Hi everyone, I'm Joe for jazzy'scasebrakes.com coming at you with 2022 Tops Chrome Baseball. It's a jumbo break. Eight box, pick your team number 11 and we got a jumbo pack per box as well and all card ship. Big thanks to this group right here for making it happen. I appreciate it. If you got little rooftops next year and that means you won those spots in the filler and Nessar with double last spot mojo cardinals and rangers got those teams last before the remaining teams were pulled for the filler. Good luck everybody and pick your team fans. We do have another jumbo case loaded up on the website right now. jazzy'scasebrakes.com for watching live. I just loaded it up and just take these guys out of inventory here. Good luck. So the jumbos have five autographs per box on average and let's see if the Dodgers got out of the top of the inning so hopefully they'll be able to score some runs here against the Padres. Venti Al Monte with a good one, two, three. After a long rain delay, Phillies and Braves finally got underway. It was, both teams only managed like three hits through the top of the sixth and then in the bottom of the sixth, the Braves quote unquote erupted for a few hits and three runs and that's all she wrote. Kyle Wright gets the win, Zach Wheeler takes the loss. Kyle Wright only gave up like a couple hits, just a nice little pitching duel, but Braves went three-nothing. Kenley Jansen with a save as well. Only seven hits total in the game. Jumbo for whatever reason, the hobby doesn't have this issue but the jumbo kind of has some cards sticking together a little bit. All cards, that's right. All cards shipped. In case I miss something, don't worry, it'll get there. There's Yoel Pozo for the Rangers, last spot Mojo, Nestor. There's a blue wave, Nolan Aronato, it's a 75 for the Cardinals and another ranger for Nestor. Nestor also has the Cardinals and then you get Curtis Terry, Logan Gilbert's getting the home start for Seattle. This month he had a solo shot today and a printing plate autograph, that's Jared Walsh for the Halos. Who's got the Angel, Johan with the Angels and all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoop-whoop. Nice, train whistle in the first box. He doesn't like the breaks where no card ship, the no card ship breaks. Wander Franco's all going to Jeremy, Port got randomized the Rays and the Team Randon. Let's see if we can find some parallels of him. There's Keebert Ruiz, former Dodger catching prospect, going to John and the Nationals. There's Josh Lowe, 247 out of 399, Magenta for the Rays. That'll be for Jeremy. Is there a chance of Julio Otto from Jumbo Boxes? That's both in Jumbo and in Hobby. There's our fifth autograph, Marcos Diblan, Refractor Otto. Mr. Tree, I just dropped the checklist for you. It's 49 out of 499. I did indeed, I pulled the purple chrome Otto yesterday. That was out of the double header. We'll do an autograph recap at the end as well. Two nights ago, out of the double header, it all blurred together. All right, Cody Belanger, time for your bat to wake up here. Oh, yes, Bloop Single will do. I'll take it. Now Mookie Betts needs to do Mookie Betts things. Box two, good luck. We got a Corbin Burns purple to 250 for the Brew Crew. That'll be for Mark. And we've got a Patrick Mazzica rookie autograph for the Metropolitan's. That's 129 out of 499. Big prospect for the Mets. Oh, nice. Go hustle, Cody. Are the ears there? Hey, Gilo, if you're Cody Belanger, you'll take hits. However you can get them. Mookie, putting one by a diving Trent Grisham, I think it was, puts one to the wall, runners at second and third with just one out. There's Ronzi Contreras, rookie auto for the Pirates. Evan with the Pirates. There's that Bryce Harper for the Phillies. That'll be for Steven. Now Contrae Turner make up for that error here. He certainly wants to make up for it. The fire department coming here for the heat that I'm about to pull out of here. Maybe it's another, we saw the printing plate. A super fracker maybe? Trey Mancini. Orioles. Andrew with that one. Andrew Dawson, not Andre Dawson, but Andrew Dawson. That's right, fire department there because it's Lit Fam. DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING Iloy Jimenez, 18 out of 199. Aqua Wave and a Whitmaryfield color match, little blue refractor for the Royals. That's going to be for Nick. Picked up the Royals straight up. Thank you. 38 out of 150. We got Jose Ciri signing this way. All right, interesting. Interesting choice. That auto going to Jeffrey. I wonder if he did them all this way. Or if that's only some of them. That's where they do the intentionally walk for Eddie Freeman, looks like it. So bases loaded for Will Smith. Will Smith has been known to hit the clutch homer. They need to show the how many grand slams does he have stat on TV. Igor was at a heat game and Tyler Hero signed a jersey. I just saw that, nice. Good guy, Tyler Hero, signing jerseys. Hashtag good for the hobby. Another five autos to go, good luck. Will Smith flies out with bases loaded. Damn, that was the chance right there. Yeah, Jacob de Grom. Aqua for the Mex, that's for Johan and the Metropolitan's. Where does, out of 199, 91 out of 199. Where does Jacob de Grom end up? He's a free agent, I think a lot of people are gonna be inquiring about his services. Be the top rotation, top of the rotation guy for pretty much every team in baseball. Cal Raleigh, Mariners, that's gonna be for Igor. 199 out of 250, Rookie Otto. Hit the clutch homerun, the walk off homerun that sent the Mariners into the playoffs. Playoff clinching homerun. There is Garrett Cole, piece of his jersey going to the Bronx Bombers. Jeremy with that one, the Yankees. 39 out of 99. Got a Connor Siebold, Siebold B-Bold. And Connor Siebold is actually from here, right? Yeah, Laguna, Southern California kid. Red Sox, that'll be for Jonathan. Rex is predicting that the Cubs will get Jacob de Grom and he'll just fall apart. Just like you, Darvish. And then sign somewhere else and then have success. Three out of 99, Zach, short, he's 5'10. And we've got Mason Jar Thompson, Nationals. John with the Nationals. One that in the filler, that should be out of 50. Yeah, 37 out of 50. And we've got a Ronesi Contreras, Purple Refractor Autograph, Evan with the Pirates. 221 out of 250. Gilo's gonna see if the Royals are gonna be spenders or pretenders in this new regime. There's Boba Shet, Magenta, Speckle, 184 to 350. They should spend. Why not? They got bright young talent and Bobby Whit, Jr. Got some other youngsters coming up the ranks. Why not surround them with some solid, some solid, some stars, some established stars. Could be the beginning of something. There's Marcos Diplon with the Orioles. For Andrew. Is Jason Hayward, Rex wondering if someone's gonna pick up Jason Hayward in the off-season. He's a free agent, right? Or feel retire? How old is he? I mean, I could see him, you know, I could see a team getting him on board for a season or two, a cheat. Maybe they see something in Jason Hayward where they're like, hey, I think we could fix that. Only 33. Man, he has been around for a while. Something that the Dodgers like to do, they'll take some players off the scrapheeds and see if they can turn things around for him. Still plays, I feel like he plays some decent defense, right? The Crone Zone, Jake Croninworth, with a solo shot off Blake Trionin. It's not a good sign for Blake Trionin. Padre's trying to make this series interesting, huh? You got Hans Kraus, Philly, Steven. Steven C., with the Phillies.  If he can play a little defense, if he can still play a little defense, I think he'll have a play somewhere. And we got Ryan Jeffers for the Twins. 108 out of 150, Johan with the Twins. Do the Yankees sign Rizzo again? I don't know, I feel like that depends on what happens in the postseason. 17 out of 199, Buster Posey. Aqua Wave for my rivals of the Giants, Jason with the Giants. And another Hans Kraus for the Philly, Steven. Starting your Hans Kraus PC, whether you intended to or not. Former number two overall pick. Swift Ope, struggling with the plain, yeah, plain Wi-Fi, always a little brutal. But hey, thanks for watching, Swift Ope on your flight, appreciate it.  The Wi-Fi is there, why not some group breaks in the air? There's Willie Castro, 96 out of 350. Pink, or magenta that is, magenta speckle. And you're getting, Swift Ope, you're getting live updates on this Padres Dodgers game too. 96 out of 350 for Detroit, that'll be for Jeremy Porte. Sport Porte. And a purple, Haasam Kim, for the Padres. Stacey with the Padres, 180 out of 250. Currently hold a 5-3 lead on my Dodgers after a Jake Cronilworth moonshot. The Cronzone. And we got a DJ LeMayhew. Riley, a couple of pinstripes right there, looks pretty sharp, that's gonna go to Jeremy. Jeremy T. Now you're walking guys, Blade Trident, come on man. Although I don't know when the last time he's pitched, he must be a little rusty. All of the velocity is there. There's Riley Adams. Maybe if it was a StarTac Wi-Fi, is that Elon Musk's Wi-Fi? Maybe if it was his, that might make sense. Aren't a lot of Wi-Fi bases, things, aren't they on the ground? All right, and Riley Adams goes to John and the Nationals, one that in the filler. Halfway through this break, got about another 30 minutes to go. We'll do an autograph recap at the end. Jaspy should co-write a book about Jaspy starting with the boss man's dad all the way through today. Yeah, we've discussed that idea. There is so much history in that family that we've a book, a podcast maybe, series of videos, documentaries. Yeah, it would certainly be pretty interesting. Nick's dad, Nick's grandpa actually, was one of the first authors of the earliest hobby related magazines. Which I think ultimately paved the way for stuff like Beckett Magazine, but he ran one of the earliest hobby related zines. In fact, Rex, at this past national, at our, not at our breaking booth, we had just the regular Jaspy booth. There's Mason Jartonson for John. We actually had a little showcase that had some copies of those old issues from back in the day. And it was just on like, on like kind of a thicker printing paper, just three staples on the left side, maybe 20 pages or so. I think all type-writered in. Then ultimately probably photocopied at some point. But about the hobby, about early, to Anthony Rizzo, 41 out of 50. And Videl Bruhan for the raise, Jeremy Port. About like a random trade night in New Jersey. 