LinkedIn um I'm also on twitter slash x or you want to call it these days um but LinkedIn's probably the best uh the source so I'm sure you'll have the journalists including the links I do and now I'll send through all the links anyway yeah I'll link that's probably the best I'll include all the links uh to everything that I find and I'll put it out on it'll be on the blog post on YouTube and on the podcast as well so people want to reach out to Andrew please do it's always it's always good to get the perspectives of the uh of the newbies uh into the program uh because yeah in fact since you'll get the latest of all the things to sign on to um all the different resources you know Microsoft is good with that to us make sure that you're set up you're aware of all the benefits the new site has a section none of you've explored that extensively but that walks through all the benefits and the things that are there um but like I said uh drink it from the fire hose next couple months uh yeah it's a big of fire hose now yeah yeah well Andrew hey it was great uh connecting with you again hopefully I I get to see you uh once or twice later this year so I think more more travels that are gonna be happening so uh wish you well hope to see you at mbp summit but I understand um the time and and cost of coming from abroad but uh you know hope to see in March but otherwise hey thanks a lot for uh for sharing some of your background with this audience you know it's thanks


You know all the reasons why being a season seat holder is amazing. It's the money. It's the cloud. It's the experience. You get all that good stuff. But there's also a dark side to being a season seat holder, especially if you're trying to make some money reselling those seats. And we're going to talk all about that right now. What's up, guys? Welcome back. My name is Shreds. Here on Thumbs Up, we're going to talk about buying tickets, selling tickets, and making sure that you have all the fun with your tickets. Today, we're talking all about reselling season seats and how there is a dark side to it, how there's a lot of negatives associated with it, and why it's not all sun shines and rainbows when you think about making that money selling those season seats. We've got four main topics to discuss about the dark side of reselling season seats, and we're going to talk all about it right now. Number one, seats matter. Where your seat is actually located in the venue has a big impact on being able to potentially make money reselling season tickets. Not all seats are created equally within the venue, and many of the most sought-after seats have already been taken up by long-standing season seat holders who have been with the teams for 5, 10, 20, 30 plus years, and those seats just aren't available to the general public anymore. Teams will release their seating maps across the venues. They'll say, oh, we got some cheap seats up here in the fan zone. We've got some great lower bowl center section seats over here, and we've got these very expensive premium seats in the club zone that you can always buy for however much money they're asking for. But just because the seat is available doesn't mean that it's going to be profitable. For example, in NFL, if seats in the lower bowl open up for sale for season seat holders, it may seem like, oh, that's a great idea. I want to go buy some lower bowl seats. I know people love sitting down in the lower bowl, make a ton of money, sell it for millions of dollars, and just dance around in all the money because I'm just, you know, I'm just a baller now at this point. Not so fast. Lower bowls, they are separated within their different zones, within each venue, with each team, with each league, and not all lower bowl seats are created equally. Yes, there's going to be a demand and premium for those center section seats, but sometimes those center section seats, they may only be selling them as club seats. So you have the season seat price plus you have an additional club benefit access price point that you need to add on to your seats so you can actually get access to buy those seats. So that $100 per game ticket price is now a $200 or $300 per game ticket price. It adds up very, very quickly. And so those seats, while they may seem like they are, you know, a great investment, could actually end up hurting you in the long run because someone might only be willing to spend $150 or $200 on those seats, and you're paying $300 for that ticket. You're losing a lot of money really, really fast. Teams will release out a seating map across the venue saying, oh, we got seats over here, seats over here, seats over here and all these different price points.  Where did they all go? Well, just because the seating map says those seats existed at that price point. Unfortunately, those seats have already been purchased by all previous season seat holders in the past because of that great deal. Toronto Raptors, they have fan zones in the upper bowl and the lower bowl fan zone tickets sometimes are as cheap as $25 or less per game. Average resell prices for Raptors are well over $50 per game, so you're seeing quite a huge markup on those seats. There is huge value to being a season seat holder sitting in a fan zone seated section. However, those seats just don't come available anymore because they've all been purchased by season seat holders. Season seat holders or with a team generally get access to buy additional season seats prior to releasing new ones to the general public.  