Ronnie, let's start there. Did you watch the Super Bowl and remember your thoughts on the game? It was a great game, actually. Defensively, I think both of them defensively did what they had to do. Over all, good game. You just heard Dairon say that he didn't wash half-time, doesn't know a lot of Usher songs. Because he's 12 years old. Ain't no baby shark. I don't know nothing else, man. Did you like the Usher half-time show? Oh, I loved it. I called my mom. I called my best friend. Yeah, he did it.  So you just said it was OK. He posted this morning and said it was all good. OK. That's cool. This is the first initial practice, just with the new guys and with Dennis and Kada and adding them into that system. Just what was it just kind of like to have them here to go through it? Oh, it was great. I think we're very optimistic, very happy with what we got. Dennis is a great guy. I was lucky to play with him last year. He brings that defensive edge and just being a great point guard and a leader. So KBD I've known way back since the spurs. So the bond and, you know, the characteristic and personalities that we brought onto the course is really good. Were you excited when both of them came? Because obviously you have a great relationship with both of them? Absolutely.  So, you know, I can't complain. God is good. Dennis, I mean, like, obviously, what was that connection like on the Lakers? Like, how close were you guys? And did you reach out to him when the trade went down?   What was the season like been for you? You know, it's been tough being in and out of the lineup. You find a rhythm, you find yourself injured. What's that roller coaster then like, and how are you feeling now? I feel good, I feel great. I think most importantly, I feel confident, you know. I'm showing what I can consistently do when given the time, when given the minutes. And that's all I can ask for. I'm gonna try and look for the good rather than, you know, trying to dwell on being injured or being in and out of things. I think I know what I'm capable of doing. I'm only getting better and better day by day. And that's the best thing is, you know, I have yet to reach my potential.  I wish I knew, but I feel good. You know, I'm moving around pretty good. You know, it's just all about just staying with it. Where do you think you've improved the most this season, whether that's a specific on-court attribute or something else? Just consistency. That's kind of been something with me, you know. I was given a lot of inconsistent minutes which creates inconsistency, but in the midst of it all, just staying consistent. You know, when I'm on the court trying to be a plus, understanding that not every game is gonna be a perfect game.  So just finding other ways to implement myself and be aggressive.  How important are these two games heading into the break? Kind of like to close the first half on a positive note. It's very important. Especially when you're playing someone like the Celtics who's a championship contending team. So we'll be able to show our new teammates and just a new group what we're capable of doing and what, you know, we still have to improve on. You guys are about two games out of the play-in right now. What do you look at when you look at the standings or what your expectations are once everyone settles in here? I think everybody's point of focus is making this a play-off. I think from the top down we all kind of want to be in that kind of environment and just continuously grow. So I think day-to-day we're trying to capitalize as much as we can whether it's practice, off-court, getting conditioning in, lifting, whatever it might be.  Tom, as I said, like things got to pick up more after the 41 game right now. I think it's past 50 games. So do you sense that guys understand the urgency that now it's like, all right, things got to pick up a little bit with, you know, getting under 30 games left? Absolutely.  Michael, Cam, Johnson, you know, a list goes on and on as far as players who are born winners, I guess you could say. So, you know, when you have those type of players who have that mindset, the energy's very contagious and I think we all know what we want to do. You know that too. I mean, you played in the conference finals last year. Do you bring that same? That same understanding that it's, you know what it takes to get here? Yes, sir. Absolutely. So, you know, we're going to continue day-to-day and get better and better every single time. Thank you.


Yes, hi guys, hi guys, whoever is there, I'm live today, I decided to do a live streaming here today, so we can try to get some of the answers and questions, definitely, but we need to share. If you are there please let us try to talk, let us try to share out. Hello, whoever is there, please make question is live today and I want to share out a few things, definitely, that what you need to know about unanswered questions actually regarding what you call jobs, regarding to resignation, regarding to termination, regarding to change of sponsorship and then also regarding to what we call some of the low procedures that definitely you need to follow as a person, especially when come to these Gulf countries. It's not very easy, we come in for work, how much standard you supposed to earn, how much supposed to be a day off, working hours to some of the people and we are going in the old mouth of Ramadan and definitely what you need to understand is that now we definitely have also some other schedule. So if you are there please let us join together, if you are there let us try to join and see how better we can try to get within ourselves. Yes, I'm live today and I just want to share with you, whoever is there let us try to talk a little bit and let us try to have some kind of interaction together. Yes, someone ask you also, I'll just get through one of the questions someone ask and say, can I exit Qatar with an expired QID? Yes, you can exit Qatar with an expired QID, just only that maybe you may not wish to return back to the country, you can exit the country but otherwise if you know you are going to return back to the country the best thing for you to do, the best thing for you to do and my humble advice would be to you is just inform to your employer or your sponsor to renew your ID before you can exit out of the country, for example if you are going for what you call vacations. Reason being that if you don't renew your ID for you to return back in Qatar you definitely need what you call, you will need what you call approval or better you will be restricted from entering in the country because the only thing that permits you to stay in this country is what you call the QID. And most of you know who are working here, you definitely know what I'm talking about the importance or what you call the importance of the QIDs here in Qatar which is something very, very, very important. So you should just definitely be aware that you definitely need to have the QID with you which needs to be renewed before you can exit or before you can go out of the country. Yes, someone also asked that how long can I stay outside Qatar with what we call or with the QID. The QID is what we call the residence permit and how long you can stay out of the Qatar. Yes, you can stay outside Qatar for not more than six months at least that's when you can stay outside this country for not more than six months you can stay out of the country. Reason being that they need to track you out, they need to track your stay or your QID. And definitely when you look at low number 21 of 25 that regulates what you call the entry and exit in the country. All these countries have labor laws that definitely govern or that regulates all residence or every nationals in this country. So definitely meaning that if you go outside the country for more than six months for you to return into the country definitely you need what we call an exception permit.  