Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you on a Thursday with jaspys eight box for funsies football mixer with a Justin Herbert giveaway right here which is pretty cool nice. So random team break everyone gets a random team no vet commonship as usual and when we give away the the thing it's going to be at the very end of the break where we re-randomize your names and the name on top will get the Justin Herbert like the second name will get points and I guess anything else we have to randomize will be in separate lists right here. These are the quick little eight breaks involved eight boxes involved here here are the people involved in here so thanks thanks everyone who bought their spot straight up congrats again to the winners appreciate that all 32 teams are in let's do it let's roll it let's randomize it one and a five six times for each list one two three four and six after six times we got Raymond de Jesus down to Patrick Ketzeek and then six times for the teams one two three four five and six we got Cardinals down to the New York football giants alright Raymond with the Arizona football Cardinals Robert with the boys Will with the Titans Steve with Detroit Robert with the Niners Andrew with the Vikings Nick with the Broncos Greg with the Jets Mark with the Bengals Greg with the Steelers Patrick with the Seahawks Karen Lastbod Mojo Los Angeles Chargers Tice with Washington Robert with Buffalo Sean with the Packers Charles Buccaneers Travis with Saints Andrew with the Jags Peter with the Falcons Mark with the Rams Patrick K with the Chiefs Patrick with the spot you won you got the Carolina Panthers Tristan with the Dolphins Kip Kip Hurray you got my Raiders Kip nice Robert with the Bears Christopher P with the Pats Nick with the Ravens Travis with the Colts Chris Erickson with the Browns Matt McLaughlin with the Texans Matthew Perlstein with the Eagles and Patrick with the New York football Giants now trades are allowed so let's sort this by column B we're going to pause the video and when we come back we're going to see if there's any trades in the break I just and here's that Herber right there too it's pretty nice so there you go so when we come back we'll see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break stick around we'll be right back all right welcome back folks so we got Nick Jasper right here and the Nick Ham right on the top he's going to start ripping open some of these boxes Drew will do Jags Browns Jags for Browns all right so Cleveland for Jacksonville confirmed and we may as well just close the trade window TWC trade window closed and let's roll so Chris is out of the Brown spot and into the Jaguar spot we'll put a tee next to there for trade and Drew is out of the Jaguar spot and now in the Brown spot we'll put a tee next to there so you know that that was part of a trade if you're falling along at home you can see who draws first blood in that trade if any dolphins up 14 7 on the Jaguars at the moment doesn't want to print there we go here's the Herbert that we're giving away set that aside so I don't forget it that flash knocked out what's ready oh that's ready 2014 absolute ready that old Aryan foster we got hog heaven to 20 Carlos Hyde and that will be for the Niners that's gonna be for Robert here's the rest of the print out right here hot off the presses thanks everyone for getting in we've got Calvin Benjamin for the Panthers to 20 that's gonna go to Patrick and Carolina we got Sammy Watkins tools of the trade nice 199 Buffalo goes to Robert Ronkel and the bills and we got a Mike Evans tools of the trade quad relic to 149 that will be for Charles and the Buccaneers Joe Flacco tools of the trade to 249 piece of his game-worn Jersey in there that'll go to Nick Galvin and the purple birds yeah Brian we were watching the Dolphins Jaguars game on Thursday night 24th knees he is running around like a kid got absolute ink Jared Boykin to 25 for the Packers Sean Cleary and a passenger parents fall for them Austin Safari and Jenkins quad relic to 149 for the Buccaneers that'll be for Charles Miles Jack is not happy Miles Jack he saw on that team Jalen Ramsey is who they let go to the Rams right Buccaneers Charles with that one what Jack is that so that is 2019 last year playoff football we got Drew lock air command and Andrew Luck accolades how did you lock even get hurt we got Mike Kasicki Andrew luck for the blue horseshoes going to Travis Melberg to 99 and it's me yeah might as well trade to it doesn't even that was a good play somehow I kept in Patrick and I got all these guys and I'm like last place so what you're asking yes right Antonio Brown Arthur what's going on yeah thank you more points so that'll go to number two on the randomizer for the Herbert and we'll be one lot come on minch you get back on track Andrew luck in Easton stick mr. I guess mr. irrelevant now that Justin Herbert's on the scene but they'll still go to the Chargers that will be for Karen steel there you go Karen that's the 25 John L. Way rookie drew law that'll go to the Broncos that will be for Nick Nick see with that poor sequan Barclay injuries are never good never fun ain't never not no fun there is again and we've got AJ Green game day relic if he's healthy and if he he and Joey B seem to be getting closer and closer to being on the same page together could be big bangles mark Livingston Carson Wentz Christian McCaffrey he'll be back though and Zach Allen back here here's some Dauners football Alvin Camero to 500 that's for the Saints I'll be for Travis there's Derek Carr read for the Raiders Kip good Arthur I'm glad you're feeling better man when he's this guy to show some magic come on didn't you got Harrison Smith to 100 there's rated rookie Justin Herbert yeah I think we should be able to be open I think we're still we just had a team meeting yesterday and that was one of the one of the conversations about reopen timeline safety procedures and all that sort of stuff so soon Arthur I get that air conditioning fixed right here oh another Justin Herbert Karen and this time it's in that canvas design which I really like but yeah we'll be we'll we'll be ready soon Arthur not George Kittle to 50 any guesses on that redemption right here good couple catches for little bit Levisco Schnault Jr. Arthur guessing Troy Aikman Nick Alvin guessing Justin Jefferson Minchew back to pass throws it deep flag no oh in a nice rated rookie Chrome Clyde Edwards Hilaire he's in that optic design cheaps Patrick that's pretty strong just overthrown drew locked eye-cut Jalen Hertz red eagles and we've got a leather Kings 19 out of 25 drew lock nice on a really thick hearts off right there too that's pretty cool Denver Broncos my rivals Nick see with that one there's to go to a Tago Viola looks like if Ryan Fitzpatrick he's playing this way to keep waiting for to a that's Tristan with the dolphins it's good one to hang on to the that's a cool design there little watercolor look on that canvas with 97 it's Gino Atkins there's Ryan Fitzpatrick he's looking good there's Joey B Justin Herbert another Justin Herbert the rookies this time that checkerboard pattern for Karen and the Chargers and there's a canvas Joe Burrow right here rated rookie for the Bengals that's gonna be for Mark Livingston and the redemption is gonna be 2020 Donneress Donneress I want someone to make that play a call out there that audible Donneress Donneress retro autograph card three something and I see Nick Nick Bosa Nick Bosa retro autograph nice poor Nick Bosa but I'm sure he'll be back in action soon well next year Niners Robert all right let's get some chronicles going switch my Lakers game really quick 37-28 for the Lakers in the first quarter we got Willis McGay he back here autograph nice 74 out of 75 for my rivals the Broncos that's gonna go to Nick C oh there you go yeah Tristan some old two oh for you got a little die cut right here Hunter Renfro to 199 Josh Jacobs rookie card David Montgomery that's for that Josh Jacobs really card kip kip hooray with that one I'm gonna Josh Allen right here rookie Josh Allen that luminance chrome design just pretty good-looking and a panther Will Greer going to Carolina Patrick Jersey an autograph to 99 that Tara McLauren to 199 Montgomery more Hunter Renfro or Paris Campbell on the IR Darius Layton 99 so what does Darius Layton get more Daniel Jones I think I thought he was injured but I think he's okay so maybe more Daniel Jones to Darius Layton was what's gonna happen maybe Jeff Driscoll to no offense maybe more of that although the Broncos Broncos got a Blake Bortles ladies and gentlemen two-color dual rally to 199 Brandon Cooks Rams edition going to Mark H maybe Blake Bortles makes a comeback in the world there's a collar Murray back here to Raymond hiding get some more top-loaders folks come on minch you got some a little financial interest in the track minus two and a half seems like a big mistake now although there's still a ton of time left I guess I guess a whole other half left no that's a lot here's some illusions right here remember we're using our non-pro uniform rules on this now lots of game left thanks Chris some encouragement there all is not lost David Montgomery Daniel Jones rookie and we've got an Alexander Madison little bit of stitching on the right side 81 out of 99 first impressions patch auto Vikings that's going to be for Andrew Thompson someone tried to trade Andrew Thompson did you try to trade the Vikings tried to trade couldn't trade Mojo how the product look if it was illusions instead of illusions if it was illusions be a lot of I guess like a lot of question marks it'd be like living legends would that would they be alluding to oh a punt all right and here's another autograph Dwight Freeney nine out of 35 for the Blue Horse shoes that's gonna go to Travis Melberg and the Colts why didn't the Broncos didn't want to go wait where's Josh Rosenrod I don't know where Josh Rosenrod now that Josh Rosen will go to the Dolphins Joe Mixon Brian Finley Jamal Adams and we've got a Jared Sidham rally throw it Minshew Patriots that'll be for Christopher P Leonard Fournette to 399 Rosen oh Rosens with the Bucks gotcha hi Stephen K oh what's the oh there's highlight Juju Smith Schuster that'll be for the Steelers Greg there's my homie Shining Stars Patrick Mahomes Easton stick to 299 all right and the encased card is a redemption okay I guess you get it you get a free one touch right here rookie endorsements blue Ryan Finley Ryan Finley that'll go to Cincinnati Mark Livingston so nothing else here this is what we have right up front right here let's go to flash we're gonna go by we're gonna go by the checklist as always so here's the 2020 Leaf Flash football checklist right there in the chat if you're watching the replay you