Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spaulding Decon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding and much more. These are our stories. My name is Laura Spaulding and we are here in Brandon, Florida in front of our 2020 holiday hoarding giveaway recipient and we're really going to be able to change this person's life by giving her a brand new beginning. I'm going to give her all this trash, the high ammonia from all of her cats. Thank you everyone for being here for our 2020 holiday hoarding giveaway. I really appreciate it. Let the games begin. I think we had about 20 volunteers here. She can't find her shoes. She has no bed to sleep in. So I think these cats are never let out. They're pooping in their own cage. This is not good. Does this one get let out at all? Ever? No. Oh my gosh. How long has this home been ordered for? It's been about 25 years. Have you had fun? This is probably the biggest spider we've seen on a site so far. Fire! Fire! Oh, here comes Laura. Laura hates spiders. Fire! No! This is the worst one. Oh my God. 25 years. Out of all the fridges that I've done in 15 years, that was the worst. Right now, she's hyper-emotional and she can't control her compulsion to just get us out and push us away because she feels threatened right now. Wait a minute. Oh my God. I had a thing that was here. No, we brought it out to you. It's keys. Dammit! I didn't even think about that. Dammit! My name is Laura Spalding and we are here in Brandon, Florida in front of our 2020 holiday hoarding giveaway recipient. And this house really meets our criteria because it's in level five condition and we're really going to be able to change this person's life by giving her a brand new beginning. We're going to get rid of all this trash, the high ammonia from all of her cats and we're going to be able to work with a lot of great small businesses who are really awesome at donating their time and their services and we're going to make this a fun event and it's really awesome that we're going to be able to give this gift right before Christmas. I live in Brandon, Florida. My name is Hollis Billings. Things weren't always this way. I took care of my mama and the life and then there was issues after that with my health and everything and things just kind of took a slide where they'd never been before and it's like quicksand the harder you fight it, the deeper you sink and it was a situation that's odd but the more I fought it, it just didn't seem to get any better so I just kept praying about it and praying about it and my neighbor next door sticking tight with me and everything and it seems like now this could be the answer to my prayers because then everything can be brought to normal on one shebang professionally like it's supposed to be and then I can have the rest of my life just at peace and keeping everything look pretty and be who I need to be. If you were chosen for this, you have to promise me you will not let it get to this situation again. I won't. The only reason I was told the thing was what she was doing to me I went into my 401k, my precious 401k and annihilated it for my mom I went into that for mom because it was anything for mom Daddy made me, in his life, made me promise that I would not leave her and I would stick with her or watch her because of this sister we're talking about and she has a twin.  Mom died in 2010 in my mid to late 40s then I guess it was and I stuck with her. I got people in my attic a lot harassing tearing up on the roof so they did something to the pipe up there and it started dripping by the time I knew what they were doing it had wet sheet rock and I woke up the one morning and the whole panel of sheet rocks on the floor was like ruining children's lives smell the difference it's not a perfect fit where the sheet rock started wearing on the edges and stuff was falling through it's like a powdery substance it's not dust it's like a powdery stuff because I've come up on them before just in two weeks you will have a complete transformation so we're going to help you actually you're saving my life you have no idea the only reason that I haven't done something drastic is because of the kids because I knew that if I wasn't around that they would be used so I had to hang in there for them and I'm sitting there and I kept praying hard and I thought it looks like there's a brick wall on all sides there's no way out to solve this what the hell am I gonna do she has me to the back to the wall bad she's not gonna be able to do much once the house is looking good she's already been back and forth here this morning driving back she's looking at things because her whole thing is to take me down when mom died I knew that mom did not die naturally and I went into a spiral deep depression I spent a long time doing nothing but crying all day until I puked and then I puked and then keep crying again until I puked because I was devastated and mortified and justice was not being taken care of a situation and there seemed like there was nothing I could do about it except accept it and I didn't want to accept it and I still don't want to accept it because I know she had something to do with it well we gotta move forward now and we're gonna give you a new beginning that's good I love it here I really hope that you maintain oh I will and I want y'all I'm gonna come back and check on you I want you to I want to come back that's a good thing I want you to and I like you you're a good person well thank you and you too I already told you that so I feel like my prayers came and they sent angels there you go alright he's probably an angel too he is I get my life back yeah probably takes her a little bit to get to the door because of the mountain accord in there in all fairness it would probably take me a good 20 minutes to get from the back bedroom to the front door because of the mountains and mountains of trash in there good morning Alice good morning are you excited I can't find my sandals are you excited though I'm happy I'm blessed look at this we're gonna get it all over here he looks so cute this is adorable yeah I didn't know if it was that or even as a kid if I get real nervous yeah cause it's still a freaking mess it's supposed to be that's why I'm here no I thought I would have all this stuff purged out oh no no no no there's this stuff here I'll handle this first don't worry don't worry okay so what's going on with the cats do we need to put those in the cages they cannot be outside these days okay I'm gonna need your help with that yes I'm gonna also if you can put them in the cage I can set them in the back hand me that big chicken maybe she'll give me a golden egg we're off to a good start she's in good spirits she's nervous so that means she's excited I'd like to count the cats because she doesn't even know how many she has woah oh there's a chicken because the chicken have food I'll tear up some bread for that is completely unsanitary this chicken needs to be released we have this poor thing some food she's not attacking the food so she must be somewhat well fed there you go there's one of the rescues that they chased around the neighborhood and while they were killing the others is that only food or water does this one get let out at all ever no well in the house he can be but he can't be let out outside no I mean in the house yeah because he's like pooping in the back of his cage yes he's upset because he had so much stuff happened to him before he was rescued that's not normal so I think these cats are never let out they're pooping in their own cage this is not good see animal hoarders they typically have really good intentions of saving the animals but then it ends up like this it's out of control the animals are suffering they either don't have food they're not spayed and neutered there's no medical attention she's not even getting medical attention so how are the animals getting that it comes a point where those good intentions really expire and they get overwhelmed and they don't know what to do with them and these cats these animals are not well they're not well at all maybe we can see if some vet resources can come take a look at them she can't find her shoes she has no bed to sleep in I mean if anyone needs our help it's Hollis Hollis needs our help so I am so glad that we are here not only for her but for the animals Fiona what are we getting ready for today for the hoarding giveaway of 2020 so this is everything that we're going to need is right here the viewers can expect a lot of unexpected stuff Laura promised that we'll all have fun so we'll see how it goes good morning my name is Rebecca I've just joined the Spaulding Decon crew this is my first job extremely excited as the rest of the crew about the 2020 holiday giveaway what's up man how you doing pretty good good yo G yo G right here John I'm back when I initially asked her how many she goes a lot and I go are we talking like a hundred no no no not that many like fifty no and I said ten and she goes well a little more than that how many more do we have if you count it and it's cats it's ten ten cats there'll be three more three more okay goodie and lizard if I sat down to pee and that jumped in my bag I would not be participating today I just don't do lizards I didn't grow up with them not one out underneath they're all good see you on the flip side hey there my name is Raven Snoffer I am the National Accounts Manager here at Spaulding Decon this lovely Saturday morning we're out here in Brandon this has been the culmination of about a month and a half of work for us over here at Spaulding we've gotten a lot of local sponsors you know just able to give either some funds or you know time out of their busy days and busy schedules to come help us with this opportunity so my name is Margie Parker I came here from Fayetteville Tennessee which is just north of the Alabama border and I've been following Spaulding Decon for about five months now so when I saw that Laura wanted to have volunteers come I had already been wanting to come and work for Laura so I said this would be an opportunity for me to come and see if this is for me and if this is something I want to do maybe as a career so what are you looking for at the moment seeing the homeowner at the very end when they come in the home and they look around and everything is gone everything is clean my name is Jordan I am signing everybody in today we got coffee donuts and then forms PPE everybody gets a tieback to a shirt booties and an N95 as you should and a job like this thank you everyone for being here for our 2020 holiday awarding giveaway I really appreciate it we'll start removing things kind of slowly so I suggest that you pair up with a full time staff member and they can kind of guide you through let the games begin oh yeah what does it need to have this many volunteers coming out to help out this is so awesome I'm so grateful I think we had about 20 volunteers here the super impressive part is we literally had a volunteer that drove from Tennessee to come hang out with us and work with us so that is I mean the power of social media that's the power of social media it's so impressive and I can't thank these people enough are you excited for this? absolutely I've never done any of this before I'm just excited to get in there see what it's all about I think that's awesome definitely glad to be here and helping out the family I just found the information to the house this is one of the three things that we were looking for actually in this house and this it's like a needle haystack so as a matter of fact that we found it that's what's up hey guys my name's Nico we're here at the holiday it's something great that we're doing we're giving back to the community it's a great feeling just to be here and to see all these people here I put them what the hell that is what is that it's a tile full of bathroom things we're not saving them huh? we're not giving them that's a rule can that recycle with a plastic can you know I've used those around the