It's the one that will pay an exception permit in maitrash, send you a copy and definitely will have to be allowed to come back into the country. Sometime we may have things that may not allow us to return, maybe we have difficulties especially when we go to vacation and we stay so long in that case. But if you have such kind of difficulties and you still working for that company then the best way for you to do is just tell the company or just inform through an email and tell them I'm standing because of this and this. Definitely they will have to arrange that for you and then it will be very easy for you as you want to return into the country which is quite very important. Then let us try to look at what we call change sponsorship. I think it is the main thing that definitely most of us that we bring to these jobs in the Gulf will look at change of sponsorship. How long am I supposed to change sponsor and definitely how is it supposed to go in any way or in any of these regards. Yes, we are looking at. Let us first look at in two scenarios. We look at what we call resigning. When you resign from the country, from the company or when you resign from that employer, what is the procedure for you? First of all the procedure for you to resign. First look at the copy of the contract. What kind of contract you drafted with your employer? The copy of the contract you drafted is quite very important because it is going to stipulate. It is going to write out. It is going to clearly state out what are the rules that you are supposed to follow or what are the rules that are supposed to govern you for that case or for that case in any way. First of all, if you have completed a kind of duration of the time that is according to the contract with your employer, you have the right to resign to look for a new employer. But remember according to the law you have to give what you call a notice period and that means period that you are going to give your employer. It is going to depend on the period that you have worked with that employer and it also depends on what is being stipulated and what you call the labor laws that you are supposed to follow. If you have been with that employer for less than one year then definitely you can give a two weeks notice period that you need to serve then you can resign or exit or even look for something else. Then if it is more than two years definitely what you need to understand that you need to give what you call, you need to give what you call a notice period which is two months or which is more than two months that you are supposed to give for that employer.  So we are looking at that situation, you can resign then you can look for another employment in case you call that offer for you or if you get unemployment that has more of a salary or even career development, this is all career advancement that we may look at that you think is going to work for you. So probably that could be also another situation that definitely you need to look at. Then we look at that you can resign, you can go out of the country then you can come into another visa, you can get another visa then definitely you return into the country for what you call a fresh visa at the same time. Then also let us look at people who are being terminated, we have what you call termination, they may also have what you call restructuring or what you call end of service. So when you look at end of service you may have what you call an end of service later, the reason being that the company may be what you call restructuring. And when the company is doing what you call restructuring at that very time it may try to reduce the excess labor or try to reduce off the labor that may be at that time that may not be needed at that time. So meaning it will restructure to let you go, it will either give you end of service later which must be stamped or which must be sir you can look for someone else to give you an offer later, you attach the offer later plus the end of service later then you can submit to the ministry of labor for what you call an employer change. Then we look at what you call termination or what you call termination itself. For example the company may terminate you because of the various reasons that may not be called for or that may be either of your mickey. That one also depends in that kind of scenario. So in case even that way if you have a termination later still you can attach the termination later plus the end of service later which will include all the computer card and also you go to the ministry website, you are applying or filling your all your documents then you can still change with that to change to a new employer. But also something that we need to understand or things that we need to put into consideration is that and the factors that may have or may cause or factors that may lead you to change or what could you think or look at changing. First of all look at the nature of the company that you are going to look at the nature of the company that you are going to, it's quite very important. Look at the nature of the company then look at how much salary you are going to earn to that company. Also something else that definitely you really need to understand is that how much money am I going to be given when I go to that company. Then is that company genuine. So some of those things that definitely we look at when the ministry is trying to approve, when the ministry is trying to approve it will definitely look at some of those requirements or some of those few things that people may turn to underestimating anyway. When you look at what we call sponsorship or when you look at what we call work change or what we call changing profession or changing work from one employer to another. So when we look at those kinds of scenarios I think it can help us to give us what exactly that you need to do if you definitely need to change from one employer to another. But most of the time when you have a termination letter it's a go ahead for you that the company does not need your service. You can look for some money that can give you job or can employ you at that time. So you don't need to have an NOC. An NOC is not mandatory or it's not even compulsory that the company is supposed to give you an NOC. The company may refuse to give you an NOC it is right. The company may has the right to not give you the NOC. So what you definitely need if you have a termination letter you can still have to go in for the termination letter. You can still use end of service letter sometimes call the end of service letter. Then you can definitely look for someone to give you an offer letter. If you already have an offer letter or someone else is willing to take you up then definitely you can start up and you can move. I think that is very, very okay and how that is clear for it that you can move on and move on to the whole piece of movement to another career. If you may think of that as the only way that you can move in in any way of career. Then someone asks what do you do if you lose your QID while traveling? That's another question that has been asked several times. What do you do if you lose your QID while traveling? Let's say for example you are transitioning from one airport to another or you are moving from vacation to here and you get to misplace your QID. Yes, remember first of all thing that I have to remind you is the QID is a very, very important. The QID is a very important document. It's always very, very important or very mandatory for you to carry your QID wherever you go at one time. Because it's the one that permits you that gives the legal stay or residence into the country. So the best thing that for you you have to do is that if you're returning then the only thing that you have to report it to the police. You have to get that paper. Then you also have to inform your employer. In that case they don't prepare what economy exception permit to come into the country. But remember also you will need to have to pay what you call accrued fees or what you call fees that you definitely need to pay in that level. And those fees that you definitely need to pay is that that will be charged. And then when you come into the country in the system for the immigration it will be marked as lost.  