20 local collectors getting together and trading old baseball cards and stuff like that. Local card shows and it's pretty fascinating. And no one was really, no one was really doing it. Mike's dad was, let's say a former, had a journalism background, which is why I think he even started that zine in the first place. I think he was, must have been a writer for maybe a Minneapolis star newspaper maybe. And then when they moved to Philadelphia, the Philly newspaper, 292 out of 499, Mitch Hanecker. Mariners, Igor. And so that's how Mike got into the hobby. How is he safe? It's not a good defensive day for trade turner, looks like. He take, did that toss take him off the bat? Must have. Anyway, that's how Mike got into it. Got into the hobby, kind of being around all the, all these collectors over the years. There's Connor Wong. And then eventually, yeah, see this is where we need Mike to fill in the details and tell stories, but I only know the rough outline. I want to say the better part of the 80s, he was the, oh, nice pop up. There you go, out of that in. Then for the better part of the 80s, I want to say he was with Beckett and was the price guide editor. So, if you had a Beckett magazine in the 80s, it was the boss man and Jim Beckett putting up and down arrows on your cards. So you can thank Mike for that. Nick's dad, Mike Jaspy, Jasperson. It's Brandon March, 55 out of 99 and Hall of Famer. Sports card industry Hall of Famer. And there's Gavin Sheets, Blue Parallel, 007 out of 150. And in between all that, I think he ran some card shops in like Orange County down here, ran some card shops, a couple of different areas I think. Maybe one in the 70s and then one in the 80s or one in the 80s, one in the 90s, something like that. But he was with Beckett for a long time and then he went to, then he went to Tops. Yeah, actually, yeah, you would probably have seen seen Mike's byline in a lot of Beckett magazine articles. You could probably go through some old magazines, you could find his name in there. And then, did he work for Tops? I don't know what the circumstances were in leaving Beckett. I think maybe Tops was almost like a semi-retirement sort of thing, but he kind of launched the Tops vault. Some of you may have actually purchased some stuff from the Tops vault, where they pretty much, the project was, let's just open up because there's a vault of like uncut sheets and all sorts of memorabilia. It was just, I don't know what it actually looks like, but in my head, it's like the end of Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Pentagon when they create up the Ark of the Covenant and they're putting into something, but. So basically, he developed a team outside of the city, New York City, where Tops is headquartered. And yeah, just started eBaying things, started selling stuff out of the vault. It still runs to this day. Just kind of built it from the ground up. And from like a little warehouse, a little factory, a little shipping center, kind of built that up from scratch and made it a pretty success, probably profitable sideline for Tops. And that's where Teddy comes from. That's where Teddy worked with the boss man and some of our other friends at Tops. So that's how Teddy knows the boss man. And then the family moved back out to Southern California. And eventually we started this. Teddy came out to California and we put him to work. And here we are, pulling Carlos Santana purple speckles out of here and becomes a Hall of Famer. Principal consultant, huh? Wow, is that the title now? That is fancy. Carlos Santana, 28 out of 299. John Heasley. I was just doing various e-commerce type of jobs. 107 out of 199 directly before Jaspies. I was working at a high end luxury goods consignment location. So a fancy clothing consignment shop. So like consigning like, you know, Hermes handbags and Chanel jackets and handbags and Christian Louboutin shoes and whatnot. There's JT Real Muto 349 out of 350. That's for the Phillies, I'll be for Steven. Yeah, the Disney vault would be pretty crazy too. I think if you like Disney does do stuff like that every once in a while. There's Matt Veerling. Philly, Steven with the fightin' fills. It was fancy, Gilo. We would often have some celebrities. It was kind of a famous store out in this neck of the woods. But we've had some celebrities come to look at some like vintage evening wear stuff where they can... There's a goose in the field. Look at that goose. Everyone look at their baseball game. There's a goose in the middle of the field. Look at that goose. Jason, do you see that goose? The goose. They're still gonna play right there in like shallow, shallow center field. Oh, this goose is probably terrified. It's like landed in this big green patch. Now there's all these noise and lights. It's not bothering nobody, but watch out, goose. I don't know if that's a lucky sign for the Dodgers or a bad sign. If they come back and win, there may be... Oh, look at this, Gavin Lux. Goose Mojo. Goose Mojo? Lucky goose? Rally goose? Is this a rally bird? If the Dodgers end up winning this, the rally goose might be a thing. There's Francisco Perez. John with the Nationals. And Nicoladolo, purple chrome autograph for Jordan and the Reds. Maybe that is goose gossage, Rex. He's not even in the stands, Rex. Maybe that is goose gossage. He did the whole transmogrifying thing that they do in Harry Potter. He turned himself into a goose and landed in the middle of the field. Okey doke. Second to last box, the penultimate box. Someone look at Twitter to see if rally goose is trending. Hashtag rally goose, there's some tweets out there. Talk to me, goose. Fox is really dropping the ball here. We need some more goose updates here. All right, gang. Got a Kevin Gosman. 250, purple chrome. Blue jays, that'll be for Jason. Talk to me, goose. Yeah, it was like shallow right field or something like that. Oh, Gilo's saying that he was escorted off the field humanely, all right. Just keep the goose out. I mean, if Trace Thompson, I almost said Trace Turner. If Trace Thompson gets a home run here, that's definitely rally goose, hashtag rally goose. He left so many runners on base. I know, that's just been ridiculous today. For cash considerations, let's do it. Yeah, for cash considerations. Also, they always said on Twitter, it's like anytime you hit a home run, he's like, he was worth the cash. He's got pop, he could hit it out. Doesn't have to though, put one in, it's a base hit. Just move some runners. Where are my autos here? I'm halfway through this jumbo box. I should see one by now. Hmm, this is making, this box is making me nervous here. There's Josh Lowe, purple speckled at 2.99. Jason, I think this might be a no auto box. Really? Walk. No auto? No, unless I'm going crazy. Jumbo's do get stuck to each other, right? I don't know, let's go through this box again. Well, it couldn't happen, but that's wild. What? That is crazy. These are all from the previous box, right? Yeah. Unless the auto, but the autos generally don't stick together. I did have a talk to home break though. I'm not going to lie that I actually had a lot of extra autos. So maybe. Maybe it's there? Yeah, either there or like, it could be in the next box, you know? That's the whole, you know these? Yeah, he should have had at least like one. At least one, yeah. On average, I guess it's very, it's very below average box. A goose stole it. A goose stole it. I'm not going crazy. I'm not like missing the autos. Sometimes they're like, maybe 10 autos in this box. All right, now it's disappointing, but final box, pick your team 11. Austin Barnes with warning track power. Just missed, just got under it. So much for the rally goose. Although Austin Barnes was batting for Cody Ballinger in that nine spot. So the next time the Dodgers come up in the ninth, it will be the top of the order. So that's a good a chance that he has to score a couple runs. All right, there's Josh Donaldson to 199. O'Neill Cruz Refractor for the Pirates. That'll be for Evan. They said that it was escorted, but actually, they're liars too.  Yeah, they're right. So it stops right there. They, TV said humanely. Yeah. But the video Evan saw, they just grabbed it with a towel, put it over its head. Oh boy. It's going to get water boarded. It's going to jail. It's going to jail. It's going to bird jail. All right, see, there's an auto. Stewart Fairchild. Refractor auto for Jonathan and the Diamondbacks. 142 out of 499. 126 out of 299, Trent Grisham, Purple Speckle and a Patrick Mazzica autograph for the Mets. That'll be for Johan, the Metropolitan's. We need to add one extra box. I mean, if we can get one from our distributor, yeah, because they'll host that. I don't know. Well, I'll talk to Nick. I'll see what we can do about that. But sometimes that's the luck of the draw. Jason was saying he's seeing a box with more than five autographs. In those cases, we don't send autos back to tops, right? So the reverse holds true, but let's see what we can do. There's Jansen Junk, Angels. It'll be for Johan. We've got Bren Lau. 250 out of 350, Purple Speckle and a Jackson Reitz Brewers. Mark with the Brew Crew. 252 out of 299. Purple Speckle Auto for, once again, Mark and the Brewers. The Magenta Speckle is for the Reis. How is that one, or Franco? And we've got a Luis Frias right there for the Snakes. Jonathan with the Diamondbacks. All right, Silver Packs. Got eight of those, one per box. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. These are Julio Rodriguez, out of 199 Aqua Tops, a good investment. That's a good question. I mean, Julio Rodriguez prices are probably as high as they've been, I think that's, you know, if you believe in him being a, you know, a perennial star, all star year to year, then it would be. I would probably think of waiting until, or maybe like kind of locking into an auto in our group breaks, or waiting until those prices maybe go down in the off season, if you really want to pick up some of his stuff and like keep it for investment purposes. All right, so no short prints here. Here's your recap. Some nice color here, and that's the giant, the printing plate. Jared Walsh at the beginning was pretty cool too. There you go gang. That was 2022 Tops Chrome Baseball, eight box jumbo, pick your team 11, more in the store, and a double header, a hobby case, two cases, double header, lot of baseball in store, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye.