So when it comes around to that renewal season, they say, hey, by the way, some seats opened up, are you interested in upgrading, adding, moving into this new section? The answer is generally going to be yes. And just because they move doesn't mean they release the old seat. Sometimes they just hold on to the old ones plus add the new ones and just keep adding to their portfolio. So all those prime seats in both prime locations as well as prime price points are generally gone prior to anyone else being able to start buying those seats in the future. Therefore, when you are going in trying to start up buying some season seats to buy and resell, sometimes the seats that are left just aren't that great. So remember that when you're trying to buy some new season seats to resell that location matters a ton. The seats matter a ton. And if your options are limited, it may not be the best potential option for you if you're looking to make some money right away. Again, that's not to say you can't make money on them. No, I'm not saying that, but it's just it's it's a very risky proposition, especially at the beginning if you're only able to pick across certain few selections that are available. Number two, the team matters. What league are they in? What city are they playing in? How are they doing in the standings? All these things play a huge impact on whether you'll actually make money reselling season seats or not. If you're playing in a small market city, it's possible that you may have an added advantage of that being the only professional sports team that's there. And so there's a huge demand for those games or those tickets to be able to actually attend. But it's also possible in reverse. If they are in a small town, it's possible that the team may not have that big of a following. And they may also just, you know, if they're not very good, people just may not show up at all. And that can really hurt your ticket sales in the future. So there are a lot of factors playing in just within the market. Also, the league is a very important matter in this. Not all teams are equivalent, not all leagues are equivalent, and they will all have their own intricacies and differences when trying to resell those season seats. An MLB season, for example, 81 home games a season, you're not going to make a ton of money on most games because there's just too many useless terrible games. It's not going to be a pretty sight for you if that's what you're expecting to happen. If you're in an NFL market, not all seats are equivalent to those in NHL MLB seating. They're all different in terms of where people actually want to sit when they're going to different games. For hockey games, people love sitting center bowl, right on the glass, anything in those center sections. NFL, people love sitting lower bowl as well center sections, but they don't want to be too low to the bottom because then they can't actually see anything. You got to be in the middle tiers of the lower bowl to get those best vantage points. MLB games, same idea. You want to be right behind home plate and then potentially even up in the upper bowl, right behind home plate because that's where the best views are. But every now and then you might actually want to be in the outfield where all the home runs get hit around the foul pool line. There's so many different facets within each team, each market, each league. They're all different. So you need to realize if you've been buying NHL tickets in the past and now you want to use that expertise towards NFL tickets, it's not going to be the same idea. Yes, there are some similarities that will occur, but that doesn't necessarily translate one to one because pricing is different in each of the different leagues. So it's possible that you may be expecting the price to be cheaper in one section, but they end up being more expensive and vice versa. Because if you start targeting the wrong seats, it's very easy to start making a lot of mistakes and those mistakes can cost you a lot of money.  Well, I think you kind of get the idea there. If a team sucks, there generally isn't a huge demand for those seats. And as a result, if you do own those season seats, it's not going to be a pretty sight for you. Trying to move those tickets can be very difficult, especially if there isn't any demand for those tickets. This falls back again into the location section. If you are buying season seats and you have seats in some poor locations across the venue and the team starts to suck, it's going to be a long, long road for you to try and unload all those season tickets. The flip side of that, if a team is a contender year after year after year qualified for the playoffs, you may be thinking, oh yeah, this team is amazing. They always make the playoffs, they always make deep playoff runs. They must be hugely profitable and popular. But is that really the case? Because one of two things can happen. One, as a