So definitely that one also look at that look at that that look at that that definitely you have to have it. Then also someone is kuban asking me and say that what happens with my IQID that expired. Yes when you QID when your QID expires in Qatar you have gross period of three months to be renewed. It depends on if you own visa on your another company visa in that kind of case then it's okay. If you're not in that kind of if it's your company then the company has to renew your QID in the three months that is being given up. Apart from the short of that then the ID will be cancelled or to be marked as lost in the system. That means that you definitely need what you call a fresh procedure or you need to take up what you call a procedure for you to get the ID at one or the other. So that's what I will let you know. Then something that definitely you need to know to you need to understand for the QID. If it's your employer then the employer is the one that's supposed to renew your QID at that time. That's what I have to let you know. The person will ask that question. Yes. I know apparently most of you must be in this country right now. Most of you must have expired QID or some of you when you need medical aid not called QID at that time and this time. So it's quite something that is a little bit very creation of way. But I think that has to be the responsibility of your employer to do that. That has to be a responsibility of your employer to renew your QID at that time. And if he does it definitely you know that he has to get to. Remember the penalty has to be gone to him in order. Like when you look at the new law that all the people coming to the country now. The complete procedure for the person to get the medical and get the QID should be done within the first month. So where people have been a little bit relaxed. And I think that's what's going to make us move and it's going to help us in any way to help. So very important. Sometimes you can just have to request your employer for the QID or request them to give you a QID. Get that QID at one moment which is quite very important in any way or the other. Then let us try to look at, later look at people who are doing what you call another question that was asked about the freelancer's visa. Yes for sure. There is nothing that we call a freelancer visa. It's a term that people think us definitely has. We have to make it very simpler in one way or the other. But something definitely that you need to understand that what you need to understand is that freelancer. When you look at freelancer visa it's not a freelancer visa that is your visa. But however something that you definitely need to understand that is a visa that is given to you by another company. And that visa you do not use that visa. You do not work for that company. But you are given the visa to use it out there to look for you own work. Yes there are advantages and disadvantages that may occur. Because a lot that will be for people that have been with it, you know what it means. Yes we can take up that as a procedure. But remember it also has its requirements especially from the sponsor that you get that visa from. What are you supposed to follow? What are you supposed to do? And what are you not supposed to do? So all those are all. But you definitely also need to know you will have to get the normal procedures for you. You have to get all those normal procedures and you have to go get the medical done. The medical then you have to get the QID which will be paid for every kind of month or every time. Depending on the kind of period that you agree or the period that you agree with what you call the person who gave you the visa. Yes we look at domestic workers. So that's the question that was asked so many times occurred in the domestic workers and gratitude and changes sponsorship. Yes first of all something that I need to let you know when the new law that came into effect that was gazetted. That new law was gazetted. Everyone should have a basic salary of 1000 and should have enough food allowance of 300. Depending on which it doesn't matter which kind of occupation or which kind of job that you are doing. All or everybody has to have that according to the law. So if you are a domestic worker depending on where you are working from or where you are working in maybe in a house maybe in a home. You are entitled to that. It's a basic salary of 1000 which will also include what you call the food allowance and it will include all the other packages that you are supposed to go. Even including what you call the annual ticket depending on your contract. Most of the people ask me a lot of questions regarding what you call the annual if and ticket who is entitled to. And when you look at according to the law or most of the job contracts that are definitely seen here in Qatar. Is that every after 2 years someone is given another vacation flight, paid free ticket for 2 and return from his own country to go and enjoy. Mostly it will depend. Some give 42 days, some give 42 days, some give more than that. So it depends on how many they have to give you for that matter. So you are entitled to and even gratitude itself.  Remember gratitude is mandatory according to the law that I have taken of appreciation. That is supposed to be given to every worker who is being employed who completes what call is specified period of continuous employment with that worker or with that company. So it will depend on how long you stay with that country, with that company or how long you stay with that sponsor. If it is 1 year then you will be entitled to only what you call 2, 3 weeks of your basic salary. And if it is more than what you call 2 years you will be entitled to 4 weeks of your basic salary. So that one will also be in that case registration and it will get into that level that definitely you need to understand. Then something say when you look at another question that was also asked was what you call exit permits. Yes when you look at the exit permits, most of the jobs now do not need an exit permit to go out of the Qatar. You can exit and go. However I keep on telling people or I keep on just letting people to know that you can mostly. What happens with this country is that some line systems are quite very good that we can definitely try to get access some of this information on what you call the websites in one way. So you can use the Ministry of Interior portal. You can try to find under what you call the exit and entry. When you go to exit and enter definitely you will know whether you need what you call an exit permit or you will know when you don't need an exit permit. When you punch in or when you take in your QID at that time it will definitely show you that you need an exit permit and when it shows color green. That means when it shows color green it will definitely mean that you don't need an exit permit. It will definitely let you that exit permit not required. Then green definite when you look at still also green color. Green color is a go ahead is definitely. I don't know how these colors were just in a kind of way that even green