The NBC University of the Air, a public service of the national broadcasting company, and its affiliated independent stations, presents another chapter in the historical series, We Came This Way, Tonight's Story, The Second French Republic, or How the Common Man Became a Citizen. John Doe, being a sound mind, do hereby bequeath to my son John, the sum of ten thousand dollars, to my daughter Mary, my homestead, and all my properties, to my faithful servant. An old man makes his will, disposes of his worldly goods, but forget him, not many of us are lucky enough to inherit money or real estate. Our story is about another kind of legacy, one that all of us inherit. It's a legacy of pain and blood and sweat, but a legacy of triumph too. As free men, our legacy is the sum of all the struggles that all the men and all the ages have made for freedom. From generation to generation it's been handed down to us. It's our most priceless possession. Don't treat it lightly. In Paris of the year 1848, where our story opens, this legacy of struggle is the one thing the common man possesses. It has come down to him in a song, the masquerade, and in a slogan, liberty, equality, fraternity. In a passionate knowledge that twice within half a century, in 1789 and again in 1830, his countrymen have tried to establish democracy in France. Without this legacy, the lot of the common man would be unbearable, for it's a period of depression. Three years of bad harvests have been followed by a breakdown in world trade. In this year of 1848, the common man is without a job, hungry, without a vote. A weary old King Louis Philippe had the so-called constitutional monarchy, but the government is little more than a joint stock company exploiting the nation's wealth. Indifferent to his suffering, the ministers and deputies think only of legislation that will benefit the handful of privileged voters who keep them in power. Meanwhile, the common man walks the streets of Paris. Any work today, monsieur? Nothing. Perhaps tomorrow? Nothing tomorrow, not the day after. Everywhere I go it's the same. No work, no work. Lord, above us, what is a man to do? How is he to eat? You tell me, monsieur. Don't ask me.  Listen, my friends, you are out of work. Can you buy what I have to sell? No. And there are thousands like you in Paris. They say times are bad because the crops have been bad. They say, they say, always they say, and they do nothing. All I know is a man has a right to work. That's what Monsieur Louis Blanc has been writing in the papers. He says the government should make work for the people. This Monsieur Blanc sounds like a sensible man. Why is he not in the government? Why? I will tell you why. Because you and I are not allowed to vote, my friend. Without the vote, it is impossible to change anything. And to get the vote, that is impossible too? Perhaps. But I have heard it said, monsieur, that the impossible is not a French word. I must leave you now, monsieur. I have a child at home who cries for food. Did you ever hear a child cry from hunger? It is not a good sound.  Maybe your father will come soon with food. Why do you say that? You know he won't. Where would he get it? There's no work. There's only one way to get food now. Don't even talk of such a thing. If you're afraid... I'm not. Joan, sit down. Where are you going? What are you going to do? You know what I'm going to do. I forbid you. Have you lost your mind? Come, please go away, Simo. Why do you stand there staring in that window? Simo, please. Ah, I told my con-sassages you're looking at. They're beautiful, aren't they?  Are you going to buy one? Will you give me a piece? You know I haven't any money. Besides, the shop is closed. Then why do you see that? Man, have you seen the police tonight? Just old whiskers. He went into the cafe to warm his feet a minute ago. What's it to you? What are you up to? Simo, please go away now. Oh, I know. You've got to rock under your coat. Simo, hush. You know better than the rest of us you devolve. Always so quiet, so respectable. But you won't do it. You're afraid. No. I'm not. I'm not afraid. Why are you shaking? I'm cold. And if you're not afraid, throw it. Throw it. I'm going to, Simo. I'm going to. Mother and 7th, help me. There you see, it's easy. Now help yourself to what you want. Hey! Stop! It's old whiskers. Run! Here, girl. No. In here. Quick. Don't be afraid. I saw what happened. I want to help you. What is this place? Who are you? This is the other Andre's bookshop. We live upstairs. I'm going to hide you in the back. It's so dark. In here. Through this door. There's a light in here. There you are safe. Where are you? How about you?  I'm 17. Please, Mr. I'm not afraid. I know. Mr. The police. What do I do? Keep it very quiet. I know. A book. I'll pretend I've been reading. Give me the candle. And there's another on the table. Light it after I've closed the door. And don't be afraid. No, Mr. Yes, Andre. Why are you making all that racket? It's someone at the door. Let's see who it is. I was just going. Mr. The police. Come in, Mr. Pardon, Mr. But I am looking for a thief. A thief? But I'm a respectable bookseller. And my brother is a student at the university. Yes, Mr. Tonight I've been studying a most exciting lesson in economics. You can say that we're not thieves. You do not understand, Mr. I do not mean to accuse you. It's a girl I'm looking for. A girl. And why'd you come here?  It's impossible. Only my brother and I have the keys to the building. It's a mistake. Even a member of the Paris police can make a mistake. Yes, Mr. A thousand pardons, Mr. No apologies. Good night. Good night, Mr. I'm sorry to have troubled you. Well, Pierre. Where is she? And who is she? What are you talking about? The girl. Will you ever stop behaving quixotically? I prided myself that I was behaving practically. Very practically. Well? Where is she? In the back room. Come on. No, no, wait. The police may come back. Don. Tell me what happened. I was on my way home. And I see the thin, star-looking girl. No bigger than a child. I thought she was a child.  All of a sudden she throws a rock, breaks the window, and takes a sausage. Just one sausage on her. They'd have given her five years for that. They'd have given you five for harboring a criminal, if they found it here. Well, what would you have done in my place? Minded my own business. Come home, gone to bed like any intelligent man. I believe you would. I believe that's what you would have done. Paris is starving under your nose, and you don't let the finger. Well, it's regrettable, but what can I do? We've got a dreary old king in the government of weaklings and scoundrels. Admitted. And you sit here reading your books and sipping your wine. Oh, Pierre. What would you have me do? Agitate for the vote. If we had the vote, we could change things. You're naive. Who do you think listens to your agitations? If enough of a scream they'll listen.  They don't feel too secure. They've not forgotten 1789. Nor have I forgot it. But he is surprising in the history of man. What came of it? A constitution, a republic. Betrayed by a little man in a three-quartered hat. Who put the people back to sleep. But they woke up again in 1830. And what came of that? The exchange of Charles the Tenth for a Louis Philippe. A puffy bourbon for a skinny audience. But they woke up, that's the point. And they're waking up again. Yeah.  Unlikely they end with your heads in a basket. I think I'd rather have my head in a basket than in a sand like yours. Oh, but you're wrong. You see, we're not waking up the people. It's hunger that's doing it. That girl tonight. André, let's go and see about her. It's safe now. Well, let's admit I'm curious. What? She's gone. She's gone, André. Hmm. Must have gone out the back way.   Don't say that. She's not a thief. Look, André, she was reading. She's taken down a volume of beyond. It's open at one of my favorite poems, too. Oh, Todd. Girl of the streets with a taste for poetry.  Listen, André. White queen blanched like a queen of lilies with a voice like any mermaid. Birth of broadfoot, Beatrice Alice, an urban god, the lady of men, and that good Joan, whom Englishman it was. She underscored the name Joan. It's her way of telling me her name. It's rather a roundabout way of introducing herself. There must be 10,000 Jones in pairs. André, how will I ever find her? Find her? Yes, I want to talk to her. I might be able to help her. And she was very pretty, I mean. I thought she was pretty, you know. I feel better about you, Pierre. I thought you were only interested in her, well, sociologically. I believe. I believe there's hope for you. And in spite of the way you talk, I believe there's hope for you. André, come with me tomorrow to a meeting of the Friends of Democracy. What's that? Just a group of students who want things to be different. No, thanks. I believe a man should cultivate his own garden. You're Ms. Cordingbold here. I'll give you a better saying of his. I envy the young. They will see fine things. Anything here, Monsieur? Just a wine, thank you. I'm expecting friends. We'll order later. Well, here's one of them now. Pierre! Well, there you are, Jacques. What are the other great minds of the Friends of Democracy? Probably trying to borrow the price of a dinner. What capital? I was looking for a girl. A girl named Joan. Oh, did you find her? No, I didn't. Oh, too bad. Wine? Yes, thanks. What are we meeting about tonight? We'll talk about the mass demonstration tomorrow. What demonstration? I hadn't heard about it. Dewey Blanc and Albert and what little opposition there is in the deputies are behind it. They're asking every man in Paris who wants the vote to come out on March. How many do they count on? Oh, 10,000 at least. That many? Maybe more. Blanc's right to work slogan and his national workshop program have got the working people stirred up. And Albert's been organizing them into clubs. But it's not just working men who want the vote. It's most of the bourgeois as well. And of course the students. And I hear the universities being attacked is a seedbed of liberalism. A wiser government would have burned all the literature of the French Revolution. Then we'd never have known there was such a thing as democracy. Oh, they could have made it unconstitutional to learn to read. Joking aside, what about the demonstration?  