team continues their long run success of making it into the playoffs, going deep into the playoffs, potentially even winning a championship, it's possible that those teams will realize that, hey, we have a lot of people coming to these games. Let's start increasing the prices year after year after year because we keep winning. So getting into becoming a season seat member later in the game becomes a lot more expensive. The margin become a lot thinner and it's very likely you're going to start losing money right away because you bought into a price point that is much higher than the average season seat holder who's been there longer than you. The other flip side is teams that make the playoffs year after year after year, those cities sometimes, they start to get fatigued because they're like, hey, this team, they make the playoffs every year. I'm not as excited as I was five, six, seven years ago when they were first making the playoffs. I think I'm just going to pass on it, watch it on TV, maybe spend my money somewhere else. There's a few other things I can be doing with that money and the actual demand for those events, those tickets, they can dry up a lot faster than you may expect. Just because a team makes the playoffs doesn't mean they're going to be a hugely profitable team. Number three, being local matters. I've stressed this already in previous videos. If you are local to the market where you are buying those season seats, it helps you tremendously, but a lot of times you can't be in every single market all the time. It just isn't possible. And as a result, not being local means you're going to have to try and sell these tickets yourself either through your own personal means, through your own connections, or you're going to have to start going on online marketplaces and start paying those heavy, heavy commissions and fees to actually get those tickets sold. That means last minute tickets might not be that profitable. Competition will be a lot tougher just because you're not competing with everybody else who has these tickets online. There's a lot of factors working against you if you're not local to that market where you're buying those season tickets. Again, it's not to say that you can't make money reselling season tickets not being local. However, you have an added advantage if you are. So if you're not local, you have a lot more competition and a lot fewer options to be able to unload those seats. So one point, and that is point number four, being a broker matters. If you're identified as a broker, one of two things can happen to you. One, if you're identified as a broker, a team can simply adjust your season seat price. MLSE is famous for doing this. The past couple of years, they have started to identify brokers who are reselling their season seats for a profit as a business. And as a result, they are increasing the price for those brokers on their tickets, as well as cutting all other benefits on those season seats. So no pre-sale access to purchase additional tickets, no concert access, no discount on food and beverage, no additional playoff tickets, no nothing for those brokers. Brokers, they're feeling the pinch because they're being told, Hey, if you want to continue buying these tickets for profit, we're not going to make it easy for you. We're going to be upcharging you 25, 35, 45, 50% plus on your season seat package, just for the right to continue buying those seats year after year after year. If you're reselling seats as a business, that's really tough. If your margins are increasing by 50%, that's really, really tough. Every market works differently. And if you're running on very lean margins on your season tickets, this could be the thing that completely ruins the economics of actually reselling season tickets. So if you get identified as a broker, this is one of the huge risks that can happen to you with your season tickets. And I haven't gone to the worst one yet. Number two, if you get identified as a broker, the most common way that they are dealt with, they just cancel your seats. You could be a broker and reselling tickets for years, decades even. And then once the team starts doing well, they start making the playoffs, you're ready for that huge historic playoff run out of Chicago Cubs.  We don't want this kind of does go on our team.  This is a real problem. This is a serious, serious problem if you identified as a broker. And at the end of the day, there's almost nothing you can do about it. It's very clear in the terms conditions that if they identify you as a broker, they can simply just cancel your ability to renew your season tickets. They can potentially even cancel your tickets within the season itself. There are so many negatives being a season seat holder and being identified as a broker. If you are reselling season seats, then it almost makes it impossible to really make any money reselling season tickets. You think I'm kidding? Let me give you a few examples here. Pittsburgh Pirates, I've been a Pittsburgh Pirates season seat holder since 2014. Yes, I said that right, 2014. It's been a very, very long run with the pirates. I still hold them, but we're going to talk into numbers right here and now. Okay, 2014, I joined in when they were in the wildcard against the San Francisco Giants. I only bought two tickets for that playoff run. I spent a total of $36.68 and I made a profit of $171.35. Okay, then we roll into 2015 and I have two season tickets for that entire season. They again make the playoff. So all in all, I spent a total of $3,771.23. On that, I made a profit of $3,725.33. Now, if we get a running total of my cumulative Pittsburgh Pirates profits, we're now sitting at a cool $3,896.68. Put on the board. 