color just say it's a go ahead go ahead you can move on. Then when it shows red color meaning no record. That means at whatever cost for you to exit you need what you call an exit permit for what you call your sponsor at that time. Yes that is what we call. Yes then we let us try to also talk about the question that came with what you call medicals. What is the problem with medicals? Yes medicals, health when you are coming to this job starts with exactly you as a person. When you are coming when you are about to come or when you are thinking of moving out of your country to go to foreign countries especially for work you definitely have to take medicals. Even if these are some of the requirements to most countries if you are crossing border you need to take what you call medicals. They have to prove or they have to check what you call your health status. What you call the health status. So definitely you find that you need the medicals for you. You need to do the medicals and it's just one show whether your feet can fit for you to do what you call the work. So most of the time is that when you look at things that are being checked for we look at the checks we look at the checks raised and I think that's where the problem people are putting into trouble at one point. And what happens if you fail the medicals probably they can give you a waiver to some people being able to get a waiver to stay and take on the treatment. Then to some other people it may not be that or that good in any way or the other because you definitely have to exit or you have to go out of the country. Because you prove yourself not fit or not fit to work.  I think that is definitely something that definitely should have to know. And still I have to go back and just remind for people for gratitude your gratitude is your right. According to the law it is the right it is your right for you to have what we call gratitude. It is the right for you to have what we call gratitude. Yes, some of us will sacrifice our gratitude. We've been sacrificed our gratitude in any way for either the NOC for we've been told by our sponsors or people want to give us the NOC.  No, it is not required or it is not actually allowed and it is not something that definitely you will think about that is really very good. So definitely as you are thinking about that think about gratitude. Let's say for example you worked in this company or you worked in this company for more than 7 years and you definitely want to sacrifice your gratitude you worked in the company for the NOC. No, the best thing for you to do to resign or for you to tender the employment, resign. After you resign get a new or get a new employment then you can definitely move on. Resign and get a summer years. Now use a resignation data. After you use that resignation data then you can apply in for another. You apply in for employment or you apply in for change of sponsorship or in case also you want to exit then definitely that's okay for you. You can definitely do that. But don't sacrifice the strength that you had for this kwaito period for you because you want to have what you call now you have to have what you call gratitude in one way or the other. Yes, I don't know whether people are aware are you people. It's kind of happy slide but I think I thought that we'd get it out in this way and we'll share out this. Then some people talked about what we call corn. We talk about contracts. Some of us we fall into trouble when we look at what we call contracts. The contracts that we are looking for. This types of contracts we have in definite we have limited. Then we have unlimited contracts. Then we have indefinite contracts. What contract did you sign? So first of all when you want to think about what type of contracts that you signed. What type of contract did you sign? It's quite very important. Yes, most of us we've signed contracts and you definitely don't have time. You don't even want to look at what you call the type of contract that you sign. Which is quite very important. We find right. These contracts have coiled up in one employment. We cannot even career have an advancement or we cannot change the career have advancements for that level. So you find it comes very hard for us when you are going to look for what you call employment or we are going to look at employment in another way. For people who are coming in Qatar for the first time. What definitely do you need to know or what do you need definitely to understand? Read the contract thoroughly. Understand the contract. Read the contract. Read every single clause of that contract inside that contract. Know what you're signing. It's quite very important. This contract will have to stipulate a lot of things that definitely they have to be written out and they have to be clear. The duration of the contract, the company you are working for, how long, the name of the company, the address of the company, how much is going to be your basic salary, what is going to be your other benefits. When we talk about the other benefits that definitely we may look at the other benefits, we are looking at housing, we are looking at transportation. We are also looking at the other things that definitely we need to understand. So all those things should be clearly understood. All those things should definitely be looked at as when you definitely looking at what you call the contracts in any way or the other. So definitely what you need to understand is that all those things should be considered and should be looked at as something that is very important when you are signing that contract. Don't just put a hand. Any single document or those documents that you definitely, those documents are definitely you will sign out in one or the other. The either call you or the not call you to have you an advancement or look for some other ways to get into another kind of job in another or the other. So definitely look at that also. Be very careful that when you sign in those contracts definitely you should definitely be signing something that you definitely understand. If it's not well clear for you then definitely what you can do is just ask them to interpret whatever you have to sign and you definitely have that right for you to ask and know what exactly that you need to sign and what exactly you have to do at that level. Yes, it's so unfortunate that today I've not heard the people on live but I'll be hearing my lies. I'll definitely be addressing some of these kind of important questions and some of these things that definitely will be addressing and I will have a live every week. I definitely won't have one live every week and it will definitely be a Friday. I'll take it like a Friday from 12 o'clock, from 12 o'clock, from 12 o'clock. Until three and having a life for that such that we can try to get to understand some of these important things and some of these that we definitely need to share. Yes, thank you so much. I will just get into those a few questions and try to be answered a little bit for those people that will be able to watch it later. Okay, thank you so much. Remember it's mixed from the next question. Just giving you here all these updates. Something that definitely I need to definitely remind you that everything is possible. Everything is possible and you can and it's all about just kind of how to believe in yourself that you have the opportunity ahead of you. But remember these opportunities are not going to be a sphere that these opportunities are not going to come when you are just sitting on those opportunities. You have to look for these opportunities. You have to definitely go and find out for these opportunities. Thank you so much again in another day when we try to find out some of these important things.