March across across to the Concorde. Then across the river to the Chamber of Deputies. And the band plays the Marseillais. And we all shout, Viva France. Wait, here comes the vote. John, here. Have you heard? What? The government's forbidden the demonstration tomorrow. They can't do that. But they have. What about the opposition? What can they do? Two or three men against the whole chamber? I suppose it's a good sign, really. They're calling the demonstration off. It means they're afraid. The demonstration would have made them more so. They don't realize our strength. Claude, how do they mean to stop it? There will be a notice in the press tonight forbidding it. I won't stop it. Why not, Pierre? Did you ever stop to think that the people of Paris who want the vote and don't have work can't afford the luxury of a newspaper? No, but it's true. They'll come out all right. There'll be a demonstration. You'll see. The 22nd day of February, 1848. An ordinary winter day. Weather unpredictable. A little snow that soon turns to rain. His majesty, Louis-Elite, breakfast in bed, rises, frowns at his reflection in the mirror as he is dressed by his lackey for a sitting-to-the-portrait painter, Darnay. Out in front of the Tuileries, the guard marches back and forth, back and forth. No one pays any attention to the crowd slowly gathering outside the Marguerite. Workmen in caps and blouses, students with spectacles, a few women in decent black, a Sunday look about them. A band begins playing. The crowd increases. Louis-Blanc and Albert appear. Then La Matine, his pig tail, arise. The crowd cheers them. Banners demanding the right to vote, the right to work, grip black ink in the rain. The pavements are sprouting people now. A hundred, two, five hundred. In the Tuileries, his majesty's sitting has been interrupted by a clerk with some papers to be signed. The artist, Darnay, moves from his easel to the window and stares from behind heavy curtains at the growing mob. Then he turns in alarm.  Does your majesty feel no uneasiness? Watch me, Darnay. I write my name. Louis-Philippe. Now I dust a little sand on the wet signature. Then I blow the sand away. That's how I should dispose of the mob when I choose to. All through that day and through the night, none into the next day, the crowd swells like flood waters in a river. And when Louis-Philippe chose to dispose of them, it was not so simple as blowing the sand away. Your majesty. Please, you know, my headache. Do not raise your voice. Your majesty, the mob. Look out of the window. All of Paris is marching in the streets. I have given the order for the National Guard to disperse them, you know. And the guards have refused to obey your order, sir. They've joined with the people in shouting for the right to vote at work. I open the window. You can hear them. No, no, no, you don't know. I don't want to hear them. I don't want to hear them. All through the day of February the 23rd, the marching feet grow stronger, beat against the brain of France's monarch. In panic, Louis dismisses his prime minister, Guiseaux, offers him as a scapegoat to the crowd. But the marching continues. Then with sweat standing out upon his forehead, he calls out the army of France. For at 9.30 in the evening, his majesty's army and the people's army, an army without arms, come face to face. The people press toward the ministry of foreign affairs. A company of dragoons bars the way. An officer advances. The crowd falls back. Fifty bodies. One of them a woman, lying before them on the ground. Slowly, cautiously, the crowd advances again to reclaim its death. In the bobbing torchlight, the student Pierre sees a young girl bending over the body of a man. Non-reserve. Non-reserve. Joan, it's you. You were here with us. I don't know what to say. It's all my heart, mademoiselle. They shot him. He's dead. Without even a blessing of a priest. We shouldn't have listened to them when they told us to join the marchers. Don't say that.  Listen to me, mademoiselle.  He'll be remembered. Remembered? Who will remember him? It's all over. And that's it. Mademoiselle, you must believe me. It is not all over. It has just begun. Young Pierre Chabadey looks down at the body of the little terrorist Workman. Neat in his pylots and blouse and cap.  And the anger that he feels is the anger of all the people at that moment of that hour, along the road by which we came. It fans them like wind fans of forest fire. With deadly purpose, they begin loading the bodies of the dead into an open car. As the death wagon rumbles off, leaving its trail of blood, they fall in behind. All night, the funeral processions wind through the darkened streets. By dawn, the grim cortege has accomplished its mission. All terrorists have heard the news. And an enraged populace is pulling up cobblestones to make barricades. What began as a peaceful demonstration has become a revolution. In front of a gun shop on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, Pierre sees a group of students passing out guns. He turns to the girl, Joan, who is marched all night at his side. I'm going to leave you now. Leave me? Where are you going? To the barricades. Listen, those are our guns. I must go. Wait, Monsieur. I'm going with you. You're going with me?    Surely you know that it was the women a fan to storm the Bastille. Yes, Mlle. And that the greatest army a fan ever had was led by a woman. Oh, God. Yeah. A bullet went through his shoulder, Monsieur. He's lost much blood in his veins. Here, let me lift him. You don't open, Mlle. This way. I'll take him upstairs to his room. Yes, Monsieur. Where? How did you come to find my brother? I was with him, Monsieur. With him? Where? On the barricades, Monsieur. There were many women there. After the bullet struck him, I helped him to get away. He was able to walk a little. Only when he got to your door did he sin. I don't have to thank you. You've done my brother a great service. Don't speak of it, Monsieur. If it were not for your brother, I would be... Beware. In the jail, Monsieur. Jail? Oh, now I know. You're the girl. You're Joan. Yes, Monsieur. In here, Joan. Do you mind this couch? That does it. Look on the chess piece and hand me that bottle. This one? Yes, the brandy. This will bring him around. Lift up his head. That's good. Now I'll just pour a little between his lips. Look, he's opening his eyes. Yeah, he's coming around. I'll be. Where am I? The home. On the cell. What are you doing here? She brought you here. Don't you remember? Yes. You remember? Andre, I've got to go back. No, Pierre and I like to lie quietly. I'm going for a doctor now. And he fixed you up. I'll leave you with mademoiselle. I'm sure she's a good nurse. Leave me with mademoiselle? Do you object, Monsieur? No. No, I don't object. I'm a comrade. Only where will you be going, Andre? When I heard the sound of guns this morning, I closed the windows because I didn't want to hear it. No use, Pierre. There are sounds the man found escaped from. Andre. How are they going to take your place? Through the day of the 24th of February, there's the color sound of guns rang out. Just before sunset, the firing ceased. Then every bell in Paris began to ring. The bells are ringing. They're running and shouting like Christmas morning. Tell me my clothes. I want to go and see what it is. No, no, Pierre, you mustn't. I'll open the window and call down. As the people of Paris march in triumph through the streets, up the winding road past the Arc de Triomphe, the last king of France rides out of the city in defeat. France has been returned to the people again. Once more, they have fought and won. Won the first indispensable weapon of democracy, the right to vote. Won through the National Workshop Program established by the New Republic, the right to work. Yet the people's fight did not end there. It never ended. Three years later, Napoleon III, nephew of the emperor, engineered a coup d'etat. Then, using many of the same techniques that modern dictators have made so popular, he consolidated his power. Once again, democracy in France was destroyed. And once again, the struggle for democracy was renewed. Just as it is renewed in the France of today. A long road. A weary road. The road to freedom. But these struggles of men in the past who get it and who safeguard it are our priceless legacy. For we came this way. The NBC University of the Air has brought you Chapter 18 of the new historical series, We Came This Way. This week, We Came This Way will present freedom for every man or the story of Matzin. We feel that you will enhance your pleasure and your profit from this series if you make use of a special handbook which we are prepared to accompany it. You can obtain this handbook by sending 25 cents in cash to cover the cost of printing and mailing to We Came This Way, Box 30, Station J, New York 27, New York. Tonight's script was written by Frank Wells and directed by Homer Hanks. The original music was composed by Dr. Roy Shield and the orchestra was conducted by Joseph Galicchio. The members of the cast were Clifton Utley as narrator, Lorette Phil Brandt as Joan, Eva Clark as Pierre, and Wilms Herbert as Andre. Others in the cast were Elmo Plats, Phillip Lord, Charles Eggleston, Armand Hutter, Roy Engels and Leonard Smith.