house so I can just wash them out and keep using them okay but you're not going to keep using them okay no I'm probably not speaking my language yeah this is very typical the best thing for us to do right now is get a roll of duct tape and a chair and just put her in it no I'm totally kidding we're not going to do that she just needs to calm down what are you guys doing back here what's the objective we are cleaning as much as we can to in a place where the homeowner isn't able to readily go right now to speed up our process before the therapist gets here hi my name's Skip Curlott I'm a new franchise owner for the Chicagoland area and I'm excited to be here today my mom is actually a hoarder and I'm excited to help out someone that is in need and I hope that it changes her life in a positive way oh not the chair hit him with the chair April 2016 my name is Christine Zyne McCombs I am the community outreach officer in Hillsborough County code enforcement so I handle all the cases here in Hillsborough County where we have code violations that actually happen to people that are in hardship situations that's where people just are not able to take care of violations by themselves so what I do is I always look for resources and try to help them out so that they don't have to lose their home that's my sunglasses my precious sunglasses oh this is okay thumb down thumb down thumb down so Laura can you explain the organizational process here so we have keep and trash there's no donate because of the condition that it's in so we're trying to go through all this stuff and find like personal paperwork how long is this home in um 44 for about 25 years she's your typical hoarder mentality she's severely focused on one thing and she gets scattered she's getting panicked that people are touching her stuff right now she's hyper-emotional and she can't control her um compulsion to just get us out and push us away because she feels threatened right now have you been in the house yet or no from what I understand we only have two people in the house at the moment they're having a hard time it's been almost an hour and getting in and we brought it out to you it's keys no it's all my keys like in a cloth pouch thing oh my god it's all the keys because I have men come stuff on these things it's a whole lot of keys they would have been in here where I had the stuff stacked up because we're going through everything for you you wouldn't know they're keys we're just not leaving here until I have my F and keys a lot of stuff with tags on it still it was a purse $100 tag on it not taken out a lot of stuff new and then just a lot of papers a lot of papers from 2006 I'm Penny Holmes I'm the controller this is my first experience with something like this I usually sit behind the desk crunching the numbers so it's feel good especially around this time when you want to give you want to do some volunteer work at Christmas time to help people out and your daughter's here too right? my daughter's right over there yep she's getting her hands in there too and she likes to be a volunteer I'm here my mom works for Spalding Deacon I think it's just really nice to help during this time of year especially because so many people need this kind of help and aren't able to get it so it's nice to see her get that Hi I'm Paula I'm from Louisiana and this is my first tour and I'm kind of excited to see how it goes so that when I get to my state I am prepared or at least halfway prepared pass this out thank you so much thank you so much for this and I told you I would find this what's that? the bottom of that pass you're welcome nice did that fun? this is probably the biggest spider we've seen on a site so far and a bag there was a 50 bag there fire come on die no are you doing that? no camera the franchise development manager here at Spalding Decon this is actually my first time on a live poor job or seeing it in person and I definitely can say it's overwhelming part of my job is to sell the service to get candidates that want to buy into Spalding Decon but I have to be able to express what they're going to be doing on these jobs and I couldn't imagine that it would be something like this franchisees here right now going through with this it's just one of those just something you can't really honestly express definitely having the hoarder here on site you can just see the emotional attachment that she has to everything and it's just heartbreaking it really is we got the name for this one what's that? spider bill spider bill? bro there's spiders everywhere in this thing oh big boy big boy big boy in the hole oh my god cowboy look behind it he's literally stuck hey I'm Craig Cox franchise consultant with Spalding Decon what's one thing that really sticks out to you the homeowner she made the comment that she normally wears gloves 24 hours a day so she doesn't hurt herself in her own house big boy huh? there's spiders no there's not oh my god in this hi my name is Diana Dubey and I'm here today to not only support my sister because the owner works with Spalding but also to do something good for the community and to serve the community and to help other people and I'm also here to basically just basically help and learn a little bit more about what my sister does I'm definitely out of my comfort zone so this is a self challenge for me you're the only person with makeup on that's so funny oh my god how's it going? it's going so what was the order sibling? I am actually even though she looks old if you hear any screams it's not the cat it's me I almost didn't come just having to tie my hair up so I'm like pull your hair back it's just like put my hair back what is that? you're like a folding oak on the shelf hey gang how's it going I'm Evan Fineout I'm the staff videographer for Spalding Deacon might recognize my voice from behind the camera on a few of our most recent episodes it's a gold mine for me because there's always something happening at this job right now I've been this is honestly I'm getting anxious right now because I'm not rolling the camera but there's been all kinds of big spiders there's been all kinds of crazy finds and I think this is going to be a huge weight off of the client's shoulders once we do finally get to a stopping point and I'm really excited to see the stress and dread that she's going to right now wipe away alright the moment we've all been waiting for fridge time with Fiona oh my god damn this is the worst one this is the worst one the favorite thing to do that's milk oh 2015 that fridge hasn't worked since 2015 out of all the fridges that I've done in 15 years that was the worst I can't even describe the smell it's like we opened up bodies that have been decaying for tons of years and everybody's running out like dry heaving yeah see there you go you okay? so the initial smell was sweet potatoes the first smell was like okay sweet potatoes I can handle that I think and then it turned into like sweet potatoes makes it like I don't even know yeah poop and vomit and it's horrible it's a historical refrigerator Jordan I'm an office coordinator this is my boyfriend Michael he came out and was really sweet to help out today I'm Michael I'm Jordan's boyfriend definitely a lot messier than I had anticipated so I've watched the YouTube videos and just wanted to see it out here in person and it's it's intense what's it like actually being here the smell that got to you it's the smell that's something you won't see in the videos they're 22's and it's like small baggy in a trash can but I want to be careful when you dispose of these because you got to be careful when you place them so whenever you have bullets you place them in a special spot so did they take off with my other sandwich or are they still sitting over there they left already what did they do with my sandwich oh that must be what he handed me I don't even know where I put it when I get really stressed I start with stomach cramps and stuff like that and I get sick take a couple deep breaths for me just to get started I've got the stomach I've got to find those other two bags can you tell me five things right now that you can see that I can see tell me five things you see around us oh the canopy the chair the dumpster my life going out the window hi I'm Jennifer Dobies I'm the owner of Rear Resolutions Counseling and I was asked to come and work with this client so I was asked to come and give her some resources to kind of get her on the right track to be able to move forward and get all the things that she needs so we can get her back living a good healthy life there's a lot of background matters and you've really got to know the basis of what it is that you're working with because it's a very overwhelming feeling when we begin the clean out process for a lot of them my goal today is to make sure that first of all that she's okay as this happens because like I said it's very overwhelming to a lot of quarters when we begin this process we also want to make sure that we can get her set up if she needs some extra meal assistance making sure that she's getting if she needs therapy if there's any other type of medical issues or things that we can get her to the right resources with the county or even if there was something they'll take sure something is everything that's true and yeah God they had this all through the years if you can go through these bags I'm going to use hot water yeah I'm going to use hot water in there and soap and this too much oh yeah these are what are these they're out of the thing I'm going to make sure that she's fit I'm going to go get her and get her and get her out it smells kind of like teen spirit that's what Nirvana said my name's Jessica Frigo I am the marketing director at Spalding Peacock well I know other people might think it's weird that this feels good to be here to do this there's many other ways to spend a Saturday however because of what we're doing and the reception that we're getting from her and that she's being gifted this opportunity it just makes you feel good to be here and devote your time to something like this where you're giving back we had so many volunteers you know we actually had volunteers from across the globe we had people in Ireland people in England that wanted to come here but however with COVID restrictions not being able to travel so we are excited about future hoarding giveaways where we're going to be able to get volunteers from all over the country client on the job seeing the reaction was this what you were expecting or is this not what you were expecting so it's definitely different because I did meet the client last night when I came we dropped off the trailer last night and she came out and spoke to her and she was very nice very friendly and then today I think her anxiety got the best of her in a way that's not obviously from a clinical standpoint but just from looking at it and seeing it it's definitely like stepping inside one of our hoarding cleanup episodes when she did her initial interview with us she mentioned 98% of everything is trash and now everything is sacred even a plastic water bottle so just when we thought we were making some progress animal control is here to investigate the animal situation here and this is Alice and put her over the edge because the animals are literally all she has so I'm worried how she's going to react to this this is really terrible timing they're coming to give you a spay and neuter for 10 bucks yeah she's eating lunch right now so she's in a good place right now I think eating it's over one so we've got to make sure that we turn this to what's going to help her because this is going to be another limit in the county right but if we spay and neuter them then at least it's going to be we'll stop it right here in that way they can live out with her or so yeah Alice I have a young lady who needs to talk to you outside about what you probably lost the helmet not no no it's all fine what is it you need stevia back then I guess so oh my gosh that is creepy it's just in a plastic