2016 rolls around. I'm feeling good. I buy another two additional seats. I now have four of them. I spent a total of $13,660 on Pittsburgh Pirates season tickets. And this was the first of many years where they didn't make the playoffs. However, it wasn't all bad. I still managed to make a profit of $1,322.03. Added all together into the cumulative total, we're sitting at a nice $5,218.71. Then we roll into 2017. I'm feeling good. I've been making money even on a down year where they don't make the playoffs.  I still hold on to four tickets again. I'm hoping rooting for them to make the playoffs. No such luck. What was my profit total that year? Negative $3,143.28. Running cumulative total at this point, $2,075.43 profit. So I'm thinking to myself, okay, what could possibly go wrong at this point? They've had it down year. They're going to come right back up, go back to the playoffs. I believe. How much did I believe? Six season tickets worth. I add another two tickets to my season C total, bringing my cost for 2018 to $15,793.30 cost. And how well did all my hoping and believing and praying do for me? Another down year, negative $2,528.18. Think about that, okay? Two down years in a row, I had been riding high at over 5,000 of cumulative profits from the Pirates and after 2018, negative $452.75. I'm down significant money, especially on the amount of money that I've been spending on these season seats, hoping, praying, expecting them to keep doing well and this is how I've been rewarded. Then 2019 rolls around, I change my strategy slightly. I say, oh, I know the solution. I know what happened. I added two seats and I lost money. So the solution is add two more seats, right? So I added two more seats. I now had eight of them. I had eight seats now at this point and I spent a total of $19,884.60. And what was my result of all that hard work? I made a profit of $2,849.21. That gave me a running total of $2,396.46 profit. So we're swinging up. We're swinging down. We're swinging back up again. It's a roller coaster ride out here. It's crazy. It's bonkers. It's wild and we're not done yet. Then we roll into 2020 and pandemic hits. Things go wonky. Things go sideways. So my total cost is zero. My total profit is zero and everything stays the same. So over the last six seasons, we've made about $2,000 but it was over 5,000 at one point. It was negative at another point. It's back up again. It's all over the place. So not being local, huge problem. Having seats on a team that isn't making the playoffs, huge problem. Being in a small market city, huge problem. Having seats in locations that may or may not be potentially viable, huge problem. I'm constantly having to tweak where my seats are, how many I want to hold, how much I want to spend, how much I'm selling them for, where I can sell them, how I can sell them, who I can sell them to. All these swings going on with the pirates and all these different factors playing into it, I've barely been able to turn a profit on these after six years. And I even started when they were still making the playoffs year after year. So I even had the added bonus of being able to join in as soon as that playoff run really got going. But if I had been a season seat holder even five years prior to that, it would have been a completely different story. Again, season seats are very, very fickle, very dangerous, very risky. So make sure you understand what you're getting yourself into prior to making that purchase. With all of that being said, are you still considering becoming a season seat holder to resell those season tickets? Let me know in the comments down below. I'm curious to hear what you guys think because as much as I am trying to scare you off on it, it doesn't mean it can happen. It doesn't mean you can't make money. I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm just saying you really need to consider the risks prior to making that purchase. Make sure you are certain that you know what you're getting yourself into. Don't just jump into it expecting to make money right away because it's possible you could for sure. Make sure you spend the time, understand what you're getting yourself into, understand the risks, and then make that decision to go ahead and make that purchase. If you guys have any questions, comments, concerns, anything that is on your mind, that's what the comments are for. Let me know down there, hit me up. I will get back to you guys and we can discuss all things tickets, especially season seats. If you guys enjoyed this video, definitely let me know by hitting the like button down below. Also, make sure to subscribe. Have an already great new content every single week in. See you guys next time.