So I want to introduce Councilor Jane Stromberg. She is a former Burlington City Council member, was the youngest city councilor elected into the Burlington City Council in history, and also a consistent strong climate activist. Her day job is working with B. Perk, and I am just so excited to have a fellow organizer and advocate joining in co-hosting today. In terms of this call, we are going to ask the speakers today, the elected officials who generously joined us today, just to ask you to keep your remarks to under two minutes to make sure that everybody has a chance to share and that we can help people get back to wherever they need to go next after this. We're going to leave this Zoom room open for 15 minutes past the half hour for folks who just want to hang out and chat informally and we'll stop the recording at that point. I have these little cue cards. So one says 30 seconds. When you have 30 seconds left, it's the blue. And then another says zero seconds when your time is up. And the nice thing about Zoom is you can click mute, but I really don't want to be doing that. So please just be mindful. We'll give a five or a 10 second race period. Let's see. What else should we say? I think Jane, that's about it and I'll pass it over to you. All right. Thanks so much for that very kind introduction. So yes, my name is Jane Stromberg. I'm a former Burlington City Councilor, youngest woman elected just to make sure we're not taking credit away from other folks. And I am just so grateful to be able to share the space with you all today. We're probably going to fly through this because there's a lot of information and a lot of voices to hear. So yeah, we will be hearing from leaders from impacted towns, from state senators, and this is a collaborative informational session. So if you have any tips, tricks, advice, links, donations, volunteerism, otherwise, please just throw it in the chat. This is the best way to kind of get as much information out as possible, as quickly as possible. And we're happy to share that on the back end as well. So it is my pleasure to introduce to you all. I'm sure you all know him to some extent, but Barry City Mayor Jay Kemmerich. I am just so impressed by your leadership, your compassion of being on the front lines of this tragedy that is unfolded in Barry. It has also been really meaningful to see the community's strength in Barry, too. And you're highlighting that very well as well. So I'm just going to pass it over to you. Great, thanks, Jane. It's awesome to be with so many great climate thinkers. I was just going to set my timer, make sure I'm on track. Yeah, Barry has definitely been a very hard hit, perhaps among the hardest communities in the state of Vermont with this one. For those of you who may not be a little less familiar with Barry, we are the largest community by population in Washington County. We're a working class town. We're not a rich town. We have a median household income of less than $40,000. We have the second oldest housing stock in the state of Vermont behind Fairhaven with a median all-mage of 1945. And we have among the least resource and most vulnerable people within the regions of flooding, the heat events, the security risk, the noise and air pollution, the access to healthy food, transportation, essential things that we all need as humans to have dignity. And right now, Barry is still very much in a response mode. We have downtown apartments that have been without power for seven days. We have evacuated homes clinging to the sides of our road and banks. We have solar fully emptied. And we know that mold risk is really high at this time. And we'll be doing a lot of work on thinking about after this, what has worked and what's not working in terms of how we can bounce back from the other side of that. But one thing is clear. Vermont will have to adapt and withstand to future climate crises. And that will take more than just investments in decarbonization and renewable energy. And those are really important, but it will take some shifts and how we invest in the places where we develop, how we move around, how we protect the ecosystem services like greenways. And one thing that I'm thinking about a lot right now as we're just getting ready for recovery is that it's about building back better. And that's not just for Barry, but that means better governance, emergency response, better streets, roads, all parts infrastructure, better greenways and better blocks and sites and buildings. So I could talk a lot more, but those are some of the things we're thinking about. And for the leaders on this call, I hope you go into the next legislative round with those things on the table. Thanks. Thank you so much, Mayor Jake, for your participation today and for all of your leadership, your work in Barry and being right there. Jane was saying very kind things about you before our call when we were getting ready. I think the next person that we wanted to hear from, and by the way, you did a really great job modeling, keeping your remarks concise. Thank you. There's so much to say and we just have a few minutes today. I want to next introduce Representative Connor Casey, who is a representative from Montpelier in Washington County, one of the Washington County districts. I had the good fortune of connecting with Representative Casey, I think, first on Twitter. And then I got to meet at the State House a couple of times. Most recently, I think it was at the, there was a youth climate rally. Earl, you may have had something to do with that. It's great to see you here. I know you're involved in the sunrise chapter up your way to the County area. Really good to have you here too. But Representative Casey, I want to hear just from you being in, from Montpelier, you sent me photographs of just your own home and the river and really glad that you can be with us today. Thanks very much, Isaac. Thanks everybody for putting this together. I think it's important we come together during a tragedy like this, which is certainly affecting all of us. I think it takes a, it's sort of a statewide trauma when you go through something like this because we all know somebody who's suffering right now. And it's very surreal to walk down State Street and Main Street in the state's capital here.  And it always feels like Jake was going to touch on this. Oh, he feels like the lowest income houses who are like hit the hardest and something like this. So I think we went through a period of initial shock and disbelief, which went to anguish, obviously, for people who've lost all their possessions to now sort of being like, okay, what do we do now, mode, which I think after a week is kind of where we're at. But it brings out the best in people. It's, I think, neighbors come out, communities come out and help each other at a time like this. And in a time when we're increasingly snarly and isolated post-pandemic, I think if you hauled a slimy couch out of a basement with people down the street, you sort of look at them in a new light. And I hope that endures, but great volunteer effort. We've had 2,000 people sign up through Montpelier alive. So if anybody wants to help out, I would direct you there. And I found like the one thing we're switching to is rather than just having like a hub where people can come to us if they need support, really going out and finding people, right? Because not everybody knows the resource, not everybody has electricity still. So we've been canvassing. We got from the Vermont Democratic Party a list of phone numbers within phone banks just seeing what people need. And really trying to educate people about the sort of health repercussions here of what's going on. Because when it first happened, I think we were all the same. It's like, let's just get in the basement and get stuff out of there. You don't think about like the mold issues, as Jake was saying, I spoke to the Commissioner of Health yesterday and I said, what are we going to do for testing? He said, the good news is you don't really have to test because mold is definitely in all of those sellers right now. So we need to have a big education effort and I see the card there, Isaac. So I'll wrap up, but just want to thank everybody for their support and we will come back and we'll have the Capitol cleaned up for you when we reconvene in January. So thanks so much. Thank you so much, Representative Casey from Montpelier. I'm really glad to hear your voice and I see that Jane has pasted in the chat the Montpelier Alive link. And I want to just give a shout out to folks from Sierra Club, Vermont, who I see Sonia Riley here, who's a fellow Executive Committee member of the Sierra Club, Vermont chapter. Thank you for being here. I'm participating today in my individual capacity, but really appreciative of your leadership, Sonia. We next want to hear from our state senators who are able to join us today and want to start by introducing Senator Nader Hashim and Senator Hashim. I have known to be somebody who is always thinking about people who are most vulnerable. And when I was talking a bunch about people around the world who are dealing with issues having to with clean water and access to food and stuff like that, he said, you know, there are people just down the street in here in Wyndham County who don't have access to clean water. And that was before the flood. So just really appreciate that perspective and also your commitment to climate action that's been consistent over the years. So Senator Hashim, the floor is yours. Awesome. Thank you, Isaac. I appreciate that introduction. And thank you, everybody who's on this call today. You know, I wanted to just keep this short, mainly because, you know, I feel like, you know, my role here should be to hear from the folks all around the state who've had a wide range of experiences with this catastrophe that we've experienced there. You know, kind of go into what Mayor Hemmerich mentioned earlier. You know, I want to hear about what's worked and what hasn't worked. And she said. All right. Anyways, so, yeah. So I really just wanted to hear from folks who, you know, who were the hardest hit to find out what's worked and what hasn't worked. You know, Wyndham County, we did have several towns that were hit, not nearly as hard as Montpelier and Barrie, but, you know, one of the first things that stood out to me was there was a bit of a disconnect between local volunteering and state volunteering and, you know, local volunteers, not quite knowing what resources were coming from the state. And then, you know, there was this concern about duplicating efforts or, you know, not sending resources to the right area. So that was one of the first things that came to mind, at least down here in Wyndham County. So, yeah, I look forward to hearing about any other discrepancies or any other areas that need to see improvement when it comes to climate resiliency, which is, which goes hand in hand with reducing carbon emissions and addressing our role when it comes to climate change. So thanks again for organizing this, Isaac. Sure thing. Thank you so much, Nader. And I realized that I meant to put an agenda in the chat at the beginning. And so I'm going to actually put that in now so that you all can see where we are, that we're going to hear from Senator Bihowski. And then we're going to have a moment for folks to, just to connect in the chat to share reflections, want to hear what's resonating with you from what you've been hearing and maybe anything that's inspiring to you. I know that Senator Wendy Harrison, also here from Wyndham County, I forgot to mention Senator Hashim and Senator Harris, are my senators down here in Broadlebone. They, Senator Harrison is attempting to join in. We'll see if the Zoom link that I sent her works. All right. So back to you, Jane. Thanks, Isaac.  