can go to groupreachchecklist.com all right we're gonna start off with Tyree Brady Tyre Brady Tyree Brady which is not on this little I have the 2020 Leaf Flash football list up that's not gonna help me out I need 2019 Leaf Flash football standby got it my brain is on Cincinnati today Mike Tower not sharp today should have had a V8 let's break brought to you by not V8 Tyree Brady is a Jaguar according to the checklist here I'll drop the checklist again the correct checklist 2019 Leaf Flash football for Jacksonville that is gonna be for Chris Erickson who draws first blood in the trade not numbered by the way next one is gonna be Hakim Butler I think is a Arizona Cardinal Hakim Butler yes is indeed an Arizona football Cardinal Arizona with that one then we've got Rodney Anderson 46 out of 50 bangles is he bangles bangles I don't know probably no fun Lee it should be in there oh bangles with that one that'll be for Cincinnati Mark Livingston Ron Cincinnati we got Travis Homer Seattle Travis Homer is a Seahawk that'll be for Patrick we've got a Drew Locke flash of greatness pink nice that's one out of 15 for Denver Nick with that one Nick C with my rivals the Denver Broncos injured knocked up a little bit I don't I think he should be back this season though maybe even sooner when's he supposed to come back few weeks six weeks all right so be back at some point all right let's do the mini helmet well let's do honors and then the minute we'll close with a little bit of who am I remember we go by our non-pro no checklist rules right there knocked up banged up what was I was I trying to say do the card on the bottom right there first where the back though you guys lost the back all right the card in here artist-proof Nick Chubb 12 out of 35 and Jared Goff all right so the first in case card out of 2018 honors is gonna be Layton Vandoresh for the Cowboys gold ink autograph 15 out of 25 for the Cowboys I'll go to Robert Runkel isn't he knocked up banged up jammed up anyway that goes to Robert once again and back here oh he broke his collarbone price that's right and then the last one here is oh that's nice black gold Derek Henry Jersey and autograph numbered five out of six that's a nice one for a Bulldog fan will Comstock with the Tennessee Titans it's pretty good I've heard of him nice one will last thing here is the autographed mini helmet will close the close the breakout a little bit of who am I then we'll give away that Herbert all right who am I I am a defensive player currently active in the National Football League I'm 23 years old a first a late first round pick one team my entire career so far in just a couple seasons or so of work 183 total tackles one sack one fumble recovery one interception and seven past deflections I have a brother in the league too played college football at Virginia Tech I'm a safety safety from Virginia Tech drafted back in 2018 my brothers also played football at Virginia Tech and I have a brother that does play in the NFL our dad played in the NFL as a tight end there you go not a watt not Griffin not Fuller think about the what so what are the other brothers there's another set of brothers there you go Arthur's got it it's it's an Edmonds right here and it's Steelers Edmonds who has one of my there's Torell Edmonds who has one of my favorite autographs in the hobby Torell Edmonds for the Pittsburgh Steelers there's the Beckett card in there there's the Beckett sticker on the back hmm that's how you spell Edmonds and the Pittsburgh Steelers that'll go to Greg B it says Edmonds clearly toss from the mixer 24th nice all right now if you're like Joe what a terrible break for me is what you're thinking at home you still have a shot at this name on top gets this second name we'll get this group of points right here good luck let's go back to the list let's get Ray all the way down to Tice and everybody in between let's roll it let's randomize it one and a six seven times name on top gets the Herbert autograph one two three four five six and a one seventh and final time once more now big thanks everybody else who gave this a shot thank you from three down to 32 number two you get a little Chris you get some some points here not bad and the name on top is Patrick K who won that spot in Daunris Blaster pack number four congrats to you Patrick you're gonna get that Justin Herbert on card autograph from elements football pretty nice stuff 72 out of 79 there you have it and there you go boys and girls a really nice break we had that nice Derek Henry right here let's do a quick little recap Drew Locke Travis Homer Rodney Anderson Keen Butler Tyree Brady Ryan Finley back there not too bad of a break some good rookie card sitting in there that was Nick Bosa which has got plenty of time to redeem that San Francisco Joe Burrow cards a Tua card all those carry some nice weight some good value as well that optic Clyde Edwards layer was really cool some Justin Herbert's an eastern stick so some pretty good stuff ladies and gentlemen and there you go thanks for watching thanks for breaking with us I'm Joe for jazby's case breaks calm I'll see you next time for the next one bye bye


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He's big the captain. That's right. So Derek Jeter will be a Hall of Famer today It will just become official as I said once in his final hit at Yankee Stadium Was there ever a doubt or did you have a doubt something like that? I can't even quote myself, but He's one of those guys I don't know if you look at it this way I saw almost every single game he played now certainly from 1996 until 2001 on the radio side I did every game and then once I joined yes I didn't do every single game, but I've seen mostly every game he's played and At no time were you watching him and going this guy's the greatest player I've ever seen But then when you take a step back From what his career was the sum of the parts you do realize he's one of the greatest players who ever lived There are only five guys in the history of baseball that have more hits than Derek Jeter five He ended with thirty four hundred and sixty five hits. He wasn't a home run hitter. You know how many home runs he had? 250 and This is the thing that jumps out at me the most his lifetime batting average 260 by the way his lifetime batting average was three ten and If this doesn't tell you all you need to know about Derek Jeter his lifetime batting average in the playoffs Which essentially was one year because he played a hundred and fifty eight postseason games in which is in stats, right? Amazing his his average in the playoffs was three oh nine so You see it even with great players When the games become bigger and the lights become brighter, you know what happens? The game speeds up for them. They're not the same guy Derek Jeter played postseason games the same way he played games in June You can see by his output three ten three oh nine. There was no staggering There was no big drop because he was in postseason games the guy seemed like he didn't have a pulse He wasn't the fastest runner he didn't have the greatest arm he didn't play with great power He hit most of his balls to right center field He won five gold gloves, but nobody would say he was the greatest defensive shortstop of all time But when you put it all together that pulporee of all the things he had and the one thing that analytics people don't Have the ability to calculate he had that little something something That made him one of the greatest of all time because there was no skill that he had done that you'd say That's the greatest thing I've ever seen he just didn't own that skill But when you put all of his skills together it turned him into one of the great winners and one of the greatest players who ever lived Yeah, you look at his war career wise was seventy two point four I'm off the top my head where that ranks, but I just have this feeling Michael that Analytics wouldn't do justice to Derek Jeter He was somebody you had to see every day and we got to see him every day And the nation got to see him in the playoffs because the Yankees went to the playoffs pretty much every year of his career And how many games they played on national television? It's the New York Yankees one of the most popular teams in North America So how could you not see him play but from an analytics standpoint would he compare to the great players of all time? He would but not defensively and defensively is where the knock would come because even before the analytics they talk about his lack of range his arm and All I know is he caught pretty much everything that was hit to him. Yep. All right He made all the plays. He made all the plays that were necessary. He was an amazing leader and Do I think he would have been appreciated if he played his entire career in Kansas City in Pittsburgh? Probably not Because you wouldn't see him every single day and he wouldn't play on the grand stage all the time He'd still have the hits and he would still have a lot of the accolades for the regular season But playing for the Yankees and being seen by everyone and having that stage in the postseason pretty much every single year To come through Including that rookie year where he wins a championship even though he played a little bit in 95 It was 96 where he came together and just never really what was the last time? What was his first taste of non playoffs after he started right? It was 96 and then boom They until they missed the playoffs in 2008 I mean, that's an that's an amazing run and he was he was pretty much a main Peace to that puzzle every single year. This is a stat. I love. I bet you don't know the stat. Peter go ahead Every single game that he ever played on end of the step except for the final game at Yankee stadium was he was in contention They were in contention that that's unbelievable now and that also brings up Don's point Now you could have off-broadway people that have the most beautiful voices and do these, you know Shows on the road, but until you play Broadway, you're not really going to get the recognition She had to play Broadway his entire career and now I 100% agree with that And speak of a hundred percent He's his his clutch play throughout his career even in both of the playoffs and then even in situations like we talked about His final game at Yankee stadium 3000 every moment it seems like that was big jeter delivered in that big moment But you also have to say that that being in contention stat that you put out there Also is telling of the team that he was a part of his entire career You know, obviously that I can't help I I'm spending I've been sitting here throughout the day Going back and forth comparing cal ripkin jr. And derek cheater and cal got 98.53 percent of of the eligible votes for the hall of fame Back in 2007 now growing up as a kid in the dc area in the 80s Cal ripkin was the biggest baseball star I ever I ever watched in my entire life And so naturally I compare those people and I feel like yankees fans are a really big jeter supporters Just blow right past cal ripkin and don't put them in the same conversation And I frankly think that's unreasonable I think the only stat you can really use to do that is championships and amount of time you played in the playoffs Besides that I think you're really splitting hairs in terms of statistically Jeter has a few hundred more hits cal has a couple hundred more home runs You can argue about who was better in the field. I think it's cal other people will say jeter. I'm sure Cal has of course the streak so but the reason I think about it is There's only one 100 percent or ever it's mariano revera But that that that busted the dam.     