Hi everyone, happy Friday. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com and we're coming at you with 2021 brand new release. 2021 Tops, find us baseball eight box, pick your team number two. Very big thanks everybody who got into the action here on a Friday night. Thanks for spending a bit of your weekend with us. Remember those rooftops mean next year name mean that you won those spots in that team random that we just did. Thanks everybody else for buying their spots straight up. I appreciate it. All right, here we go. If you visit cardboardconnection.com they'll give you all the names. Dodgers that braves on the background. They're putting in more some work right now. They're up five one, base is loaded, fifth inning. It's a clean single right up the middle.  Anyway, if you go to cardboardconnection.com they'll tell you what all the different parallels are. I feel like they added some more fun parallels this year, which look really sharp and finest of course as always does look nice. I think it looks especially nice this year. I feel like I say that every year, but every year the design seems to be a little different and a little better. Good luck. All right, what do we got in the baseball world? I don't think there's any finals. I think there's a lot of games in progress. The Red Sox are up on the Yankees five two in the top of the eighth. Red Sox are in New York. Indians in Baltimore, Orioles up two one in the bottom of the seventh. In Pittsburgh, the Pirates are up four two on the Marlins, top of the sixth. In Philadelphia, the Nationals are up two one on the Phillies and a nice one run in. Chris Taylor with a nice double. Eight one Dodgers, nice. Houston, Astros are in Toronto and they just tacked on another run. They're up nine one on the Blue Jays in Toronto. Are they still in the other place? Top of the eighth on that. Double down the left field line for Chris Taylor. Dodgers are up eight one. Rays are in Texas, Rangers up four nothing on the Rays, top of the fifth. Diamondbacks in Milwaukee, Brewers up four nothing. Tigers at White Sox, they're tied at one. Twins at Royals, Royals are already up 10 runs. In the bottom of the second in Kansas City, Royals up 10 nothing on the Twins. Reds up three nothing in St. Louis. A's are up two nothing in Colorado. And then Otani's pitching tonight. All right, and here's the first box. There's Otani, speaking of Otani. There's Clark Schmidt, 214 out of 250 for the Yankees. That's for Robert, Legacies. And Rafael Marchand is your first autograph for I, Coppola and the Phillies. Man, Rebel's saying it's now 12 nothing Royals now. And there's Giancarlo Stanton, 31 out of 75. That might be the Rose Gold parallel. Got some fun new parallels here, which I really dig. That's for the Yankees, Robert Flores. Just to tease, there's Mike Trout. Aqua Shimmer to 175. It's a good looking card going to Jeff and the Angels. I think I have Whit Merrifield in the Draft Kings lineup, Rebel. I think he's helping me. He may help me win some money by the end of the night. All right, we've got Joey Bart. Rookie Otto for my rivals, the Giants. EA with the Joey Bart. Hopefully future Buster Posey is what they're hoping for in Joey Bart in the future. There's Josh Bell, six out of 50 for the Nats. That's going to be for Chris Walker. Good, he had a three-run homer. Good, that's why I was like looking at my lineup and he had a lot of points. And I was like, he must have done something. Three-run homer, I'll take that. All right, next box. Man, how many walks has the Braves issue? It's another, it's a walk to Gavin Lux. Lux has been hitting the ball pretty well. I feel like he started the season off pretty well and then he was on the IL, came back, took a little bit of time to get himself back into rhythm. Now I feel like he's seeing the ball well, hitting the ball well. God, he could be a pretty scary team. They got Bellinger back recently. I think their bullpen climbing is healthy and more than effective. Penley Janssen having a good year. They still could get Corey Seager back. Yeah, me too, Jeremiah, but you know, I'm sad the Lakers lost too, but one last year, that was great. And they just got a retool this year and they'll figure it out and try to win their 18th. Next year. All right, there's Joey Bart again to 250, 205 out of 250. That'll be for EA and the Giants. And there's Jojo Romero. That'll go to Icapola and the Phillies. And there's Acunia Jr. to 300, 300 out of 300. And there's Luis Robert, Aqua Shimmer to 175 for Brian and the White Sox. He won that team in the team random that we did. It's in a separate video. And there's Monty Harrison for EA and the Marlins. And Peter Lonzo Aqua to 199. That'll be for Brian and the Mets. Ooh, and a redemption. Any guesses on that redemption? Hollywood guessing Boba Shed. That redemption is gonna be, is gonna be Carlos Correa. It's 1997, top five masters autograph variation orange refractor parallel, Carlos Correa. That's a little bit of a color match for King D and his Astros. Oh, it's his Astros right there. I don't need to mark up the redemption. There's Walker Bueller and Max Kepler to 250. That'll be for Josh and the Twins. And Ozzie Smith, finest moments autograph. 26 out of 50 for Ben Young and the Cardinals. The wizard. No, I'm good, Thomas. Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow. Nice one, Ben. And there's Trevor Story right here, 92 out of 99. Great pen mentor for Mozzie Smith. He would definitely be a guest speaker at the Jaspie's Autograph Camp. You got Cody Belanger to 199, 002 out of 199. Going to Chris and the Dodgers. You're welcome, King D. Nice Carlos Correa redemption. And there's Tanner Hawk, 36 out of 99. Aqua or green shimmer, a shimmer autograph. Going to Anthony and the Bosochs. And there's Ben. Yeah, Ben's got the Ozzie Smith. That's pretty nice. And there's Luis Patino, 107 out of 150 for the raise. Blake, with the Dodgers up 81, could I maybe flip to some NBA basketball for a little bit, little Luka Donchich action. Yeah, three minutes left in the first quarter. Looks like a good one already. Dallas only up 2.26, 24. Dallas Maverick's up 3-2 on the series. Could they close it out right here? Now it's a commercial. I can flip back to the Dodgers games. Julio Uri is working on Ronald Acuna Jr. And Uri pops up Acuna Jr. nice. Going to go Belanger. See, right? What's going on? Correa's going to go to the PCs, is King D. I think Correa stays with, you think they're going to re-sign Carlos? Isn't he a free agent? I feel like teams like the Yankees are really looking to either take Corey Seager or Carlos Correa, pay him a boatload of money. Oh, no worries. Yeah, that basketball yesterday was pretty cool. Young Money says, I'm a Knicks fan, but why does he the Mabs win? Luka has something else. Yeah, it'd be hashtag good for the hobby. There's Cody Belanger right there. Just caught the Acuna Jr. fly ball.  