So I definitely want to give you a moment to introduce yourself and share your thoughts. Thanks so much for being here. Thank you so much, Jane. I'm Senator Tanya Bihowski. I represent Chittenden Central, which is when you ski Burlington Essex and Colchester, which arguably was not as hard hit as a lot of the state, but I know some of our Chittenden County towns were. But I also know that there's a lot of people here who want to know what to do and how to help. And so it's really helpful for me to hear what opportunities there are. But I also, I'm a systems thinker and so zooming out some of the things that I have not been hearing and it has been reflected here. We are in the early days heard a lot about how businesses could be reimbursed. And yes, we want to support our small businesses, but I found myself thinking about people whose mobile homes had floated away or people who are working class or living in poverty who are now homeless or who don't have the ability to front the repair costs that they're being asked to by FEMA to be reimbursed and really starting to think about how we can support those people who we know as it's been said are the most impacted by the climate crisis and often the least thought about in how we rebuild. And I also really want to think about as we go into the legislative session how we are as the mayor said, thinking about how we rebuild more sustainably, more resiliently, and because the reality of it is is these catastrophes are likely to happen again. And we need to really be thoughtful about how we keep people safe and we keep our cities and towns from being this devastated again. So that said, one of the things that I actually just put out where an op-ed will be coming out later in the week our attorney general is actually suing some of the largest oil companies for their knowing dishonesty and their contribution to what we're facing now. And so I think really getting the public's support for that so that the people who have caused this are investing in helping us to solve it and respond to it. I think it's really critically important that we're thinking both how we respond right now but also how we create stronger and more resilient communities going forward. I will be going into the legislative session thinking about a bill that we worked a little bit on last year in one of my committees that is around emergency response and how we make sure our critical supply chains can quickly get back online in instances like this one. And I think that we're seeing pretty clearly with people without power for a week and people who are not able to access food for days at a time that that is really, really important. So I'm really here to hear from everyone how I can be helpful and how I can help send people here in Chittenden County where we've been a little less impacted to you to be helpful. Thanks so much, Senator Wieckowski. We have Senator Harrison is here. Senator Wendy Harrison is one of my two senators here in Windham County. Thanks so much for joining us and love to hear from you about the floodplains in Brattleboro and anything else that you'd like to share here. Thank you, Isaac. And thanks for organizing this. It's super important. I want to talk about resiliency a bit and how to prepare for these storms. They are going to come more frequently. After Hurricane Irene, the town of Brattleboro was faced with a decision on how to handle a affordable housing development that was in the floodplain. There were a number of homes that were still in fair shape. They had been inundated by flooding. The town did not want to rebuild in that location. I don't know all of the details, but I do know that there was controversy and some folks did want to rebuild. So it wasn't clear that it couldn't be done. But the housing authority who owned the homes also agreed that folks should not be located there. It was a year long or many years long process. They had to find another place for the folks to live. They actually ended up building a large building downtown in Brattleboro, which was just completed a couple of years ago. And then restored the floodplain and it's on the Westone Brook. I don't know if any of you are familiar with that, but the Westone Brook is actually the body of water that has the highest differential in elevation in Vermont. So when it does rain in Marlboro, which is where the Brook is from, we get a lot of flooding here. And the floodplain was restored, as I said, a couple of years ago. It has demonstrably reduced the limits of the flooding. Engineers are working there now and we should have some determination of the benefit of it. But it's certainly a huge benefit. In the meantime, the town started working with the Vermont River Conservancy on a second restored floodplain closer to the downtown. That one is in the process of being acquired by the town and that's another few years in the making. But I'm really proud of the town for taking this initiative. It wasn't required. I will be looking in the session for ways that the state can support these initiatives because it's just crucial. I'm so sorry to interrupt. That's fine. I'm good. All right. And thank you so much for talking about the floodplains with us today. I want to turn it back to Jane. And first of all, thank you, everyone who just shared at this time and want to turn it back to Jane. All right. Thanks so much. Well, in the spirit of sharing, please put in the chat any thoughts or feelings you have from anything people have said today, any ideas that you have kind of jumbling around up there, or just observations of what's been going on in the state over the last week. There's nothing wrong you can put in the chat. And we'd just like to collaborate a little bit on that front. Jane, I'm also wondering if there's like, I know we have a couple of young people here who are involved with Sunrise and other youth climate organizing. And I'm just wondering if any of them would want to just say a few words about what you're up to. That would be fantastic. Earl, would you mind if I put you on the spot, my friend? No. Yeah. Hi. My name is Earl. I'm a high school student. And I run the Sunrise chapter, which is a youth cloud organization in Vermont. Yeah, we've just been sort of, we're trying to figure out how we can get like Sunrise National help with sort of stuff. I'm really glad that a lot of our elected officials talked about how that a lot of different groups and people are really hard hit. And we oftentimes don't sort of talk about that. And I'm really glad that there are a lot of people that care about this. Thanks, everyone, for like, I don't really have anything much to say other than I'm just here to listen and see how we can support, I guess. Yeah. Thank you so much, Earl. Appreciate that. Anybody else want to hop in and just introduce yourself or say anything? No pressure, of course. Either way, I'm just going to pop some resources into the chat if you're looking for outlets to donate to for volunteering. I, you know, again, I'm taking off my work hat in this moment, but I do work for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. And we are working on the Make Big Oil Pay campaign. And that actually goes really along the lines of what Senator Vyhovsky had brought up about holding those responsible for this climate disaster and mass accountable. They've known big oil companies have known for decades the impacts of climate and, you know, the damage that they have caused. And so we are trying to do something about that this summer and going into the next legislative session. So just a little nugget there. Thanks so much, Jane. And these are really great resources. We put together one option to donate when and what's listed here is the Vermont Community Foundation Vermont Flood Responsible Recovery Recovery Fund. It also includes a number of economic development programs, specifically the like, for example, Southern Vermont Community Action that are focused on helping supporting low income people who are hit first and worst by disasters like this. We have the volunteer link for Berry City. Thank you, Mayor Jake, who spoke earlier. And also we heard about Montpelier Alive, which is another weighted plugin. There's the link to the Make Big Oil Pay campaign where you can sign the petition and join Vyhovsky's campaign. And then finally tonight, 350 Vermont is hosting a webinar from seven to eight o'clock to talk about the climate justice movement in Vermont. And there's a registration link is included there. What I'd like to ask us all to do in just our last two minutes, and remember you can stay on past 1.30 if you would like to stay and just chat, connect informally off, we'll turn the recording off. But I want to invite you right now to just to put in the chat one thing that is either on that list that we just provided or one thing that's not on that list that you're going to do after this call to support our fellow Vermonters who are most affected by this flood, but also making sure that we're thinking about people down the road and protecting our fellow, our neighbors, our friends, our family members and the people we don't know. So we'd love to see you put in the chat what you're going to do. I will say that right now I am going to, I promise that I'm going to join the make big oil pay campaign. I just wrote an op-ed in where I put a plug for that campaign and I look forward to actually signing up there. I'm curious what other folks are going to do. I see that I already see some comments in the chat and look forward to seeing more about what your plans for action. We want, you know, I love what Greta Thunberg said is that like when she would ask something about like what, you know, about hope and she said it's not like you sit or it's like the idea is you don't sit around just like trying to find something hopeful is actually we take action, we lean into action and we get hope from that. The action is inherently hopeful and it's inherently, it's very hopeful to me to see all of you who've come together and who come together today from across Vermont, from so many towns and cities to care, to take that time and to really show up and to connect. And that's where community is all about. That's one of the reasons why I love Vermont and that's why I've decided to make this my home where I'm originally from but to come back here. I want to just see if, Jane, is there anything else that you want to say before but it's 130. Yeah, I quickly just want to really express my gratitude to each and every one of you for taking the time today during this lunch hour. I know that it's been a particularly heavy week in Vermont and I am just so impressed and inspired by the communities and the strength and the spirit and the motivation that people have to just build, rebuild, keep going, connect with others, check in on others. It really has brought me to tears in multiple occasions over the last week and I just am so proud to live in Vermont and be here and be among you. So thank you so much. I personally have to get back to work so I'll have to hop off before that extra 15 minutes but it's been a pleasure. All right, thank you everyone.