It really doesn't matter at the end of the day You can't have an argument at a bar somewhere or on a talk show somewhere Or on one of these debate shows And say Derek jeter and mariana reverer are the greatest players in the history of the game because they are the only two that got a hundred percent That doesn't hold water No, because you don't want tom siever for a long time had the highest percentile I don't think anybody would argue that tom siever was the greatest player of all time or that you know, can you still number three? Ever well, it might be the best picture of all time. Maybe maybe right, you know, but is he Johnson or Joe didn't make it in his first try. Well, that's why there were no 100 percenters because there were writers who said if Joe D didn't go on to the first ballot, I'm not gonna vote for this guy It's and the whole thing is is fundamentally flawed right because when when you don't get the votes It doesn't mean that those people don't believe that you're a hall of famer It's that they're prioritizing other people correct They are I hate the argument, you know, I got a different look at it. I've got a different perspective but what it comes down to you're only allowed 10 people and There's a log jam now on the ballot because the the pd guys are not elected. So they're not moving off the ballot So then it just clogs up who could who could be voted on That's one of the reasons a buster only gave up his vote He said I'm not going to take part in this. There has to be a different voting system You can't just limit it to 10. Hey, right and to your point Maybe there's more validity to saying I know cheaters getting in so I'm not going to vote for him and use my vote for somebody else Well, if everybody thought that way then cheater wouldn't get in right But you look vote you look you look at this list, right? And there are names That when you see how many how many people didn't vote for them, how can you not? you know Uh 13 people didn't vote for tony gwin to go to the hall of fame A joke 16 didn't vote for mike schmidt You know greg maddox 16 people were like nah. I'm good on greg maddox Right, it's impossible. These are these are people that everyone knows the hall of famer So I listen I 100 percent again. I keep saying 100 percent believe derek cheaters an icon a hall of famer And I really don't have a problem with him being 100 percent. It's just when I look at this list Should he be above these top names on the list? Is he better than mariano? Can you look at it that way? Tom see for no one right I think the rubicon has changed because of mariano I think you're going to see a lot of people that are sure fire hall of famers be 100 percent because it's just It's insulting and because now you can't do it behind the cloak of secrecy Now you're going to be completely exposed as a denozzle You're going to be the guy or the couple of people or the gal that didn't vote for this guy who was a sure fire hall of famer And you're going to be laughed at and with social media you're going to be ridiculed too But we can also appreciate on a day like this where we know he's going in Just how amazing the player was And in our generation guys who who compares to him from the fact that how much he won How successful he was on the field and also what controversy none never got in any kind of trouble Really?  You look you think at elie manning, but elie manning is not the sure fire hall of famer that derrick jeeter is Carmelo anthony didn't play here long enough to be considered that hennrick lungquist great player hall of famer no championships So when you look at this generation michael over the last 25 years For the forever players in new york I mean cheaters the complete package. No, he really is and he guys I'm just being around him as much as I was for his entire 20 year career He had an innate ability to always do the right thing and there were opportunities for him to do the wrong thing.  It's not fair to make him the bad guy in the story But there was a famous yankee that was having a story written about him by um New york magazine. Okay. All right, so he was walking through the yankee clubhouse And the writer was trailing him Taking notes of everything he said But unless you knew that this guy was being the subject of a story, you didn't know who the guy was He looked like any other media member So this famous former yankee Walks by cheaters Locker which was close to um right next to thurmond monson's Empty locker which they kept in the old yankee stadium and right before the trainers room And this famous ex yankee said something sexist and misogynistic That cheater could have easily played along and Yeah, or you just you know Added to what that yankee had said cheater just looked and didn't say and cheater was close with this person Didn't say word didn't know anybody was listening or taking notes The story's written it says derrick cheater would not join in on you know, whatever It would have been so easy, right? So I was just curious and I said I walked up to him at one the story came out in the magazine. I said Did you know that the writer was Taking notes. He goes. I didn't even know there was a story being written. I said Then how did you know not to join in he goes not the right thing to do He says just not the right thing to do how many people even good people Would I mean I mean just for an instance not a political statement Even billy bush really Agreed with what the presidential candidate was saying at the time, but you get caught up You're trying to be you're trying to be after room It's a lot and this is a locker room He didn't say it and there's so many times where he could have made the wrong move But every fork in the road that he came to he it was uncanny was almost eerie. He took the right turn He never did the wrong thing He doesn't have a stain playing in new york being single Dating hundreds of women the most beautiful women in the world has anybody ever said anything bad about him Think about it in this day and age and toward the end of his career twitter was heating up social media was heating up Never never caught in the the crosshair really the only thing you could think of I think there was one article Is something about a gift basket and then the gift basket thing which is which is nothing The worst thing nothing the worst thing that they could come up with about Derek cheaters that when he Slept with someone he sent them a gift basket afterwards I don't even know if you send that thing. We just had the door We don't even we don't even know if that was true and we don't know if it is true We don't know it's true, but even so the worst thing is that he was like really polite It's right. Not not walking into an elevator with somebody It's just it's amazing and then you had that the problem is that that's the way everybody's been judged moving forward So then Alex Rodriguez comes here and then every misstep seemed to be well That's opposite of what Derek cheater would do. I mean that's a thing. What would what would Derek do? What would Derek do?  And not one misstep not one misspeak. I had um a young New york athlete asked me this a couple of years ago And uh, we were at an event and he said I gotta I gotta ask you something I said what he goes You were on jeter. How did he do it? He goes, how did he do it? He said, I mean there are cameras everywhere now. How did he do it? I said he just I don't know how he did it. He just did it So you put that guy Who was raised the right way And the fact that he's a transcendent talent and he does it on the biggest stage It's just official today. I mean he's been a hall of famer. I mean he's hired himself like a famous forever Today it becomes official You know it and and I thought that needed to get brought up Michael because this is a town that You know choose people like that up and spit them out And don't you think that people were out to get them too? Don't you think that people would love to see and make a mistake and also michael I think that you had a lot of people within the baseball community that were jealous of him and didn't like him for All the reasons we just stated that's why whenever they would come out sports illustrated would ask Ball players the five most overrated players jeter would always be on the list And I always thought that it kind of came from a place of jealousy. They wish they could be yankees They wish they could stay out of trouble. They wish they can get the attention now Did he get a lot more attention because he was in new york? I do believe that he was in the right place at the right time with the right team But the fact that he just ended up coming out the other side As clean as a whistle as he went in That's an accomplishment in itself. It's amazing and and I don't think it's I told the story earlier for something that's going to be on the uh, the hot stove show They're gonna have a special hall of fame show on on yes after our show at 6 30 and um The first time I ever met darrett was in 1992. He was drafted in 1992 six pick of the draft and um The yankees at that time would make their first round draft pick available to the radio crew And the television crew So they brought him up to the radio crew again. It was 92 was my first year on radio And they gave me and john sterling derrick for half an a And kind of a portent of things to come Didn't say much it was polite it was very um, uh You know engaging but you know, he wasn't telling you his life story And I looked and I said well, he's really skinny tall and skinny like a tall drink of water And I didn't know what to make of him and he looked so young too. So the next day I go down to the manager's office And buck showalter is the manager at that point. I said, well, what do you think of the kid they drafted? He goes, I don't know what type of player he's gonna be He said all the scouting reports, you know rave about him He said, but I will tell you this If he plays for the yankees for 20 years He will never embarrass the new york yankee organization He said, how could you tell that he goes? I met his parents He said you meet the parents of a player. You can know exactly what that guy's gonna be He said upstanding people's fathers a doctor and mother's very involved With with every aspect of his life the sister is an athlete as well. He goes.  He goes He's not going to michigan He's going to cooperstown So today it becomes official right around 6 15 during enn one eight hundred nine one nine three