I would assume, I'll have to check the checkers. I don't want to assume, but there's probably autograph versions of these. This goes to Jeff and the Angels. Their Spencer Howard for the Phillies to 250. That'll go to Coppola. And there's Luen Diaz. Marlin's autograph, another one for EA. Ryan's a Mabs fan hoping they win. I'm going to switch back to that game in just a moment. And there's Justin Verlander to 300. 255 out of 300 also for King D and the Stroves. And behind Kyle Lewis is Austin Meadows. I feel like he's been hitting the ball pretty well. I think someone was saying that these are our high number short prints right here. So we'll sleeve that up. Our shipping team will top load all of these before they get sorted out. Blake with the raise, won the raise in that team random.  Gave him 30, had 30 pitches in the first inning, but settled down really nicely. So he's out of the inning. Back to basketball, still a commercial. We got Andy Young, rookie autograph for TJ and the Diamondbacks. TJ won that in the team random as well. Andy Young. Rebel's saying there are autographs to try to in the career die cut, but only 10 cards in that set. And the autographs are one of ones. Okay, so they'll be pretty hard to hit. There's Charlie Blackman, 148 to 199 for the Rocks. That's going to be for Alexander and Aaron Judge on the back there. We're halfway through this break, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, Ben's saying anything over 100. So that other card was 108 or something like that. So Ben's saying any card over 100 is a high number short print. I like that they flipped them around. So it's easier for me to spot. So thanks Tops. All right, Luca already has nine points and a few assists with three minutes up to the first quarter. That's on pace for like another 40 point game. Next box. And there's Kyle Lewis, 183 out of 250 for Seattle. Alexander W with that one. And we've got Mike Yastremski. Yeah, Carl's grandson, Mike Yastremski going to the Giants EA with the Giants. I feel like he's been playing some pretty solid baseball too. And Sam Huff to 199. Rangers, that'll be for Patrick Davis. Behind Anthony Arrizzo, Joey Bart. 86 out of 99. Another one for EA and the Giants. Remember all card chip here too. And there's Raphael Marchand, 78 out of 150 for the Phillies. That'll be for Capolo. And another one for Grizzelbees, 88 out of 150. Spencer Howard and Alec Baum back there. All right, three boxes to go, ladies and gentlemen. And looks like that last filler for the baseball mixer is sold out. So that'll be coming up shortly. If you're watching live, thanks. Or in a separate video, if you're watching this replay. The 11 box triple crown baseball mixer. Basketball fans, who does everyone have in this? Clippers at Dallas game right here. Ow, did he hit a buzzer beater at the shot clock? Wow, that was amazing. Luca Donchich at the end of the shot clock. I thought it was the end of the quarter, but it was in the shot clock. Nice little jumper at the elbow. I think Luca Donchich already has like 12 points in this game already. At the end of the first quarter. He's pretty good, ladies and gentlemen. Next box, good luck.  And we got a Monty Harrison autograph for EA and the Marlins. Nice break for the fish. Dylan Carlson to 300. For the Cardinals, Ben.  This looks a little different, doesn't it? Got some gold right here, lightning bolts in the background. Are you numbered? I don't see it numbered anywhere, but it definitely looks different. Could be a parallel, but just a non-numbered parallel. It's pretty nice looking card though for Jeff Dorlak. Out of 300, there's Alejandro Kirk for Cody and the Blue Jays. And a Cody Bellinger autograph. Nice, three out of 35, Legacies auto. There's Duke Snyder in the background there. Nice. That is for Chris and the Dodgers. Little Dodger Joe Mojo, not numbered. Or no, it is numbered, to 35 that is. Number two is Jersey number. And one off Duke's number. Nice. And there's Freddie Freeman to 175. I think he represents the only run that braves his court against my Dodgers today. Solo shot. No, I think there are actually, there's trout base card, non die cut trout base cards too. All of the finest careers I think are die cuts though. But I'm wondering if that's a parallel or not, that little gold shining in there. There's a trout base card right here. There's Garrett Cole on the back and two more boxes to go. Next box. Rebel's saying maybe just a refractor version of that die cut. All right. For a second. I was like, is that a one of one maybe? I saw that bit of gold. It's the what gold parallel? Yeah, I think the text might be a little too small, Rebel, but you know what? I guess there are mystery redemptions too, which won't be announced until later. If there's a mystery redemption, it'll be randomized to the name on, to the name on, it will randomize everybody's name, name on top. Oh yeah, I see where, I don't know who Kintsukori is, but it says Kintsukori Black Gold Parallel, which is one out of every 385 packs. Packs I would imagine. That's crazy. All right. Second to last box. Good luck. There's William Contreras, 34 out of 75. That's Wilson's brother. This will go to the ATL, Matt Medlin. Back to some basketball. And another Finest Masters autograph. Or no, we had a Legacy's autograph. Here's a Finest Masters autograph. Hey, Susu Lazardo for Greg and the A's. Greg won the A's in that team random. 90 out of 99. Yeah, that Belanger is nice. Chris, thanks for continuing to get into the action. Out of 150, Kyle Lewis, Seattle. Just Chris, just remember these moments. Just remember these moments when the inevitable cold streak happens. There's a lot of ups and downs in group breaking, but just remember the good times to get you through the bad times. There's another Mike Trout, Dicut. Finest career for Jeff and the Angels. There's Matt Chapman to 250 for the A's. And there's Tariq Skubal going to Miles and the Tigers. And we've got a Max Kepler Aqua to 199 for Josh and the Twins. Kieber Ruiz and Francisco Lindor. All right, final box, ladies and gentlemen, good luck. Sometimes those cold streaks can last longer than just overnight. Chris, a lot of the regulars here will tell you that. I like to warn everybody, listen. Sometimes it seems easy, but then there'll be some lean weeks. All right, final box, ladies and gentlemen. Good luck. Johnson looking for some cubs. And the final box, the last two autographs. Good luck, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you, thank you for getting in. There's Trevor Story to 250. Will he get traded? He