bag nothing no mail well we're finding cash we're finding bills from 1989 so we're having to look through everything to make sure we don't miss anything I was young yeah because I went to the U.S. hey I see I just do I do too there we go it's a fabulous university she likes her knife oh I don't have one spiderbill here you go oh you're looking good at me once you get them on the air you'll appreciate and everything will be great what's that right you got it all now alright does this thing look like it's durable enough almost filling four trailers which never thought we would do and still probably fill at least one or two more but if I come across being crashed or something like that I don't mean to be you're like on earth right now you don't have to do this you're all intelligent and physically fit you could do anything you want to do but you've dedicated yourself to helping people and I appreciate it very much you're very welcome you guys are amazing this has done a lot it's been a painful process for me I kept thinking I could do it all myself but I want to see how much it took a team to work on there's no way that I could undo this this will be a lot safer place for you to live now yes we are about the end of day one it has been a very long day we've got probably between 10 and 15 people helping us unload and this is not a very big house it's about a thousand or maybe 1100 square feet and we've gotten most of the kitchen 75% 100% of the living room 100% of one bedroom the other two bedrooms are still full the plan for tomorrow is to continue bagging up all this trash 13 cats and a chicken or something over there that we pulled out of the house two dead ones were found wrapped up in a bag I don't know why they were kept or not but volunteers and staff are spent at this point we've been working since 9am labor intensive but I also think it gives them a really good view of what we do on a daily basis and it's not just trash removal this is just very it's emotional it's very difficult physically and it just requires a lot of stamina we're super appreciative to all of our sponsors here that that helped us you know put this off or pull this off and hopefully tomorrow we will finish all of the trash removal maybe by midday and then we can start the cleaning on Monday so we are here Sunday the beginning of day two for our holiday hoarding giveaway and we knocked on the door and woke her up and she has absolutely no memory of us being here all day yesterday now on another note we look through the window in the living room and she has moved back in all the stuff that we took out there it is oh f**k what is that Fiona why is it's neck like oh god turn it around oh look at that baby holy s**t hundred three thirty three fifty baby more baby more you're making it rain I'm making it rain look at that baby what do you have three hundred and fifty dollars was in that drawer how do you look at this oh my god here's the body look guys I hope you enjoyed this episode it was a lot of fun working on this holiday hoarding giveaway project I hope you liked it as well I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy holidays and check back in a couple weeks for part two of this episode so you can see how it turned out for more information visit any of our locations


Welcome to Monique Cafe in a series of lessons I'm calling down on the farm. This is in honor of my sweet mama who passed away about a month ago and she was indeed a farm girl. She knew how to grow everything and what an amazing cook. Sorry to make you guys drool here. And I just loved her spirit. One of her favorite things was her chickens and cooking for the people that she loved. She knew how to can and my dad and I are still enjoying many of the fruits of her labor because her pantry and her freezer is still stocked with so many wonderful foods made from her precious hands. So I hope you'll join me in this next series of painting lessons focused around the farm and please subscribe if you haven't. I think you'll enjoy not only the painting lessons but a celebration of life in general. I thought we would begin this series with a beginner lesson of a painting of a precious duck with some very simple supplies. So here we go. Hello and welcome to Monique Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm happy to share with you that the theme for the month of July 2021 is going to be the farm. Each month I announce a new theme in our art group on Facebook. It's called Monique Cafe Art Group. So I'm excited. It hits my little bandana, the farm. So I've already gotten started with a few farm animals. I'm doing some sketching, having some fun with color. So have some fun with these. Of course you can do a more serious piece too. But I'll be bringing some farm themed lessons to you this month. And also we have members from all over the world in Monique Cafe. So farms in your corner of the world may be a little different. So feel free if you're in our Monique Cafe Art Group to share some images and paintings of your place and your farms where you live. So it should be a lot of fun. So get ready, grab yourself your favorite vintage and let's have some artistic fun. All right, here we go. Here is the duck we'll be painting today. I think I'm going to call her Gracie. I had a duck named Gracie actually one time. And I actually call this pastel sketching, which I like to do on just regular drawing paper. I'll talk about the supplies in just a minute. But first the reference image comes from a site I've been enjoying called unsplash.com. And the photo credit goes to Sandy Miller. For your convenience I've already arranged an album called The Farm in my unsplash.com account. You can find me at Susan Jenkins Artist on there and you can access my album and use any of these images that I thought were really beautiful farm related images. You can find a link to that album in the about section of this video. Now let's talk about the supplies. For the first three paintings in this series I'm using Strathmore toned gray paper. I really do like the fact that I can not only do charcoal sketches on this paper, but I can also do pastel painting. Often we think we have to use sanded papers, but we really can get some decent results on regular drawing paper. I like the neutral color of this rather than white drawing paper. The majority of the pastels I'll be using for this pastel sketch are Prismacolor new pastels.  They go on quite well on this paper. And we don't even really need many colors for this lesson. That's why it's a great beginner lesson. So let's start sketching out Sweet Gracie. I have marked off a five by seven area. I cropped my image to be a five by seven just to keep it consistent with my drawing surface. And I'm using a piece of Willow charcoal. It's really just like sticks of charcoal. And the reason I like this is because it's the same consistency as pastels. So they blend quite nicely. I also like with Willow charcoal that I can erase it off quite easily with a needed eraser. Needed erasers. K-N-E-A-D-E-D. It looks like a piece of gray clay. You'll probably see me using it in a little while. And by the way, this is all real time. It's only like, I don't know, 20 minutes of painting time or less in sketching time. So it should be pretty easy to follow.  I can erase it off with a kneaded eraser. I can also blend it with my finger to get different values, which I like to do sometimes. I think I got, I think in a minute or later, I raise the eye up when I'm painting, actually. I had the eye a little too low. That's another neat thing about doing an initial sketch like this. You really want to get your proportions right with an animal or a person because it's going to make such a difference with your painting looking professional versus amateurish. And also too, one of my goals as an artist has been over the past few years, is to of course have accuracy, but also to have gesture. To have my marks be fluid and gestural, meaning full of life rather than rigid. I also think this is good for beginners as a beginner lesson because not only is the palette simple, but the sketch is fairly simple. If you look at the reference image, there's a lot of negative space around the duck. And a tip for drawing, if you have your proportion of your reference image, say it's a 5 by 7, and you have your drawing surface as a 5 by 7, things are going to be equal with regards to your spacing. And it makes it a lot easier to just take a look at that negative space, that black. And keep in mind that you're also creating the negative space as you are the positive space. I'm often comparing where things fall on the reference image, like where the white of the duck on the left side meets the black background. And sometimes I'll even make a little mark on the side of my paper and it helps me to get my proportions right with my sketch. So getting this little sketch in is obviously going to be step one for this pastel sketch before we add the color. Also I wanted to be sure that I got the character of this duck. I think one thing I really liked about this reference image, first of all, it was simple. It was a great start to this as a beginner lesson. But also I've owned ducks myself, raised them from babies, and I just love my ducks. Oh, I miss them so much. But I happen to love how my ducks, they turn their head to look at you.   And so I wanted to capture that. And so I was trying to make sure I got that. And I didn't quite have it at this point of the sketch, but I do correct some things. And again, that's one of the neat things about this Willow Charcoal. You can see now too how I'm just using my finger. I'm getting in a value study of sorts. Now that could be step number two of this. You're not only getting in a sketch, a linear sketch with lines. You can use your charcoal, or you could even use a little gray pastel or whatever to kind of get in your lights, your darks, and your middle values. I often talk in more complicated paintings about getting in your values. Your value is huge in the accuracy, believability, and beauty of your painting. So as I'm working on the sketch, occasionally I'm just using my finger to blend. I also wanted to make sure I got the bill of the duck angled correctly as well. I find that I don't do that much of a sketch because over the years with pastel painting, I have leaned more towards blocking things in with pastel, with color and value, more than getting in a super detailed sketch. So at this point, all you want to do is get in the generalities. We're not going in there and drawing feathers or anything. Oh, this is where I changed the position of the eye. I just could see as I stepped back and looked at the reference image, that was one of those little things that it didn't look quite like this duck or like my ducks that I remember with the eye in the position that it was. That's a really important thing with animals and with people.  