Alright guys, let me tell you first the buffoonery this girl did. What? What did I do? Yeah, the buffoonery, absolute buffoonery. What did I do?  Haha, uh-uh. She filled it up with water and then put flavored, like, water in it. No, I didn't. So it's not regular water because someone doesn't know how to drink regular water. Bro, that's him. I literally saw his gallon on his nightstand and I'm like, babe, why does it look pink? And he was like, and I'm like, babe, why are you putting flavor?  I don't understand what was the problem. I'm still drinking water at the end of the day. Bro, drink regular water. It's not that hard. It's really hard. It's not. It actually is. Water tastes better without flavor. You put flavor in it, then it's juice. Exactly. It tastes better like that. I don't think so. Alright, whatever. Anyway guys, what's going on? Welcome back to another video. So as you guys can see right now, we are in the car. We are on the way to... Baby, want to tell them where we are on the way to? Oh my God. I'm starting to get scared. To our first venue. We got anxiety right now. Why? I don't know. I really don't know. You don't want to marry me? Yeah, that's it. That's definitely it. I'm excited because this is actually Isaiah's favorite. So we've got a couple picked out and we're gonna go tour them. But we're touring only once a day. Only once a day, but we have another one next week. Our wedding coordinator is actually meeting us there. So yes, the wedding planning has begun. We don't know when yet. So we have a date in mind, but we don't know exactly... The lighting is bad. We have a date in mind, but we don't know exactly when we're going to finalize everything because we have some stuff that we want to sort out like our timeline. But yeah, are you excited? Are you excited that your heart's racing? I'm anxious. Why? I don't know. I think I'm just like excited to see it. I don't want to see how it looks and if it's like everything that I thought it was when I saw it online. But real quick, I want to show you guys my shades. Like I bought these the other day and I'm not like... Well, I'm not going to say I'm not a shade type of guy, but I haven't wore shades in a long, long, long time. So I want you guys to tell me how I look. I feel like I look like an undercover cop. Yeah, you do. What? You look sexy. You called me a fed. No! Speaking of a cop, look, a cop just passed. Well, you just called yourself a fed. I just agreed with what you said. That makes it worse. No, you just look sexy, babe. Thanks, babe. Look at you. I'm going to start wearing these because these help so much on the Florida sun. Yeah. We're not used to the Florida sun and we are always complaining about how bright it is out here, but yeah, we never wear shades because we never had to wear shades in Jersey because it was always gray. You know what's my problem with shades? Why I never wore them? Why? Because I never wanted to get that tan line on my face. That's not common.  Well, that's why you don't take them off. Yeah, but then you're going to have a tan line if you don't take them off. I personally don't care.  I mean, I understand, I guess. But for me, my shades are really skinny, all the ones that I wear, so they don't really give me tan lines. All I'm saying is that these are gray and my eyes feel amazing. That's good, babe. I'm happy for you. So right now, guys, we have about an hour left in the drive. We've been driving already for maybe like 20 minutes. It's a little far out, but it is the farthest venue that we are looking into. Yeah. But yeah, I guess we'll catch you guys in about an hour when we get there. So we are here. We made it. I'm not going to lie. It looks really, really nice.  Isaiah's just like admiring it from afar. You know what I like about it is that it's like in the middle of nowhere. So there's nothing but land. And then back there, there's just a big, big body of water. So I feel like when we go in, the view is going to be beautiful. Now this is where we're going to disappoint you guys. We're not going to show you the whole tour, because if we end up choosing this place, we want you guys to be surprised as well. So we'll show you like little sneak peeks and stuff like that, but you guys aren't going to get the whole shebang. Yeah. So I can't see anything because I'm really short. Isaiah could see the water, but like I'm so small that like all I can see is the actual building. I can't see anything around it. I'm going to show them the building at least. So that's the building guys. It's really, really big. But yeah, like, I don't know. It's just very secluded. I love that. And I like how they have like this really long driveway. But we also are having a small wedding. I think we should... Should we say that? Should we not say that? No, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. We're having a small wedding. We're having an intimate with the people that like supported our relationship from the beginning. And so like I think that this might be enough because like we're not inviting a lot of people, but I don't know. We'll see. I also think if I'm not mistaken, because I have put in inquiries, inquiries for like a million places already. But I think that this place lets you stay overnight. So yeah, if we choose this place, we can stay the night before and get ready here and everything. So I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's gonna be a good thing. But the more important question here is who's gonna wash my car? Look at that. Look at that. You gonna wash it? No. What's the point? What's the point? What's the point? So right now we're waiting for the wedding coordinator. And then we're gonna go in for the tour. I'm a little nervous. I'm not gonna lie, but I'm excited too. I'm excited now. Yeah, we're gonna wait for her and we'll see you guys then. Little sneak peeks of this place.  