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We're on the ferry to Parramatta, leaving Sydney Harbour behind and Sydney Opera House. Anyway, I was just listening to Robert Wright interview with Eric Altman, the left-wing 25-year Nation magazine media columnist, PhD in History, a professor of English and Journalism. He was talking about how the United States is not a democracy, it's an oligopoly. And maybe you didn't hear, but Putin's Russia is not a proper democracy. Maybe you heard that China is a dictatorship. But many nations are a combination. In fact, four nations, four nation-states are a combination in different forms of government. For the United States, it's elements of democracy. It has elements of oligopoly. It has elements of dictatorship. It probably has elements of aristocracy. It has all sorts of different elements. So it's not like it's either a democracy or an oligopoly or a dictatorship. It's all three. And when it comes to foreign policy, the United States president is essentially a dictator. He has all the rights of King George III. Joe Biden has said three times the United States would militarily intervene if China tries to take Taiwan. Now, most Americans don't support the shedding of American life to save Taiwan, but foreign policy elites have already made this decision. The people don't get a vote on this. The people of the United Kingdom were very opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But England joined the fight nonetheless, because Tony Blair and the Labor government decided it. Australian people were not supportive of Australia joining the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. But Australia's elites made that decision. And so that's how it is. The element of democracy doesn't really decide Australia's foreign policy. There's just elements of democracy in foreign policy. There are elements of oligopoly and there are elements of dictatorship. So too with Israel. Is Israel in a part-aid state? Well, there are elements of the Israeli state and its occupation of the West Bank. You could rightly call similar to a part-aid. And there are elements that are not. Does England have free speech? England has considerably less free speech in the United States, but they're more than Russia. Just like people aren't honest, good, righteous, true. They're in the honest, good, righteous, true in certain situations. And they're less honest, less righteous, less true, less fair to income, less kind in other situations. So too with nations. Certain situations don't be dictatorships, such as foreign policy crises. President Dwight Eisenhower said the United States would only survive nuclear war if it was operated as a dictatorship. In times of crisis, dictatorial elements come to fall in the nation state. Other times, democratic elements or oligopoly, oligopolistic elements come to fall. Depends on the situation. So people aren't one thing.


So, let's get to a little Q and A. Hey, well, this says, I will stick to my 1980 Land Cruiser. And then Rayo Goldplate says, no one seems to agree on definition of recession, so how long, how can they say how long one was? Look, the definition used to be two consecutive quarters of GDP decline. That's what it used to be. And of course, the administration has changed that up. If we can define it in the old way in that chart that I just showed you, let's just go with that. And moving forward, it really, it doesn't matter how they define the recession. They say it's a recession. When you're in a recession, you already know it, you already feel it. You can see it around you. I kind of feel like if we're not in a recession right now, which if we look at data, sure, but it feels like one, right? We've got a ton of different prices sneaking up on us. The only thing that really helps us out is the job market. But the job market is even skewed because if you take a look at the job market, you can see that most of the new jobs are part-times. And being counted like two or three part-time jobs is three different job opportunities. So like, for me, it's not so much like the definition. It's just how you kind of see things. And then the bigger thing is this, and really it comes out of this, is when is the Fed gonna start printing money and increase the liquidity? Once that happens, that's when the market pops off. I think that's the bigger thing. That's what I look at. Let's see. Ivan said, hey, Rob, you mentioned what your meeting was with Theta the other day, or was it a top secret? No, it's for a product that we're putting together. It's for a web two, web three game. We're gonna use, we're gonna partner up with Theta for storage and video drive stuff. So yes. Green screen chair, looking good. Ben's chair. And then let's see. Festuche, Festuche? Please stop shilling, degenerate crud, no sweat. There's somebody more important. There's more important things than, there's more important things in Bitcoin and crypto we should be focused on. It seems like all the shilling and recommendations just end up in blood. Yeah, you know, that's a one take. But on my channel, I don't know if you could say that shilling a free app that you earn tokens on that increases your health is that bad of a deal? I know that you love Bitcoin and some people love Ethereum, some people love Cardano and some people, whatever else. But sometimes these things that I talk about, I think it's a pretty easy thing to talk about. Like I don't understand the negativity. It seems like, like I'm like, this is a free app. You get the sweat tokens. You can stake those sweat tokens. If you wanna buy more, you can buy more. I'm not telling you what to do much, dad. And then of course, like there's free giveaways that I just do. And again, the token is free. So it's like, I guess people don't really care about it because they don't own it. So why would you really care? There's this here. I'll show you how this really works to me. This is how I see it. And you can see it anyway. But I feel it's like this. It's like, when I talk about a coin that you own, then you love me. You love it because I own that coin. I agree with that coin. Of course, if it's a coin you don't own, you're like, well, Rob's it's dirty shiller and how dare he? I guess. Anyhow, let's see. And then Daron Wilkes says, gotcha, don't know if you flip flop like Rob. I don't know what, which part is that is? Fidushi says snake oil. I loved it. I love to put the negativity on there.  And Mullet says, that's what we do here. We shill what we own. You must be new. Yeah. And Mimi says, Rob is in Puerto Rico most of the year. That's true. I'll be back next week. William Davidson says, that's nice. We'll get 20 friends. That's true. One of the people I can talk to crypto with. And then our wrenches are all presented. Yeah, I feel that's true. Let's see. Overkill, I love tomato coin. Rusty Boss says, it's not really a shill if you own it. Most people should read the definition history. Everybody's got a definition of what a shill is. But I just say like this and like, look, I own it, so unless I don't own it, I'm not going to talk about it. And that's it. So just so you know, I even tell you, I even show you the price I bought it at and I showed you how many tokens I bought. I mean, look, you could do worse.  Sorry. That's what they do in their communities. Just saying, Rob, why do you care about the Nacers? That's fun sometimes. Aristotle Plato, I like to. Ken says, can multiple private keys generate a tracer horrible? I don't own a tracer. So I don't know if that's actually available for them to do. I have no idea. If anybody knows that, put that in the comment section. Rob is always in front of us shilling. True. Ben's chair is pretty funny. Legs are sore, very good. Yeah, my wallet knows what recession is. It's a lot different than 2021, right? It feels a lot different. But you have to understand like 2021 was one of those rare times when there was so much liquidity, there was so much opportunity that you just couldn't go wrong. You could have just blindfolded yourself and thrown a dart and like, that's the crypto I want. That's the stock I want. That's, you know, whatever it was. But now we see how difficult it is. And now you kind of see like, all the people that you used to watch that you used to listen to and maybe they're here or they're not here. But you can see just like which ones have dried up because it was just that opportunity in that time. But we talked about it. Diversification is key. And a lot of people are like, whatever, I'm putting everything into Pepe, whatever, I don't know.  And here we are. Current marketplace is the purge. Let's hope so. I don't see. The Rosconium. I finally checked the sweat out. It's not bad.  I swear to God it's not. I just carry that on my phone. That's it. Like I just carry my phone when I go for a walk. He's at the show with the show. It's okay. Look, it's not going to stop. If you come to the show, like I'm going to talk about the things that I own. So I just want people to be upfront. That way they're not like under some disillusion that I'm only going to talk about one crypto the whole chance I get. Like I think that's not a great strategy. I think you should diversify in all things. That could be wrong. Maybe Bitcoin becomes the only crypto or digital asset out there. Maybe everything goes to zero. And Bitcoin becomes like the world reserve currency. 75% of my portfolio is Bitcoin. So it worked out pretty well.  Maybe they'll outperform. Yeah, stop still making soju after returning to Korea. Feels like it today. I think I know what it was. I've had a problem with my back. I took a muscle relaxer yesterday and I'm still tired. It's a good one. De-gentleman. Very nice.  