You know, even animals have individuality. Ducks can look different. Dogs can look different even within the same species. All right, it's time to add some of this pastel, just a little new pastel on its side. And once again, you saw probably in the caption, I break these generally for working in any of my pastels. I usually break them if it's a bigger piece. But these new pastels, it's a pretty long piece and I needed a little travel set. As you heard at the beginning of the video, since my mama passed, I'm staying with my dad for a season for healing for both of us. And it's been really good for us to be together and it's been a beautiful time with him. So I needed to bring my little travel set of new pastels. So it's just teeny little pieces. I broke up all 96. There's a that's the most that new pastels makes is a 96 piece set. And they're not as expensive as some other pastels, but they don't have some of the same benefits as other pastels, like the real softies, as far as having the super brilliant color and being able to lay down a final pastel colors at the end. But they have their benefits in their own right. I love my set of new pastels. They're a little bit harder and sometimes that's why they go on a little bit better sometimes on drawing paper. But I'm really on this Stratmore paper. I'm finding that my regular pastels apply pretty well to the surface. It's not a really slick surface. It's got a little bit of a little bit of texture to it, not like grittiness or like bumpiness. But again, I find the pastels apply pretty nicely. Now I'm just using a little gray pastel as I've been talking here to kind of get in some of the value. He does have, she does have a little bit of a shadow behind her head. Now I'm using, it's almost like a minty blue-green. The top of the head, when I squint my eyes and look at the reference image, I wanted to go ahead and add my lightest values first. That's why I added that white. I knew that was the whitest, lightest value of the whole duck, like the sun is coming kind of from the top right. But that's why I chose to use that minty green on the left side, our left, not the duck's left, on that side because I know the duck's feathers on his head are still the same color white as they are on the top. But it's a little bit in shadow, not a lot right there. And so if you use some cooler, lighter values, that is going to make the brain realize that side of the duck's head is still white, but it's a little bit on the cooler side where shadows usually are. And so I'm doing the same thing around other areas that aren't quite as white as the top of his head there. And that's going to start carving in those values and making this shape, this animal, this duck, look three-dimensional. Now I've gotten a little bit of a darker value. This is kind of a blue, almost like a teal blue in a way. And I saw that there's some shadows around the eye, behind the eye, down in the little crevices around that beak where the beak meets the feathers, also kind of where I'm working down underneath that side of the head, down where the head meets the neck. And also too, you know, you could probably see I was blending. Oh, there's the kneaded eraser I was talking about. I also like that you can squeeze it and bend it and make a little point if you need to get in to erase something. Mine was really dirty. It doesn't look like that out of the package. Like I said, it looks like just a little square gray piece of clay, but it works really great. Now I'm getting in some little marks around the eye that I'll develop further as I go. The shape of this eye is what's going to give this duck the personality. It almost seemed sweet, almost like it was almost winking up from the bottom of the eye a little bit.  If you raise that bottom eyelid a little bit and you can do that just with color and value. It doesn't have to be a drawing or a line or anything like that. So you'll see me develop that eye a little further as I work. Now I am going to apologize once again not in my studio. I didn't have my camera in the exact spot.  So occasionally because these old eyes are getting older even with my reader glasses. Occasionally I get my head a little bit closer to see better and it's going to get a little bit blurry. So I still think you can see good enough to recreate this. Now look at that blue, same blue that I used on the eye to the back of the eye. I think it's the same. It's pretty much the same color. It might be a, now this one's a little bluer, not quite as teal, but I'm just getting in that shadow area. There is a shadow under his head and under his beak that's being cast from the sunlight and the beak underneath it. And so I'm just using this pastel to just kind of block in a little bit of those shadows. Remember to to use directional strokes like I'm doing. Notice how I kind of curved that area rather than doing some kind of vertical lines. It gives the impression that there is form to this duck. Same here what I'm doing here, giving a little bit of direction. I'd like to share here a little bit too about the difference between unsanded paper. If you've been researching pastel painting at all, you've probably learned, I did not learn this early on, that there are sanded papers, literally kind of like sandpaper that are really great to work on if you're a pastel artist. It allows for a lot of layering and, but I'm finding too that it has its advantages, but its disadvantages. I find that often when we have a sanded paper, which are very expensive by the way, or I shouldn't say very expensive, but more expensive than drawing paper, that sometimes because we have layering ability, we also have the ability to kind of cover up our mistakes or maybe be a little more haphazard with our painting or sketching. And with unsanded paper, an advantage for me anyway, is that I find that I'm more purposeful with my markmaking and with my layering, my color choices and my value choices. I tend to get it or try to get it right the first time rather than being a little bit lazy or haphazard knowing that, oh, I can correct that later because I've got plenty of layering ability. So because there's not much layering ability, you want to get strokes that are very purposeful and I think it will cause you to do that. And I think you end up with a pastel sketch or pastel painting that is more accurate and more gestural and fresh with color. That's another personal artistic goal of mine is to have purposeful strokes and also to have fresh color. What happens? The more layers that you add as you just keep adding and adding layers to a nice pastel paper, you lose that freshness of color and your painting becomes flat. Your colors become muted and grayed and they lose that vibrancy that's inherent to pastels. So I think that is an advantage of unsanded paper is you will most likely try to become a bit more purposeful and careful perhaps. Now I've been working on the ducks bill here and you can see that I've added some little maybe sort of like gestural lines with a darker kind of rusty color in the areas where the values are darker and I added a little bit of an orangey color, not that yellow that I just used there, kind of like that orangey color in other areas where there is going to be a bit more shadow, not quite as much shadow as that darker rusty orange, but mostly once again consider the light source which is most likely up above and to the right so the our left side of the bill is going to be a little bit darker than the top of the bill where the sunlight is hitting. So I used a little bit of that medium orange value there. Now we don't have to just use rusty colors and orange colors even though our brain tells us a ducks bill is orange or yellow. We know that some light and shadows are happening here so I went ahead and got that blue and added that to the shadow side of the bill because that once again that's always saying in my videos if you want to know what colors to use in a shadow think about what happens to you when you're in the shadow of a tree you cool off right it's cooler the temperatures are cooler so we can often use those blues or those purples in shadow areas no matter what the subject matter is you know within reason. So just still developing this ducks beak as far as the values go right now and if you notice not right now but when you see my head in the frame notice how many times I turn my head to look at my reference image. It's my iPad that's down below me and I am doing this a lot because of the subject matter. This is a form that requires accuracy like I said animals and people. I had one of my patrons in my patreon group by the way my patreon group is patreon.com slash Susan Jenkins it's a group where or a means where you can support this channel for five dollars a month and get some extra content. It's really cool we have a lot of perks in the patreon group and we have a lot of fun. I get to see what you guys paint too which is really neat for me. So one of my patrons said that she noticed that when I was painting a landscape that often I'm not looking back at the image that much and she actually already figured it out herself because that's how she paints is because sometimes we just use the reference image of a landscape for inspiration and then we can kind of interpret it a little bit ourselves as we kind of get the generalities down. But with a person or an animal we definitely need that accuracy so it is good to keep looking back at your reference image. Now you've watched me get a little layering in. Once again I'm just using value and color. I've probably used less than 10 pastels at this point and it's already starting to get that feeling of being three dimensional. So I didn't get in my darkest dark values first. Notice I had originally put down kind of that medium to dark blue in the shadowy areas and now I'm going back. This is kind of a blueish, I'm sorry, purplish dark, kind of a purplish neutral dark that I am now developing my darker shadowy areas which is definitely going to make this form have that three dimensional feel. But you can see that I am able to get some layering on top of each other. A lot of people too think that with soft pastels or these are, they're still considered soft pastels even though they're a little harder, but that you can't mix colors. Well you can't mix them in the traditional way like oils, acrylics, and watercolor, but you actually can get color mixing that happens via an illusion of layering colors. If you layer your colors rather gently, then one color is going to kind of influence the other as you kind of see through them. Now that doesn't happen as much when you have really hard strokes, but if you do kind of a light touch, light to medium touch, and you layer some colors, they do influence each other and you can actually get some new colors by combining two colors. It's also neat sometimes too, you can make your own neutrals by layering colors that are compliments of each other. And that's another video, I actually have a video on that by the way. Alright, you see how I'm even developing the beak more. I'm putting some of the darker rusty colors in areas that are either in shadow more or they're just in an area that's a little tighter in towards the face and they're a little darker. So it's starting to get a little form to that beak as well. Another important thing, not just the eye, but it's the position of that nostril and I play around with that a little bit too. I know that I still have a little bit of flexibility here to change some things, but I'm still not doing any really hard strokes yet because I want that flexibility of layering and still kind of correcting things. So little Gracie is starting to take shape here and I'm really almost done here, but I do want to zoom in here and show you about the eye. This is what I was talking about when I said you can make some, just some little marks of value and positioning to give the impression that the eye is almost smiling and now I'm using my dark pastel. I think this is, I think this actually might be a black even though I don't work with black very often. It had a little sharp corner to it and I was able to kind of reshape this eye. Once again, the shape of the eye getting it accurate is very important to capture that personality and now I'm really almost done. I think I'm going to go and just work on that nostril a little bit more and let it remain rather sketchy. Once again, hence pastel sketching. I'm not going to fill that background in with black or anything and I recommend you do a lot of these. Have some fun, get some drawing paper and play. You know, often we just get too serious and we forget to enjoy the journey. I've already got some other paintings completed for more on the farm theme and this one actually, yes, was even done on the gray drawing paper, the same type of paper believe it or not and if you recreate from any of my videos I would love it if you would tag me at all of those links that you see here at my end screen and if you're a patron of mine I know I'm going to get to see what you create in our Patreon groups. Alright guys, happy painting. I can't wait to bring you more fun farm content.