It's looking... I don't think anything's gonna top this place. Yeah. Right now we're actually standing on the left side of the isle, where we would, you know, she would walk down. My shirt itself. You gotta put the camera down a little bit. But yeah, so I, you know, the weeping willow trees are here. The lake is beautiful. Where we would, you know, say our vows and all that. It's shaded. That's great for your boy because I'm always hot.  Everything about this place looks really, really good. And I don't think that any other venue is gonna top this place if I'm being honest. For what we want. For what we want. Like scenery-wise, decor-wise, plan A and plan B because we also think if it rains, we have to go inside. Is the inside gonna be doable? And of course price point. I just feel like everything is beautiful. And there's so much you guys have not seen. Like the whole upstairs is insane. It's great. Literally crazy. This whole venue is insane. Like you guys haven't seen anything. Yeah. Like this is, like just look at this. Look at all this. Like this is just like a beautiful view. I feel it's like just getting married at. Imagine the pictures and all.   Think about it. Doesn't that remind you of back home? My little spot at home? It does. I used to go to. It's, there's so much space. It's so open guys. Like honestly, inside and outside it's just beautiful. I'm obsessed. So I'm not sure if we're going to go ahead and lock this place in just yet. It's looking pretty solid. But we have some more things to discuss. But maybe we'll have an answer. Actually, I'm not even going to tell you guys if we lock this place in or not. I'm not going to. You guys are going to be guessing. But we'll see. Because there's still other places of course. Anything else you want to say? No, that's it. All right. So we're going to go finish talking up in there. I don't want to leave. I don't need this. This is insane. I love this spot. But we'll see you guys in a bit. All right, y'all. So we just left the place. Now we're on our way to eat with our planner. Rub and start. Yes. And we both of us are, us and our planner did not eat before coming here. And it's almost one o'clock. The time we get to the spot is going to be almost 2.30. Almost 3. So we're starving. And yeah, I'm super, super excited for this process. How about you? I'm feeling really good about everything. I did like that spot a lot. It gave very peaceful vibes. As of right now, all I'm worried about is just getting something to eat. Yes. And we'll talk about everything else. So it was because you guys can't know anything. Yeah. You guys can't know everything. We gave you a little sum sum. So we're not going to give details. Yeah. But there's still a lot more to do. There is. But yeah, I'm excited to get to this place because our planner has been there multiple times and she said that the food is awesome and the place is beautiful. So yeah, we'll see you when we get there. As you guys saw by, I guess, the environment, that was kind of like, how would you even describe that place we just ate at? It literally looked like a big library. Yeah. It was like so artsy like, I don't even know how to explain it. Just kind of like coffee shop vibes. It's giving you season three. Yes. That's a good way to put it. Yes. That's all I felt. I was like, yeah, we're in England. It's you season three for sure. The food was good. The food. We got to come back one day to actually try the coffee and the drinks and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So that pretty much ends our whole wedding venue vlog for the day. Because right now I'm pooped. I'm trying to go home and relax. Yes. But yeah, overall pretty eventful day. It was pretty cool. I liked everything. What would you say? I think it was eventful as well. We discussed a lot. Literally probably like all the decor, all the details. I wish that we can tell you more, but we can't. We can't. But with good reason, because we want you guys to be surprised. We want you guys to be surprised when the actual day comes. All I'm saying is whatever venue we end up picking, our place is just going to look insane. Yeah. Like the wedding is just going to be crazy. Why does that look like people? No, because it has a handicap thing. I thought it was my barber for a minute, but it's not. Yeah, it's going to be like a day to remember. Not even a night, because it's going to be a long day, but it's going to be a day to remember. It's going to be crazy. But yeah, we're not going to talk too much about it guys. That's pretty much it for today's video. We hope you guys enjoyed it. Any more wedding venue or any wedding planning that we have going on, we'll be sure to take you guys along with us. With all that being said, that's the end of today's vlog. Yes, and we'll catch you in the next video. Love you guys.