might get traded by the deadline. So am I this guy? Sure is her. Joe Adele and Dalton Varshow. And Cabrion Hayes, nice Cabrion Hayes autograph. After a prolonged stint on the IL, I think the gang we're saying earlier today, they came back yesterday, had a nice game. Let's hope that continues. Chad with the pirates. Nice Cabrion Hayes rookie auto. Let's hope he finishes the season strong. There's Jacob DeGromp to 300. And one more auto left in here somewhere. There's Marcus Strohman, high number. Hard number 103. And another Cabrion Hayes. So personal box for Chad. What a lucky duck. Got a Matt Olson goal to 50. I think that might be that, unless there's another parallel hiding in here. And that's it, Charlie Blackman in the back. Quick little recap, ladies and gentlemen, just for the autos. Not a bad break at all. There's the Carlos Correa redemption. Joey Bart, a couple of Cabrion Hayes, a Ballinger, a gold Aussie Smith. Nice stuff. That was Picker Team 2 from Jaspy's casebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next final space ball break. Bye-bye.


Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by James Foster. From Optimism to Pessimism, The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 5. In my last essay, I noted the stress that Herbert Spencer placed on sentiments or moral feelings and how he regarded sentiments as more fundamental than ideas in achieving a free society. This does not mean, however, that Spencer failed to appreciate the importance of ideas. In this essay, I will explore some of these intellectual factors as presented by Spencer in a wide range of books, articles, and letters. In a letter, December 12, 1893, to the American Moncure de Conway, a fellow Libertarian, a former abolitionist and the author of an important biography of Thomas Paine, Spencer wrote, As you rightly point out, people do not at all understand the principles of liberty. But after expressing this measure of agreement with Conway, Spencer continued, But there is, I think, a shortcoming in your conception. They have no true idea of liberty because they have no true sentiment of liberty. No theory is of much service in the matter without a character responding to the theory, without a feeling which prompts the assertion of individual freedom and is indignant against aggressions upon that freedom, whether against self or others. Men care nothing about a principle even if they understand it unless they have emotions responding to it. When adequately strong, the appropriate emotion prompts resistance to interference with individual action, whether by an individual tyrant or by a tyrant majority. But at present, in the absence of the proper emotion, there exists almost everywhere the miserable superstition that the majority has a right to dictate to the individual about everything whatever. To dissipate the superstition that the majority has unlimited powers is of more importance than anything else in the field of politics. Spencer's belief that few of his contemporaries fully possessed the sentiment of justice was the foundation for much of his later pessimism. As he said in a letter to J. A. Skelton, January 10th, 1895, You have faith in teaching which I have not. You believe men are going to be changed in their conduct by being shown what line of conduct is rational. I believe no such thing. Men are not rational beings as commonly supposed. Despite his bleak assessment of human rationality, Spencer did allow some role, indeed a very important role, for ideas. As he indicated in his letter to Skelton, although teaching ideas about liberty will not bring about a free society unless those ideas are accompanied by the appropriate sentiments, a process that will take a long time even under the most favorable circumstances, such teaching can check retrograde action. In other words, teaching ideas about liberty can retard the descent of a society into statism and thereby create some breathing room for the sentiment of liberty to become more widespread. To appreciate what Spencer was getting at here, we need to understand that he viewed the sentiment of justice as having two aspects. The first aspect, which he called egoistic, self-regarding, is the natural resentment we feel when an injustice is committed against ourselves. The second aspect, which he called altruistic, other regarding, is the resentment we feel when an injustice is committed against someone else. Beatrice Potter once observed that Spencer rarely got angry, except when he learned of an injustice committed by government. Spencer could become livid when this happened, and the intensity of his reaction increased when others did not share his outrage. This was the altruistic aspect of the sentiment of justice that was lacking in most people according to Spencer, and a free society would be impossible until this sentiment became widespread. Why? Because however much people understand on an intellectual level the injustices committed by government, they will not be motivated to rectify those injustices until and unless their emotions follow suit. It is easy because it is natural to become indignant when we are personally victimized by government, but it is equally easy to dismiss or overlook other victims of injustice, especially if we disagree with their beliefs or lifestyles when the unjust acts do not affect us personally. Spencer was convinced that a purely self-regarding reaction to injustice could never provide the foundation for a free society. Not until a sufficient number of people empathize with other victims of governmental injustice, whether those victims are rich or poor, strong or weak, morally admirable or morally contemptible, and regardless of the race or religion of those victims, would the impartial principle of justice as expressed in the law of equal freedom be able to take root and thrive, and this moral progress Spencer concluded would take a long time. Meanwhile, every effort should be made to teach the principles of liberty. Such ideas, even if they cannot by themselves bring about a free society, might alert enough people to the dangers of government so as to slow its growth. This is something, even if it is not everything. I shall postpone a discussion of the sentiment of justice until a later essay in this series. The remainder of this essay is devoted to exploring some of Spencer's ideas about the intellectual obstacles that make teaching and explaining ideas about liberty especially difficult. I cannot think of a libertarian past or present who discussed these problems as thoroughly or who confronted them as candidly, as did Herbert Spencer. Modern libertarians, including those who disagree with his pessimistic outlook, will readily identify with the problems