So so many people stop reading after the headline and thumbnail. Yeah, there's nuances. The devil is in the details, right? Ah, Redman says, Rob, keep your head down. You don't need to hear from me, but I feel like it needs to be said. Yeah, some days, some days is not easy. But it's some days, it's way easier to make videos in the bull market because everybody loves you. Right here, it's, but this is just it. This is in the bull market is where all the millionaires are made in the bear market. Excuse me. This is not made when things are going up and it's tough. It's real tough. But if you're here right now, you must have some pretty thick skin and you must know somewhat what you're doing. So you're not a tourist. So I like to talk to you people. And then of course, like I said before, once we run up in the next bull market, I will be gone and I will stop this channel and because all the shenanigans happen in the bull and I'll tell you when I sell and then once everything slows down and the tide goes out, I'll come back in the bear market. Probably not a popular way to do things, but whatever. Why do you never talk about XEP? XRP? I own it. I just don't really talk about it too much.  Gary gets lambasted and loses that case. That was a great day. Doris says, have you made more money with crypto or your YouTube channel? Crypto by far. The YouTube channel, if you go into just look on crypto Twitter, a lot of the different influencers, I know that Tiffany Fong showed you how much money she made for like half a million views and it's like less than a thousand bucks. So take that as you will. It's not like YouTube's paying us a ton of money. Time in the top is tough. Yeah. Paul says, let us know when you sell, please. Paul, do you want better? There is, let me show you. There's a link in the description and it says here, why and when I'm selling 80% of my crypto in 2025 and it goes over different indicators and those indicators, once those hit, maybe you guys can remind me. And it's like PyCycleTop and the RVZ score and UPL stuff like that. Once those hit, that's what I'm selling. So you'll know because I'll probably do a video about it and you'll probably remind me about it. So it's very simple because before I did it was, it was just price predictions, which some hit and some did not, but I think that's a better way to use certain indicators and then go from there. Wick says, how many bull markets would you say the average person needs to be a seasoned accumulator trader? I think some people get it nailed on the first try. They realize that like in 2017, I heard that Bitcoin would never go down and it was the next big thing and everybody was getting into it and John McAfee said that it'll go to a million and he would never lie to me. So, you know, I held too much and then of course we figured it out that, hey, there's not as many users as we thought and the transaction costs were like through the roof, so we really can't use it as like a peer to peer transaction, which is what the white paper was originally created for. And then of course we had in the narrative a store of value and digital gold and then Lightning Network came out and we're going to do this and it's going to be great. All right, maybe it will do pretty well. And I sold this and didn't sell as much as I supposed to because the narrative was there, right? Hey, it's going to be great. Great community. Everybody's coming in. It's got Michael Sailors here and Michael Shragi and they'll never sell. And of course, you know, Luna is backing everything with Bitcoin and that'll never collapse. And of course, you know, we don't have any kind of like Mt. Gox situations because these exchanges are so airtight as far as security goes so they're not going to collapse. It's the same thing over and over again. It's the same, it's like a little different narrative with a twist, but the same thing happens. And I'm telling you right now, the same thing is going to happen in the next bull run. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be great and people will never, just like what do you feel like right now for the bear market? You think it'll never, it'll never, ever go up. And of course it does because you're in this, you're in this, the bear. Some people may disagree and say, well, you know, look at Bitcoin from the beginning of the year. It was at 16,000. I went to 30,000 an hour or 20, whatever the heck we're at, 26.27. So it's a bullish-ish market. I got you. But not like enormous, enormous for everything. Look at Alts.  Good time to buy.  Then when the bull market comes, it'll only go up and it'll be the same narrative, just a little bit, just a little twisty, but at some point it'll crash because the technology hasn't caught up yet. Maybe I'm wrong. Blue, you're my boy. Rob, your YouTube strategy is counter-intuitive and butt-brilliant. Saving yourself a lot of high-tide time, fool around by layering out and taking time out. Yeah, it's no lesson. Yeah, because, I mean, I thought Voyager was great. I thought Celsius was going to do pretty well and that didn't happen. Thankfully, I never got an FTX or Block 5, whatever.  Of course, they'll lie right to your face. They'll come on your show and lie right to your face. That's why you can't trust anybody. You can't even trust me. Like, I did a tweet.  Trust nobody, except me. And that's a lie. So you have to really look at and go, is Rob full of it? Probably. He's probably lying right to my face right now. And the only way that I can get around that is to do my research and take a look and maybe look at the links that he provides in the description and verify this information because maybe he's lying to me. Like everybody else is lying to me. Go from there. No, it does make a good point. I never have myself. This was probably the first time. Can we trust Tini? Yes. Christian Penns, good question. What's your current position? Come back tomorrow and I'll show you exactly what I'm buying and how much I'm up or down on Bitcoin and all the alts. Show it to you. We do it every Sunday. And it's sober. It's sobering, we should say. Shaolin says, don't forget the bearish bull. The bearish bull is the guy who says that Bitcoin reached 80K by 2026 or ETH by 6K. Like we haven't seen, that's a pretty safe way to say it, right? Because who doesn't think that Bitcoin can hit a little bit past its all-time high? Because the all-time high last time was like 67,000 or 69,000 depending on which data you take a look at. So 80,000 by 2025 is pretty good. So if you think about it like that and that's why, look, there is a link in the description. It's called did it all-time high. It's at the very bottom. And I want to show you this. And what I did was I took out and I took 2017 and 2021. I took a look at what was the high in 2017 and what was the high in 2021 and did it actually hit its all-time high? And out of the top 53, only 11, so 20% did. But on these little tabs down here, you can open it up and look at some more data. And I just said that if we took a look at the all-time lows, excuse me, the all-time lows so far in 2023 or between 2021 and 2023, the all-time lows for these top 21, 2021 coins, if we take a look at the all-time lows so far and we see just how much it's dropped, like even if it can hit its all-time high of 2021, it's a big boom. So like we have here, so Bitcoin, of course the higher up you go, that's your return on investment, but still it's the safer play in the most volatile market. So the all-time lows so far for Bitcoin was November 9, 2022. It was 15,000. Imagine going back, so it dropped 51,000. Imagine going back to the high. That'd be great if there was 995. Solana, 9 bucks. But look, the all-time high was 250 bucks. So if you think about it, if Solana actually makes it, it's like a 25x every time you buy this. I don't know what it's at now. I think it's like maybe 20 bucks, but I'm just saying. Cardano, 24 cents, maybe 30-something cents now. The all-time high was 271. I think that's here. Excuse me, that's the drop. The all-time high was around $3 here. Oh, sorry, this is the one. So yeah, I just look at it and go, even if we hit some all-time highs of where we are before, that's good. I'll take that. I don't need it to make any... I don't need it to go much higher than that. I'm very comfortable in my positions right now. I'm hoping that's the same for you. Yes, nice work, Wrenches. Thanks for getting the adult dating chat out of there. Amazing. I don't know. Yeah, exactly. It's like breaking into a police station. Why would you spam my account? Look at all the Wrenches. Aristotle is right. The keyword is if, exactly. Because 2017 that was 21, 20% hit the all-time high. But if you take a look at that spreadsheet I just showed you, even the ones that didn't hit the all-time high, some of the ones you've never heard of before, they still outperformed Bitcoin. They didn't even hit their all-time highs. This is the only market I think you can do that. Consistently. Army of Wrenches. All right, everybody, so... All right, did I answer your question? This is a good question. Can't the SEC make up another fake reason for denying the ETF? What stops them from doing that and forcing Grayscale to sue them again for that? Nothing stops them from disapproving the ETF. They can come up with some reason, whatever else it is. Then of course the people can go... The institutions can sue them, which would be very fun to watch. And it can be tied up in court for a while. Nothing stopping the SEC from disapproving it or not approving to stop the ETF. But a lot of people think it's going to happen. I hope they're right. Yes. Cow with a K is a moderator. Moon Walker says, does the breaking news mean much?  I think we saw a pump yesterday. But that's how it goes.  But people will say... The TA people will say news doesn't really move the market that much anyhow because people know behind the scenes. And they could be right. I just like to cover it because you can...  I don't know if you can see how things are growing, how things are progressing, how the different projects that are out there are building themselves. I mean, look at Amazon. Amazon in the stock was awful for years, but they were building in the background and now it's a juggernaut. And that's why I like to see which ones are building right now in the bear because they'll crush it in the bull. All right, everybody, that's it for today. We're kind of dragging on here. So thanks so much for stopping by on a Saturday. I appreciate it. If you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up. Consider subscribing. All the good stuff. And I will see you guys on the next one, which will be tomorrow. And we'll go over the portfolio and I'll show you what I'm buying and how much I'm down or up. That's it. Thanks so much. Adios