All right there you have it the Dow Jones industrial average hitting 22,000 for the first time ever And we are on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Jim Kramer Jim another milestone for the markets underneath We have a sell-off today remember at a mystic Index Apple overweighted before that 40% was Boeing. There's a lot of stocks that are down There's not a lot of re-through to Apple I thought there would be for some of these places like the skywork solutions we own Broadcom for action alerts and of course we've owned Apple forever So we have to be careful today We got to get the basis of the sell-off because it's being masked very effectively right now by Apple But there are things underneath that I'm concerned about it does feel like that there's not a lot of re-through And that we've seen some turmoil and I'm trying to get a feel of it and as you said I'm mad money last night It's okay for people to take some cash. I said that look you got through the spin cycle That so many people came on and said look you've got a sell now I remember one they're not going to point out any particular names let others do that But people who came on air and just said look this is the most consequential sell-off and it's really time and What I'm saying now is she got through the sell-off So if you were one of these people who was spooked but didn't take action or you felt it You're going to panic next time you've got the market all the way back So this is when you want to take action if you do want to sell and President Trump tweeted yesterday About Dow 22,000 now that we're here. I mean how much credit should we give him? I think the deregulation stuff is serious And it does help the bank stocks. I think that's very real the number of regulations that were passed under Obama they're about 25 regulations for every law and The deregulation has meant a lot for the financials the other Hopes I think for tax reform. I know that they expect something this year. I don't But there is a notion I think of a more pro-capital. He's meeting with business people to almost every day There is a sense that you're a bit freed up from the notion of a president who felt I to some degree That stocks were the province of only the rich I do think that periodically when chump embraces the market He should embrace it more wholeheartedly from the point of view of individuals coming in and buying stocks I know that he's good if you should get a little more granular because I think that there is more of a sense of Hope even as there's now a sense of a bit of futility post the inability to repeal and replace And and so we want to stay focused on Trump But it's the deregulation is what he can do and that has helped Financials to some degree oils Although the oil companies obviously are now being challenged out of what we saw pioneer All right apple driving the Dow you alluded to that earlier. What did you make of apples quarter? Okay, apple is really a triumph of iPad and service service now double-digit service the size of a fortune 100 company Which means it comes in around 28, but the growth of service 22% growth We'll make it so that you could start putting numbers on that service stream. I've been waiting for that to happen It's accelerated even though it had Pokemon go last time Which was a very big user to talk about remember the talk about augmented reality That's also going to drive a lot of what I think is going to be service revenue If you play for iCloud backup as I do service revenue music service revenue 180 million people 20 million came in additional for service revenue just this quarter alone a Service revenue renewable stream where you just pay Apple endlessly is what's going to get at a higher-priced earnings multiple The iPad I think is directly related to the shift of time Architectonic shift of time toward Netflix not going to the movies. I have a piece this morning in real money about the AMC Versus the experiential Royal Caribbean versus the Netflix era and how much fang and there I am talking Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google really alphabet in there and focused on YouTube have become the time of how you spend You could make it fang and put Activision in there by the way. What did you make of AMC's results? Again AMC is a problem with a Buster cone has done unbelievable stuff for the street If you want to check the granularity of why movies are not moving this year now, there is Star Wars coming up So maybe there's a return, but I know that AMC basically Kind of added and added and it looks like that the EBITDA went down. Anyway, it should have gone up I do think that this 4% decline plus in American box offices a stunner And you have to take a look at that and say what are people doing with their time? And I think they're watching on an iPad They're watching on with the $200 model in particular which is blowout with double digit for iPad first time in a long time That's back and they're watching on the plus which is a form factor that a lot of people feel very comfortable with I've referenced there the ATT call and the need to have time Warner because HBO can be watched. That's my derivative. You know, you can watch the NFL You watch HBO on a plus format. It is working well I think that the notion of the 70 inch TV interesting enough rich Fane FAIN on the world Caribbean call talked about people not buying TVs Talked about people not buying cars people talking about people creating memories and moments Experiential on his cruises boy, the numbers are great there. Then they put that on Facebook This is my derivation and then once it's on in you know, Facebook Instagram then people then watch it was two billion People are doing this process. A lot of people watching YouTube Internet TV is taking over The actual TV. So Jim, when was the last time you went to a movie? I I had I can't recall I can't recall when I last went to the movies might have been hacksill rich, but I am a multi-watching Series I just started Ozark and put the bed out trying to put the bed house and cars at the same time Can't but I got to get these done before stranger things starts because I can't have some binge so much at once I've never thought that I want a rainy day on a weekend But it's my my chance to catch up with Reed Hastings whom I love again Buster Cohn with a fabulous article Finally gets Netflix to speak about what they're doing. I reference the street.com for sure Okay, Jim. Let's move on to Mandalay CEO Irene Rosenfeld stepping down You know I look a bit of a shock because I had Ms. Rosenfeld on mad money not that long ago And she just finished her five-year plan the gross margin She's created a monster there in terms of gross margins, which is why the company can make so much money on 1% organic growth That's all they have but believe it or not when you're when you're in the food business 1% is pretty good snacking category growing faster than others fastest growing snacking part is As PepsiCo and the and Frida lay there's a lot of takeaways here But one of the key takeaways is I think you need to see even more consolidation By the way, she did say that the daily Daily delivery to stores that so-called DSD Dave Faber asked her about is really a game winner for Mondays Which therefore it's a game loser for Kellogg which stopped that Now in the consolidation of food theory, I none of these companies wants to be acquired But we know that Amazon coming in big with Whole Foods It's going to change the dynamic of what these food companies can charge for those that are in the natural organic section Were you surprised by how much the cyber attacked impacted my analysis results? Yeah, and I came back and told David during the break I said this is the first time you really have other than the obviously the target and Home Depot This is the first time where they came in at the end of a quarter of destroyed a quarter I don't think you're gonna get that I know Irene said that you're gonna get some of those revenues back But I know from PepsiCo that July 4th is a gigantic snacking holiday and they were not able to get it for July 4th This was obviously a Financially vicious hack and I think that it's gonna once again cause board members to say what are we doing here? But the answer is is that the bad guys are always one step ahead of the posse Even as the good guys tell you that they haven't saw our gym moving on on your staff training segment You talked about FMC. FMC is all about lithium. It's a remarkable story. We know that lithium is used in Batteries for the next generation FMC has a huge amount of it. They're gonna spin off the lithium FMC got a fantastic Break from the government when Dal and DuPont were merging They had to get rid of some of DuPont's best seed properties. Those went to FMC. This is a hundred dollar stock All right, and then we'll end as we always do with earnings to watch we have young brands reporting You know yum is I think it's interesting Papa John's was good domestically and Domino's was good domestically I want to see if they if they really managed to fix pizza I think talk, you know talk Taco Bell is is the standout story there The recent incident again with Chipotle a setback for Chipotle. I Like yum. I'm not jumping up and down to buy it But but there again quicks QSR had a good quarter McDonald's had a good quarter Remember they had six points. It's worth worldwide and don't forget yum brands is everything but China Which makes it pretty fascinating to me. Obviously yum China. I think is a little more challenge But I think that this is a very well-run company the food that whole restaurant group's been under a little bit of pressure I'm going back in from Texas Roadhouse and circling and thinking that Darden could be a buy down here big All right Jim Cramer great analysis as always. Thank you so much for more information on the stocks Jim mentioned Please head back to the street calm