One thing that sucks about having a hobby that goes back 3 decades is that there is a lot of misinformation out there, and no real way to prove what's true and what isn't. Hell, I'm guilty of obliviously peddling some misinformation, I mean I don't know any better just because I'm sharing my hobby through a YouTube channel, doesn't make me any kind of authority on anything, I'm some guy trying to do the best I can. But, there are bits and pieces out there that need to be flushed out like turds than a toilet bowl, factoids that don't really have any hard evidence to back them up. A good example of this is the myth surrounding the game Hagane. Somehow, someway, this game got saddled with the label Blockbuster Exclusive, meaning it was only available for rent through Blockbuster Video, and only available for purchase if they decided to sell it to dump some inventory. The first instance I can see of this floating around is from a CGR video from 2009, which has since accumulated 48,000 views, but then the story really blew up when it was brought up on Mike Matej's Super Nintendo Hidden Gems video, which has well over 2 million views. Well, let's put this one to bed right now. Here is an actual Blockbuster Exclusive game cover for the game Final Fight Guy. It says right there on the cover with a huge logo Blockbuster Exclusive. Let's look at Hagane's cover. Huh, no mention of Blockbuster whatsoever. In fact, on the back cover, it says this game is for sale. And sure enough, there's a bunch of mail order listings out there where you can buy Hagane for the same price as just about any other game. Let's check out Nintendo Power's 6-page review of the game. Surely that's gotta mention something. Nope, not a word about any sort of Blockbuster deal. Same with Game Fan and Game Pros reviews. So yeah, don't believe the nonsense about Hagane because it doesn't appear that that story is based on anything. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped the meteoric rise in the price of the cartridge. Hagane remains one of the most expensive Super Nintendo games out there, and that leads me to the BS surrounding cartridge rarity. Let's face it, nobody knows anything about how rare a game really is, despite what an eBay, Craigslist, or Amazon listing might try and tell you. Sure, there are some instances where production of a game like Uniracers was halted due to a lawsuit, and there's proof written in court records saying the game had to be limited to its initial run of 300,000 copies, so that much we know. And of course, we know certain games have sold a ton, like just about all of Nintendo's first-party titles. But after that, there's not a lot of hard information to base anything on, simply because too much time has passed, and a lot of game publishers of the time have since folded or have been bought out, leading to a lot of data being lost. To give you an example, when I was trying to find out more information about Hagane, I had to contact Konami. Hagane was published on the Super Nintendo by Hudson Soft, but they were bought out in 2011 by Konami Digital Entertainment. I sent them an email asking about Hagane's publishing run, and they responded two days later essentially saying, And realistically, how would they know? I'm probably talking to some overworked, underpaid customer service rep who just wants me to go away, so unless someone out there with a lot of resources does a deep dive into this thing, nobody really knows anything, and that's just how it is. However, not all is without hope, and collectors out there are making do with what information is still out there. For instance, the folks at NintendoAge.com have created what's considered a rarity guide. Now, this is still based on a lot of anecdotal information, but it's at least provided by a large group of people who have been in the SNES collecting game for decades. It ranks the cartridge, instruction manual, and box individually, and it comes with some pretty interesting conclusions, based on scattershot information, personal experience, and informal tidbits, like how often this stuff is actually seen in the wild. It is far from perfect, but it's better than nothing. I just thought I'd throw that out there. Anyway, moving on, thanks to Twist C from the SNES Drunk Discord Chat for pointing this one out. Another rumor that's lingered for years involves Donkey Kong Country. There was a quote that had been floating around for years that Nintendo producer and game designer Shigeru Miyamoto saying Donkey Kong Country proves gamers will put up with mediocre gameplay if the art is good. That quote spawned all kinds of nonsense theories like that Miyamoto resented Donkey Kong Country's success and thought his vision for Yoshi's Island was far superior, or whatever. It was ridiculous. It turns out the quote was a complete mistranslation from Japanese to English, and Miyamoto was actually closely involved with the development of the game, providing feedback to Rare at every turn. And to this day, Miyamoto remains involved in the development of the modern Donkey Kong Country series. Thanks to LHC Greg from the chat for mentioning this, it's one that I myself have gotten wrong for years. Remember that Final Fight Guy game I mentioned earlier? I've always thought this game was just the exact same game as the SNES Port of Final Fight, only with Guy replacing Cody. You know, whoop-de-doo, who cares? But they actually did make some subtle improvements in the gameplay, a lot of it just from simply fixing most of the slowdown. There's four different difficulty modes as well, and the enemy placement reflects that. There's also small touches here and there that help the game align with the original arcade version. For instance, now there's one-ups and invincibility power-ups and barrels, and there's some subtle visual changes as well. Yeah, this game is definitely still flawed and still a missed opportunity. It's still censored, there's no checkpoints, it's still missing a level, and there's no two-player co-op. But Final Fight Guy is actually a better playthrough than the first SNES Final Fight port. And even better, if you get the Super Famicom version of the game, it has Roxy and Poison instead of Billy and Sid. So, there you go. Here's one pointed out by Coolor from the chat, and it comes from the Super Mario 64 Wikipedia page. It says that Miyamoto considered using the Super FX chip to try and develop a 3D Mario game for Super Nintendo, as he told Nintendo Power in January of 1996, and so began the myth that there was a 3D Mario game in development that was never released. After all, the code name for the Super FX chip was Super Mario FX, and the chip has the name Mario printed on it. But this was never the case. The always rock solid and reliable SNES Central took to Twitter and straight up asked former Argonaut engineer Dylan Cuthbert about it, and he would know since he was the lead coder for Star Fox, and should anyone be chosen to work on such a Mario game, it would, in all likelihood, be him. However, he flat-out denied that there was any development, saying that Super Mario FX was just a code name. To end this video, I want to address a few talking points regarding certain Super Nintendo games. Now, these obviously aren't factual statements, they're just things that many people have come to a consensus on over the years. And one of them is that Shaq Fu is not only the worst Super Nintendo game ever, but the worst video game ever, period. Yes, that's right, I've come to bat for Shaq Fu, but not because it's good. Just because, you know, it's not that bad. In fact, it's not even in the top three worst fighting games on the Super Nintendo.  Shaq Fu at least has good-looking sprites and good music. Yeah, the combat sucks, but I still feel like the game isn't even half as bad as people say it is. I think people hate the idea of Shaq Fu more than anything else. Like, Shaq in a fighting game?  But there is so much worse out there. There's another talking point that everyone just kind of agrees on, and that's that the Sega Genesis has better sports games than the Super Nintendo. This one's always been kind of interesting to me, because if you remember when the Genesis launched back in 1989, it relied heavily on name recognition. It invested a lot of dough in names like Joe Montana, Mario Lemieux, Heavyweight Champion Buster Douglas, Pat Riley, Tommy Lasorda, on and on. Many of those games were fine at the time, and definite upgrades over their NES contemporaries, especially in terms of visuals and sound. But playing them today, your mileage varies big time. Another part of the sports game argument is EA Sports. Let's face it, a lot of EA games on Super Nintendo frickin' suck. The FIFA series is a disaster with crappy controls and a bad frame rate, most of the Madden games are a mess of nonsense, and the NHL series simply plays better on Genesis. All that leads people to believe that the Genesis, undisputedly, has the advantage when it comes to sports games, but I think it's pretty stupid to jump to that big of a conclusion. There's still the Tecmo Super Bowl games, there's still NBA give and go, there's still extra innings, Super Baseball Simulator 1000, Ken Griffey Jr. presents Major League Baseball. The point is, the gap is much smaller when it comes to sports games than people think. Alright, that's all for now. I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Today guys, we are talking about friends and expectations. How much do our friends expect from us? How much do we owe them? But let me tell you another thing Betty, in Nairobi, your friends are better than even your relatives. Don't put a lot of pressures on your friends. We have friends who are at a limit. You are watching Friends Vibes. All feelings are represented on SPM Buzz. What's up guys, welcome to Friends Vibes right here on SPM Buzz. My good name is Miss Kithingi and I have the gang as always. Edima story in the house. Nice to meet you. Kira the brand. Awesome, you guys. Shout out to all our gulf people. Any of you guys in the gulf, we see all the love in the comments section. Niniwa tuwangu wu sana, keep watching, keep sharing this video. We will not disappoint you