discussed by Spencer. Though the political conditions in Victorian England obviously differed from those of the modern era, Spencer was never satisfied with focusing on concrete particulars. Endowed with a remarkable ability to isolate fundamental problems and principles that transcend time and place, Spencer discussed a number of key issues that apply as much to our own time as they did to his own. Let's begin with this passage from The New Tourism, 1884. You cannot touch or see a political institution. It can be known only by an effort of constructive imagination. Neither can you apprehend by physical perception a political measure. This no less requires a process of mental representation by which its elements are put together in thought and the essential nature of the combination conceived. This observation about the abstract nature of institutions, which is remarkably similar to some points that F. A. Hayek made in The Counter-Revolution of Science, was the foundation of Spencer's argument that most people simply do not understand the long-term causal effects of political intervention in social and economic affairs. And this led Spencer to a number of corollary observations about the obstacles to achieving a free society. Consider Spencer's article Political Fetishism, 1865. Spencer begins by noting a primitive religious practice that was scoffed at by Europeans, namely molding a god out of clay and then expecting this idol to have magical powers not possessed by the clay itself. However, much sophisticated Europeans prided themselves on their superiority to primitive cultures, they entertained similar superstitions in the realm of politics. Why should supposedly enlightened people wonder at the superstitions of primitive minds? Spencer asked, when they hold beliefs that are equally superstitious if not quite as crude. After all, many people invest the institution known as government with wondrous powers. Like the molders of clay gods, they expect government to possess powers or properties quite different from those it had before it was molded. Spencer continues by calling attention to a problem that has surely frustrated every modern libertarian. The parallelism is still more conspicuous between the persistency of faith in the two cases, notwithstanding perpetual disappointments. It is difficult to perceive how graven images that have been thrashed for not responding to their worshippers' desires should still be reverenced and petitioned, but the difficulty of conceiving this is diminished when we remember how, in their turns, all the idols in our political pantheon undergo castigations for failing to do what was expected of them and are nevertheless daily looked up to in the trustful hope that future prayers will be answered. The stupidity, the slowness, the perversity, the dishonesty of officialism in one or other of its embodiments, are demonstrated afresh in almost every newspaper that issues. Probably half the leading articles written have, for texts, some absurd official blunder, some exasperating official delay, some astounding official corruption, some gross official injustice, some incredible official extravagance. And yet these whippings in which balked expectation continually vents itself are immediately followed by renewed faith. The benefits that have not come are still hoped for, and prayers for others are put up. There are continually proposed new state machines of the same type as the old. The inexhaustible credulity is counted on by men of the widest political experience. Political superstitions were a recurring theme in Spencer's writings. For example, his essay, The Great Political Superstition, 1884 begins, The great political superstition of the past was the divine right of kings. The great political superstition of the present is the divine right of parliaments. The oil of anointing seems unawares to have dripped from the head of the one onto the heads of the many, and given sacredness to them also and to their decrees. Spencer continues, It is curious how commonly men continue to hold in fact doctrines which they have rejected in name, retaining the substance after they have abandoned the form. The tacitly asserted doctrine common to tories, wigs, and radicals that governmental authority is unlimited, dates back to times when the lawgiver was supposed to have a warrant from God, and it survives still though the belief that the lawgiver has God's warrant has died out. Oh, an act of parliament can do anything, is the reply made to a citizen who questions the legitimacy of some arbitrary state interference, and the citizen stands paralyzed. That does not occur to him to ask the how and the when, and the whence of this asserted omnipotence bounded only by physical impossibilities. We see in the passage quoted above two features of Spencer's interest in political superstitions. The first is the irrational belief in the competence of governments. The second is the irrational belief in the moral authority of governments. Spencer dissected both of these superstitions ruthlessly and in detail, but despite his best efforts he never seems to have believed that these fictitious beliefs could be defeated in the foreseeable future. According to Spencer, most people are too ignorant to understand the detrimental long-term consequences of government intervention, so they will continue to embrace the superstition that a government can accomplish virtually anything given the requisite political will, and despite one failure after another. Experience counts for nothing here, because to understand the abstract nature of political institutions and their causal effects on social and economic interaction requires a level of conceptual ability that exceeds the intellectual powers of most people. In addition, most people lacking a sense of justice and hoping to gain from the system of political coercion known as government will gladly surrender their moral autonomy and submit to a political authority in exchange for a mess of porridge. This pessimistic outlook on both intellectual and moral fronts led to one of the most significant and controversial changes in Spencer's political beliefs. From a champion of complete suffrage, including female suffrage early in his career, Spencer became so disillusioned with political reforms that he came to view democracy itself as a serious threat to a free society. Spencer even criticized American democracy because Americans believed that smart people in government can do whatever they set out to do. Spencer, who was blunt if he was anything, was not reluctant to use words like stupidity when describing these and similar beliefs. Thank you for listening to Excursions. 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