Hi, everyone. Joe for jasmyscasebreaks.com, coming at you with 2021 Tops Triple Thread Baseball Nine Box. Pick your team, number eight. This is our last inner case, this is our last break of triple threads for the time being. We don't have any more to post. So big thanks everybody who knocked out all the cases, all the breaks from one through this one here, number eight. Big thanks to this group here for break eight. We probably will get some more triple threads, so keep your eye on the website, jasmyscasebreaks.com. Mark with last spot mojo with the Dodgers. Got that team last before we pulled all the teams out for this number block. So we pulled out those four teams right here, turned it into a serial and number break. Set that aside over here and let's pull the boxes out of here and let's see what we got. First inner case was pretty solid. So hopefully this second inner case will continue that trend. Three boxes there, three boxes here, three boxes over there. And good luck everybody, here we go. Got some hockey on the background, believe it or not. I've got Kings at Ottawa. Kings are up one nothing and they're trying to win their seventh game in a row. About eight minutes left in the game. And then I guess we'll flip back to the Thursday night football game. Keep an eye on that, looks like 3-3 in that game. So I guess I'm not missing much in that Thursday night football game. Six minutes left in the first half. All right, yeah, here's hoping Jonathan, this has to be the one, it's the last case. There's Shane Bieber to 2.99 and Cabrine Hayes for the Pirates to 75. It's gonna go to Patrick. Chris Bryant to 2.59, still Cubs edition here. And Ty Cobb for the Tigers to 2.99. Our first hit of the break, Mike Trout. One out of 36, clouts and steals. Nice, since his 2011 debut campaign, Mike has put 35 games with Homer and a solo base in the books. 35 games the next most to Starley Marte with 21. That's pretty good. All right, that's for the Halos. That's gonna go to Martin and the Angels. And behind the Acunia is Nick Madrigal, 18 out of 75. Rookie autograph for the White Sox. That's gonna be for Mark R. It's pretty solid. Behind Mookie Betts is Jonah Hyme, triple relic and autograph, 99 out of 99. And that'll be for the Texas Rangers. So that'll go to Rangers nine on the, no, Rangers picked up straight up, sorry. Martin picked up the Texas Rangers, there you go. Triple relic on Card Auto. And back here, the single jumbo relic is Yoan Moncada, 15 out of 48. All right, next box. Ah, that's pretty nice. I mean, if we didn't pull it, doesn't exist, Harry. Doesn't exist. Doesn't matter who pulled them. It's Matt Chapman to 99. Dalbeck to 259. Trout to 25. And Joey Bart to 150. That's right, that's the important one, Harry. The Padres triple relic one-of-one that I pulled. That's in our big hit gallery on jaspyscasebreaks.com. Triple relic and autograph Rafael Marchand, 47 out of 75. That's a Philly, that goes to Eric J. and the Fightin' Phils. That's the one that matters, Harry, exactly. Tim Anderson, 24 out of 36. That'll be for Mark R. and the White Sox. Giancarlo Stanton, Grand Slams, four out of 27, triple relic. That is for Mark S. and the Bronx Bombers. Eighth Grand Slam of his career. At 471 feet, the third long is Granny and the Majors over the last 15 seasons. And there's his teammate, Gio Arcella, 11 out of 25. Another one for Mark. That knee sleeve is a little wrinkly. There, it's a lot cleaner there. Previous one kind of wrinkled up a little bit. All right, and then there's their teammate, Aaron Judge, third box. Yeah, remember when he was Mike Stanton? Giancarlo now. Yeah, I blame texting on that auto. Or maybe someone didn't give Gio Arcella the right instructions. There's Alec Baum to 2.99 for the Phillies. Lou Gehrig to 1.99. Coworkin Jr. to 1.50. Acunia Jr. to 1.99. Oh, nice. Kings up 2-0. Defense, defense. Nolan Aronato, defense, triple relic. But then they add bat relics in there. Cardinals, that's going to go to Chris Butler with St. Louis. And back here is Ryan Mountcastle, 1.94 out of 1.99. Harry, there you go, Harry. Picked up the Orioles straight up. It's the rookie auto Ryan Mountcastle. A little better penmanship there. Triple relic and on-card auto Tyler Stevenson, 34 out of 75 for the Red Legs. That's Chris Walker. There you go, Chris. And behind Javier Baez is single jumbo relic, Walker Bueller. From Chris Walker to Walker Bueller, 6 out of 48. Mark with my Dodgers. All right, that was the first third of the case. Next box. I had a little bit of a hang-nail issue. Good now. That might be an extra hit right there, folks. Or no, did I not just grab the other? Oh, sometimes we get an extra hit. That's why I've seen a third hit being pulled out of here. All right, there's Justin Verlander, Barry Larkin to 1.25. There's Reggie Jackson, A's addition to 1.99. And Ozzie Smith to 2.59, the wizard. Joey Bart, triple relic and autograph, 74 out of 99 with Buster Posey retiring. I guess the Joey Bart era has now officially begun. He should be getting the everyday playing time. And that'll go to Ross with my rivals, the Giants. Vlad Gros Jr., 16 out of 18. Toronto, that's going to be for Logan M and the Bluebirds. Behind Yachty is Willie Mays, 3 out of 9, legend, triple relic. A few pieces of his lumber. Another one for Ross and the Giants. Nice. It's pretty good. He is a legend. And we got Gio Urchella again, 5 out of 75. Jersey and autograph. And he sleeps all the way. It's just a bad batch of penny sleeps here. They're more flimsy than some of the other ones. There you go. Gio probably, can I print my name? They're like, yeah, sure, print it, it's fine. OK, Rex, it's not always about quantity. All it takes is one quality hit. I don't make up for it in that number block room. All right, there's Luis Robert to 299. Eloy Jimenez to 25. There's Otani to 259. And let's play two to 299. Some base cards here. And then Johnny Bench flipped around. And a triple relic and autograph, 17 out of 35. Ryan Jeffers for Mark and the Minnesota Twins. And there's Chris Bryant, 45 out of 48. That Cubs pinstripe. And that'll be for Jonathan and his Cubs. And we've got Boba Shet, 1 out of 36. Five hits, one home run, two stolen bases. That's pretty good. And that's for Logan M and the Blue Jays. And Clint Frazier, 45 out of 99. Jersey and autograph for the Yankees. All right, next. Jonathan, were you just looking for Ernie Banks base cards? If so, there were a number of those. Not just this one. I feel like there were a few, if not more. I thought you were talking about an actual relic or a hit, a proper hit. All right, we've got Whit Merrifield to 299. Luis Robert to 75. Got Matt Chapman to 150. And Joey Vado to 259. Ooh, is that my food arriving here? See if you can, Joe. No, I think that might be my food arriving though. Yeah, you're my dad. Thomas, thank you. See ya. Are you playing tomorrow, guys? Yeah. Good luck. Thank you. Have a good one. All right, next here is Walker Bueller. 1 out of 18, Scoreless Street, triple relic and autograph. It's Mark S with my Dodgers. And behind Ichiro is Boba Shet. Another Blue J for Logan M. Giancarlo Stan, October Dingers. 1 out of 36, another Yankee for Mark. And there's a Cavendizio, Jersey and autograph. 42 out of 99, another one for the Blue J, it's Logan M. Kings, seven games in a row. They beat the center, it's 2-0. I thought I pulled the Frank Thomas book yesterday, right? And one of the breaks, it was like the one that had like the two flaps on it. I don't know what the proper name for that is. So I pulled that and that was a lower number. The quad relic and the autograph in the middle. But yeah, it wasn't like the single hinge book that we're, I think that's what I think we're thinking of. Yeah, we have certainly not seen a multi-auto, but we've not seen like a, what are they called? Like the Deca, the Deca Autos. We haven't seen any of those, not yet anyway. There's Belly to 125, Tony Gwynn to 150. There's Raphael Devers to 250, 259 that is. And Joey Votto to 299. Yeah, maybe those last two boxes right there could have something nice in store for us book-wise. Behind Mariana Rivera is a six out of nine. Nice, triple relic, Kershaw. Free agent technically. I think the Dodgers should be re-signing him though. That goes to Mark S. and the Dodgers. It's one of these, 70 years of Tops Relic. Game used. Got shirt and apostle jersey and autograph 51 out of 99. Rangers, Martin with Texas. Whoa, Dolphins making big plays. Who was that? Isaiah Four? There's Dylan Carlson, triple relic and autograph 46 out of 75. That'll be for the Cardinals, Christopher Butler. Oh, he goes wide open and made some moves. That was a blown coverage. And then single jumbo relic, Dustin May, 17 out of 27. Working his way back from Tommy John should see him, I don't know, mid-season next year. All right, two boxes to go. 47 out of 125, Bo Jackson. This guy knows. Out of 259, Tom Siever. For the Mets, my trout for the Halos to 199. Ty Cobb to 259 for the Tigers. Behind Frank Thomas is a triple relic, triple auto for the Yankees. Wow, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettit. Six out of nine. That's pretty nice. That's Mark S. and the Yankees. That is nice. Mariano Rivera, of course, one of the nicest bits of penmanship in the hobby. That's awesome. It's not a fake, but that's a real bell, Harry. It's just not a train whistle bell. We do the bell for other stuff, too. But that is a real bell. 3 out of 18, Alex Kirloff. That'll be for the twins. Mark for the twins. And we've got leading shortstop, Xander Bogarts. 