when it comes to content by the way. Musi jali, musi tensata kido go. And in case you haven't subscribed, make sure you do. Now today guys, we are talking about friends and expectations. How much do our friends expect from us? How much do we owe them? How needful is it of us to support their businesses when they start the business? How much often do we need to check on our friends? Friends and expectations. Sijui ni ni muna se maji. How much do your friends expect from you kido? Of course they expect a lot from me. Yes, in terms of support. Finances, emotional? Yes, advices. Ako na emotional, wanome wa teftenangi mamba, kama mutu haki kwa hard broken na ma ni ni. Life in a move on. Mito na tuftaka ma ndaka tender. Kwa ma, ndaka nisedene na 1 million. Oni na kwa account, na chukua check, oni nmpia 1 million. So kido jai ndaka kwa bisti ya kwa mambia maize, juli jemu jali ni chapakarekta. Aa, parna. Aa, no, no, no. Jai nda. Hai jai happen. So if it is a kwa feregana, so peki a kwa. Emotional things. Emotional things, of course, there's a way I control myself. I don't allow it if you get a level mone, sasa wu na jitakam, kutana wu na zaku liya. Kuna science, kuna red flag. Tu ma message irudishi wu na tukua. Miskulu wa shiki wu me tukua. But me I'll differ with the thing, nipo wu kongena wa say. But emotionally ni ni. Ongena artu, jusa uspo ongena artun wu na patagamsia kuna depression, then wu na zain maizkulu wa. Of course, kama ni kitunaksumbu wa sana, of course kuna artun has a reach out. But he's got in my pants, wu na de am zazi. Jaftyaku. Asi na tukua wu wu na komizazi, wu na janti mam zasi wu de ma. If it's advice kama ni a financial term, so I'll make it in business. Kana e chinim, kunye breakfast wu mongi. Landwata. But I feel like we all have different kinds of friends. True. Right?  And then kuna ma bestu wa shere, wu na jutu, awu na shere. And they're all important. I'm not saying that all of them are important in your life. Kuna wu na jutu wu na zangelelia, biz flani, tu tege neze, kuna wu na jutu wu na zende, for different kinds, just different kinds of friends. So omawakategorize, so si miwake ke liya evi tu na jutu ini shere. Shida. No, I'm saying they're all important, but it's yeti. Umu na kiki kupigiotu na jutu, wu na takutu kumutu anisha. Ya. Personal, I feel like every friend of mine holds a different key to my life. They open certain things.  And there are others maybe I could just talk to when I'm going through a hard time. And I know they are going to give me like soba, advice and all that. And then kuna watu tu waku hangout, like they're just good vibes when it comes to hanging out, but they will never know if you're broke or not. True, true. You know, but anyway, back to now, expectations. How much are now our friends expecting from us? Edu kama wewe, bestia kwa mefungu abiz, do you feel like lazima when they want support? Let's say na wuzanga maya'i, na wuzanga maya'i ake na theriso, but kuna ule bestia kwa palia na wuzanga 280. Ya, kwa wendu bestia jenu eni, singe, support to boy waku. You are the result. Ya, support. Sometimes better support. Sometimes there are supports, so let's say mubai, there's a way you can support someone. It can be advice, and to set up biz, nipatia advice a location. Niaje unza nishi a kwa story. Ya, even just a story. Oneza pigi ama bestia za kwa mbi, niaje nikuna bizia mtura, kama uni mubai. And then bizia kwa mombasa, na bestia na kuna roda. For instance, bizia mtura a kwa mombasa unadvertize wapi doba na. Wala, for example, Kido, let's say for instance, let's say for example, you own a Bucharia, nanyama ya kwa AKG, you sell at 500. Then kuna mse palia across, anu wuzanga na 450. That is a difference of 50 shillings. Yes. Woi nikianda kwa bia palia kwa 450, utafil vibhaya mi kama bestia ya kwa. Ya. Okay, yes. As a friend nesaf ke vibhaya. But you see, kini kujio ni mbe Kido ni aji, nata kuku promots. Sina 500, nikona 450. Mi kama ni mse mjaanja na kama, ina shili naka pateo ni nama na 500, but mi minta top up 50 leo. Utafil appreciated. Nani uskwingi ne? Sata uskwingi, una build evo relationship. Then uksyama baiya, next time aki kama mi uja mata kama na gilta seme, next time Kido ni nga zia, 50. Ata kika mas many times. But tusa kama ni me sota mi, bade tiangu ina kwa nga 250, anyama Kido. Sata 50. Amma beti. You just tell me that. Ulazami kimi aia 450, epesa akonayo. Epesa akonayo. Ulazami kimi aia kilo. Ya. 50. But sata. Just you supporting me, because I imagine I'm here and you're going across. But sini me kupele kaha sara, kus maybe niya maiakulibaya. You didn't come to ask me that. You didn't come to tell me. Did you come to tell me? Betu nasa uli na fkianakuja saina 450, kisha kipata 10,000, nama 1,000. Dakuja niya marketa up. Serious? You may feel like you guys are put in pressure on your friends if they can't afford and they can afford something else. I feel like you guys are put in pressure. Kido, we live in anekonomi ekadogo. Nga get. So mi na feel like kusapotum sei, una foam kami through. Nga get. Una enda palia ni. Si yu kone klipfu ni liya ni Carlos experience. Aki pasyama bishtewa ke nikonakinyozi, kone enda kone uliwa suji wa api. Nikona pleze nyama kujage na kuna nyama apu. Nga checki. Kwey dem sei yu? Betu nga get ikuna na kusapot, kumaisi na nga jihu na kusapot. Sapo ni samon. Betu ni talk about friends. Sapo ni samon, I don't need to prove to that someone who's supporting him. Mi ma na mga bila pati na nambazawa tu. O pigu sibu. Nga get. Sometimes you know for too much. Betu na kusapotu rukona sema, Beti. Rafikiya kwa nafa kukamiya through to what extent to what extent to what extent. I mean I don't expect katini ki kwa na bieshara let's say for example let me say is bieshara ando gondogo you can't support your friend. Things that are below a thousand bob seriously I think you can. But I'm saying things like maybe me fungo afani chasto or something. You get. I'm far from not where you are and you are my friend. Like the kind of support. I don't need like just showing support is like by mentioning when you are just mentioning all my friend. Yeah. Yeah. Posting now we have Instagram. Everyone has Instagram. Everyone has Facebook. Everyone has WhatsApp. So just that just posting posting that support. Okay. That's for businesses. Now what about emotional type of support because there is this that goes around that says keep keep check on people that check on you. So I'm just here wondering if I don't check on you in like three months. Are you like should you catch feelings because I didn't check on you. Let's say we don't live near each other. We've been busy with our lives. If I don't check up on you in three months I'm not a true friend. I think it depends it depends it depends on you. Dynamic. It depends on you. It depends on you. Yeah. It depends on you. It depends on you. It depends on you. No, but but come on you say to me you say to me. No, we are all adults. True. Life is going on differently for all of us. Very true. Right? If you want to speak to me as your friend you can call me. And if I want to talk to you I can call you. The only I feel like problem I mean what is it called where you're supposed to be keen enough is if your friend is going through something and you know your friend is going through something you can just be calling to check up. But other than that so what in a bigger story you get but I know you're going through something something has happened in your life something huge or yeah even whether good news or bad news as a friend even if we don't speak often I have to call you and talk to you you get there is that normally too actually just because I didn't check up on you I don't think that's grounds for Me na fikiri ya kama nmise nkako close inna dependent e friendi enyo kwa aje because na feel like because they are friends munya tako atana dada wambia wa say manzeh edu edu nkakako poa kwa zna jadabu kumuninivi atana nilenga lakini edu nkako po akako po unmise menyako akako close na ea na ujua na kujua na kujua laite edu na kwa gahivi na kwa gahivi akako poa na get then kuna those out of friends we niata wo ukua aji aja ligi they don't know but they are your friends of course pia na just to add on what you said inna dependent pia na na echa friendship kumulem se me grow up na tanguntui sikuitesha bila kum pigia simu but kumulem kum pigia ta once a month haina no na no na mimi maisha angusai na na tumia kia take a message deshishbi anguni entare tano tron kia tare tano kimalizana imesha kumigia pakataka ni kujipende kaza but kare oh onini ma best si namu tumia kwa message amani kwa samaji namu tumia take but you see u best no i stuck a word like you friends we talking about friends now sometimes I just feel like we expect a lot from our friends because if I didn't check upon you in 3 months Inisila uja qikpe. Cert Mhm, ya, tia na mwahitia talia katante celewa. supports. Kayamaa naTE, Aga kenger gate ya, jara o uzi kweb Davis maybe they are going through something that they're not sharing. F PLA為 nii mati hatahi, In Nairobi your friends are better than me in your relatives. For sure in life, your friends are just ahead, As long as we have friends as we want them to connect, histoire na�ini, jaa, sanła naqutu§ mi va kutu§. Unafa kujo edwa kuhaji, familia kuhaji. Una getu. Ena kwaile kitu close nitu. Geni una jua, saka yamge na kwa ni kido. Una checki. But una say too close. Ata ni kiwa na shiden naizenda kwa ke. Naizenda kwa kido. Naizenda kwa naisa. Batu kia kala kati naizenda 3 months, 4 months bilata kwa ungegana kido. Kwa ungegana na beti. Ata juo jivele nendelea. Ia kini. Kuna mtu na prefaa? Aki kua na issue. Amma kitu na fanya. I involve friends. Amma friends jo jue. Dan family. Na kuna mtu na prefaa na ya say ma familia nju ki ju eni better than friends. Na kuna mtu na raga kuhendia professional. Ukuna stressia, depression me hatu. Kutendia raka taru kenai. Therapist kuhengenei. Kuntaka na kitu milita atu. Fada liu wende family ako than friends. Tata ma Rafiki si watu azu ripia, ya? Ya, is that part. I feel like it can offer kujwa your friends and the dynamics of how it will be. Like kido, kido su na jwa tu kuna abeshte, ono jutu yadu niki mumbeni MTRG, dwa tenda kum tanga zainje. Lakin ni niki ndeya msekama sule, sule ni mseta ekasiri yango yango. Asi ni yun ni mseta ni, hara ni call out. Ah, siri ni mtumoja tu. No, no, but they are friends that kuna wale. Ah, ni msema ya, that's true. Sule jutu wongia adega kwa subtitles. No. Ya, kuna those friends. Na, siri raku jya pa yagi kwa boat kasi. Besti yung kumoja li peli kwa naibasa. Also, now that's upon you, now to realize, or rather just have the ability to choose your friends wisely nia. Angalia tu, kuju, sometimes kama mchwa na kujangana kwa mbe mambuza wengine zenye ni sensitive, then maybe it means that's not the kind of person you should be telling us. Exactly. I feel, I mean, it's easy to tell who is going for you and who is not. Just for you and not. That's true, for sure. Ya, at this point it's so easy to get to know. But everybody needs somebody anyway. We are not. We are not. We are not. We are not. We are not. We are not. We are not. We are not. Masi amu owing through this, through this. As in, na feel ni kiongana e, indya feel kuna ki tivi ni tokha. Also. Then, kubaki tu nai wapa na fight nai, then napa ma mpumbiza kwa ma bandiza kwa na katia. Ya. Asi, nagataka kuha pa taluma. And so, I feel like there are people just don't know probably how to help in solving problems. Uneza kama labduni yambil, you're going through this thing, and then I don't even know what to tell you, but in real sense I'm actually quite supportive, but I don't know how to go about it, you know? But I feel like mostly when people come to talk to you, when a friend is coming to talk to you about something, you don't really need to put your opinion in or anything. Ya, sometimes they just need a listening. Ya, we just have to say I'm here, that's it. Hey, but also maybe sometimes a dream to labdana taka umuwa, umpea opinion. Maybe it's just best to ask someone, how do you think I can help? Eh, how do I help her? But all this basically ita rodee, we where na wubeshti ako ura fiken yana fikiya wapi. Ya, muna jwana. Ya, muna jwana, Aj and nani jwana Aj, that's why unneza naka wubeshti ako nu liye kwa ke. Nata he ya, riyam. Hey, is naka wambia? Ya, muna ja kida naka wangaw na, wubeshti ako. Bro, oki breakout ya dem, dem nanda naka wubeshti ake. Ya, alia wuku wa na fanya ni ni ni niga get Na toizo ni ni wuku Maata, maata siip dempe Yata ma astiip dempe Una men wu have friends that they go and talk to Ya When a... Anam skiza too like u just ya naitoa tu kuwarahu And sometimes it helps just to speak out Ya, bata also don't put... Don't put a lot of pressures Unma fangfu wa wutu mea ka limit Kama kumaret Tuna hangout baka sa flani kama ni mtua nafanya kazi ni manager md ni ni kuna masaya kumpegi ya simu then kuna wale suza kama kina edu wana kwa na 2 online 2d4s reza mpegi wana muna yo bao asi ke simu ka kiki tema nasana kwa friendship ni limit boundaries too much yeah yeah that's all saying don't expect too much from like actually because you're my friend now everything has to stop and end when when you might want to do anything because people have life but over a maisha we have to I'm living differently than you kuna wengini piwa na kwa kana entire tolumen 30 because ni li kufanyaivi yeh kuna kwa umfanyaivi at this in sometimes I know at the other hour too wefanya, wefanya just stand away mani na na eh no friendship you're not supposed to do things expecting it but in return exactly or rather like just the same thing in return una fanyanga tuju you care about this person na yata rudisha tum kono ilia wakati ata izaku rudisha yeah and support like venyo nezakumum support they will be supporting you differently they will be supporting you differently I'm sorry for this case because friendship is at risk meka tu kwa nyumbo mekularisia kwa na uvakado na greens sa kedogo meseji mengi ani ache bro ebun sedia na punch how easy kwa sa punch kwa ni ni kwa simu kwa na weki kwa inaba ingi aata se na mengi na simu 20 muna kwa sana na bestia kwa jia punch alafu na you know the other day I put up a post on Instagram it was just a post kusema like you know happiness begins with you like you're responsible for your own happiness then this guy came and said wongo this is a lie your happiness is dependent on other people that surround you ati your boyfriend relies on you for happiness I'm like ati you as a parent your children rely on you to be happy I'm like bro you're putting up a lot of responsibilities on your friends and family on other people excuse me imati in such a person wom tu wezim fraisha kila wakati and there's one thing kwa na kwa na maisha muzuri i life usi waya expect a lot ya loa i expectation loa i expectation in the 2 chinis kwa chinika bistahi kipi apili so ataki kumes usi sh2k ya so just kwa li wacha kwa kati nili sayi dey duna tao sayi duma nilazima nipati e tao suji maka pana and I don't think we are being hard on anyone I just feel like when you put a lot of your expectations in people you get disappointed you fall into depression you hate people then you become now you're not moving so what you think about is how disappointed you are thank you thank you you're welcome alright guys please let us know on the comment section how much do your friends expect from you how much in terms of supporting their businesses in terms of emotional support just being there for them let us know in terms of supporting them please let us know on the comment section how much do you think but thank you guys for watching but please support America Shalib Shalib Shalib Shalib Shalib Moha Newton Newton Sponyo Kwa bia unisa kwa pali Nituwa deatment Tuko Kwa bia bro Tuko Yurok bro Shalib Wachua Bungoma Wachua Bungoma Shalib Actually by the way na kumuka last time alibai tickets za comedy Shoflani yandjugush Di Tiu Suport ma fansu wengine kama kumivo Sindio mam, Sponyo wei tu wa US Alright guys, I think we are done with that Guys, make sure to interact with us down on the comment section This was a Friends Vibe Until next time, it's goodbye


Welcome back to the nonprofit show. I like to say back, because I'm assuming you've been here before, but if you've not, any of this is your first entry, welcome. We are so glad you're here. I'm also thrilled to have with us today, Mitch Stein, Head of Strategy at Chariot, and we're gonna learn more about Mitch and more about Chariot. But Mitch has brought a conversation to us. It is Engaging DAFs, which is donor-advised funds in your fundraising. And can we really make this work? Like what are the strategies to this? What are the best practices? What do we need to be focusing on? So before we dive in, we want to remind all of our viewers and listeners around the globe who we are. So Julia Patrick is here, of course. She wouldn't miss a day. CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. And I'm Jarrett Ransom, nonprofit nerd and CEO of the Raven Group. Together, we are so honored to have the ongoing support, investment buy-in from these rockstar partners. Shout out of gratitude to our besties over at Bloomerang American Nonprofit Academy, nonprofit thought leader, staffing boutique, your part-time controller, 180 management group, fundraising academy at National University, JMT consulting, nonprofit nerd, and nonprofit tech talk. They have helped us to produce a plethora of episodes. And Mitch has joined us before. I forget which year that was. But you can find all of our previous episodes by downloading the app, scanning that QR code, streaming broadcast and podcast platforms. So Mitch, as I mentioned, you've been on with us before. I'm thrilled to have you back with us to talk to us today about your new position, your new role head of strategy at Chariot. So first of all, welcome back. And secondly, yeah, give us all the goods, right? Who are you? What do you do? And what is Chariot? Yeah, of course, it's amazing to be back. It was a few years ago at the time we were talking about nonprofit technology more broadly and was working on a different startup at the time called Pond. But I'm really excited. I've been working with Chariot for over a year but joined full-time about three months ago. And they are creating fundraising solutions for nonprofits to get more money from donor-advised funds. That's what we're gonna talk about today, but this is the fastest growing segment of philanthropy and generating a lot of headaches and time wasted for nonprofit fundraisers. So we're gonna get into all of it. Yeah, and the last time we nerded out over DAFs was with Muhi Kwaja and he serves with the American Muslim Community Foundation, Mitch. And so it's very specific to a community of DAF holders. So I'm really interested to learn more about Chariot. There's so much in this conversation, but the impact of DAFs donor-advised funds because it's acronym soup in our world. What is the impact of this giving community on our, again, acronym, NPO, Nonprofit Organization Sector? Yeah, I mean, I think it's just important to be familiar with the scale and pace of change around donor-advised funds. So there's currently $230 billion that is sitting in over 1,100 different donor-advised funds around the country. Hold up, say that number again, hold up. Say those numbers again. $230 billion with a B, a capital B, $230 billion that has to go to charity. It's already gotten a tax write-off associated with those funds. As a reminder, DAFs are a charitable savings account. It's similar to a 401k or an HSA, but it's specifically for charitable giving. When you contribute cash or assets into that account, you get your tax write-off up front and then you can distribute those funds over time. So just to give you a sense for how the scale of this market. In 2022, where we have the latest figures for, there was over $80 billion contributed into donor-advised funds. There was over $50 billion granted out of donor-advised funds. And the total that remained at the end of the year was $230 billion, huge. And I think it's also important to acknowledge where that's come from. Those numbers have been growing over 20% per year on average for the past five years. So like those aren't numbers we're used to in the nonprofit space. Those are enormous. And so when you say impact on the nonprofit sector, I mean, this is where philanthropy is moving to, that more and more of these dollars are gonna be sitting in and coming from donor-advised funds and it's time for nonprofits to be ready for that. Mitch, I have to ask, are daffs for the elite of the elite, like is this like a certain threshold of affluent individuals or is this really where we're moving for that mid-level general donor? Yeah, two things. I think there's two important trends to acknowledge that the expansion of the daff market, there's over 3 million people using them today. So obviously 3 million is a lot. That's not just the wealthiest of the wealthy. There's reasons why it's become more popular kind of on both ends of the market. At your ultra high net worth end of the market, it's a really, really simple alternative to setting up your own private foundation. You don't have to manage any of the overhead. You don't have to do filings, board meetings, like any of it. You just set up your account and make grants. On the other end of the market, it's something that is a really useful way to organize your philanthropy. I have a daff, certainly not up there on the other end, but I have a donor advice fund. I contribute to putting $100 in it every month