12 out of 27. That'll be for Jonathan and the Red Sox. And back here is from one Jonathan to another. Jonathan India, 86 out of 199. Your favorite, I believe, for NL Rookie of the Year. Chris Walker and the Red Legs. And the final box. Good luck. Ninth and final box here in Pick Your Team 8. As I mentioned before, unfortunately, no more triple threads here in the shop. Actually, I think we do have individual boxes for personal breaks. If you want to get a box for yourself on Instagram, at Jaspy's Breaks. There may still be some left there, but for group breaks, we are all out. So big thanks, everybody, who filled up all of these breaks. There may be a chance there'll be some others in the future, another case or two in the future. So keep an eye out on Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Out of 99, Austin Meadows. Clayton Kershaw, 259. To 259, Ichiro. And Mariana Rivera, to 299. Maddox Ripken, Maddox Ripken. And Xander Xander. Jose Abreu, 26 out of 27. MVP, Triple Relic. Jersey, Bat, Jersey. Jorge Polanco, 89 out of 99. Cherokee and autograph for the Twins. Mark R, with Minnesota. The final two hits, we've got 78 out of 99. Triple Relic and autograph, 6-0 Sanchez. And that's our first number block hit, Miami. Miami, eight is going to be for Mark S. And then we've got Tim Anderson, two out of nine. Or two out of three, check that. White Docks, Mark, Mark R, the other Mark. Train Whistle as our last hit. Mark, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. We'll do a quick recap after I do the non-numbered card randomizer. So let's go back to the number block lists, gather everybody's names. New dice, new list, name on top. We'll get those base cards. After eight, four and a four, eight times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And eighth and final time. After eight, we got Mark. He definitely had the odds with him. After eight times, you'll get those base cards as well. A nice run on all this triple threat. Big thanks, everybody, for making this happen. I appreciate it. Got some nice hits. The design is really sharp this year on nice parallels. Some legends, future stars, so on and so forth. So thanks, everybody. Can't forget about this. Thanks, everyone. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. That was Pick Your Team 8 from jaskyscasebreaks.com. I'm Joe, and I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


I'ma just start calling Ravens out for what they are. World-class trolls. We always say how timing is everything. We literally had just finished, well, it was about 30 minutes ago, but we have finished recording the video talking about how we expect things to really start heating up this week for the Baltimore Ravens. Because after the Super Bowl, like you got coaches from teams that you wanna talk to. And I wasn't 100% sure that they had anybody that they were interested in from Philly, but we certainly knew that there's been reports going around that they were interested in Chiefs current offensive coordinator, Eric Biennemy. So then this, as the video is uploading, this news comes out. This report comes out from Mr. Jeremy Fowler. And it reads, the Ravens are expected to talk with Eagles QB coach, Brian Johnson and Chiefs offensive coordinator, Eric Biennemy after the Super Bowl about their offensive coordinator job per sources. I like that. I like it. I like it for so many different reasons. Now, we've talked about the reasons why we like Eric Biennemy, but this, them speaking with Eagles QB coach, I wonder if anybody's gonna say, oh, he never called plays, so I don't want him. He's never had play calling responsibility so they can keep him. Wonderful, we gonna hear any of that about Brian Johnson. Anyway, the reason I like this is because he's obviously a part of Jaylen Hertz development and he's also a part of the Eagles offense. So it's always nice when you see an offense that they just do so many different things well and everything starts with the quarterback. Well, I mean, it really starts with offensive line too, but it starts with the quarterback and the coach of that quarterback has a job in specializing in development of that quarterback. Jaylen Hertz, as we all know, he was pretty much, I mean, pretty much written off. I mean, it's pretty close to being written off, right? So many people say, oh, he's sorry, he can't throw, he can't do this, he can't do that. I mean, it sounds similar to some other story that we heard, but anyway, we heard so much stuff about Jaylen Hertz, so much negative stuff about Jaylen Hertz. They went ahead, they made the playoffs now. They had a bad performance, it was rough. It was rough to just even watch it, that playoff performance against the Bucks, but the Eagles said, you know what? We got our own questions about Jaylen Hertz. We got our own things that we wanted about Jaylen Hertz. So, you know what? Let's not give ourselves any excuses. So let's really build around this guy. Let's go all in around him, around with this team. Not, and they didn't just go all in on offense. They didn't just go all in on defense. They went all in on both sides of the ball and they really maxed this rookie contract out. They took full advantage of it, but again, another story for another day. But anyway, that was all part of the development, especially on offense, obviously, because he's a quarterback, but the development of Jaylen Hertz and now they're in the Super Bowl. Now they have an opportunity in, I'm recording this at 1101 AM, they have an opportunity, what time does the game start at 630, I think? So in about seven and a half hours, they have an opportunity to reap what they sold, to reap the benefits of everything that they did this off season. I mean, either way that it goes, if they win or lose, they made it. So this was a successful season. Obviously somebody's got to lose, but this was a successful season for them because they made it to the promise lane. Now are they gonna get over that hump and be like, man. See, I'm trying to stay focused on Brian Johnson, but I just got reminded like Eagles were literally like five years ago, five years ago, they were in the Super Bowl and they won. They won the Super Bowl. And then that Super Bowl winning head coach ended up getting fired. And then now five years later, they back in the Super Bowl, different coach, same GM, but different coach, and they back in the Super Bowl. Like really, man? And five years later, five years ago, they won the Super Bowl, anyway. But yeah, so I like that the fact that the Ravens are gonna be talking to Brian Johnson because when you bring in some, when you potentially bring it in somebody, you want to know if their body of work is like that. You want to know if where they were at before, what was their level of success. And obviously when you look at Philly and what's happening with Philly, what their offense has a whole, but specifically with Jalen Hurts, you're like, oh, okay, I see you. So, and what Philly does, they do have their little RPOs in there, but Jalen Hurts, they don't really be having him run like that. They let their running backs do the work in a run game. Jalen Hurts will take off from time to time now, he will. But their running backs, they use their running backs as running backs. Their offensive line was nice. Their receivers obviously, I mean, we could go on and on about their receivers, but they found ways to implement a dominant run game, but also a dominant pass game too. And the fact that they have their quarterback getting everybody involved, they have their quarterback. I mean, weapons obviously matter, like we keep on saying weapons matter because I feel like you could have the best coaches in the world. And yeah, the X's and O's are important, but them Jimmy's and Joe's, they definitely important. Super important because you gotta have the players that can make it happen too. So it's a good combination of both, but with these two, I am not mad at all. I love both of these candidates for the Baltimore Ravens and like either one of these two, I would have zero problem with, zero problem with the Ravens hiring either one. Now, will them hiring either one of these two, allow the Ravens to keep LeMau? I mean, it will certainly help in my opinion. I think, I don't know how LeMau is feeling, but seeing what these offenses have done with a Patrick Mahomes and a Jalen Hertz and both offenses do the same thing, both of them. Both, oops, I'm gonna be getting so excited, I'm gonna be knocking the mic out, but both offenses, they always find ways to get different guys involved. And both offenses, they show trust, big trust in their quarterback, big and crunch time and crucial decision making time. And when it's all on them, they show trust in their quarterback and they do it consistently. They keep their quarterback's out of harm's way. Of course, stuff still happens as we know, but they keep their quarterback's out of harm's way. They ain't running their quarterback's into the ground, he ain't no Patrick Mahomes, he ain't no runner like that. I know when that little AFC Championship game a couple years ago, he had that, that was probably the slowest, longest run by a quarterback ever. The one for a touchdown with all the Titans, but they were like moving out the way, they were like, oh no, we ain't gonna touch Patrick Mahomes. But anyway, so yeah, man, I like it. So this was good news. So I mean, like the previous video did say things are certainly heating up for the Ravens, but now we see it in an even bigger way. We out.


Okay, so what we wanna do now is we wanna go and start to give our plank some 3D shape and we wanna go and create some nail heads that sit on top of the actual wood planks themselves. All right, so this is basically our pattern right here. Okay, so what I'm gonna do, or something that I like to do is I drop down a null node. These are kinda act like markers for me, at least when I use them like this. Now, you'll notice that my null node is customized. All right, usually the null node by default is a square rectangle. And now to change this, you can hit the C and X keys on the keyboard, or I'm sorry, it's the Z key. All right, and what you can do is you can hold down control and you drag, or I'm sorry, Alt and you drag your node, your default node over whatever shape that you want and what'll happen is it'll create that for you, okay? Then it'll set that particular shape by default. And the same goes for color, okay? So C for the color panel, Z for the shape panel and that is how we do that. So that's why my null node looks different than yours, most likely, okay? So what I do is I give this a name. So I'm just gonna call this the pattern. And usually I capitalize that so it's pattern, just so it stands out from the rest. Okay, so first things first, which is relatively easy. I'm gonna create another for each primitive so we can work on each plank individually. Now you could do it up here, but I'm gonna separate this out just to keep all these systems nice and clean and separated from each other. All right, so I'm gonna wire this together like so and now we can roll through each individual plank and start working on the rest of the detailing that we need to do for this particular pattern, okay? And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit poly extrude or I'm gonna go and find the poly extrude node down here and add it to the network like so. And let's just give it a little bit of a height there. All right, so I just selected the poly extrude node and changed the distance on this guy right here, perfect. Now when we do that inside of Houdini, it doesn't automatically add the bottom or the back as it's called. So if you scroll down in the poly extrude parameters here, just hit output back and you get all the geometry. Okay, cool. So the next thing that I wanna do is I want to get the top most primitive up here, okay? And in the poly extrude context or with this particular node, it is going to call this the front. And so what we can do is we can actually create a group out of that, all right? So the poly extrude node will automatically generate groups when we hit these little check boxes for us. And so what I can do is I can rename it. By default, it's called the extrude front. All right, and that's solidified. I do that all the time. I'll use that default, especially when I'm moving relatively quickly through my networks and building up models and have deadlines and stuff like that. But in this case, I'm gonna name it just to make everything clear to us, okay? So now with the poly extrude node selected because this is the node creating that group, I can open up our group panel up here and I could switch this over to primitives. And you can see now we have this top group. And if I hover my mouse over that name, you can see that it highlights that top primitive. This is great because now I can use that as placement for the nails, okay? Cool, so let's go and do that. We'll just get that hooked up really, really basic like. So I'm gonna drop down a blast node because I really just want that primitive sitting on top of that plank, okay? So I wanna blast away all the other geometry. There is also a delete node. Let's see if they still have it. Yep, there's a delete node and you can do it there too. But that's a little old school. I use the blast node now. It's a little bit quicker, especially when you start using the Houdini engine. This node is like a bare bones delete.  Okay, so I'm gonna hit this little drop down here and select the top group that we just made. Now you'll notice by default, the blast node is actually gonna delete the one that we selected. But we can invert that selection by hitting this delete non-selected. Cool, so now we just get that particular piece. And what I'm looking for is to place or to create the pivot points where we're gonna place our nail heads. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use the points from this particular primitive as those pivot points or those placement points. So you can see if I turn on this little guy right here, all of our points in this piece of geometry are highlighted for us. You can also turn on the numbering for it as well. All right, and then there you go. Now you can see all the numbers.  So a really cool thing we can do inside of Houdini is we can actually template previous geometry upstream. Or downstream or side or right stream, left or right stream, by hitting this little template tag right here. That allows us to see what the geometry looked like at this stage in the network. And so what I'm gonna do with this top primitive here is I'm gonna actually drop down, let's just do it in a really basic way. Just keep everything at a beginner level here. I'm really creating these for people to kind of jump into Houdini really quickly. So I'm gonna create that poly extrude node. And this time what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use this inset. All right, to inset our primitive and not output the side. And what that does is it gives me these four points. All right, so now four points. And this is where all of our nail heads are gonna go. Okay, we actually have further control over this. So you can turn on the transform extruded front. Okay, and we can actually scale it in the different directions. So we can say scale in the X or scale in the Y, all right, which will bring it in and out. All right, so we have control over all this. So we could randomize all these values because we can use the metadata node for this guy and randomize the placement for each plank. So that way each plank doesn't look exactly the same. All right, you can go crazy with the amount of stuff that you can parameterize or proceduralize, I should say, inside of a Houdini. Cool, all right, so I'm gonna leave that there. And what I wanna do now is drop down a node we haven't used yet, which is the add node. And it's funny because what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna delete stuff with this add node. So what I wanna do is I just wanna be left with the points. I don't need any geometry, I just want these points. So what I'm gonna do is say delete geometry, but keep the points. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna copy a tube basically onto each one of these, okay? So let's do that, let's create a tube really quickly. We'll go and detail all this stuff out later. I just wanna get the basics in place. And I do this a lot, when I'm starting a new network, I'll just get kind of the template geometry roughed in. And then as I see a need for more detail, I'll go and add more detail, all right, cool. So let's take a look at this tube. So to get it framed, I just hit space bar G. And what I wanna do is first I want to turn it into a polygon, all right? Currently it's a primitive, so it's kind of like a nerve surface. We wanna work with polygons, okay? Especially in the game world. And I'm gonna increase the columns for this, all right? And then I'm gonna add another node that we haven't actually started using yet. And that's the clip node. Now the clip node allows us to cut geometry based off a plane, okay? So what I'm gonna do is feed in the tube into that clip node there. And you can see that, it got rid of the bottom half there that was below the grid. Okay? And that's because this plane is set in the direction of Y, so it's pointing straight up. And if I were to select the clip node here, come into the scene view and hit Enter, you can see where that plane is, all right? And we can actually rotate this around, you know? So you can see the effects of all this. And it does a nice clean cut, all right? A very useful node, I use it all the time. In this case, I just wanted to get rid of the bottom half of our nail head, all right? So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna leave everything at this default size, all right? I'm gonna turn on end caps so we have a top piece there. Very cool. And what I wanna do now is I want to drop down a transform node, like so, all right? We're gonna use this transform node as scale. So we're gonna call this the nail head scale. And the reason why I don't wanna affect this particular scale up here is because when we do our detailing like beveling and stuff, we wanna work inside of Houdini's native size. If I were to make this really small at this stage in the graph here, so I'm gonna take this range or this radius scale right here and make it really small. And then we do a polybevel down here after this clip. The values that we use in that polybevel are gonna be really tiny, you know? Just give you carpal tunnel syndrome when you try to, you know, get a value of like point zero, zero, zero, one, two, three kinda thing, okay? So that's why I work in the larger scale first and then I scale down to what it needs to be, okay? If you're wondering. Cool, so let's go and we are going to copy this to all these points. So I have all these points that I created on our plank. All right, that's where our nail heads are gonna go. It's usually a good place for those things to go. Oh, it's usually where you see them. And so I'm gonna drop down a copy to points node.  Where are you? There you are, all the way over at the center of the world. And it allows us to copy it to a bunch of points that we created. All right, in this case coming out of this ad node. All right, and so I'm gonna feed that into the first input and then the points into the second input. And there we go, we actually have four nail heads all ready to go. So now we can use this transform value here to scale it all the way down. All right, and I'm using what is called the increment ladder inside of Houdini. All right, and to do that, just hold down, hold, or put your mouse, I should say, over the uniform scale then hold down the middle mouse button and pick an increment that you want to go up and down by and move left and right while holding the middle mouse button. Perfect, all right, so let's actually template our plank so we can see the relative size of all these. And that is actually looking pretty good. You know, kind of going for a little stylized look here. So I'm not really necessarily trying to get these guys looking perfectly realistic, but I want to keep realism in mind when I'm doing this type of stuff. The other thing I'm gonna do is change the height a little bit and I'm doing that on the original tube node there. There we go. So now we have our nails, cool. So all I need to do now is drop down a merge node because I want to merge the geometry that's coming out of this with the geometry that's coming out of this poly extrude node. All right, so I'm just gonna take my nail heads and I'm gonna drop down my poly extrude there and we have our nail heads on our plank now. I know it's super basic, but for beginners, learning these techniques is crucial to being successful inside of Houdini, all right? And a lot of times, you know, when you're watching tutorials and courses and stuff, they don't necessarily, you know, laser focus on these particular techniques. All right? So that's what we're doing with these, these procedural pattern techniques, videos and courses and stuff like that. Trying to laser focus on really specific techniques. And in this case, you know, it's, you know, building up stuff with loops and tiling meshes and stuff like that. All right, so I'm gonna leave you guys there in this lecture and the next lecture, we're gonna go and add a little bit more detail to all this stuff. Thanks so much.