out of my paycheck and my employer matches it every month. So I now have automatically set that aside. So anytime that I'm hit up for a gift, I was just at a charity event last night or a friend's running a 5K, that's my like bank that I'm distributing funds from. So it's popular for different reasons depending on the audience, but it is becoming a more mass adopted product. And I think that it could be like a 401K, like there's 60 million people in the US with a 401K. Why could they not all also have daffs? Right. I love, love, love that you put this into context of how it's working. And Jared, that was a great question because I do think that there are a lot of us that think this is just a high net worth vehicle and that it doesn't really apply but to a certain sector of our community and our economy. But let's talk a little bit more about what you're seeing as the giving patterns. I mean, following up to this conversation about just you personally, how this works. I love that you work with an organization that matches it, yay team. But talk to us about how folks are giving. Is this like the year end cruncher? Is it dribbled out throughout? Is it predetermined? What are you seeing? Yeah, so it's, there's three million people. So it's definitely not a monolith. There's a lot of different types of daff donors. I would, people generally think about them in three different categories. There's actually some researchers that have done a lot of work around daffs called them the tubs, the tanks and the towers and how they segment daff donors. So I think that the me example is usually a tub, meaning it's a plate.  So you're just using it to manage your philanthropy in a seamless way. The tank is someone who maybe they had like a, some stocks that they owned that surged and had appreciated in value. And so they have a wealth event when they sell those shares and they're gonna set aside a certain chunk of that in their daff account and use that to grant out over the next three to, call it three to five years. So they're gonna make a really large, a larger lump sum contribution and then grant it over time. The tower is someone who's like, I could have set up a private foundation with millions of dollars, but I'm gonna have a daff to manage my philanthropy because of how it simplifies the process. So I think understanding where someone sits in that spectrum is an important indicator of how they're using the daff. But by and large, the average daff account holder has $120,000 in their daff. They are making an average gift of almost $5,000 per gift and they are making an average of 12 gifts a year. So just to put those figures in the context, the average online credit card gift is $200. So the average daff gift is 24 times bigger and the average person that's donating to charity every year is making an average of two donations. And so it's six times, they're giving six times more often. So these are just people that are, no matter where they are in that spectrum of wealth, I think it is an indicator of they are holding themselves accountable to their giving their intentional, their frequent and over 75% of daff gifts are either recurring or re-grants. So they're committed. When you think about the rates of turnover and attrition in your donor file for credit card gifts, it's usually around like 20% is how much we're retaining on average. They vary a lot depending on the platform. But if you think about that, like a daff over three quarters of them are coming back every year. You know, Mitch, I don't know where I got this message, but for me, I just assumed it was like a one and done thing. I never assumed that it could be recurring. So that's really interesting to hear that. I don't know, Jared, if that surprises you or not, but... Well, I have my hands on a lot of organizations donor bases. I'm very privileged and blessed in that way. However, I see certain daffs, right? And I will see this person has given year over year over year in that same amount. My question to you may be convoluted. So I hope I can get it out and it makes sense. How would an organization go about acquiring daff donors or do we simply acknowledge those donors currently in our network that give through a daff? Like, is there a strategy because I love your stats, Mitch? They give more, they give often, they give minimum of 5,000. Like we want more of those. How do we get them? Yeah, it's the first question that I get asked by every nonprofit. I'm not original. No, no, it's in saying it's a good question because it's one that everybody has. Sure. And I think that the important thing is to acknowledge that you already have daff donors that you probably don't know about because the reality is that most daff donors also make gifts not with their daff. Why? Because it's easier. Because if they get asked to give with their credit card or sorry, they get asked to give on a website or in response to a campaign or a friend's running a 5K, whatever, if for them to make a gift from their daff, they gotta log into their bank account, go look up the organization, try to tell them to attach it to this person's fundraiser, it's pretty convoluted and it's not something that someone has to be really engaged and it takes several minutes. And that's really where Chariot's solution came to be born is if someone could give at the moment of inspiration in the same way that they do with a credit card, could we get daffs to be even more actively used and more of this money to be flowing out from daffs more seamlessly? And so when you deploy Chariot has a payment option called daff pay that can go right on your website or donation form like Apple Pay or PayPal and it lets anyone of your donors that has a daff donate in three clicks in about 15 seconds. So you're doing a couple of things to answer your question about finding daff donors. You're making it easier for them to reveal themselves to you by taking that easier option where they've already set money aside and guess what, they're gonna give more money because it's like sitting there on a gift card, the psychology is all in your favor. We also in that form actually remind them of their balance. So it's like, hey, you've got $100,000 in your account, you were thinking about $100 gift, why don't you boost it? And we actually render those suggested boost amounts based on their account balance. So we see that 30% of the donors that are using daff pay are increasing their gift from their originally intended amount. And we've actually seen several instances where people increase it to the full balance in their daff. They're like, I'll go ahead and max out $9,873 was a gift I saw the other day where someone had maxed out their daff for that one gift. I love how easy convenience this has been made because I have to own up, right? Like someone's running a race, they asked me to donate. I went to make a nominal donation and I had to get my credit card. Are you kidding me? I stopped, right? Because that was just one level of inconvenience. And so anytime we can click a button that says, yes, use Apple Pay, use whatever is already in the system, yes, pull it from my daff and to have these systemized strategic journey, two thumbs up. I love it. If I was Siskel and Ebert, right? Like we're set. I love it. You know, this is amazing. Now, one of the things is where we started today's episode of the nonprofit show. We talked about how it's somewhat mysterious on the side of the nonprofits. And unfortunately, we are not as adept as we should be about even understanding how this works, let alone understanding the impacts of the metrics that you gave us. So how do we as a sector get comfortable with this process and educate ourselves and start talking about it? Yep, it's a great question. And I think there's really simple steps that anyone in a nonprofit can take to get started and start making change. Number one, if you're listening to this, you've already taken a step. You're getting more informed. You're learning about the sector. That's really what it takes. Like it's really about that education, awareness, comfort and then making sure that people around you also have that same level of awareness. The leadership at your organization, your board, like anyone who's a big advocate and especially if they're more likely to engage with major donors or wealthier donors, they need to be up to speed on these vehicles because if they're able to talk about it in a conversation with a donor, that donor's gonna be more comfortable talking about, oh, yeah, I was thinking about starting a DAF. What have you heard about it or what's people experience been? You wanna be someone they can rely on for information in that context. So it's all about education as a starting point. This is a great session. I share a ton of resources on LinkedIn on a daily basis. So we can connect there. And the blog, Chariots blog has a ton of really helpful materials for people. Both like really beginner one-on-one, like what is a DAF? All the way to like more nuanced ethical considerations and compliance policies and anything that you need. So that's number one. I would say number two is really making sure that you prioritize communicating DAFs with donors.  It might sound wild, but people forget about it. It's like forgetting a gift card in your sock drawer. Like it truly happens. So like remind people that they can use it and not to just instinctively give another way. And then make the process super easy. So on your website, you can have a section under ways to give or ways to support that explains, yes, you can support the DAF.  And if there's another organization that has a similar name, or maybe your legal name is different from your website, like all these issues, the EIN is the way to go for looking that up. So make that process super, super seamless. Yeah. You know, Mitch, I'm so interested in all of this conversation. And this might be a little bit of a curve ball, but are you seeing this ecosystem changing or, and the reason why I asked this question is that as we are trying to educate ourselves, get everybody talking about this, do you see things changing? I mean, other than just more people using it, do you think that this is gonna be something that we have to really monitor because compliance is gonna be changing in the process? Yeah. I mean, it's really important as this grows as a fundraising channel. I mean, it's already almost 20% of philanthropy is coming from DAFs. And if we stay on our same growth rate, there'll be a trillion dollars in DAFs in five years. Like this could really be overtaking philanthropy by 2030. So yes, you're spot on because there are unique restrictions related to donor-advised funds because a donor has already gotten their tax right off when they contributed the funds to the account. It can only be used for 501C3 nonprofits and there can't be any benefit received in return. I can't get a table at the Gala. I can't use it for an auction item. You've got to be really careful. And there are instances when donors will be like, oh, come on, I'll just make this gift over here and you can just set a table aside for me. Those are, you're putting yourself in some high-risk situations that ultimately could jeopardize your 501C3 status if that comes up in an audit. So this is not something to take lightly and it's a lot of nonprofit folks, it's tempting, especially if you might be getting pressured from a donor to think like, oh, that's on them, isn't it? Like they're the ones handling the tax right off. So it's their risk. That is not true. It is 100% still the organization's risk if they knowingly comply with one of those requests, you could be putting your standing in jeopardy. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you for sharing that. That's amazing because it's not all wine and roses and I think what you said earlier is we've got to be educating ourselves on this and the wins of government and compliance, the more money involved, the more scrutiny it's gonna come under, right? So I gotta believe that reaching a trillion dollars in a short period of time is going to create some conversations. Yeah, there's new legislation that's under comment right now out of the IRS. So this could be changing in the coming weeks and months as things move forward of what exactly how these funds are managed, who can manage them and what ways. So pay attention, it's changing very fast. Yeah, this is just so fascinating to me. And again, I wanna echo what Julia said. Thank you, Mitch, because bringing in the ethics of this is very important to our sector and very important to these conversations. Talk to us more, can we get nerdier, right? Around the marketing that includes the DAF donor and I keep going back to the three T's, like how many tubs, how many tanks and how many towers and do we dare ask them that? Are you a tub, a tank or a tower? I don't think that's etiquette. I don't know, but I like it, Jared, I like it. It's so catchy. Dan Heist and Danielle Vance McMillan are the two researchers that coined those terms. I can't take credit for them, but they are very, very easy to remember and very apt. Yeah, these are really great questions. I think a donor probably wouldn't be familiar with that categorization, but the right question to ask particularly one-on-one is like, how are you managing your giving today? Do you use anything like a DAF? Do you use a foundation? What are your priorities? And just let them get talking and you'll kind of understand, so I think you might have asked earlier, is it something that's shared or individual? Actually, the average number of people using her account is 1.6, so it's quite common that someone is either sharing an account with their spouse or a full family. So yeah, these will be shared like family vehicles to manage plant trees. Again, because for a lot of people, it is a substitute for a foundation, particularly on the higher end of the market. But when it comes to marketing too and engaging with these donors, I think it's just important to spell out the words donor-advised-fund, the act you kind of laughingly, we mentioned acronym SUP here in the nonprofit world. We've actually learned that a lot of donors aren't familiar with the acronym and they might even say things like, it's my charitable account or that's my giving account or that's my, you know, it's all over the place. And so, spelling things out whenever you're referencing it is really important. We actually do that on our button. It'll say DAFPEI and then spells out donor-advised-fund to the side. So it's a really important way to make sure people understand and are familiar with it. And then yeah, I would just say to, it's important to track who you know has a donor-advised-fund in your database so that you can send specific appeals to that audience and go into more detail about donor-advised-funds but also don't shy away in a general solicitation if it's through the mail or over email or on social media to mention donor-advised-funds because if someone doesn't know what it is they're just gonna ignore that piece and it's not gonna dissuade them but if someone does it can make a really big difference. We work with the American Cancer Society and when they launched DAFPEI as a payment option they shared it on their social media, they held their whole executive team, share that out on their LinkedIn and really had a big campaign out to educate donors that was broad-based, not just specific to a certain segment of donors which is really powerful. And I would just say having, whenever you have a CTA to give you could have a specific CTA around DAF giving. It's really helps those donors reveal themselves to you. CTA is called to action so I just wanna call that out. Another acronym, we refer to it. I'm really curious, chariot specific, if our viewers and listeners say I'm drinking the Kool-Aid Mitch, I love what you're doing, I too want DAFPEI, where do we start and what is the process before we get DAFPEI on our website? Yeah, so go to our website, obviously www.givechariot.com. You can also message me on LinkedIn or whatever, I'm always happy to chat and connect. But nonprofits work with us in two primary ways. We are integrated with dozens of fundraising platforms already. So if you work with someone like GiveButter, for example, you can actually turn on DAFPEI directly from your GiveButter account. And then that will automatically be featured on your campaign pages and giving forms to anything through GiveButter. But nonprofits also work directly with us, especially if they wanna implement chariot and DAFPEI more broadly across their website on a ways to give page as a specific call to action, the different button, et cetera. And also get added services and tools from chariot around donor advice fund fundraising. And that you can sign up for directly on our website as well. So those are the two primary ways to check and see if your existing tools have an integration and make sure you're turned on and enabled there. And if you're ready to take it up to the next level, then you can also work with us directly. I just see this as a no-brainer. Like why would we not have this, right? Right, I don't know. I think to your point, especially as we're tracking across this country, the popularity of this and the amount of wealth that we know, we talk about this all the time that we're in the middle of this amazing wealth transference in our country, this is not gonna go away. I mean, legislation might change and how it's managed and all that, definitely. I see that storm of ruin, but I think that just this vehicle in itself is going to become more and more common. And it seems to me, I mean, Jared, let me ask you this question. And because you are like I am, you get a lot of solicitations. Are you seeing anything like this? Anything that says, I haven't, I've never seen that. Or planned giving or gifts of stock or like there's so much that I think we're missing. And as I answer that, there's so much noise that already exists. And I don't, I'm not implying this is noise, Mitch, but looking at it from a perspective of like, where is the fine line of education, information and advocacy and clarity, you know? It's a fine line, I think. Yeah, I mean, I think the best thing is to have the resources available. So like particularly on your website, having a section around ways to give some information around these different options. You know, that way it's not noise, but it's available. And I think that that's really helpful because donors that are looking for it can find it. So giving them like easy pathways to find that information. And I think it's just about prioritization too. Like the DAF market is, it's not like a bespoke, you know, alternative giving method. It's like a primary giving method for a huge portion of philanthropy. So I think it's just about under, when you say like the noise and the signal from the noise, like focus on the things that really you and a lot of organizations, I mean, we hear this every day or like, well, yeah, we already get several gifts from Fidelity or Schwab, like, what does this mean? How do we get more of it? Like you're probably already seeing it. And the last thing I'd mention is that a giant growth area for donor-advised funds is around employee benefits. So more and more companies are offering donor-advised funds as an employee benefit, where they can also match contributions. Morgan Stanley just rolled this out across all of their work benefits customers. There's several other companies that do it specifically for DAFs. So it's a big trend. I love it. Well, we are so, so very grateful that you would come back on the nonprofit show, Mitch, and give us a heads up, a push, and some great data to help us really understand that this has got to show up in our strategy. Mitch Stein, Head of Strategy for Chariot, givechariot.com, go to their website. It's really well done and it's fascinating on the amount of educational knowledge, as you mentioned on the backside where the blogs are. There's a lot of information and it does take you from the range of, I don't know anything too, I know a lot. So that's, I think, a really amazing resource for everybody. We're gonna have more conversations about this. I just got to hold up the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Do you see this? Huge thing right here about this issue. I mean, yeah, it's here and we need to be knowing more about it and engaging. Everybody, again, thank you for joining us today for another episode of the nonprofit show. I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. Jared Ransom, nonprofit nerd, has joined us as well, CEO of the Raven Group. Again, amazing partners that allow us to have these conversations, they include Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, nonprofit thought leader, Staffing Boutique, your part-time controller, 180 Management Group, Fundraising Academy at National University, JMT Consulting, nonprofit nerd, and nonprofit tech talk. Amazing partners that allow us to have conversations like we've had today with Mitch Stein. Mitch, I have a sinking suspicion that you are going to have changed the trajectory of a lot of nonprofits today with your knowledge and enlightenment. So thank you very much. Very kind of, I'm excited to be here and excited to connect with anyone who wants to learn more. Awesome. Hey, everybody, as we connect with our viewers and listeners of the nonprofit show, we'd like to remind everyone to stay well, so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow, everyone. Thank you, folks.